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#52 Don't Panic! · Draft Offsides Podcast

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I'm fucking worried. Yeah.
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Do you have him? I fucking have him.
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Yeah, he should be worried. He's.
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Got fucking zero points for me. I'm fucking worried.
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When I saw him not on the start, my level was all right, maybe
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all right. And then I, I just started
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figuring the longer the game went on, the more I fought.
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They got. They got a few centimeter
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fielders in there. They look stand out.
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They don't need him. Yeah, you know that if they get
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the minutes they're going to contribute fantasy points.
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But both both of these teams have so many good midfielders
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and it's so congested. I think there's going to be a
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lot of rotation and I think it's very concerning trying to get a
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rid of him now. You don't have to just drop him
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in like 3 weeks when he doesn't start the next three games
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either. Like, you know, I'm pretty good
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about like not panicking, you know, week one, but that that's
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one where I'm about ready to break the glass on like, I don't
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know, maybe we're overreacting. The I don't know.
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I'm alarmed because that was like, it was like everything I
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was concerned about pre season seemed true.
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So I tried selling them now to someone that doesn't watch
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football. Hello and welcome to episode 52
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of Draft Offsides. My name is Keith, I'm with Tico
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Enzo. Season or game week one is in
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the book. Boys, how do we feel?
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Not good. Let's let's go around, let's go
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around the room and say how we feel.
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I feel amazing. Tico, you feel amazing.
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Great. Enzo, how do you feel?
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I lost both my matchups and my team.
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Drew. How do you think I feel?
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You didn't lose lost a ratchet. Excellent.
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Yeah, I'm great. So good.
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Yeah, I lost Pokémon matchups. Oh.
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I lost against you, which I'm I'm sorry if you can't remember
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that by like 30 points and I lost to fucking Derek by 4.
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I wanted to give you some shit about that.
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I was looking at the draft and the top and the first three
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rounds you lost two player that drafted Holland, Kieran Tribrier
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and Marcus Rashford. I said so funny when you say out
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loud. Yeah, like, like, like lobster.
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You're not. You don't cry.
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Yeah. Basically, because I should have
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beat him. If I had just started one other
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player, I would have beat him. But yeah, wherever.
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Ouch. Well, hey, that's that's, that's
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the beauty of it, right When somebody listen.
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What's the first game of the season?
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And there was a there was a few weird things we'll talk about,
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you know, people that were going to start that didn't start and
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change it. Yeah, it was a little bit a
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little bit lopsided, but you know.
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Because of Cup and EUR, like everything's just a little weird
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to start. And so I, you know, like
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normally you don't want to panic in the first week.
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I think especially this year, you don't want to panic because
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there's the training to fitness and it's totally fine.
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If anyone wants to know how I did, I want both.
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The knife apps feel great. I feel good.
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You see how you see how no one responded to that, Keith?
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That was that. Just do your job and host.
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How's Chelsea doing? I think they did pretty well all
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things considered. Like we lost by we lost by
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inches in that game. We, you know, like that.
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But the, the Holland goal was inches from being offsides.
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The Jackson goal that got taken away was inches from being
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onsides. You know, the, the second goal
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was kind of whatever thing is, we'd subbed off half our
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midfield at that point. I, I mean, I'm not, I'm not
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that. I thought we actually did pretty
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well. I think it's really easy to spin
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the narrative like it's more disaster.
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But you know, if we were like, if we were like Tottenham,
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people would be talking about how proud they were of how we
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play it or something. You know, I don't think they
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would. That's what that's what people
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do. No, no, I don't think they
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would, but I think they would. The only thing I heard was when
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they said there's 350 million pounds of midfield on that
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Chelsea midfield and the one they sold for 25,000,000 was the
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best midfielder on the pitch. I mean, you can.
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You can spin it how you want. I had no idea you said that
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great of a reach. All.
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Right. Should we get into Southern
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duds? 1000 duds game.
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Week 1000 duds work with us. Tika, what do you got?
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The veteran Daniel Albeck, 24 points.
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He's only roster around 12% off fan tracks, he constantly gets
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the start one healthy for Brighton he did all of last year
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and he just produces without any flash.
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Yeah, we, I'm going to shout him out on waiver Series A big deal.
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I think with the biggest thing is that Brighton actually had a
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lot of rotation last year deserving was rotating players a
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lot. So it's just really hard to
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depend on like on anyone, you know, cuz it was like Pedro one
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day it was Welbeck another it was so and so, you know, so I
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think with this new coach, you think he'll probably be a little
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more consistent. And if Welbeck's the guy, that's
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a great, that's a great, that's a great pick up.
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Do you think he do you think he ain't going to do the rotation
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thing the way deserve he did? I I.
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I can't see. I I thought that was pretty
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unusual, especially now that Bretton's not in Europe.
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That's true. I think it's going to be
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significantly less rotation. So as long as Welbeck stays fit,
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I think he's a shoo in. And I mean, I think even like,
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yeah, I mean, Jon Pedro can't play there.
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But like, Jon Pedro played in like the hole behind him.
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And like, Evan Ferguson is injured right now.
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So it might not be season long but for right now like lock and
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load. Got it.
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Something to doing a bright and dead by a new striker, Georginio
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Rutter. I don't know much about him but
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they bought it for 40 million so.
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Oh, they did. Yeah.
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Well, fuck me then. No, I mean, it's gonna take a
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little while. I mean, I, I think, I think
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Welbeck's still a good a good ad for the for the now.
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I'm just, I don't he's never like a long term guy.
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I I think. He's a good backup or a spot
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starter. I'm.
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Gonna say squat star for sure all.
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Right. And who else do you have on the
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list? Sergey?
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I'm a Tico. Second one, we have Saga, not
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surprising, the most points for game B.
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He opened the season with the Bank 32.25 points projector,
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21.081 goal, one assist and he had five key passes which was
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pretty key. Score this is going to hurt if
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he was phenomenal if I could be honest in that game.
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Fucking amazing the way he coincide his goals well taken.
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Just his cut in for the cross the hakai haverts.
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He did everything right in that game.
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Can he be consistent? I think he can.
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He was like, like we said, he stays fit most of the season.
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I think he can do it in most games, maybe not all, but he can
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do it in most games. But he stand up, stand up this
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week. Yeah, I agree.
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I mean, there's not much to say. Like he like of all the of all
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the players returning from international duty, a lot of
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them didn't look that sharp. And Saka was one of the few that
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looked like really, really sharp that played in like a final.
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You know, all the other players that played in the final, they
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made it deep in these national team runs.
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Like like didn't look great, but he just he's just the guy, you
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know, look sharp, look strong. All right.
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Last, Abdul. Fattahu, I think that's how you
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pronounce the name. 24 1/2 points projected to a 13.57.
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Did it against Tottenham. He had the assists of the game
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for Leicester City and he also had six tackles, one where he
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got a lot of plays like that for midfielder. 6 tackles one that's
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pretty huge. Oh yeah, I'd say a little bit of
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a surprise that he would just perform so well.
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You know, I think he was kind of a speculative ad that people
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like thought help you do well in week one.
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I just I didn't I was he was not someone I was looking at week 1.
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So I was impressed though. I think he definitely passed the
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eye test. Like you look good A.
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Lot of it to talk about him before the season, I said.
