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GW32 Respect The Waivers I Ep: 128 · Draft Offsides Podcast

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Hello and welcome to episode 128 of Draft Offsides and with Tico
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Enzo. My name is Keith.
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This is the real episode 128. I think I said the last one was,
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but this one is it. Chico's in New Jersey wants to
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show off. Can anyone guess who was on the
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back of that? I could give a clue.
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It helped me win this banner. Last year, 2025.
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Last. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's you want to tell them that's a good reason to have.
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I was, I was telling him it's like it's a good reason to have
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and it's it's fun to have a team, the champion jersey from a
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team in the championship, you know, makes you feel a little
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more like knowledgeable. Are you talking about Anzer me?
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I was just talking about your jersey, Yeah, if you want to
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bring it to Enzo, Enzo will have a lot of jerseys championship
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potentially. I know I I don't know.
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I'm just I'm I'm going back and forth.
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Do you want to I guess we can start there.
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I mean, the biggest news is that that game Forest, Tottenham,
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which was built to be, that was built to be one of the most the
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biggest games of the year in some capacities, you know.
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Yeah. And they just capitulated again.
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Tottenham did. So horrible to watch.
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I think the toughest part for me is that the fans really got
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behind them. They they rallied.
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They were, you know, they like, they gave them like a parade to,
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you know, when they came in. And then, you know, it's like
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this really nice gesture from the fans.
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Like we're willing to get behind you now and like kind of, you
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know, start new and then just to not have it on the field, have
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it happen on the field. What do you have to say about
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the game now? Like what's your like?
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What was the performance like? Flat nothing in the final third,
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don't you know? We had a couple of chances but
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Forrest very well organised. We just couldn't put the ball on
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the back of the net. I feel honest.
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But Solanke never retouched the ball either, like he was coming
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deep. We didn't have Simmons on the
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pitch again. I think he played well the last
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game in Europe. I thought we'd like an actual
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start. OK.
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And then obviously the really sad news, Igor Tudor's father
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passed away and he found out after the game.
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I mean, that should not affect anyway what the decision is for
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Tottenham though as well. What's best for Tottenham.
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But like, and I don't know what's best for Tottenham, but
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yeah, I don't know. It's a very tricky situation
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now. Well.
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They're already shopping for a new manager.
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They've been shopping for a new manager.
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He is only an interim and honestly with the way the
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results been going and now with this, I'm not saying that this
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is a big part of it, but now he has to spend time with family,
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which we're not going to rush him back.
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We need someone there to steer the boat, don't we?
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So. Yeah.
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I mean, I, I just think that they're like that.
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He just he's, he came in to be an impact manager and he hasn't
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made an impact and I've. Made an impact.
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What the negative, a negative impact?
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Yeah, I don't know. So I I think that we shouldn't I
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think you should anticipate, especially with this this big
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break right now that they sack them the next few days.
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And then that gives whoever the new coaches a few weeks.
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And with that being said, I think from a fantasy perspective
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to turn it on that that that means that there's going to be
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some Tottenham player, there's going to be some shifting of
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Tottenham players. Like you look like Mateus Tao
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Tao in the last few weeks he's been doing really good for
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tutor. A new coach comes in that's not
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guaranteed that he's going to continue to do that.
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Maybe he's having Simmons who's found his way onto a lot of
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waivers now. Yeah, might actually be a good
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pick up. So I think I think it's worth
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making through and taking a gamble on some Tottenham players
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to anticipating that there's going to be probably a new
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coach. What do you think, you guys?
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Yeah, there's, you know, not that many players from when you
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do look at the ones on the bench, it is, you know why
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Simmons boy, maiden, your top, your top scorer, top paid
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player. You've got Conor Gallagher,
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you've got in January. He's always set on the bench
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Pelino, who's arguably our best defensive midfielder.
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So yeah, you see. OK.
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I mean, I think that's not talking to talk.
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I think just to kind of chat through some injuries going into
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the international break. I think the there's some that I
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think are real and some that aren't real like some that
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already been cleared up. Like I think Matthias tells
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injury, I think it's already like he's going with his
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national team. So that should should be assumed
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there. I think the Gabrielle and the
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cerebral injuries might be more just like maintenance things
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kind of going into the end of the year.
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The as the injury is serious, that's six weeks.
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The Timber injury is TBD right? Yep.
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I think the one that the one that's a true like pretty much
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seasoned is Botman. Yeah, he like his like face
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exploded in that game so. Yeah, he goes.
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Yeah, so. So it's kind of gnarly, but he's
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going to be pretty much out the rest of the season.
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So I suppose suppose that he can come back the last couple games.
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I know that he's like you can get like he's not high enough
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value that you want to keep him on at night, you know, dropping.
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Yeah, yeah. I thought Ekatike thigh injury,
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but he did. I think he joined the national
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team. So again, not worried about it.
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Allison, did he? I don't know if he went with the
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national team, that'd be that's the only one I don't know for
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sure. He was on the national team
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roster. I just don't know if you're
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right. I.
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Don't know. I don't know if he travelled so
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that that's something to keep an eye on.
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Maybe we can look that up, Tico, if you have a second.
