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S7 Ep25: FPL Pod: Bruno Fernandes an easy sell? · FPL Pod

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Speaker 1: For the final time. In twenty twenty four, FPL Pod
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Speaker 1: is back. We tried to solve the headaches of the
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Speaker 1: festive period. We've got Sacca and Bruno replacements, keeper conundrums,
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Speaker 1: and my Newcastle and Palace could be the teams to target.
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Speaker 1: We're in that awkward point between Christmas and New Year
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Speaker 1: where no one has a clue what day it is,
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Speaker 1: and probably this podcast coming out now has confused you
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Speaker 1: even more. Yes, FPO Pod back with you. We are
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Speaker 1: usually with you on a Thursday, but it's Saturday, twenty
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Speaker 1: eighth of December. The game week finished on Friday. There's
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Speaker 1: another game week that gets underway on Sunday at one
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Speaker 1: pm on the twenty ninth of December. That is, so
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Speaker 1: we're back with a preview pod for you. Julianner on
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Speaker 1: Sam Bonfield with you. Firstly, I think also that bit
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Speaker 1: of the Christmas where I don't know what to say
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Speaker 1: Happy Christmas or Happy New Year exactly at the midway points,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to say, I hope you had a nice
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Speaker 1: Christmas and I hope you have a good New Year. Christmas,
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Speaker 1: Happy New Year? Did you have a good one?
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Speaker 2: Firstly, Sam, Yes, it was really, really lovely, thank you
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Speaker 2: very much. I seem to have managed to put my
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Speaker 2: back out during it, which was great fun. The last
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Speaker 2: couple of days. I think it was sitting on the
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Speaker 2: floor wrapping presence that did it. But otherwise it was lovely.
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Speaker 2: Having kids around the Christmas is always magical, isn't it,
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Speaker 2: because they get all excited. So that was lovely. My
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Speaker 2: FPL team and my football club not so lovely. But
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Speaker 2: you know, we'll take the we'll take the winds with Christmas.
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Speaker 1: At least I was going to say, you can ignore that,
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Speaker 1: but for the next forty minutes or so, you absolutely
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Speaker 1: and joeles you got rid of the grinch mode. You
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Speaker 1: embraced Christmas. You took the kids away, didn't you. You
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Speaker 1: were you were very they were spoiled.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we went to look for Santai himself and in
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Speaker 3: plants really north, really called very snowy. But it was
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Speaker 3: an amazing trip so that everybody was very happy.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well, everyone sounds like they've had a lovely Christmas,
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Speaker 1: which is important. But as Sam said, we do have
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Speaker 1: to discuss the FPL side of things. As I said before,
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Speaker 1: there's a deadline on Sunday. It's all very weird. It's
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Speaker 1: a one pm ninety minutes at a two thirty match
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Speaker 1: between Leicester and Manchester City, so we need to get
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Speaker 1: ready for that. But let's just reflect on what santed
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Speaker 1: to bring us in terms of FPL points. Jules, you
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Speaker 1: had a pretty good week, the best out of all
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Speaker 1: of us.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, bad Girl seventy six. There's a lot
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Speaker 3: of things that worked out and I think it could
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Speaker 3: as always with all of us, it could have been
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Speaker 3: even even better. But a very strong defense, Henderson in goal,
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Speaker 3: returning obviously not conceding Saliba Louis Hall as well, and
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Speaker 3: then for my first part defensively, it was either Robinson
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Speaker 3: away at Chelsea or Auri at home too much to United. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and I really toyed with the idea of one or
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Speaker 3: the other pretty much for a long time, and I
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Speaker 3: just thought that United would score. I didn't think they
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Speaker 3: would be that bad against Wolf like they were, and
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Speaker 3: I did think that for them would concede, but maybe
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Speaker 3: Robinson would get an attack in return, maybe more than
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Speaker 3: aid Nouri considering the new approach with the Wolves coach,
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Speaker 3: things like that, and I was just I was just wrong.
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Speaker 3: So that's a bit of a shame. But then Salah's captain,
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Speaker 3: although Palmer would have got me a few more points.
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Speaker 3: And then I think the big coup for me was
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Speaker 3: Isac coming in, which was great because it's called Kunia
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Speaker 3: that I kept because he's still not suspended somehow, so
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Speaker 3: he's there and was outstanding in at United. And he
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Speaker 3: could have been even better for both of those because
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Speaker 3: I think Isa could have easily have two or three goals,
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Speaker 3: and so so was Kunya. And then for Soaka, I
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Speaker 3: went for Martinelli, and again it was one I wanted
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Speaker 3: an Arsenal attacker, so it was either other guard Trosa
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Speaker 3: or Martinelli. I thought, oh, the guard would not be
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Speaker 3: the same with Asaka, and to be fair, it wasn't.
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Speaker 3: You could see that there was just not his usual
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Speaker 3: fluidity and the flow, because I think without Soaka he
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Speaker 3: is a little bit lost. So it was between Trossa
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Speaker 3: and Martinelli, and I just hesitated for a long time,
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Speaker 3: and I had picked the wrong one in Martinelli.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I in the end didn't sell Socca because I
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Speaker 1: wanted to wait to see what Arsenal looked like without him.
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Speaker 1: He was probably one I would have gone with Jews Martinelli,
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Speaker 1: I think, But yeah, we'll talk about Arsenal in just
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Speaker 1: a moment. Sam. As for you, you went for Lewis
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Speaker 1: Diaz to replace with i Osaka and that went really
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Speaker 1: a big plug of tea. And you've shook your head
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Speaker 1: regretting that one already, or do you think there's more
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Speaker 1: like it's not just about one game week. We say
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Speaker 1: it all the time.
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Speaker 2: No, and I knew it was a risk. I didn't
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Speaker 2: expect his dad to be poorly, which I don't think
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Speaker 2: helps the case for him starting. Yeah, it was one
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Speaker 2: of those weeks where I knew, I knew it was risky,
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Speaker 2: but I wanted an extra Liverpool player for both the
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Speaker 2: weekend and also or the midweek and then the weekend
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Speaker 2: that we've got about to come up. So I kind
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Speaker 2: of feel like, well, now, surely at least he gets
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Speaker 2: the start against west Ham, which given they've got goalkeeper
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Speaker 2: Dramas after Fabianski's injury, maybe it is a good thing.
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Speaker 2: So I'm sort of all right with it. It just
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Speaker 2: meant Morgan Roger just came off the bench, which I
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Speaker 2: mean it's two points off the bench. I guess that's fine.
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Speaker 2: My big bug bear was obviously the Bruno fer Ander's
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Speaker 2: red card because I was cooking dinner at the point
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Speaker 2: when that went in and my my mother in law
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Speaker 2: came in and she was like him, Lee told me
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Speaker 2: to tell you that there's been a red card in
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Speaker 2: this game.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, that is harsh for me.
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Speaker 3: Already.
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Speaker 2: She's lovely. So she's lovely, my mother in law, and
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Speaker 2: she gets you. And I was like, he's only told
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Speaker 2: me that because we have this thing about not telling
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Speaker 2: each other bad news.
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Speaker 1: So when something happens.
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Speaker 2: That affects one of our fbl teams, I'll just go
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Speaker 2: to him, Oh, there's there's been a goal in like
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Speaker 2: whichever game it is, and he'll be like, is that
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Speaker 2: your way of telling me that my player is like conceded.
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Speaker 2: I'll be like, yeah, So this was his way of
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Speaker 2: telling me that Bruno got record. That was not happy at.
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Speaker 1: LASTA you have enjoyed Bruno's points for I was recently
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Speaker 1: I felt a bit sorry for the people that bought
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Speaker 1: Bruno Hi for soccer.
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Speaker 2: Because that was a really popular transfer. So yeah, I'd
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Speaker 2: had him for a while anyway, and a kind of
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Speaker 2: part of the reason for not going for an Arsenal
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Speaker 2: player instead of soccer, Like you guys, we're thinking about
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Speaker 2: it because I likewise just didn't really know which one
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Speaker 2: to get and I wasn't sure where to go. So
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Speaker 2: in the end I thought, well, I'll free up the
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Speaker 2: Arsenal spot and then I'll have time next week, as
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Speaker 2: in going into tomorrow's deadline to work out how to
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Speaker 2: triple back up in Arsenal.
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Speaker 3: Again.
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Speaker 1: Tough, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, But now I've obviously got Brune Fernandez to deal with,
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Speaker 2: so I'm still not quite sure what I'm going to
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Speaker 2: do because in my head maybe going for one of
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Speaker 2: the Arsenal attackers might have been the strategy that I
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Speaker 2: was going to take, or another defender, but now I
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Speaker 2: need to deal with the midfield issue. So yeah, it
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Speaker 2: was Look, it was actually fine. I think it was
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Speaker 2: a red arrow by about two k so it was nothing.
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Speaker 2: It's not really it's not really worth being read for.
