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S7 Ep24: FPL Pod: What to do with Bukayo Saka? · FPL Pod

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  Speaker 1: The final pop before Christmas is here.
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  Speaker 2: We're hoping for some good second news from Santa or
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  Speaker 2: could it be time to sell. Jews and Sam have
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  Speaker 2: esac envy as they look to invest in. Whatever you do,
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: don't be a scooge to mentioned spurs.
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  Speaker 1: Ho ho ho.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Christmas from everyone here at the FPL Pod. If
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  Speaker 2: you don't celebrate Christmas, or maybe if you do and
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  Speaker 2: you just love this time of year. It's happy, busy
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  Speaker 2: FPL deadline at the time of year, so much football
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  Speaker 2: to look herhead too. So we're back with you on
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  Speaker 2: a Monday, the FPL Pod team of Kelly, Sam and
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  Speaker 2: Jewels here with our festive spirit and hopefully some FPL tips.
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  Speaker 2: We've got our Christmas hats on. We've got Christmas jumpers
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  Speaker 2: on as well because we're feeling festive. Good morning Jewels,
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Sam. Firstly, Jewels, that is an impressive Christmas jumper.
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  Speaker 2: Who is on the front of it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a face off a young Eric Continer And
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  Speaker 3: I know you could see that. Anyway. I'm saying, you're
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  Speaker 3: saying Merry Christmas and blue Santa Hat.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say blue Sander hat.
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  Speaker 3: Why it's just a PhD won't turn you around because
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  Speaker 3: this is not Legando the Premier League, so I can't
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  Speaker 3: really sure.
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  Speaker 1: To get yourself a red arsenal.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's true. That's true.
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  Speaker 2: Sam also needs a blue or a white one, or
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  Speaker 2: maybe you don't. After the weekend, Sam, you've gone for
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  Speaker 2: a pink Christmas app always pink. Actually, this one's evs
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  Speaker 2: that I just keep stealing for various different shows that
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  Speaker 2: I've done this week and then supporting my Spurs colors.
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  Speaker 1: That is brave going to say to talk about Spurs.
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  Speaker 2: If that will come on to that very shortly on,
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty unavoidable, isn't it. I know if your family
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  Speaker 2: derby in your house yesterday and you probably don't want
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  Speaker 2: to keep talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: But unfortunately that's what we're here for.
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  Speaker 2: Because Game Week seventeen did conclude with Spurs versus Liverpool
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  Speaker 2: and Game Week eighteen starts on Thursday, so we're going
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  Speaker 2: to give you your first midweek deadline warning of the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: The deadline is eleven am on Thursday. I know, I
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  Speaker 2: think I said it on the last show. It's that
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  Speaker 2: some of you when you don't have a clue what
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  Speaker 2: day of the week it is what meal you're meant
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  Speaker 2: to be eating, what family you're meant to be seeing,
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  Speaker 2: what you're meant to be doing. In general, you do
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  Speaker 2: also need to think of FPL. So Thursday is Boxing Day,
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  Speaker 2: So when you get up after Christmas morning, maybe you
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  Speaker 2: are a bit hungover, maybe you've just eaten too much turkey
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  Speaker 2: the day before. Whatever you do, don't forget to City
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  Speaker 2: your team eleven am that's the head of Manchester City
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  Speaker 2: versus Everton, all of the games across the twenty sixth
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  Speaker 2: and twenty seventh. Then we have a breather on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: the twenty eighth, and just to make it even more confusing,
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  Speaker 2: we then got a deadline on Sunday the twenty ninth,
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  Speaker 2: the head of the final round in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: So plenty to think of, but right now just focus
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  Speaker 2: in on the fact that we've got a Boxing day deadline.
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  Speaker 2: Let's reflect quickly though on the game week that was.
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  Speaker 2: Sam has got her head in her hands because she
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  Speaker 2: knows what's coming. Firstly, the Mini League, it wasn't actually
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  Speaker 2: that bad. This wasn't bad for Sam. She's just doing
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  Speaker 2: that because of Spurs. So Sam, you benched Rogers. You
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  Speaker 2: had Hall and Robinson returning. That was a good week
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  Speaker 2: for the defense, wasn't it. And also you stuck with Silankey,
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  Speaker 2: so you've got seventy seven in general, but you don't
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  Speaker 2: seem too happy with that. I know it's really hard
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  Speaker 2: to be happy when your first sub has gone and
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  Speaker 2: got school on like that. But what's really frustrating the
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  Speaker 2: account is that I was so torn between those two.
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  Speaker 2: It was, yeah, it was Joe Pedro or Rogers, Joe
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  Speaker 2: Pedro and Rodgers and we had a family day on Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: and so we were on the train into London and
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  Speaker 2: I just was so back and forward and what I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do.
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  Speaker 4: And in the end I was like, I just feel like,
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  Speaker 4: surely Brighton west Ham lover conceding a penalty and Joel
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  Speaker 4: Pedro loves to take them. And in the end I
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  Speaker 4: was like, right, I'm just I'm going to go with
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  Speaker 4: Jill Peggro. Because it was so torn, I was like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm just going to leave it. So whoever it's set out,
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you a funny story. I was we took
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  Speaker 4: as part of the day out even fat fans.
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  Speaker 5: Something she wanted.
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  Speaker 4: I was paying for it, and I got a notification
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  Speaker 4: on my phone and it just said that it was
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  Speaker 4: a beginnerssist and I was like, oh no, that's aston
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  Speaker 4: Villa of scored and I opened the I opened it
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  Speaker 4: and was like it was obviously a Morgan Rodgers got
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  Speaker 4: and I actually lost the plot. And the guy at
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  Speaker 4: the till was like, are you okay? And I was like, no,
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  Speaker 4: Morgan scored and he's on my bench. He was like, ah,
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  Speaker 4: an FPL manager. So we then had a conversation about
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  Speaker 4: fl and I was just like I left the shop
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  Speaker 4: and either it was like Mum very embarrassing talking about
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  Speaker 4: FBL to the van in the shop, and I was like, thanks, Ev,
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, honestly it was.