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I'm pulling it up right now. And then, yeah, then the other
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kind of noteworthy things is there's now Enzo Fernandez's
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future has been called into question, which you have here.
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I mean, my, as a fan of Chelsea, my belief is that if they can
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get 85,000,000 for him, it might be worth just saying goodbye if
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he's unhappy. But I don't think we should, you
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know, I don't think they should settle for to take a loss on
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that and like. Well, you, well you bought them
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for 100, didn't you? Yeah, but you don't like it's
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amateur, amateurized costs. So like every you pay off a
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little bit every year and then so you'll still recognize
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profit. It's like the way it's done
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logistics, like there's ways that the financials are done.
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But yeah, like technically he'll be brought for a loss, but
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technically he'll be sold for loss.
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But there's a way. There's a ways to do it where
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you you still actually be. You'd be able to put profit on
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the paper. Because because of his, because
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of his salary. Every every contract is
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amortized. It's not just the Chelsea one.
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Yeah, essentially. But we.
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Didn't assume. But I, I just think that like
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there's, I think Enzo's a good player and he does a lot of good
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things, but if he's unhappy, he's not so good that they need
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to like do it. I think hopefully they'd replace
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it with someone, they'd have to replace it with someone elite.
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I think the biggest fear would be that they sell him and buy
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like 3 like 18 year olds, you know what I mean?
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That would be, that would be a Chelsea movement would be a
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nightmare, but that would be, it would be a big loss for fantasy.
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He's been pretty, he's been a pretty good asset the last few
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years. Consistent this year still.
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Yep, McGuire and Mainu are both in contract talks, which is
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pretty amazing considering where they were six months ago with
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the team. Yep, Yeah.
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And I mean, Mainu is probably going to going to England now,
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probably going to the World Cup now.
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I don't know about McGuire. Is he, is he, is he on the
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roster? I'm not sure, actually.
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I can't remember. Oh, no, he is.
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We saw that picture of him. Yeah, they're going.
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They're going in. Style.
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So I mean, yeah, that's pretty, pretty interesting there just to
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keep an eye. On So just some updates.
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Looks like Allison withdrew from the national team, so did Saliba
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and Gabrielle. They're not going to go.
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Yeah. But we mentioned that menu is in
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Fabrizio on eggs advanced talks. So seems like a deal is going to
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be in US any day. And for Enzo, we have to find
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out. Obviously he's linked to Real
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Madrid and we have to find out how his wife's feel feels about
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that. PSG is in in the mix too but
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yeah so it's either I think. I think his wife would be happy
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to leave English like most people are.
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I've also read that Chi Sato is linked with but they are Madrid.
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Yeah, that when you hear Kasedo's response to that was
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like, I have a contractor. I I want to be a legend here.
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And no, Enzo said something like, we'll see.
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I don't know. Enzo's was a lot more vague, and
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that's why there's a lot more speculation there, but we'll
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see. I mean these things, you never
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know these things. Yeah, all the Chelsea players
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that I don't like or I should on the Kasedo and Enzo are like
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Real Madrid. You're going to love them in
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like a year. I think the other thing we got
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to talk about this is really big news.
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This is such big news that I was getting like Reuters news, push
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notifications on my phone. So it's like beyond soccer was
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Mohammed Salah is not returning next year and he has a handy
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injury. So I would be curious to see.
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I mean, I think his this has been a pretty disappointing
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season. And like, I don't know if you're
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going to be trading him, but I I wouldn't expect like him to
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explode it for the end of the year either.
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Didn't someone doing a pretty amazing trade for him this
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season? I mean, some, some people do say
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that, that that's what they say about the this trade that was
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made that amazing is a word that's been thrown around for
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sure. And.
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What was that again? It was laughed out, it was
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ridiculed, but it's looking like a good trade now.
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It was Gabriel for Sala straight out in like week.
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I don't know, week 20, like week 18 or something.
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And that was another really good trade this season.
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It involves sober Sly. Do you remember that trade?
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Oh. Oh, it was from nothing
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basically. Yeah, I didn't remember that
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trade that that that involved Tikka, but not in the good way,
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not in the cool way. And then there was the
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controversy of the 100 FAB this season.
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We don't. Need to talk.
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We don't need to get into that. That's just not what we're
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talking about. OK.
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Should we should we talk recaps real quick?
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I really want to blow through recaps and then I think we can
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talk a little bit of waivers, but recaps, I think especially
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are, you know, not that important.
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No, just given it's a we have a long extended break and then we
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maybe we should just think about just waivers.
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I mean, that's a it's a big piece of it.
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Arsenal zero, City 2 and the Carabao Cup.
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I think it was just interesting in the sense that, like
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emotionally, what does that do to Arsenal, you know?
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Yeah, I don't know. They say it's like a it was a
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chess, chess decision, you know, let them have the League Cup and
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then they'll have the league in the FA Cup, in the Champions
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League or something. I don't know.
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No, it's silly, but. The way they played, yeah, But
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the way they played, they even look like they wanted to win in
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the 2nd off. Have you been seeing, have you
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guys seen those clips online of like the the art, like Kappa
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with the ball and then then the city defenders like aren't
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pressing and then they're like it looks like the whole defense
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like short circuits because they don't know what to do now.