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Speaker 2: But I was just so frustrated because had Bruno just
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Speaker 2: not been sent off, it's a green arrow and it's fine,
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Speaker 2: but I think when you bring in a player who
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Speaker 2: then doesn't play a minute and have another one get
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Speaker 2: sent off, it's a bit frustrating. But there were some
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Speaker 2: good wins in there. The double Arsenal defense was great
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Speaker 2: again another clean sheet for those two had whole brought
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Speaker 2: in ESAC, which was the right thing, so that, yeah,
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Speaker 2: there was any of good stuff in there. It's just
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Speaker 2: a bit spoiled by Bruno Fernandez getting a red card
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Speaker 2: on Boxing Day. That wasn't the Christmas present I wanted
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Speaker 2: from him.
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Speaker 1: My game week was ruined by watching Brighton Brentford Live,
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Speaker 1: watching Fleck and make. I think it was seven saves
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Speaker 1: or six saves or something, and then it was maybe
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Speaker 1: it was a lot of saves. It was six, wasn't
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Speaker 1: it yet? It was a lot, and then of course
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Speaker 1: before half time he went off, so at least he
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Speaker 1: got a save point, but I think he's still got
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Speaker 1: three points. Actually was really bad. Wasn't bad considering he
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Speaker 1: came off, But of course he did eventually get the
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Speaker 1: elusive clean sheet that I've been so patient and waited for.
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Speaker 1: And now it looks we obviously don't know, but it
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Speaker 1: doesn't look great for his injury.
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Speaker 2: Would have been a massive hall But at least you've
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Speaker 2: got Vladimarson as your backup goalkeeper, whereas a lot of
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Speaker 2: people have got Fabianski as their backup goalkeeper and then
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Speaker 2: you've got goalkeeper drama.
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Speaker 1: I say, what, We'll talk about goalkeepers in just a moment,
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Speaker 1: because as you said, there might be quite a few
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Speaker 1: people looking for new goalkeepers. I also got some points
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Speaker 1: through Gabrielle and Kirkiskun. You returned again, Esak. Also watching
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Speaker 1: Brighton Brentford, I think I really at some point need
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Speaker 1: to get rid of Pedro, but I think there's a
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Speaker 1: few headaches in my team to sort out before I
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Speaker 1: do that, because yeah, Brighton loss, that's got in touch
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Speaker 1: at the moment. As that game proved just an update
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Speaker 1: on our mini league. Then between us guys, Sam is
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Speaker 1: starting to really look over her shoulder. She must be
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Speaker 1: grateful there was returns for the Arsenal defense because I've
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Speaker 1: only got one Arsenal defender, and of course she's got
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Speaker 1: Raya as well. Because I'm now only seven points behind Sam.
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Speaker 1: Sam's on one thousand and ninety nine, I'm on one
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Speaker 1: thousand and ninety two. Jewels is on one thousand and
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Speaker 1: sixty seven, so only thirty three points behind Sam and
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Speaker 1: only thirty five behind me. So no, that's not right.
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Speaker 1: I can't do math.
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Speaker 2: Thirty five behind me. My mass was going so well
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Speaker 2: and moment.
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Speaker 1: No, okay, so it's thirty two points fine, Sam, and
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Speaker 1: twenty five behind me. Okay, you're a bit close to
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Speaker 1: me than I realized, Jewels, but that's definitely right. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: Jewels actually went above Ian who is still in our
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Speaker 1: mini league and he's on one thousand and sixty three points.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's cooking up nicely. Going to be an
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Speaker 1: exciting second half of the season. We're at one point Jewels.
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Speaker 1: Sam looked out of reach. We reeled her back in,
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Speaker 1: haven't we.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but we know that's that's the way it happens.
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Speaker 3: And you just need a good few weeks in a
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Speaker 3: row where you've got this in total and and that
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Speaker 3: that helps massively. And then and this is what's great
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Speaker 3: about the game, that anything can change pretty quickly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I was at three point eight million in
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Speaker 1: game week eleven. I'm now up to eight hundred thousands.
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Speaker 1: I think it is. So it just shows you you
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Speaker 1: have to persevere. And because I could have after Game
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Speaker 1: week eleven, I was like, I'm one for my worst
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Speaker 1: season ever. I still am, but I could salvage something
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Speaker 1: from it. So it just proves all it takes for
9:31
Speaker 1: games to go. Yeah, and that is without a chip
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Speaker 1: as well, of course, so in the second half of
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Speaker 1: the season you can really kind of push up with
9:37
Speaker 1: the use of chips. Manager, don't forget about that by
9:39
Speaker 1: the way, et cetera, et cetera. Again, then we're checked
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Speaker 1: in on Armory League, the mini league that you guys
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Speaker 1: join in with as well. Charlie Shepherd is still at
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Speaker 1: the top and that's actually despite him selling in Cunia
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Speaker 1: and Sam. It could have been worse. You could have
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Speaker 1: had Jeran as well. Charlie had him and managed to
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Speaker 1: survive at the top potentially listened to Jules's Charlie, yeah
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Speaker 1: to Cune you got twelve so yeah, fourteen points swing there.
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Speaker 1: Max Little Proud has now cut the gap. In fact,
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Speaker 1: he's cut the gap. They're on the same points, so
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Speaker 1: Charlie's only how does it get decided? Sam at the
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Speaker 1: top when you're locked on points. I think it's to
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Speaker 1: do with transfers made across the Okay season. I was
10:17
Speaker 1: going to say it can't be cold difference. Maybe it could,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, Max's team, by the way, I got seventy
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Speaker 1: one points this week. He brought in Trent and Soar,
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Speaker 1: which didn't go to plan, but still did really well.
10:26
Speaker 1: James White and his team Joelington enjoy her back up
10:28
Speaker 1: into third twenty six points off the leader. As a
10:31
Speaker 1: reminder of the code for the PROBLEMNI League's Q seven
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Speaker 1: y COO the letter zero the numbers, So do join
10:37
Speaker 1: if you haven't already. Okay, then let's dive a bit
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Speaker 1: more into game week eighteen. We've touched upon some of
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Speaker 1: the talking points already. Firstly, let's go with some of
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Speaker 1: the negatives in terms of the Bruno red card sam
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Speaker 1: As we already mentioned, he was a popular replacement for
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Speaker 1: soccer two hundred and forty five thousand managers brought him in.
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Speaker 1: He's now banned for game week nineteen and will return
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Speaker 1: for a tricky looking fixture again, it's Liverpool in game
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Speaker 1: week twenty. What are you doing and what would you advised?
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Speaker 1: Managers do?
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Speaker 2: So I feel slightly differently about Bruno because obviously I've
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Speaker 2: had some good points returns out of him over the
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Speaker 2: last few weeks, so I don't feel quite as quite
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Speaker 2: as negative maybe as some managers do. But he is,
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Speaker 2: as you know, Keirls because I've been talking about it
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Speaker 2: a lot on here, a player that I've been thinking
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Speaker 2: about transferring out anyway, simply because it means I can
11:23
Speaker 2: free up budget because there are other Manchester United players
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Speaker 2: if I want to go there, who are far less
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Speaker 2: expensive and fit into that midfield a lot nicer. But
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Speaker 2: when you look at the fixtures, as you say, it's
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Speaker 2: Newcastle and Liverpool next, there's a nice game in there
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Speaker 2: against Southampton, but then after that Brighton, Fulham, Crystal Palace,
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Speaker 2: Spurs Everton, the run isn't great for them in terms
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Speaker 2: of the fixtures. So for me, he's going to be
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Speaker 2: a cell. The question is where am I going to
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Speaker 2: go from there? And there were some there were some
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Speaker 2: impressive displays in game week eighteen, and some midfielders that
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Speaker 2: I was kind of looking at. But I think I'm
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Speaker 2: going to use this as an opportunity to target in
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Speaker 2: some of the fixture runs that some of the clubs
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Speaker 2: have coming up, in particular Crystal Palace or Everton, maybe
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Speaker 2: even Fulham, and then invest there a much lower basis
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Speaker 2: because then that means maybe I can take a little
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Speaker 2: bit of a fun punt somewhere else on the pitch
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Speaker 2: with somebody expensive. So for me, my recommendation would be
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Speaker 2: you sell Bruno. Now I think apart from that Southampton game,
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Speaker 2: which actually isn't until the end of January anyway, the
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Speaker 2: way the fixtures pan out, then I don't think that
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Speaker 2: there's anything else to hold him for there, particularly given
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Speaker 2: you're missing the next one and then he's coming back
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Speaker 2: in for Liverpool.
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Speaker 1: It's Snydel. What would you do with him, Jules, if
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Speaker 1: you owned him?
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Speaker 3: I mean, I didn't really understand why so many people
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Speaker 3: brought him in. I won't lie.
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Speaker 1: I'm the same. I'm the same, I.
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Speaker 3: Really I don't. I mean, Samon silly Sam was quite
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Speaker 3: a while ago, so it's a.
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Speaker 1: Bit different, and she did it around her World card time,
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Speaker 1: where she had a plan to get rid of if
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Speaker 1: you needed to.
