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S9 Ep8: FPL Pod: Is It Time to Load Up on Defenders? · FPL Pod

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  Speaker 1: I swear these podcasts are coming around even quicker again.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe it feels like that for me because I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to say I'm dreading it, guys. But I
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  Speaker 1: had the worst game week and I hate it when
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  Speaker 1: that happens. So, yes, here we are to review the
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  Speaker 1: last game week. Forget about that very quickly. And look
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  Speaker 1: ahead to the next game week, which is, of course,
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  Speaker 1: game week five. The final one for an elongated international break.
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  Speaker 1: So you could argue an even more important podcast, an
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  Speaker 1: important show, an important deadline. than we've had so far. Hello, Sam. Hello, Jules.
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  Speaker 1: Shall we get it out of the way?
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  Speaker 2: You both did really well.
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  Speaker 1: Sam, you in particular. She beat us both, Jules. She
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  Speaker 1: had a great game week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Go on, Sam. You can go first. Let's get it done.
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  Speaker 3: For once oh it was good no no no Jules
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  Speaker 3: come on I've actually had a good season so far
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  Speaker 3: and for a lot of this weekend I was ahead
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  Speaker 3: of you and I was very happy you can't call
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  Speaker 3: it a good season after four weeks you can call
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  Speaker 3: it a start oh we can oh Kels after last
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  Speaker 3: season when the whole season was dreadful we can count
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  Speaker 3: this as a good start so yeah a really good
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  Speaker 3: game week the defence absolutely you know I don't think
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  Speaker 3: I could have asked for a lot more than them.
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  Speaker 3: At one point on Saturday, I did think, oh, I've
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  Speaker 3: done the wrong thing because I benched Kinski and played Verbruggen.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously when the Spurs clean sheet locked in, I
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  Speaker 3: was thinking, oh, I think I've probably done the wrong
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  Speaker 3: thing here. However, Verbruggen then beaten by a point by
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  Speaker 3: making the extra save. So that was nice. So Verbruggen
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  Speaker 3: with eight. I have now got two Arsenal defenders and
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  Speaker 3: I made the decision.
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  Speaker 3: That seemed a lot, maybe a bit rogue to a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people to bench one of my Arsenal defenders
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  Speaker 3: in favour of playing my old friend, Leif Davis. And
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  Speaker 3: that ended up being a bit of a stroke of
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  Speaker 3: genius when Davis returned his 14 points. And actually I
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  Speaker 3: was a bit upset in the end because when I
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  Speaker 3: watched back on Match of the Day, the second of
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  Speaker 3: his assists and it bounced back off the bar, I thought,
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  Speaker 3: what could have been? Because it would have been a
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  Speaker 3: lovely thing to have had a brace out of him.
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  Speaker 3: But we still got a couple of assists, which was great.
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  Speaker 3: The midfield were disappointing. I bought in Morgan Rodgers this week.
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  Speaker 3: He got eight points. That was good. But the rest
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  Speaker 3: of them, Bruno Fernandes with two, Solis with three and
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  Speaker 3: Sabozlai with three, particularly Sabozlai in that game against Fulham.
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  Speaker 3: I think I was expecting more from him. But the
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  Speaker 3: front three, really, really great. Jal Pedro was my captain,
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  Speaker 3: so got 24 points.
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  Speaker 1: Out of him.
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  Speaker 3: Haaland with nine and then Dominic Calvert-Lewin with 10. Although
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  Speaker 3: now would have been 12 because we've seen that the
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  Speaker 3: Premier League have changed the assist that he got to
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  Speaker 3: a goal so obviously that can't change in terms of
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  Speaker 3: fpl points now because the game is closed so that
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  Speaker 3: would have been an extra two points so that would
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  Speaker 3: have been very nice but 95 for the week a
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  Speaker 3: very nice big green arrow and i'm chasing jaws very
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  Speaker 3: closely now so not long and i'll be back ahead
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  Speaker 3: that's very true it's been a while as well since
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  Speaker 3: i've been ahead of you.
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  Speaker 1: You are actually only two points behind sam for this
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  Speaker 1: game week weren't you got 93.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, 93, similar story in a way with the defence
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  Speaker 4: being very strong. I got 31 points between Verbriggel in
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  Speaker 4: goal and Konca, Calafiori. I did the Konca transfer that
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  Speaker 4: I mentioned on the last show. Guardiola with 11, with
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  Speaker 4: an assist that should have never been an assist because
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  Speaker 4: it should have never been a goal for Man City.
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  Speaker 4: But anyway, I take those points. The midfield, the difference
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  Speaker 4: is Pascal Gross with 17. Incredible performance. And I thought
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  Speaker 4: he would do well and Brighton would do well in
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  Speaker 4: that game, just not. that well I went for Haaland
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  Speaker 4: captain because you two I was fuming against you when
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  Speaker 4: I saw that you two didn't captain Haaland you said
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  Speaker 4: on the last show you said no no no you
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  Speaker 4: can't go against Haaland against United that's what you said
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  Speaker 4: no no no.
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  Speaker 1: Do you not remember I went right I'm sorry I've
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  Speaker 1: got really animated there and they're going to have a
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  Speaker 1: great job in the edit I literally went well we
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  Speaker 1: captain a Chelsea player don't we and you both looked
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  Speaker 1: at me like I was an absolute idiot so if
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  Speaker 1: there's anyone that you want to have a go at
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  Speaker 1: here have a go at Sam because she did the
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  Speaker 1: U-turn I didn't I did what I said I was
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  Speaker 1: going to do Well.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it was a U-turn. I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: decide between the two. So I was on Harlan, actually,
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  Speaker 3: and to be fair, Jules, you are right in many ways.
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  Speaker 3: I was on Harlan all the way up until, well,
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  Speaker 3: Friday night. And then I got up on Saturday morning
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  Speaker 3: and thought, hmm. do I want to go against Chelsea?
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  Speaker 3: Should I go against Chelsea? Is it a good opportunity
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  Speaker 3: for a differential captain? And I was watching my son
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  Speaker 3: football training and I was like, do you know what?
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  Speaker 3: I'll go with a bit of a differential captain. And
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  Speaker 3: in the end it was differential, but he was still
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  Speaker 3: a very popular second captain. I think there were over
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  Speaker 3: 2 million managers that did captain in Jal Pedro. So,
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  Speaker 3: but I was close. I was very close between going
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  Speaker 3: for Harlem.
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  Speaker 2: To be fair, you can.