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Yeah, it's pretty funny. It's pretty funny because they
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they did such a good job. They're all right.
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We're not going to pressure then.
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But then the City, the the Arsenal defenders, like what do
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we do? Like they're like so confused
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like this. And they literally kept at one
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point just put his foot on the ball for like 10/15/20 seconds
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and didn't just didn't do anything.
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It was so strange that. Was the second off?
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Yeah, it was interesting. But yeah, we'll see.
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We'll see if I mean, I think that more likely not it does is
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this is not kind of any effect on the.
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Timing. Yeah, but it would be really
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funny if all of a sudden this mentally just shattered.
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Him did you guys see that Holland final stats?
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Oh my God, like no goals at Wembley.
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He has played in nine finals. He has zero goals, 0 assists.
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It's so crazy, isn't it? It is OK.
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Actual games Bournemouth 2 United 2 Bruno goal penalty
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Christie goal Didn't United did the penalty?
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A lot of controversy there. I mean, we don't need to get
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into it too much, but it was pretty.
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Pretty fucking obvious. It was not.
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I think you, I think United got hard done by.
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You mean you think it? Yeah, I think that's safe to
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say. I think we all see that Hill
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with an own goal. So 7 point swing there, yes,
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Croupy goal penalty off the bench.
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Amazing that Croupy was the penalty taker in that team as
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like a teenager. I think people are really
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sleeping on how good he could be and I think he in drafts next
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year and stuff, it could be a very interesting player.
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He's been great this season. He's still.
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The Topical. Scorer.
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Teenager in the whole. Year The McGuire red card is
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funny too because the the swinging points from McGuire
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this game was insane because he it looked like he scored a goal
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at one point so at one point he's Wheeling away like you
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think he's scored and you're like wow this is going to be an
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amazing game and then by the end of the game because it's it's a
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hell on goal and yes a red so we're talking negative points
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probably huh yeah it. Was really bad.
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Very brutal. By chance did you guys see my
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match up in the 12 men league? Oh, I thought you lost.
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I mean, we all lost. Which was funny because we were
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all bickering like little school children in the chat.
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But I lost by less than 7 points.
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I added the McGuire. The.
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McGuire Red is the reason I lost.
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I did not realize that that is. I didn't realize that is.
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Delicious, actually. I love that that's.
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Nice. A lot I.
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Love that -0.75 points. Wow.
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Wow. Wow, that was very brutal.
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I'm sorry to go. And Enzo lost in the the last
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goal by Forest. The reason Enzo lost, he would
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have won if it wasn't for the last goal by Forest.
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Very brutal. And then we're all and it's all
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very tight for us. So it was a very delicious
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weekend. You know, the only way I would
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invent it is I found a one, but I did not win.
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That's fine. OK.
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Next match up, Brighton 2, Liverpool One Kirkus goal,
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sneaky caught Dunk sleeping Welbeck brace.
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Liverpool players score horribly, Keepers kept busy on
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both ends. Those are the notes.
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Anything to say about any of that?
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No, not really company. Welbeck got a brace and it
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wasn't a bad brace either. 5 Finance.
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Not all I mean he continues we we talk about him it's he's such
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a streaky player when he starts to score goals, it's you should
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jump on essentially right yeah, it's becoming very clear there
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Liverpool is a challenging team to have players from this year.
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I think I honestly think Salah leaving next year will be a new
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lead for them and I think a lot of these guys will do a lot
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better. I really don't you suck.
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You suck will be back. I mean I could TK will be there
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works to be there. There's rumors Gakko I leave,
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which is it is only good in the sense of the clear more room
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it'll be you know, I just feel they have too many too crowded
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in the attack for them. Well, they won't be in Champions
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League next year unless they. Want to I mean it's very
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possible they won't I mean they they could still get the last
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spot from Chelsea very easily because Chelsea is not good
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right now but yeah I mean it's very possible all right next
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game full on three Burnley 1 Fleming goal takes the lead that
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Fleming is actually in my. I don't know if we want to
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announce this now, but I've been building a I like what do we
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call it? What do we call it?
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Like a hot tool. Like call it hot tool, it's hot.
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The EPL fantasy heat Index and it shows you like player you
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know, it takes into account like the weighted scores the last few
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games and ZN Fleming is up there as one of the hottest players in
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the league right now really from based in fantasy.
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So that's cool. King got a goal, his first goal
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in the prim. He deserved to get a goal about
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six months ago versus Chelsea and it got wrongfully
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disallowed. The the the refs came out and
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said they made a mistake. He also got an assist in this
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game. So he had a monster game.
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Kudos anyone who took the wrist and picked him up.
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I know Enzo, you were someone that did that did it ended up
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not saving you. You still lost, but made it
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close. Harry Wilson scores again.
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Another, another, another goal. That's they're almost all
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identical. They're just like outside the
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box or the edges of the box. It's like, incredible.
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He says he's going to be a free agent next year, too, so it'll
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be interesting to see where he ends up going.
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Yep. Oh shit.
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And then Ralph Jimenez, he came on.
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I don't think he started the game, I think Veni started, but
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Ralph Jimenez came on and scored a penalty.
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Yep, and I think it was an emotional game for him too.