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  Speaker 4: I feel really bad saying I'm really disappointed with this
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  Speaker 4: week because it was still agree like I still got
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  Speaker 4: a green arrow, it was still some progress, but those
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  Speaker 4: additional twelve points that I would have got from playing
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  Speaker 4: Morgan Rodgers over Joe Pedro would have got me to
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  Speaker 4: five hundred and thirty K, which is where I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to be for Christmas. I said, five hundred K for
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  Speaker 4: Christmas and I'll be happy. So I kind of feel
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  Speaker 4: like this was such a missed opportunity to massively gain
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  Speaker 4: that bit of rank back. So it's done. Now just
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  Speaker 4: have to make sure that I don't do it again.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it makes you feel any better
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  Speaker 2: or not, Sam, the fact that I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you notice actually sold Morgan Rodgers this week I did.
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  Speaker 4: I noticed the first thing, do you know what? Honestly,
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  Speaker 4: the first thing I did was check what you two
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  Speaker 4: had done with Rogers. So you'd sold him. Jews have
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  Speaker 4: benched him too, So.
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  Speaker 1: Sam, guess what time I sold him?
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, not like it's ten fifty nine on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: was actually my birthday. And I felt like as a result,
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  Speaker 2: I hadn't given my FPL team enough notice. What I
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  Speaker 2: had attention. Sorry, What I had actually done was I'd
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  Speaker 2: made the early transfer that I spoke about on the
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  Speaker 2: pod last week. I sold him Bemo, Thank goodness, he blinks.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't feel so great about that. Brought in Enzo, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and a bit like you. The whole week I was like,
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  Speaker 2: do I want to start Morgan Rodgers or Schuel Pedro
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  Speaker 2: or do I want to start Enzo. I'd actually made
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  Speaker 2: peace with the fact that I was going to bench
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  Speaker 2: at Enzo okay, playing Morgan Rodgers and Shoel Pedro. And
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  Speaker 2: then on the Saturday morning, because I'm so used to
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  Speaker 2: making those last minute transfers, I thought to myself, everyone's
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  Speaker 2: selling Morgan Rogers. Why have I not sold Morgan Rogers.
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  Speaker 2: I really liked the Armad pic, and all week I'd
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  Speaker 2: regretted probably not going for Ammad over Enzo because I
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  Speaker 2: wanted some Manchester United cover because I've got Chelsea cover.
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  Speaker 2: So at ten fifty nine, I was giving my daughter
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  Speaker 2: breakfast and I sold him. However, it made me feel
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  Speaker 2: a little bit better, at least like it wasn't just
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  Speaker 2: it me on the bench. However, I got ninety four
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  Speaker 2: points this game week. Had I sold him, might have
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  Speaker 2: been in the one hundred clubs, so that's pretty hard
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  Speaker 2: to take. And my rank I went up about four
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  Speaker 2: hundred k places and I would have broken into the
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  Speaker 2: top million, which I know isn't great in terms of
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  Speaker 2: a rank, but would have been quite a big rise
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  Speaker 2: because I was three point eight million just a few
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago. And also, Sam, now I know you're catching me, yes, I.
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  Speaker 3: Know fift I saw that this morning. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: get in.
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  Speaker 2: But if i'd have not sold him might have been
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  Speaker 2: even closer to you. So anyway, Yeah, that was my
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  Speaker 2: game week Jels for you. Then you bench Rodgers as well. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: so many people did. But again you've got returns for
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  Speaker 2: Paul Robinson. And like me, and like you said you
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  Speaker 2: were going to on Thursday, you kept Kunya and he
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  Speaker 2: kind of justified your faith.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't he.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, it was brilliant and so were Horse. To be honest,
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  Speaker 3: Leicester and a very good bestill they were. They were
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  Speaker 3: great compared to what they'd been doing previously. We're waiting
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  Speaker 3: that to see what was going to happened to Kunya
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  Speaker 3: and then because if because I think if he's not
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  Speaker 3: suspended the next game for ex Yeah, I think so,
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  Speaker 3: considering the film that is on and the new manager
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  Speaker 3: bouncing away and things like that. I was torn, like
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  Speaker 3: some for Rogers, between him and Evan Wilson. I had
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  Speaker 3: a feeling Bonnemouth would do really well Trafford and I
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  Speaker 3: thought e Vanilson then could be good. And to be fair,
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  Speaker 3: he gave a wonderful past on the third goal that
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  Speaker 3: brings him as you know, no point although it's a
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  Speaker 3: crest I can assist, but so as I didn't feel
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  Speaker 3: too bad. When I saw the Rogers return so well,
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  Speaker 3: I felt a bit gutted because those fourteen points would
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  Speaker 3: have been great, But I was happy with the Evan
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  Speaker 3: Wilson pick ahead of Rogers before the weekend, so there
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  Speaker 3: was nothing for me to regress. Yeah, I hesitated a bit,
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  Speaker 3: but I really thought Burnemuth would do well at United,
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  Speaker 3: so then Evan Neilson would do well too. So but
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  Speaker 3: it's it's a shame seventy six. Basically, like Sam, I
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  Speaker 3: feel like it's a it's a good week because it's
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  Speaker 3: a green arrow, small one, but it could have made
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  Speaker 3: so much better. For example, if, like I said last
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  Speaker 3: week on the show, if I brought Isaac, which I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to do and I'm probably going to do now.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one that keeps kind of ticking over and
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  Speaker 2: get helping me gain some rank over you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like it's a game changer for everybody who had
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  Speaker 3: him really different, genuinely is.