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  Speaker 1: Retract that from me as well, because, I said all
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  Speaker 1: along I was going to do Chelsea. I went from
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers to Pedro. That's the only thing I did. I
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  Speaker 1: did flit over Haaland because you two tried to persuade
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  Speaker 1: me that there was a good case. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh no.
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  Speaker 4: And there was. Together, let's blame Sam anyway. And in
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  Speaker 4: the end, it was three points. So six, I know
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  Speaker 4: six in the end. But it could have been worse
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  Speaker 4: if that Haaland goal had not been allowed, obviously. And
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  Speaker 4: then I did, so Rodgers, I brought Rodgers in, eight points, great,
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  Speaker 4: as I mentioned. And then Wissar came in to replace
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  Speaker 4: Broby and I thought it would be a tough game
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  Speaker 4: for Newcastle away at least, but I didn't think they
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  Speaker 4: would be that bad and that the gap between the
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  Speaker 4: two would be that big.
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  Speaker 2: I still like the Wissar pick in a way, but
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  Speaker 2: it was just disappointing.
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  Speaker 4: But still, 93 points, it was really good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my game week was 79 points, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: which in any other week I would have been quite
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  Speaker 1: happy with. But I didn't really expect Brighton to be
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  Speaker 1: the downfall. Like, literally, it kind of was like for you, Jules,
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  Speaker 1: as soon as you had... Because you didn't have a
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  Speaker 1: great Saturday, and Sunday was where you got so many
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  Speaker 1: of your points from, wasn't it, really? Yeah, exactly. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Pascal Gross, because I had Kinskin, I thought, oh, I've
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  Speaker 1: done all right there over the Brooklyn Owners. I've played
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  Speaker 1: the correct goalkeeper compared to what I thought you had, Sam.
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  Speaker 1: But then, yeah, obviously... That just killed me. My defence,
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  Speaker 1: I've got Aja from Brentford, who has been good for
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  Speaker 1: me so far this season. But yeah, just one point.
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  Speaker 1: The same midfield as you, Sam. Pretty disappointed other than Rodgers.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, I was grateful for Calvert-Lewin's 10 points,
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  Speaker 1: but it kind of wasn't really enough. And it feels
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  Speaker 1: really weird to be disappointed and get a red arrow
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  Speaker 1: on 79 points as well. My first red of the season.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, really frustrating. Also, I got the captaincy, right?
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  Speaker 1: My two transfers both returned, so I think that's why
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  Speaker 1: I was so frustrated. It just so happened that the
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  Speaker 1: odd player, the odd thing, made a big difference. Had
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  Speaker 1: I had a Pascal Gross, I'd have been up there
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  Speaker 1: with you two. But I didn't, so once again, I'm chasing.
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  Speaker 1: Let's dissect the game week as a whole a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more. Chelsea, obviously a disappointing result for them against Hull, really,
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  Speaker 1: in the end. But I think it was probably most
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  Speaker 1: disappointing for those that triple-captained Cole Palmer, over 90,000 managers
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  Speaker 1: did that. I know he got, was it five? He
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  Speaker 1: got five points in the end, didn't he, Palmer? It's
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  Speaker 1: a similar debate to what we had last week, isn't it,
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  Speaker 1: with Haaland, like in terms of, were we happy with Haaland?
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, I'm happier that I triple-captained Haaland
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  Speaker 1: than Palmer.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and to be fair, I thought in a game
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  Speaker 4: where Hull City played really well and they actually beat
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  Speaker 4: Chelsea in terms of expected goals, even with the ball,
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  Speaker 4: I thought Chelsea were at times a little bit flat
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  Speaker 4: as the assist for Koopama, but for the rest, 0.13 xG.
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  Speaker 4: From him against a team like that, at the bridge
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  Speaker 4: as well, I thought was a bit disappointing. Even his
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  Speaker 4: expected assist is 0.25, which is again, not great for
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  Speaker 4: a player of his calibre, of his price and of
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  Speaker 4: his talent, really. So I think people could be disappointed.
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  Speaker 4: If you went for him instead of Rodgers, for example,
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  Speaker 4: and if you captained him or triple captained him, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I think you could feel a little bit let down.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm quite happy that I went for Rodgers.
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  Speaker 1: I hovered over doing Bruno to Palmer at the last minute, Sam,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm trying not to do those transfers. Alas, it
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  Speaker 1: would have got me, what, three more points? But, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad I didn't. I'm happy with, well, I would
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  Speaker 1: say I'm happy with my two Chelsea players, but there
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  Speaker 1: could be a problem with our Chelsea forward, which we'll
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  Speaker 1: come on to. But, I mean, we can probably even
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  Speaker 1: address it now, really, can't we? Because we thought a
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  Speaker 1: few hours ago, we were recording this on Wednesday night,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, if you are listening to this, probably, what,
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  Speaker 1: six hours ago, I can't remember what time the news broke,
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  Speaker 1: we were probably happy having Rodgers and Pedro. And all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden now there's news that potentially Pedro sounds
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  Speaker 1: like he's not going to go away on international duty,
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  Speaker 1: which surely makes him a doubt for this weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a bit of a worry now that, isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Because obviously most of us, all of us three, but
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  Speaker 3: most of the game have got Jao Pedro now. And
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  Speaker 3: most people have had him for quite a long time
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  Speaker 3: as well. So you've got value in him. So you're
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  Speaker 3: sitting there looking at that and thinking, well, Ideally, you'd
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  Speaker 3: like to use that forward slot maybe to get somebody
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  Speaker 3: that's going to play this week to maybe take advantage
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  Speaker 3: of the fixtures that we have coming up this week,
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  Speaker 3: maybe an Igor Jesus or somebody like that with a
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  Speaker 3: nice fixture. However, if you've got value in Jao Pedro,
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  Speaker 3: obviously if you sell him and then try and bring
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  Speaker 3: him back, he's going to cost you more money. And
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  Speaker 3: we don't really know the extent of Jao Pedro's issues
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  Speaker 3: right now. All we know is that he's not going
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  Speaker 3: to go away on international duty, but... But if he's
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  Speaker 3: going to be straight back after the international break and
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  Speaker 3: available for Chelsea again, then, and given it's a very
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  Speaker 3: long break, you would hope, I would hope that we
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  Speaker 3: would see him again afterwards fairly quickly. Then maybe just
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  Speaker 3: sticking him on the bench is the right thing to do.