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He's one of the ones to look out for, but I'm not going to, you
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know, jump ahead and say he's going to be a star for the rest
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of the season. But he showed definitely this
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game, these capabilities of what he can do.
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Could it be a WAR player? Maybe?
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Could it be a Ghost point player?
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Maybe. As you said, he's got 2024.5
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points or four of those is from an assist.
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The rest is from Wade down the field, 66 from an assist.
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So he had 18 points. No assist is 6 points and then
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six tackles. That's another six points and
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then three successful dribbles, so that's all goes points.
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So he's doing a lot. Yeah, like he passes.
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He must have had at least one if he got an assess.
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Two of those. Too.
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Yeah. So he, yeah, that was a good
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game. It was a good game against a
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tough opponent like Tottenham. I think that's exciting.
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I mean, I wouldn't get super carried away, No, but I think
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it's a it's a really good result.
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And I think if you're you're feeling pretty smug if you were
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hot on him, right. Yeah.
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We got an honorable mention in the stats.
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Who's that? Tico.
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Nathan Collins, defender for Brentford, He had 16 points, one
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assist. He's only rostered at 7%, and
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last year he averaged 7 two points per per game.
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So if you consider that giving up a goal is no longer -2
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points, it might be someone worth playing on the matchups.
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Yeah, yeah, I, I, I don't mind this.
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I wouldn't get too carried away. Like same thing.
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I mean, there's always going to be players that have good weeks
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and defenders are, are pretty fickle.
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You know, I'm pretty dependent on that clean sheet goal
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situation. I'm with Keith from that it's I
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I get why you put them in there. It is the first week and
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defenders like you said off fickle and if they get an
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assist, this is a bonus. But if they get that clean sheet
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and assist, it's like, oh. Very nice.
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Yeah, I mean, I would be more curious, I'd be looking at like
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wing backs or right or left backs getting assist because I
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think that's probably a little more like indicative of like a
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like a faze role play. Like yeah, but I think for a
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centre back to get assist like that, it's not that many where
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they are, they're consistently that's like part of the game
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plan, you know. So but it's still I mean, it's
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nowhere. They each keep an eye on it.
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And if he if he keeps, he continues to, he's like, he's
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not, he's still not going to get rostered in a ton of things like
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that. No, Nope.
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You know, I think he's someone that, like, you could just keep
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an eye on. And if he performs well again
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and then you start to go, oh, maybe maybe something's shifted
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here. You know, people are interested.
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The sun goes on. OK, what do we got for duds?
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So the first one we have is ALDI Watkins, consensus top six
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player, negative half a point projected to a 16.6 and he was
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stubbed off at the 16 minute mark and the striker that came
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in his place, I think the run. The run he.
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Scored it, he scored a goal, so obviously everyone's over here
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is high on Watkins, but not a way you want to start off the
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year. No, I, you know, I have him in
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one league and I'll tell you, you have him in another.
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It was a great start. Honestly, He he wasn't getting
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no joy up there. He didn't look match fit
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perfectly honest. I think he's one of the ones
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coming off the the EUR not looking 100%.
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If you get a couple too many margaritas on the beach on his
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vacation and he's come back a little bit sloppy.
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But am I worried? No, I'm not worried about Oliv
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Watkins come back game two a little bit Fisser, maybe a
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little bit more, you know, bearing front of gold.
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We'll see. Yeah, he had no pre season.
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You know, he he literally played the EUR, had two weeks off and
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then pain was just came back like trained for less than a
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week and then played in this game.
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It was actually surprising to me that he that he would even start
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in this game, you know. Yeah, I don't even think he
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played a single minute of the preseason games.
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No, So it's fine. I mean, kind of we talked about
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this top of the show. Like I'm not panicking on
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anyone, any of these like premium players just yet.
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But yeah, I mean, Ollie Watkins, I think we just carry on, carry
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on carrying on with him, right. Like he's he's fine.
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I think there is there is something to be said though, and
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I'm curious is that, you know, we were all worried about a
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little bit of regression with him and that's kind of baked in.
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Like we, I think we're all aware that that could very much
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happen. But if he if Duran starts
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playing really well and Watkins and you know, because they're in
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Europe and everything. And so if do you think Watkins
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might get a few less games just to rest him before big European
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matches and stuff like that, Is that a concern?
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I don't think you think that Europe is their first priority.
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Or do you think that getting top four is still their main
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priority? That's where you got to have
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your head at because they want to do well in Europe.
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But I don't think they're under any false pretenses where they
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think they're going to win Europe.
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But the idea is to stay in Europe, to keep getting that
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money and keep running. In, I mean, if they get out of
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the grief stages, I promise you they're going to play the
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strongest squad. Yeah.
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I mean, I, I would also refer back to Newcastle last year, by
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the time the Euro started they were out of the Premier League
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because they had so many injuries.
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So I think it also matters how they're doing in the Premiership
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when they the group stages come about for Euros.
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For the Champions League. Yeah, and also for the Champions
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League, more games this year. Let's also keep that in mind.
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Yeah, there will be more games. And no one drops down to the
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UEFA if you get knocked down Europa, sorry.
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So that's that actually is not a bad thing for some of the teams.
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Yeah. I mean, it's something to
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consider. I'm not worried, but something
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to consider. What about Fabian Char Chico?
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Tell us about. Tell us about your guy.
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Ah, this guy, don't get me started on him.
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On both of the teams got a straight red -6.75 points
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projected to a 14.72. Played I think less than 30
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minutes. To be fair, I personally did not
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think that should have been a red, but what do I know.
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It's well played to Berreton, the fucking play act that he did
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Parfianos because they both leaned in.
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But Berreton reacted, you know what I mean?
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So I like don't get wrong, I still disagree with it.
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I don't think it was a red. I think that was play acting.
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I think I think both should have got a yellow card.
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But in this day and age, as soon as you've made that contact.
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You go like head toe and you just like say words and that's
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it. Move on happens.
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It's happened so many times, it's so weird.
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I think the only way that you can say that this was how it
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should be as if there's some slight like if this is something
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that the refs advised all the players before the season, like
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we're no longer going to tolerate this thing because that
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that happens a lot. Like the refs will be like at
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the beginning of the year, be like we will no longer tolerate
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XYZ in the blah, blah, blah. And then players, if they still
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do that thing, then they'll get harshly punished and then you'll
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see no one else to do that anymore.
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So if there's if there's something like that, which we're
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not aware of, like so be it. But otherwise, like that's
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happens, what happens like every 3rd game I would say two players
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go head to head and talk shit a little bit.
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So for that, that's what he called to me.
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Just felt really weird, you know?
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Yeah, I agree. But you know, Shaw came out of
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the bat the worst of it and he got very caught and you got
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negative points, which is, you know, unfortunate.
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That's the best way to get onto the duds.
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Best way to get onto the duds? Yeah.
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All right, who's the last? Who's the last of the debts?
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KDB only six points projected to have 24.57.
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The only positive from this is obviously he started, he played
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the whole 90 minutes which surprising and great for KDB
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owners you. Think he paid badly?
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He's just fan tracks. You think?
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I don't think he even. I think it was just AI think it
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was a combination of things. I think it was no Rogery.
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So I think he played a little deeper than he normally does
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because obviously they had Kovach playing in the Roger
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role. But like, I think any player
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needs a little more support than Roger does, because Roger's like
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one of the best in the world he does.
