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S9 Ep13: FPL Pod: Are Premiums Worth It? · FPL Pod

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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to start this Thursday pod with an apology.
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  Speaker 1: And this is totally unrelated to FPL, but I know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of you guys that listen to this have
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  Speaker 1: become rather invested in our often bonkers lives. It turns
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  Speaker 1: out last week we recorded this podcast on Sam's birthday
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  Speaker 1: and no one knew and no one said happy birthday.
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  Speaker 1: And then I text Jules and he said, well, it
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  Speaker 1: was my birthday a week or so ago and no
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  Speaker 1: one said happy birthday to me. So happy birthday to
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  Speaker 1: both of you. Sorry it's late. I'm the worst friend
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  Speaker 1: co-host ever. But I just, I wrote down a note
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  Speaker 1: to myself for this week. I must say it because
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  Speaker 1: I felt terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry, don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: So let's find out if your birthday brought any FPL points, Sam.
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  Speaker 3: It did. It was a good FPL week. So that
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  Speaker 3: was positive. Yeah. A very good game week.
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  Speaker 4: So 74 points and three points for Spurs. So, you know,
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  Speaker 4: what couldn't have gone better in my birthday weekend than
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  Speaker 4: Spurs winning and a decent FPL week. So yeah, a
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  Speaker 4: nice big green arrow, which I was really happy about.
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  Speaker 4: despite the fact that my midfield still seem to be
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  Speaker 4: just dreadful. Like I can't get any points out of
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  Speaker 4: them lately. It's just constant, apart from Pascal Gross, of course,
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  Speaker 4: but then everyone's getting Pascal Gross's points. So that's less,
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  Speaker 4: that's less exciting, but the defence doing really well again, obviously.
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  Speaker 4: Verbruggen with, yeah, another clean sheet. So he's, he's looking
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  Speaker 4: like a really good goalkeeper option. Konza and Calafuri both
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  Speaker 4: coming in with a, with a clean sheet. Van Hecht,
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  Speaker 4: despite no clean sheet, picked up the defensive contribution points again.
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  Speaker 4: So he's been, bit of a breath of fresh air
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  Speaker 4: at a time when you know my other defenders maybe
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  Speaker 4: hadn't been so good recently uh calvert lewin though was
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  Speaker 4: a was the big win because i think a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people have been selling him recently so to have
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  Speaker 4: kept him and got a nine pointer out of him
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  Speaker 4: felt really good so yeah 74 a nice big green
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  Speaker 4: arrow took me above george in the mini leagues that
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  Speaker 4: also made me happy as well um yeah good weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I made up some ground on Jules this week
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  Speaker 1: and gosh, did I need to because I've had such
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  Speaker 1: a poor start to the season. Like looking at my
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  Speaker 1: rank compared to you two. I'm glad I had a
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  Speaker 1: big climb this week, but when you're down where I am,
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  Speaker 1: you need to have big climbs to ensure that it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't get a bit messy. Jules, for you, it was
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  Speaker 1: 60 points. And I think the big thing for me was,
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  Speaker 1: is your luck running out with Guardiola?
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 5: And to be fair, we talked about rotation on last
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  Speaker 5: week's show, the week before, which is fair. I just,
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  Speaker 5: I was not sure it would come from there. And
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  Speaker 5: to be fair, he'd come off the bench a few
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  Speaker 5: times and getting some returns, which was a bit lucky
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  Speaker 5: as well. Remember the assist for Schalke against Liverpool, for example,
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  Speaker 5: where he was on the bench, came on and that
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  Speaker 5: saved the day, really, but it was not sustainable. And
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  Speaker 5: we often talk about that kind of thing, not being sustainable.
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  Speaker 5: And that was the bad day, really, because Guardiola got
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  Speaker 5: me zero points.
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  Speaker 2: And that was bad.
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  Speaker 5: And because my third forward was not Dominic Calvert-Lewin, that's
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  Speaker 5: where the difference is between my 60 points and Sam's 74,
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  Speaker 5: for example, because Johan Huysa, again, is only there because
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  Speaker 5: he's Paris born and bred for one more week. But
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  Speaker 5: that has to stop now. Even the Parisians have to,
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  Speaker 5: because he's been dreadful. And so I've been Newcastle lately.
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  Speaker 5: So he will have to go. And for the rest,
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  Speaker 5: it's really the defence that is helping Calafiori, Konsa, Verbruggen,
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  Speaker 5: plus the captaincy on Ireland.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, not a good week.
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  Speaker 5: Although there was not much, again, it's just one player
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  Speaker 5: that makes a difference in this case, really, in Dominic
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  Speaker 5: Calveluin and the third forward that mine was not good
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  Speaker 5: at all.
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  Speaker 1: OK, then, Jules, before we go on to the FPL
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  Speaker 1: Pub Mini League, just bring us up to speed on
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  Speaker 1: kind of everything that's happened in Europe this week, because
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  Speaker 1: actually there's some huge news when it comes to FPL.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and really sad as well if you're on Bukayo Saka,
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  Speaker 5: for example, and we talked a lot again in recent
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  Speaker 5: shows about Odegaard, Saka and what you do with your
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  Speaker 5: midfield and we'll do again later today on the show.
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  Speaker 5: But he picked up what looks like a quad injury
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  Speaker 5: on a simple pass against Bayern Munich quite early on
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  Speaker 5: and that didn't look good at all. We don't know
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  Speaker 5: yet exactly the severity of it, but you would think it's.
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  Speaker 2: More weeks than days, really.
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  Speaker 5: With Bukayo Saka, Arsenal got a good 2-2 draw away
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  Speaker 5: at Bayern though with a great goal by Declan Rice
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  Speaker 5: and a great goal by Ebrard Chiesi, who will become,
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  Speaker 5: like Maduike, much more important in the absence of Solis
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  Speaker 5: and Saka now, especially for the game against Everton on Saturday.
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  Speaker 5: Another nightmare of a night for Manchester United. If you're
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  Speaker 5: all United players, if you are United fans, you don't
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  Speaker 5: want to listen to this because it was an absolute shambles.
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  Speaker 5: They lost 4-1 at Como. It could have been 6-7 easily.
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  Speaker 5: What a mess. They've got loads of injuries and then
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  Speaker 5: imploded by Bruno, clearly having a go at Carrick, who
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  Speaker 5: then responded.
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  Speaker 2: It's just Feels like very toxic at the moment.
