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S9 Ep7: FPL Pod: Is It Time to Drop Your Premiums? · FPL Pod

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  Speaker 1: Well hi guys it is thursday only means one thing
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  Speaker 1: fpl pod is back and actually for the first time
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  Speaker 1: this season i don't feel as panicked about my team
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  Speaker 1: because it's a saturday deadline 1 30 p.m ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the 5 3 p.m kickoffs doesn't mean you can't sort
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  Speaker 1: your team before but a little bit longer for all
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  Speaker 1: of us um loads of football going on this week
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  Speaker 1: we've had champions league we've had efl cup as well
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  Speaker 1: as well of course as the last weekend's premier league
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  Speaker 1: actions loads for myself Sam and Jules to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Let's firstly talk about the last game week. Was it
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  Speaker 1: a good one for you, Sam? Yeah, it was fine.
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  Speaker 1: It was another green arrow.
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  Speaker 2: That was a pause and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was.
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  Speaker 3: Because, so, all right, so it feels really ridiculous to
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  Speaker 3: moan when your captain has returned, but I just, a
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  Speaker 3: triple captaincy on a player that gets one goal, and okay, yes,
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  Speaker 3: there was bonus points and that helps, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I can't help but feel a little bit frustrated by it,
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  Speaker 3: to be honest. It was one of those where I
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  Speaker 3: was like, I was expecting a good week on that basis.
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  Speaker 3: And then it was fine. There were some decent returns
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  Speaker 3: in there. I feel like I learned quite a lot,
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  Speaker 3: but also still feel a little bit confused about some
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  Speaker 3: of the other players that I might want to have
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  Speaker 3: in my team. Hence why I didn't make any transfers
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  Speaker 3: heading into this one. But 60 points with the triple
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  Speaker 3: captain active. Yes, it's a green arrow. I'm happy about that.
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  Speaker 3: But there was definitely a frustration with Harlan not getting more.
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  Speaker 3: And then, I had another starting blanker like I had
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  Speaker 3: the week before I had Solis with it. This week
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  Speaker 3: it was Sangari. Just, yeah, a bit frustrating. But nonetheless,
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  Speaker 3: I shouldn't moan because it was green and we should
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  Speaker 3: take the green arrows and be happy about them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was actually the most ever triple captains player
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  Speaker 1: in fantasy history. So it wasn't just us that were
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  Speaker 1: left frustrated. I was watching that. I was presenting it
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  Speaker 1: for the Premier League and I was watching it. And
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  Speaker 1: to be honest, Coventry was so, so good that actually,
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  Speaker 1: in a way, it almost felt like we got lucky,
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  Speaker 1: although it was a very Harland-esque goal. I thought, though,
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  Speaker 1: for those who brought in Shirky, over two million transfers in,
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  Speaker 1: the fifth most ever, and that was a blank. So
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  Speaker 1: I kind of feel, and with, what was it, Phil
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  Speaker 1: Foden benched, O'Reilly going off in the warm-up as well,
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  Speaker 1: and Dye starting but getting nothing. Actually, Jules, Haaland triple
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  Speaker 1: captain was kind of the best, well, Haaland in general
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  Speaker 1: was the best option, really, because that was so frustrating.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and the only thing really is that he had
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  Speaker 4: two big chances to make it at least a brace,
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  Speaker 4: maybe even a hat-trick. And that's the last season I
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  Speaker 4: remember at triple captain him against Leeds at home where
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  Speaker 4: I thought he would have an absolute feast and he
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  Speaker 4: got two points and didn't really get much in that game.
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  Speaker 2: The disappointment in this one is.
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  Speaker 4: That a player of his level should have had at
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  Speaker 4: least two, really three.
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  Speaker 2: He had the chances for it.
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  Speaker 4: So that was a bit frustrating. But like you said, Kelly,
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  Speaker 4: it could have been worse. And And some people even
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  Speaker 4: went for Schalke as the triple captain and as the captain.
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  Speaker 2: And on paper, that looked a good idea. And to
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  Speaker 2: be fair, again, I thought he was also a bit
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  Speaker 2: unlucky because he was quite creative. He hit the post.
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  Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, it's only the
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  Speaker 4: points that you've got on your team that matters the most.
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  Speaker 4: And for us to have 27 with Highlands, to be fair,
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  Speaker 4: it's still okay as a triple captain. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Elsewhere? Isak was heavily sold. Gakpo got two assists and,
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  Speaker 1: of course, provided those assists for Alexander Isak. There was
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  Speaker 1: no Gakpo in the squad last night for Liverpool's Champions
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  Speaker 1: League match. But I'm wondering if we're starting to look
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  Speaker 1: at Liverpool a little bit differently, Jules?
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  Speaker 4: Yes and no, because I think Barcola's arrival now and
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  Speaker 4: the fact that he started against Atletico Madrid in the
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  Speaker 4: Champions League, for example, because Gakpo was out with that.
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  Speaker 4: What looked like, well, suddenly Iraula was quite reassuring on
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  Speaker 4: the seriousness of the Gakpo injury. So, He will probably
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  Speaker 4: be back this weekend for the league. But with Barcola,
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  Speaker 4: I think not just the line-up is going to change
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  Speaker 4: a bit and who plays where, but also I think
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  Speaker 4: the team's dynamic and some of the patterns of play
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  Speaker 4: will change because I think Barcola has everything to become
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  Speaker 4: the leader and the key player in this attack for
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  Speaker 4: Liverpool behind Isak, even ahead of Virz.
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  Speaker 2: So well ahead of Gakpo too.
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  Speaker 4: So there's something just to monitor because I'm not sure
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  Speaker 4: where Gakpo finds his place.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Virz as well, to be fair. Now that Barcola...
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  Speaker 2: He's here and clearly he's going to play quite a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and clearly Sbozlai is the man to own. We
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  Speaker 1: saw it again in the Champions League last night. Barcailo
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  Speaker 1: did go off, didn't he, with a bit of an
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  Speaker 1: injury too. So plenty to watch out for in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the Liverpool attack if you are wanting to invest. Sam,
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  Speaker 1: who else caught your eye from the game week?
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  Speaker 3: Well, obviously most of the people that were going for
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  Speaker 3: Cherki in their teams were doing it at the expense
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  Speaker 3: of Brian Mbermo, who then went and It was kind
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  Speaker 3: of one of those weeks where I imagine a lot
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  Speaker 3: of wildcarders were left feeling really frustrated because a lot
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  Speaker 3: of the players that they would have sold this week
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  Speaker 3: actually did quite well in the game week, including the
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  Speaker 3: whole defence as well in that. So I think if
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  Speaker 3: you went early on the wildcard, you maybe felt a
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  Speaker 3: bit frustrated. But yeah, Mbombe, the most sold player heading
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  Speaker 3: into the week, over a million managers sold him, scored
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  Speaker 3: the goal, got a bonus point. And it was definitely
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  Speaker 3: a frustration for those managers that got rid of him.
