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GW16 The Last of Salah I Ep: 116 · Draft Offsides Podcast

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Keith, what jersey are you wearing?
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This is the one that I got. It's the O seven O 8 Blackburn
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Rovers jersey. This was like when I first
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started watching the Premier League.
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This was like the team that I kind of followed other than
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Chelsea and I really liked Mark Hughes was the coach in this
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period and this was like when they were the most fun.
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They had like a lot of like streets will not forget players
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like Morton, gum Patterson and Benny McCarthy.
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Robbie Savage played with them for a while.
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Really fun guys. So hello and welcome to episode
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116. I'm with Tico and Enzo.
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My name is Keith. We are draft Offsides.
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Follow us at Draft Offsides. I'm going to say it in the
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beginning this time because I always say it in the end and who
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knows how many people actually got there.
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Everyone obviously game week 15 is in the books.
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We are looking at some some big swings, some dramatic moments,
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is what it was Sergei saying that Emery is Arteta's daddy?
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He's being a man. Now you'll have to see it for
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sure. I mean, it's it's kind of like a
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it's the the whole league feels very like rock paper scissors Z
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right now, like this team beats this team.
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This beats this team beats this team.
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Which? Except Wolf, they beat no one.
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Yeah, they beat no one. Yeah, it.
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Also looks good though still if I can be honest.
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But I mean did you see that post they called?
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They're like, do you like some pie?
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Arsenal crumble? Have you seen?
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It Oh my God, that's so good. I mean, I think it's almost at
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this point it's going to it's getting to where even though
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they are the best team, just a mental load that they have to
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carry of of like kind of being like bottle job, you know, like
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that like even if they're not, but just like kind of having
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that kind of chain around their neck is is mentally tough.
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It's going. To be great, once they get past
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it, they're going to get past it, I think.
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I think that was true. I I honestly like there's,
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there's such a better team. Everyone else, you know, just as
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far as completeness goes and as far as like daps and everything,
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but yeah, yeah. Can I get a counterpoint to it?
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Yes. Can't score goals.
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What does? What did the great DaVita said
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You just have to put the ball in and that that's all that counts.
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Can't score goals. You said the other things are
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pretty. What else did?
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What else does DaVita say? You have to like hold the.
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Balls. You're going to have personality
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balls. You fucking love that guy.
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There's another Yeah. So many catch phrases.
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Like what about like when we saw this friend, all our listeners
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stop you names the guy we used to play with, he was like you,
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just like you from Italy, from Sicily, but like straight from
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Sicily kind of. And he was just like, like a
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maestro. Like he was so good, but he just
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could not move. He was like, so he was so good
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on the ball. So I was like, my job was really
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just to run around him and do the defensive work for both of
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us. So he.
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Could He didn't, yeah, he ever went into 1/2.
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He did not have a build of a soccer player at all.
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He was like wide body frame but like technically gifted could do
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everything. That's funny.
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My favorite Davida story is one time we were talking about like,
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I don't like some like classic legend legend players.
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He looks at me. He was like, hey, Roberto Bajo,
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his daughter. Oh fuck that.
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The other really funny one, the other really funny one was him
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when we had, like, a good win and he's like, he's like, all
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right, boys. Yeah, that's great.
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That's great. We should all go home and Make
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Love to our wives. Like, that's what we need to do
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now. Out of control.
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OK, Sorry. Got sidetracked.
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And also the league we played, it was like some random ass
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Sunday league. It's not like we were.
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Oh. Yeah, it was OK.
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Some of the biggest things, I think we really the top of the
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show. We really need to speak about
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this. Xavi Simmons 22.5 points Nobody
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started him though. Nope.
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I definitely the first thing I saw when he scores like did Enzo
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started up was like nobody started up.
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Nobody started him. I think that's it.
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Gives you just enough hope to probably not drop him.
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Yeah, it's a string. String you along.
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He goes on A5 game doing it again.
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I I feel like if he can do with the same thing what Jeremy Pinot
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is doing, which is keep the momentum going, you know, and
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what Foden's doing right now. Yeah, Yeah, I'd keep him.
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Like don't honestly. He looked more complete this
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game and more comfortable. He actually didn't lose the ball
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as much, which was good, and he made some good runs.
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But the style of play looked different.
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We were doing more balls over the top, which looked a lot, a
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lot different than we usually do.
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So maybe that works out for him. I even even the goal was he just
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got the ball, he dribbled ahead and like hit open space, which
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you know, not taking anything away from him, but I feel like
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that's more his style as opposed to kind of when the defense has
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a chance to like set their defense.
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I don't think he's going to be as effective and the way to get
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taught them, they obviously have a tomorrow, they have a game
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with the Champions League. Be interesting to see if he
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plays and how well he plays and then they play forest.
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So I don't know if you, I mean both of you have him on the
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team. Would you guys start him against
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Forest? Depending how?
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Let's say he doesn't play against in the Champions League
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against. I'd like to ask enter this.
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I almost I might play him either way.
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I feel like I feel like he's going to always do better in the
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Champions League because we've talked about how the Champions
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League is a lot more transition a transitional league.
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Teams want to play at you. You know, when you look at Floyd
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works, he's looked really good in the Champions League because
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obvious Simmons has looked good in the Champions League in other
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games. But I think either way, when you
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look at forests, like they lost three out of Everton last game,
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They're not like they kind of were kind of having a little bit
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of a renaissance. But like, you know, they they
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barely beat Wolves. They beat Wolves 10 the game
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before that. It's not like they're, you know,
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they're medals. Yeah.
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So I I would be open to it given the certain, given the right
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circumstances, but I'm not like it's not a it's not 100% lock.
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You know that that I don't think you need to start Xavi Simmons
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after one. Game No, no, I don't think you
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have to. But if you want to try, you
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know, start while he's hot, it's the best time to do it because
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if if he could have a good game next game and then flop the one
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after. Well, the following two games is
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because that's kind of the force is the only one you would play
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him. Afterwards.
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It's Liverpool I think. Yep, and Palace.
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Who's playing really bloody well?
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They're 4th right now are. We worried about, are we really
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that concerned about Liverpool? Oh, you're mute?
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I'm I'm muted. Oh no.
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No, no, you, you, you would. It was you won.
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No sound was coming out, but you came back.
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Am I worried about Liverpool? Like if, as I'm just saying that
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like they've been conceding, like it's not, they're not this
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team that like they're at this moment in time, you're like all
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soccer is so form based and like we're talking about Xavi
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Simmons. We're talking about do we ride
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the lightning with them or not? And it's like with Liverpool,
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it's like in the past, it's always like, Oh, I maybe not
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want to start against my team, my players against Liverpool.
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But now it's like, are you, are you that scared someone?
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Like are you that scared to start your players against
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Liverpool? I don't.
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I don't. Think they're they're looking a
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bit low. I know I get to get scored two
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goals. The last game, however, they did
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just Scapa went off injured. It looks like he might be out
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for a while. Kie's is ill still, so he might
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not be playing for a little bit. So are they going to start a
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young player or are they going to put Watts on the left?
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And who are they going? To put in the intent, yeah, I
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mean, Salah, this this conceivably would be his last
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game before Icon, but it might actually be his last game ever
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after those comments that came out this week.
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You guys want to talk about that?
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Like, I know it's not super fantasy.
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I mean, it's super fantasy relevant, but it's also like,
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but like I feel like it's if I was if I still own Teller, I got
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rid of him a few weeks ago, I would be trying I would be like
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a rat leaving a sinking ship trying to get rid of him right
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now. But I think you just, I think
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you should try and get anything you can for him.
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Who would do that? Right now.