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  Speaker 5: Manchester City at the Stroll in the park against AK Aten,
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  Speaker 5: which you would expect 5-1 win. Hat-trick for Foden, a
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  Speaker 5: bit of shirky magic as well. More rotation with Haaland
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  Speaker 5: on the bench, for example, and rested through the whole game.
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  Speaker 5: Liverpool 4-3 win at home to Villarreal, although they were
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  Speaker 5: 2-0 down. But a good cameo entrance for Vils, who
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  Speaker 5: scored again and seems to be on good form. McAllister
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  Speaker 5: with a brace as well. And Rio and Gomuha with
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  Speaker 5: a wonderful performance. And then finally, Aston Villa against Viking
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  Speaker 5: from nowhere. Easy win, 3-1 rotation. We saw another goal
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  Speaker 5: for Buendia. Alisson being very good. No Manzambi, though, who
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  Speaker 5: picked up an injury. And that's a bit of a blow,
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  Speaker 5: I think, if you own him. And for Aston Villa
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  Speaker 5: for the game against City at the weekend, if he
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  Speaker 5: can't play.
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  Speaker 1: OK, we'll come on to some of those points. kind
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  Speaker 1: of talk about them a little bit more very shortly
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  Speaker 1: because I know, for example, Bukayo Saka is a huge
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  Speaker 1: talking point after last night. But I'm just going to
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  Speaker 1: check in with the FPL Pod Mini League as promised.
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  Speaker 1: And Nils fell to second last week, but he's back
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  Speaker 1: on top with 97 points because he had his triple.
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  Speaker 3: Captain, which he used on Erling Haaland.
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  Speaker 1: He also transferred him in this week as well. So
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  Speaker 1: a very smart move. He also sold Bruno Fernandes for
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  Speaker 1: Redoni and got a goal from him.
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  Speaker 3: So that went well.
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  Speaker 1: Ra Gray is up into second with 90 points. Also
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  Speaker 1: brought in Manzambi for Sposly. That was Jules just said
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  Speaker 1: then he could have a bit of a headache last week.
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  Speaker 3: This week, sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Alex Dawson was top last week. He slipped to third
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  Speaker 1: with 68 points. There are just 17 points between the
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  Speaker 1: top three. Also a shout out to Connor Clark, who
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  Speaker 1: went from 48th up to fourth in our league. He
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  Speaker 1: got 99 points for the week. Triple caps in Harland.
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  Speaker 1: And he also put in Shirky, who didn't feature at all.
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  Speaker 1: So it could have been even better.
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  Speaker 3: So proof there.
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  Speaker 1: It's never too late. to give up on these leagues. Like,
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  Speaker 1: don't give up because going from fourth to 48th is staggering.
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  Speaker 1: And if you haven't joined us yet, the code is Q0HV1Q. Right,
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  Speaker 1: there is so much for us to reflect on because,
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  Speaker 1: as we just said, then there's loads that's happened in Europe,
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  Speaker 1: but also game week seven. So let's try and get
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  Speaker 1: through some of it. In terms of Brighton, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's just rinse and repeat from what we said last week, Sam.
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  Speaker 3: They're so good at the moment, aren't they?
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  Speaker 1: The only thing is their fixtures.
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  Speaker 2: Their fixtures now are trickier.
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  Speaker 1: A trickier but they almost feel like you know we
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  Speaker 1: put some sorry to ask you a question then answer
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  Speaker 1: the question but you know like certain teams we say
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  Speaker 1: are fixture proof I'm almost wondering if we're now in
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  Speaker 1: that watch them lose this week but are we in
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  Speaker 1: that kind of territory now with Brighton.
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  Speaker 4: I think so and I think even when you look
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  Speaker 4: at the fixtures that they have coming up like it's
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  Speaker 4: not it's not like Liverpool aren't conceding goals it's not
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  Speaker 4: like they don't have you know, the opportunity to score.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe the defenders won't be quite so good this week
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  Speaker 4: against Liverpool because I would expect Liverpool to score. But still,
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  Speaker 4: I think there's still plenty of potential if you've got,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Kostulas or if you've got Gross, even if
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  Speaker 4: you've got De Kalper, given how attacking he's been. Would
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  Speaker 4: I really want to be playing Verbruggen this week?
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  Speaker 2: Well, maybe not.
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  Speaker 4: But then I've got Kinski who's got Chelsea, so I'll
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  Speaker 4: probably play Verbruggen and hope for some save points. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I started to think that they are. Like, there's no
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  Speaker 4: part of me that thinks, oh, I want to get
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  Speaker 4: rid of my Brighton players. And even when I'm looking
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  Speaker 4: at my team, there's no part of me that thinks
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  Speaker 4: I want to bench them either. I think if you
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  Speaker 4: have them.
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  Speaker 1: Trust me, don't bench them.
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  Speaker 3: Particularly the outfielders, you play them. No, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: And even if you're not too sure, you go for
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  Speaker 5: it anyway and you have to gamble. When you're in
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  Speaker 5: that kind of form, when you score from the halfway line,
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  Speaker 5: when just everything goes your way, it will stop at
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  Speaker 5: some point, obviously. But for now, you go for it
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  Speaker 5: and it could well be the right gamble because it
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  Speaker 5: could work out certainly against Liverpool, I don't know if
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  Speaker 5: then you play City back-to-back because they have them in
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  Speaker 5: the League Cup as well. That might be a little
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  Speaker 5: bit too much, but you just never know. When you're
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  Speaker 5: in that kind of confidence and in that kind of
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  Speaker 5: mode where you must feel unplayable, invincible almost if you're
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  Speaker 5: this Brighton team right now, which is fair to them.
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  Speaker 5: They've been so good. We should really try to take
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  Speaker 5: advantage of it.
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  Speaker 1: Do we apply the same rule with attackers, like Pascal Gross,
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  Speaker 1: because I know so many of us have him, to
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  Speaker 1: the defenders? Because I joked about it there with De Kuyper.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned it the other week and I learned I
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  Speaker 1: won't be benching him just because I'm absolutely scarred from that.
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  Speaker 1: But I have seen, Sam, a lot of people having
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  Speaker 1: conundrums as to they might have a lot of good
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  Speaker 1: defenders and obviously defenders are returning well at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Do you still play a De Kuyper?
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  Speaker 3: I think you probably do with him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I actually think it's slightly different for each of
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  Speaker 4: those two because obviously De Kuyper's got the potential for
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  Speaker 4: an attacking return at every and any given opportunity it
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  Speaker 4: feels like right now.
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  Speaker 3: Vuskovic is not that he doesn't.
