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S9 Ep12: FPL Pod: Should you sell Bruno for Saka? · FPL Pod

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  Speaker 1: Hello everyone yes we're back again FPL pod here to
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: reflect on just another quiet week of football and Jules
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: what did you say I mean maybe bleep it out
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  Speaker 1: but what did you say just as we started recording?
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  Speaker 2: What a shizzle week.
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  Speaker 1: Can we say that? I don't know, we'll find out.
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  Speaker 2: I've always been told, I said she's on TV, on radio,
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  Speaker 2: on podcasts, so it should be fine.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well just don't keep saying it, in case you
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  Speaker 1: keep having to use the beeper. But anyway, it was
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a frustrating game week. Jules is only
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  Speaker 1: saying that because for once he, I think, got the
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  Speaker 1: worst score out of all of us, which is quite
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  Speaker 1: nice maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Not by much, not by much, not by much.
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  Speaker 3: No, go on Sam, we'll start with you because you
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  Speaker 3: did the best. Yeah, I was actually thinking, God, I've
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  Speaker 3: had an awful week. This has been dreadful. And then
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  Speaker 3: I looked at Arlene and was like, oh, I feel better.
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  Speaker 2: You're welcome. You did.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, guys. I really appreciate your kindness. Actually, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: just not the best of week, but on reflection, not terrible.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was those players that I was hoping
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  Speaker 3: would be differential makers for me this week. The Bruno Fernandes,
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  Speaker 3: the Dominic Sabozlai's. For them to get one between the
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  Speaker 3: two of them, because obviously Sabozai didn't play and Bruno
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  Speaker 3: just got the one, was a bit disappointing. I thought
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  Speaker 3: I was heavily invested enough in Brighton with Verbruggen and
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  Speaker 3: Pascal Gross. Apparently not. Apparently it's very important that you
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  Speaker 3: now double up on the Brighton defence. They've become peak
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  Speaker 3: Arsenal and we need to have the Kauper or Vuskovic
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  Speaker 3: as well. And so that's something that I'll need to
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  Speaker 3: deal with. Was very upset on Saturday night when Van
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  Speaker 3: Heck was sat there on nine DEFCONs and then was
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  Speaker 3: delighted to wake up Sunday morning and find that they'd
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  Speaker 3: found him another two and he picked up the DEFCON points.
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  Speaker 3: So in the end, it was a small red arrow, 66.
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  Speaker 3: Could have been a lot worse. But I also can't
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  Speaker 3: help but feel a bit frustrated by it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I have zero sympathy. I've benched a Kuiper.
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  Speaker 1: How on earth do you think that feels?
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  Speaker 3: Kels, benching to Kuipa must have been, I can't even
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  Speaker 3: imagine how you felt.
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  Speaker 1: I played the fixtures, which is so silly, as in
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  Speaker 1: I thought Sunderland away is a harder fixture than Ipswich had.
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  Speaker 1: But as you said there, I think what we're learning
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  Speaker 1: about Brighton is they're so good. We need to have
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  Speaker 1: multiple investment and we pretty much need to play them
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  Speaker 1: every week because as Jules saw the other week, they
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  Speaker 1: can get points against the team that won the league
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  Speaker 1: last season. So yeah, I'm sorry, zero sympathy from me.
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  Speaker 1: Not that we really do sympathy much on this point
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  Speaker 1: for each other, do we?
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  Speaker 2: We don't do sympathy.
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  Speaker 1: Go on then, Jules, get your tiny violin out. Why
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  Speaker 1: was your game week so bad?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, 53 points because I benched Verbruggen and his nine
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  Speaker 2: points and I benched Pascal Gross as well and his
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  Speaker 2: six points.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but you can't bench Pascal Gross.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I thought, you know, I really thought a
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  Speaker 2: way I sent the line a bit like you, Kaelis,
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  Speaker 2: that they would struggle. And to be fair, Pascal Gross
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  Speaker 2: was not good in that game at all. But he
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  Speaker 2: still got something out of it and credit to him,
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  Speaker 2: really good. Then I captained Bruno Fernandes because I just
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  Speaker 2: thought United would react and we do actually a bit
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  Speaker 2: better at home against a Spurs team that, as we know,
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  Speaker 2: find it difficult so far this season. But Bruno probably
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  Speaker 2: had his worst game of the season and this is
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  Speaker 2: a bad season already for him. So that was the
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  Speaker 2: wrong call. So in the end, 53, where I'm the
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  Speaker 2: only one to blame, really. So it's fine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just talking through what I ended up with on
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  Speaker 1: my wildcard, actually, because we did... Discuss my wildcard for
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  Speaker 1: what feels like forever because of that really long international break.
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  Speaker 1: And still, it will surprise absolutely no one that I
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  Speaker 1: had a really ill... I was working the late game.
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  Speaker 1: I did Manchester United versus Spurs. I presented it for
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  Speaker 1: the Premier League on Saturday night. So in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, perfect. But I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: need the morning to sort my wildcard out. No, I'll
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  Speaker 1: have sorted it out. Yeah. So Saturday morning came along
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  Speaker 1: and I needed to go to Sainsbury's. Just pick up
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  Speaker 1: a few bits. Sainsbury's at the back of the store
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have signal. And I realized that, of course, to
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  Speaker 1: a level when I.
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  Speaker 3: Haven't you been here before?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, well, I live in a different... I live
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  Speaker 2: in a different.
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  Speaker 1: The last time this happened, I lived somewhere different. And
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  Speaker 1: so I was just... Anyone that saw me, I won't
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  Speaker 1: say which change, but it was a giveaway where I live.
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  Speaker 1: I was just going backwards and forwards near the, like,
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  Speaker 1: the way you pay.
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  Speaker 2: Because.
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  Speaker 3: Tills, that's what it's called.
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  Speaker 1: Because I couldn't go any further back in the store.
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  Speaker 1: I'm walking up and down. My poor daughter just thinks
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  Speaker 1: she's on, like, a trolley ride going back and down.
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  Speaker 1: While I decided whether... You know, I decided I was
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  Speaker 1: going to sell Kevin Sharder. I then thought, I won't
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  Speaker 1: sell him this week because he's got a good fixture.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Got three free transfers. Like on a wild card, you
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  Speaker 1: need to get a balance of bringing in different players,
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  Speaker 1: but also trying to get the players in form. So
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  Speaker 1: of course, Kevin Sharder's form is not even making 60
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  Speaker 1: minutes and getting a shoulder injury. So really glad I
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  Speaker 1: stuck with him. Also on the Friday night, I'd brought
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  Speaker 1: in Gonzalo because I knew he was going up and
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  Speaker 1: I thought I wanted to see if I wanted him.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm really pleased actually, although he didn't return and
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  Speaker 1: I benched him, I brought in Dominic Calvert-Lewin back and
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  Speaker 1: just at like 10.58. And I'm really glad because I
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  Speaker 1: think Leeds still look brilliant. They look brilliant against Arsenal
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  Speaker 1: and I'm happy to have him beyond last week. And
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  Speaker 1: I think we saw the problems that Fulham have got.
