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S8 Ep8: FPL Pod: Teams to target as FPL returns · FPL Pod

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Speaker 1: One more pod before football returns. Jewels rounds up the
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Speaker 1: international games. We ponder what to do with Bill as
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Speaker 1: nice fixtures but lack of form. And yes, I'm still
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Speaker 1: hovering over that transfer for Jack Greenish. Hi guys, welcome
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Speaker 1: back to the FPL pod. Kelly, Sam and Jewels back
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Speaker 1: with you. And if you're watching on YouTube, let's address
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Speaker 1: the elephant in the room. We're only what four or
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Speaker 1: five weeks into the season. If that, we've already had
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Speaker 1: Sam Bomfield recording from a car today, dundun don over
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Speaker 1: to you, Jewels, explain yourself.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 3: I just thought, because of the true strike, I had
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Speaker 3: to drive in to work today and thought leaving early
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Speaker 3: would be okay to arrive on time.
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Speaker 2: To start to record the show in a proper studio.
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Speaker 2: But it didn't.
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Speaker 3: So I'm literally on the Tesco car park somewhere in
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Speaker 3: kind of central London with the laptop on my lap
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Speaker 3: and the mic in my hands. So but already to go.
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Speaker 3: I've got my nose, I've got my notepad all that.
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Speaker 1: My favorite thing is the fact that just before we recorded,
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Speaker 1: he was like, people are walking past and looking at me,
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Speaker 1: because some at least when you did it. I think
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Speaker 1: you were away from other people, whereas Jews is in
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Speaker 1: a busy shopping a supermarket car park.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, at least I was in the hotel car park
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Speaker 4: where there wasn't really many people around, so it was fine.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, good luck tolls anyway. Anyway, let's move on,
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Speaker 1: let's get Toels out of that car park asap. And
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Speaker 1: it feels like it's quite a big week this game
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Speaker 1: week because despite there being no Premier League football last
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Speaker 1: weekend and this being our second pod kind of previewing
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Speaker 1: the next game week, there are currently five hundred and
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Speaker 1: forty seven thousand wild cards active. That's as of Thursday
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Speaker 1: morning at eight am, so I'm sure by the deadline
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Speaker 1: it is only going to rise. So lots of people
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Speaker 1: probably listening to this needing plenty of help picking their teams.
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Speaker 1: We will do our very best. And before we go
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Speaker 1: any further, Sam, I'm sorry we're not going to hear
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Speaker 1: from you for a bit because I'm just going to
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Speaker 1: let this man take it away with his international ground up.
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Speaker 3: Because loads of things happen. Guys, you're not doing this
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Speaker 3: international breakfaw for prom edic players. I mean a lot
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Speaker 3: of it was really good like Earning Highland scoring five
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Speaker 3: goals against Moldova and two assists. Michel Marino also scoring
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Speaker 3: a hat trick with Spain in a midfield position or
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Speaker 3: in a striking position, but still good to know if
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Speaker 3: you Michael Atta and Asal Fan. We saw Martinodegado also
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Speaker 3: doing well with norwhere playing.
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Speaker 2: One full game and one half of them.
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Speaker 3: Mosala played with Egypt the two games scored in the
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Speaker 3: first one against Ethiopia. Two games for Bruno Fernandez as
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Speaker 3: well nineteen minutes and sixty six minutes than I do
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Speaker 3: Silva scored.
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Speaker 2: We had all the English boys were you must have been.
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Speaker 3: Happy doing quite well, Declan Rice, but Madueke scoring, Gehy
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Speaker 3: scoring concert scoring, Ellio Anderson being a bit of the
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Speaker 3: starle over the two games against Andorra and Serbia. We
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Speaker 3: had the first minutes of Alexander Issac this season, who
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Speaker 3: played eighteen minutes with Sweden against prosovo Or Mama Mush
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Speaker 3: played with Egypt, played well and then got injured at
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Speaker 3: the start of the second game.
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Speaker 2: We had all the South.
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Speaker 3: Americans who did kind of okay, but most importantly for us,
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Speaker 3: the likes of Joe Pedro Estevao Gabriel, Pakeeta or Martinelli
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Speaker 3: will come back Quilight as often from South America and
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Speaker 3: the qualifiers, So a lot of things happen for our
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Speaker 3: promitedy crosuring this national break.
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Speaker 1: And thanks Jules, you can go and you can leave
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Speaker 1: the car part that was brilliant, I think. Firstly, credit
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Speaker 1: to England Jewels. That was almost the most complimentary thing
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Speaker 1: you've said about them, because that they weren't bad. But
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Speaker 1: this is not the podcast to talk about that. Firstly,
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Speaker 1: the South American players, that is what worries me a
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Speaker 1: little bit.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's always a risk, isn't it when we have
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Speaker 4: an international break with the Matrons.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you always feel a little bit risky.
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Speaker 4: I mean I maybe feel a little bit better about
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Speaker 4: it given the injury to Liam de Lapp and the
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Speaker 4: fact that Chelsea are a little bit short anyway up top,
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Speaker 4: so maybe that means he's more likely to just continue playing.
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Speaker 4: Not that an injury to another player should make you
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Speaker 4: feel more comforta about the player that you have, but
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Speaker 4: it weirdly does, doesn't it, because it does feel like
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Speaker 4: he's their best option.
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Speaker 1: In particulars. We don't really know what's happening with col Palmer.
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Speaker 4: At the moment they want to lose too many of
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Speaker 4: their important assets going through so I'm hopeful for him.
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Speaker 4: It kind of makes me a little bit more weary
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Speaker 4: with the captain's armband, I guess because he's definitely one
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Speaker 4: of the captains the options for this week, given the
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Speaker 4: fixture in the form that he's been in, but maybe
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Speaker 4: his minutes over the international break and the travel and
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Speaker 4: everything else just makes it a little bit of a
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Speaker 4: pause for thought there.
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Speaker 1: As for Esach, I mean, it was only eighteen minutes,
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Speaker 1: not even twenty minutes, and lots of people are bringing
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Speaker 1: him in. It feels like we still need to wait
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Speaker 1: another week tools what do you think?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so we need to hear from Slot already.
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Speaker 3: We saw him at the training ground yesterday. He sat
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Speaker 3: at the training ground yesterday for the for the first
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Speaker 3: time really as as a Liverpool player, you know, with
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Speaker 3: his washbag and going ready to go in the gym
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Speaker 3: or you know, do some fitness with what, you know,
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Speaker 3: whatever he really did over those two days because his
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Speaker 3: Thursday Friday and then that's it. The weekend is there
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Speaker 3: and then and Liverpool obviously will play.
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Speaker 2: So it feels a fit a bit early because.
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Speaker 3: We just don't know what his role will be, might
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Speaker 3: not even be in the Liverpool squad for all we know.
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Speaker 3: Had his first gap for France, didn't touch the body,
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Speaker 3: played thirty seconds. Love him, but still is there, you know,
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Speaker 3: forever he's there. This is the first gap. But you
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Speaker 3: would think that from an honest lot point of view,
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Speaker 3: if he's quite rush to have had he's like two
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Speaker 3: days with you are training and then bring him in
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Speaker 3: into the team and just changing everything already. So I
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Speaker 3: don't think he will start anywhere. He might be in
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Speaker 3: the squad, but even if he is in the squad,
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Speaker 3: he might not get any minutes or maybe just a
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Speaker 3: few minutes, and I don't think he's worth taking that
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Speaker 3: risk for now.