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  Speaker 4: But he's less attacking because his threat is mostly from
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  Speaker 4: set pieces, right? So, um, and an aerial threat. Um,
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  Speaker 4: so I think, I think if you've got DiCaprio, I
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  Speaker 4: would just play him anyway, regardless of these two fixtures
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  Speaker 4: and hope for an attacking return. In addition to, to
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  Speaker 4: maybe there's an, there's a clean sheet that comes at
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  Speaker 4: some point. Vuskovic, if you've got a couple of Arsenal defenders,
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  Speaker 4: if you've got other defenders that you want to play,
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  Speaker 4: like you might find that you've got, um, some of
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  Speaker 4: your very cheap defenders that over the next couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks have some quite nice fixtures and you want to
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  Speaker 4: play them as well, then maybe you could bench him.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So Brighton covered off. Man City rotation. This is tricky.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought this, that all the warning bells were
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  Speaker 1: there last week in terms of Shirky. Most transferred in,
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  Speaker 1: loads of people bringing him in. Brilliant fixture. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's unlucky, isn't it, Jules? But it's something we know
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  Speaker 1: that's going to happen with City. Firstly, what do you
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  Speaker 1: do if you're a Shirky owner?
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  Speaker 2: So the good news, I think, in a way, and
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  Speaker 2: it's sad for Semenya.
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  Speaker 3: Himself who picked up that.
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  Speaker 2: Injury, but it's true.
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  Speaker 5: Now that means at least there's one less option for
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  Speaker 5: Maresca to play and to rotate with Semenya. We think
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  Speaker 5: probably around six to eight weeks or it looks that way, certainly.
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  Speaker 5: So that means you could play Foden wide a bit
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  Speaker 5: like we saw against A.K.A. Athens in the Champions League
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  Speaker 5: where both Foden and Schalke were played together in this team,
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  Speaker 5: Alan being the other kind of wide attacker with Floyd Samba,
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  Speaker 5: the youngster up front. At least there's one less of
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  Speaker 5: an issue there for that rotation, but it's inevitable. They
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  Speaker 5: play a lot of games, they play quite an intense
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  Speaker 5: style of football, obviously. They have big games coming up.
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  Speaker 5: We mentioned, I think, their schedule, but they have the
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  Speaker 5: Champions League, they have still the League Cup, they've got
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  Speaker 5: the league and also everything else that is happening around
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  Speaker 5: the club, obviously. So, you think that Maresca will continue
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  Speaker 5: doing that. They also have data that we don't have
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  Speaker 5: on players' fitness and where they are and where their
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  Speaker 5: muscles are. And maybe that will also dictate, OK, he
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  Speaker 5: can't start. He can maybe only play a few minutes
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  Speaker 5: if need be and things like that. So right now,
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  Speaker 5: I think of all the Premier League teams, I think
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  Speaker 5: they're the ones that seem to be on this kind
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  Speaker 5: of more rotation plan, if you want, maybe more than
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  Speaker 5: than others, so there's something to bear in mind for
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  Speaker 5: sure if you've got Schalke, if you want Foden, which
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  Speaker 5: is in great form after the hat-trick in midweek, or
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  Speaker 5: even for me, the Gvardiol slash O'Reilly left-back conundrum, because undoubtedly,
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  Speaker 5: I think those two will keep being rotated.
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  Speaker 1: Sam, what would you do if you owned those City players?
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  Speaker 1: I think Jules makes a really valid point there about
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  Speaker 1: the Semenya injury, as bad as it is, because he's
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful player and maybe helps things a little.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it maybe gives a little bit more
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  Speaker 4: security to Cherky owners who will be, maybe they'll feel
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  Speaker 4: a little bit relieved about that given that he was
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  Speaker 4: so popular last week as a transfer in. So to
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  Speaker 4: not see him get any minutes at all, I think
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  Speaker 4: is disappointing because I think that's the thing, isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: With a lot of Man City rotation, we've seen them
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  Speaker 4: come off the bench and they can easily get some
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  Speaker 4: returns in 20 minutes, 30 minutes off of a bench.
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  Speaker 4: But when you don't see them come on at all,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it can work in one of two ways, right?
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  Speaker 4: Because you either get, sometimes it's The one-point cameos are
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  Speaker 4: really frustrating, but also if you've not got anyone on
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  Speaker 4: your bench to come on, that's been a bit of
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  Speaker 4: a difficult one this week. But I think if you've invested,
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  Speaker 4: you probably hold, especially over the next couple of weeks
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  Speaker 4: whilst Semenya is out, so that hopefully you get some
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  Speaker 4: returns out of the player that you chose to invest
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  Speaker 4: in for a reason. And Cherki had been good up
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  Speaker 4: until that benching.
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  Speaker 1: Okay then, let's actually pause. I wish we used to it.
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  Speaker 1: I wish we edited this podcast still because I've just
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  Speaker 1: stumbled there. But let's go to Newcastle. I was going
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  Speaker 1: to go on to injuries, but I think we probably
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: do need a word on Newcastle because, Jules, you mentioned it.
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  Speaker 1: People still will own Whistler. I nearly bought in Barnes
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  Speaker 1: on my wild card. The conundrum, I have got Lewis Hall,
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  Speaker 1: who got DEFCON at least. They've got Palace up next.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of people are saying I want to
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  Speaker 1: sell them, but Palace themselves haven't been in great form.
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  Speaker 3: Do you wait a week?
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  Speaker 5: But then we've been saying that because they played Coventry.
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  Speaker 5: We said, oh, let's wait a week. And then they
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  Speaker 5: were back at home against Villa, which was not an
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  Speaker 5: easy game. But we said, OK, they are home and
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  Speaker 5: they need to bounce back from being humiliated by Coventry
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  Speaker 5: the Monday before that. And then they were probably even
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  Speaker 5: worse than they were the week before. And now they
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  Speaker 5: play away at Palace, away at Everton on back-to-back games,
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  Speaker 5: one in the league, obviously one in the League Cup.
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  Speaker 5: But I just, I don't know, right now I watch
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  Speaker 5: them and there's just nothing in that game that makes
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  Speaker 5: me believe that, yeah, you could give Ruiz another week
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  Speaker 5: or you could give Barnes another week or you could give,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I don't know, Fernandes-Pardo, I don't know what
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  Speaker 5: you would have him, or Luis Hall, you know, Hornacek,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, whoever you chose.
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  Speaker 1: Luis Hall at least gets DEFCON, I would say.