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  Speaker 3: I must admit, I was quite close. I was really
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  Speaker 3: tempted to do something. I wasn't really sure about going
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  Speaker 3: for Manchester City. I wasn't sure where to go. And
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  Speaker 3: I knew that I'd probably want Chelsea the following week.
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  Speaker 3: So I thought, well, maybe the best bet is to
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  Speaker 3: just do nothing and just wait and see and hope
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  Speaker 3: that we get a lot of information out of Arsenal
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  Speaker 3: and Chelsea. And then I know which way I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to go. I'm not sure I did get a lot
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  Speaker 3: of information out of Arsenal and Chelsea. As much as
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  Speaker 3: I enjoyed the game, I think I came out of
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  Speaker 3: it feeling just as confused as to how to invest
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  Speaker 3: in them as I did going into it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the Manchester United guys in particular and Berme continuing to
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  Speaker 3: look like decent options and make for difficult sell now.
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe that's why I was quite relieved and
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  Speaker 1: didn't feel quite as frustrated with Haaland because I was literally,
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  Speaker 1: classic me, 629 hovering over Mbembe to Schurke and I
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  Speaker 1: didn't do it. I decided I'm trying not to do
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  Speaker 1: as many of those. So I think I felt quite
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  Speaker 1: grateful that I'd got away with one with Schurke, so
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  Speaker 1: to speak. So actually... Haaland getting a return of some
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  Speaker 1: kind and Cherky blanking was not a bad result, particularly
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  Speaker 1: with Mbunmo scoring as well. Actually, it was Tyreek Mitchell
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  Speaker 1: that was the top scoring player of the game week. Sam,
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  Speaker 1: didn't we have him in quite a few of our drafts?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, for the whole of pre-season I pretty much had to.
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  Speaker 3: And over the opening couple of weeks I was thinking, well,
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  Speaker 3: it's probably a good thing I didn't because Crystal Palace
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  Speaker 3: haven't exactly started the season well. But I think we
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  Speaker 3: did learn quite a lot about the Fulham defence and
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  Speaker 3: the vulnerabilities and where the vulnerabilities are in the Fulham defence.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously they play Liverpool next, so looking at that
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  Speaker 3: side of the pitch I think could be quite interesting.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, a couple of goals for Mitchell in this one.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure even he thought he was going to
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  Speaker 3: get a couple of goals in this one though when
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  Speaker 3: he was interviewed after the game, but really decent option
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  Speaker 3: and with a 15 point return that's really nice if
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  Speaker 3: you did have him in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah and for Bournemouth the early game on Saturday saw
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  Speaker 1: Bournemouth lose yet another lead they were so good against
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  Speaker 1: Newcastle they'd be absolutely kicking themselves and Tavernier and Scott
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  Speaker 1: both with double digit points but it feels quite hard
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  Speaker 1: to assess Bournemouth if you're going to go for them
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  Speaker 1: it's probably the attack that you're going to go for
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  Speaker 1: isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah you should absolutely because I think they've got
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  Speaker 4: something really good going again the stability from last season
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  Speaker 4: having a new manager that has a lot of principles
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  Speaker 4: similar to Irawla. The old manager, I think he's helping massively,
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  Speaker 4: but they need to sort out how to manage those
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  Speaker 4: games because, as you said, Kelsna is too often, too
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  Speaker 4: many times. So the City game, I think the Everton
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  Speaker 4: game and then the Newcastle game where they're leading and
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  Speaker 4: in the end they either lose or just drop two
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  Speaker 4: more points and have a draw. And that's not enough
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  Speaker 4: when you get to those closing moments of a game.
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  Speaker 4: You should be able to manage that, control that and
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  Speaker 4: just not concede those goals. Some of those goals were
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  Speaker 4: really avoidable too.
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  Speaker 1: Do we need a hold offender, Sam? Is a hold
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  Speaker 1: offender becoming essential? Or is it actually maybe a relief
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  Speaker 1: that they've got Chelsea this weekend, so we're not going
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  Speaker 1: to get lured into that? Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: I think what Jules said last week is absolutely right.
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  Speaker 3: So yes, they are the only team now to still
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  Speaker 3: have not conceded any goals. But the XGC numbers, their
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  Speaker 3: expected goals conceded, are really, really high. Now you can
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  Speaker 3: look at that in one of two ways, because their
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  Speaker 3: XGC numbers were really high in the Championship last year
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  Speaker 3: as well. So maybe that's just the norm for them.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they just do concede a lot of chances and
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  Speaker 3: that's fine if they continue to be able to kind
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  Speaker 3: of be a bit lucky, I think, defensively and not concede.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we've seen over the last few weeks. But
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  Speaker 3: you're right in what you just said, Kels. They've got
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  Speaker 3: Chelsea up next, who just looked phenomenal again in midweek
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  Speaker 3: when the cavalry came off the bench at halftime.
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  Speaker 4: So I.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not going to go with a whole defender,
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  Speaker 3: but they do look like decent options. And we did
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  Speaker 3: have this with Sunderland last year. So maybe we should
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  Speaker 3: be paying more attention because there's always one of the
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  Speaker 3: newly promoted teams where the defenders do well. And even
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  Speaker 3: if they don't keep a clean sheet, we have already
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  Speaker 3: seen attacking threat out of their defence already. So there
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  Speaker 3: are definitely options there.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, Spurs got a clean sheet. Hurrah!
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  Speaker 4: The only positive of the season so far.
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  Speaker 2: There we go.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I had faith. 1.3 million managers didn't. It's only
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  Speaker 1: because De Bruyne was my backup. I'm forced to play
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  Speaker 1: him week in, week out. So yeah, I was pretty
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  Speaker 1: relieved about that. I'm still not sure he's the goalkeeper
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  Speaker 1: I want, but at least we got the clean sheets. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Chelsea versus Arsenal. Of course, I know it was a
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  Speaker 1: big game in FPL. We're going to talk about that
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  Speaker 1: in a bit more detail. Jules, I've just realised we
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  Speaker 1: spoke about Sam's game. We didn't really go into yours
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  Speaker 1: in depth.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, 66 points, similar to what Captain Haaland, which
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  Speaker 4: I think if you have done it, has kind of,
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  Speaker 4: saved your week a little bit and has taken you
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  Speaker 4: into Green Arrow's territory above average. I had Mbomo, I
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  Speaker 4: kept him, that was good. Odegaard was outstanding again, like
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  Speaker 4: he was in the Champions League on Wednesday night for Arsenal. Again,
• 9:44
  Speaker 4: Gvardiol also with some points and then the rest was
• 9:47
  Speaker 4: a bit disappointing. I thought Bruno Fernandes was really disappointing
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  Speaker 4: in that game. Joel Pedro against Arsenal really could have
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  Speaker 4: done a bit better but at the end of the
• 9:55
  Speaker 4: day it's only one point. Pascal Gross is only 1.2
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  Speaker 4: so Andrew Robinson is only one. So there was a
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  Speaker 4: lot of one-pointers in my team. But yeah, the triple
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  Speaker 4: captain worked in that way for saving the game week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was frustrating for me. I got 54. I'm
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  Speaker 1: always just like a few points off making the right
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  Speaker 1: decisions or having kind of what feels like a slightly
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  Speaker 1: more respectable score. Just above average again, but I benched Solis.