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  Speaker 3: But it definitely now feels like I'm not invested heavily
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  Speaker 3: enough in Chelsea again because I didn't feel invested enough
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  Speaker 3: with just Jal Pedro. So I added Rodgers to him
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  Speaker 3: and now I'm back to, it feels like I might
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  Speaker 3: just have one again this week.
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  Speaker 1: But could that not affect their attack, Jules, in general,
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  Speaker 1: not having Pedro?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it would.
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  Speaker 1: That's the other thing that concerns me as a Rodgers owner,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. Danny Welbeck, if.
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  Speaker 4: Joe Pedro cannot play this weekend against Brentford away, then
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  Speaker 4: you would expect Welbeck, who did well the other day
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  Speaker 4: in the League Cup, for example, against Leeds, who is
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  Speaker 4: a really good player. We saw that last season. He
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  Speaker 4: was a bit of a differential for a lot of us.
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  Speaker 4: But he's a different type of player than Joe Pedro is, obviously,
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  Speaker 4: and certainly not as good and obviously much older. So
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  Speaker 4: that would have an impact on Rodgers potentially. and on
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  Speaker 4: Palmer as well and on the kind of attacking side
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  Speaker 4: of Chelsea's game. Joao Pedro is only a yellow flag
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  Speaker 4: for now in the game, but as we know, things
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  Speaker 4: might evolve and we might find out a bit later
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  Speaker 4: that actually it's more than that and he would miss
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  Speaker 4: the game at the weekend. So, Again, let's keep an
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  Speaker 4: eye on what Xabi Alonso says, but it doesn't look good.
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  Speaker 2: To be fair.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll have to see. I presume Enzo Maresca's press
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  Speaker 1: conference is normally a Friday, isn't it, I think. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll have to kind of listen out for what he says.
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  Speaker 3: Although we won't be bothered what Enzo Maresca says about him.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, gosh.
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  Speaker 3: We will care what Xabi Alonso says.
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  Speaker 4: You can listen to the Man City News if you
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  Speaker 4: want with Enzo Maresca.
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  Speaker 3: He won't have a clue.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. Rewind, rewind. Just me living back in...
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  Speaker 1: Was it last season he was manager there? Who knows?
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  Speaker 2: He was sacked in January.
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  Speaker 1: He left around Christmas last year, didn't he? Maybe listen
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  Speaker 1: to Alonso. I don't think Maresca will care what's going
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  Speaker 1: on with Ra Pedro in the nicest possible way. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a conundrum for us. I mean, I think I'll probably
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  Speaker 1: bench him, but definitely worth hearing what the news is
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  Speaker 1: and the extent of that injury. What a blow for
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  Speaker 1: him as well, though, because he's had a brilliant start
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  Speaker 1: to the season. Just a quick word on Hull, Sam,
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  Speaker 1: before we move on as well, because their brilliant start
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  Speaker 1: continues no clean sheet but they actually beat Chelsea for
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  Speaker 1: xg this week which was perhaps a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a surprise and I know there's been a lot of
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  Speaker 1: a focus going into the last game week in terms
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  Speaker 1: of they hadn't conceded but they've got a high expected
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  Speaker 1: goals conceded.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah absolutely so I think we were all looking at
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  Speaker 3: it and thinking well they should have conceded five point
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  Speaker 3: I think it was 5.05 heading into the game week
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  Speaker 3: that they should have already conceded in the opening three
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  Speaker 3: matches and then didn't um So we were all looking
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  Speaker 3: at it thinking, well, maybe the goal had led a
• 11:43
  Speaker 3: charmed life. But then they had been like that in
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  Speaker 3: the championship last season as well. Very high XGC numbers,
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  Speaker 3: but yet still managed to get themselves promoted. So it
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  Speaker 3: does seem like it's part of their style of play.
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  Speaker 3: But this week, yeah, the narrative shifted and it was
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  Speaker 3: more about their expected goals. They were very very good
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  Speaker 3: I was actually very impressed by Hull in this one
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  Speaker 3: and Bellumi looking really good and a really nice cheap
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  Speaker 3: option if you want to go for one of the
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  Speaker 3: attackers and I think it's interesting now because over the
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  Speaker 3: last few weeks with the exception of Ollie McBurnie who
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  Speaker 3: we kind of spoke about a little bit in pre-season
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  Speaker 3: the whole focus since the season started has been on
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  Speaker 3: the the defence and whether we should be investing in
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  Speaker 3: the whole defence whereas now I think having seen them
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  Speaker 3: play against Chelsea and having seen their attacking threat that
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  Speaker 3: they brought to that game, now there's an opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: look at those whole attacking players because they are super
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  Speaker 3: cheap as well. And again, at a time when we're
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  Speaker 3: still looking at how we invest in premium assets and
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  Speaker 3: the most expensive players in the game are suddenly becoming
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  Speaker 3: really interesting to us, having a whole player in there
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  Speaker 3: and an attacking one might just help you out.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Mentioned one of the other headlines was, Brighton, Jules,
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  Speaker 1: you benefited from Pascal Gross being the top scoring player
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  Speaker 1: of the entire game week with 17 points. He was
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  Speaker 1: magnificent tonight against Manchester United as well in their comeback
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  Speaker 1: winning the Cup. Where does that leave us though with Brighton?
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  Speaker 1: Because I want to invest, but when you look at
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  Speaker 1: their next fixture, it makes you go, is now the
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  Speaker 1: time with Arsenal next?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: They've got Arsenal next, then they will go away to Sunderland,
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  Speaker 4: I think, home to Palace and then it's Liverpool and
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  Speaker 4: City back to back. So it's tough, although I think
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  Speaker 4: if you wanted to invest defensively, so Verbruggen, Vuskovic, for example,
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  Speaker 4: those kind of defenders and goalkeeper, Boscagli maybe, then I
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  Speaker 4: think that might be tricky because we've been saying since
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  Speaker 4: the start of the season, they're very fun to watch
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  Speaker 4: and they're very entertaining and they go forward and they
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  Speaker 4: attack really well, as we saw again, Kez, as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 4: in the 3-2 win in the Carabao Cup tonight.
