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S3 Ep9: Off The Bench: Haaland Triple Captain struggle · FPL Pod

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to this week's Off the Bench podcast from
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  Speaker 1: the Premier League.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Lee from FPR family and from black Box.
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  Speaker 1: Well as it was a big week in FPL for
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  Speaker 1: the Triple Captain Chip, with over three hundred thousand FPR
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  Speaker 1: managers hitting the button this week and the vast majority
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  Speaker 1: I expect giving it to cities earl in Harland at
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  Speaker 1: home to Southampton. More on him a bit later on,
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  Speaker 1: but again we gaverage of fifty four. It was a
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  Speaker 1: small red arrow for me. I have to say it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a brilliant game week, but I didn't play the chip.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't play the Triple Captain, so I kind of
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  Speaker 1: feel okay with it, and I feel like I might
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  Speaker 1: have got away with it actually given the amount of
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  Speaker 1: chances to Harland have.
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  Speaker 2: But more on that later on. How did you get
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  Speaker 2: on Small Green, Small Red? How was the game week? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Complete opposite to you, Lee, which is lovely to be
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  Speaker 2: doing this podcast with you. I did play the Triple
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  Speaker 2: Captain ship. I was one of those three hundred thousands
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  Speaker 2: field bellag is playing it. Yeah, we will talk about Harland.
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  Speaker 2: Unbelievable to only get six points from Harland's in that game.
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  Speaker 2: And then it was yesterday was just the day from hell. Really,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to a lanky Garnat show, you know,
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  Speaker 2: both blanking Sala scoring, Palmer scoring. Don't have either of
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  Speaker 2: those in my team. Yeah, and then the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the week was pretty awful as well. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: had Foden along, I mean three band City players going
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  Speaker 2: into that game. Got the goal and the and the
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  Speaker 2: clean sheet from from Lewis, but nothing from Foden really disappointing.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing from my Villa players Watkins and Rogers. Yeah, fifty
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  Speaker 2: one points, but trible captain played and a pretty big
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  Speaker 2: red arrow, so disappointing all around.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'll try and cheer you up in
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  Speaker 1: somewhat pass and maybe we'll talk about we can't talk
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  Speaker 1: about Brighton, we'll do that later. Fifty one points for
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  Speaker 1: me as well, so yeah, same score as you know,
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  Speaker 1: No chip played. Littered with ones and twos across my team,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of ones actually, Fleckin, who I thought was
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  Speaker 1: nailed on for the clean sheet at home to Ipswich.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Brentford are never going to keep a
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  Speaker 1: clean sheet.
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  Speaker 2: It's mad how.
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  Speaker 1: They conceded a couple of goals to wipswitch quite so easily.
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  Speaker 1: Gabrielle and Trent at the back. I wasn't expecting too
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  Speaker 1: much on those guys coming up against each other, so
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  Speaker 1: one for each of those and now got a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a problem with Gabrielle potentially injured going into the
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  Speaker 1: next couple of game weeks and more on that later
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  Speaker 1: on two. But the big kitches did all right, so
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  Speaker 1: Sakka coming in I kept him for the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks, came in with the nine. Didn't even though
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  Speaker 1: that was a bittersweet moment for me against my team
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  Speaker 1: Brian and Bremo in with the fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what value.
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  Speaker 1: We're getting from Brian and Memo in FPL bought him
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  Speaker 1: in a few weeks ago, tucking away the penalty here
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  Speaker 1: or there, chipping in the last minute a fifteen pointer
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  Speaker 1: for a Bremo this week definitely the star of the show.
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  Speaker 1: And then Harland up top just Captaincy just with the twelve,
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  Speaker 1: with the not with anymore. So yeah, all in all,
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  Speaker 1: it was an OK week, I think a little bit
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  Speaker 1: underpart if anything, had Ryan Ate Nori on my bench,
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  Speaker 1: which stunk a little bit, say, but got him in
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  Speaker 1: place now for a decent run for Wolves coming up,
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  Speaker 1: So fifty one points, no triple captain Chip played. It
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  Speaker 1: was all right, It was alright. But I think, as
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  Speaker 1: without wanting to drag you down into the emotional maya
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  Speaker 1: too much more. We have to start, don't we with
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  Speaker 1: this game week's biggest talking point. We have to talk
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  Speaker 1: about the big Man. We have to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: three hundred thousand FPR managers that played the triple captain
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  Speaker 1: Chip on the big Norwegian at Manchester City. How on
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  Speaker 1: earth did he not get more than one goal? And
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  Speaker 1: I have to say, as a non triple captainer after
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  Speaker 1: five minutes or so when he got that goal, I
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  Speaker 1: was shifting very uncomfortably in my seat, very very uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: The hat tricks on its way, and perhaps it should
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  Speaker 1: have been given the underline numbers and the exgu statistics.
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  Speaker 1: But how did you feel, as a triple captain of
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  Speaker 1: coming out of that game? Deeply peaply unlucky.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I've had some successes with the triple
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  Speaker 2: captain Chip, I've had some failures over the years, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And when Harland scores after five minutes, you think this
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  Speaker 2: is going to be Yeah, this is going to be great.
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  Speaker 2: And I've seen Southampton play this this season. I thought
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  Speaker 2: they were really disappointing, poor at the back. That's why
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  Speaker 2: that's why I went for it. Yeah, and obviously we
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  Speaker 2: don't get the three pm games in the UK, but
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  Speaker 2: I was listening to it on the on Soccer Saturday
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  Speaker 2: and it was just chance for Harland, chance for Harlan
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  Speaker 2: O one and missed from Harland, big chance, miss from
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  Speaker 2: haland it was it was just relentless And yeah, I've
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  Speaker 2: since seen the highlights and some of the misses. I
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  Speaker 2: mean that one, that one at the far post that
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  Speaker 2: he puts wide, I can't. I just cannot believe he's
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  Speaker 2: he's missed that. And you look at the goal he
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  Speaker 2: scored as well, the goal he scored and the goal
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  Speaker 2: is scored in the Champions League. These are such difficult chances,
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  Speaker 2: like he's falling over for the first goal and then
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  Speaker 2: he's missing tappings at the at the far post. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, I'm going to keep saying, keeps like
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like it. But this game week
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  Speaker 2: I think will go down in my kind of folklore
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  Speaker 2: of because I genuinely feel like this could have been
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  Speaker 2: one of my biggest weeks ever. And as we touch
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  Speaker 2: through the matches, you just hear me complain about various
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  Speaker 2: points I've managed to dodge. But yeah, two point three
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  Speaker 2: three XG. It was the biggest underperformance of the week,
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  Speaker 2: you know, minus one point three. That's more than most
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  Speaker 2: players get in terms of XG a match. And that's
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  Speaker 2: just in terms of the underperformance. Eight shots, four big chances.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, listen, well, I'm going to read out a
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  Speaker 1: couple more stats. Eight shots, four big chances. You only
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  Speaker 1: ever got better XG than that two point three three
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned once in his City career, So that's his
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  Speaker 1: second best XG performance ever in the City shirt and
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  Speaker 1: only one goal to show for it. It was a
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  Speaker 1: massive bullet dodged by us that didn't triple captain him,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt about it, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 2: And the supporting cast were also pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Savino with five chances created an XGI and expected goal
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  Speaker 1: involvement of point ninety four, so I thought he was
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  Speaker 1: very very good on that wing, and many FBO managers
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  Speaker 1: brought him in. There was quite a lot of soccer
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  Speaker 1: to Foden movement over not just this week, but the
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  Speaker 1: week before, five chances created for Foden, an XGI and
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  Speaker 1: expected goal involvement of Nero point nine zero, so again,
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  Speaker 1: definitely should have had something out of that game. Foden
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  Speaker 1: and Vardi Old as well. More touches in the final
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  Speaker 1: third than any other Premier League player this season. Wow
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  Speaker 1: as a defender for guardiole Which I had to check
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  Speaker 1: that stat when I saw it in the notes, but
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  Speaker 1: it is true, more touches in the final third than
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  Speaker 1: any other Premier League player and an xt GI I
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  Speaker 1: have zero point two to three with three chances created
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. So the supporting cast around Harland, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's a miracle.