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  Speaker 1: At the last minute, I changed Calvert-Lewin out for Solis,
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  Speaker 1: which was just silly. And Solis outscored three of my
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  Speaker 1: four midfielders. So it was just hard, wasn't it? I
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: think there was a lot of uncertainty around Solis going
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  Speaker 1: into that game week. And as I said, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about Arsenal and maybe see which way we're
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  Speaker 1: leaning in terms of which players are the best to
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  Speaker 1: have very shortly. Okay, then in terms of the FPL
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  Speaker 1: Pod Mini League then, we have got another change at
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  Speaker 1: the top. Joseph Caulfield is up top. He sold Bruno
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  Speaker 1: and DCL and brought Gibbs, White and Haaland, which worked
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  Speaker 1: out well. Could have been so much better had that
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  Speaker 1: Forest goal not been ruled out. but Kinski wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: had his clean sheet. So Joseph triple captained Haaland. Interestingly,
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: the top 10 managers in our league, out of them all,
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  Speaker 1: it was only Joseph and Martin White in seventh who
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  Speaker 1: played the triple captain. Everyone else played the free hits,
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  Speaker 1: most of them, because they didn't own Haaland. Some to
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  Speaker 1: bring in more Man City assets. Joseph got 75 points.
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  Speaker 1: Malachi Fox has gone up to second, three points behind Joseph.
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  Speaker 1: He used the chip as well to remove his Arsenal
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  Speaker 1: and Chelsea assets for their game against each other and
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  Speaker 1: brought in Semenyo, Shirky, Gibbs White and Isak. Nils of
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  Speaker 1: Nord Bay had the biggest climb of the week after
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  Speaker 1: game week two. He was in 29th and he now
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  Speaker 1: finds himself in third. Also played the free hit chip,
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  Speaker 1: getting 71 points, meaning he is now two points behind Maliki.
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  Speaker 1: If you do want to join us, the league code
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  Speaker 1: is Q0HV1Q. Okay then, we haven't yet spoken about Chelsea
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  Speaker 1: versus Arsenal and we need to, but we also, I
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  Speaker 1: think that comes part of a bigger conversation about about
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  Speaker 1: our premiums. That game, I think, helped us. Did it?
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  Speaker 1: Did it? I don't know if it did. It helped
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  Speaker 1: me in time. No, it didn't help me at all.
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  Speaker 1: What am I talking about?
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what you expected, no?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but from an FPL perspective, I'm not sure it
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  Speaker 3: helped us. Like, it was a great game of football.
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  Speaker 3: It was exactly what I expected it to be. But
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  Speaker 3: I was hoping that one of those players on each
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  Speaker 3: side would go, pick me in FPL.
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  Speaker 1: But they didn't really.
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  Speaker 3: There were kind of a few of them that all
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  Speaker 3: put their hands up which is what they've been doing
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  Speaker 3: in the opening weeks of the season.
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  Speaker 1: But maybe it helped me, Sam, because I'm like you,
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  Speaker 1: a Harland and a Bruno owner, and it just made
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  Speaker 1: me go, okay, well, Palmer's not done anything there to
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  Speaker 1: make me go, I need to spend the money on him.
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  Speaker 1: I can go for Rodgers. So maybe that's why it
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  Speaker 1: helped me. Whereas all of a sudden, if Palmer had
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  Speaker 1: gone off in a big game like that, I think
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  Speaker 1: it would have been very hard to ignore. Don't get
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  Speaker 1: me wrong, he's still pretty hard to ignore. But I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, from that point of view, can we go
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  Speaker 1: Jules for Rodgers instead of Palmer?
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  Speaker 2: Does it cover him?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you can. Obviously, it's cheaper, 2 million cheaper.
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  Speaker 4: So that's very important in the game because you might
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  Speaker 4: need some of that 2 million to buy another player
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  Speaker 4: that you really want to go up to, I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: Alexander Isak as your third forward.
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  Speaker 2: With Joao Pedro and Haaland or whatever. So you might
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  Speaker 2: need that money.
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  Speaker 4: The extra money there. If you look at the stats,
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  Speaker 4: the ownership is pretty similar, 22% for Palmer, 28% for
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  Speaker 4: For Rodgers, Palmer is on pens though, which is for
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  Speaker 4: sure guaranteed, as we saw in the League Cup win
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  Speaker 4: that they had against Leeds when they were 2-0 down
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  Speaker 4: and then came back in the second half once Palmer
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  Speaker 4: and Rodgers.
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  Speaker 2: Got off the bench, for example.
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  Speaker 4: Similar goals per 90 at 0.68, 0.69.
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  Speaker 2: For Palmer and Rodgers.
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  Speaker 4: There's more shots per 90 for Cole Palmer, which I
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  Speaker 4: think you could expect that from here a bit.
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  Speaker 2: But then Rodgers has created a bit more chances too.
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  Speaker 4: So there's really, I think at the end of the season,
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  Speaker 4: I expect them to be really close in terms of points.
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  Speaker 4: I don't expect Palmer to be like 25 or 30
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  Speaker 4: points ahead of Rodgers or the other one, unless there's
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  Speaker 4: an injury somewhere. But if they stay fit and Chelsea
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  Speaker 4: continue to play in this way, which would be a
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  Speaker 4: successful way, certainly attacking-wise, then I expect them to be
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  Speaker 4: quite close.
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  Speaker 2: So really, it's.
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  Speaker 4: If you prefer Palmer or Rodgers and the way they
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  Speaker 4: play and if you can make up with those two million.
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  Speaker 4: I think if you can have those two million, go
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  Speaker 4: for Palmer because I still think he's more safe and
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  Speaker 4: still more important for this Chelsea team than Rodgers will
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  Speaker 4: be this season. But if the money is a bit tight,
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  Speaker 4: then I think there's nothing wrong with getting Rodgers ahead
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  Speaker 4: of Palmer.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is money is tight for all of us,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it? We've all got roughly the same... the same budget.