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Why was it an emotional game? I think something happened to
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one of these family members. Is that true?
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Tikka Gilada. How do you want me to look?
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That Raul Jimenez. Yeah, OK, let's just move on.
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Let's we can we can move on. That doesn't affect.
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Anything family. Pretty sure next one is Everton
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3 Chelsea zero. That's a brace.
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First goal was a great finish and beautiful pass by Garner.
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Very true. Oh, you have something?
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His father passed away March 2020. 7th IP why are?
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You taking a big three lap benzo, you didn't do anything.
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I'm just saying I remembered. Our Peter, our boy Rod Jimenez
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and his family, he's. Fucking.
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Crying. OK, next.
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Did you watch that game? I watched all the highlights.
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Next game Everton 3, Chelsea 0 Beto brace, first goal, great
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finish, beautiful pass by Garner.
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What do you think about his celebration?
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Which which one? He does this thing where he like
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she goes like he like a step. The last the LeBron James.
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Is that what it is? It's LeBron James.
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So it's like he's holding it down.
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Yeah, yeah, it's LeBron James. It's why why is better?
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It's it's. Better than Ekatika is
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celebration. Oh, that?
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That's terrible. Which one is that?
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What does he do? He puts his hand out and he does
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like the. Wait, the gladiator is like a
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gladiator is a classic cool celebration.
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It's not good. It's not.
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Like he did. It but OK, but like, OK, but
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that is like in my mind, that's like a but there's nothing
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creative about that. That's been done 100 times, you
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know. But just to go back on the
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holding you down celebration, what is it with the Premier
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League players stealing basketball player celebration?
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First it was Cole Palmer with the ice cold.
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You didn't see it and now it's holding it down.
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He, Cole Palmer, was absolutely not aware about Trey Young.
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Cole Palmer probably still not aware that Trey Young exists.
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I you know what? That is definitely believable.
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I don't think Cole Palmer remember what he hate that they.
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Yeah, I. Don't think he's wearing a lot.
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That's true. OK, yeah, the better brace was
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jarring to say the least, but but good.
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I mean, he's like he has had some decent scores in the last
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few games. He had a 35 point 35.5, which is
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crazy this week and then three weeks prior, two weeks probably
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had a 20.5 with some, you know, so there's something there when
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there's heat, there's fire. He's he's definitely, he's in
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the, he's in the heat index, but he's he's a little lower than a
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lot of other names. I don't think Evans been playing
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badly either too. So, yeah, which is surprising
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seeing they don't have, you know, Jack Relish.
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Yeah, and I got a great goal too.
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He hasn't been scoring as much as their hot start, but he just
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proved how much quality he has and I think he's someone that
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could be good, you know, just keep an eye on for next year for
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drafts and stuff. Chelsea, Peckard pick, Chelsea
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peppered Pickford. That's a that's a tricky one
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actually. 1.28 They had a lot of opportunities versus Everton.
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0.98 What's funny is that very similar thing happened in the
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PSG game where Chelsea's Chelsea's XG was way higher than
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PSG's but PSG obviously robbed them.
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So that speed to me says that Chelsea is really making big
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mistakes like, you know, like defensive, like mental errors
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and like messing up. And they're getting good goals
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scored on them, too. Yeah, had a lot of chances, man,
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a lot of key areas. But yeah, but it's just not good
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enough right now. OK, Lee's Brantford.
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Nothing to talk about here. Defenders got good scores.
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Move on. Yeah.
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We just real quick on that one. Igor Tiago had his best game
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without scoring a point, 17.5 without scoring a goal, 17.512
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aerials won. So that was his best game
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without a goal contribution. Wow, that's really good.
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Yeah, and he he was a player that we always thought was like
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goal dependence. So he just had a monster game.
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So it's. Truly, it's really monster game.
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He is number 18 in the heat index.
18:18
Sure. OK, next game Newcastle won
18:21
Sunderland 2. Sunderland do the double over
18:24
their rivals, beating them away from home for the first time in
18:26
15 years. Newcastle haven't won a league
18:30
game against Sunderland in like 15 years either, right?
18:32
But yeah. Since 2011.
18:33
Yeah, that's crazy. Gordon's goal, That's three on
18:36
the bounce. Voltamoto with an assist and
18:41
then Tally scores. Who's tally from Sunderland?
18:46
What's his? What's his?
18:47
Is that his actual last name or is that a nickname?
18:49
Talby. I think it's actually Talby.
18:50
Talby yeah, that's right. That's right.
18:51
OK. And then Robbie, Robbie scored
18:53
in extra time to win it. And then he took his shirt off
18:56
and kind of I got, I got very like Mario Bell Talibabs from
18:59
the way that he celebrated and took his shirt off, which is
19:02
cool, yeah. Which is cool.
19:03
Yeah, Newcastle. Newcastle I think has given up
19:07
the most points from winning positions.
19:08
Newcastle and Chelsea I think are up there as the top teams to
19:11
do that this season, which is interesting and not really.
19:13
And I think it was always going to be tough for Newcastle, just
19:16
with the fact that they play it in the Champions League midweek,
19:19
you know, So it was, it was, it's tough.
19:21
But now they're out of the Champions League.