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Well, I mean, the flip side is I was talking to I was talking to
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a friend about this who can't, who shall not be named
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Voldenate. Voldenate.
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But he wait, what? Just that look, you guys are
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both giving me OK. Anyways, he was saying he's
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like, well, he's like, what's the what are the chances that
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that Salah goes away to AFCON and then Salah gets fired in the
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meantime? And then if and then if Salah
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comes back, then what? You know what I mean?
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So I think that that there's there's maybe a shred of that,
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but I, I just feel like the comments that that salad put out
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that's he's kind of asking the board and the Fenway group to
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choose him or slot. That's that's the vibe I got out
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of it. Well.
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There's also kind of point to this where what if he goes to
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Ofcom, he plays like shit and Liverpool play amazing while
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he's gone. It's.
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Totally possible. I think that's totally possible.
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More likely scenario because but let's.
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If you think to the fact he's been dropped from the the
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Champions League fucking squad, he's got benched the last two
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games like he's probably on the way out.
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And you can't mean the fact that he came out and spoke, he's only
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spoken like 4 times in his whole Liverpool career.
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It's always when he wants something or you know, like
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there's always, it's always like when he can use it to his
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advantage, you know, it's never like.
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Agreed. Yeah.
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Agreed, but this is a horrible way to go out.
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Powerful, honest, horrible way to go out.
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Who what superstars go out well, though?
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Like look at look at Messi, the way he went out with Barcelona,
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how they like he felt like they pushed him to the side.
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Gus yes, well, look at Boppe with PSG.
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Like I think that all the biggest names, it just, it feels
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like there's a lot of ego and there's a lot of like there's
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always going to be a little. Bit no, no, but Messi didn't go
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out that bad because remember they, they, he, he wanted to
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leave and he tried to go out that.
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Way no. But then after that he didn't
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want to leave. He did not.
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Want to leave? No, the first time around and
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then the second time around he didn't want to leave, but they
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couldn't afford. They couldn't afford it, so
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there was no financial. There was no like farewell,
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goodbye. He just.
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Did there for a while. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
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Yeah, so, but that was so abrupt.
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But I don't, I don't think the club did him dirty.
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I played that game called Cristiano Ronaldo at United like
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that. That wasn't a good leave either.
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Like, I think just when you get to these, when these guys get
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older, I don't know, I just feel like it's Raul.
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Went out, went out. Well, this guy went out.
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Well, somewhere. Well, because he he's humble.
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Stay humble. Not if you ask Tom.
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Not if you ask. Yeah, not if you ask our
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psychotic league mates. Start our our Sith, our Sith
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Lord League. Mates who's on an 11
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game-winning streak I. Know I want to talk about that,
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but he's he's letting the heat flow through him.
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He's letting the heat flow through him.
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It's working OK OK, but So what what are we doing with Sala?
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Like it's is there any is there any point where you're being
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like, I'm going to ride this out and just hope for the best.
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Are you thinking I'll I'll take like if someone offered you
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Harry Wilson for Sala right now, would you be like I'll take
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Harry Wilson? No.
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I no, I, I think if you could trade Sala for any player that
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you could start any rotational player on the fantasy roster.
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Like like a like a three like a four 3A midfield 3.
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Yeah, like because, and I know like just forget the name.
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No, Forget the name, forget the draft value, forget the draft
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capital. Forget the forget everything
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look at because it's not like he just got he was playing great
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and he got benched. Look at the games when he was
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playing and he he was starting. He started off grade 19 points,
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11 points 012958 and a half 80 fantasy race fantasy race.
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He's been OK averaging 10 points.
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But but the way what you're expecting, the way what he was
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doing last year in the years previous, he was getting a lot
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of ghost points. Now it's gold or bust.
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He's becoming like a Holland type of player and he doesn't
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put in the gold kind of volume to justify holding on to him.
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Obviously, there's a chance like, you know, players who get
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injured and he could become a starter.
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But like, well, do you want to like give me Nunez, the defender
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from Citi over him? I'll take him in a heartbeat.
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Give me wait from, oh, from Citi, Yeah, Citi, yeah, I agree.
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I'll take like Morgan Rogers. Yes, of course.
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Yeah, I think. But those are like, I don't even
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think you'll get, I don't think you'll get those even.
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I think you're looking at like Retronos, yeah.
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Mateta. Oh, Mateta, I'd stop up in a
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heartbeat. Yeah, I think all these are.
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I think we're like because. He's like a 4243.
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Yeah, that that's like that's I'm looking at like, OK, so I'm
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looking at the top 20 forwards. The 20th ranked forward is Ollie
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Watkins. I would take Ollie Watkins in a
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heartbeat over most all right now.
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Georginio Rooter I would take. I would take Georginio Rooter in
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a heartbeat over most all right now.
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Wow. It's that bad.
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Wow. All right.
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I think when you get to that stats, that second page where
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it's like the 20 rank 21st forwards where you're like, OK,
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like these are the ones where I'd like if you're.
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Really trying to get something, but if I'm any, if I own Rutter,
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I'm not going to go for most solo.
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If I have Morgan Rogers, I'm not going to go for most.
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You know what I mean? I just think on the other side.
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So you're most with solo at the moment unless you're stuck.
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In my opinion you're stuck of him unless there's an an idiot
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in your league. But you got it.
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But I'm saying you should. You should be trying to get rid
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of them. You should know.
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Yeah, if you have Sal, you should be actively trying to be
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like, hey. I'm trying to get a sample.
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Who'd you trade him? To not me and Derek does now
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because I traded him. I traded Sala where like like I
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don't know, like where, what, but where's the line?
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I like to me the line is maybe like like Alex and will be I'd
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have I'd take Alex and will be over Sala.
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I think Alex will be, if you go by consistency and stawing, yes.
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What about? What about Dango Attara, the
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22nd ranked midfielder so far? Are they easy?
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Is he stawing every game now? Pretty much, I mean, and
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especially with what's his name going to AFCON for Brentford,
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Brentford. All right, I think I found the
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line. I got that's all that's pretty
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good. But that's like, yeah, I mean,
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it's from a forward perspective. If someone offered you Sasco, I
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might just bite the bull. I might just pray I'm.
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Sorry, yeah. I might just, yeah, the upside
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of Salah coming back might just be worth it because like we're
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talking about him, like he it's been a disaster and he's the
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10th winged. No, for you, you definitely, if
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you do keep him, you keep him all the way until he's
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definitely gone in January and then you have no choice.
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But obviously you drop him. Yeah, you're just, you're going
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all or nothing. You're saying I'm going to ride
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this thing till the end so. Yeah, let me give the proper
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advice. So everyone listening to this I
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think. Oh my goodness.
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Because if you trade in, obviously you're going to
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downgrade the player you're getting they're.
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Going to say less or significantly less, yeah.
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Better off hold, hold him up, hold on until January, see if he
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stays or not. If he stays after a good game
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then you try to shop him. I I don't know, but like you,
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you might not get but if he doesn't say then you're going to
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get nothing but. Keith, do you want to trade him
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someone else, obviously someone in your league, and then him
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stays and he has like a renaissance.
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I just did it. Yes, I want to do that.
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I I did that before this news. But you did that when you could
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get equal quality player. Right now you're gonna.
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You're not going to get someone of equal value, you're going to
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get. Some I don't, but I don't, but
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I'm saying that I don't even think it's worth.
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I think that if you can get like an like like if I want to give
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you, I don't even know. Like that's the thing.
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It's so hard to even know. Like if someone could give you
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would offer you Anton stash for Sala, I would take stash.
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Alright wait I'm I'm there now. I'm like like.