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  Speaker 2: This game was only one Nils.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much more we can say about it,
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  Speaker 1: but as a Foden owner you've got to be a
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  Speaker 1: bit disappointed with that as well, right, an next Gi
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  Speaker 1: zero point nine, He should have had.
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  Speaker 2: Something out of this game. Well, you know, I sold
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  Speaker 2: Soaker to Foden last week and the idea was obviously
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  Speaker 2: Saker didn't play in that game last time out and
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  Speaker 2: was a doubt going into this one as well for Liverpool,
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  Speaker 2: and he's come away with it with more points than
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  Speaker 2: Foden who had wolves in Southampton, and it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just classic. It's just classic. If pel isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Plus I've used a transfer and I'm probably going to
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  Speaker 2: want to get Saker back. I was really impressed with
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  Speaker 2: Foden though generally, like watching the highlights, he looks very involved. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: driving forward, he's on set pieces, he's creating chances. I
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  Speaker 2: thought Savina was excellent and I think they need to
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  Speaker 2: get in play more regularly on the right wing because
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  Speaker 2: he's giving them something a bit a bit different. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I've got Rico Lewis. I thought, you know, for the
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  Speaker 2: for the money saved between Lewis at four point seven
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  Speaker 2: and gag Were at nearly six, it would kind of
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  Speaker 2: be worth it. But looking at hearing that stat from
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  Speaker 2: you and watching him play, I think Vardil is an
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  Speaker 2: absolutely brilliant asset going forward. So it is all about Harlan.
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  Speaker 2: The team is still geared up to get those goals
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  Speaker 2: from Harlowood, but it does start to feel now a
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  Speaker 2: little bit like you can, you know, kind of not
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  Speaker 2: cover him because you can't cover Harlan, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: go there's other city assets that could present some alternatives
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  Speaker 2: if you are looking to move off him and spread
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  Speaker 2: as funds around.
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  Speaker 1: So he's a question and I don't want to go
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  Speaker 1: off on too much of a Harlan tangent, although this
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  Speaker 1: game we sort of feels like it's it's worth going
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  Speaker 1: off on that Harland tangent. Bournouth Away, bright And Away next,
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  Speaker 1: and then Spurs and Liverpool. The next four are let's
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  Speaker 1: say mixed. Let's say, let's be Jeness saying mixed for
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  Speaker 1: Harland and Manchester City at a time when you know
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  Speaker 1: Sacker's coming back. As you rightly say, the Chelsea fixtures
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  Speaker 1: include a trip to Manchester United and Leicester. Sala's got
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  Speaker 1: Brighton at home, Aston Villa at home, Southampton away in
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  Speaker 1: the next three. It's Harland to sell, he says, very tentatively.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you can spread those funds, can't you. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about some more budget strikers in a minute,
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  Speaker 1: because the budget striker bracket is performing very very well
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  Speaker 1: for us so far this year in FPL. But no,
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  Speaker 1: it's Harland has selled or are you're keeping him? You're
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  Speaker 1: holding firm.
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  Speaker 2: But if Harland puts away his four big chances, we're
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  Speaker 2: not even having this conversation which is it? Yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: the question is do you think it was?
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  Speaker 1: Didn't know?
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  Speaker 2: Is the point? Is the point? And in the previous
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  Speaker 2: couple of game weeks he's blanked again, right, so one
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  Speaker 2: goal and what's that three? Now? I know? But at
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  Speaker 2: least with this, I mean, the underlying status of the
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  Speaker 2: last few games have been really poor for Harlan. He's
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  Speaker 2: looks isolated, he hasn't been involved in the game. Watching
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  Speaker 2: the highlights has been you know, frustrating because he hasn't
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  Speaker 2: been and he's looked frustrated. Whereas at least with this
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  Speaker 2: game he could have come away from it with a
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  Speaker 2: big haul. So I can see why people are selling.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the move to Salah does look attractive
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  Speaker 2: because Salah looks absolutely unbelievable at the moment and obviously
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  Speaker 2: the fixture to have maybe a bit better and then
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  Speaker 2: you've got a bit more money to spread around. But
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  Speaker 2: it's a captaincy really, isn't it. I mean, who else
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  Speaker 2: do you if you haven't If you're not going for Salah,
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  Speaker 2: are you going to go for Palma with Man United
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  Speaker 2: and Arsenal? Next? Is is it Saka? You go for
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  Speaker 2: it though it's Newcastle and Chelsea. These aren't the best games.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like they're playing your Leicester's, your Rip switches
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  Speaker 2: those teams. So I'm still happy to stick with Harland
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  Speaker 2: for the next couple I probably I might reassess around
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  Speaker 2: the time of that Liverpool match in a couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 2: but but for now I'm keeping Yeah. I think you
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  Speaker 2: mentioned Sala, let's go there.
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  Speaker 1: Then that probably the biggest game on paper, let's say,
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  Speaker 1: of the weekend, Arsenal versus Liverpool at the Emirates on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night. Pretty happy I think as a Liverpool fans
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  Speaker 1: to come away from that with a two to two draw,
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  Speaker 1: particularly as we played in the Champions League away from
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  Speaker 1: home against Leipzig in Germany in the build up to
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  Speaker 1: this game, and then you know, to go a goal
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  Speaker 1: down and then to go too one down, to show
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  Speaker 1: a bit of character to come back to two to
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  Speaker 1: two really really good. I want to talk about a
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  Speaker 1: few FPL assets from Liverpool. First, we're a lot of
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  Speaker 1: FPL managers looking at Trent and saying, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he takes the corners and everything else great, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and at any given moment, in any given game, he
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  Speaker 1: can come up with a you know, the Trent double
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  Speaker 1: digit hall is only you know, an assist and a
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  Speaker 1: couple of bonus points around the corner of Liverpool keeping
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  Speaker 1: clean sheets.
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  Speaker 2: But I can I can sense a little bit of discontent.
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  Speaker 2: Discontent is a good word. Yeah, I was trying to
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  Speaker 2: think of the right way, but you're right.