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  Speaker 2: Like when I look back at my last few weeks
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  Speaker 2: and kind of what I've done differently to everyone else
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  Speaker 2: I've tried to do. We talk about it a lot
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  Speaker 2: on this pod, don't we, In terms of doing certain
• 8:19
  Speaker 2: things like you could never not captain Salah. At the moment,
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  Speaker 2: it feels like, well, this game week, it was like, well,
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  Speaker 2: even if I wanted to go differently, thankfully I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't because the majority were going with it. But
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  Speaker 2: then it's like certain things that I was looking at
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  Speaker 2: that I've done differently, and it is just things like Esak.
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  Speaker 2: He's just been the difference for me. And every week
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  Speaker 2: he's returning and I think he's kind of becoming close
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  Speaker 2: to essential personally, but we'll talk about that very shortly.
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  Speaker 2: Just to quick check in with the FPR Pop Mini League, then,
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Shepherd is now first one hundred and fourteen points
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  Speaker 2: this week, moved cons up to Hall, got a frontline
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  Speaker 2: of slanky Kunya and Esak that literally was the ideal frontline.
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  Speaker 2: He's now second in the entire world. So congratulations to Charlie.
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  Speaker 2: We're really rooting for you there. Max Little Proud is
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  Speaker 2: back up into second in our league after his one
• 9:02
  Speaker 2: hundred and ten points this week. He did eight nori
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  Speaker 2: to Robinson, a transfer that a lot of us did,
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  Speaker 2: and he's now fifth overall in the world. So well done, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Representing FPL POD in the overall world rankings are reminder
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  Speaker 2: if you haven't yet joined us, there's still time. Head
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  Speaker 2: of the new year. Q seven y c O the
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  Speaker 2: letter zero the number there is no off the bench.
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  Speaker 2: This week's Monday, and we're with you. So we're going
• 9:23
  Speaker 2: to provide our own little FPL pod version of off
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  Speaker 2: the Bench. We're the kind of update not only on
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: our teams, but on what the rest of the game
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: week did. What were the big talking points for you, Sam? Well,
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  Speaker 2: the biggest In fact, I'm going to interject my own
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  Speaker 2: question there and say I think the biggest talking point
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  Speaker 2: for me, and something that's going to concern our teams,
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: is the injury to Bacayo Sacka. We don't know too
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: much about it at this point of recording Monday morning,
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  Speaker 2: but we're going to talk about that and potential replacements
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  Speaker 2: for him in a little bit more detail. So let's
• 9:50
  Speaker 2: park that thought for a moment.
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  Speaker 1: Sam. Aside from that, do you do you want to
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  Speaker 1: go now with spurs or would jobs.
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  Speaker 5: To cover that?
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  Speaker 3: In the room, it's the elephone in the room. Shall
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  Speaker 3: we get rid of im?
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: Wondering if we just get rid of it and then
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: we can all breathe again, move on and not being fair.
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  Speaker 3: It's such a bade. The elephant will always stay in
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  Speaker 3: the room back. I guess we can address it if
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  Speaker 3: you want.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks toors, appreciate that, remember it it's Christmas podcast. Well, look,
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  Speaker 4: it is what it is, right we I think from
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  Speaker 4: an FPL, but let's just do it from FPL because,
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  Speaker 4: to be honest, then that makes me feel lots better
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  Speaker 4: because I think from an FBI perspective, there's actually quite
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  Speaker 4: a lot that you can like about this first performance.
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  Speaker 4: Not the defense, because you know, let's just forget about
• 10:34
  Speaker 4: them playing mid shoulder there, let's just forget that they exist.
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  Speaker 4: Just talk about it's from attack.
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  Speaker 5: From the attack.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's you know, there's plenty of options in
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  Speaker 4: fl So obviously, I think for the last couple of weeks,
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: I've sat on this podcast and said, I thinking about
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  Speaker 4: selling Solankey and I'm thinking about selling Slanky. And then
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  Speaker 4: this week actually has been a good week for him
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  Speaker 4: because obviously he did.
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  Speaker 5: Well in the League Cup.
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  Speaker 4: That was there for that game, and I sat there
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  Speaker 4: and I was like, where's this been in FPL. But
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  Speaker 4: then on Sunday again we saw that in FPL, So
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  Speaker 4: that was nice, So a good return for him, returns
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  Speaker 4: for Kolosski and Brennan Johnson as well, and Madison again
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  Speaker 4: returning Now, Madison's really interesting because I think we've all
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  Speaker 4: I certainly have shied away from him quite a lot
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  Speaker 4: in FPL because of the lack of consistency of starts
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  Speaker 4: that we've had from him over the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 4: But he's right up there in terms of performances from
• 11:28
  Speaker 4: the midfielders. Obviously not with the likes of Salah, but
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  Speaker 4: then nobody is. He's in a league of his own
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  Speaker 4: right now. But if you're looking for a mid priced midfielder,
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  Speaker 4: his returns are so good for me. The conversation that
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  Speaker 4: I've been having with myself over the last couple of
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: weeks is do I seal silanky and invest in the
• 11:44
  Speaker 4: midfield instead?
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  Speaker 1: And maybe as.
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  Speaker 4: Part of a the coyo osaka conversation later they might
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  Speaker 4: come up again. But kulo Sevski and Brennan Johnson both consistent,
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  Speaker 4: Brennan even when he's benched. So that's the positives. There's
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  Speaker 4: a lot of negatives too. I don't think you can
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: invest in the defense. I'm not sure where you'd want
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  Speaker 4: to at the minute, but then as they start to
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: come back from injury, maybe that will change. The new
• 12:06
  Speaker 4: year brings some nice fixtures for Spurs. So if we
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: get the center backs back, if the goalkeeper eventually comes back,
• 12:12
  Speaker 4: but he's going to be out for longer because of
• 12:13
  Speaker 4: his fracture, I thought Jed Spence played well.
