A combination of aging players declining at the same time (Walker, Gundogan) and some sort of dressing room unrest (De Bruyne barely featuring, Foden a shadow of his usual self, Pep scratching half his face off)

There's no justification for Messi to be on this list. I know he's doing well in MLS but it's MLS and his team didn't even win it.

Northern Ireland beat them 5-0 last month, I think we'll get the job done. Was only really worried about Slovakia in our list of potential opponents

Jackson is more fun I think, probably has a higher ceiling than Isak, but Isak has the higher floor. I'd probably lean towards Isak but if the 0.6m price difference is a factor I'd be happy to get Jackson.

I see there's an LM effort in the replies already but I've gone for:

Luis Maximiano

Lisandro Martinez
Liam Moore
Levent Mercan

Lucas Moura
Luka Modric
Luka Milivojevic
Lubomir Moravcik

Lionel Messi
Lautaro Martinez
Luis Muriel

As an Arsenal fan, I don't think I'd bother with Raya. He's not going to make enough saves to mitigate losing a clean sheet, I'd probably downgrade him and upgrade one of the defenders, possibly Martinez. I like the Odegaard and Neto picks though, could be good differentials.

Johnston as well of course!