19:23
So they'll I, I have a feeling at the strong end of the season
19:26
personally. Yeah.
19:28
Sunderland players, I mean, they were on a little bit of a dip of
19:31
form, but then we had some good scores from them.
19:35
And they get Mukhaleli back next next game too.
19:38
That's kind of be good for them. I mean, they were missing
19:40
Ballard, who's been there, you know, one of their stars.
19:43
That's another injury that we should mention.
19:44
Ballard's probably going to be fine too.
19:46
He was like he was a game time decision this week, so a few
19:49
weeks, whereas he should be good as well.
19:51
Say Kudus have a look out for him to his game time decision.
19:54
Yeah, I think he was never going to he was never going to play
19:57
this week, but I think with the with the extended break, there's
19:59
a good chance that he's back in the squad.
20:01
Yeah. So I I re picked him up in the
20:04
league that I drafted him and. And he's taken everywhere else,
20:07
if you guys were wondering, because I already looked.
20:09
But yeah, there might be leagues where he's floating around.
20:14
Next game. Spur 0, Force 3.
20:17
Brutal. Jesus scored.
20:18
Morgan gives white scores. Of course Owoni scores.
20:23
Yep. Brutal Simmons on the bench
20:25
again. Yeah, I mean, just we talked
20:28
about the top of the show. Really tough to tough to see
20:30
this happening. I think the coach is going to
20:33
leave and things are going to change.
20:34
I think that's the only way. That's the only the only hope, I
20:37
think. I don't think I don't think this
20:39
this coach or this team, the squad, the way this he's having
20:42
a play is going to be able to do anything.
20:43
But I mean, the one silver lining from a fantasy standpoint
20:46
is like the FIS tell really has been playing really well, like
20:50
in generating a lot of ghost points.
20:51
Like he hasn't scored a goal in assists, but he said like 10
20:53
plus like three of his last four or something like that.
20:56
So. Puppy Saw has been playing too
20:58
bad too. It's been, it's not great, but
21:00
it's something consistent if you've got someone that's not
21:02
performing. Yeah, went off sixes and sevens.
21:06
The last game we're going to talk about Villa 2, West Ham 0.
21:08
John McGinn scored, Oliver Watkins scored both goals were
21:12
good goals. I didn't think either one was
21:14
very much like West Ham or trash.
21:16
You know, they're both just like well scored goals.
21:19
I think West Ham missing Crisencio Somerville was a huge
21:22
miss for them. Just the way he opens up teams.
21:24
So he should he also should be back after the international
21:27
break is every is what they're saying.
21:29
So that's good for the owners of him because he's been very good
21:32
in the lost since the beginning of the year.
21:34
I had put. I had put money.
21:35
I was Sam. You did.
21:39
I like, that's funny. I like, I liked all those games
21:43
too. I was actually, I was kind of
21:44
thinking about this week like this, as far as like the games
21:47
that I watched this week, every single result that I wanted to
21:50
happen or I thought would happen did not happen.
21:52
Like I wanted Chelsea to win. They lost.
21:54
I thought Spurs would win. They lost.
21:55
I thought West Ham would win. They lost.
21:56
I thought Newcastle win, they lost.
21:57
So it was a bad week for It was a bad week for me thinking that
22:00
I know what I'm talking about. Well, we talked last week how
22:03
West Ham has been in good form. They've been playing pretty well
22:05
compared to earlier in the year. And Newcastle, Sunderland,
22:08
obviously you would go with Newcastle.
22:10
So I thought it was a good partly, I think it was like plus
22:11
450 or +500. So I put a little, sprinkled a
22:14
little something, something on it and then woke up and to
22:17
allow, yeah. Do you want to talk waivers?
22:22
It's a little bit of a weird time obviously, because with
22:24
everything, so some things will change and whatnot, but I have a
22:27
few names here that I can read out.
22:30
Go on. First one I want to talk about
22:32
is Keen Lewis Potter from Brentford.
22:34
He's been double digits the last two games.
22:37
It's always a little weird because he's like technically
22:39
played out of position. I think he's classified as a
22:42
Ford or a midfielder. He plays, he plays wing back, so
22:47
it's a little, it feels a little weird, but it actually might be
22:49
like a little sneaky play if you're lacking forwards or
22:52
something. Is he actually last time out as
22:53
a forward? I think he might have been moved
22:54
to a. Midfielder check in.
22:56
I picked him up in one league. He's a midfielder.
22:59
He's a midfielder, yeah. So, yeah, I, I think that's a
23:02
good one. He's had two solid games and
23:03
it's like with the new kind of positioning they're playing in.
23:06
So I think, I think Rico Rico Henry's out or something.
23:09
So he's been getting that role and it's good for him.
23:13
Another one I have is Constantine Marva Parnos.
23:18
What's that? Yeah, I think it's just like I I
23:23
still kind of believe in West Ham defenders.
23:24
He's posted obviously he scored a goal the other week and then
23:27
he had another solid game this week.
23:29
So he's had two double digit games, 125 + 112 1/2, which are
23:34
solid and they have good fixtures.
23:36
It's like Wolves, Palace, ever since Sunderland, West Ham.
23:38
So yeah, I think that's a solid 1.