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  Speaker 5: There you go. There's some positives on Spurs for you.
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  Speaker 2: So you're still kind of adamant that you're going to
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: have to have a Spurs player in your team because
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: I love that you're talking about you don't quite know
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  Speaker 2: about Slanky or are you going to hold Slanky for now?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? I'm going to hold Slanky.
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  Speaker 1: You might even get the midfield double up.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but that seems really weird, doesn't it, with the
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  Speaker 4: way that we're performing. But then with the amount of
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  Speaker 4: goals that we're scoring like.
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  Speaker 1: You are scoring.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think if you leave the Premier League aside,
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  Speaker 4: and I think you kind of have to with FPL,
• 12:45
  Speaker 4: don't you, Because you're talking about picking the best players
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  Speaker 4: in FPL, not the best players in the Premier League,
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  Speaker 4: Because sometimes the best players in the Premier League aren't
• 12:52
  Speaker 4: the best players in FPL. Just simply because they don't
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  Speaker 4: necessarily return the points that their performances suggest that they should.
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  Speaker 4: With the Spurs attack, I mean we are up there
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  Speaker 4: with one of the best attacks in the Premier League.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know, like I'm going to hold Slanky.
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  Speaker 4: Now that's a couple of returns back to back for him,
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  Speaker 4: some good returns last week. Got some nice fixtures coming
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  Speaker 4: up against. Apart from Lottimore Forest where the defense is solid,
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  Speaker 4: I think there's defenses that that Spurs can get at.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm going to hold and as an FPL manager,
• 13:24
  Speaker 4: if Spurs lose but we return points, if I leave
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  Speaker 4: my Spurs biases aside, that's what you want, isn't It
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  Speaker 4: doesn't really matter what the Premier League result is for us.
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  Speaker 4: It's all about the FPL point returns. So yeah, So
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  Speaker 4: Lanky's not done anything to suggest that he should be sold.
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  Speaker 4: If anything, he's encouraged me to keep him with the
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  Speaker 4: performance of the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Jules, I'm not going to ask you for your
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: thoughts on Spurs because that would feel like I'm also
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: trolling Sandwich a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I think Liverpool stopped playing if I've one up, and
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  Speaker 3: that's why Solanki scored too, and that's what score too.
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  Speaker 3: Happy Christmas, Merry Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you can talk about something else from the game week.
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  Speaker 2: What would you like to talk about that isn't Spurs
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  Speaker 2: versus Liverpool related?
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: You sure we don't on Spurs Liverpool. You know we
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: don't on Spurs. I mean we can talk about Liverpool
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: and how great domes like, and really I think we
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: should give them a credit because the interesting thing about
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: the AZZ and Sobos live and it was only Spurs
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: really that's why maybe they were so good on the there,
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: but they hadn't been returning for so long and that
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: suddenly they've got those incredible game performances. So it was
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: like almost as a as a nine as the first nine.
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: Das is a just a free player wandering around really
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: and impacting the game. It was pretty amazing to watch
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: from a tactical point of view. But I don't know
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: if that's enough for people to start investing in soos
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: Lie and theas outside of Salah and maybe a trend
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: to somebody like that. But I thought Macarista was great.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: Apart from that, I guess the other big result in
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: a way for us for FBL is the Chelsea drawer
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: were evident because that Neil Neil for team that has
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: been so good going forward a Black Spurs and Chelsea
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: and a lot of having two or even three sometimes
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: in Enzo and Nico and Palmer or two of them,
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: three or even three of them for nobody to return
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: was we're disappointing, especially when they had the chances. I
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: mean Nicole, that was bad, Nico from last season really
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: that we saw our goodness and Park on Sunday?
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, where can we move on?
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Draw a line under it?
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: George, Yeah, I mean I can. I can talk about
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: Spurs forever if you want me to.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: No, No, I don't think we will. Sam.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: I'm going to let you take this conversation where you'd
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: like to go now, because we put you through the
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: pain of that because there's so much to talk about.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it is a case if you
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: want to go with the doom and gloom of Manchester City,
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: if you want to talk about Fulham, if you want
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: to talk about Alexander Esack, I could talk about Alexander
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Esak all day.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: You should.
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: Okay, Well, let's talk about Newcastle because I think there
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: is the last couple of weeks. The fixtures have been perfect,
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: haven't they. And we kind of said that investing for
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: the last two weeks made a lot of sense. Obviously,
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: Lewis Hall again with another clean sheet that was that
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: was nice. I was kind of hoping I was getting
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: another hole out of him, like we got last seat
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: so many If you didn't, it can't be too upset
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: with him, can we really, because you know, did go
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: massive last week, but still still a really nice return
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: from him with the clean sheet.
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: I think the interesting thing for me.