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  Speaker 2: But also in.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty much every single game, They've played so far in
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  Speaker 4: the league that 4-3 defeat at Chelsea, for example, being
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  Speaker 4: another example. So they will score goals and they will
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  Speaker 4: create chances. They will also concede goals and they will
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  Speaker 4: concede chances. But if you wanted Gross or Costolas or
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  Speaker 4: De Kuyper or Gomez or those kind of guys, Ruta,
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  Speaker 4: go for it because I think they will get you points. Defensively,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not too convinced yet by those players bringing you
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  Speaker 4: points in those kind of games. However, attacking-wise, they will
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  Speaker 4: keep attacking whoever they play against. That's not going to change.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't think it's less of an issue if
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  Speaker 4: you want to invest in those kind of attacking assets,
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  Speaker 4: in a way, from Brighton.
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  Speaker 2: But defensively, maybe it's not the right time.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: Would it just be gross that you would go for Jules?
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: Is he just a standout? Well, he is, isn't he?
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he is. Yeah, I think Costulas, who
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: scored back-to-back goals, won in the league at the weekend
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: and then obviously in midweek against United, he took the
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: goal at the weekend really, really well. He was also
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: involved in the De Kuyper winning goal for Brighton against
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: United too. So Costulas in great form, quite cheap, low ownership,
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: I think is a smart idea for your third slot
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: as a forward, for example. I think the keeper who's
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: heavily owned now, I think he's over 23%.
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: And about to rise in price again.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: Yes, again.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: So go for him now if you want to, if
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: he hasn't gone up in price yet. But I think
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: he's a great player to have, although not a differential.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: And I think.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: They're probably with Verbruggen if you're looking for a keeper.
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: But again, I would stay away from the defenders and
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: the keepers for now in that schedule that we just
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: told you. But for the attacking side, I think those
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: three are the main targets for me.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Sam, are you as against the defence as Jules is?
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: No, no, I don't think so. Because I think, you know, Calper, obviously,
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: he's basically not a defender at the moment. Um, yeah,
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: I don't, I don't, I don't mind Vescovich. There's, there's
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: attacking threat from him, particularly from set pieces. Plus you
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: have the defensive contribution, um, potential from, from him as well.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: So I don't mind him. And as a, the Bruggen owner,
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: like I actually don't mind him either. If you've got
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: him in a rotating pair with Kinski, the pair of
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: them rotate really nicely over the next few weeks. So,
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: It does mean that I can play Kinski this week
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: against Aston Villa rather than playing Verbruggen against Arsenal. But
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: in the coming weeks, there will be times when I'll
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: flip that and play the opposite. So I'm not as
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: opposed to it. I do think De Kalper is a
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: bit of a no-brainer when it comes to the defence
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: because he's still that little bit cheaper and he's basically
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: playing as an attacker. But if you want to go
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: different with the Vuskovic, I don't mind that at all.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: In terms of the defence and defenders elsewhere, perhaps the
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: reason as well, Jules, you wouldn't invest in the Brighton
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: defence is because there is so much good value and
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: so many points elsewhere. Looking at the last game week,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: we've got something I didn't think I'd be saying, Sam
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Spurs with back-to-back clean sheets. Maybe the defence is the
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: way to go there. Manchester City, Jules, you've benefited from
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Guardiola's points. Sam, you had Leif Davis's 14 points, top-scoring defender.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: But like even Lewis Dunk, by the way, water goal
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: for him. And double Arsenal clean sheet was also the
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: way to go. So actually, Sam, there's some really nice
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: options in defence, isn't there? And that's where it looks
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: like a lot of the points at the moment are
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: going to come from.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think it's interesting, isn't it? Because at
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: the beginning of the season, we had long conversations about
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: the defenders and did we need to spend the money
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: on Gabriel? Should we spend more money on O'Reilly or
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: the more expensive Manchester City defenders? Did we need to
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: go premium with all of these options? But actually, the
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: The cheaper ones are the ones that actually seem to
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: be really impressive. So we've obviously got the Brighton defence
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: that are doing well. We don't have to pay quite
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: such a premium for the Spurs defence either. We've got...
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: van hecht took a price drop so he's at 4.9
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: now and when you look at the arsenal defense we've
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: got some really interesting numbers there that mean that actually
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: i don't think you need to spend the money on
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: gabrielle like over the if you look at minutes per
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: start because it's not fair to compare them directly because
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: obviously some of them have played more game time than
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: others so if you look at the amount of points
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: that they're getting per start You've got Calafuri, who's on
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: seven at the moment, Gabriel on six, White's not far
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: behind on 5.3, and then Konza at five. But I
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: would expect Konza to grow as he gets more game time.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: And then Rea trumping them all on 7.3 points per start.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: So I think it's the fact that there's loads of
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: options and the fact that those options don't have to
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: cost you loads of money. I mean, every week, and
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: I don't know about you, Kels, but every week I'm
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: looking at my defenders and I'm thinking... I don't really,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: like Konza this week, I really didn't want to bench Konza.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: But I've got this kind of benching headaches with the
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: defence because I've got so many good ones and there's
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: so many in the league that I still don't have
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: that I think probably I should be invested in.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I quite love my defence, but actually I'm on
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: the wrong ones. Like I was thinking, gosh, why did
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I go for Diop over Leif Davis? Maybe I did
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: that and just protest against you because you loved him
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: so much. I don't know. And even Adja at Brentford
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: was brilliant, but I knew his fixtures weren't. were kind
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: of going to change and I knew I wasn't going
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: to want to play him. Rodon's been a big problem
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: for me because he was just going to be kind
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: of set and forget for the first few weeks. Rodon's
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: become Konza. I'm happy to have Konza and Kalafiore. And
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: the worst, I think one of the worst things I've
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: ever made in FPL before a deadline, ahead of the
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: game week one deadline, was going from Luke Shaw away.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I moved Luke Shaw on. to be able to get
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Maguire and I sacrificed Guardiola and now I wish I
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: had Guardiola because there is so much value in the
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: defence and I'm kind of just on the wrong ones.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: You're at the moment on the right ones because even
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Van Hecht looks brilliant value and could have had more
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: points at the weekend.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: And I think that's the thing, isn't it? But then
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: I'm looking at the fixture ticker and I'm thinking like
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Neko Williams looks like he's going to be a really
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: great option over the coming weeks.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: It's about jumping off at the right point, isn't it? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: And, and it's hard to do when the players have
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: been returning well, like I couldn't imagine now on the
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: back of two really good returns for Van Hecke and
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: a really good return from Leif Davis. In my head,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: it makes no sense to sell either of those two
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: right now, particularly Van you know, after what's happened over
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks. But I am looking at,
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: I've got Bobby Thomas in that final spot and Coventry,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: I probably have made a mistake with him. He's probably
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: the one, not for any fault of his own, because
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: actually we have been seeing defensive contribution points from him,
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: which is.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: And you got the clean sheet when Coventry didn't get
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: one the other week. Yeah.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: So yes, exactly. So, you know, there has been good
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: returns from him, but Coventry of the newly promoted sides
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: look the least likely to keep clean sheets at the moment.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: So shifting across to one of the other 4.0s or
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: even taking a little bit of money and going up
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: to somebody like a Williams. The problem is I just
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: feel like I'm giving myself more benching headaches because if
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: I buy five defenders that I want to start every week,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: I've only got one bench boost to play in this
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: part of the season. So benching headaches feel like they're
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: to come and I also feel like I probably need
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: to prioritise doing something about my midfield because that is
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: where my points are lacking at the minute.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Is double Arsenal defence the way to go now Jules
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: because like Sam didn't play Konza and Califiori I played
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: both I didn't feel that comfortable where at Sunderland but
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: then you watch it and they're still so solid at
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the back.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah I think you're right I'm like you Kels I
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: don't really like it because obviously it's One goal, gone.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. And you get it.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: But in that case, I think Kansa is too cheap
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: not to have him. And then Calafiori has been so
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: good that until he's not as good as he's been
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: so far, then maybe it's time to get rid of
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: him and then invest that money in somebody else and
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: we don't have to double up. I've seen people with
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Ryan Gould as well.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I think Ian might have the three of them.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: That was my next question. Yeah, because Ian actually put
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: in our WhatsApp, didn't he, that He's never been so
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: happy to see a penalty saved. He's saved a triple
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: clean sheet. And I was like, are you mad? The
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: nerves that that must cause during a game. But Reyes also,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: is he the best goalkeeper in the game right now?