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  Speaker 3: He gets DEFCON.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's the hope that you could have because
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  Speaker 5: for the rest, it's just nothing. And I think it's
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  Speaker 5: tough and I think it's tough for Yasler. there's no
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  Speaker 5: plan B, there's no plan C and it's tough. And
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  Speaker 5: I think you're right, Palace are not great and you
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  Speaker 5: could see Newcastle maybe getting somewhere there, but you could
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  Speaker 5: also see them being bad again for a third week.
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  Speaker 2: In a row.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I've wanted to get on to the injuries for
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  Speaker 1: ages just because I think they're so topical at the moment.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: So let's rattle through some of them. The ones that
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: we firstly found out about last week, we kind of
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: knew Sabozlai was a problem and then Sam, I think
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: the problem just intensified with the way he kind of
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: started and then came off.
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was really frustrating. So I benched him this
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: week thinking that he wasn't going to play. He did
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: end up starting him and then he started the game
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: well and he was on Defcon bandwagon quite early. And
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: I was thinking, oh, this is probably going to end
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: in disaster benching him. But then obviously went off again injured.
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: So now becomes an easy sell. I think if you
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: did hold him, a bit like Semenya, you can move
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: him uncomfortably. He'll be my transfer out this week, or
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: one of them now, because now I've got a sack
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: of shape problem to deal with as well, which I
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: wasn't anticipating having to deal with.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, so Semenya we've already established. We think he's going
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: to be out a while. So his price point in particular,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: he would be a sell. Manzambi, I'm sure, will have
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: had lots of interest. And if you look at Villa's
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: fixtures after City, I would love to bring him in.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: So I think if potentially we get good news after that,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: I think you can probably afford to wait. Morgan Gibbs-White,
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: what's the latest.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: On him, Jules? I don't know. I was surprised.
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: I have to say, I didn't know that he was
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: that full for the game against Arsenal. And we saw, obviously,
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: that without him, it's not the same. So it's one
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: to keep an eye on because, as we said, if
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: you wanted a Forest player, he was obviously the one,
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: like last season, to invest in, even if they had
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: had a shaky start of the season under Glasner. But now, yeah,
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: that injury is bad for him. It's bad for us
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: in FPL.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: I've just checked, Jules. Oliver Glasner's confirmed that he is
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: available this weekend.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: Been back in training, yeah.
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: So he looked like he was not too serious. So
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: he's back on. At least he's not like a Semenyo.
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: And I think Manzambi, hopefully, might not be too serious either.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but if Manzambi is fit, would you still not
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: wait a week?
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: If he's fit or not fit? If he's fit.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: If Simon Zambi's past fit, I don't think this will happen,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: but say Unai Emery says, yes, he's fit, would you
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: bring him in this week?
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: I would have brought him in last week.
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: And obviously it was my differential and I thought he
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: was outstanding. The fact that he got rest in midweek
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: because Viking, you didn't have to play him anywhere.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: I think he can hurt City.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: I think this Villa team at home could really, really
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: make the game very difficult for City. And if they do,
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: or if they did, then I think he'll be at
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: the heart of everything. So I would bring Monzambi now
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: if Unai Emery says he's fit and if you can
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: afford it, I think he's a great, great option in
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: any midfield right now.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Come on then, Sam.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Let's discuss Bukayo Saka because that was a huge blow
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: last night, wasn't it? I mean, I only sat here
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: last week and declared myself as the chairperson of the
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Bukayo Saka fan club. As we know, I was desperate
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: to bring him in on my wildcard. He's not returned
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: really since coming into my team on that wildcard, but
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: I could see the points coming. I felt they were coming.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: He looked like he was in good form. It's a
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: huge blow to Arsenal and it's a huge blow to
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: his increasing number of managers in FPL because people were
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: starting to look at him, particularly given the form of
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: some of the other premiums.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: For sure.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: I sat down last night before the game and wrote
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: my notes for this podcast. And I wrote loads on Saka,
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: most goals in the Arsenal team this season in the league,
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: most shots with 17, most big chances with 7, third
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: most chances created with 10, biggest shot share in the
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: Arsenal team when he's on the pitch with 22.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: I could go on and on and on.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Don't depress us.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: It's a very long list.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: And then I sat down to watch the game and
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: obviously watched him go off injured and thought, right, well
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: now not only is that obviously disappointing because I've just
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: brought him in last week. Now I've got a problem
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: that I've got to deal with. So those two free
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: transfers that I thought I was just going to be
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: using one to deal with, so Bosley, I'm now going
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: to have to deal with.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Saka as well. So yeah, really.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: frustrating and a lot of managers over the last couple
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: of weeks have gone to Saka so that I guess
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: the big question with him now is do you stick
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: with an Arsenal player and go for a Madawake or
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: an Eze or an Odegaard instead or even Rice who's
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: suddenly kind of back to that point where we were
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: picking him a couple of years ago or do you
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: look outside of Arsenal for somebody different instead I think
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: that's where the decisions that a lot of managers will
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: be making now rather than if you keep him.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Jules could you go somewhere else at Arsenal?
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Odegaard, maybe even if he's formed, it's
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: not that the form has dipped, it's just the way
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: they have been playing lately, he was more needed for
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: something a little bit different than the role he had
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: earlier in the season where he was more creative, playing
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: higher up on the pitch, scoring, assisting in Europe, in
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: the league and all of that. His output is a
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: little bit different now. And I think that for us
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: is hurting if you have him in FPL like I do, because...
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: I just don't think he's the answer for our game
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: because he will have good games but in a very
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: different role. And that role doesn't bring you points and returns.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: So it's a two-pointer, it's a three-pointer maybe if they
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: don't concede, obviously.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: And that's it at the moment.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: So I don't know if it's good enough for people
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: who don't have Martin Odegaard to just go there as
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: a replacement to Saka when the midfield options, even if
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: they're not all great, and Sam mentioned I think a
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: lot of us struggle with where are the points coming
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: from for our midfields, but I'm just not sure right now.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: If you have him like me, probably keep him, certainly
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: a home game against Everton, you want to see that,
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: but I don't think I would invest in him right now.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, so if you're not looking at Arsenal, Sam, what
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: are the best other options?
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Well, Manzambi. Certainly not Bruno Fernandes, certainly not.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Well, I was going to say, you're almost not looking
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: in the premium pool at the moment, are you?