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No SO. I think that was part of it.
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I think, yeah, part of it was just like he had some shots that
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just barely missed. You know, those are those are
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points that are just inches away from getting counted a few times
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and just didn't just didn't just didn't happen.
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But the fact he played 90 is really reassuring.
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That's really you're right, really assuring.
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Also, if you look at the midfield, it's pretty much all
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new faces for him except Bernardo Silva.
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It's he didn't really play with Doku a lot.
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Savio was on the right side. It was a lot on your faces,
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Louis. So it's sometimes kind of looked
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out of place too. I was also listening to just
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some like the Pep speak after the matches.
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He was praising KDP, just saying how well he played considering
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the role and he thought he was phenomenal so blah blah blah.
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Prepped it. The whole the whole spiel.
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So maybe that says that if Pep's happy with how you're playing,
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that means you're going to keep playing.
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Probably, maybe not. Yep.
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No, maybe not. But just in general, what I mean
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is that it's very possible that, I mean, it's very likely that
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KDB had a specific role for this game and he played that and
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Pep's happy and he'll just continue to play.
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So not panicked yet, no. And then we have an honorable
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mention. Our good old friend Marcus for
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Ashford 3.25 points projected 15.32.
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Another surprise start and he played the whole game, which
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again, if you're a Rashford owner, it should be good, but I
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guess we'll talk more about their lineup choices later on.
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But yeah, it was interesting to see him start and play the whole
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90. I don't think he should be
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starting. I don't think he will be
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starting. I'm sorry, like he just he just
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didn't look the same. We didn't look it didn't look
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ice cold. His runs didn't look right.
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I think you put was it Diallo and Ganacho on those wings?
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I think you'll be all right. Yeah, I think, I mean, he
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they're paying him so much to be there.
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He's supposed to be the guy that it's just it's not showing on
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the field right now. And I just don't think he's
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gonna beast the starter for long unless he changed something
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changes, maybe another game or two.
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But if it's if it he continues just kind of be a passenger like
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he was. It's only a matter of time
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before 10 Hawk has to. Switch to man.
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You have to. Yeah, I think it's very
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different from KDBI think he did play the whole 90, but I I'm not
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leaving that reassured the way I am with KDB.
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No, no, no. Yeah, concerned, but the good
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news is you got him in the probably the sixth round or
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something or not in our league. No, in our league.
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But. Mostly in the third.
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Round and most weeks you got him pretty late so.
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Yeah, no, 6th, 7th, which isn't bad.
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Probably on, especially if he's a sports star, you know, I mean.
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All right, that is studs and duds.
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So now let's move over. We're just going to kind of like
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ends up in a fun thing. We're just he kind of just broke
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up the games into a few just different key talking points.
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We're just going to go through those and then kind of talk
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through them and let's and go that way.
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So let's let's do this first thing.
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So it's new players putting in work or or slash first game
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syndrome. So is are these players?
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Look, I'm going to ask you guys, I'm posing this.
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Put a player up and ask what you guys think is this guy who stood
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well in his first game for his new club, Is this indicative of
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things to come or is this kind of like a first game search?
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OK, first one, Joshua Xerxy. What do you guys think?
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9.5. Baby 9.5 points scored goal off
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a bench no. No, no, he got 11 points.
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He's a 9.5. Oh, Jesus, why are you
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confusing? Very confusing.
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Yeah, I. I got.
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I got the same thing as well. No, his position is 9.5.
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That's not a real thing. The front of the thing.
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Zerxy said it and Zerxy scored on his debut.
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Yeah, but you see all sorts of things that doesn't make it
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true. I've said a few.
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I've said a few things that have been right.
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His position was the bench. Yeah, but I don't.
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Think he's going to be on the bench.
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I don't think he's going to be on the bench.
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Honestly. He looked pretty good.
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He did. He did come a little bit deeper
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at times and he opened up the wings a lot more and he he made
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runs deep, like an attacking midfield forward.
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And there was times where he stayed in the box and was trying
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to go Frederz. I like Xaxi, though.
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I think he's going to be like this all season.
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I'm not sure yet. I got to see a few more games,
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but I think he is going to start the next game at least and if he
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does, if he does something, you know, assist or a goal or or you
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know assist or an assist, I think he could be good.
18:33
Who got sacrificed? Mason Mount.
18:35
Is he the one that that leads away for Xerxe?
18:39
I would Mason mount. Yeah, get rid of him.
18:41
Guys, there's a week long, the week long Manchester United fan.
18:44
Let me tell you, I'd be surprised as he does not
18:47
surprise the start of next week. Take out Rashford Mounds and
18:51
flip a coin. Doesn't matter.
18:52
OK, So then you guys are both you guys are bullish on him.
18:56
You think yeah, you think he's gonna he's.
18:57
It's not a one off. It's not a first game syndrome.
19:00
I don't think it's, I don't think it's one off until.
19:02
Off the third game, until how good comes back, I think he's a
19:05
good player to start. OK, what if I told you that all
19:09
these players score another debut?
19:11
Anthony. Marshall Anthony Macheda,
19:15
Remember him from way back in the day.
19:16
That was a sick first goal too, and.
19:18
There was one more I'm Blake on a zam too, but it was Van
19:20
Persie. No Van Persie was good though.
19:22
Carnatron. But he's scoring his debut.
19:25
I'm just trying to, I'm just, I was just trying to name the boss
19:27
and so you're, you're ruining my flow.
19:30
I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure Vanessa was
19:32
scored in his debut. Danny van, the Beek as well,
19:34
also scored his debut. So I'm just saying like, but
19:36
then you know who else scored on their debuts?
19:38
Cristiano Ronaldo, Ibraham, van Persie.
19:40
So is he going to be which? Which of those two camps just
19:43
Sissy Lion? You guys think he's going to be
19:45
in the? The middle.
19:47
In the middle, I don't. I don't know if there's.
19:49
I'm AI found another bet, another hoiling bet.
19:51
I don't really want to hear it. What is that?
19:53
Zuck see scores more goals in Hoyland this season.
19:56
I'm, I agree with you? No, I don't agree.
19:58
I'm neutral on this. Tika, do you agree with that?
20:00
I I disagree. You are.
20:03
Oh, right there. Put your hand out, Sam.
20:06
What is he giving back? OK, Doesn't matter.
20:08
That's not what I said, all right.
20:11
You know, Keith, when you were listening of all the players
20:14
that scored on our debut for Manchester United, I was
20:16
thinking of Jose Mourinho slot talking about it's football
20:18
heritage. God's sake, man, we we should
20:23
never have pestered him to get a team in the Premiership.
20:26
Oh wait, we didn't. No, we do this to ourselves.
20:29
We do we do we not? I mean I.
20:31
Don't think we read. OK, so you guys are on Xerxi.
20:34
I I'm not right now. I think like that was great.
20:36
I thought that little movie was great, but I'm still not I I
20:39
need AC more for him to think he's going to be the guy.
20:42
OK. The next one, Nazrawi, another
20:44
United player, had a pretty good week. 14.5 points.
20:47
So he's a, he's a right footer. He played on the left.
20:50
Yeah. For Luke Shaw.
20:51
What do you think? Are you excited about it?