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Speaker 1: Anything else you want to point out from the internationals
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Speaker 1: that court your isam. In terms of FPL, there was.
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Speaker 4: A lot of upset Anderson fans because altho they played
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Speaker 4: very well for England. He picked up nineteen defensive contributions
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Speaker 4: in that game, whereas he's only managed eleven in the
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Speaker 4: opening three, like eleven.
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Speaker 1: In each of them. He was brilliant, wasn't he so
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Speaker 1: so good?
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Speaker 4: But I think it does prove a point, doesn't it
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Speaker 4: because over the last three game weeks and Ason owners
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Speaker 4: have been a bit frustrated because he's not picked up
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Speaker 4: the Deaf compoints, missing out by one each time. So
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Speaker 4: to see him then go and rack up nineteen for
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Speaker 4: England in the opening game of the international break was
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Speaker 4: a little maybe a little bit frustrating for his owners,
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Speaker 4: But I think it does prove that, you know, he
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Speaker 4: is like Clee to still do that. I mean, the
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Speaker 4: situation of Forest is kind of interesting as well, though.
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Speaker 4: I guess we need to kind of consider what happens now,
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Speaker 4: new manager, different style of football potentially what does that
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Speaker 4: mean for our defensive assets there. So there is a
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Speaker 4: lot to consider over the international break growth in terms
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Speaker 4: of the players, and also the personnel changes are not
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Speaker 4: in Forest.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you make of the posta Coglu appointment there, Jules,
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Speaker 1: Because a lot of people have been saying it's a
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Speaker 1: very different style, but then a few people have jumped
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Speaker 1: in and said, well he did kind of change his
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Speaker 1: style to help them win the Europa League. Sam, I mean,
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Speaker 1: Sam's smiling will come on to her thoughts on that
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Speaker 1: in a minute as well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's very exciting to have and back
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Speaker 3: for us as well for the league. I think because
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Speaker 3: of the football that he wants his teams to play,
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Speaker 3: and we saw that. I suppose it was very entertaining
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Speaker 3: unless you were supposed fans, obviously, but for me and
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Speaker 3: Forrest's strength and then Nuno and again it's not because
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Speaker 3: they were very good defensively, very well organized that they
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Speaker 3: can't play in a different way toward the lacks of
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Speaker 3: million Kovich and Morio and Civily especially, But it's still
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Speaker 3: very different to what Enge will do or wants to
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Speaker 3: do usually. I don't believe he can change his style
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Speaker 3: so drastically that it will go kind of no nowhere
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Speaker 3: instead of the Engeway, because he said it enough, there's
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Speaker 3: just one way for him to play. So I think
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Speaker 3: it will be a bit of a mini revolution a Forest,
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Speaker 3: which could be good or not so good for us.
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Speaker 3: Maybe better for attacking assets than for differensive assets. If
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Speaker 3: you have defenders from Forest in your squad. I think
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Speaker 3: it's probably better if you have attacking or if you
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Speaker 3: want to bring attacking Forest players in your team.
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Speaker 2: But then it'd be quite be quite interesting.
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Speaker 3: And I'm just they start with the game away at
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Speaker 3: the MRS against that on which is obviously not easy
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Speaker 3: one on Saturday lunchtime, but it should be quite interesting
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Speaker 3: to see what it would be capable to do with
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Speaker 3: that squad, different squad to the one he had a
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Speaker 3: spers for sure, and some you brought.
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Speaker 1: Him more and Gibs why, as Jo said, then this
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Speaker 1: could be good for your attacking options. Maybe not this weekend,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, he must be pleased all of a sudden. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean I traveled up. I was trying to do
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Speaker 1: some positivity in your team. Hasn't been too many beacons
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Speaker 1: of light this season.
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Speaker 4: I'm traveled up on Forest, so at Gibbs White, I'm
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Speaker 4: actually quite cool with. Yeah, I'm planning to bench in
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Speaker 4: this week, but then for the games that follow actually
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Speaker 4: after the Arsenal game, it's really nice fixtures for for Forest,
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Speaker 4: So yeah, Gibbs White feels like a hold for sure.
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Speaker 4: I'll just leave them on the bench for this week.
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Speaker 4: The double up of Marilla and Sales, though I'm not
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Speaker 4: hugely excited by that. I think you know, I wasn't
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Speaker 4: excited by that anyway for the Arsenal game. But I
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Speaker 4: think moving forward, given and his style of play usually,
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Speaker 4: I think we might see a bit of a difference,
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Speaker 4: and you know, we saw over the international break that
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Speaker 4: Malenkovich isn't exactly brilliant at playing against a high line
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Speaker 4: as we saw for England, so it'll be really interesting to.
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Speaker 1: See how how it goes.
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Speaker 4: I think my plan this week is probably to lose
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Speaker 4: a forest asset though because I'm not I'm not convinced
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Speaker 4: that defensively they're going to be the right the right
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Speaker 4: way to go, particularly as they've been frustrating anyway defensively
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Speaker 4: opening over the opening three weeks, so Marillo probably go
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Speaker 4: for me, and then I'll definitely be keeping Gibbs white
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Speaker 4: though for the fixtures that we have move forwards.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well, moving on. It does feel like we've kind
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Speaker 1: of been eased into the Premier League season in the
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Speaker 1: opening weeks because of course there's been the EFL Cup
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Speaker 1: for some teams, but that's been it. We've been able
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Speaker 1: to just watch our teams in Premier League actually and
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Speaker 1: not have to worry about anything else. Well, this is
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Speaker 1: where the fun begins because between now and the next
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Speaker 1: international break, which is in i think it's the second
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Speaker 1: weekend in October, teams will have seven matches to play,
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Speaker 1: so there are four rounds of Premier League matches, two
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Speaker 1: Champions League and Europa League matches, Conference League matches and
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Speaker 1: a round of League Cup matches as well. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's about to get trickier, isn't it. That doesn't mean
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Speaker 1: that Arsenal Villa, Chelsea, Liverpool City, Newcastle, Forest and Spurs YEP,
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Speaker 1: for the joy of so many teams getting into Europe,
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Speaker 1: will all have seven matches between now and the last
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Speaker 1: week in September, and of course not forgetting Crystal Palace,
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Speaker 1: they also have six. In contrast, Bournemouth, Leeds, Manchester United,
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Speaker 1: Sundland and West Ham all play the least amount of
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Speaker 1: matches with just four Premier League fixtures. That's because they're
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Speaker 1: out of the League Cup and they aren't in Europe too.
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Speaker 1: Sam does some brilliant mass in preparation for this pod.
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Speaker 1: But it is really I mean, you just counted games,
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Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, it's really something that
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Speaker 1: we can look at and go, oh, yeah, they look
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Speaker 1: like they're busier, but actually when you put it down
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Speaker 1: on paper, Sam, it's a big difference. Sometimes we're almost
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Speaker 1: playing double the amount of games. Yeah, it's massive, isn't it,
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Speaker 1: Because if you think about it. For those teams that
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Speaker 1: you just mentioned, lots the lights of Manchester United, they're
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Speaker 1: just going to play their Saturday slash Sunday game every
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Speaker 1: week and they're going to have a whole week of
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Speaker 1: training leading into it. For the other teams around them,
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Speaker 1: they've potentially got to play on a Tuesday, Wednesday or
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Speaker 1: a Thursday, and then they've got to play again at
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Speaker 1: the weekend, and then they've got to do that the
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Speaker 1: week after and the week after and the week after.