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I know he's more expensive, but 14 points he got
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: this week.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Which is his highest tally ever.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: In a single game week, yeah.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, incredible.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I think there's a case to make for
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: Reyes to be a must-have now. And we have to
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: go and get him. even if he's expensive, the most
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: in the keeper department, and then get rid of Calafiori,
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: let's say, to make up for that money for Raya
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: and keeping Konca, who's the cheapest by far. But it's
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: really difficult because, as Sam said, there's also a case
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: for the people who want Gabriel, who might come up
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: with the odd goal, although.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: They are less dependent on set-pieces than they were last season.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: But that doesn't say that they're not going to be
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: good again on set pieces with.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Gabriel very soon.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: So it's very tricky between all four of them which
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: ones to pick.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: This is the longest review of a game week ever,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: but it feels like it was one of those game
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: weeks where there were so many talking points and so
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: many things for us to think about. Just on the midfield,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I know we've already spoke about the Chelsea midfield and
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Brighton briefly, but a couple of names to put to
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: you in a similar price bracket and probably contrasting form, really.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Liverpool.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Their attack blanking against Fulham. Sam, we have been so
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: kind of obsessed, it feels like, with Sbozlai. At the
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: beginning of the season, it was you had to have
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: one of Sbozlai or Wurz. And I know Sbozlai has
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: ticked over. And by the way, what a goal from
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: him in the EFL Cup in midweek. But it was frustrating,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: wasn't it? You've got a Liverpool attacker at home against
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: a team that haven't won so far in the league
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: and you expect a bit more.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. And, you know, he was top four big chances
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: created in this game week with three. So maybe we
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: were a bit unlucky as the Bosley owners not to
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: get something out of him because I would have expected
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: that Liverpool would have converted one of three big chances
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: against a Fulham side that have actually been not great
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: defensively so far this season, but they were in this one.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: And then you had Gatpo, who for most of last
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: week was the most transferred in player, who then didn't
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: start in this one because of the injury that kept
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: him out of the Champions League match. So yeah, a
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: bit disappointing. I still think that Sabozlai is a good pick.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I still think he's a hold. Yes, the fixture's tough
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: enough for Liverpool. Obviously, they've got Bournemouth away. Before then,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: they go into some difficult ones. So when you look
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: at the fixture ticker over the next six weeks, Liverpool
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: sit very low down. And mostly that's because they have
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: games in there against Arsenal and they have games in
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: there against Manchester City and there's a game in there
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: against Brentford. So it's not great. And I think they're
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: 19th on the ticker over the next six weeks. So
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: it's difficult, but I think we think he's on penalties.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: He is on set pieces. I think he's still a
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: hold for me. Jules, you've not owned him and I
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: can see from your face you're not bothered.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: No, it's not that.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: I'm delighted when he blanks, to be fair. I won't
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: lie because he's still heavily owned. I find Liverpool difficult.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: I just can't work them out. I don't know if
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: they will be very good very soon. I don't know
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: if it will take a bit of time, especially for
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: that midfield to work out. We see Isak being great
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: one day and then not so good the next game.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Barcola is still finding his feet.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure about Munoz or Rio. This is the
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: problem I have, really. Xhaka is great, but they still
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: concede goals and chances. Okay, not against Fulham, but before that.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: So I really don't know what to think about them.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: And so because I'm not sure, for now, I prefer
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: staying out of it. No, I'm just saying, it's great.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: A lot of people will really share my view, Kez.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: No, no, but I do... all jokes aside I do
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: take your point and that was maybe more the question
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: that I was actually meaning to put to you in
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: terms of you don't have them and I still feel
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: like we're four game weeks in and we don't really
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: know what Liverpool are like so do we desperately need
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: their players and the answer is probably no and he's
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: now going to go and score three this weekend now
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I've said that to prove him to prove me wrong
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: which I hope he does of course has known it
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: but yeah I guess that's you've probably summed up where
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: we're at with Liverpool at the moment and I mentioned
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: another midfielder I just wanted to mention Morgan Gibbs-White because
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: he's got arguably one of the best fixtures this week
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: as well. He returned last week and some of his stats, Sam,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: were really good. He is quite expensive and Forrest haven't
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: had the best start to the season, but is he
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: someone we should be considering? He's very high on my
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: wishlist of players for this week because it's not really
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: just about this week. Yes, it's a good fixture this week,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: but actually the fixtures remain nice for a while for Forrest. Obviously,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: it's Coventry, but then they've got Palace. Now, there's a
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: game in there against Arsenal, which skews where they sit
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: on the fixture ticker, But then after that, they've got
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Ipswich and Brentford. So I think four of the next
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: five actually look really nice. And I mentioned Sir Bosley
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: being top for big chances created with three. Well, Morgan
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Gibbs-White also had three as well. He was top for
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: expected assists across the game week with 0.91. So again,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: very unlucky not to get something there. And actually ranked
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: really highly on the bonus BPS system. So he, because
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: of all of the great stuff he does, that's not
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: necessarily an attacking threat, he was top. for baseline bps
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: across the game we just because he's so involved in
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: everything that that forest are doing so i don't have
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: a forest player in my team at the moment and
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: morgan gibbs white feels like the right one to get
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: there's a couple of others actually that i like as
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: well but morgan gives white is very high on the
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: on the agenda of players to go with but selling
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the likes of sabozlai to get him i don't know
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: where how i feel about that right now okay we
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: will move on from the longest roundup ever. Jules, is
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: there anything that we haven't mentioned from the midweek, whether
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: it's cup, European action or any talking points that kind
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: of we need to consider when selecting our team this weekend?