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: Is is and again maybe this is going to come
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: up when we talk about Saka because one of the
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: reasons that I didn't have ESAC this week was for
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: budget reasons. It would have meant selling Bruno Fernandez and
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: we could talk about Man United in a minute, because
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: I was not. I didn't expect them to lose quite
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: as heavily as they did without scoring, like I thought
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: the way that they've been they've been scoring goals and
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: I suspected that they might. But that was a bit
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: of a surprise to me, and I didn't want to
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: sell Bruno ahead of that one. So but that was
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: my only route to getting esack. Now this time around,
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: maybe I've got a different route to getting Esak or
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: Jackson up top, and I think I spent a lot
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: of time last week talking about those two. So for me, yeah,
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: it was a mad return from Esac. The fixtures are
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: a little bit more mixed now than they have been
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: over the last couple of weeks, but he is in
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: really good form and we had this at the back
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: end of was it two seasons ago, I think, when
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: he was phenomenal and it was that kind of conversation
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: he had to choose between Callum Wilson and Esak.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he only started twenty two Promi League games that season.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: But the back end of the season he came back
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: from injury and it was a straight choice between whether
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: you went for Esac or Callum Wilson, and I went
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: e Sac. There was a double game week in there
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: as well for them, and he absolutely banged in the
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: opening fixture of it, and it was just phenomenal for
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: those last few weeks of the season and I kind
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: of feel like we're seeing that form from him again.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: A struggle was still a little bit with the Newcastle
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: midfield and how I would invest there, simply because of
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: all of the other midfielders that we talk about and
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: that we won, like Anthony Gordon's in the conversation, But
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: I think I would have expected a little bit more
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: from him than we got given the scoreline in this one.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: But yeah, Esak, if he had him, well done because
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: he's just been in fantastic form, particularly.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Us is he now?
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: I hate saying essential because I feel like there's so
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: many players that we set about in FPL.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: But Jewels for you, is it a.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Case of you need to try and move things around
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: in your team to get him because so many people
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: are investing in him. You're going to do his rank
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: if you don't have him, are you trying to get
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: him into your team? Yeah?
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Absolutely? And I should have done it for this weekend,
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Like I said last week on the show. On the
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: last show, I was really tempted. It would have had
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: three free transfers. I could have done it, to be fair,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: It would have made like move moving some money and
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: things like that, but it was not impossible, and I
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: just thought I'll wait and I'll do it the following
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: for this for this game week for eighteen. And I
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: just wish because it was ipswitch as well, even away
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: from home, and Newcastle well decent form. But more importantly,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I think Isach himself has been on great form, but
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: not even not just I mean return that in the
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: last four before that he had a little bit of
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: a I think two games in a row without scoring,
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: But before that for club and country he was on
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: a roll ten or eleven and eleven something crazy like that.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: So it's been on great form for the last two
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: months or so. So I'm just gutted I didn't do
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: it for last weekend, but I will do it now.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Newcastle looking like really good kind of attack and
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: defense to invest in at the moment. Fulham as well,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: another heavily owned team. Jules one of those games that
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: it was quite actually that on UK television over here
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Fulham Neil Southampton Neil kind of kickstarted the day. No
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: goals there because all of the goals were saved for
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: the television's late game of course between the Spurs and Lipool.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Sorry Sam to mention it again, but from a Fulham
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: point of view, was not mentioning again from a Fulham
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: point of view, frustration if you invested in Brown him
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: and his because I know there was a few people
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: looking at him, but defensively again returns for Robinson, someone
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: that was heavily bought in last week.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was very solid. They were very soli defensively.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: They didn't give Southampton much and Southampton, whose new manager
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Van Euris was not on the bench because he was working,
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: was waiting for his work permit so might be on
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: the bench for the next game, was watching from the stands.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: They were always going to try to defend more than
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: anything else, and even that foodum really had enough chances
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: to win that game. And I think can be dis
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: pointed with the result in the end, But from a
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: defensive point of view, whether you had Robinson or Leno
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: castein Bassi, any of those defenders, you had a good weekend.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: One question I wanted to ask because it's something I regret.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I try to not make this pub completely about my team,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: but it's something I regret not doing. I went for Robinson.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I'm actually wondering if potentially we could have gone with
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Castana because he's a little bit cheaper. Is Robinson worth
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: the extra money?
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Would you say?
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: So?
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: I had that exact dilemma this week and in the end,
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: because I'd waited so long to make my transfers. I
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: had the news about the Tete injury, so I was
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: kind of like, well, do I want to save the
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: money or do I think that Robinson's worth the extra,
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: And in the end my decision was that I think
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: that Robinson's worth the extra. I mean, he supplied nine
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: crosses and created three chances in this game, which were
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: the most of any player in the game. So he
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: is so attacking in a way that Castano I just
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: don't think has that same level of potential return. So
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: I think if you're really really tight for budget and
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: you want to get a Fulham defender, then you can
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: absolutely go for the cheaper option. But I think sometimes
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: in FPL you have this right where you have a
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: cheaper version of the same thing, So you can get
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: the cheaper version of a Fulham defender if you want to.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: But I think every time you look at your team
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: you'll think, oh, wish that was Robinson instead. So if
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: you can find the budget, I still think Robinson is
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: the better option of the two. But if you have
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: no route to Robinson but you want to get to Fulham,
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: then you can absolutely go with Castanna instead.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, well you mentioned it before, Sam Manchester United, but
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: we haven't dived into them or I don't. I hate
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: it when this happens, when a supposed smaller club beats
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: a supposed bigger club. Well, I don't think there's any
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: arguments that Bournemouth are slightly smaller up the Manchester United.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: But I hate it when we focus too much on
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: the big club. So we will talk about Bournemouth in
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: just a moment. But firstly, Manchester United. Ammad was brought
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: in by so many managers, myself included this week. A
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: lot of people kept Fernandez like yourself, Sam for this
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: game week and at home Old Trafford. I mean, I'm
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: sure Rubin Amrim is wondering what on earth happened. I
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: know the Manchester United fans are, but from a Manchester
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: United FPL point of view, what did you take away
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: from it?
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: Sam?