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Speaker 1: So actually it does make a big difference, and I think,
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Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you look at it and you go, wow,
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Speaker 1: some of the squads are smaller. Maybe we see less rotation,
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Speaker 1: So maybe that's good for us, because you know, less rotation,
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Speaker 1: more starts, more minutes. Maybe it's good. But then you
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Speaker 1: actually think, well, in some ways it can be a
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Speaker 1: bad thing because it means that they get tired, quicker,
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Speaker 1: less likely to have the energy that they maybe need
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Speaker 1: in those matches. So it is definitely something that you
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Speaker 1: need to consider over the next few weeks is that
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Speaker 1: this September month is incredibly busy and the players are
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Speaker 1: going to have a lot of minutes in their legs.
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Speaker 1: So something to just be mindful of that maybe we
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Speaker 1: might get some rotation, but also maybe we might get
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Speaker 1: some tired legs out of our players and therefore not
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Speaker 1: hit the peak returns in FL that we would hope
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Speaker 1: for anything. You want to add on that, Joel Mson,
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Speaker 1: you just agree, yeah, completely, and also pray for me
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Speaker 1: and some listeners during this because it means that Jewels
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Speaker 1: is going to be way busy with Champions Leagues the
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Speaker 1: time might want to train next time.
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Speaker 2: I just don't know exactly, but I agree with everything.
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Speaker 3: So some said obviously, I think it's inevitable that there would
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Speaker 3: be rotation for sure, and that might be just in
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Speaker 3: the EFL Cup for example, for some of those clubs
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Speaker 3: that you mentioned kids or more than that, because let's
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Speaker 3: not forget as well, that is still very early in
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Speaker 3: the season and you've just finished your kind of preparation
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Speaker 3: fitness wise for some players, and you can't have them
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Speaker 3: playing I think seven games in twenty four days more
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Speaker 3: or less for those kind of teams that that we mentioned,
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Speaker 3: So you can't take that risk. It's too early in
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Speaker 3: the season, the players are not ready to play that
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Speaker 3: much anyway. Maybe a bit later on it would be different,
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Speaker 3: but for now, It's just like in terms of the
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Speaker 3: minutes that your players are supposed to be playing right now,
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Speaker 3: in all that data and planning that all the teams
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Speaker 3: are doing, especially those top top teams, I don't think
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Speaker 3: it's possible that their players are playing all seven games full.
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Speaker 2: Nineteen minutes are close, So just expect the rotation.
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Speaker 3: It's okay if sometimes somebody is going to might not
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Speaker 3: start and came on later. Doesn't mean that you need
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Speaker 3: to get rid of all the players you've got for
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Speaker 3: all those teams that we mentioned with seven games in
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Speaker 3: twenty four days, but I think it's inevitable that some
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Speaker 3: players will get less game time.
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Speaker 1: It does make Picks and the like support math your
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Speaker 1: Antoine se Menus players like that, even like Jack really
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Speaker 1: shit Everton. They're two of the most transferred in players
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Speaker 1: this week, and you can see why. They've got the
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Speaker 1: form and they've got the fixtures, but not too many fixtures.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, you can see why people are maybe now
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Speaker 1: looking outside of the suppose a big six and those
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Speaker 1: teams in Europe. Let's take a look at the players
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Speaker 1: that we should be looking at. I'm sure Grinis and
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Speaker 1: to Meno are going to be two of those mentioned.
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Speaker 1: So we're going to specifically focus in on game weeks
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Speaker 1: four and seven, and as we always do on this podcast,
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Speaker 1: we're going to use the fixture difficulty rating to kind
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Speaker 1: of work out who has the best fixtures to help
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Speaker 1: us guide those picks. And at the top of the
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Speaker 1: fixture difficulty rating it's Aston, Villa, Tottenham, Leeds Formuth, then
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Speaker 1: it kind of goes down to Liverpool, Crystal Palace, Fulham
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Speaker 1: and then we're actually getting down into the teams with
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Speaker 1: tricky fixtures. Villa though at the top, I mean it's
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Speaker 1: hard to I'm doubled up on Villa at the moment.
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Speaker 1: It's hard to encourage any investment, isn't it, Jeles until
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Speaker 1: we see a little bit more from them.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been a very poor start of the season
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Speaker 3: from them. The defeat last weekend or sorry, the weekend
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Speaker 3: before the international break, I think was very difficult and
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Speaker 3: certainly not expected in that, you know, in that way,
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Speaker 3: So it was a bad one for all the hopes
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Speaker 3: we had for a concile Watkins Rogers at the start
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Speaker 3: of the season, and rightly so, because they obviously have
13:55
Speaker 3: been very good for the last two years.
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Speaker 2: Those players have been very good.
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Speaker 3: We saw Morgan Rogers with the loveliest says for Madueka
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Speaker 3: for example, in the game against the England game against Serbia,
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Speaker 3: so that they are still very good players.
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Speaker 2: It's just not happening for them with Villa so far
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Speaker 2: this season.
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Speaker 3: And I think this is a big, big weekend for
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Speaker 3: Unamor and for Aston Villa to just just forget what
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Speaker 3: happens in the first three game weeks and start and
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Speaker 3: your season starts now basically. But they need they need
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Speaker 3: a resort and I think, yeah, I think is very
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Speaker 3: important for them to bounce back this weekend.
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Speaker 1: I'm struggling Zam because I want to unsurprisingly bring in
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Speaker 1: the two players that I've mentioned. I should have done
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Speaker 1: it before now because of price rises, but I was
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Speaker 1: just a bit worried about other injuries in my team,
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Speaker 1: as I always am over the international break. So I'm
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Speaker 1: probably going to sell Morgan Rodgers for one of those players.
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Speaker 1: I thought you played well for England. Oli Watkins, though,
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Speaker 1: is a problem. I just don't. I don't know whether,
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Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people will be thinking
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Speaker 1: about this. I would like I think I'm going to
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Speaker 1: want to Alexander Esach. I just don't want him for
14:52
Speaker 1: this week until I've seen a little bit more from him,
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Speaker 1: So I'm kind of holding that transfer there. But that's
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Speaker 1: the only reason Oli Watkins is staying in my team ultimately,
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Speaker 1: because I'm holding that spot. And I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of people are going to be in the same boat.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, early the b sac or your careers, when the
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Speaker 4: arsenal fact is changed, that a lot of people are
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Speaker 4: looking at for that Watkins spot.
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Speaker 1: So I don't want to waste the transfer away from Watkins,
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Speaker 1: but I do want to sell Watkins the players I
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Speaker 1: want the midfielders basically, and I think that is I'm
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Speaker 1: kind of summing up how a lot of FPR managers
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Speaker 1: are feeling.