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Speaker 3: But United, I've just lost five out of seven of
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Speaker 3: the last seven, and the two no competitions and the
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Speaker 3: two day one they want, they want them both really late,
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Speaker 3: the monster Damby and then Victoria plays and in the
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Speaker 3: europe League in the eighty eight minute. So it's not
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Speaker 3: like if they said the world on fire already, that
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Speaker 3: Bruno was amazing, that going forward they were great and
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Speaker 3: creating a lot of etcetera. You know, he was. This
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Speaker 3: is not it, and it's not like if it was
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Speaker 3: in form even going into this this game. Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I know it's it's had a few returns, but he
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Speaker 3: was not playing that great and neither was his team.
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Speaker 3: So I never really understood why so many people bought
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Speaker 3: him on for this game week that just passed, So
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Speaker 3: I would I would not have invested in him if
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Speaker 3: you have now. I don't see anything good coming out
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Speaker 3: of United in the next few weeks anyway. I think
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Speaker 3: it will take that much longer for them to get
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Speaker 3: it right that I would probably say.
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Speaker 1: Okay, another red card. John Juran, As we mentioned, Jus
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Speaker 1: is differential last week.
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Speaker 2: Pick he's your best one?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, it did look.
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Speaker 1: Like we were starting to get another forward where some
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Speaker 1: of the other ones maybe falling off in terms of form.
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Speaker 1: It did feel like that was a really good pictures. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and he was getting the starts ahead of Olli Watkins,
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Speaker 1: which is something that we just haven't seen. He's cheap
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Speaker 1: as well, but he's now going to be out for
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Speaker 1: three matches. Should we consider Watkins again? Obvious he's a
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Speaker 1: little bit more expensive.
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Speaker 3: So I think John Duran was a little bit unlucky.
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Speaker 3: I personally, I didn't I was not too sure about
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Speaker 3: the red car now don't appealed the HAPPI has been rejected.
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Speaker 3: So they were hoping that he would get less than
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Speaker 3: three games three game ban it will be three, which
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Speaker 3: is a long time. And I mean, I guess the
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Speaker 3: guys for so hard to get his starting place in
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Speaker 3: that team ahead of Oi Watkins, which is not an
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Speaker 3: easy thing to do, and he did extremely well to
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Speaker 3: get there. And now this is all going to the
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Speaker 3: bin basically because only Watkins will have three games to
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Speaker 3: show that he should be the number one again, et cetera,
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Speaker 3: et cetera. So sorry for the guys who invested in
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Speaker 3: John Duran. I almost did it too. To be fair,
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Speaker 3: I don't know if Watkins is the answer either, because
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Speaker 3: to be fair, when he came I mean, I know
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Speaker 3: he came on and they were down to ten, et cetera,
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Speaker 3: et cetera. But I don't think you're lablaying that great either.
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Speaker 3: I know they had a bit of a better form
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Speaker 3: of late, but I would go somewhere else than Olie Watkins,
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Speaker 3: especially at his surprize.
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Speaker 1: It's a bit tough with the forwards. It feels like
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Speaker 1: at the moment, because you do you still both own Evanilson.
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Speaker 1: You sold him, which was a brilliant move because he
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Speaker 1: didn't start. He came on for a one point, cameo Sam.
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Speaker 1: He's a bit of a problem now, isn't he.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So one of the things that I'm thinking about
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Speaker 2: doing is it was very close for me between selling
15:30
Speaker 2: jel Pedro and selling Evanilson. In the end, I sold
15:33
Speaker 2: jel Pedro just because I was so frustrated by his
15:35
Speaker 2: returns and maybe he was a bit unlucky to stun
15:37
Speaker 2: the pitch, to be quite honest, yesterday as well. So
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Speaker 2: if I'd had two red cards in my team, that
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Speaker 2: would have been absolutely not a Christmas present I wanted.
15:45
Speaker 2: But so I kept Evanilson, and then when he wasn't starting,
15:47
Speaker 2: I was like, well, sort of not surprised because actually
15:49
Speaker 2: they've they've looked good when he's gone off weirdly, and
15:52
Speaker 2: they've they've scored goals at that point. But in saving
15:55
Speaker 2: money from Bruno, I can easily afford to go to
15:57
Speaker 2: even Nelson, to Watkins. So that is something I'm considering
16:01
Speaker 2: for the next three weeks because the next three weeks
16:03
Speaker 2: are actually quite nice for for aston Villa. It's brighton
16:06
Speaker 2: Lester and Everton, so should be some opportunities in there
16:10
Speaker 2: for some good returns for him, because I'm finding the
16:12
Speaker 2: forward line a bit difficult because I quite fancy the
16:15
Speaker 2: Fulham forward line, but then it's so difficult to know
16:18
Speaker 2: whether you would go him and a Muniz, so that
16:21
Speaker 2: kind of rules them out for me. You've got Mateta
16:23
Speaker 2: at Crystal Palace, who again I'm thinking about, but I
16:26
Speaker 2: really like the ESA and Ismaela star picks in the middle,
16:29
Speaker 2: so again that kind of rules Mateta out for me.
16:33
Speaker 2: Like it's hard, so I think picking new forwards right now,
16:38
Speaker 2: maybe I go Jackson, But then Jackson's form has just
16:41
Speaker 2: disappeared over the last few weeks.
16:43
Speaker 1: Came off. He came off when Chelsea were really pushing
16:46
Speaker 1: for a second in that game. Obviously they went on
16:48
Speaker 1: to lose two one and he came off.
16:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. So that's that I'm finding difficult to navigate
16:55
Speaker 2: as well, because I really like the Chelsea fixtures. I
17:00
Speaker 2: really like Jackson, but just the form just hasn't hasn't
17:05
Speaker 2: been there, So it is hard with the frontline. I
17:08
Speaker 2: think for me right now, a punt on Olie Watkins
17:10
Speaker 2: for the next three weeks given there's no risk of rotation.
17:13
Speaker 2: Now actually feels like something I might do because at
17:17
Speaker 2: eight point eight million he is affordable. When he was
17:21
Speaker 2: nine it was a little I know it's only point
17:23
Speaker 2: two million, but it's still hard to find point two
17:25
Speaker 2: million here and point two million there. But with the
17:28
Speaker 2: Bruno money now not really needed, going from Evanilson up
17:33
Speaker 2: does make sense. Or I could go from Selanki up
17:36
Speaker 2: because yes, I've still got them Silanki and my team,
17:38
Speaker 2: but Evan Neilson feels like a bigger priority sell for
17:40
Speaker 2: me than Slanki does.
17:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, the four was are interesting jowls, aren't they? Because
17:44
Speaker 1: the ones that you kind of want to iron. Two
17:46
Speaker 1: of them I've got in terms of Matteus Kunya and
17:48
Speaker 1: Alexander Esak who you guys now both irown copying me
17:51
Speaker 1: as usual. But Kuna is an interesting one because we've
17:54
Speaker 1: been waiting to hear from after that charge with the
17:57
Speaker 1: FA last week. We still haven't heard anything. He's obviously
17:59
Speaker 1: played and returned in the last two games. They play
18:02
Speaker 1: Spurs this weekend, so for me, if we don't hear,
18:04
Speaker 1: I would like to risk it because Spurs don't have
18:07
Speaker 1: many defenders available for that game playing and he's got
18:10
Speaker 1: the form, so if he's available, you can't really sell him.
18:14
Speaker 1: And then the other four the other full work, but
18:15
Speaker 1: you wouldn't invest in him at the moment either because
18:17
Speaker 1: you don't know what, if when that band's going to come.
18:19
Speaker 1: So I feel quite lucky you almost wonn him. And
18:21
Speaker 1: then the other forward is Alexander Esak that we've all got,
18:25
Speaker 1: and he's pretty much the best forward in the game
18:27
Speaker 1: right now, isn't he.
18:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he is. He's probably the best striker
18:30
Speaker 3: in the league full stop right now in terms of
18:32
Speaker 3: form if you don't come Mosala really as a as
18:34
Speaker 3: a striker, he was outstanding in that in that game
18:38
Speaker 3: he scored one against down to ten, as we've been saying,
18:42
Speaker 3: but he could easily have had two or three plus
18:44
Speaker 3: an assist or two as well. He's just so good
18:47
Speaker 3: all around. And I think newcasts will have that momentum now.
18:50
Speaker 3: I think that up to fifth maybe in the table
18:51
Speaker 3: or sixth uh and and I think he's a very
18:56
Speaker 3: it's not it's not, it's more than interesting. I think
18:59
Speaker 3: he's a must have right now really, especially as more
19:03
Speaker 3: and more managers are selling Earling Holland and I think
19:06
Speaker 3: again this week, Simon's Higland for or Isaac for Holland
19:10
Speaker 3: I don't know which way we put it.
19:12
Speaker 1: Is the most the most popular transfer combination, that's.
19:15
Speaker 3: Right and rightly so, I mean, right now, you would
19:17
Speaker 3: not keep Harland or missus penalty. And he's seemed that
19:20
Speaker 3: as one one in thirteen was Sack. He's absolutely on fire.
19:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, it does feel like it's Esac plus
19:26
Speaker 1: the other two whoever you want to go with. Let's
19:29
Speaker 1: talk continue the theme of sorry headaches, and it's a
19:32
Speaker 1: theme that Sam often has a problem with goalkeepers. It's
19:35
Speaker 1: actually now me much right now, it's actually probably me
19:38
Speaker 1: that has the bigger headache with goalkeepers at the moment.
19:40
Speaker 1: As we mentioned, fleck And went off injured and then
19:44
Speaker 1: of course as well, Fabiansky was subbed off for west
19:47
Speaker 1: Ham through the concussion protocol and therefore he won't feature
19:51
Speaker 1: in game week nineteen. A lot of managers have both
19:53
Speaker 1: of these goalkeepers, so people might be shopping for a
19:56
Speaker 1: new goalkeeper. Firstly, if you're like me, Sam, and you've
20:00
Speaker 1: got Flecken and then Vadam Marsen as your backup goalkeeper,
20:03
Speaker 1: would you just play Vadam Marsen. The one thing I
20:05
Speaker 1: would say is Breakfast's fixtures don't look nice.
20:08
Speaker 2: They don't look nice, but it does mean it's not
20:10
Speaker 2: a priority position to change, I think, because there will
20:14
Speaker 2: be other things in your teams that potentially bring more
20:16
Speaker 2: points returns. So selling Sokka and using that money to
20:21
Speaker 2: get a decent replacement for him probably feels like a
20:25
Speaker 2: bigger priority for you because you do have a goalkeeper
20:27
Speaker 2: that will play at East, whereas if you've got Fleckin
20:31
Speaker 2: and Fabianski then you probably do need to deal with
20:34
Speaker 2: that as a priority. And then I think you've got
20:37
Speaker 2: a decision to make as to what you do. So
20:39
Speaker 2: you can either stay in the kind of budgety price
20:42
Speaker 2: point since Jawles's don't. Tim Henderson has been quite good actually,
20:47
Speaker 2: and the fixtures look nice for Crystal Palace, and if
20:49
Speaker 2: you don't want to have a defendersplot used on Muno's
20:52
Speaker 2: then you could absolutely go for Henderson in goal. That
20:56
Speaker 2: looks like a decent option right now. The other option
20:59
Speaker 2: that I kind of quite like also is to go
21:01
Speaker 2: for Pickford. We're kind of coming out of Everton's really
21:05
Speaker 2: difficult phase and going into a nicer period for them
21:08
Speaker 2: and We've seen that with Pickford. He is really good
21:11
Speaker 2: at attracting additional points, whether it be for a penalty
21:14
Speaker 2: save or bonus points or save points. He seems to
21:17
Speaker 2: be one of those goalkeepers that even if the clean
21:19
Speaker 2: sheet doesn't stick, he does attract those addictional points, which
21:23
Speaker 2: is something that we like in FPL. So there or
21:25
Speaker 2: even Leno at Fulham. I think the three of them
21:29
Speaker 2: are probably my preferred goalkeeper picks in that budget. If
21:33
Speaker 2: you can afford to go higher, then obviously I think
21:36
Speaker 2: Rayer is the goalkeeper of choice right now.
21:40
Speaker 1: Could you go Allison as well?
21:42
Speaker 2: You can go Allison any slightly cheaper than Rayer, but
21:45
Speaker 2: I just kind of feel like Arsenal's defense are more secure,
21:48
Speaker 2: Like Liverpool just seemed to have this knack of just
21:50
Speaker 2: conceding one. Even against Leicester they just conceded one. It
21:53
Speaker 2: knocks out the clean sheet and that's frustrating when you're
21:56
Speaker 2: spending that level of budget on something. It's how I
21:58
Speaker 2: feel about Trent. That's why I've not bought Trending yet,
22:00
Speaker 2: because just losing the clean sheet on a regular It's
22:04
Speaker 2: not that they're defensively bad, it's just one little bit
22:07
Speaker 2: of sloppiness here or there, and of course you were
22:08
Speaker 2: a clean sheet and that's a bit frustrating, Whereas I
22:11
Speaker 2: kind of feel like with the with the likes of
22:13
Speaker 2: Henderson or Lenard or Pickford, because because you're not playing
22:17
Speaker 2: a premium price tag, if the clean sheet goes but
22:19
Speaker 2: you still pick up three or four points for say
22:21
Speaker 2: points and things like that, you don't feel as bad
22:23
Speaker 2: about it. Whereas with Reya, I just think that he's
22:26
Speaker 2: the one that is the preferred premium goalkeeper right now
22:30
Speaker 2: because Arsenal's defense is that much more solid.
22:32
Speaker 1: Do you agree to yours?
22:34
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, absolutely, I agree. I just think if you
22:37
Speaker 3: already have an Arsenal defender and you can doublop like
22:39
Speaker 3: Sam does and when it's a good week, then straight
22:42
Speaker 3: away you've got at least twelve if not more like
22:44
Speaker 3: this week when Timberg got and Riley so he was
22:47
Speaker 3: the best player that really poor Arsenal game. He got
22:50
Speaker 3: the three bonus points and sinase nine and six or
22:52
Speaker 3: nine and seven for you Sam with those two players
22:54
Speaker 3: and he's great. If you already have an Arsenal defender,
22:57
Speaker 3: you can go for another goalkeeper, not raya Chier, and
23:00
Speaker 3: still get could return. I just want to say a
23:02
Speaker 3: little word from my brother Alfonsearreola obviously, who's been waiting
23:06
Speaker 3: to get back into the golf for west Ham and
23:09
Speaker 3: got his chance due to the sad injury of Ofsky.
23:13
Speaker 3: But now he's going to play Liverpool Man City and
23:15
Speaker 3: then Aston Villa and he's on his bench. I could not,
23:20
Speaker 3: as you know, I can't get rid of him obviously
23:22
Speaker 3: for obvious reasons.
23:23
Speaker 2: Do you have to play him as well?
23:24
Speaker 3: Then that we can, we can negotiate. But like I just,
23:29
Speaker 3: I was so happy I was signed Forski, but also
23:33
Speaker 3: happy for Alphons to be so he would be playing again.
23:37
Speaker 3: And then he's got probably the worst run of fixtures
23:39
Speaker 3: of any goalkeeper in the next four weeks.
23:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, tricky on a fixture for him, baptism of fire
23:44
Speaker 1: potentially coming back into the team for that. Okay, then,
23:47
Speaker 1: so a few possible goalkeeper replacements if you are shopping
23:50
Speaker 1: for one after this game week. I just I meant
23:53
Speaker 1: to follow up when we talked about Esac, actually because
23:55
Speaker 1: I think it would be remissive us to keep on
23:57
Speaker 1: talking about Newcastle and don't talk about the other players
24:00
Speaker 1: as well. Obviously each will get the headlines and He's
24:02
Speaker 1: the obvious buy and potentially almost Vergigon essential at the moment,
24:05
Speaker 1: particularly given what's going on with the other fourards. But
24:08
Speaker 1: should we be looking to double up now yours? Do
24:10
Speaker 1: you think Anthony Gordon getting that early goal as well,
24:12
Speaker 1: and he looks like he's kind of really hit some
24:15
Speaker 1: good form at the moment.
24:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great goal, But I mean for me,
24:18
Speaker 3: it's Murphy that could be and it was going to
24:21
Speaker 3: be my differential this week, and I hesitated, I went
24:25
Speaker 3: for somebody else. But I think Murphy had an amazing
24:27
Speaker 3: game on boxing, the fantastic performance. I know, I think
24:31
Speaker 3: there's just one assist to show for it, but I
24:33
Speaker 3: thought he was outstanding and I think he's been great
24:35
Speaker 3: since the establishing. And Gordon is more is more of
24:38
Speaker 3: your premium and he's more far more expensive and more
24:41
Speaker 3: flashy and score goals like he did against against Villa.
24:45
Speaker 3: But I think Murphy, if you don't have the money
24:47
Speaker 3: to go to Gordon, if you don't fancy Joorlington because
24:50
Speaker 3: we Joinington, you just never know. You can have an
24:51
Speaker 3: amazing game like you did against Villa, but then be
24:54
Speaker 3: a bit more defensive, a bit more quiet in a
24:56
Speaker 3: game when you cast, maybe just play more on the
24:58
Speaker 3: counter with the front three. But I think if you
25:00
Speaker 3: can't get to Gordon, which Gordon is a great idea, kise,
25:03
Speaker 3: I think if you can have Isac and Gordon, I
25:05
Speaker 3: think for the game against United for example on Sunday,
25:09
Speaker 3: that should be fun to watch, then go for Murphy
25:13
Speaker 3: because I think he's been as important, if not maybe
25:15
Speaker 3: even slightly more than Anthony Gordon.
25:17
Speaker 1: What do you think?