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Amad the most transferred in this week and you
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: know handed me well compounded by well almost with that
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: exact transfer, right because Morgan Rogers was the most sold
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: midfielder this week and he produced his biggest ever Fantasy returns,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: so we had massive swings because of that. Yeah, Manchester United,
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: I Bournemouth have been fantastic this season, like I don't
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: think we should go into these games with the expectation
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: that Bournemouth are going to lose, because because they have
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: been really, really good and they would have gone to
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Manchester United without much fear. I think the performance by
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Manchester United was a bit was the bit that surprised
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: me the most. I mean, as a Bruno owner, I
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: was disappointed. He was seventh for extra under achievers across
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: the game week. So maybe we consider ourselves a little
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: bit unlucky that we didn't get something out of him.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: But the Bournemouth defense have been keeping semi regular clean
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: sheet and getting attack in returns. We've got Semeno, who
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: I know that a couple of weeks ago, the little
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: conversations about whether to keep him or not, a lot.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Of people sold in this game because well I think
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Sam didn't that.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah they did.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but he had four shots converted, one of them
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: gets an eight point return and that's his fifth gold
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: of the season. But that is his first return since
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: game week ten, So we do we have had to
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: be very patient with Semenno, and obviously there's been a
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: band in there as well. But yeah, I was impressed
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: by Bournemouth and I think I've got Evanilsen in my
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: team like Jules has and I can't help but feel
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: like that was one of my more rogue decisions because
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: whilst Bournemouth are playing well, we're just not getting any
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: returns from Evan Nilson, however good he looks and however
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: important he is in the team, and ever any chances
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: he's getting, he's not returning them. Whereas the defense, like Kels,
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: I know you've got Kirkez like investing on one, know
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: you did because this is the work. I think he's
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: a good option, but I do think this is the
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: team that you can go for the cheaper option and
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: it's the right thing to do, whereas a Fulham, I
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: think you want to go for the slightly more expensive one.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: At Bournemouth, I keep having to remind myself that at
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: least I'm pleased that I am invested in the Bournemouth defense,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: even if I Kirkuz was another ten to fifty nine
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: transfer a couple of saturdays ago, So at least this
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: one looks like it's it's going a little bit better.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: As Jews, how are you feeling about Evan Neilson, Because
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: I'll be honest, obviously I wasn't watching these games. It
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: was on TV over here. But when I was seeing
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Bournemouth scoring three now, I thought, oh gosh, the guys
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: have got Evan Nielsen. Not to get any returns is
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: getting pretty frustrating for you, isn't it.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah? It is, And I think he played well and
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: like we mentioned earlier, he had that great ball that
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: led to the third goal from Samenio from him to
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Wait who then crossed the ball. But he's very important,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: I think in a lot of things that they do,
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: and that game we saw it at our traffords. But overall, yeah,
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: it just doesn't have that fish and see. I think
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: in front of goals to get regular points returned, which
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: is for us, is disappointing and a bit frustrating, to
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: be fair. So I think, especially if Kunya is not
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: suspended for the next game of for now, if I
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: can move it and listen to get to eastside, which
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: I think is possible, then That's what I'm going to do.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: But but you know that evanation we score again, it's
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: just it's it's true, but it's just you there would
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: not have been that consistency. There hasn't been like that
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: since the start of the season is not going to
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: change now. Uh so, And again I think the Bournemouth
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: style and and football is not just built for him,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: so inspite of a great collective and a lot of
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: players can screed. Yeah, great for that so as Yeah,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: it was a bit of a like a pun for
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: us to I think for Sam and I when we
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: did it to invest in him. He obviously got the
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: three penalties just the the game before we brought him in.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: But but yeah, this is a team that is very
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: much built collectively, not just for their striker.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: To accept, I want in on the Bournemouth attack and
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I don't think I want in on ever kneels. For
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: all the reasons we've just spoken about, it is making
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: me relook at so many of it. Sam, who is
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: the best option there?
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: If you want, do you think it's Clive?
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: I'm starting I was going to say that is a
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: big That is a big factor, isn't it when we
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: look at players in FPL Is he the best option that?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: And also is he I can say is he the
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: best option? But also like is he a viable option
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: given the other options that we're all from other teams
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: in the field, that we're all looking at.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean midfield's harder, right because there's so many
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: options that you want to go to. But for me,
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: one of the key the key things I look at
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: is root to points and if they have penalties, that's
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: a massive ticking a box for them. So as many
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: penalty takers as I can get in my team, I do.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: And so Cliver kind of fits that that category is
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: paying in a really nice attacking Bournemouth side. They're winning
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: plenty of penalties, he's taking and converting all of those
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: penalties and he's a nice cheap option as well. So
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: I think at a point where maybe we're about to
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: have a midfielder slot freed up, why not free up
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: a lot of money drop down to Cliver and then
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: have that money to invest in the attack, because then
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: we can build an attack that's a bit like Charlie's
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: who you mentioned in the Pop Mini League, where it's
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: got big hitters across the board and you can have
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: an Esac and a Jackson in a slanky because you've
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: downgraded one of your midfielders. So I do like THEI
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Clive up pick. I think if I was gonna invest
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: in the Bournemouth midfield that's how I would go.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'm very sorry if we haven't mentioned your
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: team winning here, So sorry to notting and Forest fans
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: for ending Brentford's remarkable record at home. Big return there
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: for Ana of course, sorry to Aston Villa as well,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: and sorry, I don't know if I'm sorry to Chelsea
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: and Everton, but if you didn't score any goals, you
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: don't really deserve mention on the pod though Everton's defense
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: are looking very solid, and I wish I hadn't mentioned
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Mikaelenko and maybe we should invest him again.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Say so, why does Kelly doesn't trust me? What's the
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: problem we're going.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: To have to briefly talk about They even know I