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Speaker 4: Are really totally agree and then you look at the
15:22
Speaker 4: fixtures and you go, okay, well it's Everton and Sunderland
15:24
Speaker 4: up next before Fulham and Burnley. Like I don't feel
15:28
Speaker 4: like the fixtures that you should be selling a player
15:30
Speaker 4: ahead of, like they're nice fixtures, particularly, as you say,
15:33
Speaker 4: if you're earmarking that position for somebody else two or
15:35
Speaker 4: three weeks down the line anyway, because then you're just
15:38
Speaker 4: making a transfer to then transfer that player out again,
15:41
Speaker 4: which doesn't make a lot of sense and the forward line.
15:44
Speaker 4: I mean reality is that at the moment the player
15:46
Speaker 4: that you don't have in the forward line that you
15:47
Speaker 4: probably want is Harlan and you can't get there because
15:50
Speaker 4: it's too difficult financially to get from Watkins up. You've
15:53
Speaker 4: still got to find a significant investment. So I think
15:57
Speaker 4: most people will end up keeping Oli Watkins because they'll
15:59
Speaker 4: look at these fictures and go, well, things might improve.
16:01
Speaker 4: And I do think the signing of Harvey Elliott will
16:03
Speaker 4: help Olie Watkins.
16:04
Speaker 1: I think you know he will.
16:07
Speaker 4: His creativity I think will make a big difference. We
16:09
Speaker 4: saw how important he can be in the Euros for
16:12
Speaker 4: the under twenty ones in the summer he was absolutely phenomenal,
16:15
Speaker 4: won the Player of the tournament in that one. And
16:18
Speaker 4: actually last season for Liverpool he didn't play many minutes.
16:21
Speaker 4: I think he got three hundred and seventy in total
16:23
Speaker 4: over the season, but he created a chance every thirty
16:25
Speaker 4: seven minutes that he was on the pitch, So good
16:28
Speaker 4: creativity skills there.
16:29
Speaker 1: So maybe we will be.
16:31
Speaker 4: Less reliant on it just always being about Morgan Rodgers
16:34
Speaker 4: and Oli Watkins. So maybe Harvey Elliott helps Watkins. I
16:37
Speaker 4: think for me, with the fixtures that we have, I'm
16:40
Speaker 4: just going to hold him for now because it doesn't
16:42
Speaker 4: really make a lot of sense for me to go
16:44
Speaker 4: early on on your careers given the fixtures that they
16:47
Speaker 4: have in the next couple of weeks after this week.
16:49
Speaker 4: So I'm going to hold for now. But once he
16:51
Speaker 4: sack pulls on a Liverpool shirt and starts a game,
16:55
Speaker 4: it's going to be very hard to stick with Watkins
16:58
Speaker 4: if he's still not scoring goals.
17:00
Speaker 1: Do you agree though, Sam, that, like someone like myself
17:02
Speaker 1: where they've got the double up selling Morgan, it's annoying
17:05
Speaker 1: because actually a longer term, I think I'd want Morgan
17:07
Speaker 1: Rodgers more than Ollie Watkins. I think just because of
17:09
Speaker 1: the price point. But I just don't know how long
17:11
Speaker 1: I can wait for those returns. I feel like I've
17:13
Speaker 1: already waited long enough.
17:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, I get it, And I think the other thing
17:16
Speaker 4: to say, Kel is that if you sell Morgan Rodgers
17:19
Speaker 4: this week and you bring in the likes of Semenno
17:21
Speaker 4: or Grealish or whoever it is, you're probably going to
17:25
Speaker 4: wild card in the next two, three four weeks anyway.
17:29
Speaker 1: So probably the next international break.
17:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, So if we see Okay, so if it's the
17:33
Speaker 4: next international break, maybe you get four the week before. Yeah,
17:36
Speaker 4: So if you get to that point, then the reality
17:39
Speaker 4: is that you can go back like It's not like
17:41
Speaker 4: selling Morgan Rodgers means that you can never own him
17:43
Speaker 4: again for the rest of the season. Like you can
17:46
Speaker 4: go back there at that point if it looks like
17:48
Speaker 4: it's a mistake or it might be actually that there's
17:51
Speaker 4: a different way that you want to go about changing
17:53
Speaker 4: the midfield at that point, because right now Morgan Rodgers
17:56
Speaker 4: isn't looking like a great pick. But maybe in a
17:59
Speaker 4: couple of weeks another one of your midfielders that you
18:01
Speaker 4: can use to get him back in. So I can
18:04
Speaker 4: totally understand it. I wouldn't want to be carrying the
18:06
Speaker 4: double up despite the fixtures because of the way that
18:08
Speaker 4: they've been playing.
18:09
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. I love using this podcast for the
18:11
Speaker 1: benefit of my own transfers. But I don't think I'm
18:14
Speaker 1: the only person. As I said that there's kind of
18:16
Speaker 1: been in those books because we all thought that Villa
18:18
Speaker 1: were going to We're going to start well and they
18:20
Speaker 1: were really nicely priced assets. Spurs. Then we will come
18:23
Speaker 1: on to Sam on this of course, but let's go
18:25
Speaker 1: for the unbiased opinion. First, their fixtures are west Ham
18:29
Speaker 1: and Brighton at home, followed by Wolves away and Leeds.
18:32
Speaker 1: And now I've got that the wrong way around. You're
18:33
Speaker 1: west Ham away, Brighton away, Wolves at home and then
18:36
Speaker 1: Leads away. They're lovely fixtures, aren't they. Jels. I mean,
18:39
Speaker 1: I know they're away from home, but they're not bad.
18:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you're right, they're not bad. But you
18:44
Speaker 2: said three away and one at home.
18:46
Speaker 3: Spurs capable of obviously being very good away a city
18:50
Speaker 3: and not and then being very terrible at home to
18:52
Speaker 3: warm with.
18:52
Speaker 2: For example, I'm watching this on YouTube.
18:54
Speaker 1: If you're not watching this on YouTube. By the way,
18:56
Speaker 1: I just got to tell our listeners that listen to
18:57
Speaker 1: this podcast. Sam Like put her down to look at
18:59
Speaker 1: some notes, and then as she was started talking about Spurs,
19:01
Speaker 1: she looked up as if she sang, here we go.
19:04
Speaker 1: WHI have we gone to the Arsenal fans? You said,
19:08
Speaker 1: non biased opinion, let's go to the Arsenal fan always
19:15
Speaker 1: very interrupted, but.
19:17
Speaker 2: It's the truth.
19:17
Speaker 3: They were terrible against Boemore, they were very good aware
19:20
Speaker 3: of city.
19:21
Speaker 2: Uh, this is what it might be.
19:23
Speaker 3: I think west Ham aware is not a difficult fixture
19:25
Speaker 3: for for for Spurs and for Thomas Frank, even if
19:29
Speaker 3: west Ham obviously had that reaction aware of Forest just
19:31
Speaker 3: before the international break, but it's still it's still the
19:34
Speaker 3: west Ham team that has been struggling since the start
19:36
Speaker 3: of the of the season with grand Potter is still
19:38
Speaker 3: very much in some sort of pressure, under some sort
19:41
Speaker 3: of pressure.
19:41
Speaker 2: So the only thing with Spurs is that I'm not
19:45
Speaker 2: really sure what to look to look for.
19:49
Speaker 3: Really, you can go and try to go for a
19:50
Speaker 3: new signing like column money for example, but again a
19:53
Speaker 3: bit like for each we just don't know what the
19:55
Speaker 3: plans for him. From Thomas Frank's point of view, kudos.