20:56
I think he played well, man. Honestly, he played really well.
20:58
I didn't realize he got so many points until I looked there
21:01
after the game. He was getting up and down the
21:03
pitch. He was still making runs.
21:06
He looked comfortable on that left hand side.
21:07
I know he kept moving to his right, but he did look
21:09
comfortable. Granted, he was against Fulham,
21:11
so I'd like to see him play on left hand side against, you
21:14
know, a bad team. I'm not sure who they're playing
21:15
this week. They're Brighton, who has some
21:18
very good attacking winners. So that will be the real test
21:21
for me. Don't get wrong, all his points
21:24
are ghost points, which is is a great for a defender like to get
21:28
double figures. I think it's really good.
21:29
Well, he got a clean sheet, so those aren't good.
21:31
Oh yeah, yeah, but but oh, yeah. Sorry, sorry.
21:33
So you go what, 8.8 point? 8.5 ghost and then six. 8.5
21:38
ghost points from your from your defender isn't bad judging from
21:41
last season. I'm interested.
21:43
I think there's just a time limit on this guy, right?
21:46
You think you think he might? No, I think Shaw always is going
21:49
to. If Shaw's healthy, he's the guy
21:50
there. Yeah, but when is Shaw?
21:52
When is Shaw really 100% healthy?
21:55
Fair enough, fair enough. OK, next one I'm a do Onana
22:00
16.75 points, scored the goal off the set piece.
22:03
Thumbs up, thumbs down on him. There you go.
22:06
I thought he looked really good. The only thing with that is I
22:09
still if he's been playing timed, I think he should be
22:13
roster. But we'll see if that's the
22:15
rotation they stick with because Ross Sparkly didn't start.
22:17
So I want to see once they have a solid midfield rotation if
22:21
he's playing, I think he's good to have.
22:24
I I thought Villa had a lot of action.
22:25
Midfielder Tillerman's looked really good as well.
22:29
No, I I like Ronano. Ronaldo was good at Evan.
22:31
He's good here. He's scoring his debut, but I
22:33
think that's just the one game I'm not like, Tiko said.
22:37
If there's so many players in that midfield that he's going to
22:39
get rotated, I think it's going to be all down to points per
22:42
start for him and, you know, push him in when he's playing
22:46
for me. Yeah, I don't know.
22:48
I'm not, I'm not super sold. I mean, the one thing that that
22:50
really caught my ears in an interview after the game, he
22:53
mentioned just, I think kind of almost accidentally, because
22:56
it's not the best, like, thing to reveal, is that is that the
22:58
so he's like the centrepiece for set pieces, Like he's the target
23:02
on all set pieces for for that team.
23:04
And so knowing that it's like, oh, like that makes me a little
23:08
more interested. But other than that, other than
23:10
his set, his involvement in set pieces, he's a 6th.
23:13
You know, he's a holding midfielder.
23:15
Yeah. You know, he could.
23:16
He he had some nice turns. He had some nice kind of
23:18
dribbles and passes. But at the end of the day, I
23:20
don't think there's that much there.
23:22
Yeah, I hear you. Check his height.
23:23
He's 65. He better be the Yeah, he better
23:26
be the target. See this last two quick.
23:28
Ian Matson came in in the 74th minute, was involved in the
23:31
goal. It was just 'cause he came on
23:33
only for that long and he got five points in in like 20
23:36
minutes less than. Yeah, and he got like, you know,
23:39
he, you'll know he won't get points for that goal, but he was
23:42
super involved in it. He had a really nice one touch
23:44
that led to that. When I was watching Dina, Pei
23:47
thought he was doing a very good job and I thought to myself,
23:50
Enzo, like he wasted drafts on drafting Madsen.
23:52
But when he came on he completely changed the game.
23:54
His his pace, his crossing, dribbling.
23:57
I I think that's he's going to be the starting of left back
24:00
soon. Yeah, I think so too.
24:01
I think it's just a matter of time.
24:02
I might actually try and make trades for him now, like reach
24:05
out to people and try and do that because I think it's only a
24:08
matter of time before he's the starting guy.
24:11
And people might not realize it yet who didn't watch it as
24:14
closely as we did. And just looking at me like,
24:16
there's no way you're like, pry him off my cold, dead fingers.
24:19
Is that what you're kind of saying?
24:21
Correct. There is another league that
24:22
we're in where you don't have them.
24:24
So maybe I'll don't. I thought you'd be all approach
24:26
and not like I do nots Yeah, I'm I'm pretty bullish on knots in
24:31
and this was just this was just the vindication that I kind of
24:35
needed. Like I I'm actually willing to
24:37
kind of like draw like what what round is he going in?
24:40
9th 10th round. Yeah, not 9th, 10th round.
24:44
I would I'd be willing to tread like a like a seventh round pick
24:47
for him, maybe even a little earlier.
24:49
Interesting. Maybe one that was a little
24:51
underwhelming or someone who performed well.
24:53
Just some of the note last one, Savio or Savino, Manchester City
24:58
end up with 10 points looked really good.
25:01
I mean, I think it's kind of easy to look good in this Man
25:03
City team because it's such a it's such a well oiled machine.
25:07
You just you fit in and you look, you can look pretty good
25:09
if you're kind of a competent player.
25:10
But that that being said, I think he still looked really
25:12
solid. I think the one concern is there
25:14
is he subbed off with it looked like a a parent knee injury.
25:18
And it was it was off the ball. I know that's that's all I mean.
25:21
Yeah, and he he got that. He only played the first half
25:23
and he got 10 points. That's.
25:25
Pretty good. That's pretty darn good.
25:26
That's what that's why I put him in there because he's like he
25:29
said, he played the first half, got 10 points and he wasn't like
25:33
he going to assist or score a goal.
25:35
He just was dribbles. I think dribble completions, I'm
25:38
not sure what it was, but dribble completions, key passes
25:42
and aerial duels if I think if I were correctly.
25:46
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think that if he's I
25:49
think it's just like most City players, if they're starting,
25:52
you can you can play it without any concern.
25:55
Yeah, you know, just about any position on on the City team.
25:59
Yeah. So if he's getting those
26:00
attacking starts sick plan, you're good.
26:04
But they're just not. He's not going to be doing that
26:06
every game. I think especially with Foden
26:07
coming back because you know, Bernard Silva can play out wide,
26:10
but it looks like Pep wants to go with Doku and Savio Savino
26:15
and just play like speed demons on either side, which is scary.
26:18
Fuck you're nuts. Imagine imagine that with Foden
26:21
playing in the 10 at times just fucking around.
26:25
Oh my God. Had that few years ago when
26:27
Sonia was there. A bar is on one side, Sonia on
26:30
the other side. And that team was nasty.
26:33
Can you be honest? Yeah, Streets won't forget that
26:36
team. Nope.
26:38
All right, kind of moving on. So some of the top 10 picks and
26:41
how they performed, I like we kind of talked about it.
26:44
I'm personally not concerned about any of these, but like
26:47
foded coming off the bench. You got a chocolate up to the
26:49
EUR, right? Yep.
26:51
Palmer 10.75 points again. I think he looked a little less
26:55
sharp than he normally does. I think that's also fitness
26:58
related. Mm hmm.
26:59
It's also the pawn that they played.
27:01
Yeah, totally. Saw 9.25 today.