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I I think those are players that you could find on waiver wires
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to possibly so I. I don't know.
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What about? What about Kieran Dewsbury Hall?
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I would not. Maybe you would.
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Yeah. Right now I'm going to send them
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a trade off for Mostala. Who are you going to?
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Who are you going to send? Look at Derek.
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What? Who are you offering?
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I want to offer the lap or Savio.
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Let's all send him a trade off right now.
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Let's all while we're on here, let's send him a try.
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It I'm a send him for the lap but the problem is.
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OK, I'm going to send him an offer for, but I don't want to
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give up anyone. Like like, well, who am I going
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to like? Like Jacob?
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Jacob Murphy. Like I'd almost rather have
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Jacob Murphy than. All right, so you guys are
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telling me you have no one on your waiver wise that you're
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going to add this week? Well, that's why you're a loser.
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OK, I'll set. I'll set an offer for Amari
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Hutchinson. What do you think about that?
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So I'm I'm dropping Liam to lap. I'm starting with trade offer
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for the lap. I'm.
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Gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna offer him Amari Hutchinson,
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who's the 21st ranked forward for Masala, and he's gonna say
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no, but that's fine. But it's just kind of funny.
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I think the idea is that I'm pretty convinced that unless the
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major something major happens, that Sal is not going to be
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there anymore. You got dropped from the
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Champions League. So well, let's not.
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I think we're kind of beating a dead horse on this.
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But I just think that I think the I think at the end of the
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day that I don't think it's going to be there.
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Tico thinks there's still more of a chance and there's one.
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What you're saying, Tico? I think that like I'm thinking
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it's like very, very small percentage.
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Yeah, I think I think the one thing in Nate, what I said about
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Nathan is like if if slot leaves, maybe that would be that
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would be the thing. Mm Hmm.
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OK, let's move on. We got a lot.
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Sorry. That was a that was a really
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long 1. Mark Gahey scores a late fantasy
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winner against Fulham and Harry Wilson, who had scored a great
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goal prior to that. Mark Gahey got 17.25 points.
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Yeah, he did fine. I mean, there's no like the
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ghost wasn't great. 7.25 I think that's fine.
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I think you're, I think if as a defender, you're fine.
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Gay, he's continuing to be great.
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I think we're still talking about all the players available.
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How many, how many of the top defenders are Chris Powell's
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defenders of the top? Well, I mean, of of the top ten,
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it's like wait, of the top 123456 of the top 6, four of
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them are Paul's defenders. For the game week.
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No total. Jenna Yeah.
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Also Speaking of house defenders, Munis didn't play
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last minute scratch for minor injury.
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Just something to keep an eye out.
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Yeah, let's see what it says. Knee injury.
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Oh, we never love to see that. Yeah.
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GUI GUI is ranked for total points and points per game
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higher than Daniel Munis. Yeah, well, never mind.
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I take his number one defender. Yeah, just GUI is the number one
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defender. Total 194.75 points.
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Crazy, crazy world we're living in where Mark Wahey, when you
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look at his, how he scored last year and how he scored every
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year prior to this, there's nowhere near this level.
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He usually he would always get off to a hot start and like the
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first like few games and then he would drop off.
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But this year he kind of sustained it.
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Yeah, Enzo, you're saying like the thought was that he was
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going to go to Liverpool. So you think he'd really trade
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to go to Liverpool right now, given what's going on there and
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what's going on at Palace? I mean, money's a hell.
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Money is a hell of a of a layer though, too, you know.
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Oh, interesting. Like a Real Madrid maybe, who no
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longer interested in Conante, Conante played his way out of
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the of a Real Madrid handshake. So.
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He's going to do really well, rugby players, he's great.
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But here's the here's the thing, if you're a player of Goy's
18:59
stature, obviously you think you're one of the best center,
19:02
center backed defenders in the world.
19:04
So when you look at a team like Liverpool, you're like, hey, I
19:06
could go and fix a lot of the problems they're having in the
19:08
back because they're letting in goals.
19:10
So he has some of that mentality as well.
19:12
And the Real Madrid came out and told Liverpool they're not going
19:14
to go after going out there and at the end of this year.
19:17
So I'm I don't think Roma just going to go after GUI, but seems
19:23
like Liverpool done it's kind of pretty clear unless something
19:26
drastic happens. Yeah, I wouldn't be I wouldn't
19:29
be worried if you're a GUI, I wouldn't be worried about it
19:31
right now across the bridge when you get there if it's that's the
19:34
the risk. It was really OK.
19:37
Interesting. I like that.
19:38
OK, another thing to talk about Jeremy Pino, another goal
19:42
contribution, 16.5 points. That's we're talking a few in a
19:46
row where he's been good, huh. Jeremy Pino and it's it's lining
19:51
up nicely with sorry, going to AF con.
19:53
I don't know. I mean, your P he's been
19:54
fighting. He had a huge game and then a
19:55
7.721.77.752.5 and he had this 116.5.
20:00
That's fine. You you're OK with that.
20:02
But I think it's it's he's on Pinot's on waivers because Pinot
20:07
is still not owned in 50% of leagues, which is my mind crazy.
20:11
But I think it just took him a little bit of time to get
20:12
adjusted. We're all really excited for him
20:14
when you came in, but just sometimes it takes players a
20:16
little bit of time and you got to you kind of kind of have
20:17
patience with players. And I think he's a good example
20:20
of that now. Like the opportunity is going to
20:22
be there quite a bit because Isabel Sarah is going to F con.
20:27
Yeah. Well, then, then the last thing
20:30
in this game is just we talked about Harry Wilson.
20:32
We've been taught, we talked about him.
20:33
Was that 2 episodes ago, last episode?
20:35
But just about Fulham in general.
20:36
And I was saying that I've kind of been a fan of Wilson and I
20:38
think that he might be one of the good bats.
20:40
And it's he keeps keeps doing it.
20:45
I think the build up for that was beautiful.
20:46
Everything about that, just that little, his little touch and
20:49
Ralph Jimenez, just it was mostly him, but it was just
20:51
still such a good little player. Yeah.
20:59
Yeah. Muhammad Kudus, 3 double digit
21:02
games in a row. Is his slump over?
21:04
He scored 14.5. Feels like it.
21:07
I mean, I think the one thing with Kudus is that you're hoping
21:09
for a little more like Ghost, like his his his slumps over
21:15
because he's gotten a few like goals and assists, you know, but
21:20
yeah, I mean, this one was better.
21:21
He got 14.5 goes, but like the two guys prior when he was
21:25
double digits, they were a goal and an assist where you want him
21:28
to be running past people. So, you know, last year, I think
21:32
last year he was one of the not had the one of the highest like
21:35
successful contested dribbles. You know, you want more of that.
21:39
But in this game, I mean, he had five, which is huge.
21:42
That's a huge amount. So that's a really good
21:46
question, Enzo. I'm going to look it up right
21:48
now. I think it's, I would have to
21:52
say it has to be Doku, right? Wow, wow.
21:58
We have a tie at the top, my guys, and it's Jeremy Doku.
22:01
Mohammed, kudos. And that's why you're 11 to 5 in
22:12
that league. That's why you're doing so well.
22:14
The Kubominta's the the 3rd place and then he has like 9
22:18
behind both of them. Few games, but he started, I
22:26
think he's played every single game so so I mean.
22:29
Same thing with Kudos. He's played fourteen games and
22:32
he started 14 games. Whereas Jeremy Doku, what makes
22:35
it so amazing is he's played 15 games, started 11, so he's
22:38
playing 11 and he's only averaging 33 last game.