19:58
Speaker 3: I think it was a good idea at the start
19:59
Speaker 3: of the season and some dribbling looks good, but there's
20:03
Speaker 3: just no end product there. You know clearly that I
20:05
Speaker 3: don't think he's had a short on target so far
20:07
Speaker 3: decision and we played three from matches already, so I'm
20:10
Speaker 3: not I'm really not sure.
20:11
Speaker 2: For example, that's true, it's true. I mean there's a
20:15
Speaker 2: couple of nine.
20:16
Speaker 1: Now I shouldn't have put him.
20:18
Speaker 3: No, no, no, but Sam still hasn't because it's because
20:21
Speaker 3: he wears the right shirts, and that's the only reason,
20:23
Speaker 3: to be honest, I.
20:25
Speaker 1: Don't even have that reason. I just bought him in
20:26
Speaker 1: because I and then I sat so terrible they were.
20:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Brandon Johnson, you know, with Charlie's son so
20:34
Speaker 2: long key.
20:34
Speaker 3: There's injuries as well, so I think Spurs it's quite
20:37
Speaker 3: difficult from an attacking point of Defensively, of course you
20:40
Speaker 3: can go for Petro Poro Jet spends. By the way,
20:42
Speaker 3: congratulations to you for your first ingram cab that's a
20:44
Speaker 3: hell of achievement and that was very good. And Vicario
20:47
Speaker 3: is doing really well in Gold one of the highest goal.
20:49
Speaker 2: Keeper in the games.
20:50
Speaker 3: So there's there's options defensively attacking wise, even with the
20:53
Speaker 3: good schedule, I'm not sure.
20:55
Speaker 1: I actually don't like agreeing Withally anyone, but do agree
20:58
Speaker 1: with him Sam in terms of tough to pick from
21:00
Speaker 1: the attackers. I don't know why I have vicked Mohammad
21:02
Speaker 1: Kudis well, I do, but it was a silly decision.
21:06
Speaker 1: But defensively that like having Poro so far this season
21:09
Speaker 1: has been brilliant and vander Veno owners have also been brilliant.
21:11
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people doubled up on that Spurs
21:13
Speaker 1: defense and looking at those fixtures for the next few
21:16
Speaker 1: imagine that's not going to change. I mean no, I
21:19
Speaker 1: think if.
21:19
Speaker 4: You've got the double up, I don't think i'd feel
21:21
Speaker 4: comfye having a Spurs defensive double up.
21:23
Speaker 1: But then that's just me, like we always have it
21:25
Speaker 1: in us. Me neither neither, but I know people that
21:27
Speaker 1: do well.
21:28
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we have only conceded one goal so far
21:30
Speaker 4: this season, so actually defensively we have been solid. So
21:34
Speaker 4: but I mean I sort of agree with what George
21:36
Speaker 4: was saying, like the attack, the attack is difficult right
21:39
Speaker 4: now to invest in.
21:41
Speaker 1: I've got Cudis.
21:41
Speaker 4: There's absolutely no whey I'm going to sell him ahead
21:43
Speaker 4: of these fixtures though, because there's potential. I mean, look,
21:46
Speaker 4: the game this week is against his old club, so
21:48
Speaker 4: there's that element to it as well. He surely wants
21:51
Speaker 4: to get something in that one. So I'm definitely olden
21:53
Speaker 4: him for the west Ham game moving forward after that,
21:55
Speaker 4: Like Brighton's more difficult for sure that that's always a
21:58
Speaker 4: bit more of a challenging fixture and maybe there's a
22:01
Speaker 4: look there, but it also gives us a game to
22:04
Speaker 4: see how the new signings fit in. Where does where
22:08
Speaker 4: do we see them come in and how does that
22:09
Speaker 4: impact the way that they're going. Does Brennan hold his
22:12
Speaker 4: place on the left? Do does perhaps still play in
22:14
Speaker 4: the ten? One of those is going to be unlikely
22:17
Speaker 4: to be the case because we're going to have to
22:18
Speaker 4: finish Tvvy Simmons, so that's going to have an impact, right.
22:21
Speaker 4: I think it's just important that my advice with Spurs
22:24
Speaker 4: is hold what you have. I don't think i'd be
22:26
Speaker 4: investing any further for this week. I'd just keep what
22:28
Speaker 4: you've got, play them this week and then use this
22:31
Speaker 4: week as an opportunity to see how Thomas Frank bed's
22:33
Speaker 4: in the new signings, and then moving forwards. The fixers
22:36
Speaker 4: do remain nice for Spurs, but we also have to
22:38
Speaker 4: remember that we're about to start a very you know.
22:42
Speaker 4: I know we've just been talking about it, but once
22:43
Speaker 4: the Champions League kicks off, Thomas Frank hasn't done a
22:46
Speaker 4: European season before last season with Spurs, we did mass
22:49
Speaker 4: rotation around the Europa League, so these players aren't necessarily
22:53
Speaker 4: used to playing weekends and midweek and then again and
22:57
Speaker 4: then again and then again because we were playing very,
23:00
Speaker 4: very different teams in the Europa League to what we
23:02
Speaker 4: were playing in the Premier League last season, so it
23:05
Speaker 4: will be interesting to see how that dynamic plays out.
23:08
Speaker 4: But hold what you have, I think is my advice
23:10
Speaker 4: with Spurs and probably don't invest any further.
23:12
Speaker 1: Just yet, Can we please ban the phrase and again
23:15
Speaker 1: and again and again on this podcast because that just
23:17
Speaker 1: reminds me of those cold Palmer goals and the T
23:19
Speaker 1: shirt you brought me at the end of the season
23:23
Speaker 1: shows through my spine. I forgot about that. I didn't, sadly. Okay,
23:28
Speaker 1: so we've addressed the two teams at the top. Then
23:30
Speaker 1: it's Leeds and Bournemouth. And Bournemouth I mean Leads are
23:33
Speaker 1: tricky because they're newly promoted side, but Bournemouth in particular,
23:36
Speaker 1: I mean I mentioned Semeno. They've got Brighton at home,
23:39
Speaker 1: Newcastle home, leads away Fulham. I'm so three of the
23:42
Speaker 1: next four are at home and Meno is the obvious.
23:46
Speaker 1: Any other interest in Bournmouth. I know a lot of
23:47
Speaker 1: people have been looking at SENESSI Jewels.
23:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, we mentioned I think in last week's show two
23:53
Speaker 3: defensively now that they look great that maybe during the
23:56
Speaker 3: preseason we mentioned that as well in our preview shows
23:59
Speaker 3: and all so at the start of the season, but
24:01
Speaker 3: things have got much better, which we expected because as
24:04
Speaker 3: we said, they sold three quarters of the defense for example,
24:07
Speaker 3: so you have new players Jackie te and Fair for example,
24:11
Speaker 3: to just integrate and for them to adapt to your
24:13
Speaker 3: style and to your game.
24:15
Speaker 2: But then it's just in our lives such.
24:18
Speaker 3: A good manager that you knew that it would not
24:20
Speaker 3: take long until this team was good again like they
24:22
Speaker 3: were last season, and they would be like that. So
24:24
Speaker 3: Semno Tavenue who signed a new deal by the way,
24:26
Speaker 3: which is very good.
24:28
Speaker 2: Good for him.