27:04
Tito. You thought he didn't look good?
27:05
I don't know. Was that Sergei?
27:07
I thought he didn't. Yeah, Sergey.
27:09
Sergey Yeah. But yeah, I thought he was OK.
27:11
I mean, it was fine. It was fine.
27:13
Like I said, I don't think I don't think he was amazing, but
27:15
I don't think he was terrible. You know what I mean?
27:17
Like I said, I don't think anyone replayed badly.
27:19
I just think they didn't have the cutting edge.
27:23
I think the one that's actually kind of alarming is the one that
27:25
scored a goal, which is Holland to score.
27:28
It only got 11.5 points. No touches bro.
27:31
How many? You know how many touches he
27:32
had? I mean he had 22 touches in that
27:34
game. Yeah, he had a couple more where
27:36
he could have scored and I thought it was amazing that he
27:38
scored over KU Gorilla. It was so good.
27:41
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Watkins already discussed Bruto
27:45
eight points. That was kind of funny that you
27:47
see Bruto like Tigo. He talked me in it but he
27:48
tweeted something like sorry to all my fanagy managers like.
27:51
I'll be next week. Yeah, that's kind of funny.
27:55
What do you think about Odegard? I don't I it wasn't like I
27:58
forgot about him, but he was like a passenger in that game.
28:02
You know what I mean? Like he did a few good things
28:06
here and there, but he was a it was mostly a Kai and soccer.
28:11
Yeah, I mean, they got the goal on the assists.
28:13
Yeah. But I mean overall though, it
28:15
was mostly those two in the build up I felt.
28:18
Do you think that's something that's tactically that shifted
28:20
or you think it was just first game hiccups like it'll he'll
28:23
calm down because he had a really bad he had a really slow
28:26
start of the season last year too, if you remember that's.
28:27
Exactly what I was thinking. Yeah, I'm looking at it.
28:30
Last year, the first six games and the first three he scored a
28:33
single digit. So he got off to a slow start.
28:35
Maybe that's the thing. The one thing I would do worry
28:39
about is if Arsenal is linked to this Spanish midfielder.
28:42
Marino. Marino So if he comes in, is
28:45
that going to kind of shift Auteguard's role as well?
28:47
Is Marino is, but I don't think he's AI think.
28:50
I don't think he's like a playmaker though.
28:52
He's more of like a big strong. He's a winger, not a winger.
28:55
No, he's they play him on the wing.
28:57
He doesn't play up front. He's a winger.
28:59
He plays on the wing. He's the guy that scored for
29:01
Spain, right? Yes.
29:03
No, he is. They play him on the wing.
29:05
He doesn't play up front. He plays on the wing.
29:07
I. Don't think he's a winger.
29:09
He's definitely not. He's not a playmaker.
29:11
He's not a playmaker and. He's not and he's not a forward.
29:14
I know that. I thought he was a forward at
29:16
first, but I ain't a forward. I I think he's more like a, like
29:19
a a. Sentiment Fielder.
29:20
Like I said, like an 8, but not like a playmaker 8, more like a
29:23
bruiser. Yeah, mostly Plato's are #8 with
29:26
a midfield three or four. So OK, so I think it'd be like
29:29
him and Rice with Odegard ahead of them.
29:31
That might even be better for him.
29:33
Then he doesn't have to drop back as much.
29:35
It's true. Yeah.
29:37
So I think I don't know. It's going to be bad for Royce
29:39
though. Can't be a false 10 anymore.
29:42
No, poor guy. The thing, yeah, I think
29:44
actually Marino will just like completely do with that because
29:48
Marino's really, he's really good at crashing the box, right?
29:50
He's really good with his head. So, you know, we'll see.
29:54
Yeah, I might put that to silence finally.
29:57
So there were some players that, you know, didn't start or came
30:00
off the bench. And I think there's some in this
30:03
list that there's you could be concerned about.
30:05
But the first one maybe not so much.
30:07
Garnacho, you feel concerned or not?
30:10
No. I was, I was surprised he didn't
30:11
start because he started in the Cherry Shield, but I think that
30:13
might have been the reason why maybe.
30:16
But as soon as he came on he looked electric.
30:18
I think we we said beginning the season.
30:20
I think he's going to be a stand out for United, especially on
30:24
the attacking front, so I'm not worried about him.
30:27
Came off incident back. Yep, not worried.
30:31
Exactly, I feel the exact same way.
30:34
If anything, it's he proved his point by not starting.
30:37
Yeah. OK, what about James Ward
30:40
Prowse, who's going in as early as the third round in a lot of
30:43
drafts? I'm fucking worried.
30:45
Yeah. Do you have him?
30:46
I fucking have him. Yeah, you should have scored.
30:48
He's got fucking zero points for you.
30:50
I'm fucking worried. When I saw him not understand my
30:52
level was all right, maybe all right.
30:54
And then I I just started figuring the longer the game
30:57
went on, the more I fought they got.
30:59
They got a few centimetre fielders in there.
31:01
They look stand out. They don't need him.
31:04
Yeah, I think that's why I wasn't that hot on games
31:07
workouts for that reason, right? I was a little concerned.
31:10
And as him and Ross Barkley, I think to me we're very slimmer
31:13
in that, you know, that if they get the minutes, they're going
31:16
to contribute fantasy points. But both, both of these teams,
31:19
both watching both and AUSA Villa have so many good
31:22
midfielders and it's so congested.
31:23
I think there's going to be a lot of rotation and I think it's
31:25
very concerning. Well, I also forgot how much
31:27
frigging and W Hammond had invested this summer.
31:30
They actually wore a lot of frigging players.
31:32
Yeah, so. Concerning.
31:35
Concerning. Yellow flags.
31:37
If you have, if you have JWPI, think about an exit strategy.
31:42
Yeah. Which might just be trying to
31:44
get rid of now so that you don't have to just you don't have to
31:48
just drop him in like 3 weeks when he doesn't start the next
31:50
three games either. Because that'll be a wasteless
31:52
third round pick. Yeah.
31:54
OK. What?
31:55
Yeah. So like, you know, I'm pretty
31:56
good about like, not panicking, you know, week one.
31:59
But that that's one where I'm, I'm like about ready to break
32:03
the glass on, you know, I don't know, maybe we're overreacting.
32:07
The. I don't know.
32:07
I'm alarmed because it was like, it was like everything I was
32:10
concerned about preseason seemed true.
32:12
Yeah. OK.
32:13
What about Darwin Dunez? Unused sub.
32:18
Like, I didn't watch the game. Did you guys watch the game?
32:21
I was the second-half. Like I only watched highlights,
32:24
but from just from the highlights alone didn't look
32:27
like they missed him at all. Like jotter being upfront.
32:31
Like, and I, and I said this at the beginning, I didn't think
32:34
Joel would get a sniff, but maybe on a slot needs that like
32:39
that #9 that drops back and sips through and just sits in the
32:43
block and does does his job. I don't know.
32:47
I'm a I'm a little concerned, but nowhere near as much as with
32:50
James Red Cross. Yeah.
32:52
I'm I'm a little concerned, but I'm willing to kind of let chalk
32:55
it up to a few other things. This has nothing to do with his
33:00
actions right when he went and fought the fans, no.
33:03
Not that we're aware of. Yeah, has nothing.