25:18
Speaker 2: So Anthony Gordon is one that I'm looking at for sure. Yeah,
25:22
Speaker 2: so he has blank just once now in the last
25:24
Speaker 2: six games after that goal of the weekend, he's got
25:27
Speaker 2: thirty four points in that period and amongst the Newcastle players,
25:31
Speaker 2: he is second for shots and shots on target with
25:34
Speaker 2: fifteen and six respectively. Obviously only Isak has better underlying stats.
25:38
Speaker 2: And I think it's seven point three million. Given you'll
25:41
Speaker 2: be looking for soccer replacements or Bruno Fernandez replacements, you're
25:45
Speaker 2: still saving budget whichever way you look at that, so
25:48
Speaker 2: it's still throwing up a significant chunk. And I just
25:51
Speaker 2: think for me, he is a player that I did
25:53
Speaker 2: think about. He and Jarra Bowen were both players that
25:56
Speaker 2: I really thought about for the midweek when I went
25:59
Speaker 2: Ford ass and either of them would have been a
26:02
Speaker 2: better pick, but I think both of them offer at
26:05
Speaker 2: roughly the same price point seven point three for Gordon
26:09
Speaker 2: and seven point five for Bowen, and both of them
26:11
Speaker 2: offer some really nice differential routes into teams that are
26:16
Speaker 2: starting to put some momentum behind the underlying stats, and
26:20
Speaker 2: Newcastle in particular, I think I've already got e second hall,
26:24
Speaker 2: but traveling up on them makes sense, particularly without European
26:27
Speaker 2: football as well. We don't have that worry coming back
26:29
Speaker 2: into the new year about you know, tiredness in the
26:32
Speaker 2: same way that we maybe did last season with them,
26:34
Speaker 2: where we sort of undernered about investing from that basis.
26:38
Speaker 2: So I am really keen on Anthony Gordon. I just
26:41
Speaker 2: think that it's one of those things that I'm going
26:43
Speaker 2: to have to think about in terms of the budget,
26:45
Speaker 2: and if I do want to get Ollie Watkins in,
26:48
Speaker 2: that's going to take a little bit more thought if
26:50
Speaker 2: I want to do Gordon as well.
26:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, eleven goals scored for Newcastle in their last three
26:54
Speaker 1: matches and three clean sheets as well. It's Manchester United
26:57
Speaker 1: away next, then a trip to Spurs. The Wolves are
27:00
Speaker 1: I'm born with at home, Southampton away and Fulham at home.
27:03
Speaker 1: So Jules, could you even be tempted You've got Hall
27:06
Speaker 1: as well, Both of you guys have got Hall. Could
27:08
Speaker 1: you even be tempted by a treble er maybe Gordon
27:12
Speaker 1: Hall or eastt Murphy Hall.
27:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think I think they're really in the
27:17
Speaker 3: in red form. I think their key players with Issach obviously,
27:20
Speaker 3: but even Gordon Sam just mentioned the last six games,
27:22
Speaker 3: I think it was or something or five games before
27:25
Speaker 3: that he was maybe not playing at the best like
27:27
Speaker 3: he is now. Same with Bruno Gi mare Sam, with
27:29
Speaker 3: Joe Lintoln even defensively, they've been much more solid. Even
27:32
Speaker 3: without a Nick popin Gold with the Brafka was playing
27:35
Speaker 3: on Boxing Day, they were still very good. And I
27:37
Speaker 3: know Villa went down to ten very early, so it's
27:40
Speaker 3: it changed things a lot, obviously, But I think you
27:43
Speaker 3: Castle had the team to invest in right now, maybe
27:45
Speaker 3: more than more, maybe more than Chelsea and more than
27:49
Speaker 3: anybody else.
27:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, And I think Tonali being back is
27:52
Speaker 2: massively helping.
27:54
Speaker 1: Yeah.
27:55
Speaker 2: So I think the other team that I'm looking at
27:57
Speaker 2: like it's funny, isn't it, Because I think when you
28:00
Speaker 2: double up on a team you're kind of like, Okay,
28:01
Speaker 2: well I'm doubled up. That feels good, but I still
28:03
Speaker 2: watch Newcast and think I don't feel like I'm covered
28:05
Speaker 2: enough even with holl And Asak. So yeah, maybe Gorland
28:09
Speaker 2: comes in as well.
28:10
Speaker 1: Okay, let's finish off this section by this is maybe
28:13
Speaker 1: because I haven't sold soccer, but by talking about Liverpool
28:15
Speaker 1: and Arsenal because for me, I didn't sell soccer because
28:18
Speaker 1: I wanted I couldn't decide I was going to go Jotter,
28:21
Speaker 1: but I didn't want to go Dias. I thought Diaz
28:23
Speaker 1: would get the start he didn't. I didn't want to
28:24
Speaker 1: go Jotter because I wasn't sure of his minutes. I
28:26
Speaker 1: also wanted to watch Arsenal to see how they looked
28:30
Speaker 1: without Riquiosaka and then make my decision as too to
28:32
Speaker 1: bring in. Lots of other managers have sold Soaker because
28:35
Speaker 1: his price has been going down. But for those who haven't,
28:37
Speaker 1: and for those who maybe are still looking for a
28:39
Speaker 1: midfielder but maybe a Bruno Fernandez replacement as well, maybe
28:42
Speaker 1: a lot of people will be looking at Liverpool and Arsenal.
28:44
Speaker 1: Let's start with Liverpool because Sam, as you said, Lewis
28:47
Speaker 1: Diaz didn't feature at all. Jotta had another cameo. He's
28:51
Speaker 1: of course getting his way back to fitness. But they've
28:53
Speaker 1: got west Ham in game week nineteen and as you've said,
28:56
Speaker 1: you're probably more likely to get your start from Diaz.
28:58
Speaker 1: When are we going to see jossa start? Do you
29:01
Speaker 1: think he's do you think he's going to be ready
29:02
Speaker 1: to start soon? Or do you think this train could continue?
29:04
Speaker 1: I'm aware you haven't got on a slot and speed dull.
29:06
Speaker 1: By the way, Oh I do you have friend and
29:08
Speaker 1: my I phone him up in a minute. It's difficult,
29:10
Speaker 1: isn't it? Because he it was a serious injury, right,
29:13
Speaker 1: So they do seem to be treating him with kid gloves.
29:16
Speaker 1: For want of a different phrase to say, I think
29:18
Speaker 1: he just is being looked after and managed back in
29:21
Speaker 1: because they don't want to repeat or you know, that injury,
29:25
Speaker 1: they don't want it to get worse. But I think
29:27
Speaker 1: there's a good chance at the west Ham game we
29:30
Speaker 1: see that front three back starting.
29:33
Speaker 2: The thing I would say is that Cody Cacpo does
29:36
Speaker 2: not deserve to be dropped because he's playing so well
29:39
Speaker 2: at the minute, so it's called for his third consecutive
29:41
Speaker 2: home game in a row set up the assist. It's
29:43
Speaker 2: his best return of the season so far with twelve.
29:46
Speaker 2: It would almost be amiss to say, right, Cody, I'm
29:49
Speaker 2: well done for all that you've done while these injuries
29:52
Speaker 2: have been happening, but now you're out. So whereas I
29:54
Speaker 2: think with Darwin, he's not played particularly well when he's
29:57
Speaker 2: come on, so he can be moved out. But that three,
30:01
Speaker 2: it's kind of there's four of them really, and so
30:04
Speaker 2: you're always going to have someone. So it was a risk,
30:07
Speaker 2: but I felt like I wanted to double up on Liverpool.
30:10
Speaker 2: Like at the moment, owning Mosellah is almost pointless because
30:15
Speaker 2: you do have to have him, but otherwise it's just
30:18
Speaker 2: kind of like, well, he's just going to get points.
30:20
Speaker 2: He's his sixteenth goal of the season. There were five million,
30:24
Speaker 2: three hundred and ninety five nine hundred and ninety eight. Yeah,
30:28
Speaker 2: managers who captained him. That was his biggest ever captaincy
30:31
Speaker 2: return the whole time that he's been in the game.
30:34
Speaker 2: We basically meaning that you just have to own him
30:36
Speaker 2: and that he's not really going to do much in
30:38
Speaker 2: terms of your rank, which is why for me, I
30:40
Speaker 2: was like well, let's get somebody alongside him, because then
30:43
Speaker 2: I make those Liverpool wins count for something a bit
30:46
Speaker 2: like I've done with the Arsenal defense. Everyone's got one,
30:49
Speaker 2: so let's double up because that means that you can
30:51
Speaker 2: get some returns out of them. So yeah, I think
30:54
Speaker 2: do I regret the Lewis ds thing. I mean maybe
30:56
Speaker 2: a little bit because he didn't play last week, But
30:58
Speaker 2: equally I'm hoping that he gets gets the start against
31:02
Speaker 2: against west Ham at the weekend, and Jotta he's going
31:07
Speaker 2: to get a start.
31:07
Speaker 1: Sooner or later.