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  Speaker 1: I was between Josh King and Harvey Barnes. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it would have made no difference last week because neither
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  Speaker 1: of them had good game weeks. Still not totally set
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  Speaker 1: on Josh King, but let's see what happens with Fulham
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  Speaker 1: going forward. They've still got the fixtures. I'm very glad
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't tempted into the Fulham double up because at
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  Speaker 1: one point I was and then I saw a bit
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  Speaker 1: of sense. So yeah, On the whole, though, I don't
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  Speaker 1: mind my team. I mean, Lewis Hall could have done
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more for me.
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  Speaker 2: How many points? Because you haven't said your points.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I only got 57. But for going forward.
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  Speaker 2: On the wildcard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but wildcard, that's the thing with a wildcard often,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Week one.
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  Speaker 1: For a few weeks, Jules, not just for one. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I've ever had a wildcard that week one
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  Speaker 1: has done well. And bear in mind that 57, I
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  Speaker 1: did have 15 points on my bench. So I look
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  Speaker 1: at it and go, had I got my team a
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  Speaker 1: bit better, we could have been talking 70-ish. And then
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  Speaker 1: I'd be pretty happy with that. So my squad is fine.
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy. I've got two leads. At the last minute,
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  Speaker 1: I got rid of Silva from Bournemouth and brought in,
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  Speaker 1: I can never say his name properly, Muharremovic. There we go.
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  Speaker 1: I brought him in and I'm happy to have him.
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  Speaker 1: I just decided that Leeds' fixture is a bit mixed,
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  Speaker 1: but they're so good and the DEFCON's there. So it
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  Speaker 1: was a disappointing week, but I'm not too disappointed with
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  Speaker 1: my team. which feels a bit weird to say.
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  Speaker 3: I liked your team when I looked at it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Sharder was the only one. Sharder was the only
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  Speaker 1: one that actually, especially now he's got an injury as well.
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  Speaker 1: In hindsight, that was a bit... I mean, you jinxed him. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: sorry everyone.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't want you to own him. He didn't want
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  Speaker 2: you to own him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just, I actually felt like I had a
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  Speaker 1: nice balance of chasing points in terms of like Gross, Sharder,
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  Speaker 1: playing it safe by going back to a Dominic Calvert-Lewin,
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  Speaker 1: trying to be sensible, and Maremovic and players like that.
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  Speaker 1: But also with the odd sprinkling of differentials in terms
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  Speaker 1: of Josh King, which might not pay off. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's where I'm at. And let's just hope I get
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  Speaker 1: my bench right this week. But it's been a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a theme of the season, hasn't it? Okay, a
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  Speaker 1: reminder then, Q0HV1Q is your code if you want to
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  Speaker 1: join us in the FPL Pod Mini League. Also, a
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  Speaker 1: reminder there has, as if you need a reminder, there's
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: been loads of Champions League, Europa League, etc., Matches this week.
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  Speaker 1: We are recording on a Thursday morning, so we haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen everything. But Jules, you know your job on this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Bring us up to speed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, really mixed results for Premier League teams
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  Speaker 2: in this midweek of Champions League. Arsenal with a quite
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  Speaker 2: emphatic and controlled 3-0 win against Lille at home. Great
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  Speaker 2: goal by Julian Timber, who started right back. There was
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  Speaker 2: a bit of rotation. No Havertz, no Saka, no Odegaard,
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  Speaker 2: no Calafuri from the start. Some came on. Later, but
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  Speaker 2: Saka scores. Havertz was involved in that goal. We saw
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  Speaker 2: Bruno Guimaraes, I thought, did really well. It was a
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  Speaker 2: defeat for United. Away Atletico Madrid, 2-0 with a red
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  Speaker 2: card for Euro. Like a disastrous evening. Really terrible defending
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  Speaker 2: with a makeshift defence, to be fair. Bruno on the
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  Speaker 2: right and Bombo as a nine. The new three midfielders
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  Speaker 2: from the summer, Baleba, Tillemans and Andres Santos, all starting.
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  Speaker 2: And in the end, it's yet another bad result for Carrick.
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  Speaker 2: And United, Aston Villa, it was a tennis set. They
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  Speaker 2: won 6-0 against Fenerbahce. Two goals for Nico Jackson. Manzambi
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  Speaker 2: looking outstanding. And even Ross Barkley scoring two goals as well. Liverpool,
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  Speaker 2: another tennis set. They won 6-3 away at last with
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  Speaker 2: Bradley Barcola's Hat-trick, his first hat-trick of his career. First
• 8:09
  Speaker 2: goals for Liverpool as well. Luis Koumas also scored. And
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  Speaker 2: we saw a good Florian Witt in that game, if
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  Speaker 2: you own him. And then finally, really, really, really the
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  Speaker 2: game of the week between Manchester City and PSG. And PSG,
• 8:21
  Speaker 2: you know, I should remind you and everybody that they're
• 8:23
  Speaker 2: back-to-back European champions. That's what we do. Paris 1-0. They
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  Speaker 2: smashed City 3-0 in the first half. They ended up
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  Speaker 2: winning 4-2. Two goals for Haaland, who, to be fair,
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  Speaker 2: should have scored easily three or four, but it was
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  Speaker 2: a very good night for Paris.
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  Speaker 1: Great. Congratulations. So pleased for you.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm not loving football right now. Regular listeners know
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  Speaker 1: who I support and it's just... Let's not go there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for you.
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  Speaker 1: If Sam thought it was bad being a Spurs fan, honestly...
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  Speaker 1: I'm quite enjoying watching us play at least I can't
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  Speaker 1: even say yeah I watched them on Saturday and thought
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  Speaker 1: you were good I can't even say the name of
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  Speaker 1: my team right now that's how I feel let's review
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  Speaker 1: let's review game week six in a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: depth we've spoken about how we did but just some
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  Speaker 1: of the big takeaway points because it does feel like
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  Speaker 1: there was quite a few just a word just to
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  Speaker 1: expand really on our Brighton point Jules Sam said then
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  Speaker 1: she thinks she needs three Brighton is that excessive or
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  Speaker 1: is that true?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's probably true. Although the first thing I would
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  Speaker 2: say is the schedule coming up is hectic with two
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  Speaker 2: European games. Not that they play a greater position and
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  Speaker 2: you think Hetzeler will probably rotate and that would be enough.