33:05
Had nothing to do with. This not there.
33:07
It's it's a little worrisome, but it's not like smashing on
33:11
the panic button. Let's see the second game if he
33:13
gets some playing time or not. But I mean, he had a wonder a
33:16
great year last year. He's coming off to Copa America.
33:18
So it's kind of surprising that he did not get any run.
33:21
Yeah, maybe they just didn't need him, but yeah.
33:23
And I'm a little like, my eyebrows are raised, but I'm
33:26
gonna I'm gonna hold for him right now.
33:27
I'm not gonna panic. What about the next one, Karen?
33:29
Trip. You're unused, Saab.
33:30
Worried. Worried.
33:32
I'm not worried. You're not worried?
33:34
I'm not. I'm not worried either.
33:36
I think again, it's the EUR coming off that.
33:39
I think if you didn't have the EUR, I would be very worried
33:42
because with the potential transfer rumors or something.
33:44
But I think with the Euros, to me it's maybe he's just, he's a
33:47
little older. He probably needed this a little
33:49
time, a little more than some of the other guys.
33:51
To, to me, the, the worrisome part is that he might still be
33:55
sold to Saudi. That's the worrisome part.
33:58
Maybe they're not playing him to risk an injury because they they
34:00
haven't come out and said that deal is off the table.
34:02
He also entertained the idea of going to Saudis as well.
34:06
And he did. He did get benched for the
34:08
final, right. Yeah, but I mean, he was there
34:11
at the tournament. It doesn't matter that much to
34:13
me. Yeah.
34:14
Yeah, yeah. So that that's the only reason
34:16
I'm worried, not because of his ability.
34:18
Yeah, I think. I think maybe if he doesn't
34:22
start the next game I'm very worried I I'll start to really
34:24
fight. Or at least on.
34:25
Or at least on like, yeah. Come on, in some way.
34:28
Come on. Yeah.
34:28
Come off the bench. Yeah.
34:30
Because I I don't know if like Lewis Hall and Livermento are
34:33
solid. Like I actually like Lewis Hall,
34:35
but I just like I feel like Trippier is just.
34:39
There's a different dynamic. Yeah, yeah.
34:41
He just. He.
34:41
Just he's like, he can win a game for you.
34:44
Yes, he can. He can put a ball, Yeah.
34:47
Line that box wherever you need. And he's just that.
34:48
Peace they go. Ivan Tony, rumors came out that
34:53
morning when he wasn't on the when the team sheet that he's
34:56
potentially going to Saudi you. Heard I heard my unite too.
35:01
I. Mean what's I heard, I heard
35:03
Chelsea, maybe two, but I think the scary thing would be Saudi,
35:06
right? Because if if you're an owner,
35:08
you you, that's like you just lost your third OPEC.
35:11
If you're screwed, you're absolutely screwed.
35:14
So I tried selling them now to to someone that doesn't watch
35:17
football. No, everyone's going to be,
35:20
everyone's going to take one look at that and what are you
35:22
really going to get for that? Maybe we'll get a six round
35:24
pick. Chuck, I'll take a six round
35:26
pick for nothing. You told me.
35:28
It might not be nothing. How, how dumb would you feel if
35:30
you sold them now and then? I I guess you just sold them
35:33
now. And then he just goes to United
35:35
or he just goes to Chelsea or he doesn't go.
35:38
Anywhere, if he goes to Chelsea, you still, you still win
35:41
because. No, he'll be good.
35:42
He'll be good at Chelsea. Yeah, OK.
35:45
Josh is going to be good this year.
35:46
You got will you bet with 100 frigging stars they're.
35:50
Going to be good watch. Watch what?
35:53
What is good? Can we?
35:54
You said this, What does good mean?
35:57
Like better than Tottenham. Oh, but.
36:00
You're top, I think it's top four.
36:02
Yeah, I'm changing my mind. I'm actually dropping them off
36:05
from the top four as well. I've never had them in the top
36:08
four. Fucking idiots.
36:13
But I think that you haven't noted here, I think if Tony does
36:16
go then and Ben Bowen was to shoot up a lot.
36:18
Oh yes. Yeah, I think I'm, I don't know
36:21
who I like. I feel like they both with Tony
36:23
last year they both took penalties kind of dependent on
36:26
who's on the field and whatnot. But I think in Bebo might be the
36:29
guy more so there was to take penalties.
36:31
I agree, I'm not 100% sure. But no, I think you're right.
36:33
So that's just something to note.
36:35
Folded off the bench, Not worried about it.
36:37
I think coming off the EUR, there's a lot of different
36:40
factors. And he came on when they, you
36:42
know, they need a little bit more control in the middle.
36:44
So let's move on. No worries.
36:47
Kulasefsky. Yeah, should be worried off
36:51
Cooley, off the bench. He came on today.
36:52
He looked decent when he came on.
36:54
But I mean, I mean, I think that's just the role he's going
36:56
to play. I think maybe you could have
36:58
made an argument before Dominic Slinky came, but he was going to
37:00
get a lot of playing time as like a false 9.
37:03
But now, now that was just a huge, like, fourth, fifth round
37:09
that might just be a toss, toss away.
37:11
Yeah, it looks like Ange prefers Brendan Johnson there and I
37:16
think he holds Kulu backs because he can play Kulu in the
37:20
10 or on the wing. Yeah, so he.
37:22
Has a bit more versatility. Exactly.
37:24
I think Andrew really wants fast guys on the wings.
37:26
Yeah. So the Brendan Johnson, Salon,
37:29
Timo Verner, you know, guys like that.
37:31
Solomon, when he's back, back and fit.
37:34
I think Kulusefski just doesn't quite fit into the way that
37:36
Andrew wants his wingers to play.
37:37
No. No, yeah.
37:39
So maybe he's subbing it for Madison.
37:41
Maybe it's like where Charleston gets hurt being the backup for
37:44
Dominic Solanke. Yeah, that's about it.
37:47
So which sucks for where he was going to drafts.
37:50
Yep. All right, you ready for
37:55
waivers? All right, so we were, we were
37:59
just chatting waivers last night on the in our group thread and
38:02
you guys were throwing some names around and there was one I
38:04
was surprised that we haven't been talking about.
38:07
And it's, I called him the big fish.
38:08
It's Evan Nielsen from going to Bournemouth from Porto.
38:13
He scored like 25 goals for Puerto last season.
38:16
He had to score some good champions and goals.
38:18
Seems like an all around very good player and he's filling a
38:21
big hole that Solanke laughed at.
38:23
Bournemouth. Ariola seems like a great coach.
38:25
Ariola got a lot out of Dom Solanke and I think that this
38:29
could be a really big transfer. What do you guys think?
38:33
Has he gone through yet? He's he's, you can pick him up.
38:36
Oh. Yeah, he's on the waivers.
38:38
He's on waivers. I think this could be like this
38:41
could be a big deal it. Could be it could be.
38:45
But you, Amy Goldie scored in in Porto, you said 25 you.
38:50
Said that you scored 25. I'm always wary, I'm always wary
38:56
of strikers that come from either the Dutch league, the
38:59
Porto league, because, because when they come from, if it's a
39:03
Spanish, no, I'm just were you making that face dig?