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  Speaker 1: A bit of discontent the fl community with Trent simply
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  Speaker 1: because of his price, isn't it. You know, we expect
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  Speaker 1: almost an assist every week and if you look at
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  Speaker 1: his history in FPL, you'd be right to kind of
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  Speaker 1: expect that. A worry for you have you got him
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  Speaker 1: in your team?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think it is starting to become
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  Speaker 2: a bit of a concern. I mean it's one attacking
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  Speaker 2: return and all season for Liverpool. I mean what he
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  Speaker 2: is carrying Trent and Liverpool generally is the defensive numbers
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  Speaker 2: and the fact that they are stisically the best defense
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  Speaker 2: in the league. I know they just continued two goals,
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  Speaker 2: but going into this game they were kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: by by some margin of the best defense, most clean
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  Speaker 2: sheets and then good underlying numbers. So he's relying on
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  Speaker 2: clean sheets. Is it enough for a seven million defender
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  Speaker 2: just to be relying on clean sheets. Not really. There's
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  Speaker 2: been some games where he's been drifting into midfield and
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  Speaker 2: playing really well and you know, spreading the ball around,
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  Speaker 2: but not really getting into those danger areas where you
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  Speaker 2: want to see him play. You know, when he was
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  Speaker 2: just an out and out right back and he's putting
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  Speaker 2: crosses in from the right wing, that's almost better than
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  Speaker 2: when he's playing centrally and in that kind of bit
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  Speaker 2: of a bit of a deeper role. I think with
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  Speaker 2: the way the premiums are hitting form now, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with Palmer, Saka and Harland potentially in Salah as well.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if Foden starts to hit some form two,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be looking at at Trent and thinking
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  Speaker 2: is he easy worth and money? So I mean I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking at I'm looking at my defense. I've got Gabrielle,
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  Speaker 2: Raya and Trent and I'm thinking, actually, this is a
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  Speaker 2: lot of money to be spending on these defenses exactly
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  Speaker 2: when they're not when they're not reaching the clean cheese
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  Speaker 2: and obviously the attacking turns out there. So yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you're the Liverpool fan, what have you made of Trent's performances?
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  Speaker 2: Are you You've got him, right.
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  Speaker 1: I have got him. Yeah, I have got him. And
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  Speaker 1: like you, I think this content is exactly the right word.
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  Speaker 1: But again with you know, Brighton and Villa at home
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  Speaker 1: up next and then a trip to Southampton, you're not
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to sell him ahead of those three.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's definitely he says, you know, one or
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  Speaker 1: two clean sheets in there. I would say, Trent, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know, right, yeah, clip that bit. The one thing
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  Speaker 1: I will say about Trent, and we noticed it specifically
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  Speaker 1: in this game, and I've noticed in the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks, is that he takes a lot of corners. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: I think you're sharing quite a lot of them with Robertson,
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  Speaker 1: which you know, in terms of the underlying BPS and
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  Speaker 1: the chance creation. Obviously he goes down a little bit
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  Speaker 1: there because of that shared corner duty with Robo.
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  Speaker 2: Likes to hit the first man.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if there's something that Liverpool has been
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  Speaker 1: working on with their set piece coach this season under Slot,
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  Speaker 1: but he always kind of looks for the first man
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  Speaker 1: and it worked this week right because he hits the
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  Speaker 1: ass Das gets the assist a flicked header for Van
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  Speaker 1: Dyke's goal at the first Liverpool goal. But if that's
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  Speaker 1: going to continue to happen and Trent's going to always
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  Speaker 1: look for that kind of like first man that flick on,
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to get many assists from corners. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be the Das or it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: whoever it is that gets to flick on gets the
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  Speaker 1: assist at the other end of the pitch. Though, I'm
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  Speaker 1: kind of interested in your opinion on this kind of
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  Speaker 1: Jota versus nu Nez thing. I'm kind of I've always
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  Speaker 1: been a little bit bias, certainly this season. Whenever Sam
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  Speaker 1: and I talk on our FPR family live streams, I've
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  Speaker 1: always been talking about the fact that Jotta does the
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  Speaker 1: donkey work. He presses like mad, he drops quite deep,
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  Speaker 1: and when new net has come on in previous game weeks,
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  Speaker 1: I've often thought it's kind of looked okay, but it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really do the work. He doesn't put the shift
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  Speaker 1: in that maybe Jotter does. But in the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks, I think new Nez is a different man.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I think he's a different man. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's not had the kind of high x G
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  Speaker 1: over the last last couple of weeks that we'd expect.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he's pay two hundred and eighty minutes this season,
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  Speaker 1: only four shots in that two hundred and eighty minutes
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  Speaker 1: with an next gy of zero point six. So we're
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  Speaker 1: not seeing that kind of on site mentality that maybe
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  Speaker 1: we used to from Nunez.
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  Speaker 2: And what I like.
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  Speaker 1: About that, and I'm not probably not going to sit
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  Speaker 1: here and suggests that you all rush out and get
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  Speaker 1: Nunez in u FPL teams, but what I like about
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: that is that jot us out for a few more weeks,
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: which it looks like he might do with that rib injury.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: We've got to keep an eye on the press conferences
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: and when he comes back. But if no Nez is
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: going to play over these next three games, this Brighton
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: Villa Suthampton run that I mentioned before, I think that
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: is a brilliant I think that's brilliant for Salah. I
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: think it's so good for Salah. And we saw Salah
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: kind of being very patient, being very disciplined in this
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: game against Arsenal. So when Timber went off injured and
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: Miles Lewis Kelly comes on, Salah was biding his time.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: He knew the right opportunity to pick up that pass
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: from Trent and to make that run inside and new
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: Nez finds him exactly at the right time. Three bonus
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: points for Salah gets to go. I just feel like
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: he's very disciplined nowadays. This season, he rarely gets shots wrong,
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: and he's he doesn't lose the ball when he's carrying
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: it either, So that kind of underlying baseime we've seen
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: in previous season Salag it's the goal, but maybe one
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: bonus point, maybe a maximum two because he has a
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: lot of shots, maybe some off target. I don't think
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: we're seeing that sort of Mo Salah this season. I
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: think we're seeing a far more clinical Most Salah. And
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: I think with Nunez there supporting him in the way
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: that I just mentioned, you know, not being wasteful in
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: front of go instead of getting his head up and
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: looking for Most Salah. I think they're both good options
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: for the next few weeks. But I think Most Salah
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: for the next few weeks looks brilliant. And I want
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: to link it back to that conversation we just had
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: about selling Harlan potentially to funder move for Salah in
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: the next few weeks, because I think he's captainable.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: What do you think? Yeah, I mean you mentioned discipline
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: and that is Liverpool genuinely, isn't it. They're much more
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: disciplined all over the pitch compared to how they were
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: probably under Clop And it was very fun watching them
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: under Clop because they always had that bit of you know,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Carlage in them. But if you can rain in Darwin Nunez,
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: who was literally the epitome of chaos, and you can
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: absolutely you're describing Darwin Nunez as a more disciplined player.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, Slot deserves credit just for that, it's right, right,
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: but I agree, and you know you see it with
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: some players when you know he's not been playing that much.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: He's obviously now second choice to Jotta. They get a
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: running the team and you know, desperate to make a mark.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: So you'd almost expect him, you know, to shoot on site,
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: try and get a goal, try and make that team.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: But he's, you know, the team player and the work
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: ethic that he's got I think has really shone through
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: in the starts that he's had recently. I'm guilty of it,
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: kind of underestimating Mohammed Salah, you know, every year and
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: this is six double digit returns in nine games. Yeah,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: I've not had.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Him at all this season, and as a Liverpool fan,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: that's I'm disappointed in myself.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: I have to say I've had him for two points
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: and six points and then started and then yeah, so
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: I've only to have him for two of his three
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: non doule digitals, which is a which is excellent. But yeah,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: I think you know, last season we saw him maybe
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: playing a bit bit wide and he had good spells
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: last season, but I went into this season thinking this,
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: this isn't someone who necessarily is going to be as
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: big a factor in our seasons as he has been
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: last year. I do think we've got to start thinking
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: that perhaps perhaps he is now and maybe I'm a