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  Speaker 2: They will still win those two games. But it's also
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  Speaker 2: the game against Palace, even at home, which is a
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  Speaker 2: special game because of the rivalry between them two. Then
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  Speaker 2: they go away at Liverpool. Then they've got City in
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  Speaker 2: the Cup and City in the Premier League. both away
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  Speaker 2: from home. So I think travelling up, if you want, sure,
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  Speaker 2: might not be the best time to do it right now,
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  Speaker 2: although they're in form and all of them are in form. Verbruggen, Vuskovic,
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  Speaker 2: De Kuyper, Gross we mentioned. You can probably even look
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  Speaker 2: at one or two others if you want to be
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  Speaker 2: a bit more of a differential because those players now
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  Speaker 2: are quite heavily owned. It's just that the schedule coming
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  Speaker 2: up is tough for Brighton. So I think two is absolutely... mandatory. Three,
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  Speaker 2: I would not go there personally right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does feel like for me at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: I'm quite happy with Gross plus De Kooiper. But Sam,
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  Speaker 1: you're obviously, are you hankering for a third? So you've
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  Speaker 1: just got Gross at the moment and Verbruggen.
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  Speaker 3: Grayson for Bruggen, yeah. I just think that, do you
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  Speaker 3: remember a couple of seasons ago when Arsenal, well, every
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  Speaker 3: year really, when Arsenal were this kind of elite defence
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  Speaker 3: and we had long conversations about how, you know, you'd
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  Speaker 3: have one and that was quite good for a while,
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  Speaker 3: but then the trouble is their ownership So then you're like, well,
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  Speaker 3: in order for it to make a difference to my team,
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  Speaker 3: I need to get another one. And then that works
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  Speaker 3: for a while. And then by the time you get
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  Speaker 3: a few game weeks in, suddenly the ownership's gone up everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: And before you know it, you're looking at two of
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  Speaker 3: them and going, well, I'm not getting any green arrows
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  Speaker 3: out of owning you two now. So every time it's a,
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  Speaker 3: it's a clean sheet for us. as it was at
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  Speaker 3: the time, Arsenal, I'd kind of find my team was
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  Speaker 3: being harmed by it. That's exactly where I am with
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  Speaker 3: Brighton now. So I've got Verbruggen, who's ticking over nine
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  Speaker 3: pointers every week. He's fantastic. I like having him. I
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  Speaker 3: see no issue with him. Pascal Gross was just a
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  Speaker 3: massive route to pain. I've closed that off by bringing
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  Speaker 3: him in. So that solved that problem. But I've got
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  Speaker 3: these two Brighton assets. They've returned, both of them returned,
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  Speaker 3: so 15 points out of the pair of them. Yet
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  Speaker 3: I'm still net negative out of that Brighton game because
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  Speaker 3: players like Vuskovic, who... has now risen in price, but
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  Speaker 3: particularly DeKalb are regularly returning. So you add people have
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  Speaker 3: the pair of them or they have one of them
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  Speaker 3: with the goalkeeper. And before you know it, that bright
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  Speaker 3: and clean sheet is actually hurting you rather than net
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  Speaker 3: positively gaining for you. So whilst I sort of agree
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  Speaker 3: with what Joel said about the fixtures and the level
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  Speaker 3: of game time that they're going to have to play
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  Speaker 3: over the coming weeks, I also think that they're still
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  Speaker 3: not that expensive. Uskovic and DeKalb are now 5.1 each.
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  Speaker 3: Having one of them as well and having the three,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't mean you have to play them all every week.
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  Speaker 3: Some weeks I might decide I want to play Kinski
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  Speaker 3: rather than Verbruggen. But at least I've always got at
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  Speaker 3: least one Brighton asset in my team and in my
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  Speaker 3: defensive team. And I think that's important. So I can
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  Speaker 3: see me tripling up, if not this week, then next.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it comes down to whether you trust, as
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  Speaker 1: Jules said, their fixtures going forward for them to maintain
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  Speaker 1: it and maybe that every week. I think the reason
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  Speaker 1: it probably felt even worse last week is when you
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  Speaker 1: see a defender getting attacking returns. Because when you have
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  Speaker 1: a goalkeeper as one of your Brighton players, although he
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  Speaker 1: got nine points, you're not going to get the bonus
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  Speaker 1: of the attacking return as well. Although we do see
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  Speaker 1: goalkeepers assist every so often.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but weirdly, I don't think I would get to
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  Speaker 3: Cowper anyway now. Because of Matona coming back. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: would still go for Vuskovic. And especially because we know
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  Speaker 3: that they've got Crystal Palace coming up. They're particularly weak
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  Speaker 3: from set pieces. That's where Vuskovic would be most attacking
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to attacking play. So I still think
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't get Decauper. I'd go with Vuskovic. But I
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  Speaker 3: am looking longingly at that defence thinking I need more.
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  Speaker 2: What's interesting is they've kept four clean sheets. So it's
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  Speaker 2: the most out of six league games. So this is
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  Speaker 2: the most, they're one ahead of, you know, Arsenal's and,
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  Speaker 2: Everton and teams like that. But in terms of XG conceded,
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  Speaker 2: so really XG conceded is the proper chances that you
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  Speaker 2: concede against you, the 12th in the league. They haven't
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  Speaker 2: defended that well in terms of not giving the opposition
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  Speaker 2: anything in those kind of games. Because again, the truth
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  Speaker 2: is probably a bit in the middle, but somewhere considering
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  Speaker 2: that many chances in your first six games, of the
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  Speaker 2: Premier League is not really good. You know, being 12th,
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  Speaker 2: that's not good. They haven't been solid defensively at all
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  Speaker 2: so far this season. And yet they've got four clean
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  Speaker 2: sheets out of six. So there's probably a bit of
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  Speaker 2: truth in the middle. But doubling up, for example, having
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  Speaker 2: Vuskovic and De Kuyper, and I know De Kuyper's points
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  Speaker 2: are coming from attacking position because he plays higher up
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  Speaker 2: the pitch. I still think it's a little bit tricky
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, guys, if you're listening to this, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a bit worried that De Kuyper is going to be
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: what sangare was to me i own sangare for all
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: of the game weeks up until i wildcarded him out
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: and he got one huge return and i benched that
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: and i'm really worried that i've done the same with
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: decoy for now particularly with matoma coming back as well
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: i'm a bit like oh gosh maybe i've missed the
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: boat already uh that would just be a very me
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: thing to do uh let's move on to arsenal actually
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: because it feels like they link in quite well with
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: brighton because we're always saying we need three arsenal let's
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: talk um about which three by the way sighs of
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: relief from you two about Konza, Sam, although you did
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: bench him, actually, to be fair.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I benched him. I felt like Leeds might score.