39:05
I'm just saying because when they come to the Premiership it
39:07
doesn't translate. No, because you called it the
39:09
Porto league. Yeah, sorry.
39:11
The Portuguese league, the Portuguese league, it's not the
39:15
same as the Premiership. Like when they come from like
39:17
the Bundesliga or Syria, La Liga, there's a little bit more
39:22
credibility, credibility there. But the Premiership is so
39:25
different. We don't know.
39:27
But if he scored 25 goals, he's coming back with and like you
39:30
said, he's coming in to fill some big shoes.
39:32
Yeah, I mean, it is. Yeah.
39:34
I think it's it's all his goals. Last year was 25, not just in
39:37
Porto. But I think the thing that
39:38
sticks out for me is in the Champions League, he played in
39:42
seven matches, scored full goals and got one assist.
39:45
So I I think that's pretty good. I think, I mean, that that to me
39:48
is telling that it's not just like you're just good against
39:50
farmers. You know, you're good against
39:52
just the the lower rungs. So I think that's interesting.
39:56
But yeah, I'm kind of in on it. I'm kind of excited about this.
39:59
I also, you know, you want to always want to tempt
40:00
expectations on these players just to end this point because
40:03
you just never know. It's going to take people time
40:04
to adjust. English isn't his first
40:06
language. Like all these things could be
40:08
factors, but I also just, I think to me, I look at the
40:11
coach, I look at Ariola and I think he did a really good job
40:14
with Bournemouth last year. And you're like the first half
40:17
of the season they were pretty subpar.
40:19
But then once they figured out that system and I clicked, they
40:21
were pretty good that the end of the year.
40:24
And so I'm, I, I think this is a pretty, I think this is should
40:26
be the probably the number one target or whatever.
40:30
OK, I'm with ya. I hear you.
40:33
Yes, Yeah, Next one is Danny Welbeck and we talked about him
40:36
earlier. Yeah, I think like maybe not
40:39
like I think Evan Nelson has the potential to be a long like a
40:42
season long. I think Welbeck is probably the
40:44
next few games and take it you got to kind of play it by ear.
40:46
And so for that reason, I wouldn't necessarily like like
40:50
blow the bank on him as a as a pick up, but I think he's good
40:53
enough to start games until you know, if this new striker comes
40:56
in and takes a spot or if something changes.
40:58
But I think until then you you you're locked and loaded with
41:00
him. Question.
41:03
Yep. How much fab would you spend on
41:05
Evan Nielsen? How much fab would you spend on
41:07
Danny Welbeck? Yeah, I'm not going to tell you
41:09
that. Oh, OK.
41:10
Oh, I'm sorry. I'll tell you Welbeck 0.
41:15
Zero, I'd I'd probably spend a if I needed a striker right now,
41:18
like let's say I had someone that was injured, like if I had
41:20
like Hoyland, you know, and I needed someone to fill in, I'd
41:22
probably spend like 789 fab just knowing that you can maybe have
41:27
them for the next few weeks. Yeah, I was going to say. 65,
41:30
yeah. Sounds about right, yeah.
41:32
All right. So.
41:33
That's enough. You can just see it's all.
41:34
Right. You gave me a, you gave me a
41:35
gauge there. From did you did it?
41:37
You gave. Me a gauge.
41:39
I might need to adjust my fab bit.
41:43
I'm not going for him. I've got too many struggles.
41:45
Go on. Next on the list, I just wanted
41:47
to talk about the Tielmans and Onana.
41:49
So Tielmans had the assists, Onana had the goal.
41:51
It was both on the set play. I think they're viable, but they
41:55
play Arsenal next week. And I kind of what I talked
41:58
about they're not Onana is I don't know how much is really
42:02
can can contribute outside of set plays from a goal
42:04
perspective. So that's that's not the most
42:06
exciting thing. And Tielmans is a little more
42:07
interesting because he's the one assisting.
42:09
So there's obviously like more chances for him to get goals
42:11
from. If you get points from assists,
42:13
then it is to score, you know, from some players.
42:16
But I'm not like I'm not the hardest on them, but I think
42:20
they're just they're they're they're there.
42:22
You should be thinking about him.
42:23
What do you, what do you, what do you guys think?
42:25
I agree on the 09 apart. I think like he's he's he's an 8
42:29
so he's not really do too much assisting.
42:32
Tillerman's, it's hit or miss for me, especially from I know
42:35
he's had some games where he's blown up, where he scored a goal
42:38
or had an assist. Scored a cracker of a goal a few
42:42
times, yeah. Cracker of a goal from outside
42:43
the box, yeah. But are they?
42:46
Are they few? Too few and far between is my
42:48
question. And and the Tico's point, I
42:51
think the rotation is going to be pretty, you know, pretty
42:55
happening a lot with that team, you know.
42:58
So yeah, just a thought. I think I'd probably rank
43:00
Tierbins above Anona personally, just I think he offers more
43:04
chances there. All right, another one we talked
43:07
about Missouri from United. Just check if he's on whammers.
43:10
I think he could be, he could be a nice spot start for a few
43:12
weeks until Shaw's back. I think that's yeah, I think
43:15
that's solid. I mean, I honestly think that
43:17
next week will be really telling for United if they've really
43:20
turned a page or if Brighton just causes a lot of problems,
43:24
which I could see. Well, they played freaking well
43:26
this week, didn't they? Yeah, another United player,
43:29
Casamiro, surprisingly that. Do you guys think that this is
43:33
Casamiro from two years ago and he's back and he just needed
43:36
that, or do you think this was a little bit of a flash of the Pan
43:37
game? You're not.
43:39
You're not buying it, Enzo. I'm not buying it.
43:43
No buying it. You go as a as a United fan.
43:47
And a Real Madrid's fan. I think Casamiro will be world
43:50
class till till the day he retires.
43:54
But what about last year? Then What happened last year?
43:56
So last year he he was not fit, he started the injury, but
44:00
fantasy wise he still put up 8.6 points per game, which for that
44:04
team last year was pretty good. They they're probably got better
44:09
on defense so he'll get more clean sheets, more tackles and
44:11
all that stuff. I do think there's value for
44:13
Casamiro on on the roster. If you need a midfielder, I
44:17
think it's good to have, especially has the shitty teams
44:19
and he's going to have score like two or three goals in the
44:22
year as well. Always go Lazos.
44:25
Yeah. And just also, just so I, I
44:27
didn't say this on the top of waivers, but for waivers in
44:29
general, which try and keep it players that are under 50%
44:32
owned, you know, so some of these names might not sound
44:35
super exciting when when you're looking at this right now,
44:37
considering what's out there, but these are the guys that are
44:39
under 50%. So after this segment, I'll have
44:41
this another section of guys like double check, you know, But
44:44
I think as far as Casamiro goes, I mean, if you need it, but I
44:48
just feel like I'd, I think I'd rather roll the dice at other
44:51
places. Yeah, me too.
44:53
No, unless I just need it. There's certain players.
44:55
If you just need like a guy that you know is going to get you a
44:56
solid return, maybe you know, you have some explosive
45:00
midfielders, you just need that like baseline guy.
45:03
He's not, he's not a bad option, but I just, I don't know, I need
45:06
to see it a little bit more. Well, there's a there's a name
45:10
coming up, though I think we better.
45:12
Is that Harry Maguire? No, the one after.