23:42
You know who hit me up and gave me a little nod for a good pick
23:45
up was my boy over at Draft Society.
23:50
Oh, really? We chat.
23:53
Our boy Ryan, No. No, no, for we chat.
23:58
Did he say? That he said Bo Siggly from
24:02
Boast from Brian Boast Goggly from Brighton because I guess
24:05
Lewis Dunk is going to be suspended for at least two
24:07
games. So it's a sneaky little pick up
24:09
and I think they have a pretty soft schedule as well.
24:12
So shout out to Ryan for that one.
24:14
Oh yeah, thanks Ryan for helping the one person out of the trio.
24:21
Some people don't need help because they want a championship
24:24
by themselves. Well played.
24:29
Yeah, Josh King we talked about. Yeah.
24:32
Just ignored it. Yeah, ignored Josh King we
24:36
talked about had a really good game.
24:37
I think he's worth looking at. I think Liverpool next is tough.
24:41
Yeah. So I don't know if that's like
24:42
maybe it's like Holden Sash. So if you have the bench space.
24:45
As I say, because the the games off there look quite favorable.
24:48
Yeah. So I think I think there's
24:50
something there, yeah. And then I think another one
24:53
too, Chris Rigg, I think Sunderland, he had a good game.
24:56
He's like, he's like a rookie. He's like in like if you're like
24:59
into the the trading card world. He was like one of the hot
25:02
rookies from this year, even though he hasn't been that great
25:05
fantasy wise yet, but he had finally had a good game.
25:08
So it's it's worth looking at again, really perspective,
25:11
really perspective there. That's kind of all I have.
25:15
There's another. There's another Brian one that
25:17
you actually picked up, Henschelwood.
25:19
Pencil wood yeah, he's he's been he I think he might have been on
25:22
it before, but he's had a few solid games.
25:24
I'm a little nervous about how he's been getting points though.
25:26
Pencil wood because there's been a there's got a few games where
25:30
he got he's got an assist and gotten just around 1011 points,
25:34
which you want to see a little more if you're getting an
25:36
assist, you know, and then he's only had one or two in this like
25:40
good strategy side that would really ghost worthy.
25:42
The one upside is, is it Burnley that he's playing against?
25:45
So you're hoping that he's there, but he is playing in the
25:47
tent, so it is a nice position. I was going to say, he's playing
25:50
in a really good forward position and you always see him
25:52
on the on the edge of the box. So he had that really good
25:54
assist for the Weber goal, too. Oh yeah, yeah.
25:58
So yeah, I think that's a really good shout.
26:00
Anyone else you guys are thinking about or looking at?
26:02
I know it's like, it's like international break is so tough
26:05
because we can talk about it now, but that all might change
26:07
given who is there, what's going on.
26:10
Yeah, there's so much to talk about anything.
26:13
I mean, we don't really there's no point to talk match ups.
26:15
Do you guys want to talk about the the the World Cup qualifier?
26:20
There's like still that the qualifying rounds, the.
26:23
One that costs more than an actual game to the World Cup.
26:26
Is oh, what do you mean? Like how does that make sense?
26:29
Oh, no, the way for the qualifier, for the qualifiers
26:32
for like Italy versus whatever, whatever.
26:34
Forget who it was, but yeah, I think it's Italy versus whoever
26:36
and the the the price of the tickets is like 2000.
26:41
For the World Cup qualification UEFA semifinals.
26:44
Yeah. Why is that I?
26:47
Fucking don't know. Mate, But they're not.
26:48
They're not. They're not in the US.
26:50
No. No, so I I don't care why they'd
26:53
be so much, but I think it's interesting.
26:54
I think like. That makes that's actually a
26:56
really good fucking point. It's actually a really good
26:58
fucking. Point.
26:59
I don't know. I don't know where Mexico
27:02
though. No way.
27:03
Right. New Balance Arena.
27:05
Where's the New Balance Arena? That's in Mexico.
27:08
No, that's in Italy. Porgamo, Milan, Italy, games in
27:13
Milan. I don't know what you guys, what
27:15
are you guys talking about? I can't imagine any of these
27:17
games here. I can't imagine any of these
27:19
teams would travel to play these games.
27:21
I meant. Why is there a New Balance 39
27:22
Italy? That makes no sense, however,
27:25
Like, would you? Stadium, though.
27:27
So would you want to see Italy in the World Cup?
27:29
They missed the last two, yeah. You love to see it.
27:32
You love to see. It you don't want to see Wales
27:34
or or Ireland in the World Cup either, is that what you're
27:36
saying? I mean also, right, There's
27:38
eight teams in what, there's four spots or no, there's wait
27:41
12345678 and 10 and a little bit and there's 16 teams and there's
27:44
four spots, right? Yeah.
27:45
OK, So this, the teams are Turkey, Romania, Czech.
27:50
OK. So now Turkey is Turkey, Yeah.
27:51
And then Romania, Czechia, Ireland, Denmark, N Macedonia,
27:56
Italy, Northern Ireland, Poland, Albania, Slovakia, Kosovo,
28:00
Ukraine, Sweden, Wales, Bosnia, Gosovina, the team that I want
28:04
to see. Say the second part of Bosnia.