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: I didn't really want to play the defensive double up.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: So I benched him, played Calafuri, obviously, which, I mean,
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: you have to, don't you? He's just like a bit
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: of a no-brainer at the minute.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: But didn't Jules, Jules got in my head, by the way,
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: what you said on last week's pod. And Jules, I
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: relayed that to a few content creators when I was
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: at the Fantasy Show on Friday saying, There's a theory
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: from Jules, who knows Arsenal very well, I'm not going
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: to go around saying that anymore, who knows Arsenal very well,
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: that maybe Calafiori, they might favour Nkapieh and Calafiori might
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: not start. The panic look in everyone's eyes, and.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: You panic me.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: But that was if Eze started on the left, but
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Eze didn't start on the left. No, I know, but
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: you still put that... But you were the only one
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: with that theory.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: And it scared me.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: No, true, but if you play Madweke, then Calafiori makes sense.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: You know, Incapier would come in, depending on who plays as.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: A left winger for Arsenal. I'm not debating that, but
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: you didn't need to put that in. I had too
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: many thoughts as it was and you worried me with that.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: So I was very pleased that not only I didn't
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: get rid of Calafiori because he started, but also obviously
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: returned again as well. Sam, sorry to interrupt. I just
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: had to say that because I nearly put in our
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: WhatsApp group about that the weekend.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: Could you imagine if you'd have not had Califuria on
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: your wildcard, the stress that you would have given Jules
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: for that? Yeah, look, I still think owning both of
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: them is right. And obviously we were a bit concerned,
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: weren't we, that Konza wouldn't start because Muscara was.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Back as well.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: And it was like, well, okay, there's plenty of options
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: that they could play in that position. And now I
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: still think that, having played him at the weekend and
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: then obviously played him again in the Champions League, it's like, well,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: I'll just keep him because at the price point he is,
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: he's feeling like a bit of a gift and I
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: don't really want to... When I'm on wildcard in a
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: few weeks' time, maybe I'll do the Rea goalkeeper thing.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: But right now, having Konza and Califuri is fine. I
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: just wish I'd first benched him so we would have
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: come on instead of Dominic Calvert-Lewin. But yeah, it was...
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: I must admit, Kels, though, I was a little bit
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: scared when I saw that Konza was starting and I'd
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: benched him. I thought, oh, if they keep a clean
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: sheet now, it's going to be painful to sit and
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: watch this on Saturday lunchtime. Because, of course, I've got
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: to go the whole of the rest of the weekend
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: seeing my second Arsenal defender sitting there. So, yeah, the
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: four points was bad enough. It would have been worse
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: if they'd have kept a clean sheet as well.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: It goes back to, and it's the constant dilemma we
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: have with Arsenal Jules as to who the best three are.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Because Saka was frustrating last weekend. And then the amount
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: of people that I saw saying off the back of
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: the Champions League in midweek, well, where was that in
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: the Premier League? It's like the same in the international
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: break when Saka goes and is brilliant. It's like, well,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: where is that in terms of the Premier League and
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: our FPL points? I'm still very happy to own Saka.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: And I'm confident that eventually he'll realise he needs to
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: do that in the league as well. If Arsenal are
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: going to win the Premier League, Bakaya, if you're listening
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: to this, you need to do this in the league
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: as well. You need to be good in every competition, please.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Imagine if it's you saying that to him that makes
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: him suddenly good in the league, Kel.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Clip it and play it to him in the dressing room. No,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: he knows I'm the biggest Pio Saka fan, to be fair.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Arteta, I think, has challenged Saka both publicly
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: and privately in recent days about scoring more goals and
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: in his press conferences as well. So I think there's
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: clearly something that He has to improve for this season.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: You know, he's had good numbers before and he can
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: go back to that. He took his goal really well
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: against Lille after coming on. He looked really sharp. There's
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: also an assist for Berrett Chiesi in that game. So
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: it's looking, I think, probably a bit better for Saka.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Forrest away on Sunday is not an easy game at all.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: And their back five and the way they play, under Glasner.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: But I think right now, if you look at the
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Saka v Odegaard kind of conundrum that we've looked at
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: a lot already this season, despite the difference in price,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: it looks to me that Saka is a bit ahead now.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Odegaard started really well and is also involved, by the way,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: on the second and the third goal for Arsenal against
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Lille on Tuesday in the Champions League. But it looks
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: like Saka would probably be my pick if I had
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: the money now and if I could do it like you, Kels,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: with your wild cards, I would do Saka ahead of Odegaard.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Sam? Where do you stand with the Arsenal three? You are?
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the numbers compared to Odegaard are much better in
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: terms of, you know, shot per 90.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Can you get to him, George?
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: She's in the box, but I don't think so.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Well, you can. You can sell Bruno Fernandes, but you
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: have to sell Odegaard as well.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because I've got four, but then that would
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: take a minus four.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: I think if I had Odegaard, I probably would do
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: the same, but I don't. I only have two Arsenal
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: right now with Konza and Calafuri. So, For me, the
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Bruno to Saka thing. I was only planning to give
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Bruno Fernandes one more week against Spurs because I was
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: expecting something more than we got against Spurs from Bruno.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: And then obviously watching Manchester United again in the Champions League,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: I was like, it seems no value to me now
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: in holding Bruno Fernandes when I could have Bakayo Saka.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Because yes, Nottingham Forest have been, on paper it sounds
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: like a difficult fixture, but the last couple of weeks
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Nottingham Forest have, they've disappointed. Like against Coventry they disappointed,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: against Crystal Palace they did. Maybe not in terms of
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: the style of play, but certainly in terms of the
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: result that came out of it. So I look at
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: the weekend's fixture against Forest and think, oh, I'd far
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: rather have Bakayo Saka and I'd have him moving forward.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Because at the moment, would I trust Bruno Fernandes with
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: an armband? Absolutely not. But would Saka give me an
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: opportunity to captain somebody outside of Haaland? Yeah, totally. I
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: would trust Saka with the armband. most week so yeah
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: it's an easy buy for me.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Another reason I was I was frustrated with my team
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: but felt like I'd had a tiny bit of a
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: let off is I had also captained by Kai Osaka
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: until about 5 to 11 last Saturday I just thought
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: if I'm trying to get a team here where I'm
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: playing it safe and I'm also being a bit a
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: tiny bit risky then it felt like going against Haaland
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: although they're a different fix difficult fixture just didn't feel
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: like the weekend to do it because I felt like
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: City had a bit of a bit of fire in
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: their belly and they were Yeah, it proved to be correct.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: That was fortunately one good decision I did make. But
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Bukayo Saka is in my team to be a captain.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: There's now a dilemma each week between him and Haaland,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, then.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: So our Arsenal three, Jules, what would they be?