45:16
OK, but Harry Maguire's on here too.
45:19
As long as he's starting, I think he's worth starting.
45:22
On your teams. It's a question of if Delict
45:24
eventually takes that role. I don't think you'll ever see
45:27
Delict and Harriet playing at the same time.
45:29
No, can't have two Frankenstein's play at the same
45:32
time. Yeah, exactly.
45:34
Clark can't be. Clark can't.
45:36
Superman can't be in the same place at the same time.
45:38
They can't. No.
45:39
No, exactly. You think you think the lakes
45:41
are starting over? McGuire Like start as soon as
45:43
next week as. I don't know.
45:45
I don't say as soon as next week, but maybe the week after
45:47
that. Eventually, that's coming sooner
45:49
rather than later. Yeah, it's coming.
45:51
I think so. 10 Ogg has a situation in mind.
45:54
He you know how you've seen it with Anthony where he trusts his
45:56
ex IX players and he he'll trust them till the end of the season
46:01
and then he'll drop to his. Detriment.
46:03
To his detriment. Oh yeah, two, another two names
46:06
on here that I think are pretty interesting, and they're a
46:08
little bit like no one's probably thinking about them.
46:11
The first one was Cameron Archer was at.
46:15
Sheffield United. Sheffield United, then he was a
46:18
Villa for like a month, now he's at Southampton.
46:21
There was like a weird buyback kind of roundabout, but I
46:23
thought he had some really good moments at Sheffield United and
46:25
Sheffield United was really bad. He looked decent.
46:28
So if Southampton can be like a normal relegation team, like a
46:33
normal bottom team, I think he could end up proving some having
46:36
some solid value and some solid returns.
46:39
I agree. I like Cameron Archer.
46:40
I think he's explosive when he wants to be.
46:43
He can score a good goal here and there.
46:45
He's a creative police. It's we're not he can who, who
46:50
if he can get baritone in, that's going to be the big
46:53
thing. Can baritone scored on the end
46:55
of his passes? I think Bearson Diaz is more
46:58
like the one that's going to be passing the ball to him.
47:00
No, Burton plays upfront. He, I think he played upfront
47:03
because Archer wasn't quite ready and then the other guy
47:06
they have was, it was like something was wrong with him.
47:10
So I think, I think Barrington would rather play on one of the
47:12
wings and cut in really is that's what he's done.
47:14
That's what he did for Sheffield last year and stuff.
47:17
And so that's. What I think another name on
47:19
here Brentford, Kevin Shawn Shawna.
47:24
So he he got the start and with if Tony leaves, he's pretty
47:28
locked into this position and getting the starts.
47:31
So I think this is one that's interesting, especially if
47:34
Brentford have a good year. I think, you know, he's not
47:37
quite, he's not whistly, he's not in Bobo, but.
47:41
You think you get he starts ahead of What's his name?
47:46
The shit Hauser? What's his name?
47:48
French guy. Plays upfront for Brentford.
47:52
Had a Pebble batch. While no.
47:55
More play. For now, yeah.
47:57
I mean, he did. He started ahead of him in Week
47:58
1. So I think there's definitely
47:59
something there. I think people like think he's
48:01
good and they think he's like kind of doing his own thing.
48:04
So I'm interested in that. Again, probably lower down the
48:09
lower down the totem pole as far as waivers go, but just someone,
48:12
just someone to keep an eye on. And then I have then the last
48:15
one I have is like an incredibly degenerate name on here.
48:18
Like do not, do not pick this guy up and think anything's
48:20
going to come of it. But if you're like a if you're
48:22
in a deep league and you're an absolute like like freak, this
48:26
might be an interesting one. It's Joao Consello.
48:29
What's wrong with you, Keith man?
48:31
Why are you bringing another man's sea defender?
48:33
Because he's so he's he's kind of got him and Pep had a falling
48:37
out a few years ago, but and he's been like transfers up
48:40
Byron, he was at Barcelona last year.
48:42
He's back with a squad, he's been training and Pep had some
48:44
really nice things to say about him.
48:46
So there's a chance that he maybe is like plays.
48:50
I think it's probably not, but I think it's just kind of a funny
48:52
name to bring up. We need to have an intervention
48:54
with Keith to go. Without you were over this one
48:57
you didn't draft any mad city defenders I.
48:59
Know we were so proud of you just.
49:03
A thought OK, then also it's just like a really kind of more
49:06
it's a degenerate like if you're if you're a gambler, if you have
49:09
a serious gambling addiction, he'd be named for you.
49:13
Just some names to double check to make sure that that you know
49:16
in leagues. Most of them are owned in over
49:18
50%. But just my for one reason or
49:21
another, might not have been picked up.
49:22
Was Wambasaka going to West Ham now?
49:24
I think he's going to be a very viable player.
49:26
Lewis Hall, Newcastle, he got the start and it looks like he's
49:29
going to be pretty locked in to that left that left position,
49:32
that left left full back position.
49:35
Johan Wissa, he wasn't drafted in every league.
49:38
There's some things where he's going to be available and with
49:40
if Ivan Tony goes, I think he's going to be incredibly viable.
49:44
Minta should be drafted but I thought he looked very good so
49:47
he. Looked.
49:48
Really. Good, Yeah, I would double check
49:49
that one. And then Matthias Delict, most
49:51
leagues have him. He's only he's only owned in
49:53
like less than 60% of leagues, but more than 50.
49:56
So I I think especially because he didn't get the start last
49:59
week. So I think in some leagues he
50:01
might still be there. So take a gander.
50:04
OK. This has been episode 52 of
50:06
Draft Offsides. My name is Keith.
50:08
I'm with Tico Enzo and we will see you next week.
50:10
Follow us on social media at Draft Offsides.
50:21
Did we start giving Enzo shit for?
50:23
Tottenham or not yet Enzo started giving himself shit for
50:28
Tottenham. No, no, no, no.
50:29
We don't let him do stuff like that.
50:30
He's just trying to make himself look like the victim so we don't
50:34
shit on it, you know? What's so he's trying to.
50:36
Control the narrative. He's trying to control the
50:37
narrative. But you know what's worse on
50:39
this occasion is the fact that it I didn't really give a shit
50:42
when Tiger really spoke shit before, but now that he's a
50:45
Mancurian, I just want to slap him.
50:48
We got three points. Oh my God.
50:52
The striker we got scored a goal on his debut.
50:54
That the striker you got do anything relevant today?
50:58
I know you should play pretty well.
51:00
He just didn't score. Didn't score.
51:04
You think son looked horrible? I.
51:06
Don't think son looked horrible. I thought Madison was amazing.
51:11
Can I be honest? I don't think anyone played
51:13
badly. I just don't think anyone played
51:15
that good. I actually think they looked
51:17
phenomenal at first, like. That's why I'm still in the
51:19
first half. Percent of the game.
51:21
But you know what? To me it looked like they almost
51:22
ran out of steam. Like they just, they're a little
51:24
tired, like they're making some silly mistakes.
51:26
Like they just the energy levels were way lower.
51:29
Just read my name. New season, same fucking
51:32
problems. Yeah.
51:34
But also I don't. Think they missed the Suma?
51:38
Yeah, because he was inhaling laughing gas.
51:40
I think we were fun. No, I think I I think he does a
51:43
lot for the team.