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: bit later to the party. But with the fixtures on
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: the rise, in the two home games coming up, you know,
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: then it's Southampton in game week twelve as well. That's good,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: doesn't it. Yeah, it looks really good. And I do
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: think that selling Harland is a is an option. Whereas
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: you know, three or four weeks ago as and there's
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: no way we were saying.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: That, Yeah twelve is an interesting week, isn't I don't
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: look too far ahead. But City have got Spurs at home.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: But you're right, you know, Liverpool way to Southampton. You've
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: got Palmer away at Leicester as well. So game week
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: twelve is definitely going to be one that a lot
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: of FBO managers that still got their wildcard.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: That's definitely a potential game week for wildcards that still
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: got it.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: But anyway, more on that in another episode, and let's
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: move to Palmer. Let's talk about Chelsea versus Newcastle. Seventeen
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: attempts for Chelsea, twelve of which in the box. But
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: we have to, you know, we have to talk about
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: col I thought he was unplayable at times, so so
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: good and he won't get any FPL points for that
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: first goal. It was a netto assist to Jackson. But
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: let me tell you if you're I did not see
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: a better pass, a better assist of the assist than
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: that passed from Cole Palmer to Pedro Netto for that
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: first goal over the course of the weekend. Absolutely incredible
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: pass inside the fullback. Yeah, what's more to say about
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Carle Palmer the way he took the goal as well,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: exuding confidence, you know more, and Newcastle on a second
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: because that's now five without a win for them, so
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: we do need to talk about them as a team
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: to potentially target. But Chelsea and Palmer looking very good,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: certainly attacking wise. Yeah, I mean that the pass you say,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: you know, a better pass of the weekend. I don't
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: remember too many better passes ever, you know, I'm putting
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: it up there as one of them. The way he
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: gets the ball, has the awareness to spot the run,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: turns and then manages to pick the ball out was unbelieved.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: People really get his head up as he just knows
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: that making that run instincts and it's from a player
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: who you know hasn't necessarily played that much with it'show
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: starting on that side. So it's not like you know
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: the de Bruyn Harland, you know, you know that run
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: is going to be made. It's yeah, it's it's an
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. The thing is, I watched that game and
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: in terms of pure fpl points, in terms of pure threat,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I thought Palmer was was maybe on the fringes of
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: a lot of their their moves and their big chances.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: You know, Jackson Madaway k had a few chances. Neto
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I thought played played really well. And Palmer was kind
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: of pulling the strings in maybe a slightly more more
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: deeper role then and then moved over to the to
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: the left. I mean this is that there's been one
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: game this season where he's had next give over one,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: which was obviously that Brighton game where he went absolutely bananas.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Five out of the nine games his next guy less
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: than zero point five. So you'd maybe suggest that his
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: return to a mad start, isn't it. Yeah, he's maybe
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: just that it'st I mean, I'm not going to suggest
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: that his returned to be a bit lucky. I'm going
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: to completely go back on that because it's not. Because
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: he's an absolutely elite player and you know, you have
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: to take it with a pinch of salt. But in
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: terms of pure stats, the numbers wouldn't terrify me if
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: you were looking at them just just like that. But
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: when you watch the games and you see him play,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: it's really hard to justify going going without him because
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: he's reaching a level now which which has to put
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: him in the in the top bracket of players that
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: we've seen in the Premier League, and with no Champions
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: League and obviously not playing in Europe, not even in
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: the squad. He's going to play the majority of minutes.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: He's Yeah, if you haven't got him now, like I
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: haven't game week twelve, you've got to be making plans.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the fixtures from twelf a Partmer look on real
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: and I agree with you. He pops up, doesn't he.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: It's just like you take your off in for a
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: moment and he's come deep to receive the ball. You
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: blink and he's bombing down the right hand side, doubling
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: up with a Madawaki or somebody, and you blink again
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and he's in the box, you know, scoring goals where
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: he's driving.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: At the back four And what is Pope doing for that? Well,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: that's true, that's true.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I didn't think he covered himself in glory, that I
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: have to say, but he's Therein lies an interesting point,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Palmer's starting to get a little bit of the fear factor.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I think defenders are starting to drop off a little bit. Yeah,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: you know, defenses start to sort of like backtrack when
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: he gets the ball and there's there's player that I
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: think is if he didn't have it before, has definitely got,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: like I say, the fear factor. Manchester United away up next,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: which on paper obviously is a difficult game, but I
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: don't think it's too much that you know, the west
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Ham found of two, there wasn't too much for Manchester
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: United to get excited about this weekend, so Palmer can
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: definitely score in that game. Arsenal home in eleven difficult,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: but we think potentially some defensive issues with Gabrielle maybe
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: out injured for a little while. We've got to obviously
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: wait to see on that. They obviously have Saliba back
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: from his ban. But then, like you say, from twelve onwards,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: absolutely incredible run of fixtures for Palmer, so he's going
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: to be on radar.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: You did mention Netto there for a second. Five attempts,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: three chances created. Yep. Could he be an alternative to
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Palmer or is Palmer's worth the extra No? Right, Yeah,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: I mean I'd probably be looking at Jackson if I
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: was looking at someone other than other than Palmers, because
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: you feel like he's got that kind of striker spot
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: nailed down obvious. Netta came in for Sancho. I thought
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: he was excellent in this game, and we've had Netto
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: and left Peel teams over the last few years. He's
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: an absolutely fantastic player and the whole Chelsea team is.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: And that's what I like about this new MORESCA look
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Chelsea is that we I think we'd do have options
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: kind of kind of elsewhere was he madaway had got
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: that hat trick and then hasn't really done anything anything since.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: But look threatening again, I wouldn't be going anywhere in
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: the midfield other than Palmer. I don't think minefield, isn't it. Yeah, perspective,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: it's difficult to know. Yeah, I'd be a bit too
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: worried that the I think Neto has done enough now
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: to keep that place for a little bit longer. But
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I think we said that about Sancho a few weeks ago.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: We thought he was playing well, it looked good, and
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: now suddenly he's dropped, so it can change very quickly.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're right. And just a word, I
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: have mentioned it a second ago. That's five now without
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: a win for Newcastle, so there will have been a
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: lot of FPR managers selling soccer before that Liverpool game
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: thinking well, you know, he's got Newcastle away after that,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: which on paper looks difficult, and of course it is.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: You know, a trip to Saint James's. It's difficult in
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: the best of times, but you know, I fancy if
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: you know I've got Soccer in my team. There's no
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: way I'm going to sell him before Newcastle away when
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: the Newcastle haven't won in five and the back four
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: in particular looks a little bit shaky, a bit lacking
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: in the pace department, and someone like Soccer who roasted
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Robertson didn't it for that first goal at the weekend
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: you could see that happening again up at Saint James's.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: So a team to target Newcastle is it's a bit
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: of a blip. You expect them to turn it around.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: They feel like they've they've they've gone back a few steps,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: don't they from where they were a few seas ago.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I think we saw a few signs of it last year,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: you know, when they went on a bit of a
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: bad run. But I thought this year they might start
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: to pick up a bit. But yeah, I completely agree.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I don't like that back for at all. You know,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Livramento is obviously a very good player, but if you
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: haven't got the protection of good center backs helping you out,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: and Lewis Hall on the left is good going forward
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: but maybe a little bit suspect defensively. And then you've
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: got a goalkeeper who you know, on his day is
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: one of the best goalkeepers in the league, but I
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: don't think has had a particularly great start to the
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: season this year either. So yeah, I think I don't