24:28
Speaker 3: Evanilson, who's okay, not always i think the most consistent
24:33
Speaker 3: in terms of returns, but you know that they're going
24:36
Speaker 3: to create chances for him.
24:37
Speaker 2: You know he's going to be there.
24:39
Speaker 3: The goal that sorry against some but the goal is
24:41
Speaker 3: scored against Spurs was a bit lucky, but at least
24:44
Speaker 3: you know he was there in the right position and
24:47
Speaker 3: then they had more chances too. So yeah, I think
24:49
Speaker 3: I think BOURNMA defensively, offensively, with three home games in
24:52
Speaker 3: the next four, I think it's a it's a no brainer.
24:55
Speaker 1: Anything to add on Bomber, Sam, anyone else you're looking at,
24:58
Speaker 1: or are they just the standouts.
25:00
Speaker 4: I mean, they're the standouts. Just to follow up on CESSI,
25:02
Speaker 4: he's also got four defensive contribution points across the game.
25:04
Speaker 4: He's the most got the most defensive contributions of all
25:07
Speaker 4: the defenders twenty eight, so he's only missed out twice. Yeah,
25:10
Speaker 4: so I think you know you are looking at the
25:11
Speaker 4: potential upside of those as well as the potential for
25:14
Speaker 4: clean sheets over the fixtures that have coming. And of
25:16
Speaker 4: all the defenders in the game, he's the highest scoring
25:18
Speaker 4: apart from Timber, but then Timber is a bit of
25:21
Speaker 4: an anomaly because of the twenty four pointer that you
25:23
Speaker 4: picked up in game week two against Leeds. So if
25:25
Speaker 4: you leave Timber aside, he is the high scoring defender
25:28
Speaker 4: in the game so far, and I think at the
25:30
Speaker 4: price point with the fixtures, he really does look like
25:33
Speaker 4: a fantastic option. And then Semeno top for chances across
25:37
Speaker 4: the midfielders in the game with seven for chances. And
25:40
Speaker 4: then he's also got create five chances for his teammates,
25:43
Speaker 4: so looking good for both assists and goals. So the
25:46
Speaker 4: pair of them looking like really good investments for the
25:49
Speaker 4: next four weeks at least. Okay, let's go to the
25:52
Speaker 4: other end of the tick of them, because Berni are
25:53
Speaker 4: at the bottom, so I know that is stev is
25:55
Speaker 4: looking forward to being my third stob and everyone else
25:57
Speaker 4: is third stub. The next few weeks they've got Liverpool
26:00
Speaker 4: Manchester City across their next floor, so who will be
26:02
Speaker 4: firmly welded at the end of my bench.
26:05
Speaker 1: And then above them is Chelsea, Arsenal and Newcastle. But
26:09
Speaker 1: I think it's really important to point out that they
26:12
Speaker 1: mainly are down there because their form, the sorry they're
26:15
Speaker 1: fixtures are skewed by one match. Newcasts have got Arsenal, Chelsea,
26:18
Speaker 1: They've got Liverpool in that period. Arsenal have also got
26:20
Speaker 1: City and Newcast also a couple of tricky ones in
26:23
Speaker 1: there for Arsenal. But with those teams, are they not
26:25
Speaker 1: fixture proof? But if you've got their big assets and
26:28
Speaker 1: you've paid for them, I presume you're still assuming Sam
26:31
Speaker 1: that they're they're going to still be able to return
26:33
Speaker 1: in them.
26:34
Speaker 2: Yeah.
26:34
Speaker 1: I mean take Arsenal for example.
26:36
Speaker 4: We said in one of the pods leading into the
26:38
Speaker 4: season that the fixtures looked horrendous, but if you look
26:41
Speaker 4: back at the record against those teams, they've actually got
26:44
Speaker 4: really good records against them, so the chances are they
26:47
Speaker 4: were still going to perform well, which is what we've
26:48
Speaker 4: seen over the course of the opening three weeks. We've
26:50
Speaker 4: had good performances, good returns from Arsenal assets. So and
26:54
Speaker 4: it's the same with Joe Pedro right. So on paper,
26:57
Speaker 4: obviously they've got that Liverpool game, which is tough, but
27:00
Speaker 4: you look at the ones around that, the Brighton game,
27:02
Speaker 4: the Brentford game, the Manaster United game, all of those
27:06
Speaker 4: games feel like there's potential returns for Joe Pego in
27:09
Speaker 4: that and if Cole Palmer's fit then of course you
27:11
Speaker 4: could bracket him in with that conversation as well. But
27:15
Speaker 4: I think when it comes to these big teams being
27:17
Speaker 4: at the bottom, it's only if we see a run
27:20
Speaker 4: that's got like three or four absolutely horrendous fixtures and
27:22
Speaker 4: they play all of the Big Six or you know,
27:25
Speaker 4: the ones that are going to be competing for the title,
27:27
Speaker 4: that's different. But if there's just one match in there
27:29
Speaker 4: that's looking red on the ticker, then I tend to
27:32
Speaker 4: kind of disregard a little bit because as long as
27:35
Speaker 4: we've got the form coming out of them heading into
27:36
Speaker 4: the matches then actually probably they're still worthy of investment.
27:40
Speaker 4: It's the teams that are around them that come lower down.
27:43
Speaker 4: Like it's interesting to me that Jack Greenish is getting
27:46
Speaker 4: so much love rightly because of the way that he's
27:48
Speaker 4: been playing, but Everton are really low on the ticker.
27:51
Speaker 4: Partly again that's skewed by the Liverpool game in the
27:54
Speaker 4: Merseyside Derby, but there's also a game in there against Pallace,
27:56
Speaker 4: who have started the season well. Villa and west Had
28:00
Speaker 4: the other two. Who knows what's getting from them.
28:02
Speaker 1: I'm obviously looking at Jack Grealish in case I had
28:05
Speaker 1: mentioned it, and they're three nicer fixtures are at home,
28:09
Speaker 1: aren't they? I think, which plays a big day out
28:10
Speaker 1: with the new stadium and everything. So it's Villa at home,
28:13
Speaker 1: then you've got Liverpool Way, then you've got west Ham
28:16
Speaker 1: and Crystal Palace at home. But I do agree the
28:17
Speaker 1: Palace is the trickiest. But that's also maybe the shows
28:20
Speaker 1: I'm not as much of a planner. That's also the
28:22
Speaker 1: last one of the next floor, so I kind of
28:24
Speaker 1: feel like I've got a few weeks to kind of
28:26
Speaker 1: deal with that or comes to terms of like that's happening,
28:28
Speaker 1: but yeah, I think the fact they're at home. But yeah,
28:30
Speaker 1: that also shows, doesn't it Sam, that they're far down
28:33
Speaker 1: down on the ticker, And yes we should use it,
28:35
Speaker 1: but actually when you look at it in detail, you go, Okay,
28:37
Speaker 1: they're not the easiest fixtures, but Villa haven't had the
28:40
Speaker 1: best start and Palace and that tough fixture against Palaces
28:44
Speaker 1: at home, so yeah, worth worth barwing in mind all
28:46
Speaker 1: of those things. And just a quick quick question fugials,
28:49
Speaker 1: if you've got any Arsenal players at the moment.
28:51
Speaker 3: No, I had because obviously with you know, with the
28:54
Speaker 3: with the injury. Yeah so no, my my boys, no, Wow,
29:00
Speaker 3: but it that's.