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  Speaker 1: And I think Sam, probably what lawyers are saying is
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  Speaker 1: when you've got another slightly cheaper alternative to a premium
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: within the same Premier League team, it feels easier to
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: scrimp and save, if you know what I mean, and
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: go for a Rodgers. Whereas I suppose you could say
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: you've got the same at Man United. You could go
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: from Bermuda over Bruno. You could, if you wanted Saka,
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: you could go for an Odegaard or a Solis, but
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know the form Rodgers is in. I think
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: it was a hat trick of assists for him last night. It,
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: it just feels like he's doing everything he can to
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: justify his price tag.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I've spent so much time this week
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: going backwards and forwards on which one of these two,
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: because it doesn't just come down to a straight choice
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: between Rodgers and Palmer, which I find in itself difficult.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: As George just mentioned, I was looking at the stats.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: Palmer's getting a point every 12 and a half minutes.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: Rodgers is getting a point every 13.6 minutes. There's very
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: little difference in that. Rodgers has got the better XG.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: He's also got the better XA. And he's got a
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: better XGI. So for all of the expected metrics, Rodgers
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: is better, but Palmer's more involved, more touches, more passes received.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: He's also having an attempt on goal more often. He's
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: also had the most shots in that Chelsea team, even
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: more than Jal Pedro. So you look at that and
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: you go, well, okay, the metrics are quite split between
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: the two of them. So then I have to look
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: at how would I fit them into my team? And
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: should I be making a choice or should I be
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: just getting both? Should we actually just be getting all
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: three of those Chelsea attackers and just have them all
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: given the fixtures that they have coming up?
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's an option.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: But then I'm looking at my team with Bruno and
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: Mbermo and I'm thinking, well, I have to sell one
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: of those two in order to buy a Chelsea asset.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: So it's a choice between having Bruno and Rodgers versus
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: having Palmer and Mbermo. And that's, I think, the decisions
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: that a lot of FPL managers are making. It's the
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: same with Arsenal as well, who we'll talk about in
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: a minute. Because it's not just the straight choice between
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: the two. Because I think looking at Rodgers and Palmer there,
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: it is fairly even. You are looking at it and going, well,
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: there's not a huge amount of difference. And I actually
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: agree with Jules. I don't think there'll be a huge
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: amount of difference between them in price in points that
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: they return over the course of this season by the
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: time we get to game week 38. But there might
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: be a massive difference between what Bruno and Mbambo do.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: And if I've sold the wrong one of those two
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: to bring in the wrong Chelsea one, I think that's
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: where the difficulty comes for a lot of managers because
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: you're talking about selling a premium asset from another club
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: to fund one from a different one and making the
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: right call between how you own these players. That's difficult.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does feel like that, doesn't it? Okay, so elsewhere,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: we're kind of, it sounds like we're all kind of
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: leaning towards Rodgers, but dependent on what you're doing elsewhere.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: What about Arsenal? Jules, would you do both of them
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: actually quickly?
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Both Rodgers and Palmer.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, bear in mind we're all Pedro owners.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Withdraw Pedro.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, three fields is a lot because there
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: will be games where all three of them are great
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: and will return. So one will get a goal, another
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: one we might just get an assist, but that's still
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: a good return for us in the game. I don't
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: think those three together will return all three together every week,
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: for sure. There will be games where it's difficult and
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: we saw that against Arsenal, for example. I even thought
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Rodgers was a bit lucky with his goal. And so
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: you could have had a game against Arsenal where neither
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: of them would have returned.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: So I think that's to keep in mind.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: It's really rare that we've got three attackers of the
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: same team in our team, really. You can have a
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: defender and then two attackers. That often happens, especially with
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: the big clubs.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: But three.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: You know, it's like, would you have Cherky, Foden and
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Haaland in your team?
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I don't think we would go there.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Even from an Arsenal point of view, would you have Saka,
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: Havertz and other guys?
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: It feels a little bit wrong in a way, but...
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: But no Europe, Jules.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Does that make a difference? Yeah, maybe.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: It's more that at the end of the day, I
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: think also there's just one ball for them to three
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: to share. And there's a point where it's the same
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: for the Barca front three, for the Bayern Munich front three,
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: for the PSG front three. There will be games where
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: it's just, it's not going to happen for all of them.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: That's the thing more.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, Cole Palmer revealed recently that, you know, Morgan
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Rogers has all three of them, but it's a bit
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: different because he's, you know, this is his team and
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: he does what he wants. Cole Palmer's dad, you know,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: also I think has three of them and Cole Palmer
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: is his captain, fair enough.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: So you can do it. I don't think I would
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: go there, but you can do it. And it's expensive too.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was interesting this week, the clip
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: that's done the rounds. Morgan Rogers does play FPL and
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: he's got all three Chelsea attackers to have himself covered
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: just in case. So it depends if you want to
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: go with the Morgan Rogers way of playing FPL and
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: cover yourself or just play a little bit of risk
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: and reward. The latter feels a little bit more likely,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: doesn't it? Okay, Arsenal then. And this is good in
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: a way because we've got one Odegaard owner, two Solis owners,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: some idiot that benched Solis last week. He did get
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: a rest in the Champions League last night. Well, he
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: didn't start. which makes me at least feel a little
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: bit better about Solis' start chances this weekend. Because I
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: think we were all a little bit put off, weren't we,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: by the game week two, blank, against Aston Villa and
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: him being taken off early. But where are we landing
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: on this debate at the moment, Sam? Do you know what?
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: This one I almost find more difficult than the Chelsea one.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Because the Chelsea one, I kind of feel like I'm
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: picking between... They both feel like they're going to return.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: This one.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: is more difficult because the reason why you'd go for
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Palmer over Rodgers over there is because we've got certainty
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: of penalties. We've never really had certainty of penalties at Arsenal.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: They seem to just feel it on the day and
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: go for it. So it's not like we can definitely
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: say 100% that one of them has penalties and then
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: the other two don't. But we're also talking about a
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: bigger difference in price with these guys, because obviously we've
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: got the two million difference between Rodgers and Palmer, but
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: over here.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: We've got three.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: It's far easier to have an Erdogan and Solis combination.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: But equally, over the course of the last couple of
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: seasons in FPL, we've moved very much more towards the
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: double defence with Arsenal because they are so good defensively
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: and Calafuri is a, absolute no-brainer and Konza feels like
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: he might be a bit of a gift to us
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: at his price point as well going forward so it
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: does mean that you are having to make a really
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: difficult choice between one Arsenal attacker if you are going
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: to double up in defence if you have the money
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: I think Saka is the best one to go for
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: I do I think he is I think unlike at
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Chelsea where there's not a lot of difference between Rodgers
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: and Palmer I think here there is a is a
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: big difference between having Saka in your team and having
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Erdogan and Solis but equally I If you can't afford Saka,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I think it's okay to compromise on having one of
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: these two. It's just that the decision you make between
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: the two of them is harder. So when you look
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: at shots, Erdegaard has had a couple more so far
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: this season than Solis has. But chances created, Solis is
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: one ahead of Erdegaard. Solis has created eight, whereas Erdegaard's
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: done seven. For expected assists, though, Erdegaard is quite a
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: long way ahead. It's 1.3. sorry, 1.05 XA for Odegaard,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: whereas for Solis it's 0.35 over the opening week. So
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: there's quite a lot of difference between the underlying numbers
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: between those two. So underlying numbers would suggest you would
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: get Odegaard instead if you were going to compromise on
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: the two. But as a Solis owner, I'm not sure
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: I want to sell him.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of what I think. But watching Odegaard
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: last night, he was brilliant again. So Jules, I'm probably
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: a little bit envious really that you've gone for Odegaard
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: over Solis. Is Do you have a hankering to get
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Saka into your team? Or are you quite happy with
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: just having Odegaard?