22:41
So Doku's just like the dribbling.
22:43
Got it. Yeah, I mean, he's and he's also
22:46
just on right now, so. Yeah.
22:48
All right. Next one, cash scores big cash,
22:50
cash at the money, as they say, 19 points.
22:53
It's was it worth making a move for the infant Villa defender
22:56
Mohammed Salah or Maddie Cash? What an insane what?
23:01
Can you imagine some of us saying that at the beginning of
23:03
the year during the draft? That is an insane kind of
23:08
comment. Yeah.
23:10
I mean, what we're talking. So he had two games just under
23:13
10. Yeah, 9.59.75.
23:15
And then it's been 1311 1/2, nineteen.
23:18
Damn, he's been good. He is Villa's number one player
23:21
without a doubt, right? He was Villa's number one player
23:24
we looked at a few weeks ago. He is just, but you, he's always
23:28
had a little bit of that in him. But for whatever reason, this
23:30
season, it's kind of being unlocked.
23:31
Well, if back in 20/20/21 and 2122 season he was averaging
23:36
over 9 points per per game. Yeah, so I mean, love to see it.
23:46
What else we got? Hey sorry my dog is here and he
23:49
just tried to have the bottle of sparkling water and he just saw
23:52
that I put it on the ground and then tried to grab it and run
23:54
off of it. Can dogs have sparkling water?
23:58
No, but he just likes the bottle.
23:59
He doesn't realize like he's gonna start chewing on it and
24:01
he's gonna poke a hole in it and there's gonna be sparkling water
24:03
going everywhere. OK, what else we got?
24:07
Anthony Gordon scored a goal, 19.25 points.
24:11
So more than just a goal too. I mean, the goal is what about
24:13
He got about 8 for the goal, so he got.
24:15
So you got about well, yeah, 9 for the goals.
24:18
So you got about 10 ghosts, which you which is probably one
24:21
of his highest ghost games. You know, like ghost scores
24:25
prior to that too. Oh yeah, that would be
24:44
interesting. Yeah, we should look at that.
24:46
I think the biggest thing is the success, successful contestant
24:49
dribbles. He had three, which like the
24:51
games where he was really bad, it was 0001.
24:54
So that's huge. I also think it's huge like that
24:56
he took the penalties. I mean that's always going to
24:58
help. And so in our matchups, I have
25:02
Gordon one league, but in the in our main league, Enzo has
25:05
Gordon. I had Voltemaud and when that
25:07
penalty got drawn, I was like, who is going to get this
25:09
penalty? Because they because Voltemar
25:10
scored a few and Gordon scored a few and I was like, who's going
25:12
to be the one? And that looked like, did you?
25:14
I'm not sure if you're watching, but Gordon had the ball and was
25:17
just staring at the at the keeper and Voltemar was standing
25:20
right behind him and it was just I thought I thought he was going
25:24
to hand it off at BI thought like Voltemard was like talking
25:27
to him, like yo, give me the ball and Gordon was like
25:30
ignoring him. I don't know that for sure, but
25:32
it's one of the IT was just such a weird, like it was such a
25:34
weird situation where it was just like I, I was like waiting
25:36
with bated breaths as he was going to take it like more than
25:39
two, you know, it was a very wild situation.
25:41
I don't know why I don't like it when the striker doesn't take
25:44
the penalty. I always want the striker to
25:46
take it. I think.
25:49
Like like a couple of years ago was Sergio Ramos last year at
25:53
Real Madrid, It was so weird for him to take every single you're
25:55
taking. Was he taking every single one?
25:57
Every single one. So over who?
25:59
Who was that? Was it Benjamin?
26:00
That was kind. Of the same benzamin was there,
26:02
Vinnie was there, Hazard was on the bench, Tony Cruz, lookout
26:07
Modridge. Most of the time.
26:09
Tony Cruz, Lookout, Modridge, Marcelo.
26:11
Like who was on the left wing? Vinnie, that's what I'm saying.
26:17
He didn't. I'm, I'm just saying the team.
26:26
Yeah, I think, I don't even mean, I think the one thing is
26:28
that Gordon has been Gordon's really integral to to Newcastle
26:33
and the fact that he's been out of form.
26:36
I I kind of get it from that sense like Voltema, you know,
26:38
he's going to be good and you're going to be fine there.
26:40
But I think with Gordon, it's like getting him to get his kind
26:42
of swagger back is pretty crucial for them to kick on.
26:45
I do want to shout out to Wissa came on and played a few what I
26:50
know Bruno G's great yeah love green OG a little too much love
26:56
love him so much I let him go. I wanna I wanna share a wiser
26:59
that in fact he played so I think that I think that's that's
27:02
huge news. Tico, are you feeling, are you
27:04
feeling phenomenal about that? Amazing because we talked about
27:07
it. He's not going to.
27:07
I've come. He's not going to Ofcom, so
27:10
which means he's like, it's the best kiss scenario.
27:12
Yeah, so that's like what, 5-6 more games?
27:14
So it's going to be amazing. Kind of makes up for the some of
27:17
the myths that he from the 15 that he missed.
27:20
Because I drafted him with having.
27:22
Very high hopes for. Him yeah, another shot.
27:27
Shout out to Newcastle player Fabian Chair, I guess no longer
27:30
concussed. He started played 90 minutes,
27:33
man in half points, which it's about like solid yeah, look, no
27:37
clean sheet, 9 1/2 points. So we know what cheers gonna do
27:40
something about like that. So it's a good defender to hold
27:43
on to. We always talk about how
27:44
Newcastle defense is always consistently good.
27:47
Yeah, I think it's fine. I mean, OK, look at like
27:50
Batman's injured right now, Lewis Hall, liver mentor, both
27:54
coming back from injury. So I think that their loads need
27:56
to be managed a little bit. So they're gonna be, you know,
27:59
there's gonna be games where they're arrested, especially on
28:01
these weeks where it's a few games in a row.
28:03
And then you have you have and then you have Dan Byrne who can
28:06
just do anything. You know, you could put him
28:08
anywhere in the field and he'll do it.
28:10
So yeah, it makes sense. And that makes sense that Shar,
28:12
I'm not like sitting here being like, I don't think Char would
28:14
maybe be the do you think Char would start over Dan Byrne if
28:17
Lewis Hall is health, if Lewis Hall had like was 100% fitness
28:20
ready to go? I don't know.
28:22
I'm not sure, but you think you I'm kind of you think sure.
28:29
I don't know. I don't know, I'm not sure.
28:31
But I think there's a good there's a good amount of
28:32
rotation there. OK Bowen, he looked very good
28:38
for West End. I thought even he scored a goal
28:41
and it was fine. You know, I think they they
28:43
played against Brighton. I thought it was a pretty good
28:45
goal. What do you mean?
28:46
It's just an OK goal? This is that angles like I'm it
28:48
was like almost impossible against against Brian.
28:50
He was like Callum Wilson kind of put him through.
28:52
He was just the weirdest angle and he slid and scored.
28:55
I was I was really impressed with it.
28:56
But even before that, I thought he just looked so much better.
28:59
I was watching that being like this is like, you know, that
29:02
Phil, Phil Nicholas and me and where he's like, yeah, so Phil
29:05
was it. You know what I'm talking about
29:06
the Phil. No, no, no, not was that that's
29:10
Phil Nicholson, right? Jack Nicklaus, Jack Nicholas
29:13
The. Departed.
29:16
Yeah, the. Pardon me, That's like how I was
29:18
watching Bowen in this Western game.