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: think you're going to be whereas you know, going to
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: James' Park in previous years, you'd be thinking, you know,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: this is a really, really tough game. They'll give them
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: a game, but there'll be chances for Arsenal. I've got
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: no doubt. Yeah, I agree. I agree.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I've tried to cheer you up over
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: the last twenty minutes or so since the beginning of
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: the pod as, but we do at some stage you
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: have to talk about your team.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Do we have to this game week? Yeah, it was
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: looking so good.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: It was looking so good up until the last sort
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: of five or six minutes and Wolves turned on the style,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: didn't they. I'll hand the microphone over to you as
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: what happened.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: What happenedly was you're in the ninety sixth minute of
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: the game, two on up and you have four on
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: one attack to see the game of Oh, I know
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: the moment you're thinking, oh what, Yeah, just take it
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: in the corner. Boys, take it in the corner, or
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: just don't hit it to Doyle. I think it was
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: not to do. Yeah, you don't hit it anywhere else
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: and you score, and then for him to get the
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: ball and just you know, play up the pitch and
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: then score from it again. I said it. I don't
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: think I've ever seen anything like I've never seen anything
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: like that, a four on one attack turned round to
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: conceding a ninety six minute equalizer. Yeah, it's really disappointing
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: because because Brighton, you know, Wolves had chances, and I
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: like Wolves as a team. I think, you know, I
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: think it's a shame where they are in the league.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I think they're going to start picking up points now
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: going forward. You know you talked about eight Norrie earlier.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I think Cooner as well is a great option if
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: you're looking for a new striker. Maybe not as good
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: as Daddy Welbeck considering the form he's in. But the
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: next two are rough. But Brighton did easily enough to
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: win that game, and Hertzler cool as naive and said
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: there's kind of things that need to change in mentality
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: wise to avoid that that happening, because yeah, control the
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: game has some decent chances of our own tuning up
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: at ninety minutes. You've got to see that out.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're right. It's Liverpool and then Manchester
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: City up next to Brighton. So I don't think I'm
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: sorry mate, but I don't think we're going to be
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: heavily investing in the likes of Wellbeck or Ruter for
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the next couple despite the fact that six for the
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: season for well Beck and made of a miraculous recovery
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: after his injury last time out, and that takes Ruter
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: by the way to five attacking returns in his last
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: four games. So yeah, certainly Brighton clicking. Am I being
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: a bit dismissive? They're Liverpool and City up next. I
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: mean there's.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Options there, there's options, But I don't think we're investing now. No,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I don't think you're going there. I think you know
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: they're both. They're both good options. Well Beck is a
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: difficult one because obviously there's so many good forwards around
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: his price point. You know, Chris Wood has got just
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: got two goals at Leicster, Jim Andez has got great
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: pictures kind of on the horizon. I mentioned Cooner as well.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: I still I don't know. I still kind of look
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: at Welbeck and think he's not quite as good as
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: those those options, even though the points don't really seem
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: to kind of justify that. But Rottera is someone I'm
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: looking at, you know, one point two percent ownership. You
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: mentioned those attacking returns he's got. He seems to have
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: made that kind of ten role with visions beyond the
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: striker his own. I have to wait to see what
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: happens with Joe Pedro when he's back and where he plays,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: but I've been really impressed with it with Rutter. We
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: paid big money for him too, and yeah, he's delivering.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: So he's someone to look at again, I think in
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: a few weeks.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks good. And you mentioned kuna there in
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the sort of budget forward bracket. We've mentioned a few
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: budget forwards already. Have we haven't talked about Chris Wood yet.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: That's coming, folks, that's coming. But no, Kunia definitely in
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: a lot of people's thoughts. And so I think Ryan A.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Norri going into game week nine, I think there was
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: a few FPR managers that were looking at the Wolves
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: fixtures on the horizon and saying wow, look from ten
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: it's Palace in Southampton at home. Then it's Fulham away,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Bournemouth at home, Everton away. The next five look absolutely unreal,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: so Brighton away, maybe I'll just skip that one and
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: then go into them from game week ten. But for
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: those that went for Ryan ah Nouri early or went
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: for Kunya early, you've got the rewards, you've got the rewards.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: But from game week ten now, as this is the point,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: right when the fixtures get absolutely unreal. Three of the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: next four at home for Wolves, and they do seem
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: to be turning a little bit of a corner.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: I agree with you.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I think their positioning the league is a little bit
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I want to say false, but they've had a very
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: very difficult start when you look at the fixtures from
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: game week one to even including the Brighton game, game
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: week one to nine, very very difficult fixtures. So yes,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: there's a little bit of anxiety in the Wolves faithful
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: and I understand where the fans are coming from. But
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I'm back in. I'm back in Gary O'Neal. He's a
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: top manager and they've got very very good players. I'm
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: backing them. To turn it around and over the next
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: five they've got the fixtures to do absolutely that. I
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: bought Ryan Eate Nourri in early in game week nine
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: to fund a move elsewhere actually, which we'll talk about
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: in just a second, and I benched him. I bench
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Ryan eight Nory this week, which was a big mistake.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: It looked like the right thing to do up until
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: about five or six minutes to go. But from now on,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: I think for the next five weeks and onward actually,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: because the Wolves fixtures look good outside, you know, even
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: beyond the next five is I've got to find a
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: space to put Ryan a Nori in my team. Five
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: attacking returns so far this season, which is more than
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: any other defender. He and Kunya definitely on the raidar
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: anybody else from Wolves that you're keen on.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Straton Larsen is the other one if you're looking to
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: save a bit of money at five five. He played
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: ninety against Brighton as well. We've seen a few games
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: before that in getting subbed early, but you know, at
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: least played the formulas. The problem with Wolves is they
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: con seed so many goals, so you are relying on
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: the attacking returns. I think You almost don't look at
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: eight Norri as a defender, you look at him as
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: a as another field. Teams don't know they've played good
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: attacking team. They have. I mean you look at you
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: look at the games they've had over the last few
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: week where maybe you'd expect them to at least have
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: a chance of a clean sheet, and that's probably Forest,
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Brentford and Brighton, but they've conceded eight goals across those
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: those three games. They've conceded two goals in every game
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: but one. At least two goals every game but one
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: this season. So you know, sometimes you have a tough
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: fixture run and only a will say, look, let's shut
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: up shop and try and keep the score down. But
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: that hasn't been happening. So I do have some question
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: marks around around defense. But goals have been flowing. You know,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: they've scored in every game this season apart from the
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Arsenal game. In Gaming one, they should have scored in
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: that Strabie had a great chance. Yes they should. Yeah,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: and Cooner's at the heart of it all. Koner Is
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: is such a great player. I really really like him.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: He's someone that I'm looking at bring in as a
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: transfer this week actually, so yeah, I maybe a bit biased,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: but yeah, he's the one to overall.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: No, he looks good, doesn't he. I'm still I'm still
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: going to keep banging the Ryan eight NORRII druma. I think,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: particularly if Gabrielle is out for a few weeks, I
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: can see a few FPR managers moving Gabrielle to Ryan
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: A Nouri for the next few weeks at least, and
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: maybe going without arsenal defense, which would have kind of
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: felt very uncomfortable.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: And unheard of. Itn't it.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: But I can see that transfer getting made, particular if
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Gabrielle is out for a few weeks. But we've got
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: to We've got to keep an eye on that. We've
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: got to keep an eye I did allude to it
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: a second ago. The superstar that is Chris Wood continues
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: as continue to believe to do the business, doesn't he?