28:06
Bosnia and her Gosovina. Here's a govina.
28:10
How'd you say it? Here's the very times where I
28:13
could. You could actually try Govina
28:15
contribute, yeah, but you just want it right now.
28:18
You won't even do it. Here's the govnia.
28:20
Here's the. Govnia OK.
28:23
So it's. Probably pronounced like here's
28:24
the govnia in like their native tons or something.
28:27
Yeah, yeah. OK.
28:27
So who do I want to see go through?
28:29
I want to see Italy go through. That's four teams I want to see
28:32
Italy go through. Yeah.
28:34
I want to see whales go through. Right that that can't happen.
28:38
They can't. That can't happen.
28:39
They're in the same bracket or whatever.
28:41
Same bracket, yeah. How wait, I don't know where the
28:43
I don't know where the brackets are.
28:45
I'm well, I'm looking. I don't see the brackets.
28:47
So I'm not gonna lie, I want to see Ellie because Ellie didn't
28:50
get that lost fucking too. World Cup.
28:52
Can you pull up? Wait, can you pull up the
28:53
bracket? Oh, wait.
28:55
Oh yeah. Let's talk about this and we
28:57
have a surprise. I'm going to show you guys my
28:59
the latest updates to my EPL Fantasy heat index at the end of
29:02
this. And anyone who sticks around and
29:05
watches that I can, if they if they message us or leave a leave
29:09
a message in the on the whatever you know, on YouTube or whatever
29:13
that I'll, I'll send it to them. OK.
29:16
But anyways, are you able to pull up Tico?
29:17
Are you able to pull up a a bracket?
29:20
I can't find a bracket. I can't find a bracket as well.
29:25
World Cup World Cup qualification with a semi
29:28
bracket, yeah. This is a little off a path B
29:35
I'm seeing. Yeah.
29:37
Oh yeah, but it's OK. That's annoying, but there's
29:41
this. I wish there was like a really
29:42
pretty bracket we could pull up and show.
29:43
Yeah. Anyways, OK, I mean, just got
29:47
derailed, but in my perfect world, it'd be Italy, Wales, I
29:52
don't know. Then I have two more teams.
29:53
I'd love to see the I like to seeing the Danes.
29:56
I like watching the Danes. Well, you want Harlan to be
29:58
involved. Well, he's he's not he's.
30:01
Not he's not. Who's Danish is it?
30:03
Is it Ericsson? Yeah, Ericsson, Damsgard,
30:06
there's a bunch of Danes in the pen.
30:07
That's. What I say, yeah.
30:08
And then I like, I mean Sweden like not having E SAC.
30:13
Yeah, Is he going to even be able to play?
30:15
I don't know. Good question.
30:18
Do you all crush? I mean, the whole attack?
30:20
Isn't there another striker? They have two.
30:21
That's pretty crazy. I wouldn't mind seeing Ireland
30:24
too. That'd be fun.
30:25
You know, I don't know, there's like there's England, there's
30:28
like half the teams. I wouldn't mind seeing.
30:29
I wouldn't. Mind seeing Ukraine?
30:31
I wouldn't mind seeing. Well, is for Ukraine is still
30:36
going to play Mikoleko. He was.
30:39
Just seen in Paris riding the bike of his girlfriend.
30:43
And so you're, you're up to date that this is the WAGS
30:45
conversation that we needed. Six months ago.
30:48
Eight months ago. He said he'll do in the Yeah,
30:52
sorry. Oh yeah, there's one.
30:56
So with that that we to that totally got derailed.
30:58
It was absolutely terrible as a segment, unless you guys have
31:00
anything else to contribute to this.
31:02
None whatsoever. You don't really care who goes
31:04
through. Ukraine and Sweden are playing
31:07
against each other. The flight colors are the same.
31:10
Fun. Thanks, Chico.
31:13
OK, I'm going to share something that's that's fun I think, or
31:17
interesting. Waiting, waiting.
31:19
Yeah, give me a second. Give me a second.
31:21
OK, This is my EPL fantasy heat index.
31:26
Can. You see that?
31:29
Yeah. So essentially how it works is
31:30
it takes the IT takes the weighted scores from the last
31:33
five game weeks and then it also weights consistency as well.
31:37
So like them continue to score and it and it breaks it up into
31:40
a who are like the hottest players based in fantasy scores
31:44
over the last few. Few weeks you add everything in
31:46
manually, no right? No no no.
31:49
I just I can download all the data and then like plug it in.
31:53
That'd be crazy. Yes, he typed up everyone's name
31:55
1 by 1 and the numbers and everything.
31:58
But what's what's nice about this is that a you you see, like
32:02
obviously, like you can really see how insane Bruno's runs
32:04
been. But BI think what's valuable
32:07
here is maybe there's some names that pop up that might, maybe
32:09
not might be available. But like are just like people
32:12
you wouldn't consider being like, Oh, wow, they're having a
32:14
really good like run a really good season.
32:16
You know, like I think Ethan Ampadu in a lot of leagues were
32:19
still available until recently and like he's he's been like on
32:21
a tear. So how did you get from elite?
32:26
An elite and then rock solid is hot.
32:29
So there's two different things here.