29:21
I was like, yes, yes. Like play like this, like,
29:24
because I just saw, I just saw that that's like, that's he
29:27
just, he felt, he looked like he was back to like what was making
29:29
him, what made him his best a few years ago, you know?
29:36
Yeah, Yeah, that's that's why I felt that way.
29:40
I was like, yeah, so it's good. I I'm like, I'm like what I've
29:44
seen from Bowen even like if you delete the goal, I feel really
29:46
good about where he's at, you know?
29:53
For sure. OK, got to talk.
29:55
Phil Foden real quick. Another game, another Phil Foden
29:58
goal. That is now five goals in three
30:01
games, 28.530 point, 2522.5. Yeah, probably not, but I think
30:16
at the end of the day he's going to at least do one more week.
30:20
I think at the end of the day though, he's going to keep.
30:22
I think he's just a little bit back.
30:24
Like, you know, like he's like he's a little bit back.
30:28
No, I mean Phil Foden, what was it?
30:30
It was two years ago when Phil Foden was being drafted in the
30:33
second or third round and delivered first round value.
30:35
Last year he was being drafted in the first round and was non
30:39
existing. Yeah, this year, this year, you
30:42
know, the 1st what, 12 games he did not a lot.
30:46
But now all of a sudden he's doing great.
30:48
And so I feel like that's what he's so like.
30:51
I don't, I don't, I can't imagine he's going to.
30:53
I mean, if he continues this, he could keep 1st order value.
30:56
But I think on any Pep team, it's just hard.
30:57
We talked about that like, would you, a lot of us, me and Tikka
31:01
were saying that we'd rather have a guy that was consistent
31:03
like starting games, but maybe not.
31:06
I mean, if you know he's going to come in and do this.
31:08
I think players like this are the exception, but I think all
31:11
three of us, I know Keith for sure had a high hopes for for
31:15
them. We thought both of us were going
31:16
to have a great year. I if he was available in the
31:19
second round, I was going to draft him just because I felt
31:21
like he was, because he's crucial to the team.
31:24
Yeah. And Pep always speaks highly of
31:26
him. So amazing to see him.
31:29
He has five goals in three games.
31:31
That's fucking insane. I mean, competition wasn't
31:34
great, but still, that's insane. And he's also getting you goals,
31:38
points as well. It's great to see Foden.
31:42
Ruben Diaz scored a goal after I dropped them.
31:44
So mad about that. Yeah, I think, I think the one
31:48
thing to Foden too, and this is like such a draft thing where I
31:51
think when a player's coming off his best, like his career
31:54
season, I sometimes will fade him.
31:56
And we've talked about this before, like, you know, and so
31:58
that's like last year I was kind of fading Foden drafts for that
32:01
reason, even though the year before I I'd had him and he was
32:03
phenomenal. And this year, yeah, I was like,
32:05
I was really interested in him because I was looking at that
32:07
situation being like, he was kind of sick.
32:09
He was coming off a, he was coming off a Euro.
32:12
And like, you know, like there, there's, there's clearly some
32:14
stuff going on with him that was outside of just the footballing.
32:17
He's still so young. I was like, you know, like if
32:19
anyone can bounce back, it's not like a, it's not like an older
32:22
player that he doesn't have the, he doesn't have that kind of
32:25
like bounce still in him, you know.
32:26
So I think, yeah, Foden is great.
32:28
I think Foden could go on, kick on and have a great rest of the
32:31
season. I cannot explain to you guys how
32:33
frustrating it is as someone who's owned Jeremy Doku and Soba
32:38
Sly for the first two years they've been in the league and
32:41
this is the first year I I don't own them.
32:43
Well, Soba Sly traded away and both of them are having their
32:45
amazing year. Career seasons.
32:48
Especially Doku. Who Doku, especially depending
32:51
where you drafted him, is a fucking league, League winner.
32:54
If you got into the fifth round, you're getting top.
32:55
Yeah, first round value. It's.
32:57
Yeah, I know. It's brutal.
32:59
It's brutal. That's that's what we love.
33:01
Last thing about this, Ryan Shirkey 34 1/2 points, 2
33:04
assists, Ghost points. Push him over the edge.
33:07
Yes, I think he might. That might be the assist of the
33:09
season so far too, with that Ribona.
33:12
Which Pep criticized after that piece of shit Pep Guardiola.
33:16
What did he say? Well, how can you criticize what
33:17
did he? Say oh you guys didn't see this.
33:22
So he said I told Shirky to learn from messy.
33:25
He said it was an amazing pass that he tried to you know, left
33:28
foot rifle but wait till it get messy.
33:29
He never tried a pass like that. He made the simple play and he
33:32
never missed the pass. So he said he he wants Shirky to
33:35
learn from Messy and not try to have character on the field.
34:01
And yeah, yeah, we all agree, right?
34:05
Pep's running football. We hate him.
34:07
I think, I think, I think it's like you, you either die here or
34:11
live long enough if you see yourself become the villain.
34:13
Like Mourinho went through this. I feel like we're kind of going
34:16
through it with Pep right now where there's like this counter
34:18
narrative where like, like Pep's running football, like I think
34:20
everyone's kind of been not. He's running a piece of shit
34:26
real quick. I saw.
34:29
Speaking of Jose Marino, I saw something where it showed one of
34:31
his seasons at Chelsea where Week 1 he was first overall,
34:36
Chelsea, Week 2 they were second place and the rest of the year
34:39
they were first, which I thought was one of the more amazing
34:42
statistics from Jose. Yeah, there was that.
34:45
That was probably the the year where they let in.
34:47
What like was it? Yeah.
34:49
It could have been the year when he came back and they were
34:51
almost going to go invincible. I think it was that year with
34:55
Hazard. Yeah, Trostar leaves the field
34:58
42 minutes. I feel like that dude's always
35:00
leaving the field. I don't know if it's just in my
35:02
head, but he's always like, there's always like this injury
35:04
concern, you know, Martinelli or Eze is the question here.
35:09
I am more like even when Eze starts, it's like he's become,
35:13
he's kind of turning into a boom or bust player.
35:15
Have you guys noticed that with him?
35:22
I mean his last, I mean. He.
35:24
He, he put up a, he put up a 42 1/2 pointer.
35:28
And then there's three scores after that, 4.2531.
35:33
And it's of course like one of them, one of the only had 30
35:35
minutes, one of them they only had a half.
35:37
It's just like you started them. And as it was subbed off at
35:41
halftime, Martinelli came on, scored a goal, and then he got
35:44
injured. But it's.
35:46
Marnelli got injured or you mean trusted?
35:48
Sorry, Trust. I got injured.
35:49
He came in and scored a goal, got injured.
35:51
The one thing I would say for as a kind of like a silver lining
35:54
thing is this team has been injured when it comes to their
35:59
midfield. With Odegard, Eze and Trostar
36:04
playing, maybe he will get into better, more of a rhythm and it
36:07
starts to come to a new team once the year started.
36:11
Midfield's kind of rotational. So I think this is going to be
36:14
Eze at his bottom. I think if he does get better,
36:17
it will gradually as the year goes on.
36:20
Obviously there's also a chance that he might.
36:21
This is who he is now on Arsenal.
36:26
Yeah, don't leave a lot for him. I know I probably should have
36:36
talked about Sala Ekatika. 20 and a half, 28.25 points with
36:39
two goals. 2 quick goals to Isaac on the bench.
36:45
He's keeping Isaac on the bench right now, huh?
36:59
Well, he's just he can't even get on the field.
37:01
Like he came on like what the 67th minute, just like, yeah,
37:05
it's killer. And I think this is where one of
37:07
the like those rules that you there's like unwritten rules.
37:10
I like, you know, you talk about drafting.