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: So I would go again, Raya plus one of the
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: defenders or two defenders, Calafiori, Konza.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: It's interesting now, isn't it? Because do we go for
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Konza's value or do we just have to have the
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: upside of Calafiori and he's worth that extra?
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: I think both work too. If you prefer to have
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Raya in goal, then the two of Calafiori-Konca will go
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: for Calafiori. Absolutely, for the attacking threat that he has,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: that goal that he took is really good. Arsenal don't
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: score on set pieces anymore. So Konca, I think, is
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: very unlikely to get at some point as many points
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: attacking-wise than Calafiori. So I'll go for Calafiori, absolutely. And
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: then if you can't afford Saka, Saka is still... is
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: right now, for me, the best option going forward. If
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I was like Sam, if I only had two Arsenal players,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: I would do exactly like her and swap Bruno for Saka.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Sam? I think the... I think Konza, Calafuri, Saka. I
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: think in a few weeks' time, Konza might become an
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: issue whenever Saliba eventually comes back. Maybe it's a problem,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: but right now, I think those are the best three
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: and then you can go for Arreia later down the line.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Let's move on to Just a quick word on Joao Pedro.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: We warned people against selling him, didn't we? And, I mean,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: the warning doesn't come much greater than the way he
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: and Chelsea performed at the weekend. If you've sold him,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: you get him back, don't you, Jules? You have to.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Bring him back now. Go and get him yourself.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Don't wait, yeah.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: On your car, on your bike, on your scooter, whatever.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Sometimes, guys, and I do this a lot, in this game,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: it is good to just admit your mistakes and go
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: back on them. Don't be pig-headed and try and think
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: you can ride it out because, Sam, it feels like
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Pedro is one of those players that he's just going
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: to continually punish you.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: He was the third most sold player for game week six.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, we did advise people against it. So, you know,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: when you're like.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Leave him on your bench.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And now he's the third most bought
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: in player ahead of game week seven. So, people are.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: By the way, a lot of people did bench him,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: which I was like, I couldn't understand that either because
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I was like, surely, don't get me wrong, he could
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: have been on the bench and just come on for
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: 20 minutes, but I'd back him to score, particularly with
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the way that game went as well and the way
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Bournemouth have been defending at times. Why just start him
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: and just have a good bench? I mean, hindsight is
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: a wonderful thing, of course, but yeah. Well, it's the
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: same as everything, isn't it? It's like if there's a
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: chance that they play. And given that Alonso had actually
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: told us that he was okay on Friday. That was
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: a good update. A rare good one, wasn't it?
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: It was a good update. Yeah, it was like, well,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: we got told that both he and Palmer were okay.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: So it's like, okay, well, you start them and you
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: don't sell them. I could understand people on wildcard taking
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: him out and then thinking about it and playing with
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: their team and catching value. But I absolutely, with Alonso's update,
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: would have gone back to him, which a lot of
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: people now are clearly doing. He's gone from the third
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: most sold to the third most bought. So clearly they're
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: fixing it, which is good because you do need Jal Pedro.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: There was also a lot of bench jam again, Kels,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: because obviously Dom Sabozlai wasn't a problem and then suddenly
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: is a problem after the deadline. And a lot of
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: people had first benched Jal Pedro and got him off
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: their bench for Dominic Sabozlai. So that's a bit frustrating
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: because at one point I was thinking, I was watching
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Jal Pedro's points tick up in my team and being like,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: actually he's acting a bit more differential now than he
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: would have been a week before because a week before
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: he was a lot more heavily owned than he was
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: going into six. So yes, if you've sold him, for
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: goodness sake, just go and buy him back. Okay, let's
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: wrestle through some of the other teams. Leeds obviously lost
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: that game that we mentioned against Arsenal. But they were
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: really impressive, weren't they? And like I said, I'm really
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: happy to be doubled up, I think. It feels like
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: a Leeds defender is quite important. Like I mentioned, the
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: one that I've got, Marinovic, and actually he's a DEFCON
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: magnet as well. So even if they're not getting clean sheets,
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: it just feels like at five million, he's really good value, Jules.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. Him or, you know, Justin, Borgol, Goodmanson, even
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: if you want, those kind of guys. Trafford, I'm not
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: sure if I would go there, but certainly in terms
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: of defence, yeah, absolutely, you're right. They were probably a
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: bit unlucky, not too much defensively because Arsenal were always
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: going to put pressure on them in that second half
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: when they lost, but they're so well organised, they work
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: so hard, they have that kind of intensity coming from
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: the midfield and they don't let you play. So, United
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: at home on Sunday is massive and you could see
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: them clearly Getting a clean sheet there, then they go
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: to Sunderland, then they go to Bournemouth. But those are
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: the games where you could see them doing really well too.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: So I agree with you and they're cheap. So Marjanovic
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: probably would be my first pick. But again, if you
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: want to go for Bogle, who's having an outstanding FPL
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: season so far, then do.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: It for sure. Sam, who would your best pick be
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: of that Leeds defensive line?