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: No, I mean, quickly, there was a lot of rotation,
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: especially for the teams that were in the Carver Cup.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Even the big teams, Arsenal played, you know, a big team,
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: United had a lot of changes, Brighton as well. We
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: saw Liverpool and Spurs with a lot of changes too.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Some teams made 10 changes, 8 changes, 7 changes. So,
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: A lot of that. Sorry, Sam, but big win for Liverpool.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Gagpo scoring. So, Bozlai with a wonder goal. And as
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: we mentioned, McAllister as well. For Spurs, they created a lot. 2.3
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: xG in that game away at Liverpool in the Carabao Cup.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: But then only Gallagher and that goal and another.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Defeat to show for. Fulham won a football game.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: Well done to them and Arvalo Arvaloa. With Palacios scoring
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: and assisting. Really good in that 3-2 win against West Ham.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: In Europe, Sunderland were back after 25 years or something.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Enzo Le Fay, who missed a penalty against Arsenal last weekend,
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: scored the winning goal on a penalty against AZ Alkmaar.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: That was good.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: We mentioned Brighton beating United. And there's more teams like
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: City playing tomorrow, like the rest of the team as
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: well in the Europa League too.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: So more football to be played.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: But so far, there were not too many injuries, for example,
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: of players who were playing in midweek for every team
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: to think about. Okay.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Just a quick check in then with the FPL pod mini-league.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: A reminder, your code is Q0HV1Q. And we've got a
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: new leader at the summit, Nils Arv Nordberg. I hope
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I've said that right. Sorry if I haven't. Was in third,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: but he's actually gone top with 103 points. He had
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Pascal Gross as well, and also captain Joao Pedro. He
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: had Rea as well for his, as Jules mentioned, biggest
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: ever FPL return. But he did bench Sharder's 15 points.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Sharder's probably someone I should have mentioned when we talked
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: about midfielders. as well um one tara's climbed into second
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: spot they're eight points behind played their wild card this
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: week one captain palmer and registered 97 points for game
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: week four meanwhile barry mcfarlane climbed from 28th to third
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: he also wild carded and captain palmer registering 103 points
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: for the week in fact five of the top seven
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: managers in our league made it into the 100 club
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: this week so congratulations to them Every week it feels
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: like at the moment we're having a chip update. And
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: as it stands, there's not too many chips being played.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I said this to someone last week, Sam, that it
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: feels like there's been a bit of a trend this year.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's content creators. I don't know. Maybe it's just
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: the people I follow. To play chips early, it feels
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: like a lot of people have used them very early.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: But why do you think maybe there's not as many
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: in play this week?
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think a lot of people have gone early.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: A lot of the big content creators have. I think
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: I'm in the minority with only having played one of
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: them so far. A lot of people going with an
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: early bench boost, early wildcard, early triple captain strategy. I
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: think this week we tend to find ahead of an
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: international break. It's always a bit of a low week
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: for chips, mostly because people like to play a wildcard
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: over an international break. And this international break is quite
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: unique because obviously we are about to go into with
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: the exception of the world cup when it was in
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: the middle of the season one of the the longest
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: international break that we're gonna we're gonna face so i
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: do think people are kind of being a little bit
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: tentative this week i also don't necessarily think that there's
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: an obvious triple captaincy this week in the last few
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: weeks there has been like there's been you know harlem
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: with a great fixture or somebody with a Bruno Fernandes
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: with an excellent fixture, whatever it might be. And I
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: think a lot of people now, if you haven't already
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: played your bench boost, it's probably unlikely that you're going
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: to play ahead of another wild card because you will
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: probably have somebody on your bench that you think, I
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: wish that wasn't somebody different. So, yeah, I suspect the
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: international break is the big driver for the reason why
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: we're seeing quite low numbers at the minute. Jules, I'm
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: going to ask the question I know you won't have
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: an answer to. Any chip strategy planned yet?
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: I think chip is cheap this week, so not for me.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: No, no. I don't mean are you playing it this week.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I mean like... In general, have you thought about when
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: you might play your first wildcard?
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, international break. Wildcard would be perfect for the international
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: break because we.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Have the trend now. You know who's in form.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: So why are you going to do it next week?
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: You are. It's in a month. Yeah, but actually it's
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: in three weeks after that, right?
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: No, because if you're going to do it, you have
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: to do it now. Yeah, so that you ride the prices.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Not literally now, after the deadline.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Not right now.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: No, not right now.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: After the deadline.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Well, on Friday night, yeah.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: I won't, you know me, I won't do it on
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Friday night.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, come on.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I'll be watching the football on Friday night.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: But it makes me so angry that this man is
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: quite good at FPL when he says things like that.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: It's so annoying.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: As if you were, as if you, Kelly Summers, were
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: that organised and then anyway, and you're playing.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: That's part of the fun of playing a wild card.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: The moment the deadline goes, you just, you activate and
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: you can, I like playing the horizon full.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: I need time to process.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: I will watch all the international games, all the players
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: away with international, with the national team.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: You can still do that with your wildcard active.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: True, but then that doesn't... Right, the price.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Changes, surely.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Try and build your team value.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Come on, Jules, you know this.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's... Yeah, but what if, like, somebody gets injured...
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Then you take them out.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: You take them out.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, fair enough.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: That's what the wildcard's for.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Like, I'll find some time to.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Come on, if a player gets injured.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: While you're watching Chelsea and Brentford, get it active.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll get it active.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Sorry, but what if a player gets injured... The whole
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: beauty of the wildcard is you can take it in, out, in, out.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: They can do the hokey-cokey throughout the whole break if
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: you want.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Turn them around if you like.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: I like just, you know, I'm OCD with, I need
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: to see them with a national team and then I
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: know who I go for.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: But that'd be too late.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: In an international break, you go into international mode, don't you?