29:00
Speaker 1: Understandable and it's not a very pleasant place to be.
29:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not.
29:04
Speaker 3: And the leads game obviously, you know if you had
29:07
Speaker 3: Timber for the lead game or defensively, they've been really
29:10
Speaker 3: good within the first two first two games, Nogo's conceded,
29:14
Speaker 3: David Ry are doing great, all of that, but then
29:17
Speaker 3: the games coming up. Even if we agree with everything
29:21
Speaker 3: Sam just said, it's not because Arsenal player top teams
29:24
Speaker 3: that you should not have arsome players in your squad.
29:26
Speaker 3: I just think it's difficult if you don't already have one,
29:29
Speaker 3: or if if you just have one, to add some
29:31
Speaker 3: more now, just wait a couple of weeks and then
29:34
Speaker 3: after that you can invest heavily in Arsenal players and
29:36
Speaker 3: trouble even.
29:37
Speaker 1: If you want anyone else wants to throw any other
29:39
Speaker 1: names that they're targeting over the next few weeks in.
29:41
Speaker 3: At this point, Jules I thought the the Crystal Palace
29:46
Speaker 3: and the Fulham fixtures look decent as well, from game
29:48
Speaker 3: week to four to game week seven. So and especially
29:51
Speaker 3: a team like Fulham, who obviously is not in Europe.
29:53
Speaker 3: For Palace, it's a little bit difficult because different because
29:57
Speaker 3: as we said, it's the first time in Europe, you
29:58
Speaker 3: would expect glasnow and we saw that already when they
30:01
Speaker 3: had to qualify that he plays strong teams in Europe too,
30:05
Speaker 3: even if it's only the Conference League, there might be
30:08
Speaker 3: a bit of rotation. But they don't have the deepest
30:10
Speaker 3: of squad either, so I think it'd be interesting to
30:13
Speaker 3: see how they cope with the two competitions.
30:16
Speaker 2: But there's yeah, I think there's good fixtures there.
30:19
Speaker 3: So if you want a Mattheti, if you like Muno's,
30:21
Speaker 3: if you like Robinson for example, who's finally coming back
30:24
Speaker 3: to injury and played half an hour the other day.
30:28
Speaker 2: Those I think are good options really.
30:30
Speaker 3: Josh King looked so so good as an eighteen year
30:33
Speaker 3: old that it was a bit unlucky obviously that his
30:34
Speaker 3: goal was ruled against Chelsea, But.
30:37
Speaker 2: I is priced.
30:38
Speaker 3: I think it's if you want there, even if you
30:41
Speaker 3: leave him on your bench. Sometimes with the fixture that
30:43
Speaker 3: Fulham have going forward, just Kin is a very very
30:45
Speaker 3: good pick, I.
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Speaker 1: Think, yeah, And that's a really good point with Palace
30:48
Speaker 1: as well, although we do have to consider their European football.
30:51
Speaker 1: Palace's fixtures of Sunderland at home, west Ham away then
30:54
Speaker 1: a tricky one at Liverpool at home and Everton away,
30:58
Speaker 1: and George mentioned Fulham as well, Leeds and Brent. I'm
31:00
Speaker 1: followed by Villa and Bournemouth away. Sammy you still, I
31:04
Speaker 1: guess also you you brought in Metesa, didn't you for
31:06
Speaker 1: these kind of fixtures? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and happy to have him obviously, schmidas our owners
31:12
Speaker 4: needing to deal with that as well now after his
31:14
Speaker 4: injury potentially over the interntional break, so that that'll be
31:17
Speaker 4: something to consider as well, and the impact.
31:18
Speaker 1: That that might have.
31:19
Speaker 4: Obviously, hear what Glasdan has got to say. But yeah,
31:24
Speaker 4: I think I'm happy to have, very very happy to
31:27
Speaker 4: have Metessa. I think I'm in the in the market
31:30
Speaker 4: for a new a new defender. I don't I don't
31:33
Speaker 4: moonas he's definitely Yeah, So Marillo is going to go
31:38
Speaker 4: for me this week, so it's going to be Muna's
31:40
Speaker 4: maybe CINESI I can't quite decide whether whether I want
31:43
Speaker 4: to go Palace and go for those fixtures, whether I
31:46
Speaker 4: want to go Bournemouth and hit those fixtures. It's quite
31:51
Speaker 4: it's quite difficult to decide between the two of them actually,
31:53
Speaker 4: because they both have nice fixtures. Or do I go
31:57
Speaker 4: early and bring in an Arsenal defender and just cut
32:00
Speaker 4: for out that potential. But feels less exciting given the
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Speaker 4: fixtures that they have coming up over the next couple
32:05
Speaker 4: because all right, it's for us at the weekend and
32:06
Speaker 4: I would expect them to win that game, but after
32:09
Speaker 4: that Manchester City and then well Newcastle has been a
32:12
Speaker 4: bit of a different beast anyway this season. But those
32:14
Speaker 4: two fixtures don't sound great. It's game week seven onwards.
32:17
Speaker 4: I really want Arsenal investments. I'll have three from seven
32:19
Speaker 4: for sure. So I think probably a little punt on
32:22
Speaker 4: a Minos or a Cinesi or somebody like that is
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Speaker 4: how I'm going to go.
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Speaker 1: Okay, then it's time for differential of the week. The
32:29
Speaker 1: less said about last week again the better soundwch for Gibbs.
32:31
Speaker 1: What you've got two points? Jeorles went for Wataro, who
32:33
Speaker 1: got exactly.
32:35
Speaker 2: Allowed. That's an extra point surely because you know, okay.
32:38
Speaker 1: Because of that, because he had a gold is allowed.
32:40
Speaker 1: You can go first this week, Jeels.
32:42
Speaker 2: So I've plenty this week because of I like, I like.
32:51
Speaker 3: H yeah, Remi, Pino Christapas whould be good, even Gavin
32:55
Speaker 3: from Fulham because I think, you know, it's like I
32:58
Speaker 3: think Kevin could be a very good pig going forward.
33:00
Speaker 2: This is a bit early for all this players I
33:02
Speaker 2: mentioned then I had two.
33:04
Speaker 3: I like Stevao, but the prime with the Stevao who's
33:06
Speaker 3: been looking really good for Brazil and for Chelsea lately,
33:09
Speaker 3: is coming back late from South America, as we explained.
33:12
Speaker 2: So instead I went for Iliman and I Everton.
33:15
Speaker 3: I know you love your Jack Grialish and it was
33:16
Speaker 3: his birth the other day, Happy Birther Jags thirty. Yeah,
33:20
Speaker 3: I heit different brother, but Iliman Engia six point five million,
33:25
Speaker 3: just below the ten percent threshold of our differentials returned
33:29
Speaker 3: in the last two games, clearly more of a finisher
33:32
Speaker 3: now that gallysh is there andrews Burgh hold to certain
33:34
Speaker 3: extent then the creator that he had to be a
33:37
Speaker 3: lot Everton before and I think really she's helping him
33:40
Speaker 3: massively for that. And we said Aston Villa haven't been
33:43
Speaker 3: very good. It's at the Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpool,
33:48
Speaker 3: Everton for Everton, so I think Illiman and I could
33:50
Speaker 3: still be good. And I think this is the last
33:52
Speaker 3: week probably where he would still be a differential Sam.