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: I like Muharremovic as well. I actually was really impressed
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: by James Justin. Even before we scored at the weekend,
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: I was like, he's everywhere and he's performing so well.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: And it reminded me of him when he played for
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Leicester all those years ago and we all had him
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: in FPL because he was that kind of cheap, great option.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: I do like him, but it does seem a bit
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: odd to look outside Muharremovic given the defensive stats that
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: we get and the consistency of defensive contributions, especially as
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: we need to remember with Bogle that he has got
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: more points than he should have because he's still credited
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: for that goal that then was taken away from him.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: So when it comes to his FPL stats, you just
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: have to be mindful of that every time you look
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: at Bogle because he obviously looks like he's ahead, but
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: actually you have to remove the goal points from his
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: total if you want to compare them nicely, fairly.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, Coventry two wins from two. It felt like we
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: were targeting them before. It doesn't feel that way now, Sam,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: and Thomas looks decent to have.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: I had third bench Bobby Thomas again this week and
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: I was watching this game and I was like, Bobby Thomas,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: when he'd got, he beat the defensive contribution threshold 31
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: minutes into the game and I was like, oh, this
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: is going to be a problem. He got 22 defensive contributions,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: which is the most in any game so far this season.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: At one point, I thought he's going to get this
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: and a clean sheet and it's going to be a
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: monster double-digit haul and he's going to be on my
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: third bench slot again. I'm so impressed by him. Every
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: time I watch him, I just think he's really, really good.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: And at four million, he's so cheap. And all right,
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: you might not want to play him every week, but
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: that doesn't matter at four million. He can easily be
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: on your bench. But the week that you play your
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: bench boost, having someone like Bobby Thomas there could actually
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: be a really, really good thing.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, on to Newcastle. I mean, it was very, very
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: disappointing as someone Fortunately, they only had one player, Lewis Hall,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: with a grand total of zero. It just feels like, Jules,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: at the moment, they've got a new manager. They're a
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: bit inconsistent. Some weeks, you're going to get really good results,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and some weeks, you're going to have results like that,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: and you just need to take the rough with the smooth.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: But what does that mean for us in FPL?
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. I mean, I've got Wissar, Paris Bonham-Bred, which
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: is probably one of the main reasons why I brought
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: him in. But I thought he would do well, but
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: the inconsistency that you mentioned, Kelly, is It's just killing
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: me because they haven't won two games in a row
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: in the league because of that. They're so up and down.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: They can play great, really outstanding transition football at times.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: And then other games, it's just the chaos. They're all
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: over the place, considering four goals against Coventry. And again,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: you know, this Coventry team that didn't start the season
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: that well, our promoted side, even at home, you would
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: expect so much more from Newcastle, who are maybe a
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: little bit unlucky. There's decisions against them, like the penalty. They...
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: They've had chances. Fernandes-Pardo should have scored probably one at least.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: But you just can't trust them. That's the thing. And
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: if you can't trust them, we don't need their players
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: in our team because it's going to be at least one,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: more often than not, it's going to be more heartbreak
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: than anything owning them. So I think we'll have to
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: go at some point, unfortunately.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, Spurs. I still don't think we can invest, can we?
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: But it's just one to watch. Van Hek looks like
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: maybe a defender.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: I'm enjoying it in Van Heck. Yeah. If you count
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: the defensive contribution points, then he's had eight, eight, six,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: and then obviously three this time around. Look, they're playing
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: really well. It's so infuriating because every week I watch them,
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, this is good. The transitions are good.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: The pockets of play are good. Everything is good. And
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: apart from the finishing and the final product, but they
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: all commented on it after the game. And I hope
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: now that there's been a goal and Solanke scored and
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: maybe it, Eventually, I think we could go there. The
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: home fixtures are really good and they're out of the
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: League Cup. So when it comes to the next few weeks,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: when everyone else has got loads of matches, Burs have
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: just got their Premier League games. So that should be
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: good motivation to invest because it's a decent run of
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: fixtures where we should score goals. But outside of Van Hek,
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know exactly where I'd go. I do think
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Kudus might be interesting. There's quite a big bandwagon for
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Savio this week, which... The underlying numbers are there for it, definitely,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: but we'd have to see some finishing product. And then obviously, Solange.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: I would punt on this week. If I was on
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: a free hit, I would take a punt on Solanke.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: But my issue is that I like Dominic Calvert-Lewin's fixtures
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: and I prefer the way that Leeds are playing right now.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: So I'm not going to sell him. And obviously you
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: can't sell Haaland or Jal Pedro. So there's no space
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: for Solanke in my team. But he could be interesting
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: if you do find yourself needing a new forward.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, Bruno Fernandes. I think we've kind of already addressed
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: this rather large, expensive elephant in the room. He's a
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: sell now, isn't he? Well, both of you are in agreement,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I think, aren't you?
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, on a discount even.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Well, he did go down for you.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I think the easiest one
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: is to do Bruno for Saka, which needs a bit
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: of work for my team, as I explained before. But
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: if you don't need any work at all, or if
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: you have two free transfers, or if you're happy to
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: take a minus four, then do it now. You've just
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: lost patience with Bruno and United, lost faith as well.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: He played on the right-hand side against Atletico in the
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Champions League, like I said before. Not that he played badly.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: He had a big chance at the end, like a
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: lob that he should have done better. But yeah, I
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: just don't think. And where Alan Rowe that leads against
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Leeds on Sunday is going to be a hell of
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: a fixture. And again, I think United can't be trusted
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: right now either. Okay.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: So you're both going to try and get to Saka,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: whether Jules can manage it. is another thing. Someone else
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: that's causing headaches, I mean, I'm just going to hold
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Sharda this week because he can go on my bench
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: and I can sort it out next week and I'll
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: have four free transfers. But there'll be a lot of people, Sam,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: that will need to move him on. And there's quite
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: a few options at that price point.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's loads of decent options in midfield. And yeah,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: I I just think that he's one of those where
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: if you can do what you're doing and stick him
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: on the bench for a week because you have the
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: bench to cover it, then great. But there will be
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: a lot of managers that wildcarded last week that were
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: looking to bench boost this week. And if that's the case,
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: then you'll have to deal with Sharda and find a
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: replacement for him. So I think depending upon what your
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: strategy is over the coming weeks, obviously, if there's a
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: bench boost coming, then just sell him. But if you
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: can bench him, then you're probably okay to do that
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: for this week.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I will be bench boosting. I still haven't fully.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I actually, before he got injured, going into the game week,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I was like, why did I bring in Leif Davis?
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: I should have gone for a player with a slightly
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: better fixture because my team, I would have been vaguely,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: particularly if I'd gone, at one point I had Barnes
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: on my, instead of Sharda, and Hremovic. And I was like, oh,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: if I hadn't done Leif Davis, I would have been
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: perfect bench boost territory this week. But then when Sharda
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: got injured, it actually made me go, okay, I'm glad
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I didn't, definitely set that bench boost because it would
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: have thrown it up a bit but I will be
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: bench boosting so I will need to sell Sharder in
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: the coming weeks I just won't do it this week
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: because then I'll end up with a benching dilemma okay
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: then Jules actually quickly who would you bring in for
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Sharder if you had.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Him I bring my differential that I will tell you later.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Keep listening guys Fulham where do we stand on them
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: they were a headache for me going into the deadline
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: but I think we just need to remember the fixtures
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: can be great but you need some form too Jules.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I brought Josh King. Like I said, I would.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: He was my differential and he didn't do too badly,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: to be fair. And again, the XG was decent. He
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: was better than the opposition. It's just there's clearly something
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: missing there in what RB Loa is trying to do.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: At times, they play some nice football. They're quite good towards.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: I think they must probably enjoy playing that kind of football,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: but it's just not enough. And Josh King can create
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: two big chances like he did at the weekend. There's
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: no return. There's no return for them in the league
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: and I think Arbeloa is under pressure and they're under
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: pressure to get results. And it's not written for us
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: as well in FPL. So whether you have Gonzalo Garcia
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: or Josh King or those kind of guys, it's not
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: looking good, I won't lie. But let's give them the
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: next two games. Yeah, wait. Yeah, they play again, Hull
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: and Coventry. So the other two promoted teams, we had
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: this great schedule for them with the three promoted sides
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: back to back, all of them. So let's give them that.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: But it's not looking good.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Sam Liverpool, what are you doing with Dominic Sabozlai?