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: The three million difference between Odegaard and Saka, for example,
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: for me, is too much right now. The most informed
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: player is Odegaard. The most important player for this Arsenal
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: team is Odegaard. The confidence that he has. I mean,
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: we saw Saka missing chances against Napoli. Chances that really
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: he should not be missed. Shouldn't be missing, sorry. And
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Odegaard took his goal really, really well again, which was
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: a very difficult goal.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: To score against Napoli in that 1-0 win. So I think.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: And the stats also back up that kind of form,
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: not just what we see on TV, but also what's
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: happening on the pitch. So for now, at some point
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: in the season, Saka might be the better option for
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: that difference of price and the most informed and the
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: one on a scoring streak or whatever. Sure, for now,
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: if you ask me, I would never let Odegaard go.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Even if I had the money for Saka... I would
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: never let Odegaard go for Saka or let Odegaard go
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: for Solis.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Wow, interesting. Would you, Sam, I would prefer to have
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Odegaard over Solis. If I had a clean slate right now,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: I'd buy Odegaard. Yeah, I would too. Of the two
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: of them.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I do think that over the course of the season,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Saka will outscore him. Probably by a chunk of points though.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: He feels more, he's got the more explosive potential, doesn't he? Saka,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: And so I think over the course of the season,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: as long as Saka stays fit, then he would comfortably
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: outscore Odegaard and Solis, both of them. If I was
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: wildcarding this week, I'd have Odegaard instead for sure over
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Solis because I think I would probably be looking at
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: keeping Bruno Fernandes. And if you're looking at keeping Bruno Fernandes,
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: then you can't really justify having Rodgers and Saka if
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: you also want Haaland and Jal Pedro and other players
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: kind of more expensive midfielder options. I think you have
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: to make a compromise somewhere. And the compromise I'd probably
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: be prepared to make is to have Odegaard over Saka.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: So probably in terms of ranking them, if money wasn't
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: a thing, I think we'd all go Saka, Odegaard, Solis,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: but money is a thing. So at the moment, Jules,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: even if you want Saka, you'd probably stick with Odegaard.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Even if I had the money, I would not go
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: for Saka right now. I would keep Odegaard.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: And I think in a game like the Sunderland game
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: that they have on Saturday night, for example, In a
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: game like that, I still think, and I might be wrong,
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: and Saka will score a hat-trick and great for him.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: But in those kind of games, really physical, really aggressive game,
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: where I would expect the Sunderland full-backs to double up
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: on their defence on Saka and Solis, who will be
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: the two Arsenal wingers, I think there's probably more to
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: get from an Odegaard point of view in a game
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: like that. Even just on set-pieces too, on some of them,
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: although Saka also takes them, I know, and Rice too,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: but there's probably more from the position that Odegaard will
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: pick in these games. then Saka on his right-hand side
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: or Torres on his left-hand side.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, Manchester United then. And it feels like if you
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: are trying to get another Chelsea player in this week,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Manchester United might well be where there's a sacrifice. A
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: lot of us, myself included, Sam included, Jules as well,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: did the Manchester United double up with Mbumo and Bruno Fernandes.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: And we always knew that this fixture was on the horizon,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the Manchester derby. And I was always planning on getting
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: rid of one of them. I have tossed and I
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: have turned at night. to work out which ones to
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: get rid of because, but my scoring last week was great,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: but didn't help my decision. Fernandes would be the nice
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: ones to get rid of because he costs that bit more,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: but I just couldn't sell Bruno Fernandes. Jules, are you
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: going to be part in company with either of them?
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: It is the key here.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, Bruno holds all the keys of your team
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: and what you can do because it's just that extra money,
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: isn't it?
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: I watched him at.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: The weekend and I thought he was terrible. And again,
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: let's remind everybody that Bruno has blanked twice in three games.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: I know he had this incredible game against Ipswich and
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: well done. He was at the right place at the
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: right time. There's a penalty. There's one nice kind of
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: a tap-in, although the first touch is not easy to
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: do and he does it really well, but it's still
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: a tap-in. But the game against Everton, he was so poor,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: like so many poor passes, missed pass, just everything.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: I was like, what is going on here? Just an off-deck.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: And he doesn't have many of those.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: So I'm not saying like Bruno is rubbish and let's
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: all sell him because the ownership is still almost 50%.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: I think it's 46 or 47%. So if you let
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: him go and he scores and he does well, it's
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: going to hurt you so much. And that's why for
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: me right now, I will still keep him. Not because
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: I think he's indispensable in your team to have. I
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: don't think he's reached his best form. I don't think
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: United as a collective are that great right now with
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: the ball. But because he's still so heavily owned, I
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: think we have to keep him.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's depressing that the ownership comes into it. But
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: it is a factor, isn't it, Sam? Yeah, and I
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: also think you have to think about the fixtures. So yes,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the fixture this weekend isn't great. It's the Manchester derby,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: as we know. He doesn't have a terrible record against
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Manchester City. It's not brilliant, but it's not terrible.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: He's got 63 points against them in FPL, averages 4.8
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: points per match, three goals, three assists there.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: So it's not a terrible record. It's not the best record.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: But it's fine.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: But then when you look at how the fixtures follow
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: after Manchester City, you've got Fulham, Spurs, Leeds, Bournemouth. Those
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: four fixtures do feel like there could be opportunities for
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: goals in there, particularly against Fulham and Spurs, who the
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: defences really haven't been very solid, despite what we saw
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: from Spurs at the weekend. There's definitely opportunities in those.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Then there's the difficult game against Chelsea in nine. It's
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Villa in 10, who did look to have improved quite
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: dramatically when they played in the Champions League in midweek
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: before Liverpool. So there's definitely moments over the next few
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: weeks where if you sell Bruno Fernandes, you're going to
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: look at your team and think, ooh, I wish I
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: hadn't sold Bruno Fernandes in those fixtures that you have
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: coming up. And also, I'm not sure, we've spent a
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: lot of time talking about if you can cover. Can
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: you cover Palmer with Rodgers? Can you cover Saka with
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: a Nerdergaard? Can you cover Bruno Fernandes with Mbomo? I'm
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: not sure you can. I think this is the team
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: where you really do have to pay for their most
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: premium assets. So if you want to have a Manchester
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: United attacker right now, because Sesco isn't fully fit and
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: isn't starting, and maybe the situation changes in three, four,
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: five weeks' time when we're regularly seeing, if we're regularly
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: seeing Sesco starting. But right now, I think if you
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: want a Manchester United attacker, it kind of has to
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: be Bruno Fernandes. And that makes sense. it has an
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: impact on the other teams and how you invest in
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: their premiums as well.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: That perhaps explains all of our answers on the other premiums,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: doesn't it really, in terms of we're all sticking with Bruno.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, no one's going to tell me in the
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: next bit they're about to sell Harland, are they?