31:08
Speaker 2: So if you were one of the managers that went there,
31:09
Speaker 2: I think you hold him as well because there will
31:12
Speaker 2: be some rotation, particularly when we get back into the
31:14
Speaker 2: European matches and obviously the FA Cup come the new year.
31:18
Speaker 2: So yeah, hold for now. If you brought them in.
31:21
Speaker 2: I'm not sure that I would invest now though, because
31:25
Speaker 2: I think it's even harder than last week to call
31:27
Speaker 2: who's going to get that start Cheles Arsenal.
31:30
Speaker 1: Then they got the win against Ipswich first game without Bacuayosaka.
31:35
Speaker 1: It sounds like he's going to be out for at
31:36
Speaker 1: least eight weeks. I think it was a couple of months.
31:39
Speaker 1: Mikael Arteta said, yeah, you did get the feeling that
31:41
Speaker 1: he was playing it down a little bit, didn't you.
31:43
Speaker 1: I was hoping that Jesus was going to show something
31:46
Speaker 1: because of course we all need a forward. It feels
31:48
Speaker 1: like at the moment because I'm going to be offloading
31:50
Speaker 1: Kunia at some point in the next I don't know.
31:52
Speaker 1: It might be today, it might be the next week.
31:54
Speaker 1: Who knows. Andoele Pedro, I'm still not convinced by Jesus.
31:58
Speaker 1: Where are you at in terms of Arsenal.
32:01
Speaker 3: It's interesting because we said it when other guard got injured.
32:06
Speaker 3: I think Arson can maybe cope without Baka for two
32:09
Speaker 3: three games. More than that they will, they would struggle,
32:12
Speaker 3: And it pains me to say it, but it's the true.
32:16
Speaker 3: Even last night, it was difficult because he switch plays
32:18
Speaker 3: so defensively, especially in the first half. They had eleven
32:21
Speaker 3: passes after twenty five minutes. Can you imagine that's one
32:24
Speaker 3: pass every two minutes for a whole team. I don't.
32:27
Speaker 3: I think that's surely a primary record from Ipswich. So
32:29
Speaker 3: it was. It was not easy, and I think it's
32:32
Speaker 3: one of those games where the flow is just not
32:34
Speaker 3: that the rhythm is just not there. It's very slow,
32:36
Speaker 3: and but they get the win. They got the win,
32:39
Speaker 3: and that's the most important. But you could see already
32:41
Speaker 3: that other guard is not the same with Asaka there,
32:43
Speaker 3: that Timber is not really the same in some situation
32:46
Speaker 3: because he played really well, but without Saka in front
32:49
Speaker 3: of him, martin Elli offers something different to start with
32:51
Speaker 3: his right footage when Saka is left footed, it doesn't
32:54
Speaker 3: doesn't the position is but in the same way Asaka.
32:56
Speaker 3: So there's are so many things and Arson will have
32:58
Speaker 3: to get used to having Martinelli on the right wing
33:01
Speaker 3: instead Ofska and that will take some time. So I'm
33:04
Speaker 3: a little bit worried of going forward to productivity and
33:07
Speaker 3: maybe then the shift is going to go from the right,
33:10
Speaker 3: where it's always been the stronger side, to the left
33:13
Speaker 3: with the Trossa and mys do with Kelly for number
33:15
Speaker 3: we did really well against him. Switch Oka fury when
33:17
Speaker 3: he is fully fitted back or I don't know whether
33:19
Speaker 3: whichever way, but that right hand side, even though the
33:22
Speaker 3: guy I fear won't be the same now with his
33:26
Speaker 3: in his output to the team and his impact on
33:29
Speaker 3: on games. So I went for Martinelli because I thought, okay,
33:33
Speaker 3: Ipswich is good and then as is still going to
33:36
Speaker 3: be good going forward. But now I've got a few
33:39
Speaker 3: doubts on the Arsenal productivity going forward.
33:42
Speaker 1: So would you say a bit like Liverpool, it feels
33:43
Speaker 1: quite hard to pick one. Would you say, hold fire
33:46
Speaker 1: on Arsenal and investing now there's best options elsewhere in
33:48
Speaker 1: that midfield and forward.
33:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, although we saw Trossa and Harve's returning. So if
33:53
Speaker 3: you if you fancy who's really low, I think one
33:56
Speaker 3: point eight percent because I was really tempted to go
33:58
Speaker 3: for Trossa instead of Martinelli. I think it's good to
34:01
Speaker 3: have a Narsenal attacker. I'm not really sure. Trossa seems
34:05
Speaker 3: the one who is the most important if you don't
34:06
Speaker 3: go for a forward as in the habit of Gabrie Jess,
34:09
Speaker 3: if you look at a midfielder to just replace Socca
34:11
Speaker 3: position for position, let's say in the game, I think
34:15
Speaker 3: Trossa is probably the one in the best of form
34:18
Speaker 3: who will play on his favorite side, which is the
34:20
Speaker 3: left and side where martinelli favorite Sale is on the
34:23
Speaker 3: left as well, But now he's going to play on
34:24
Speaker 3: the right to replace Socca. So maybe Trossai is probably
34:28
Speaker 3: the best, and it's a proper, proper differential, even more
34:30
Speaker 3: than Martinelli.
34:31
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's what we learned from Game Week eighteen.
34:34
Speaker 1: A lot of frustrations coming out of that game week,
34:36
Speaker 1: it feels. But from Game Week nineteen onwards, we're going
34:40
Speaker 1: to take a look at the fixture ticking now and
34:41
Speaker 1: the teams that are at the top. The main reason
34:43
Speaker 1: we're going to do that is because as soon as
34:45
Speaker 1: the deadline passes on Sunday, the second World Card will
34:48
Speaker 1: become available to us. So it reminder if you have
34:50
Speaker 1: somehow still managed to keep your wild card, even tho
34:53
Speaker 1: I've not kept this long guys, then do get it
34:55
Speaker 1: played before the next deadline, because you don't get to
34:57
Speaker 1: keep it. If you don't use it, you lose it.
35:00
Speaker 3: Yeah.
35:00
Speaker 1: A lot of people, I'm sure will have already planned
35:02
Speaker 1: when they're going to play their World card, or will
35:03
Speaker 1: be playing it in the next week or two because
35:06
Speaker 1: maybe their teams need a lot of surgery. But it
35:09
Speaker 1: is this time of year. I feel like New Year.
35:11
Speaker 1: You start in terms of life and the calendar year,
35:13
Speaker 1: and maybe you're looking at new teams to target in FPL.
35:17
Speaker 1: So in terms of the fixture, ticker. I'm going to
35:19
Speaker 1: read you the top five teams. It's Crystal Palace, Southampton,
35:21
Speaker 1: at Fulham, Chelsea and Newcastle. Now we've already spoken about
35:25
Speaker 1: Newcastle in depth. We've touched upon some of the other teams,
35:27
Speaker 1: but Crystal Palace have got Southampton in game week nineteen.
35:31
Speaker 1: Then it is Chelsea. Then it looks a little bit
35:33
Speaker 1: nicer again, less Dot west Ham, Brentford and Manchester United
35:37
Speaker 1: in game week twenty four. Sam, you've already mentioned it.
35:41
Speaker 1: There's a few nice options, particularly in midfield at Palace
35:43
Speaker 1: at the moment, there's a lot, and I am very
35:47
Speaker 1: very keen to invest in Crystal Palace. I think Rynas
35:49
Speaker 1: is the obvious one because of how attacking that he's
35:53
Speaker 1: been lately and the fact that the clean sheets are
35:55
Speaker 1: starting to stick like we were talking about for Dean
35:56
Speaker 1: Henderson earlier. But the midfield is look like an interesting
36:02
Speaker 1: option with those fixtures coming up the way that they
36:04
Speaker 1: are so. Ismael Asari is.
36:06
Speaker 2: In great form right now and as a maybe isn't
36:10
Speaker 2: in the form that Isjmeilasari is right now, but we
36:13
Speaker 2: know what we get Withes and over the last few
36:15
Speaker 2: season we've seen him be unbelievably good for us in FBL.
36:19
Speaker 2: So Palis is definitely a team that I'm looking at.
36:22
Speaker 2: The Other thing I like about them is that they're
36:24
Speaker 2: massively cheap, so when it comes to investing in that midfield,
36:29
Speaker 2: you can get a really nice cheap option from Crystal Palace,
36:31
Speaker 2: or defensively or as a goalkeeper. Matteta's a little bit
36:35
Speaker 2: more in that front line. I think he's seven point
36:37
Speaker 2: one now, so he is you're going to pay a
36:40
Speaker 2: little bit more for him, but with the others you're
36:43
Speaker 2: paying less. And that transition from Saya, Bruno Fernandez or
36:48
Speaker 2: a Soaka to them gives you a lot of budget
36:50
Speaker 2: to play with across the rest of your team. So yeah,
36:54
Speaker 2: Crystal Palace are right top of my shopping list. Going
36:56
Speaker 2: into a GA and week nineteen and then doubling on
37:00
Speaker 2: them probably for twenty well probably not for twenty but
37:03
Speaker 2: definitely for twenty one and onwards, feels like something will
37:06
Speaker 2: definitely be doing jeels.