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: I was so cross about Dominic Sabozlai because I was like,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: I've held you and I spent last week talking about
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: how I thought he might come good and all of
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: that stuff. And then actually in the end, he ended
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: up being a bit of a disappointment. And of course,
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: Miss Champions League as well in midweek. I have got
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: two free transfers, so I definitely want to do Bruno Tosaka.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: If I could do Sabozlai Tosaka, I probably would do
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: that instead because obviously it deals with the flags player
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: rather than the other one. Um, I might just, to
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: be honest, deal with, um, Bruno because the way that
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: my team is structured, I obviously want to play Dominic
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Calvert-Lewin against Manchester United this week. So putting Sabozla on
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: the bench for a week isn't terrible. So I will
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: probably just hold him and stick him on the bench
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: and see how long he's going to be out for
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: before making a judgment call. Because actually he's just made
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: my benching headaches all the easier because I definitely don't
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: want to bench gross like Jules did this week because
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: it's constant pain if you do.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Could we be looking at Liverpool's defence at all, Jules?
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Because actually it looked, and even until they went down
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: to 10 men, it looked relatively solid.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they did. And I think Xhaka has been outstanding.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Virgil gives you the attacking threat that Xhaka doesn't have
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: just yet. So if you were to go for one,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: it probably would be Virgil. But then we look at
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: their game in Europe against Lask and they conceded three
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: goals behind. probably because they took the eye of the
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: ball and they had won the game already and things
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: like that. So it might still be a little bit fragile,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I would say. And they go to Brentford on Saturday, obviously,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: which again, they will be under pressure, it will be
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: quite intense. So I'm not sure I would, compared to
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: all the other options that we have, including the likes
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: of Marjanovic and the Arsenal boys and Viscovic and people
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: like that, I would still probably not prioritize the Liverpool
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: defender ahead of them.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's move on because there's loads of things we
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: could have spoken about today. But I think we also
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: need to mention rotation. Often this doesn't become a thing
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: until Christmas time. But I think a lot of managers
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: are playing chips in the coming week. And there are
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: so many clubs in Europe. There's the EFL Cup at
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: the end of this month as well. I do think
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: it's a consideration when, like even Brighton are a good
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: example of it, Sam, when we're talking about them in
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: terms of fixture congestion. Which teams are worrying you the most, Sam?
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: So some of the teams who've got lots of fixtures,
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: you can kind of go, well, they're used to it.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: They've played like this for years and years, and they're
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: used to having a two- or three-day turnaround between matches,
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: so it's okay. The likes of Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City,
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: you would expect them to be able to cope with it.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: But there are other teams that are relatively new to
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: it or have smaller squads, the likes of Bournemouth and
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: Sunderland and Brighton, who you might go, well, can they realistically...
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: play on all of in all of these competitions can
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: they maintain a squad that allows them to play through
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: it so it goes back to what Jules was saying
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: right at the beginning of this about Brighton that that
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: they have got a lot of fixtures they have got
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: a lot of short turnarounds a couple of game a
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: couple of days then another match a couple of days
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: then another match three days and then another match and
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: when you're playing like that consistently over the course of
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: a month and then we head into another international break
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: in the in the early part of November I that's
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: a bit of a concern.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I think the Leeds and why I
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: went with Dominic Calvert-Lewin in the end, actually, because I had,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, take Garcia out of it, but when you
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: were trying to persuade me about Costulas as well, Jules,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: I was like, well, Brighton have got a lot of
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: fixtures come up. The teams that are out of the
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: League Cup and only have Premier League matches because they're
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: not in Europe are teams like Hull, Ipswich, Coventry, Spurs, Forest, Leeds.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: And Leeds are the standout from those, which I think
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: just enhances their appeal. But then They're like the most
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: appealing in terms of lease fixtures. Then you go to
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: the teams kind of in the middle, if you like,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: and you've got Chelsea, Brentford, Everton, Newcastle, Fulham, who don't
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: have Europe, but will just have that additional fixture at
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: the end of the month. I know it has to
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: be about form as well, Jules. I'm not telling you
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: you ignore Arsenal, Man City, etc. But it does have
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: to come into your thinking, doesn't it? Outside of almost
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: your key big players, when you're doing your other sprinkling
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: of players, just think about those fixtures.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's very true. Although the Prem will always
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: be the priority anyway. So I think it's more likely
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: when you think about a Bournemouth, a Sunderland, a Brighton.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: And when you look at the fixtures this week, they
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: play against really small European teams, you know, Torrense, Stromgras, Zalgiris.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Teams that Brighton with a B team would win that,
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: should win that, especially at home every day. Same probably
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: for the other two. And we saw with Chelsea when
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: they played Leeds in the League Cup, for example, that
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Champions League changed I think 10 out of 11 or
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: maybe even 11 out of 11. So some of the
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: big clubs would have Team A and Team B. Some
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: of the smaller teams that we mentioned probably don't have
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: that much depth in their squad and yet the Premier
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: League would probably still be the priority. So especially against
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: lower opposition in Europe. So I think there's probably some
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: week where you're safer and you don't have to worry
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: too much if you own let's say two Bournemouth players
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: or two or three Brighton players because I'm not sure.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: I don't think Gross, for example, will play on Thursday.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: I would not play him or I would maybe play
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: him just for an hour. But again, Brighton will win
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: without Pascal Gross or the keeper or Vuskovic on Thursday,
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: which obviously against Crystal Palace on Sunday. That's the biggest
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: game of the week. It's not Zalgiris on Thursday night
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: that is the biggest game of the week. So again,
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: just look at the fixtures, look at the form of
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: some of those players and who is injured or not.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: But if there's enough in that squad, you could expect
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: the rotation at times be more in Europe than in
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: the Premier League.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's move on to differential of the week. Jules,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: I kind of want you to go first because I'm
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: most interested in who your differential is. Again, by the way,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: last week you got two points each, but you mentioned
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: your differential earlier, but didn't actually.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Tell us who it was. Yeah, so if you had
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Schadler if I had Schadler like you Kels I would
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: swap him for you Almanzambi Aston Villa who if you
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: haven't watched him yet or if you didn't watch him
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: in the Champions League for example on Wednesday night or
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: even since he came back from injury the injury that
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: he picked up during the World Cup with Switzerland with
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Villa he's been outstanding really outstanding he was wonderful against
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Fenerbahce he He's on back-to-back return in the Premier League
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: against Spurs and Brentford. 13 points, five points. There's goals,
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: there's assists. He's a wonderful young talent that was excellent
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: in the Bundesliga with Freiburg last season. Carried that form
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: at the World Cup with Switzerland and now with Villa.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Perfect complement to Nico Jackson. Perfect replacement in a way
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: for Rodgers too in that kind of second striker, 10th position.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: He can also play wide if you want. If you
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: look at the game against Brentford, 0.54 xG, 0.7 goals involvement,
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: he created three chances, had seven shots, which is the
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: most in the game, had eight touches in the opposition box,
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: which was the most in the game as well against Brentford.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Outstanding performance and the same against Fenerbahce. It would only
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: cost you 5.9 million. And his ownership was 1% when
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: I looked last night and he's 1.2%, I think, already
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: this morning. So a few other people had the same
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: ideas as me, but with so low ownership, I think
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: he's a great differential this week. And Villa are playing
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: on Sunday against somebody, I will tell you now. On Saturday, sorry,
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: they're playing against Newcastle away. So Newcastle concede goals. I
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: think that'd be great for Monzambique.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like his ownership could rise given what
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: he did in midweek, Sam. Who are you going for?