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: No.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: No.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: No. We've got some sanity on this podcast. So we're
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: kind of going with the spine of Harland and Bruno,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: and I guess other people will probably go with Harland
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: and Palmer, or maybe you're somehow going to completely take
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: everything all the money out the rest of your team
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: and find the way to get a third. But that's
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: kind of the way to do it. How did you feel, though,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: watching Isak on Friday night, Jules? Did that make you
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: start to think, uh-oh, we thought we could kind of
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: do our Haaland-Pedro plus a cheap forward. Actually, we need
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: to fit Isak in?
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and if you look at the goal he scored
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: against Forest, for example, the Gakpo cross and it's a
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: tap-in for him, but he's still in the right place.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: He looked sharp to go and get that ball. Then
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: it's again the link-up between Gakpo and Isak in that
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: game against Ipswich.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: He looks better.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: He's still not perfect yet because there's still more to
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: come from his relationship with Viet, for example, and there
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: should be more coming from Barcola as well.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Now that Barcola has been playing and.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: They won against Atletico Madrid in midweek in the Champions
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: League coming from you know coming from a goal down
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Barcola got a few cramps I don't think he was
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: really serious he came off after an hour they rushed
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: him a bit to start I think Irawla said that
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: himself I think it was a bit early to start
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: him especially in a game of this kind of calibre
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: But I don't think he might not be out for
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: the weekend. But even if he misses the weekend game,
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: he will be back soon after that. Anyway, so it'd
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: be very interesting to see the dynamic once Barcola is back,
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: when Gakpo is fit again. And he might be fit
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: this weekend because, again, I think he was more precaution
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: than anything else.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: But Isak is very good. We know that.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: He was very good for us before in FPL. Last
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: season was a nightmare for so many reasons. But if
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: Isak can come back to even 80% of what he was,
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: in the best season he had at Newcastle. He'd be
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: very interesting for us to own if we can afford him.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: So I think for now, Gakpo was a really good, again,
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: to go from X or Y.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Gakpo was a really good substitute for Isak.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: If you didn't have the fund to go for Isak,
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: I think there might be a point where Isak becomes
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: a bit of a, okay, what do we do with
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: him now?
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Do we bring him in or not? Sam?
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the penalties thing comes back around, doesn't it,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: with this conversation because we saw in game week one
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: that Sir Bosley was the one that took the ball,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: took the penalty. Now you could argue that maybe that
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: was because of the location of the game and the
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: fact that it was at St James' Park and all
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: the emotion for Isak and all of that. But I
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: also think that that does play a part in it
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: because if you're going to spend 9.1 million now on
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: a forward, that's a lot more than you're going to
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: pay on Jao Pedro.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: So he's going to be your second forward.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: He has to kind of have, a lot of things,
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: a lot of things in his arsenal that make him
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: a really attractive buy. I would argue that Friday was
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: the first time we've really seen the best of Isak.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: I think that that was the time where I was like, oh, okay, right.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Now he's, he's here and he looks good. And he
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: obviously had a very difficult season last year with injury.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: But the year before when he was at Newcastle was
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: a phenomenal year in FPL. And we know he's got
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: that in his locker. So you have to kind of
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: take those conversations seriously and, But there are other options
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: in that Liverpool team. We've got Sabozlai who's cheap and
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: is on penalties we possibly maybe think. Plus also gets DEFCON,
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: plus also is on other set pieces. So there's a
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: good route to points there. We've got Barcola coming in.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: We've got Gakpo who's currently the most transferred in player
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: heading into game week four. by quite a long way
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: as well. He's proving very, very popular, which I can
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: understand because he's cheap and he's a nice enabler. And
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: I think for people that are on wildcard, he does
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: look a good option. But what we yet don't know
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: is when all of these players are fit and available
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: for Liverpool, who starts where and what impact does that
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: have on their positioning?
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: So I.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Think for me, as a Sabozlai owner, I'm happy to
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: just stick with him for now. But Isak is in
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: the back of my mind. And I think if there
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: comes a point where I do decide, actually, I do
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: want the Chelsea treble up and I do want to
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: have Palmer, Rodgers and Del Pedro, that would open the
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: door to upgrade the third forward to Isak. Because obviously
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: you're taking quite a substantial amount of money out of
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Bruno Fernandes then. So on wildcard, that might be the
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: time where I look at Liverpool. But it does feel
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: a bit frustrating because going into the next couple of
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: weeks against Fulham and Bournemouth, I mean, both of these
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: defences have been gettable in the opening weeks of the
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: season and we could see good returns out of Isak.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: So if you're on wildcard right now or have a
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: route to him, he is a player I would seriously
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: consider investing in.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, so a lot of the reason that there is
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: so many chips active this week will probably be because
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: of the conversation we have just had. There's over 378,000,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: in fact, at the time of recording wildcard's. Active, and
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: it does feel like people are doing that. A lot
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: of the reason is to try and maybe get Chelsea
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: premiums in, maybe to move around their Manchester United premiums,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: as we've just been saying. So who are the teams
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: that you'd first be targeting, Jules, on your wildcard? Would
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: you build those premiums? Would you decide who your premiums are,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: your strategy with those, and then build out from there?
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: So like we've been saying, either you go for Palmer
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: and Mbomo, whether you go for Bruno, Rodgers, the Highlander
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: or Pedro front two doesn't change. If you want to
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: go for Isak, then obviously that limits your options in
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: midfield or in defence, but you won't be able to
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: go with Isak, Joel Pedro, Haaland, Bruno, you know, and
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: things like that. So you'll have to make a decision.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: I think it's a very exciting time to play your
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: wild card if you want to now. If like Sam
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: and I, for example, you still have three free transfers,
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: you might not have to play your wild card and
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: you can keep it for maybe the international break that
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: will come up very soon or even the following game
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: week now. But if you want to play now, I
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: think it's very exciting because we have a bit of
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: the trend now, you know, and those choices that we've
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: been talking and discussing are not easy to make.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: You know, Bruno, Palmer, the big game weeks where you said.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: Oh, why did I go for Palmer and not for Bruno, Mbombo,
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: Rodgers or the other round?