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: Well, I think that's the problem, isn't it? Is that
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: the premiums are a bit of an issue. Like apart
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: from Haaland, obviously you just have him and enjoy the
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: points that come. But all of the others have been
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: so inconsistent. Like Bruno Fernandes. So you look at the
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: underlying data for him and it would suggest that you invest.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: So he's had 23 shots so far this season. Only
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: MBMO has had more with 24. He's had four big chances.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Only five midfielders have had more than that. But those
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: five midfielders that have had more range between 2.2 and 6.9
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: million cheaper than he is. He's created 16 chances. Only
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: four midfielders can better that. But then only one of
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: them has actually been a big chance. And he's had
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: nothing since game week two. We had that absolutely huge
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: haul in game week two. And then absolutely nothing ever since.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: And when you look at the fixtures that they have
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: coming up, starting this week against Bournemouth, Bournemouth, Chelsea, Villa, Liverpool, Brentford,
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: that doesn't feel like an invested point for Manchester United
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: and certainly not for Bruno.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: So you're definitely not going to go there. Would you
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: go for Cole Palmer?
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: Maybe.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of really good value for
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: money picks in the cheaper midfielder slots that I would
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: go to instead.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Jules, who would you go to? You obviously don't have
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: this Saka conundrum because you're an Odegaard owner.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: No, but I've got the Bruno one. And to be fair,
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: I've had enough of Bruno. I've had enough of Manchester United,
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: who are shambles, as we said earlier. I know I
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: hear what Sam is saying. And it's true if you
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: look at the data or the stats for Bruno. But
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: there's also what you see with your eye. And this
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: team is not functioning full stop. You know, it's just
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: not working. It's just not happening for them. And so
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: Bruno has to go. But then Cole Palmer, would you
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: have Rodgers and Palmer and Pedro? And some do have
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: the three Chelsea forwards. But then it's Neto who scored
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: two goals against Everton. And those three just bring you nothing.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: I like Manzambi for sure. I don't.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Know.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: I would love Cole Palmer because I think, again, if
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: you look at the Cole Palmer stats, not just the
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: two assists in the last four, but he creates big.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Chances and.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: He's just such an instinct player that he can make
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: something happen from nothing. I'm not sure that's the case
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: with the Rodgers, for example, who is a completely different
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: style of player. So I wouldn't mind Cole Palmer, but
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: I'm not sure if I would rather keep some money
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: in and downgrade from Bruno to somebody cheaper, but in
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: better form, in a better team, and go from there
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: more than just go from a premium like Bruno to
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: another premium like Colpalma when I already have Rodgers and
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Joao Pedro.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it depends if you have Rodgers and
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Joao Pedro, doesn't it? I think Sam, because for me,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: I'd happily go to Colpalma, but I have the other two.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: So I just, I just don't know what to do,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: but also it's a really weird, and I think we've
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: spoken about it this season a few times, but it's
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: a really weird season. Like I don't dislike my squad.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I know it's not done the best, but since wildcard,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I've still got 1.2 million in the bank already. And
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I'm now at a point where I, so I kind
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: of feel like, oh, maybe I should just bring in
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Cole Palmer because I've got the money. Although actually I
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: probably haven't quite got, I don't know if I actually
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: quite got the money. I haven't tried to do it,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: but I've got four free transfers this week as well.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's, but it's like, what do you do?
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: And it just feels like the pool of players, it's
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: all about the cheaper ones, which I guess we shouldn't
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: moan about. Oh yeah, of course I've got enough money
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: to do Cole Palmer. I can do Cole Palmer and
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: still have a million in the bank.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Cause it's, it's such a, honestly, it's such a weird season,
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: isn't it for that? Because so I've got 2.8 million
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: in my bank at the moment and I'm thinking about
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: selling Bakayo Saka for Tavernier. So I'm going to end
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: up with like nearly 5 million in the bank when
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: I do that transfer. Um, and I'm at a point
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: where like money is not, money is not an issue.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Cole Palmer could come in. I could do the Saka
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: and Tavernier and Cole and still get Cole Palmer as
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: part of my Subozai movie. It still works financially. Um,
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: But the big question for me is, do I actually
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: want to spend the money on the premiums this year?
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Because like you, I already have Jal Pedro and Morgan Rodgers.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Do I want to treble up on Chelsea? I mean,
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: they are very attacking.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: They are in very good form.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: But equally, I feel like three attackers is always, it's
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: too much. In my view, I always feel like it's
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: too much to have three attackers from one team because
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: if they have an off day, a bit like they
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: did against Everton, actually Chelsea didn't have an off day,
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: but they did, you're left disappointed. And it's really hard
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: to recover in a game week when you have three
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: players from the same team, if they don't then go
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: and get something because your whole game week is hinged
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: on them doing something. It was the same when you
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: invest in a double up defensively, like it's not so bad,
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: the double up, but if you'd go the treble up,
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: your whole game week is hinged on that team, keeping
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: a clean sheet, because if they don't, you're struggling from
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: the outset. So, I really struggle with the idea of
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: bringing Cole Palmer in as well as Morgan Rogers and
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: Jao Pedro because it feels very much like I am
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: too heavily invested in a Chelsea attack then and I
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: would rather spread the love a little bit across the
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: rest of my team. And I also think that I'm
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: only really looking at the Palmer thing because I have
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: this unlimited budget where I can afford it.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: Three, I think is just too many. It's different when
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: you double up with defenders because it's just, The clean
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: sheet brings them points, even if they're rubbish in the
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: game and can make a lot of mistakes. But somehow
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: they don't concede and they get those six pointers. The
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: three up front, if Chelsea win 3-0 and they don't
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: do anything, they just don't get anything, obviously. So I
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: think it's really too risky, as we saw at the weekend.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: You would have been fuming if you had the three
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: against Everton and neither of them returned.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: OK, so I think we're basically saying if you've got Saka,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, the only news we've had is Arteta post-match
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: last night and he said it doesn't look good. It
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: looks like it's his quad. So, I mean, he wasn't hopeful.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: He will speak again on Friday, so maybe worth holding
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: out till then. But yeah, it doesn't sound like he's
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: going to be around at the weekend, does it? So
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: let's see. Fernandes, are we saying, given what happened last night,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: he's a sell? Because we've been saying for weeks, haven't we,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: that he's probably a sell?