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: It feels like you kind of park this a little bit.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: Jules, I expect you to hit the button and then
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: every night before you go to bed, check the price
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: changes and then bring in the players rising to get
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: your team value up.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: You know, I have to make a confession.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Am I going to have to text you every night
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: at half eleven?
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: I don't reckon you've ever looked at a price change.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I knew he was going to say that.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Never.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Jules!
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I have to be honest.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: You've gone down in my estimations.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: But you know me. How are you still on this podcast?
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: I'll pay. Because I'm better than you two, by the way.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: I'm top 110k already.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Like 3.5.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Rank doesn't count.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: I'm a happy payer. I'm a happy payer.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: You know, if you tell me that pair of trainers,
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: and you know I love my trainers.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: No.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Has gone from £ 250 to £ 300.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: I'd be very happy to pay for, to buy it
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: for £ 300.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: You're mad.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I wish I had as much money as you in
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: fantasy and in real life. Maybe that's the problem.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Let's move on, Sam.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: And it's not me and Sam. Sam, if you're as
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: busy as Jules, then you should be rich, to be honest. Sam,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: you've got a wild card next week. So I'm going
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: to try and get us back on the straight and narrow.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I can hear people across the country turning us off, like,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: because they just like, why are they just arguing?
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: So my original plan was to wildcard. However, as I
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: said to you when we were doing the chat, I
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: actually like.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: She loves her team. She's getting carried away.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Well, to be fair, I've had four good weeks. I
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: like my team. I'm just a bit like... You've got emotional.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: You've got attached. I've got attached to them. I feel
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: like I want to keep them all now.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Who knew that I would get attached to them?
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: I've got three free transfers. I feel like I've almost,
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: or I will have, because I don't think I'm, spoiler
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: alert for later, I don't think I'm going to make
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: one this week. So I have three free transfers over
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: the international break. I don't feel like there's, so normally
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: I sit and I look at my team and I'll
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: count the number of players that I would get rid of.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: And if it hits five or six, that's when I'll
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: hit the button. Whereas I actually think I've got two
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: that I would change. So why not just change them
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: with the transfers? And then if over the international break,
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: more things happen then maybe i'll play it later but
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: currently my plan is now not to play it and
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: to hold it through probably game week 16 if i
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: can get that far.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Oh that's what is that 16 wow 11 game weeks.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you still on this.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: You still don't right let's move on um Okay, we
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: were meant to spend the bulk of this podcast playing
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: a game of buy, sell or hold. That's another 16, 12, 14, 11.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know how many fingers. I don't know how
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: many fingers that is.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know enough fingers, all right?
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: I know, clearly, yeah. Toes, can you toes?
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Right, we were meant to spend the bulk of this
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: podcast playing buy, sell or hold, but we've spent the
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: majority of it arguing. I'm reviewing the game week. So
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: let's just try and flip through this very quickly. I'm
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: going to start with someone we haven't actually mentioned so far.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: We've mentioned Arsenal a lot, but we haven't mentioned Bukayo Saka.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I am a little bit annoyed with you two because
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I wanted him all pre-season. He was in my team
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: for ages. You put me off him. I think we
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: were all lured in, weren't we, by solace. If you've
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: got him, well, Sam, tell me, by sell-hold, depending on
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: your situation.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: So when I wrote him on this script, I was like, he's... He's,
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: hold if you've got him, but I wouldn't buy him.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Then I looked at it and then I thought, no,
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: I can't just go in and say that. I've got
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: to have some actual data to back it up. So
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: I looked at the numbers. He's had 13 shots so far.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Only five midfielders have had more. He's had five big chances,
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: which is top across the midfielders in the game. He's
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: created four chances. Now that's the metric where he's a
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: bit low because all three of the cheaper Arsenal mids
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: have got more. Odegaard's got 12, which is the second
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: highest only to gross. Solis has got eight and Rice
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: has got six. 30 points overall is seventh most in
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: the game. Three goals, only Haaland has more with four.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: He was top for XG in game week four, but
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: of course that was skewed by the penalty. The underlying
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: data actually says you buy him this week. Brighton though,
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: I think I'd wait until after the Brighton game and
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: then I'll look because it's tough to sell. If you've
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: got Erdogan, it's very hard to sell Erdogan to go
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: for Saka and most people have got the double defence now.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Jules, I'm going to throw in another name that Sam
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: didn't put on the script but I think is a
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: good one and relevant solace.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah uh i think there's there's huge potential there it's
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: cheap oh it's cheap cheaper than cheaper than saka i
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: still think of the guard right now is the best
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: value for money and and for you investment because it's
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: much cheaper than saka and the only three well he's
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: got uh i think saka is on 30 points and
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: the other guy is on 27 so in terms of
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: where you would pay.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: For what you would get.
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: But I think Saka has more potential to be more
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: consistent through the whole season. But for now, I would
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: go for Odegaard ahead of Tolis, ahead of Saka.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, we've already done Pascal Gross. Actually, we did him,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: but let's put him in here. Buy, sell or hold, Sam?
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: What would you do for this week? If you didn't
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: own him, would you wait?
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd wait.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Because I actually think there's some cheaper options, but you
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: definitely hold if you have.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: No, you hold if you have.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Okay. Schurke. Jules.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: That's a tricky one. And you know how much I
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: love him. He's my boy.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: That's why I went to you on that. And Foden suspended.
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: Foden Redcard, he'd be suspended, although we saw Iliman Ndiaye
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: coming on off the bench and did really well in
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: the derby. He was very good. Bachecki, you can buy
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: if you don't have him. You can hold if you
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: still have him. Would you buy him?
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know if I'd buy him.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Because I think there's so much potential.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: He will give you some really good returns, but he
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: will give you some frustrating weeks as well. So if
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: you're ready to go through that, which I'm not, and
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: it's even harder for me because he's my boy, but
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: I'm not.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: I can't take the hokey-cokey. Is that what you mentioned earlier?
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Like up and down.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: It's like system front.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: I think, no. I'm not even sure exactly what. Is
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: it the hokey-cokey? Hey, hokey-cokey.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, why, how come did that come up in
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: your head when you were a young child?
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Well, it's like referring, yeah, and it's referring to in-out,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: because it goes in-out, in-out.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: In-out.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Right, we're meant to be a quick game, guys.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: Up-down, up-down for Cherky. I'm not sure I'm ready for that.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: So I would not go there, but you can buy,
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: but be ready for it.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Right, let's keep the pace going.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Bruno.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Sam.