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: All of that. It's normal. Every season is the same.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: It's part of the game. That's what makes the game
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: so great. But I think it's very exciting if you
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: play your wildcard now.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Sam, where do you sit on? Because I've seen a
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: few people say you could jump between premiums. I... I
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: feel uncomfortable about that because I just feel like the
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: moment you jump is the week you jump, then the
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: person you've jumped off will return. And I can see why.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I know transfers are there to be used. I know
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I'm a cautious FPL manager, but I've just been intrigued
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: by the number of people suggesting that's a viable strategy
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: this year.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: I think you have to be really careful with that
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: because the reason why premiums are priced in the premium
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: price point is because over the course of a season
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: for the last few years, they have returned a significant
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: number of points. And obviously the price point that they
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: are given at the start of every season is dependent
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: upon the amount of points that they returned last year.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: If you do well in a season, you're going to
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: take a price rise the following year. So the premium
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: assets have these premium price tags for that reason. Now,
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: as George quite rightly talked about earlier, there will be
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: weeks where Palmer does more than Rodgers does and Rodgers
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: does more than Palmer does or Saka does more than
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Palmer does and vice versa. There will be weeks where
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: Bruno does stuff and then other weeks where he doesn't.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: But the benefit or the reason why you've paid the
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: premium price point is because if you stay loyal to them,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: you would hope that over the course of a season,
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: they would return a significant number of points. The massive
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: risk you have is if you jump between the premiums
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: and you go, well, there's a nice book of fixtures
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: coming up for Manchester City now, so I'll have Harlan.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: But actually then in two weeks time, I'm going to
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: swap him for Isak or, and then I'm going to
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: use that money to upgrade somebody in the midfield. I'm
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: going to get Saka and Palmer, and then I'm going
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: to swap them out a bit later to get Bruno.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: And if you do that, there's a really good chance
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: where you miss halls, because as we've seen over recent weeks,
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: players get halls, not just against in the easy fixtures
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: or in the supposed easy fixtures. They also get halls
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: in the more difficult fixtures against bigger clubs where they're competing.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: With the, for the league or, or what have you.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: So, For me, it's just not a strategy that I
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: like to deploy. I like to be loyal with my
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: premiums and move my differential players because it's the differentials
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: where I think you could really get a march because
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: those players don't tend to return significantly over the course
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: of a season. They tend to return in a little
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: block of fixtures. They have a purple patch, as we
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: like to call it, where they.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Do really well.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: And then they die off and you get somebody else
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: instead to replace them. That for me feels like where
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: you do the hokey-cokey, not with your premiums.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, just quickly, because I started asking about this and
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: then we got, kind of into another premium debate about
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: how we move around them. If someone is saying this
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: is wildcarding, Sam, none of us are, of course, but
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: who were the teams that you would be targeting then
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: alongside obviously sorting out your premiums?
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: So I think you obviously look at the fixture ticket,
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: but if you are playing a wildcard going into game
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: week four, then you have to make it, try and
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: make it last for as long as possible because obviously
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: you don't get your second one until 19. Chelsea's fixtures
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: are really good. So heavily invest in them, whether you
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: want to go for the double or the treble up
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: in attack, I'd do that. I would avoid their defence.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: The Newcastle fixtures also look really nice and they've had
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: a decent start to the season. So I think you
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: can look at the Alangas, the Whistlers, people like that.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: I think when it comes to the defenders, there will
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: be a massive temptation to jump to Hull because of
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: what we've seen so far this season. And that might
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: be the right decision for one of them. But I'd
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: keep a Coventry defender in there because, again, the fixtures
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: are nice. And over the next six weeks, they actually
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: sit top of the fixture ticker. They've got four home
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: fixtures and only two away fixtures. So there's a nice
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: balance for them there. Aston Villa's fixtures are starting to
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: improve as well over the coming weeks. They are a
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: team that I wouldn't necessarily get on a wildcard, but
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: I would just have a view to how to invest
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: in on the wildcard so that in the coming weeks
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: you can maybe make choices. But I think even despite
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: the fact that Liverpool's fixtures aren't great for the next
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: six weeks because they're skewed with Manchester City and Arsenal,
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: if you look at the other four, Fulham, Bournemouth, Brentford
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: and Brighton, you'd still invest there, you'd invest in Arsenal,
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: you'd still invest in Manchester City. But I think if
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: you're looking for clubs around the edges... then the Newcastles,
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: the likes of maybe Spurs, maybe Aston Villa, they'd be
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: the teams that I'd be looking at.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, time for a differential of the week. And wow,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: what a start to the season it's been, particularly for Jules,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: but this week for both of you, one point you
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: both got. You got a combined two points. Jules went
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: for a Langer, you got a yellow card. Sam went
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: for Foden, who was benched. Let's hope, well.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, mine is still better. At least mine played.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: From the start.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: I'd say the only way is up, but... You could.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't put it past either of you to get
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: zero this week. It's the only way it could be down.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: I'm going to let you go first, Jules, out of pity.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Who are you going for?
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Okay. Thank you for your pity. I really appreciate it.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Well deserved.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: So I was going to go for Nico Jackson, but
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: because he played really well with Aston Villa in the
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: Champions League with the first win of the season, by
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: the way, we didn't mention it, but away at Club
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: Bruges on Tuesday, 3-2, he scored, although he was gifted
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: the goal. But he was really involved and I think
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: Nico is going to do well for Villa. So I
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: keep him probably for the week after. They are home
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: to Forest Villa and like Sam said, their fixtures look
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: good and Nico, I think, will look good. Anyway, I
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: went for Marcus Tavernier at Bournemouth. 3.2% own, so really,
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: really good differential. This one, I think he's played really well.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: He blanked in game week two, but had 10 points
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: return game week one, 10 points return game week three
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: as well. He cost you 6 million, so really decent
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: price for a player like him with the form that
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: he's in.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Attacking-wise, Bournemouth are not a problem. It's more defensively. We
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: mentioned that already on the show.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: But attacking-wise, it's very much still the principles of last
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: season under Irola with Marco Rosa this time. So I think, again,
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: there will be a lot for Bournemouth at home against Brentford.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: A lot of space, a lot of the ball for
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: Tavernier to use. And I think he's going to do
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: really well.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: Sam?
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go for Luka Vuskovic. He's 5 million.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: He's only owned by 2.9% of the game. Obviously, he
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: plays for Brighton. Brighton play Coventry this weekend. He's got
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: two clean sheets so far this season, as well as
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: a goal and a couple of defensive contribution points and
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: a couple of bonus points versus Leeds in game week three.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: 22 defensive contributions so far over the opening weeks for him.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: That's the most across the Brighton team. And 18 points
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: so far, which only De Kalper, who's obviously playing out
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: of position, can better. So I think there's a really
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: good opportunity for him to get some attacking returns. We
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: haven't seen any clean sheets for Coventry. So from set pieces,
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: we might see some threat from him there, really. He's
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: very good at that. So, yeah, I'm going to go
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: for Vescovic and hope for a return. OK, good luck
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: to both of you.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: You need it. Captains, transfers... And chips then. No chips active, correct?
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: No.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Any transfers made? I've made one. I've got two more
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: burning a hole in my pocket. I may make another one.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, you have three as well? Sorry, earlier.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, that's right. Well, I do already use one,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: so technically I only have two. Jules, have you done
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: anything yet? I went from Mbumo to Rogers, though, as
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: I said, I panicked into it because I saw Rodgers
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: was going up. I was annoyed because I missed the
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Maguire price. Yes. And I realized that I'd missed Maguire's
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: drop the night before and I was annoyed about that.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: And I missed Rodon's drop as well, which I just thought,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: I know he was injured, but I just thought that
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: we had a little bit longer to sort both of
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: those things out, to be honest. So I was like,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: I can't miss a Rodgers rise. Otherwise I'm 0.3 down,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: so to speak. So yeah, I panicked and didn't promote
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: to Rodgers. So all week I've been going, should I
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: have done Bruno?