33:57
Speaker 4: So when I originally made this pick, he was only
33:59
Speaker 4: in by say only he was owned by a nine
34:01
Speaker 4: point three percent. That was on Monday morning when I
34:04
Speaker 4: checked just before we started this record. He's now up
34:06
Speaker 4: to nine point seven percent, so definitely going to be
34:09
Speaker 4: the last week. This one is a differential as well
34:11
Speaker 4: and proving very popular and in my actual team as well.
34:14
Speaker 4: So back in one of my own George No Singing
34:17
Speaker 4: Please is Jean Felipe Matteta. So we've already talked a
34:20
Speaker 4: lot about Matteta and Pallas's great fixture and that they
34:23
Speaker 4: have started with a game against Sunderland this weekend. He's
34:27
Speaker 4: had six attempts on goal so far, two of those
34:28
Speaker 4: have been classified as big chances. He definitely feels like
34:31
Speaker 4: a player that I've been a bit unlucky with only
34:33
Speaker 4: to have that one converted penalty goal so far. So
34:37
Speaker 4: do you think he could do well now? It was
34:39
Speaker 4: interesting because I nearly backed out of this one when
34:41
Speaker 4: I looked at Sunderland's underlying numbers. So they've actually considered
34:43
Speaker 4: the second fewest attempts so far this season of all
34:46
Speaker 4: the clubs in the league, which really surprised me to
34:48
Speaker 4: see them doing so well defensively. But Palace coming to
34:53
Speaker 4: this one in the back of that three zero win
34:54
Speaker 4: against Villa that I'll be looking to continue that form.
34:57
Speaker 4: I do think he's going to be increasing the important
34:59
Speaker 4: he's on penalty. He's yeah, it's Matta this week. That's
35:02
Speaker 4: a more hopeful pick than anything, isn't it joking?
35:05
Speaker 1: Joking? Double winman? If if he schools this week, you're
35:10
Speaker 1: in differential of the week essentially and also get points
35:13
Speaker 1: for your team. Okay, then transfers and captains, you guys
35:15
Speaker 1: have already hinted at it, Jewels, you haven't hinted as
35:18
Speaker 1: much about yours. You've kept your cars close to your chest.
35:20
Speaker 2: What. Yeah, I'm just not sure I've got.
35:26
Speaker 3: Is. Obviously, I still have flying Verts who even when
35:30
Speaker 3: he plays for Germany, he's not doing that merch apart
35:32
Speaker 3: from the.
35:35
Speaker 1: Against that.
35:36
Speaker 3: I know.
35:36
Speaker 2: I know, I know that that's my problem. I'm going
35:38
Speaker 2: to keep him.
35:38
Speaker 3: He is going to be rubbish and then next week
35:41
Speaker 3: you can laugh at me and said, well the guy.
35:43
Speaker 3: The guys averaged two points for me this season. Don't
35:46
Speaker 3: worry together, I know, but it's not. It's not because
35:48
Speaker 3: you have him that that makes me feel better. You know.
35:50
Speaker 2: So a lot of people, I'm not sure where I'm going,
35:54
Speaker 2: but I'm going to go somewhere.
35:55
Speaker 1: So you know, brilliant, I'm going to get somewhat really
35:59
Speaker 1: helpful right for all that one. How many transfers have
36:01
Speaker 1: you got?
36:06
Speaker 2: I want to send me some free transfers?
36:13
Speaker 1: Okay, so easy. Yeah, So I'm going to sell Marello
36:19
Speaker 1: this week. I can't. I can't do any more weeks
36:22
Speaker 1: of the Forest double up defensively. I just can't. I
36:24
Speaker 1: can't deal with it anymore.
36:26
Speaker 4: And they've got Arsenal and I don't trust postal cogs
36:29
Speaker 4: defenses we've seen over the US.
36:31
Speaker 1: I think I've been burned. So I'm going to sell Marillo.
36:33
Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Muna's Sessi.
36:36
Speaker 4: I'm dreaming about Minors and SESSI at the minute, trying
36:38
Speaker 4: to decide which one of them I want to bring
36:40
Speaker 4: into my team because both have potentially huge upside. The
36:44
Speaker 4: Choir is another one that comes into my thinking. Just
36:46
Speaker 4: saves a little bit of money, but I think it'll
36:48
Speaker 4: be It'll be one of those two. I can't see
36:51
Speaker 4: myself owning a palace defender that's not Daniel Muna's because
36:54
Speaker 4: we all know I feel about about him after last season.
36:57
Speaker 4: So one of them too comes in. Captains, I'm on
37:01
Speaker 4: Salar at the minute.
37:02
Speaker 1: Is it that easy? He's not being great? He really has.
37:06
Speaker 1: I know it's burned. They go Pedro if he hadn't
37:08
Speaker 1: had the travel, yeah, I tend to agree cows, but
37:12
Speaker 1: he's had the travel. So maybe super Jack Grealish if
37:17
Speaker 1: I bring him in. Why did I fist pump them?
37:19
Speaker 2: I would love that.
37:21
Speaker 4: If you go Jack Greenlish captain, that would be I won't.
37:26
Speaker 4: I think it will be Salah for a lot of
37:28
Speaker 4: people I think.
37:30
Speaker 2: Wish you can't you can't.
37:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been saying that the whole time.
37:35
Speaker 4: If I had gackpo or akit K, I'd find it
37:39
Speaker 4: much easier with the captaincy this week because both of
37:43
Speaker 4: them have the phone.
37:44
Speaker 1: All news was going to start or something like that.
37:46
Speaker 1: That would be nice, wouldn't it.
37:47
Speaker 4: Well, can you imagine if it's not Cos he's got
37:53
Speaker 4: the arm, he's not going to tell us that. No,
37:56
Speaker 4: he won't, so it probably will be Salah. I can't keep.
37:59
Speaker 4: I've done two differential captains of the last two weeks,
38:01
Speaker 4: and both of them have failed. So I just think
38:02
Speaker 4: I'm going to play a boring and go back to
38:04
Speaker 4: Salah this week because it's Burnley and and a.
38:08
Speaker 1: Lot of other people will do everyone else will do it,
38:09
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, which isn't always a reason to do it,
38:14
Speaker 1: But that's the way I play the game, isn't it Okay?
38:15
Speaker 1: Then that's why we're going to end this pod. J Ors,
38:17
Speaker 1: you can get yourself out of that car park. I
38:19
Speaker 1: had many I haven't said. I was hoping that i'd
38:21
Speaker 1: have seen you, like waving at that old ladies going
38:22
Speaker 1: through their shopping.
38:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's one that part just next to
38:25
Speaker 3: me and just look through the window like if it
38:27
Speaker 3: was a cart that she was looking into. That was me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Well, thanks for your commitment to the pod.
38:34
Speaker 1: Remember everyone, it's a Saturday deadline. Get your teams locked
38:37
Speaker 1: in before eleven am. The Fantasy shows back on Friday.
38:40
Speaker 1: Braws is in the studio with me, then off the bench.
38:42
Speaker 1: We're back on Monday. Lion As talking us through all
38:45
Speaker 1: the talking points from Game week four. Have a good week, guys,
38:47
Speaker 1: We'll see you next time.