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: So so good? Cast your mind backs, folks to Friday Night.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Since Nuno it hears the stat that I wrote down
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: in my notes. Since the Nuno Espirito Santo came in,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: only Harland has more non penalty goals than Chris Wood.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Harland's got eighteen. Chris Wood's got seventeen. It's absolutely incredible.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: He's to we talk about turning back the clock. You know,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: have whatever cliches you want to throw at Chris Wood.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Absolutely incredible. Popped up with the brace this weekend. Now
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: he did, I think, go off towards the end of
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the game. It was pictured with a bit of ice
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: on his on his foot, I think his ankle maybe.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: So keep an eye on press conferences, keep an eye
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: on what Nuno Espirito Santo has to say about Chris
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Wood's fitness going into the next couple of games. But
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: if you're talking about you know, and and by the way,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I don't think the ship has sailed. The ship is
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: still very much on course.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: It's west Ham up next, then Newcastle. We mentioned before
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: defensively a little bit all at Sea and you know
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: not one in five and they've got Arsenal up next,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: so you know, Moran a little bit lower at Newcastle.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: So two pretty plum looking home games. Okay, then it's
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Arsenal way in twelve, but then Nipswitch at home in thirteen.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: So three or the next four look amazing for Chris
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: woodn't they. I mean we mentioned about selling Harland at
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: the beginning of the beginning of their podcast. Here Harland
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: to Chris wood Can I tempt you?
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean I made I made a relatively
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: tongue in cheek comparison of Harland to Chris wood On on
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Black Box last week because I said, obviously, in terms
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: of you know, ability and goal scoring prow as, you'd
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: still put Harland slightly above Chris wood Let's say just slightly,
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: and I think slightly in terms of how the teams
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: are set up to get the most from their strikers.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: I think there is comparisons that you can make because Chris,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: would you look at you look at a lot of
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: football teams these days with the fluidity they have, and
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: you know you've got arsenal for example, with the interchanging
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: of positions and everything like that. That just isn't the
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: case when you've got a good old fashioned number nine
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: sitting up front and you're trying to get the ball
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: to him at all opportunities and he's not going to give you,
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: like a huge amount in terms of you know, dropping
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: deep and playing the ball around. He's not Harry Kane.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: He's much more of an early heart. He likes just
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: sitting in the penalty area. And you see it with
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: with the with the second goal he scored when the
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: ball just comes over the top from the goalkeeper. There's
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: a bit of a dodgy touch from the from the
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: defender and Chris was in just loops over the goalkeeper.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: And that is a that is a striker in amazing confidence,
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: you supreme confidence because he's just he knows where the
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: goalkeeper is, He's got the ability just to loop it
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: over him and does. And I mean the first goal.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: I think the first goal is a bit a bit weak,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: but technique neat technique wise again, it's a it's a
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: lovely ability to to get the foot around and get
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: a shot on target in that position. So yeah, I
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: did not think I would be going into every game
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: week fearing Chris Wood and not having in my team.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: I'm there and you mentioned the fix, I mean west
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Ham at home there because the Newcastle eight couple of
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: fixtures coming. I've got a hat trick at Sir James's
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Park last season and he wasn't playing as well as
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: he is now, so you've got to be considering him.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you put you mentioned Kuona before, as I think
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: you put him in that bracket, You've got it. If
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: you're going to consider Kunya up front, you've got to
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: consider Chris Wood as well. And would you would you
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: even put Jamie Vardy in that bracket as well? I mean,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Lester have scored in every match so far this season,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: he's usually involved. Shot conversion rate at thirty six point
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: four this season, so it's pretty high. Would we expect
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: to maybe a regression to the mean for Vardy or
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: are we just saying this is a striker that's got
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: the experience and he's very clinical, and he's and he's
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: involved with goals. Leicester fixtures coming up next couple of
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: away games against Ipswich and Manchester United. I don't think
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: we'll go in there, are we with Vardy? Given that
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: you can have Chris Wood, or you can have a
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Kunya or you can have a well lots of different
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: bargain forward options that probably super seed Vardy. Yeah, he's
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: probably a don't buy, don't sell type player.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Vardy. I mean, le it was a very entertaining game.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: I watched it on on Friday night and you know,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: for the kind of East Midlands Derby, the hype and
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: the atmosphere was incredible, But for all of the good
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: player that I saw Uless, he'd only have one shot
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: on target in that game, which hurt me as a
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: not in the forest defender owner in my field team. Sure,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: but you know it was it was as soon as
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: less a school. You think it's going to be Vardy
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: because he's going to get that tap in, he's going
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: to get that goal again. They're to get the most
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: out of him, they need to get him the ball
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: in the color penalty area and that's that's where he's
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: been so effective over his over his entire of his
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: entire career. So I don't have him an option. He's
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: five to seven, he's a bit cheaper than Chris Wood
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: and Kooner, for example. I still think I go him
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: and Az though over him. I think the pictures are
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: just a little bit better. And yeah, he's he's in
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: great form as well. But I don't mind Varde at all.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: With all these budget forward knocking about, as it's getting
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: harder and harder for FO managers to spend that little
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: bit more and go up into the seven point something bracket.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: With Dominics, we've got to talk to Dominic I will
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: at some stage say something that will cheer you. I'm
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: absolutely convinced. I don't look at the fixtures we've got
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: left LEI. I don't think he will. I assume Dominic
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Slanky in your team. Oh yeah, oh yeah.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well listen it. It was just aner point, not two
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: x G for Slanky this weekend. And when you combine
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: that with the previous two game weeks where he got
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: NAT point No. Eight and then you know, around zero
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: for the game week before that. His last goal was
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: in game week six, and you know the Spurs fans
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: will argue, yep, he's doing a lot for the team,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: and he's dropping deep and he's making Brennan Johnson and
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Son when he plays, and teamo verner Mikey Moore. You know,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: the wingers are looking better with this Crystal Palace game.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I guess the exception which we've got to talk about,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: but in previous weeks he's doing a lot for the
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: team and he's playing in that sort of for Meino
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: kind of role if you like when Manae and Salad
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: did so well, didn't they a couple of seasons back
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: when for me Noo played that.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Kind of way.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: But FPO managers won't want to hear that. Slanke's FPR
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: managers will not want to hear that. They will just see,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: you know, nor point no eight x G, not point
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: not two x G, not getting involved with the goals,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: not getting involved with the FPL points. What did you
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: make a Slanke's performance? Are you going to sell him?