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: No.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: But you guys have made me feel better about that
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: than I shouldn't have. So that's what I've done. I
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: probably will make a defensive change as well. I haven't
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: done it yet. Yeah, I don't know. I won't go
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: into my defensive dilemmas. It's boring. But yeah, I might
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: do a defender. George, you haven't done anything. Are you
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: going to?
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Not yet.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: But the three that I have planned so far is
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: Konza for Robertson.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. Konza for Robertson. He's useless. One
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: point again this week. I'm sorry, Sam.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: We kept a clean sheet.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but not him.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: You didn't start. Your doggy's back now. You've got an issue.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: I know I've got an issue. Rogers for Mbomo. I
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: agree with you, Kels.
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: I think it's not that I love Bruno that much
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: this season yet, but I think you have to keep
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: him if you have him already. And then that still
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: leaves me enough money to go from Roby, who didn't
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: work out.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: You know, I tried.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: He had two good fixtures to start. Now he's got
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: two difficult fixtures starting with Arsenal at the weekend. So
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: I'm tempted to go from Broby to Wissam. And that
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: would be, so my new three players would be Konca, Rodgers, Wissam,
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: which I think it looks decent.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Nice upgrade, isn't it? Sam, what about you? Okay, so
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: here comes the story of Woe.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: So I knew Roden was going to take a price
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: drop and I decided I'd just ride through it because
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to watch the game with Arsenal on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, I'm going to deal with that.
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  Speaker 3: Worst case scenario here is I sell Roden for the
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: same price I buy Konca for and I do it
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  Speaker 3: after the game. And then I was like, but actually
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  Speaker 3: I don't really want to do anything because it's Champions
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  Speaker 3: League week and I would far rather get through the
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: League Cup and the Champions League and everything else. And
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: I'm at the point in my season where, yes, I
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: value the 0.1 here or there, but I value the
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: information more because if I get on the right player,
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: even if I pay 0.1 more for them, I'm likely
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: to gain more in value over the coming weeks.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I decided to just leave Rodenwell alone. And on Sunday night,
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: I did my live stream that I always do on
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: a Sunday evening and decided I was going to just
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  Speaker 3: do the Mbermo to Rogers transfer. Except I didn't know
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  Speaker 3: what time it was and I went to do it.
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  Speaker 3: And as I did it, it hit midnight. And of
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: course the game locks at midnight to do the price changes.
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  Speaker 3: So it wouldn't go through. And I was like, I
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: don't understand what's happened. And then I realized it was
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  Speaker 3: one minute past midnight. So I missed the price.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So as a minute, as in for now, I haven't
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: actually done anything, but my plan transfers because I'm going
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: to wait for Manchester United to play tonight, just in
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: case something bad happens.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully it won't.
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  Speaker 3: Um, but my plan transfers are to do Ember motor
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: Rogers and road into Konza and I'll keep one.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Nice. Yeah. It's very similar to what I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to do, although I might do McGuire down to Konza
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: just to get a bit more money in the bank, really,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: I think. Um, But equally, probably having a playing defender
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: on your bench is smarter. I'll see how I feel.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: I'll see how I feel. Captain C, it's just Chelsea,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: isn't it? It's just which Chelsea attacker you go for?
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  Speaker 2: Are we all going to.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, do you not think? Who are you going to go, Sam?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it is all Chelsea. I think you
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: have to look at Haaland, don't you? Because he's got
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: a really fantastic record against Manchester United. So average is
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: 10 points per game against them. Eight goals, three assists.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Don't scare me into being a sheep and captaining Haaland.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: Can you rule him out? I think you're right.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: I think Chelsea are the way to go, but I
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: don't think we can just rule Haaland out of the conversation.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: But are you going to captain? Who are you going
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: to captain?
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  Speaker 3: Me?
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know yet. But I think
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Haaland is a good shout.
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: But you look at those Chelsea fixtures now, if you
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: have Rodgers or Palmer or Joe Pedro, I guess.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: The fear as well is if you've not got... You
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: might get the wrong Chelsea player. Yeah, that's what I
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: was going to say. If you've not got Palmer... Yeah,
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: of course. And you go for a Rodgers and all... Yeah,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: I do take your point with that. I really thought
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: I was set on my Rodgers captain. Rodgers captain over
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: Jal Pedro? I just got so excited that I brought
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: him in. He's English as well, Sam. Come on, you
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: know what I'm like. Oh, yeah, of course.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you love English. You do.
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  Speaker 3: It's difficult because you could get the wrong one. And
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: that's where my issue is. So I'm going to have
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: Jal Pedro and Rodgers... I think it's quite hard to
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: decide whether you're Captain Jal Pedro or Rodgers because obviously
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: I'd expect Rodgers.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Pedro's more sensible, I'll give you that. Pedro's more sensible, possibly, maybe.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: He's going to be more likely to score goals, but
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: Rodgers has got the extra points for scoring goals and
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: all of that stuff because he's a midfielder and a
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: clean sheet point should they get a clean sheet against Hull. Plus,
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: you know, Hull have actually been riding their luck, yes,
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: but three clean sheets on the bounce. So we'll see
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: how that pans out. But then there's Harlan who, like,
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: if you're going to captain at Manchester City, you captain Harlan.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: because it's harlan so that's where i'm struggling because every
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: part of me wants to hand al pedro the armband
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: this week but harlan just sits there going but look
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: at my record against manchester.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna captain harland aren't i you're gonna captain.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah i think so i think so too ah i
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: think it's this is.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Why i hate this podcast right in on that note
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: i don't hate this podcast guys i hate myself for
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: being so easily swung we've seen it For years now.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: I'm going to blame you all. This is the reason
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not as good an FPL manager as I could
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: be if I didn't do this show. And I'm definitely
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: going to change my mind because I've got the fantasy
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: show on Friday that will be available on the Premier
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: League website app. And wherever you're watching around the world,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: where it's usually out, it will be out. And whoever
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: is on that with me this week is no doubt
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: going to persuade me that Haaland's the obvious as well.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get so many more Haaland stats rammed
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: down my throat. They'll persuade you it's something else. It's
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: not Haaland at all. Morgan Rodgers, look forward to being
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: my vice-captain is all I'm going to say. And a
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: reminder then, there's no lunchtime kick-off on Saturday. It's a
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: later deadline, 1.30pm ahead of the 5.00pm kick-off between Villa, Forest,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Bournemouth and Brentford, Chelsea, Hull, Palace, Nipswich and Liverpool and Fulham.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Good luck with all your transfers and everything, guys.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: Bye.