37:11
It's like one of the big things is like you don't want to, you
37:14
don't want to draft players that either are on new teams or are
37:19
have new managers. And like, not that you do that
37:21
every time, but just like that should always be a factor.
37:23
And this is a perfect example because even all of us were
37:25
like, oh, it's it's ESAC and it's Liverpool.
37:27
And there's no way that that combo won't work.
37:30
But just like, it's just, it's just when you you create
37:33
uncertainty. What the hell?
37:35
Yeah, fine. OK, whatever.
37:44
Excellent. Pushing it.
37:46
I think, I think we've been talking about, we've been, we've
37:49
been banging the AFCON drum for a long time.
37:52
We're it's finally here. How are we feeling?
37:56
So you guys missing a lot of players or what's what's up with
37:59
you guys? I just said I have a mod.
38:04
A mod? Yeah.
38:05
So yeah, just what I mean. He had another great wait.
38:10
We didn't talk about United. We'll get back to it, though.
38:12
Just real quick on the Arsenal part of it.
38:13
Ben White got the start. I don't know how he did.
38:17
He had 6.75 points and Cala Fiori is suspended for a game
38:21
because of yellows. So California is going to be out
38:24
for the next game. We love Arsenal defense.
38:27
Who are they playing next? So if you have, they're playing
38:30
Wolves. So clean sheet guaranteed.
38:32
So if keep an eye on it, whoever gets to start that someone you
38:38
want to play. The only downside would be if
38:39
it's MLS then you're not going to get the clean sheet points.
38:42
You're just going to get one point instead of the six.
38:47
Why are we not? Talking, I think, I think the
38:49
one thing the defender, I think he might be MLS.
38:52
I think he might. They might have been defender.
38:54
Let me yeah, he is a defender, so put a waiver everyone.
39:00
What about OK, just OK, I I watched the high.
39:06
I watched the extended highlights from this.
39:08
So correct me, like tell, tell me if you guys were watching
39:10
this game, I couldn't see it. But that first half like didn't
39:13
look good. Like the United scored on an air
39:17
from Wolves. Well, then Wolves scored a goal.
39:20
You know what I mean? It was like it was one 1 1/2.
39:22
United obviously looked much better in the second-half, but
39:24
I'm just saying like so. Mike, I watched the second-half.
39:28
Yeah, it's the. Second-half.
39:29
You, you you just watched the second-half?
39:30
Yeah, one of my probably. They look great.
39:33
My I have a friend who's a a Co worker who's a united fan and he
39:37
said in the first half they looked terrible and he only
39:39
watched the first half. So we were kind of exchanging
39:41
notes. Mason Mam has played up top few
39:44
times this year for them ends ever since that's but it was one
39:49
of those very games where everyone we thought is going to
39:51
be good at Man U was Bruno Fernandez, 39 and Bueno 23,
39:56
Diallo 21.25, Cuna 19. So this is those games where we
40:02
thought, hey, like how is everyone going to put up points?
40:05
They put up points. Who?
40:09
Are you going to? If they don't win the next game
40:12
against Arsenal, which they probably want, they will tie the
40:14
record for starting the season longest without getting a win.
40:17
I think it's stand with QPR. Isn't this point, it's like not
40:20
even about the team there, it's just they just are not doing
40:23
well. What do you think?
40:25
About who they tied with, I think, he said.
40:27
Do we know who we tied? With do we know who they tied
40:30
with? One of them was Burnley, I'm
40:31
pretty sure the other one was West Ham.
40:34
No, I don't know. Yeah, they have two jobs.
40:36
Let me pull it out right now. That sounds terrible.
40:39
Let's see. Tottenham, really bad.
40:43
Tottenham big tight top. OK, let's move on.
40:47
I don't, I'm, I'm not liking this like wallowing and it's so
40:50
sad news. I don't think Tottenham looked
40:52
that bad. Tottenham going to win this
40:53
week. I wouldn't.
40:54
So he knew that. Or he just kind of.
40:56
If he did, that'd be an amazing troll job.
40:58
Yeah. No one's hearing that joke
41:07
because you're South. Yeah, not seeing it because it
41:09
was so bad that the Internet decided that they were going to
41:12
cut it out. Yeah.
41:12
They, they just, they, they just.
41:14
Yeah, they were like, they're like, like I can't believe
41:16
you're going to re repeat this job and they just started.
41:19
Why does Sergei sound like he's like being held hostile doing
41:22
like a small like closet or something?
41:23
How? How come Tikko are the only ones
41:25
that can figure out how to get this shit out sorted?
41:27
Well, I think Sergei's on this phone driving home.
41:29
That's great. Whereas Enzo.
41:34
Screens flickering. Yeah.
41:38
OK, I want to talk about someone that's not on this list, but
41:43
really briefly because we're talking about United and we're
41:46
talking about Mason Mount. I think he might be owned in
41:49
more than 50% of leagues at this point.
41:51
So I'm not like, you know, I don't know if he's like
41:54
officially waver guy, but you should definitely check because
41:57
the thing with him is, and Buemo's going away.
41:59
He's 33% on and Buemo's going away.
42:03
Cesco's still not healthy. I think Mount, you know, Ahmad's
42:06
going away too, right? Do y'all know like that there's
42:10
just a slot there? Like there's just a position
42:12
there. Midfield there.
42:14
So I just think that like I but he's a midfielder that plays in
42:17
an attacking position. I think there's I think he's
42:19
good. I think there's like some good
42:21
value there. And like he scored a goal last
42:22
week and got a red lighting and he played in the the loss of
42:26
the, the game he started prior to that was against Christopalis
42:30
on November 30th. And he scored a goal in that
42:31
game too. So we're thinking about next
42:34
one. Wesley Fofana, Chelsea D 33%
42:37
owned. He's just been really solid.
42:38
I mean, since he's come back and been into the team, he's most of
42:41
the games he's been in had been really well, like high scoring.
42:45
There's been a lot of clean sheets when he plays.
42:48
Just seems like an easy no brainer and like with about 333%
42:51
own, like mostly he's going to be available.
42:53
So highly recommend that one. Another one, Westham Esperana
42:58
Fernandez mid 33% owned. He's had one of the best ghost
43:02
returns of any player in the lead.
43:05
But I think it's like because he hasn't had goals and assists
43:08
you, you it's not standing out on like the numbers on like the
43:12
you know, on like the points totals and stuff like that, but
43:15
like, but his his consistency has been phenomenal and this I
43:18
think it's only picked up it only picked up this game.
43:20
I think this might have been his best game so far as like from a
43:23
ghost perspective. Any thoughts there?
43:27
Like are you, would you guys throw waivers on him?
43:35
258.59.755.7512.514.513.5 those are good numbers without a goal
43:43
and with one assist in that whole period, 11 assist, no goal
43:47
that whole period. I don't know you you can you can
43:54
do the searching. I don't want to I don't want to
43:56
tell you where he is and isn't available.
43:57
But I will say that I would probably I would put if he's
44:02
still available in the leaks, I'd be putting 5678 foul on him
44:07
no problem. Cool.
44:09
I I think I think he if he's still available, he's pretty up
44:11
there for me. Like I think that I West Ham's
44:14
been playing a little bit better and he looks like he's a part of
44:17
that. So I like him.
44:19
We talked about Jeremy, Jeremy Pinot at the top of the show.
44:23
Palace 48% owned Starwood AFCON injured.
44:27
He's starting to show up. I would probably take Fernandez
44:29
over Pinot though, just for the ghost point value.
44:32
But I think Pinot's pretty up there too.