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Sam can deal with him. I like, this is a.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: So, okay, so you look at his stats. No, we
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: don't have a time for too many stats.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: No, but we do.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Okay, but he's top for goals, top for shots. Yeah,
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: and that's the thing, isn't it? So you look at
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: the stats for Manchester United, he looks good. Then you
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: look and you go, but he's banked three times. in
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: four game weeks he's 12 million it's too much money
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: and actually then when you compare his like overall numbers
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: his 7.3 points per star is the same as raya
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: by the way who's a lot cheaper like half the
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: price and it ranks him 13th in the game tell
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: him to tell him I don't want to tell you
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: to sell him cows because you will blame me for
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: the rest of my life. However, I am probably going
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: to give him one more week. But if he doesn't
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: return in game week five, then I'll sell, I think.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, same as me, I think. Quickly, Jules, remember Gabriel.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: He's still the most selected.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Defender in the game, by the way. That surprised me.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: At his price.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he is at £ 8 million. But when you think
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: about Konza, £ 4. 5 million, I think that's a no-brainer. If
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: you have Gabriel and you don't have much value in him,
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: then I think let him go and replace him with
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: a cheaper Arsenal defender that would get you more points.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, that was quite short for you. Isak, Sam.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Fixture swing now. I think you had the opportunity to
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: have him, didn't you? Whereas now we're going into some
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: tougher fixtures. I do think Bournemouth's defence is gettable. But
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: after that, I'm not sure that he's really worth the
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: £ 9 million. Point one, I think, you have to spend
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: on him now. So I think he's probably a sell.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Okay. Differential of the week. Last week, well done, Jules.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: You did win this. Savanir with eight points, gold, two
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: bonus and a yellow. Sam, you went for Vusk... Why
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: can I not speak Vuskavich with six points for a
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: clean sheet? So Jules, that means you get to go first.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: My pick, and I'm sorry, Sam, I'm stealing him from you,
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: from your heart, from the love story that you have
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: with Daniel Munoz. because that is my differential of the week.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: Forest play against Coventry this weekend. A Coventry team that
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: is obviously not very good. He's only owned by 5.6%
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: of the managers. 5.4 million it would cost you. I
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: thought it was excellent against Villa, although he only got
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: two points. But he's on that right-hand side, right-wing back.
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: I mean, Glasner is building a forest. The team that
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: he basically had at Palace when you look player for player.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: But in Munoz, he brought the guy he had at
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: Palace straight away at Forest. It's easier to do it
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: that way. And I think Munoz would be great in
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: that game and in everything great that Forest are going
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: to do.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Sam?
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: Do you know what's really funny is I very, very
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: nearly picked Williams on the other side, and that would
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: have been quite fun. But instead, I have stuck with Forrest,
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: but I've gone with Ndoi. So Jules normally complains that
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: I pick a really, really highly owned differential.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: Because you do.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: This one's owned by 0.7% of managers, Jules. So there
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: you are, nice and different. It's going to cost you 5.5 million.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: I like the Gibbs White pick. I like the Williams pick.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: I also like the Munoz pick. As we all know,
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: I like him.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: But Ndoi.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: I think he's gone massively under the radar. Just one
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: goal and two assists last season. And I think maybe
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: that's due with the kind of the hokey-cokey again of
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: managers that we had at Forest last time round. But
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: in Glasden's system, he's playing as one of two number 10s.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: He's already scored once against Liverpool. He's racked up seven
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: shots in the box so far in the first four matches,
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: which is the joint most of any Forest player. Of those,
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: three have been defined as big chances by Opta, which
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: Oney and Bermo and Saka have more of in the
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: midfielder slots. He's also created two big chances for his teammates.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: And As Jules mentioned, it's Coventry for them in game
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: week five. They've conceded 10 goals so far this season.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: And I just think that there's a really nice opportunity
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: to go with somebody a bit different. If you can't
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: afford Gibbs White or if you want a budget friendly
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: version of a player like Pascal Gross, who's got a
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: nicer fixture.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: That even got a rare nod of approval from Jules.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: That doesn't happen often. Captain's transfers and chips. I think
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: we've all established there's no chips being played this week. Sam,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: you said you're not making any transfers. Jules, are you
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: going to make any?
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: No, no transfer this week. Oh, we're boring, aren't we?
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Until he decides to at the last minute. What about
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: captaincy then?
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: No, I've got a great team. You know, I just
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: had 93 points.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Captaincy, Sam? I'm going. Why do I do this?
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: I don't say because you're going to influence me, you two.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: No, I tried to influence you and you ignored me.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: I said to go with the Chelsea player last week.
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: No, right now it's on Haaland at home to Sunderland.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: Sunderland have played, obviously, on Wednesday night in Europe, who
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: I think, Because it's new for them, we'll feel it
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: a bit at the weekend. So I think Haaland, even
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: in Sunderland, have a really strong defence and all of that.
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: I think it's a good call.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Haaland at home, isn't it?
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: He's going to be so heavily captained as well, isn't he?
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: So if you don't captain him and he scores, that's
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: what worries me.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: I do really like the DCL captain pick at home
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: to Crystal Palace, though, who play on Thursday night in
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: Europe and have, a squad that's already been a bit
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: struggling so far this season and Leeds are flying and
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: Dominic Calvert-Lewin looks great. And I know they played on
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: Monday night, but then they've had the rest of this
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: week off. So there is something I really like about
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: the DCL captain, but I will this week. I think
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: there's times to go against Harlan and in a home fixture.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Like last week.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Doesn't feel like the one.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Should have gone against him.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: He was away last week.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, of course. Oh, that's how you end the pod.
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: Slight tackle like that. No problem. How many points did
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: you get again with the right captain? Oh, yeah. Less
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: than you.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Pascal Gross.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Red arrow. Okay.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Thank goodness it's over. This has been a challenge, hasn't it?
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: The Fantasy Show is back on Friday, guys. As always,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: last one before the international break. But we will still
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: be podding. During the break, of course, we will. Unfortunately,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: I'm still going to have to see these guys, especially Jules.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Do remember to set those alarms for Friday afternoon. Do
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: not miss the final deadline before the break. There is
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: a Friday night game. The best of luck. And we
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: don't name this podcast, but I.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: Wish we did, because if we did, it would have
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: to be called The Hokey Cokey.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Bye.