37:07
Speaker 1: Would you look at either or Mateta at the moment?
37:10
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, there's only one answer here, Boom,
37:14
Speaker 3: but it does in the room, Happy Christmas.
37:17
Speaker 1: I nearly didn't put Mateesta in that question.
37:19
Speaker 3: Because I sang the song this is the best song
37:21
Speaker 3: ever created for a Premier League player. Yeah, I think
37:24
Speaker 3: some is right. I think Pallace a good going for them.
37:26
Speaker 3: There will be. I think they struggle a little bit
37:28
Speaker 3: against Bomb with righty so Born with a homer. I've
37:31
Speaker 3: been excellent this season and was quiet and Matta I
37:35
Speaker 3: think had one shot, so maybe two as it was
37:38
Speaker 3: the one trying to create. But the good on set pieces.
37:41
Speaker 3: Defensively they can be very solid as well, like Qua
37:44
Speaker 3: gay Shalloba Henderson. As we mentioned already, the wing bags
37:48
Speaker 3: are interesting, especially on the right hand side. So I
37:50
Speaker 3: think there's a lot there who could be very interesting
37:53
Speaker 3: for your game, depending on what you're looking for. But yeah,
37:56
Speaker 3: I think Southampton at home, especially on Sunday tomorrow is
38:02
Speaker 3: really good, so you I would go easily. As there
38:04
Speaker 3: was again another differential that I was thinking of. The
38:07
Speaker 3: SI is a really good pick.
38:08
Speaker 2: I think just don't pick Gaye for this week because
38:10
Speaker 2: he picked up his fifth yellow card.
38:12
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, very good reminder Southampton a second on the
38:15
Speaker 1: ticker jewels.
38:17
Speaker 3: Anyway, No, thank you.
38:19
Speaker 1: I knew that would be quick and I know.
38:21
Speaker 3: But good luck to Ivan your rich because he's a
38:23
Speaker 3: really good coach. He's a really really good coach and
38:25
Speaker 3: they've got some good players and rams Day's coming back
38:28
Speaker 3: is huge for them. But I would not invest in
38:29
Speaker 3: any of them.
38:30
Speaker 1: Okay, what about Fulham then, Sam, you mentioned it before,
38:32
Speaker 1: you're desperate to invest. But I think we're saying, aren't
38:35
Speaker 1: we it's impossible tonight if moonais or him and he's
38:38
Speaker 1: going to start, and who's going to return even if
38:40
Speaker 1: they do start?
38:41
Speaker 2: Absolutely yeah, I mean I've got Robinson, happy to have him.
38:44
Speaker 1: He's great.
38:45
Speaker 2: But I think I think there's so many quandaries at
38:49
Speaker 2: Fulham right now it's Muni's versus him, and as it's
38:52
Speaker 2: Castana versus Robinson.
38:53
Speaker 1: Where would you go on that one? Because it feels
38:55
Speaker 1: like maybe with them as you just keep away.
38:57
Speaker 2: I think so yeah, I think with the frontline you
38:59
Speaker 2: just to go. I'll stay away and if I want
39:01
Speaker 2: to go for an attack roll gol woebe, that feels.
39:04
Speaker 3: The safest way.
39:05
Speaker 2: Yeah. But the defenders is interesting because Robinson is clearly
39:10
Speaker 2: the best pick.
39:10
Speaker 3: I think.
39:11
Speaker 2: I don't think that's even close. I think Robinson is
39:14
Speaker 2: far and away the best pick at Fulham, but he
39:17
Speaker 2: is significantly more than Kastano is so if you need
39:21
Speaker 2: to save budget, and maybe at this point it's a
39:24
Speaker 2: weird thing to say this, but because we're all selling
39:26
Speaker 2: Bruno and soccer and we've got all these other options
39:28
Speaker 2: that we could come down to, maybe we don't need
39:31
Speaker 2: the budget quite as much, so affording Robinson might be easier.
39:35
Speaker 2: But if you are thinking, no, actually I am tight.
39:37
Speaker 2: I'm tight for budget for whatever reason, then I think
39:40
Speaker 2: Castane is a decent option if you can't afford Robinson.
39:44
Speaker 2: But if you've got the budget for Robinson, then I
39:45
Speaker 2: prefer him.
39:46
Speaker 1: Okay, we're going to have to move on because as
39:48
Speaker 1: always we've gone on for quite some times. There's a
39:51
Speaker 1: lot of games in talking points to go through. And
39:53
Speaker 1: just an update on the suspensions. I wrote, as Sam reminded,
39:56
Speaker 1: just saying Mark Gaye don't invest in this week because
39:59
Speaker 1: he picked up his fifth yellow card of the season.
40:00
Speaker 1: Well now we suspended in game week nineteen, along with
40:03
Speaker 1: Matty Cash, Cliver Iusu Boslai Ugarte, Yates Rodriguez and Soucheck.
40:09
Speaker 1: There's a lot of suspensions this week. Bruno Fernandez, as
40:11
Speaker 1: we mentioned, and Jed Spence both faced a one match ban.
40:14
Speaker 1: They got a red card for two yellows in game
40:16
Speaker 1: week eighteen. As we also mentioned, John Duran is out,
40:19
Speaker 1: but he's out for three matches. His red card was
40:21
Speaker 1: for violent conduct. Mudric remains out and now we've also
40:25
Speaker 1: this is good news actually because I don't have to
40:26
Speaker 1: keep reading about this in every podcast, because we nearly
40:29
Speaker 1: reached the end of the first cut off point for suspensions.
40:31
Speaker 1: Players needed to get five yellows in the first nineteen matches.
40:34
Speaker 1: Apart from Liverpool and Everton, all teams will reach that
40:37
Speaker 1: point this game week. So then we'll be watching for
40:39
Speaker 1: ten yellows over the first thirty two matches of the season.
40:42
Speaker 1: The race to be the first player to get ten begins. Okay,
40:46
Speaker 1: then it's that time of the week. It's differential time.
40:49
Speaker 1: A terrible week, guys, let's do it terrible for Jewels.
40:52
Speaker 1: Player got a red card for violent deating. Whether it's
40:55
Speaker 1: a red again, it's a lot. This this podcast is
40:58
Speaker 1: not the time or place for that. Jewels, he got
40:59
Speaker 1: a red. They did their best view they build it.
41:02
Speaker 2: But unfortunately you'd have still got the minus points though
41:04
Speaker 2: regardless because the game we could.
41:06
Speaker 1: Close over the minus two for John Duran and yeah,
41:10
Speaker 1: but Georgie would have taken the credit if he'd scored
41:12
Speaker 1: a one point for Jotter because he of course didn't start.
41:16
Speaker 2: That's worse.
41:17
Speaker 3: That's worse.
41:17
Speaker 1: That's a win Sam wins that week. That doesn't mean
41:22
Speaker 1: she gets to go first. He's your differential this week.
41:25
Speaker 2: We've mentioned him a lot on this podcast or I
41:27
Speaker 2: have anyway, is my lasa. So he is only going
41:29
Speaker 2: to cost you five point eight million. He's only owned
41:31
Speaker 2: by two point nine percent of the game and since
41:33
Speaker 2: game week twelve he's got four goals and two assists.
41:36
Speaker 2: Only four midfielders in the game have more attacking returns
41:38
Speaker 2: than him in that period. One of them Sackle, one
41:40
Speaker 2: of them's Palm. Of the other two Shada and Murphy,
41:44
Speaker 2: so some decent returns from him. In this same period,
41:47
Speaker 2: he's created seven chances for his teammates. Four of them
41:50
Speaker 2: have been big chances. And it's not just about the
41:53
Speaker 2: chances created is it's about the quality of them. So
41:56
Speaker 2: the fact that over half the chances he's created have
41:58
Speaker 2: been big ones is good. He's had eighteen attempts on
42:00
Speaker 2: goal in this time. That's the same as Anthony Gordon.
42:02
Speaker 2: It's more than the likes of Bruno Sons soccer foding
42:06
Speaker 2: all of these really expensive players, and he's six th
42:08
Speaker 2: expected goals across midfielders and seventh for Xgi expected go
42:12
Speaker 2: on involvements. In the same time, faces of Southampton side
42:15
Speaker 2: have got just two clean sheets this season and who
42:17
Speaker 2: have conceded thirty seven goals and he waves Selester have
42:20
Speaker 2: conceded more than that. So Ishmaider Sar is my differential
42:25
Speaker 2: and possibly might be my transfer in this week as well.
42:28
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, he's someone I'm considering as well as the
42:30
Speaker 1: potential soccer replacement that's gonna be him All Gordon for me, Jules,
42:34
Speaker 1: who's your differential?
42:35
Speaker 3: So I went for Morgan Gibbs White and noting Forest
42:38
Speaker 3: because he was outstanding. I thaw in the game, Sorry Sam,
42:41
Speaker 3: to remind you. I don't.