44:34
But I don't know, I, I, yeah, I mean, I feel like I'm telling
44:40
you this, you're gonna, you're gonna grab him.
44:42
Oh, but you don't have any fabulous thing, so I'm not
44:44
worried about it. Yeah.
44:44
So, yeah, he's top five target for here.
44:50
And then, yeah, Jeremy Pito's up there, though, I think if he's
44:53
still available, but he's a little more owned.
44:56
Jacob Bryan is the next one. Everton defender, 33% owned.
44:59
Everton's been on a good run. And so rival, you know, like
45:01
we're just talking about defenses.
45:02
Ride the lightning, ride the good form.
45:04
I mean, he's a big CB that heads the ball.
45:07
Love to see it. Another one.
45:11
He played center back in this game, and I think he's been
45:14
playing more center back. Yeah.
45:18
Irwan Bisaka has dropped down below 50% owned even despite
45:21
having a few good games. Yeah, so abysmal start to the
45:25
season, seeing his ownership plummet.
45:27
But with Nuno in there and like they're I kind of talked about
45:29
with Fernandez, like they're they're just the team is on a
45:31
rise a little bit. I really like him and I think
45:35
there's yeah, well, you just had it back for a minute, but they,
45:39
they still weren't great even after you got it back.
45:40
But yeah, he's they're looking better now.
45:43
Next one, Eddie and Katya. What are we?
45:46
This is the one around like not as 100%.
45:48
He's 9% owned. He's a forward.
45:49
You got the start and you got the goal.
45:51
Let's start out. I I feel like he could not lock
45:54
in that spot, but I feel like it's his his to take and I think
45:56
he'll start the next game. So you got to look at you got to
46:00
look at, you know, who they play next and what's going on there.
46:02
And Palace plays Manchester City next, which is not great.
46:05
But but yeah, I mean, I think there's something there.
46:08
I think it's like depending on how competitive your league is,
46:11
that might be one that that hold on to for a minute.
46:14
Any thoughts? They play leads after that too.
46:17
So all right, last two Tierno. Well, he's he's found pro man.
46:31
I get the, I really don't. Care for about that?
46:34
Yeah, I think he's probably, I think I'd probably take a lot of
46:37
these other guys over him for sure.
46:38
I just see waiting for the next player that he was going to say.
46:43
Tiano Berry, Everton forward, 31% owns He got his first goal
46:47
this season. Tico was high on him prior to
46:49
the season. I think the general consensus
46:52
with him among fans is that he's been looking better and better
46:54
and this goal was just a matter of time and he finally got it
46:57
and the thought is that maybe he could kick on from here.
46:59
Is that the idea? Well, when the year started,
47:03
remember it was who was the other striker?
47:05
Like last year he had a Beto. It was, yeah, Beto.
47:10
And Bear was coming from a different league.
47:12
Didn't know how he was going to adjust.
47:14
I kind of just liked him because he's younger.
47:19
Younger he did well. I think he came from the French
47:23
league or let me see which league did he come from?
47:27
He came from La Liga. I'm sorry, he came from La Liga.
47:29
He scored 11 points for Villarreal, who weren't terrible
47:32
last year. And I think the way everything
47:34
played, there was going to be a lot of crosses and opportunity
47:36
for him to score, score a goal and he is 6/5, so you know.
47:42
He saw there was a really insane, there was a really
47:46
insane start with him about like like successful like headers one
47:49
or something with with Barry from a few games ago that was
47:53
like, it was like crazy. Like he had a crazy amount of
47:55
Ariel's one 14. He had 14 arrows won.
47:59
And this was against Man United on November 24th.
48:03
And the I don't know if you guys saw that he's roster in both of
48:07
our leagues by me. I saw he was starting and I
48:10
picked him up right away and he didn't let me down scored he
48:15
scored ten goals the game before were I'm sorry, 10 points won't
48:18
go the game before he had zero goals, 0 assists.
48:21
He still had 10 points. So couple of key passes shots on
48:24
target. So he's, I think he's a player
48:27
that could contribute importance besides goal contributions.
48:33
Totally last one on here, just got to give him a shout.
48:37
We don't really talk about keepers that much, but Aaron
48:39
Ramsdale is now starting for Newcastle because Nick Pope has
48:42
an injury and will be out for a few weeks.
48:45
So that might be I think he's like above like replacement
48:48
level. So he's probably better than
48:49
what you can find on Labor. So if you're someone that's like
48:51
always fishing around looking for a keeper, I'd finally play
48:54
matchups and then you could grab Ramzo and start him for a few
48:57
weeks now and like and like, rest, rest easy on that.
49:01
How long is next? Three weeks man.
49:04
What I would say Pope is available in your league and you
49:07
don't have a solid goalkeeper? Stash him cuz Pope's been
49:11
amazing this year. Oh, you're saying when he comes
49:14
back? If he's available, he's
49:15
averaging. He's having his best year 11.2
49:18
points per game. If he he's available, get him a
49:21
stash him. He's available both of the time.
49:25
Frame. What's the time frame?
49:26
3 weeks? 3 weeks?
49:28
There's already 1000. A week ago, yeah.
49:30
So you know you expected to return on the 26th, so.
49:35
Yeah, it's like right around, right around the Christmas
49:37
period. That's hard though.
49:39
It's hard to, it's hard to, it's hard to say that he's actually
49:41
come back from come back to that now.
49:43
Well I don't know if you guys remember last year Pope fucked
49:45
me over so many temps because I kept putting a Weaver wire claim
49:47
for him and then dropping. Him there?
49:49
Yeah. Trying to be crafty, Yeah.
49:51
Yeah, but whatever. If you have a goalkeeper that
49:54
you don't play the match ups, it's amazing.
49:56
So Paul, he's 76, I would suggest.
50:02
It's really nice. I like, I like having Fleck in
50:04
last year and then not having Fleck in this year and actually
50:06
having to like switch goalkeepers down again.
50:08
It's a headache. It's almost just not worth it,
50:12
although Sanchez has been good. Yeah, but all right, boys,
50:17
that's kind of all we got this week.
50:20
You guys want to talk about are we, are we around 16?
50:23
Are we going to talk about making it bad or doing anything
50:27
or no? Are we taking a hiatus?
50:31
I say we skipped. Well, let me first I'll pull up,
50:34
see what the games are. Why?
50:35
Don't we all agree on one game and we just bet on one game?
50:44
Yeah. Yeah, You.
50:46
You question my manhood. It's just one game, the payouts
50:50
like whatever like who cares. OK, why don't we do two games
50:52
then? I think we've been a little over
50:53
ambitious. Let's just let's, let's reel it
50:55
back in a little bit. Let's get a few wins under
50:57
about, you know, let's let's no, that's like the odds are going
51:02
to be so absurdly bad for that. It's like, what's even the
51:05
point? That's like betting 15,000 on
51:07
LeBron to score 10 points to win $500.
51:10
Did you hear about this? Did you hear about that?
51:12
And then and then in the first time he hadn't hit it.
51:16
Yeah. It's like, yeah.
51:18
Like that's like the Arsenal thing.
51:21
I thought it was 15. That's.
51:23
I don't know. I don't know what it was, but
51:24
yeah, jeez. Alright, so Arsenal is -650.
51:30
Yeah, I mean, that's you're gonna, you're gonna that's like
51:32
nothing. You're gonna get cents on the
51:33
dollar. Hotham's plus 180 against
51:35
Forest. How do you feel about Newcastle
51:40
versus Sunderland? I don't I, I mean, I think
51:45
there's probably games where we can.
51:47
I actually like that, that Tottenham line.
51:51
All right, how about this? How about this?