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: was trying to move us on, but Sam, when you've
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: got Cole Palmer coming to town and Jackson unfortunately. Also,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: congratulations Everton fans. I keep mentioning Micklenko on every week
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: I bench him. You get a clean sheet, so you've
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: actually not Never mind thanking fan Sean Die she's number two.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Never mind this assistant manager he hired.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: You, he spent some of his.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Making a difference already.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: And also I don't want to talk about this because
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: we need to move on to soccer replacements. But just quickly, Jeels,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: we're all investing in this Chelsea attack, but actually should
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: we be listening looking at the Chelsea defense. Okay, thank
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: you for going along with the quick next this podcast,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: what about the Everton defense then, Sam, because all of
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: a sudden when we come everybody also someone text me
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: all the day. The favorite line on the pod last
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: week was I called you to a pair of losers
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: and I've just told you to shut up as well.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: I'm getting a bit I'm getting a bit rude. Sorry, guys.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: It's Christmas as well, so it should be nice. And
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: the Everton defense, soo, Sam, we can joke about being
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: benching them all the light. The reason I've been helding
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Miklenko is because I know that in a few game
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: weeks he's not just going to be a bench option.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Their fixtures do get nicer and they're getting the form
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: to back it up.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: I think I said to you last week, like I
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: actually you, I think you're talking about selling him, and
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: I was like, no, hold him because in a couple
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: of weeks time, everyone's going to be wanting to go there.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be looking at Mikleenko in a couple
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: of weeks time. Maybe Ashley Young, but probably Micheleenko. I
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: just think that at the moment we've gone back to
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: Sean Diysh's I can get my team to defend and
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: keep clean sheets. That's back to back clean sheets now
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: against like two of the best attacks in the league
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: in Arsenal and Chelsea. So I'm not sure how I
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: feel about their fixture on Boxing Day, They're the early kickoff. No,
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: Ashley Young he suspended and it's against Manchester City, so maybe.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I am benching him again.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: Just to clarify, Yeah, that's a guaranteed, so guarantee, guaranteed, guaranteed.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, Can I move on now or is just going
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: to try? Are we going to try and throw any
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: other teams?
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: No?
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you for letting me move on, and
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: let's talk about Paya Zacher. I've promised it. I've teased
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: it for the majority of the podcast.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Now this isn't good news, is it really? For us
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: FPR managers? Because of course, Sack went off in the
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: first half against Crystal Palace. Michel Art said postmatch he
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: felt something in his hamstring. He couldn't continue he'll have
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: to be assessed. So I'm really worried about that one.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Never mind you being worried about it, Michel, I am
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: worried Jeweles. He's owned by forty two point of the game.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: He is the fourth most owned player in the game.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Myself and Sam own him. You don't own him, do you.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Actually this is probably all right news. He did, Okay,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: So it's treble whammy of bad news for us on this.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Podcast, absolutely ever since I brought him in because as well,
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: so actually maybe need Oh it's my fault. Now what
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: do we do though, Jeels, that's a great question. Sorry,
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: left graving cottage on stretches on crutches.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Did you say stretchers, Yeah, reach like on crutches.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: That's what I meant. Left on crutches, which is never
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: good news. Although it doesn't mean too much. It just
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: made it might just mean like precaution not to put
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: any weight on his leg. But you could see his
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: face as soon as he went down really early on,
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: after twenty minutes in that game. I said, I said
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: the craving cottages as well. I meant obviously, Oh.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I didn't even know palace. They could have left craving Cottage.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Maybe he took a dtail there.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe right now on the on the game is
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: the yellow flight with seventy five percent chances of playing
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: on the twenty seventh against it switch at the Emirates.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: I think that's pretty optimistic.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Why did it have to be ahead of such a
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: good fixture.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Well, although to be fair, at least have someone played
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Saturday and then don't play until the twenty seven. So
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: it's not like if they were boxing. At least they
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: will have twenty four hours more than the ones who
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: play on Boxing day. But I still think that it
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: won't feature. They won't take any risks now, there's no
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: point taking any risk anyway. Also because the offense to ipswich,
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: but it is on a Hipswich coming to Emerk So
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: but it's true if it'd been maybe a City or Liverpool,
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: they would have tried anything they could to get him
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: ready for that right now, just give him some resk,
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: give him some time. As we said, the three games
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: very close now and as long as you can be
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: back maybe for the second or the third one, that'd
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: be good. So I would hold and bench him instead
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: of selling. But if you want to sell, as long
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: as you keep the money in the bank to bring
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: him back almost as soon as as when he's fit again,
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: then that's fine as well.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: It's really tough actually, because we're waiting for news, but
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: his price already went down overnight, Sam, which suggests that
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: people want to get that money out of him and
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: moving more. It's frustrating because obviously you keep the money.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: So obviously if you brought him for ten point two,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: for example, and he's now ten point six, then you
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: get to sell him for ten point four. He went
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: down to ten point five overnight, which then means that
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: he goes down a point one for when you sell him,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: which is exactly what happened to me with the money
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: I had invested in him. But I knew that was
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: going to happen last night. I could see that he
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: was being sold on mass, but I didn't want to
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: sell him because AA wants a little bit more information.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Be jeors.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: If he isn't out for as long, we're going to
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: want him back all of a sudden, and it's going
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: to cost me to bring him back. And see, I
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: just don't know who to bring in for him, and
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: it scares me not to be not to have Arsenal
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: cover in attack going into that Ipswich game, what do
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: you think we should do and who should we be
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: bringing in if we are looking to get rid.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: It's difficult because I think if there's two ways of
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: looking at it, you either go, okay, I've got to
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: sell Szaka, but I'm going to stay invested in Arsenal
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: because it's switched up next. So I'm going to go