42:42
Speaker 2: I'm surprised we've got this far. We've got forty five
42:45
Speaker 2: minutes in and you've not mentioned the fact. Yes, thank you,
42:48
Speaker 2: appreciate that both left that game review because I felt
42:52
Speaker 2: there was bigger, bigger talking points because also, hasn't everyone
42:55
Speaker 2: sold all their first players. I've still got some, thank
42:58
Speaker 2: you because you know why not, as I mentioned forward
43:01
Speaker 2: headaches exactly, we don't really.
43:03
Speaker 3: Talk about teams die in the second second half of
43:05
Speaker 3: the table anyway. So Morgan gives White is in the
43:07
Speaker 3: top half of the table. He is returning three of
43:09
Speaker 3: his last four games now six points, eight points, thirteen points.
43:13
Speaker 3: There's a lot of bonus points there because he's he
43:15
Speaker 3: just does everything, not just assisting of scoring, but he
43:18
Speaker 3: he gets so involved and I just loved that about him.
43:21
Speaker 3: It will cost you a little bit more than his
43:22
Speaker 3: may last our six point three million, but is owned
43:25
Speaker 3: by less than the manager's one point seven percent, So
43:27
Speaker 3: again proper differential that we mentioned earlier. They've got Everton
43:32
Speaker 3: and Wolves in the next two games. Then it's Liverpool okay,
43:34
Speaker 3: but the next two look good from a Notingham Forest
43:37
Speaker 3: team in great form. And if they are that good
43:40
Speaker 3: is because gives White is at the heart of everything.
43:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like we've kind of stopped talking about
43:43
Speaker 1: Naskham for ust while they've continued to kind of wrack
43:45
Speaker 1: up the points. Isn't it really at a bit bad?
43:48
Speaker 3: Write the script?
43:50
Speaker 2: Do you know what? Selling christ Woods is one of
43:52
Speaker 2: my biggest regrets over the last few weeks, going from
43:55
Speaker 2: Chris Wood to ever Neil. I know he doesn't get
43:56
Speaker 2: anything in this game. But he is any forward that
43:59
Speaker 2: you can trust. So if you have got big forward headaches,
44:02
Speaker 2: we should give a shout out to Chris Wood because
44:04
Speaker 2: I do think he's an option and I know it's
44:08
Speaker 2: fine because I've got big dom, so you know we
44:10
Speaker 2: won't worry. Okay, then transfers and captains how we always
44:13
Speaker 2: end this podcast on As Jules rightly mentioned earlier, a
44:17
Speaker 2: lot of people are bringing in esak. The most popular
44:20
Speaker 2: combinations so far this week is ESAK for Harland. We've
44:23
Speaker 2: not owned Harland on this podcast for a little while now.
44:25
Speaker 2: The second most popular is Gordon in for Bruno Fernandez
44:29
Speaker 2: and Palmer in for Soaka esak in for Jackson. So yeah,
44:33
Speaker 2: a lot of themes that we've talked about in this
44:35
Speaker 2: podcast are being reflected in what you guys at home
44:37
Speaker 2: are doing. But I'm intrigusing on what you guys are doing, Jiels.
44:39
Speaker 2: I'm going to give you a few more minutes to
44:40
Speaker 2: think about your transfers because you probably haven't yet you
44:43
Speaker 2: been on this absolutely Oh gone, then all right you
44:47
Speaker 2: can get first.
44:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, very easy, probably nothing nothing boring. What would you
44:53
Speaker 3: been boring? I just brought in Martinelli and Isak. I've
44:56
Speaker 3: still have two free transfers to do this.
44:58
Speaker 1: He likes to let them build up and then yeah.
45:02
Speaker 3: I think that is more mostiously, I think if you're
45:04
Speaker 3: brought in Martin Ellie or even the guards, yeah exactly.
45:08
Speaker 3: I think they need a bit of time. We need
45:10
Speaker 3: a bit of time and they need a bit of
45:11
Speaker 3: time to see if they adapt and if they are
45:12
Speaker 3: adapting to this new life with Thattaka because everything was
45:16
Speaker 3: going through Psyca so much that then we need a
45:18
Speaker 3: bit of time. So I mean Branford away. I would
45:21
Speaker 3: fancy Martin Elli to have an impact on the game
45:23
Speaker 3: for sure, so I'm happy with him and probably goes
45:26
Speaker 3: on the bench even if they are home based against Newcastle,
45:29
Speaker 3: so then Rogers are home to write. So the teams
45:31
Speaker 3: that my team looks good, so I'll keep, I'll keep
45:33
Speaker 3: and roll on the free transfer.
45:35
Speaker 2: So I'm going to sell Bruni Fernandez. Either I'm going
45:38
Speaker 2: to go too or I'm going to go for Anthony Gordon.
45:41
Speaker 2: I haven't decided which one yet. If I go for Ismailos,
45:44
Speaker 2: it gives me the money to get Evan Nelson to
45:46
Speaker 2: Olie Watkins, but that would give me a massive benching
45:50
Speaker 2: headache because then my front a I'd want to play
45:51
Speaker 2: all of them, because I want to play Morgan Rogers
45:53
Speaker 2: at home to Brighton this week and he's historically being
45:57
Speaker 2: my bench option and even like we laugh the dom
46:00
Speaker 2: Selanki pick, but I can't bring myself to bench dom
46:02
Speaker 2: Selanki at home to Wolves like that would be crazy.
46:06
Speaker 2: So even even with my Spurs goggles in play, that
46:09
Speaker 2: still feels mad. So the thing, I might just do
46:12
Speaker 2: one transfer this week and then get either Ishmaido Sar
46:15
Speaker 2: or Anthony Gordon. At the moment, I think I prefer
46:19
Speaker 2: Ishmaida Sar simply because I really do like those Crystal
46:22
Speaker 2: Palace fixtures and I don't have anybody yet from Crystal Palace,
46:26
Speaker 2: whereas I already do have two Newcastle assets in play.
46:29
Speaker 2: So I might just try and cover out the Crystal
46:32
Speaker 2: Palace fixtures that they've got coming up by having him,
46:35
Speaker 2: and maybe look to double up with Muna's at some
46:37
Speaker 2: point in the coming weeks as well, so that I've
46:39
Speaker 2: got a defensive and attacking player from them. But yeah,
46:43
Speaker 2: definitely Bruno's biing sold probably for Sar. That's how I
46:46
Speaker 2: feel like I'm going to go.
46:47
Speaker 1: Are we going to have another boring captaincy Chat and
46:49
Speaker 1: also with captaining most Salah because he's in ridiculous form
46:53
Speaker 1: and we've got the.
46:54
Speaker 3: Fe me definitely, although Pip switch is.
46:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think there's aptions, isn't there. I
47:00
Speaker 2: think Palmer against Ipswich is definitely tempting. I think each
47:05
Speaker 2: against Manchester United is tempting. Given there without you got
47:08
Speaker 2: take because he's suspended and Bruno Fernandez because he's suspended.
47:12
Speaker 2: So I think they're options. I just think for me,
47:15
Speaker 2: with the way that Salah is playing right now, I
47:19
Speaker 2: don't really want to take the armband off him against
47:21
Speaker 2: a west Ham team that's missing Souchech and is missing
47:24
Speaker 2: their preferred goalkeeper at the moment in Fabianski. So yeah,
47:28
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm going to stick with with Salah. But
47:31
Speaker 2: I do think there are options. So if you want
47:33
Speaker 2: to look outside of the Egyptian King, then Palmer and
47:35
Speaker 2: Each for me would be the two i'd look at.
47:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, every week, I think, oh, he's sack could be
47:38
Speaker 1: a nice option this week, but then out of the
47:40
Speaker 1: fear of not captain in Sala, I don't do it.
47:42
Speaker 1: And I know a lot of managers feel the same,
47:44
Speaker 1: but yeah, a few nice options for you this game
47:46
Speaker 1: week as well. Again in a remind you of deadline
47:48
Speaker 1: is one o'clock on a Sunday. City of alarms, guys,
47:51
Speaker 1: because it's an usual time, nineteen minutes out of the
47:53
Speaker 1: two thirty kickoff between Leicester and Man City. Don't let
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Speaker 1: it catch you out. Will be back at our usual
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Speaker 1: time on Thursday to look back on week nineteen and
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Speaker 1: head to game week twenty. The first deadline of the
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Speaker 1: new year that will be the Fantasy Show will also
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Speaker 1: be back next Friday. I'll be back on that as
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Speaker 1: but as this is the last time we will hear
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Speaker 1: from you this or you will hear from us even
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Speaker 1: in this calendar year. Thank you so much to everyone
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Speaker 1: for listening to us. George, You're not end the year
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Speaker 1: on a song.
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Speaker 3: Go on God, I was going to say we wishow
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Speaker 3: Americas move. That's to date.
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Speaker 1: Now just sing Saliba
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Speaker 3: Saliba, New Year everyone,