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: 100%.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Even with a discount, I give it back to FPL.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: It's okay. I take a hit.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: You've been very patient with him, Jules.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Too far, too patient. But then you just may have
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: got a big heart.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: But it's frustrating because it's not that I didn't see
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: it coming. It's what we said earlier, Cale. It's about,
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: I could give him another week. And you find a
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: reason in your head. Either they're back at home or
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: they play against a team that.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: They should beat. And if they beat them, then he
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: should do well. That kind of stuff.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: As we know, because we've been playing this game for
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: so long, it doesn't work like that. And yeah, I
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: should have got rid of him a long time ago,
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: but it's the right, it's going to happen now. Okay.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: So we're saying Saka and Fernandes probably, probably sells and
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Parma is a potential buy given what happened to Saka,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: but dependent on the rest of your Chelsea lineup. Just
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: a word on Alexander Isak as well, because I don't
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: think we expected him back in game week seven, Sam.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering if maybe we could use some of our
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Bakayo Saka funds to upgrade a forward slot. I mean,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I personally am very happy with my forwards, and I'm
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: not totally sold on ESAC or Liverpool just yet, but
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: maybe that's an option if you're desperate to smash the
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: cash somewhere.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: I think what you've just said hits an hour on
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: the head though, Kels. Is it that we're desperate to
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: spend money somewhere because we've got money?
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: It's never bad to spend money.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I wish it was real money. I wish I felt
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: like this in real life.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: I know. You could just keep it all in the
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: bank though and just have it for a rainy day.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: But I don't know. It's difficult, isn't it?
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Because for you and I, Dominic Calvert-Lewin has been a
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: really good third forward. He's been a really enjoyable own.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: the Leeds fixtures continue to be really nice for the
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: foreseeable future. And I don't want to sell him. So
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: I don't have a place for Isak in my team
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: right now. Jules, as a Wissar owner, would you be tempted?
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: You've got the budget.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I'm an absolute merg. And I think I'm going to
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: go there completely.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: What, to Isak?
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: Go for Isak and just watch Isak flop now and
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: just be.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: The numbers are good. You know, he's five goals in six.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: 3.8 xG, so slightly better than where he should be.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: There's eight shots on target, so five goals for eight
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: shots on target. In terms of conversion rates, this is
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: pretty outrageous because he's got 17 shots in total. So
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: that might not last. And like I said, watch him
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: now flop, now that I'm going to bring him in, probably.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: But there's also signs that Viet is getting better, that
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: Rion Gomua is looking great, that Victor Munoz is looking great,
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: that Barcola maybe is fine. his rhythm a little bit
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: and that it could all click certainly going forward. I
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: think defensively, I'm not too sure, as we saw against
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: Villarreal for Liverpool, especially in a game against Brighton, for example.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: But it's an open game and I think there's potential
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: for Isak to, again, kind of keep going closer to
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: the form that he had at Newcastle and where we
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: all had him because he was wonderful before that move
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: to Liverpool.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: So I'm going to get there because you know.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: Me and temptation is tempting me far too much.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering if all of this is also affecting, I
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: feel like there's been a bit of a formation shift
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: anyway in FPL recently, but it feels like the midfielders
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: are becoming so harder, harder week on week, particularly given
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: what's happening with the premium midfielders. So I'm wondering if
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: we're changing the way we look at teams. I've never
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: wanted to play a four at the back, for example,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: but increasingly I am now. I did it last week
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: where I benched Josh King and, It didn't feel great,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: but I did it and it paid off. And I'm
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: looking at my team again this week and I've gone
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: in with a four at the back. And five of
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: the top 10 FPL point scorers in the game are
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: actually defensively Six, if you include David Rea as well,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: which is also why I went with him on wildcard
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: really as well. De Kooijp is the top scoring player
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: in the game as well with 59 points. He is
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: of course A defender, and of those five, only two
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: are premiums. They're Calafuri and Tarkovsky. The rest are budget-friendly.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: De Kooiper, Bogle and Vuskovic. Brighton, always Brighton. Even when
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: we look outside the top 10, the defenders are still
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: performing well. So is it just a given, Sam? And
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: we kind of said it before when we touched upon
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Brighton and whether we play De Kooiper, despite them playing
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: a fixture that in the past we'd have gone the
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Liverpool way.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: We don't play them.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: But given the way defenders are performing, does it make
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: sense to set our teams up like that?
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: And a few seasons ago, like, and I say a few,
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: it was probably like four or five now, we used
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: to love playing big at the back, didn't we? We'd
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: spend loads of money on the defense. We'd have Alexander Arnold,
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: we'd have Robertson, we had Gabrielle, spend a fortune in
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: the defense. We'd play four at the back every single week.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: Over the last few years, that's kind of been a
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: bit unfashionable. Like we've gone towards playing a heavy midfield
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: or front three because we've had good value in there.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: Like even, you know, when you think back to last
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: season with the likes of Creepy Junior, you always had
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: that front three. You wanted to play them every week.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: So the three at the back became kind of the
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: standard norm. Whereas over the last couple of weeks, I've
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: looked at my team and thought, I quite like my defence.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: I'm struggling to bench one every week because I've got
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: two Arsenal defenders sitting there. But if I want to
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: play both of them, I've got to pick one other
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: team that I think might get a clean sheet. So
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: I'm more and more looking at playing four at the back. Plus,
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: I think this season, more so than ever, the defensive
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: contribution points are making a real difference to how I
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: feel about my defenders because they've become quite consistent, a
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: lot of them, with returning the DEFCON points. So like
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Bobby Thomas over the last few weeks consistently returning the
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: defensive contribution points. Van Hecke, the same, constantly getting the
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: defensive contribution points. So even when they don't get the
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: clean sheet, they still get four. The trouble with my
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: midfielders is that I've not picked like the Elliot Andersons
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: of last season. I've picked the attacking midfielders. So when
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: they blank, they get two, they don't get four. So
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: actually I'm more and more kind of thinking that playing
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: four at the back and just playing three in midfield
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: alongside my three up top is a reasonable and viable strategy.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Same for you, Jules?