32:30
Is that what you're talking about?
32:31
Yeah, Those. What do you mean?
32:34
Like Elite is like he's at like really good look.
32:37
I see, I see. Bruno's.
32:38
You don't need elite one on the left.
32:40
And then so adjusted heat. So this is consistency.
32:42
So they've been. Yeah, I know.
32:43
I hear that. So they're rock solid because
32:45
they're consistent, but Elite is like they've been, they're like,
32:50
I don't know, their their scores are all above, they're all great
32:52
scores essentially. Yeah, no, no, I hear.
32:54
I just thought why? Why would you just not have hot
32:56
or rock solid on both sides? I just.
33:02
I mean, there may have been some AI involved in building this,
33:06
and that might have been some creative liberty that the AI
33:08
took, but I like AI. Yeah, go on.
33:11
But I, I think there's, I think it's just an interesting thing
33:13
to look at. Like there's some names on here
33:14
that might even be a bit like available, like Diego Gomez is
33:17
one that might still be available in a lot of leagues
33:19
and you get some really good scores.
33:21
But people just kind of like overlooking, obviously the Nico
33:25
Riley's, you know, we can look out, we can extend this out.
33:28
We can also break it up by position.
33:30
So if you're just looking at defenders and you want to look
33:35
and yeah, it's kind of, it's been, it's been interesting.
33:37
I think the, the thing that for me too, that I, the reason I
33:40
like this is because I all of us like we look at all these
33:44
players and we kind of build biases for players.
33:45
And sometimes like a guy will start going off and we just
33:47
never really see him that way, you know what I mean?
33:49
We're like this guy's, we just don't think, we think he's shit
33:51
or something, you know, but he's like popping off and like, by
33:54
the time you realize it's too late, someone else has picked
33:55
him up. So having a tracker like this
33:57
might be really helpful in picking him up.
34:00
You know, yeah, I'm seeing obviously this would be probably
34:03
more useful early mid season than late season right now.
34:07
But it is interesting to look at and explore.
34:09
Should should pattern this bro. Yeah, totally.
34:13
I mean, I think anyone could build this.
34:14
And I mean, it took me literally.
34:16
Well, don't say anyone. Don't.
34:17
Don't say anybody. Most people could build this
34:19
pretty quickly. 75% of the people here could build it.
34:24
Yeah, I know this is a fun tool and so if anyone wants this, I
34:26
can send them the HTML file, but that'll just link to link to it.
34:30
So yeah, leave a leave a comment on YouTube, anything else you
34:33
guys want to talk about any any questions you have here you
34:36
want, you want, you want anyone you got secrets?
34:38
Wait, put those closer to the screen.
34:41
Reese James and Mohammed Kudus. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:44
I'll take both joking. And I was waiting for a response
34:49
from him. No, no, I'm good.
34:50
I don't need any stickers. I've moved away from stickers
34:54
and. Sports, but watch this one guys.
34:57
And did you get rid of all your collectibles?
34:59
Is that what you're telling us? No, I don't.
35:01
Even my Pokémon cards, I have most I have like my Somerville
35:03
one that's signed. So the ones that you have in
35:05
like Stabs, that's what I'll go for.
35:07
I'm not going to. Go for more.
35:09
Yeah, I'm not going. To go for the pop.
35:11
Stuff. Yeah, it makes sense.
35:13
Anything else you guys want to poke around?
35:14
Any questions you guys might have about this tool?
35:16
I'm in No. I'm going to go play with it a
35:18
little bit. Tico Queue.
35:21
So you're going to get hit though over around 2 1/2, huh?
35:27
But you have a little gander. Shit looks like it looks good.
35:30
Cool all. Right.
35:32
Where is the link? How can we get that?
35:33
I will I'm going to send you an HMM, I'll send you an HML file.
35:37
Eventually I'm going to put this on to like a shareable like
35:40
actual website, but as I'm still working out the kinks, it's just
35:42
a file right now, but it'll be fun to have right?
35:45
Maybe we can maybe this can be the beginning of our website.
35:47
I. Like it?
35:50
All built via AI. Thank you AI, thank you AI.
35:54
Thank you, AI overlords, for helping us.
35:58
This has been episode 128. I've dropped off sides.
36:02
My name is Keith. I'm with Tico Enzo.
36:04
Enjoy the break. We'll be back at least for one
36:06
episode in between now and then. Maybe 2.
36:08
We'll see. Yeah.
36:09
We'll, we'll do one at least. We'll do one at least, Sergey.
36:12
Sergey has big plans for us, so we're going to do.
36:15
That the first time Sergey's been here in like, weeks.
36:17
I know we're missing him. Not really.
36:22
All right, well, he said we can't talk Arsenal without him,
36:24
so hey, why don't you talk about their last game, Yeah?
36:29
What do you got to say for yourself?
36:31
Anything. Was it the rest fault?
36:33
Was there something wrong with the ball?
36:36
Did Chucky doing kickoffs? He's really upsetting you guys.
36:38
He's here, but he's. Not his fault, some of the
36:40
players did, some saw dogs, some saw a rabbit.
36:43
So it's not his fault. All right, Should we end on
36:46
that? Bye boys.
36:48
All right, mate.