51:54
Tottenham's been good away from home too, so.
51:57
So if we do Tottenham and Arsenal, it makes it plus 223 if
52:00
we add a New Castle or actually wait.
52:03
Wait, wait. Wait, wait.
52:05
This is what they always said we weren't going to do.
52:07
No, you guys said that what if we do villa against us, have
52:09
villas on form there plus one O 5 on the road?
52:13
Let's add Villa. I haven't been playing bad, but
52:16
but those been playing, yeah, very well.
52:20
Look at Let's look at the last four games.
52:22
Tie the last tie. Three games I'm in, let's say
52:25
I'm cutting hard. Cut there though, no more games.
52:28
Wait, City. Tottenham.
52:30
Villa. It's plus 562.
52:33
What? Plus 560. 2 That's great, we
52:36
love that. How do we fill Chelsea
52:37
everything? We're not adding more games.
52:40
All right, how do you feel about Liverpool Brighton?
52:41
We're not. OK, Listen to the words that are
52:43
coming out of my mouth. We're not adding more games.
52:49
Yeah, but we're we're not adding it.
52:51
It's the worst possible team that's played one day.
52:53
Yeah, we're not. We're not betting on United,
52:55
United Bournemouth. United, Bournemouth.
52:58
We're not betting on that game. Yeah, OK.
53:01
Let's so as it makes it to plus 1100, all right.
53:11
Let's let's do that three and we're done.
53:13
OK, Are we are we out here? Well, you guys don't want to
53:16
talk, so we don't we don't want to talk about how wait, no, no,
53:24
I I placed I placed the bet No, because in our second league,
53:27
you guys were chilling on my team because oh, you guys were
53:29
enough points. But now I'm 14 total points and
53:31
tie four first. So I want to tell you give a big
53:33
suck it. We're playing each other, So
53:47
yeah, I have more. I mean Tico, I have more points
53:49
than you. Yeah, but I I'm, I have a better
53:52
record than you like. Yeah, you have.
53:54
You have three more wins than me, even though you have like
53:56
100 less points than me. It's.
53:57
Yeah, not a hundred 7070. OK, whatever, Trying to ham it
54:01
up for the for the fans. But I do we we need to find a
54:07
way to stop Tom. Also, I'm not all we're playing
54:10
each other in the second league ends.
54:13
Got it, Got it. Yeah, because I'm playing, I
54:18
think, Galacticos, yeah. Yeah, trust me, I'm playing.
54:25
You're like, it's like Lucifer in The Cave.
54:27
You know what I mean? Masturbate.
54:31
Can we talk about another player?
54:33
I don't know if anyone will make it this far, but right right
54:36
now, Lori, man, what the hell? Talk about drop off you mean?
54:43
Well, he got injured, he got injured and he, the o'reilly's
54:46
been so good. Like, no point in Yeah, yeah.
54:58
Friend Pong. Oh dude, don't go.
55:00
Kudos in this league. Esac, there's been so many
55:04
players. Salah I mean that was bad, that
55:06
was bad, but as a business been not great.
55:13
Savio's been a disappointment. Savio has been terrible, but he
55:18
was fourth round. I mean, at that stage.
55:21
Yeah, but that wasn't a draft guy.
55:25
OK, this has been episode. Pedro.
55:27
OK, this has been episode. Oh, OK.
55:29
This has been episode. Liam Dillan got injured.
55:33
This is an episode 116 of draft offside.
55:35
Cole Palmer. My name is Keith.
55:36
I'm with Tico Enzo. Cole Palmer, follow us.
55:40
I dropped off sides and we'll see you Gokara's fifth round
55:44
pick or 5th, 5th overall pick. I told you I told you that was a
55:50
good pick. So you guys saying that he
55:52
because he didn't pick Sala, he skipped over Sala in the 5th
55:55
pick to go Yokara's and he was trying to.
55:57
I was like, see that I knew that was going to be a good pick and
55:59
like, dude, it was so wasn't a good pick.
56:02
Because there were other planes available.
56:04
He's that sort. Of and also Sala's scored way
56:06
better than yeah but it's dumb thing I get old all year for.
56:10
I know he's done playing now. Gonna end up better, yeah.
56:14
Keith, if somebody available? For for me to for like you want
56:19
him. Yeah.
56:20
So yes, I mean trade for sure. Reindeer Games.
56:23
I dropped reindeer Games, why would I?
56:26
I don't know he's, I mean, he, he scored a goal.
56:29
Strictly out of pride? Absolutely not.
56:31
What? Yeah.
56:33
I'm not going to. I'm not going to trade you a
56:35
player I dropped a week and a half ago for a player that I've
56:37
owned for the entire season. That's like you that you I
56:40
dropped, you picked up, you played it for two games.
56:42
You think you're going to turn it back to me?
56:44
What are you like you, You totally.
56:46
You totally. Fuck you.
56:48
Totally. Fuck.
56:50
All right. We out of here.
56:52
Oh, yeah, Yeah. I don't know if you have
56:53
anything that I want. What?
56:55
Let's see. What?
56:56
You don't think I have anyone I want?
56:58
How dare you? Who do I have?
57:01
You even know you got. I'll give you Ruben Diaz.
57:04
It's currently not on my team that I put away with Kliman in.
57:07
Yeah, so he's not even on your team.
57:08
Is that what you? Just said yeah, Hey, how about
57:10
Esteval? No, it'd be more like a Matt
57:14
Diallo get. The hell out of here.
57:17
Well, he's going to AF con. So you're like, is he not coming
57:21
back? I mean, who knows?
57:24
Hold up, he's going to Africa. Wow, let's go back home.
57:27
What can Ivory Coast let's see AF con.
57:32
He could get injured there. He could.
57:33
His knee could explode. How did Ivory Coast to the last
57:38
Afghan tournament? I feel like they usually do
57:40
well, don't they they? Usually do all right.
57:43
Oh, they're the defending champions.
57:47
Ivory Coast 10. You're right.
57:49
They did. Yeah.
57:50
Yeah, I'm going to offer. This is a thongsong.
57:55
Sesco, Alejandro. I think so, yeah.
57:59
OK, I'm going to ask for Phil Foden for I'm gonna for Abreche
58:04
Eze and Evan Nielsen. What do you think?
58:06
He has no forwards. He's not going to accept that.
58:09
I know he's not. I'll give you a sevout and Liam
58:13
the lap. For Abreche Eze, yeah.
58:16
What position are you looking for?
58:18
I would take a striker, I would take a mid.
58:21
Savio, I'm Tresar. You're trying to give me Savio.
58:26
I have that headache already in another league I don't want it
58:28
in. This league I either want them
58:29
in both leagues or not having negatively.
58:32
So you need to help me out with this.
58:33
You need to work with me on this.
58:36
That sounds like a personal problem.
58:38
You have the same problem. Yeah, but I'd rather have that
58:42
issue once or not at all. I don't want it twice.
58:44
I'll give you tournaments for Eze.
58:47
No, tournaments has not been good since it's come back.
58:50
Tell me. Tell me.
58:50
He had a game where we had 70 points.
58:52
Yeah, and he came on the bench in that game.
58:54
No, he started. No, I don't need that.
58:57
Oh, no, he started. I mean, I guess I was, I'm
59:00
looking at it right now, 74 minutes.
59:02
Yeah, I think he came in off the bench in like the the 15th
59:05
minute or something and like that.
59:06
I think some of that, yeah. Wow, you know what?
59:11
I'm not gonna sit here and let you insult my players.
59:13
I'm leaving. OK, I'll give you a job, Pedro,
59:16
for two minutes, I guess. Oh, that's interesting.