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think a lot of us probably build
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: out squads certainly for these early stages of the season
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: with like three really strong defenders and then the other
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: two are more budget, you know, cheaper ones in the
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: 4 million, in the 4.5. You might have Bobby Thomas,
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: you might have Von Erwig, you might have Job, those
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: kind of guys just to save money for other positions
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: in the idea that we're going to play three at
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: the back. Probably the way forward now is to have
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: a fourth really strong defender so you can have the
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: back four with really good options there. Your fifth one
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: still is a cheaper one, but like Sam just said,
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: that can still bring you with DEFCON a good four
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: points a week, even if you wanted to play a
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: back five, or you could put him in your back
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: four because he's got good fixtures, for example, or something
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: like that. But I think that's certainly the way to
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: go because the points are there. There's no doubt that
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: the points are there. And also for some really cheap,
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: easy options for you to bring into your team and
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: have them in your team without really taking anything away
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: from having a strong midfield with money invested in there
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: and same with your front three. And playing 4-3-3 at
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: times with just three midfielders would be decent because some
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: of the midfielders, as we've been saying, have been underwhelming
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: and underperforming anyway.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: It totally depends on who you've got in your team
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: and how your team are performing. But Sam, you and I,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: we can assume that a lot of people have Harland, Pedro,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: plus one other. You and I have the DTL as
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: our other and I pretty much want to play, I
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: didn't against Arsenal, but I pretty much want to play
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Dominic Calvert-Lewin every single week. So I'm starting with three
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: forwards and it feels like I'm more and more going
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: three forwards, four at the back and four, how many
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: is that in midfield? Three in midfield. Maths is not
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: my strong point, as we know, multiple times, which is
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: weird because it felt for a while like there was
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: so much value in midfield and we needed to pack
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: our midfields out like that. DCL is the third most
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: popular forward in the game, behind the other two that
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I've mentioned that we have, Haaland and Pedro. But 12
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: defenders have FPL points outscored him so far. So am
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: I actually doing it wrong by playing him? And should
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: we actually just be going five at the back?
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: I mean, it is genuinely a strategy. You could play
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: five at the back. Feasibly, you could pick I mean,
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: you could actually afford to go for five premium defenders
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: if you so chose, as in all priced at, well,
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: maybe not quite premium, but all priced at five million
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: or over, and you could comfortably fit them into your team.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: Whether you'd want to or not, because I do think
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: there's still some really good value. I mean, we've mentioned
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: Bobby Thomas twice already, but we'll mention him again here
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: because the defensive contribution points that he brings are so
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: powerful every single week. I think it will depend on
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: who you have as your third forward. I think if
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: you ask Jules, he'd probably say wishes he played his
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: defenders more often than he's played Wisser over the last
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: few weeks. So if you've got a forward that you're
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: not comfortable with, or you're not enjoying playing, or that's
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: not regularly returning, you know, a Wisser, I think we'll
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: even put Barry in that category, despite the fact he's
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: getting loads of chances. He's not returning as many goals
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: as he should. Then you probably are looking at, you know,
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: playing an extra defender instead. But if you have Calvert-Lewin,
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: I still think that over the course of the season,
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: if you're consistently playing him, he will return well. And
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: particularly over the next five weeks or so, when you
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: look at the Leeds fixtures, there's definitely goals for Calvert-Lewin
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: in those games. So I'm more likely to move to
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: four at the back, but keep playing Calvert-Lewin.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Basically, all this conversation tells me is that we should
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: kind of play, not the bare minimum midfielders, but the
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: midfield players. are the easiest to bench at the moment,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: I guess, really, with their form. Okay, let's move on
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: now to differential of the week. And Jules has been
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: looking forward to this because he's already mentioned it, that
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: he actually finally got a very good one. Manzambi, you
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: were completely nailed on with this. You got 11 points,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: goal clean sheet, and three bonus. You didn't tell us
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: he was going to get injured, though.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: No, I know, but hopefully, as we said, it's not serious.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Sam's player did also return with an assist, Dominic Solanke,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: but Jules has absolutely smashed you there this week. For once,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: it was a high-scoring week from both of you, or
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: just a returning week from both of you. Go on, Jules,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: you get to go first.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: So, talking about forwards and who could be your third
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: forward with Haaland and Joel Pedro, I've gone for Evan
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: Nielsen this week because I think he's been in really
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: good form, to be fair, returning the last two games
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: with 12 points and And seven points, he's only owned
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: by 4.6% of the managers, so less than 5%. It
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: will cost you 6.1 million because he had a rise
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: in price. Two goals and four assists so far in
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: the league in seven games, so really good games return.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: He averages 0.54 games involvement, expected games involvement per 90,
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: which is a really good ratio.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: He works hard. A bomber team that.
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: didn't get a first win until this weekend against well
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: sorry last weekend against Sunderland but where you could see
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: that there were things in place for Marco Rosa for
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: the team to do well so they're obviously playing in
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: Europe tonight as we record the show on Thursday morning
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: the big game against AC Milan which will be a
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: wonderful occasion and hopefully that brings them momentum and a
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: positive dynamic towards the weekend and then yeah I think
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: even with Kruppi coming back now and at some point
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: might offer some competition I think Evan Nielsen is nailed
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: on for a place in the team and has been
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: looking really good for the last.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Few weeks I'm going to say this just to cover
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: us but a reminder we record on Thursday morning and
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Bournemouth do still have to play on Thursday night so
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: if you're listening to this before then maybe just hold
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: off and just check that nothing happens to him Sam.
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: And they are united sorry they are united Old Trafford
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: on Sunday got a good record there he's open though
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: and they're united right now as we said are imploding
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: so it's a good chance for him.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: Sam Uh, so I watched this chap play on Monday
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: night and no, it's not a Spurs player.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, chap. I like my nan.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, my nan used that word a lot. I was
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: just wondering if that's what I heard.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: I wasn't sure.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: I don't know who says chap for the under 65.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: One thing I would say is it sounds really weird
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: when a French person says that word.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: It sounds really weird. Yes, very English word. I watched
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: him play on Monday night and no, it's not a
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: Spurs player.
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: It's Jack Rodoni from Coventry. So he's going to cost
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: you 4.9 million. He's only in 0.3% of teams. So
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: a massive, massive differential. I was super impressed by him
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: on Monday evening. He's now returned in each of the
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: last three game weeks and is Coventry's top scorer this season.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: He's also second in terms of FPL points scored across
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: the team. Over the course of the season, he's had
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: nine shots. Only Thomas has had more at Coventry than
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: he has. And of those, five have been big chances. So,
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: It's not just that he's having shots, it's that he's
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: having shots in the right places and they're good chances.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: So he's more likely to return points and goals as
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: a result of that. He's also supplied a team leading
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: 22 crosses and created nine chances, which is again team leading.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: So it does feel like if Coventry score, Rodoni is
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: going to be part of it. Plus he faces Fulham,
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: who have looked incredibly unconvincing so far this season. So yeah,
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: I quite fancy them to do well this weekend.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: He's on penalties as well, as we saw in the
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: win against Newcastle, yeah.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point, actually. Okay, then on to
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: transfers and captains. Let's start with transfers. I think we've
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: all got a premium-shaped problem. Jules, you're going to be
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: selling Bruno Fernandes, I'm presuming.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: That's right, yeah. And Wissar probably.