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: I annoyingly quite like that one as well. I actually
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: did think about Nico Jackson this week, but in the
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: end I put my Spurs goggles back on and went
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: for Dom Solanke. So he's going to cost you 5.9 million.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: It's the first Spurs player I've had this season. He's
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: in just 1.1% of teams, so a little bit less
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: than Jules. I think last week we just started to
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: see a glimpse of the Dom Solanke we saw at
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: Bournemouth during the 23-24 season.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: There was just.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Some moments where I was like, that is the Dom
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Solanke that I watched and was really excited when Spurs
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: signed a few years back. He had a team leading
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: four attempts on goal in that game. Of those, three
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: of them were classified as big chances. Eventually, he does
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: score the equaliser right of the game. He's also incredibly creative.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: So when we're looking at the way that the Spurs
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: team creates at the moment with Savio on one side,
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: with Kudus on the other, they will create opportunities for him.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: It's just, can he be clinical? Can he go back
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: to that clinicalness that we saw a fair few seasons
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: ago before the injuries that he's had since he joined Spurs? So, yeah,
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: over the course of the season, he's leading the Spurs
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: team for shots, even though, you know, he's had some
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: rotative minutes. He's also leading for XG. He's second only
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: to Savio for passes received in the box. So he's
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: in the right places, doing the right things, creating some
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: chances as well. We just need him to put on
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: his goal scoring boots on Monday night against Coventry and
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: I'll be a very happy girl. OK, captains, transfers and chips.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: Is it more straightforward this week with the captaincy, Jules?
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Haaland at home to Ipswich, he missed
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: chances against PSG. We said he also scored two goals.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: He's on a good run. City, in a way, will
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: have to put that first half against PSG behind them
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: and you could expect them to be very good against
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: an Ipswich team that started quite well this season, but
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: it's still a hell of a challenge for them to
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: go to the Etihad. So, yeah, Haaland captain seems logical.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: You could triple-caption him some, couldn't you, if you had
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: the chance?
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. Yep.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: It's a good week for it. I think it's a
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: good week. And it's the most popular trip of the
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: week by quite a long way. So yeah, I think
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: if I still had it, I would be really tempted. Obviously,
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: if you're bench boosting this week, you can't or if
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: you're wildcarding, you can't. But if you have the triple captain,
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: it's one of those weeks where we know where we are.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: is slightly muddled with the fact that we've got Champions
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: League again that follows afterwards. So we do see some
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: potential maybe rotation, but I don't think we will around
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: Alan Haaland. I think it's far more likely to be
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: the midfielders at Man City than it is to be him.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I think I would use it if I
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: had it.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: So you're both going to captain Haaland. What are your transfers? Sam,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: I feel like you're more set than Jules.
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  Speaker 3: I'm definitely going to do Bruno Tosaka. I've been watching
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: the price changes all week to make sure I didn't
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: miss one and haven't done yet. So because obviously I
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: wanted to wait until after the Champions League action had
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: concluded just in case. So Bruno Tosaka, definitely. I still
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: have one other free transfer. Whether I do Dom Sbozlai,
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: I nearly said Solanke again, whether I do Dom Sbozlai
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: to somebody else. or whether I just keep my second
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: transfer and leave it. I think I'll probably hold the
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: second transfer simply because I can play the rest of
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: my front seven then without a benching headache.
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  Speaker 1: Jules?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know yet. Like I said, I only have
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: one free transfer. And if I want to do Saka,
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: which I do, then I would have to move Odegaard out.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: I still have the Ouissa issue, my boy, but not
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: returning enough for me. And I would love Manzambi in
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: my team. So there's a lot of things. I might
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: roll the transfer to have two next week to be
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: able to do a bit of that tinkering.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I've done it in a backwards order this week.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: But before we go, I do have to let you
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: know what happened in the FPL pod mini league. We
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: didn't do it at the top of the pod. Alex
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Dawson is at the summit with 81 points last week.
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  Speaker 1: That came courtesy of a Cole Palmer captain. So he
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: didn't make any transfers as well. So he's got three
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: available this week. He actually also had Lewis Hall too.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: So even more impressive. He's 12 points ahead of Nils
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: in second. Nils got 62 points, captaining Bruno. and also
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: had the frustrations of Sharda on Costulas. Ra Gray is third,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: two points behind, but he actually went from 17th to third,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: so that wasn't too bad with 89 points. And a reminder,
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: once again, your code is Q0HV1Q. And a reminder, the
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Fantasy Show is back this Friday. I'll be joined by
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Az and Praz in the studio. And a reminder for you,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: it's an 11am Saturday deadline this weekend, 90 minutes ahead
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: of Everton's match against Chelsea. Have a great game week, guys,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: and we'll be back next week.
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  Speaker 2: Bye.