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: And we've got to talk about Spurs as well, because
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: it wasn't a good performance from them, right.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: No, it wasn't. And we've seen this from Spurs this season.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: You know, you don't really know what you're going to
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: get with them. You don't know whether you're going to
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: get a really attacking, vibrant, attacking performance where you feel
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: like anyone can score at any moment, or you're going
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: to get something where the chemistry just seems off and
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: they don't look like they're they're gelling at all. I mean,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: I've been really disappointed with Selanky. I kind of feel
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: like I've moved heaven and Earth for him a few
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: weeks ago because I switched from five in midfield to
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: free up top, I've avoided Brennan Johnson. Are paying you
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: a million more for Slanky over Johnson, who looks far
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: more threatening in that game? I just thought that the
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: amount of crosses Spurs are putting in and you know
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: that ninety minutes kind of almost locked on and guaranteed,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: and you know the previous history of Slanky played with
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Bornemouth last year, in the last previous seasons. I just
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: thought the goals would come, given the pictures they've got.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: But I'm just looking at it now, I'm thinking it's
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: all very well to be putting crosses in, but if
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Slanky isn't even in the penalty area when the crosses
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: are coming in, you know he's not going to get
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: on the end of him, is he And he's a
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: luxury He feels like a luxury pick at seven to
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: seven when there are so many other players in that
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: full positions who you can have mentioned at six to five,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: so many we've mentioned, and others that we haven't even
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: mentioned as well that I think can come in. So
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: it's a question of when am I going to sell
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: him as opposed to if, because I don't think it
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: can it can really continue. I mean he's got two
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: home games next Villa and Ipswich, then it's man City
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: away and then it's Fullham at home, so it's three
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: home fixtures in the next four. But I think if
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: he comes into City away in game week twelve and
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: you know he's registering this low on the XGI and
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: then hasn't scored or assisted, he's going to be out.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Game week twelve is a big shift. I think for teams,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: there's going to be a lot of moves. So I
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: think if you are, you know, looking at your teams,
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: try and hold transfers or at least have gamely twelve
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: in mind, because we are seeing big, big picture turns. Yeah,
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Game week twelve definitely going to be a very popular
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: wildcard window. Like I said before, with those that have
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: got it.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I do want to give a shout out to Palace,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: though it's not all, you know, it's not all that
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Spurs played badly. Palace pressed the Spurs goal kicks brilliantly,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: absolutely brilliant, and I noticed that Spurs lost the ball
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: in their own third forty nine times in that game,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: most of any Premier League side this season. So Spurs
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: trying to play out from the back, and I hear
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: what Angrewpostacoglu says every week. You know, this is our philosophy.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: We're going to play this way. But if you lose
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: the ball in your own third forty nine times, and
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: seven of those times that led to a shot on goal.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: One of those seven one led to the goal. And
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: if you look at some of the stats, you look
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: at some of the areas in which they lost that ball,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: it was all on that side. With Mickey Vanderven and
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: with Destiny Yudogi. Those two are not, in my opinion,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: comfortable enough on the ball to play out from the back.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Vander Ven in particular, Right, we know what He's got,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: loads of strengths, right, He's quick as hell, isn't he
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: vand even right so.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: His recovery pace when Spurs play that.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: High line is a weapon. But he's not comfortable on
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: the ball, and nor is Destiny y Doggie. And actually
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Pallas noticed that and won the ball back. You know,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: it's seven times that led to a shot in those
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: areas on that side. So only one clean sheet since
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: game week one as well as which was that game
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: against Man United, which admittedly was a good game for them, right,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: they did play very well there. There'll be a few
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: FPR managers that have got Poro. I'm not one of them,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: but there'll be a few on Van der Venn as well.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Spurs defense to sell that's what do you think?
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. I mean we talked about a Nori
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: and how you kind of relying on the attack of
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: returns of the clean sheets aren't there at least he's
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: only four or five poro at five five, I don't know.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: I feel like that's a lot of money difficult to
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: hold now, isn't it. Yeah, I think so. And you know,
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: if the underlying numbers were like incredible, then I'd say
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: maybe you can you can hold. And he does look
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: threatening in the games I've seen, but I do think
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: with Johnson in the team on the right, it's Johnson
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: who's getting much more joy down that right hand side
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: and looks more threatening in terms of teams. And I
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: don't think this is a Poro that we we've necessarily
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: seen in previous in previous seasons, so he can always
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: pop up with a goal. But I mean, he's nearly
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: thirty percent owned, he's five point five million. I think
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: this is the time when we're going to be wanting
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: to take money out of our defense and putting it
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: into midfield, in particular with Saka, Parma and Salah. So yeah,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: he's he's probably a cell maybe maybe even this week.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: So can't see him getting clean sheet against William.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, very good, All right, let's talk about the last
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: couple of games then. So I mentioned him at the
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: beginning in my team the superstar Brian and Bremo. Only
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Harland has got more goals than Mbremos so far this season.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Braced at the weekend, ticking over nicely from the penalty
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: spot of the last few weeks as well. And as
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: we know because we've mentioned it here before, and I
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: know that Sam, Jules and Kelly mention it during their
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: midweek shows as well. You know, the fixtures for Brentford
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: look good for the foreseeable Fulham Born with Everton Leicster
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: up next. There's nothing in there that's going to make
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: me sell Brian and Brimo defensively is altogether different question.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: I thought, ipswitch at home. Yeah, this is Now's your
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: time flecking. Now is the time flecking for you to
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: keep a clean sheet. But clearly not, clearly not decided
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: to concede the three goals and get just the one point.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: But I don't want to talk about the defense. Let's
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: let's focus on Brian and Bremo. You got I think
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: you I think you've got to have him or do
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: you now put Visa on the radar as well as
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: depending on your structure of your team, depending on how
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: you want to play FPL as a manager, if you're
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: looking for a midfielder, it's in Premo. If you're looking
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: for a forward, it's Visit. Do you agree that Brentford
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: attack is absolutely worth investing in, and would you also
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: agree that Brentford defense, you know, we should be avoiding
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: at all costs.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel sorry for Flecking owners or or you know,
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: because you're not even getting the goals that maybe Pinup
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: has scored over the last few few weeks. At least
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: vander Berg is four million and you can see the
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: most shots in target in the league of all teams
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: this season, second most shots overall. So I think it's
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: does mean Flecking gets the odd save point, but it does. Yeah,
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: too much many going in. That's that's the problem. And
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: I think you know, with with goalkeepers, you want to
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: be getting the clean sheets because that's how you get
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: the bonus and things save point aren't really enough anymore,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: especially when especially when the teams conceding multiple goals. So yeah,
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: then defence is out but mbumo Is is just unbelievable.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: He's an absolute must owe. And if you haven't got
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: him and you feel like you've missed the boat, the
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: fixers that are still there, you get on it. So yeah,
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: I think he's He's just an easy, easy move. You know,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: I'm amazing are teams out there without him because he's
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: not as hard to get to as as some of
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: the other premium as sets. You just want to get
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: him in and hold. Yeah, I agree, Villa Bormouth. Then
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: let's talk about Olie Watkins.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Two big chances created for Rogers and for John Duran
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: and assist as well, wiped out by millimeters, wasn't it
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: by VR just crossed over the line before McGinn then
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: tucked it away. So pretty unlucky, I'd suggest Watkin owners,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: or maybe as a Watkin owner, I just feel a
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: bit unlucky.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Only completed ninety minutes twice all season, though Watkins keeps
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: being dragged off early and Rogers as well dragged off
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: on fifty seven. So for the first time this season,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: substituted before the sixty minute mark with I think you know,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Iamory come out and said, look, the kid's got a
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: bit of fatigue, which I think at his agent that
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: the amount of football he's played. I think you can
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: accept that. So when Villa don't score a lot of goals,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: and when Rogers and Watkins don't get too many FPL points,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: I know I'm on for a red Arrow that week.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: Do you know what I mean?