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: I mean, to be fair, if he hadn't been at
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: Champions League week and so busy, there's a temptation to.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Play the wild card.
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: It's a bit late now, especially with the deadline being tomorrow, Friday,
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: with the game on Friday night.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: So I probably won't do it now.
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: I've got two free transfers and they probably will be
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: for Bruno and Wissar and their replacement.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: And their replacements will be?
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: So it will be Isak up front. I want to
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: go there. It'd be fun to watch as well. And
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: the form is there. But again, let's see. And then
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: for Bruno, I don't know, but I would need to
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: find some money. So it would have to be not
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: Cole Palmer, for example, like a Tavernier, like a Monzambi,
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: if he's past fit. And Unai Emery says that he's
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: ready for, even for the game against City on Saturday,
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: I would like to bring him in. But it would
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: be somewhere where I can get that money that then
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: allows me to do Isak.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Sam?
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: And what are you going to do with Saka?
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: Well, my planned move this weekend was to go from
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: Sir Bosley to Tavernier. That was the planned move I
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: was going to make. Obviously, now I've got to make
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: a second midfielder move. I can go anywhere because I've
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: got all the money in the world. I think when
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: I've done that Tavernier move, I'll have like over three
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: million in the bank. So I need to decide where
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: to go from Saka. I like Manzambi. I very nearly
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: did Manzambi last week as a bit of a punt
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: for Sir Bosley. And then decided not to. I'll wait
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: and see where we are and if it looks like
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: he's going to be available for the weekend, then I
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: might still do him in this week. I don't mind
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: the fixture, to be honest, against Man City because defensively
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: they've been a bit all over the place. Otherwise, it
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: feels like it might be a bit of a time
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: for a differential punt, to be honest. I don't want
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: to treble up on Chelsea, so I'm not going to
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: go for a Cole Palmer. I'm going to have to
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: wait and see what Unai Emery has got to say
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: for himself and then make a decision on Manzambi. But
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: definitely going for Tavernier this week is just who the
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: second midfielder coming in is.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: This second news is such a blow to me because
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: I was actually likely to pay my bench boost this
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: week because as it stands, my bench, and I've got
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: four free transfers, so I was going to upgrade my
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: bench a little, just slightly. My bench is Salakis, Brentford
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: at home, King, who's got Coventry away, Sharder, Holloway and Davis,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Forrest at home. So I was going to sell Sharder
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: for maybe a Tavernia or someone that I'm probably sell
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: King as well, because I'm just not sold on Fulham
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: at the moment. And then all of a sudden I've
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: still have the two free transfers left. All of a
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: sudden my, my bench looks pretty good. And then I've
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: got rid of the bench boost. So yeah, now I'm
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: not going to be doing that because I've got a
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Saka shape problem. That said, I could still use all
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: my full free transfers and, but I'm not going to,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: because it just feels like I'm going to downgrade Saka
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: and have loads of money. And then in a week
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: or so, I might want to use, spread the money elsewhere.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: I feel like it feels like there's a bit of
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: a change going on in FPL with the way the
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: premiums are going and with fixture swings and stuff. So
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: I'd rather hold some of the transfers in the bank,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: but yeah, Saka is going to be a problem for
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: me to sort out as well. Uh, captains. Uh, I mean,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: I've got my captaincy on Harland. It was actually on Saka,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: but it's on Harland at the moment just because he's Harland.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: But I think there's a conversation there this week. Do
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: you guys not Sam? I think there's definitely a conversation
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: this week. Um, away fixtures generally, you can look against him.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: I also have been very impressed by Aston Villa recently,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: so I'm not hugely loving the Haaland captaincy. The problem
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: I sort of have is that obviously now we've lost Saka.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: The Chelsea boys are interesting for sure. I mean, Spurs
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: literally never win at Stamford Bridge, so they're definitely interesting
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: and part of the conversation. I am super tempted to
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: bring in Tavernier and captain him against Manchester United because
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: they've not kept a clean sheet yet and after midweek
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: they do seem to be in a little bit of
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: disarray um the captaincy is just it's not cut and
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: dry this week last week it was very easy it
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: was like hand it to harlan and that's the end
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: of it even the brighton boys that just a game
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: against liverpool that's not it's not an easy fixture but
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: yet you would have a couple of weeks ago you'd
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: have gone raquez to get on gross them but i'm
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: torn this week i'm really torn tavernier is my brave
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: differential captain but maybe it's just Haaland because it's Haaland
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: and he's had a midweek rest. Yeah, that's a good point.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe. Yeah, it's a bit tricky.
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: And if you maybe were looking for something a bit safer,
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: let's say, I think Arsenal are home to Everton. If
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: you want to go for Calafiori or Kansa, why not?
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: I don't think they concede. If they concede, then obviously
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: your captaincy is messed up, but they might not. And
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: Calafiori could have a good game. and return well so
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: that could work other than that yeah there's a lot
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: of options but none of them is really that convincing.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: So Who's yours on at the moment?
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: It's on Haaland because he was there for the you
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: know for last weekend but if Isak comes in at
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: home to Brighton in a game that should be open
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: really because that's the way both teams are playing and
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: should be really fun to watch I yeah I think
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: I probably would go for.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: Isak Captain Isak against Brighton yeah.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, interesting.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: I know what he means.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: There should be goals in there.
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: There should definitely be.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: I hope you do, because it'll be fun for us
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: to see what happens. Okay, that's where we'll leave it.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Stay in mind, The Fantasy Show is back on Friday.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Countdown to the deadline.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: Is also back.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: It's at 4.30pm this week, because it's a Friday deadline.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: That'll be over on the Premier League's YouTube channel. As
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: and Lee will be there answering your questions ahead of
• 44:52
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• 44:55
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• 44:58
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• 45:00
  Speaker 1: don't have to remember every single week, depending on when
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: the deadlines are. During the stream, even, they'll be chatting
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: about the best teams to invest in, as well as
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: answering as many questions that you might have as possible
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: over the course of the hour. And that does mean
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: that it's a Friday night deadline, and it's at 6.30pm,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: 90 minutes ahead of Nottingham Forest, Twitter. I think it's
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: time to go, guys.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: Bye.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Stream, trips, trips, chips, chips even.
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: All right, I can't speak.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, chaps. I can't do maths.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: Have a great weekend, chaps. Please end the pod.