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Because I've got both of them, and I've got quite
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of money tied up in both.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't like being on both of them, But equally,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: when they do go off and I get maybe a
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Roger's assist Watkins go it's great, it's Green Arrow time, right,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: But when Villa don't do quite so well, yeah, it
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: feels like quite a big risk to have them both
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: in my team.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: How do you feel about it? Well, I've got both
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: as well, so yeah, I'm with you. I mean, last
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: week they both scored, didn't they That was lovely. Yeah.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: I enjoyed that. I enjoyed that a lot. This week
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: I think it could have happened again. I think you
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: said about what I think Watkins was very unlucky to
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: come away from this game with nothing. I thought it
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: was very threatening throughout, very direct, fouled a few times
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: been around the penalty area that assists. I mean it
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: was the right core, the ball had fully crossed the line,
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: but you can't get much closer than that. So yeah,
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: I just think Watkins at nine million, where we're talking
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: about the other assets, I think again he's he'd be
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: quite low down on the players that I'd buy going forward,
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: So he's in my team. He's probably going to be
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: a cell for me over the next couple of weeks. Spurs,
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: I think it's fine to hold him in that. Then
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: it's Liverpool. I think that's probably the game where I
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: lose him and then move to one of the one
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: of the other players. But Roger's easy hold off of
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: fifty seven really disappointing. Obviously want him to get to sixty.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think he just needed a bit of
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: a bit of a break and hopefully he's got the
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: week now off and won't play in the Cup.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed, all right, So last game to discuss, and
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: we've discussed a lot of budget forward so far this podcast.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: One that we probably should skip over quite quickly. I'm
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: afraid for Dominic calvot Lewin. Owners is the England man
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: that's now five blanks in a row for DCL and
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: then Beto comes on and gets the goal, isn't it.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: So it's the difficult one for DCL owners. I think
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: he's probably a seal, isn't he, Particularly with the wealth
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: of options that we've got and we've discussed on the pod.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: This is a really tough one because you know, you're
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: looking at fixture plays and it's Southampton next for Everton
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: and the fixtures remain good, yeah, and you kind of
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: he kind of maybe get stuck with a player like
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: that who isn't performing, but you always feel like that
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: the fixtures are going to are going to turn. I mean,
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Diych did say about Beto that he needs to work
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: on other areas of his game other than the goal scoring.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: You know, the work great in defensive duties and things
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: like that. It's not enough just to be there and
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: getting goals. You've got to do other parts. So that
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: kind of indicates to me that Kavloon is going to play.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: He's going to start again against Southampton. But I would
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: be very, very tempted to sell him this week if
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: I had him, because I look at Chris Wood at
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: home to west Ham and think it's a similar Ish fixture.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: You know he's either team could do well in that game,
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: but he's on form and they seem to be using
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: him a bit more so. I think if you've got
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: calvt Luin and you've got no other major pressing transfers,
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: I think a Calval Loud to a Wood or a
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: Cooner might be in your best interest.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're right. And then the final game
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: of the weekend. And just because when I was on
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: here last time, I forgot to mention Manchester United and
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: people accuse.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Me of he did it again, but nearly did it again,
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: nearly did it again. I'm going to leave.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Letss till last many United fans eighteen attempts on goal,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: more than any other team on the Sunday.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: On the Super Sunday in the Premier.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: League, Bruno had five of the most by United player
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: and three chances created a non pay not the X
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: year I have zero point seventy four. So I don't
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: know what Bruno Fernandez owners have got to do to
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: get a nice hault in FPL. Those of you that
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: have still got him, but listen, it's it's getting so
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: frustrating to hold him. He's got to be a seal,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: isn't he There's just too many other good options.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: Well again it's well, maybe i'm a bit but I
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: bought am Gnaccio this week and he hit the bar,
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: which obviously was incredibly disappointing, and had a few other
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: chances of his own. But again, it's a pictures clab
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: in Chelsea. Home's taught. But then it's Lester Ripswich Everton.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: I look at Fernandez and just think, if you've had
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: him for this long, I mean, you haven't bought him
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: this week, Surely you've obviously owned him for quite a while.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: Do you maybe just keep him up until game week
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: fourteen and just hope for the best, because the underlying
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: numbers are good, and I do think points are potentially
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: coming on the horizon. It depends what you need, It
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: depends what you need to do with it. You know,
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: if you need to take the money out to get
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: a Palmer or a sacker, then yes, absolutely, But if
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: you're just kind of moving him too another player for
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: the sake of it, I still think he's an okay,
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: okay hole over the next over the next few weeks,
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: but yeah, it is incredily ipstrate. I'm glad. I haven't
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: got that decision to make. I just think you take
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: him out and then you watch him line up against Leicester,
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: Everton and nipswitch and you've got to almost want him back.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: So maybe just put up with it for a few
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: more weeks. What do you think?
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's yeah, I think that certainly from eleven, twelve
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: and thirteen. It's that Leicester at home game that's good,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: doesn't it, and then Everton at home in thirteen.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: Not in general. Just can't say for the ball in
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: the net.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: I know, but if it can't score, I mean Lester
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: at home in eleven, that's the one to look at
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: and we'll get some We'll get some pointers I think
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: won't were. The one thing that we always say on
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: this podcast is hold your knee from jerking if you can.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Because of some Big League Cup games coming up in
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: the week and Manchester United, I believe in round four
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: are playing against Leicester and I think it is Adul Trafford,
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: So all eyes on that game because Bruno Fernandez owners
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: will want to see something in that game that might
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: mean they keep him for the though. Looking if you
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: were's owner and you saw him get a hat trick
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: in the Cup. Would that make you happy? No?
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Probably not, probably not. I think the key thing with
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: with Filandez though, is again patience is a virtue. I
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: think if you've kept him for this long, you keep him.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: I think that's that's generally a rule with all. We've
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: all transfers this season, and particularly this week because we've
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: got the League Cup coming up, so we might need
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: more news on you know, Gabrielle Gordon as well is
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: out if you've got him in your team, so we're
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: hoping to get a bit more information about them. So
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: you hold those transfers if you can. Yeah, hold those transfers.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: And while you're doing that, why you're holding While you're waiting,
• 48:35
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• 48:38
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• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Two huge games coming up this week, by the way,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: my team against your team, we play each other in
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: the League Cup at the Annex before your team Brighton
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: comes to visit Liverpool and Field this weekend in the Premier.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: League score predictions. Two on Brian, is that a league?
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: Is that a Premier League? I think we I think
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: we might, we might get one over you in the Cup,
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: but then I think you'll probably you'll probably do us
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: over in the in the league.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I'm gonna go too, Neil for us in
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: the league. May the best team made the best team
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: in red. Nice to see this week.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Thanks thanks cheering me up. M