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: for one of the other Arsenal midfielders, whether that be
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: an edit Guard or a Martinelli or Trossard if you like.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: Or you could take a bit of a differential punt
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: on Deck and Rice if you like, because if we
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: set peace threat and they're going to be even more
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: important without soccer on the other side, so you have
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: that option, or you go, okay, I'm going to look
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: outside Arsenal for the next few weeks. I'm going to
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: pick on somebody that's got a really nice block of fixtures,
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: so you could over the next three weeks if you're
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: feel in particularly brave, go okay, well I'll go for
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Phone and then or somebody along that line, because the
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: man City fixtures are great for the next three weeks,
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: and if you're only planning to have for a limited
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: period of time because you know ultimately you want to
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: go back to soccer. Maybe that's an option that's worth
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: looking at, Bruno amad you could go with one of
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: those two the Spurs boys that I talked about at
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: the beginning, by one I really like for this week
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: because it's Southampton, but then there's a couple of really
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: dodgy fixtures against man City and Liverpool to come after that.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: I am going to sell soccer because why didn't you
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: do it last night? That is because I was still
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: raging about Spurs last night. I'm going to sell soccer.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: I didn't do it last night because I don't know
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: who four yet.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: And that's why you don't want to rush into such
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: a big decision like that, do you exactly? Because for
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: me at ten point five now, that's too much money
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: to hold indefinitely on a bench when I don't really
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: know what's happening with him. So I'm going to sell
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: him and I'm going to use the money to upgrade
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: my forward line. And I get what Jews is saying
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: about leave the money in the bank. But until we
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: have more information about soccer and how bad the injury
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: is or not, and hopefully it's or not and he
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: can come back into my team quicker. But if he's
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: going to be out for a month four it won't
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: be a month but four games because they come so
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: thick and fast. But over four games you can make
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: ten point five million and massively work for you. But Sammy,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: you're not worry The thing that worries me is that
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: if you then spread that money into your forward line,
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: for example, it's going to be really hard to get
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: him back if all of a sudden, this injury isn't
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: as bad as first feed. Yeah, but I think there's
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: always somebody that you can sell, Like in my team,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: I've got Bruno there, so worst case scenario. My thought
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: process was, well, if I sell Socca and say I
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: use the money from Soccer to go down to a
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: mid priced Ish midfielder and then use that money to
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: upgrade Jow Pedro or Evan Nilsen, whichever one I decided
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: to upgrade to Anysac or a Jack, then somebody in
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: that ballpark. It's not that hard to get from Bruno
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Fernandez up to Soakka.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: It would be difficult to get from my new six
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: ish million midfielder. But it's not that hard to get
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: from Bruno Fernandez. Just come down somewhere else and that
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: give me the budget to go up because I'm not
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: going to spend all of that money upgrading my forward line,
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: if that makes sense. So I don't think it's that
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: hard to get from Bruno back up to Socca.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: It's just you do have to have a plan. I
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: think you can't just do it blind down.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: And keep some free transfers you don't want.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: No, if you.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Were doors, if you were wanting to stay with Arsenal,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: say you've decided you really need some playing playing Arsenal
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: attacker and Bucuyosaka is not, and you're going to do
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: what Sam said. Bacayosaka, you don't think he's going to feature,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: so you're going to sell him and you're going to
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: reinvest elsewhere. Would you stay in the Arsenal midfield? Are
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: there other options that you think gives you points? Or
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: gabrielle Jozus's price went up one Sunday night. Would you
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: be tempted to look at him? Does it look like
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: he's back? Obviously we saw his returns of the get
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: back to his best.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think it's great. When you score
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: five goals in two games, it's good. It's good for you,
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: it's great momentum, it's great boost of confidence, it's good
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: for your team. It gives another option to make who can,
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: for example, play a ha. It's a bit deeper if
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: he wants to, like we saw against Palace, which you
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: give away a little bit of control because you would
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: have more control with rights and midfield instead of habits
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: for example. But you gain much more when you have
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: the ball going forward. And we still have a scoring
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: as well as gabriege Jesis in that game. So that
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: was very interesting. It'll be like the suppose ideas combo.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: We had the harves Garbrige Jesuses combo as well on
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Saturday for us On that worked really really well in possession,
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: not so much of position. But so that's interesting. The
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: thing is, oh, the guard that's blank for the last
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: four games now four game weeks, which is still marchin
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: of the guard, and it's still be very important. And
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: he will take the corners and set peace on the
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Saka side and rights on the other side because they
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: need an in swinger, so he would be him, so
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: that that could be interesting, but he still has blanked
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: for four game in a row. Now, Martinelli is a
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: bit hit and miss too, and yet he scored and
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: did Ocare did well against Palace, and I guess he
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: could also be a replacement for Socca as a right
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: winger like we saw in the Palace game. Trossa is
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: a bit hit and missed as well, so it's a
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: little bit difficult. You could go and douvelop at the
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: back with Ryan one of the defenders for his blog
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: to defenders, Timber, Gabrielle, Gabret, Saliba, whatever. But if you
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: want an Arsenal attacker to cover for Socca, if you
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: sell him, then I guess maybe oh the guard is
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: your best option. But I'm not convinced by either older
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: Guard Martinelli, Trossar Harved or Gabriel Jesus is either for now.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Okay, great, not my promise, No, it's all right. We
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: weren't on to still on this podcast, Okay, So it's
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: quite interesting as well. We've got two kind of size.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: I haven't decided what I'm doing yet, but we obviously
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: got one Socker holder and one Soca seller, so be
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: interesting to see what everyone else does and if his
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Price continues to full keep an eye out. I don't
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: know if Mikelte is going to have a press.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Conference jels, I don't.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah today I think.
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: Is it stright?
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Okay, So man, it's definitely worth listening to what Michelotte
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: says that. Of course we've in here before with Michael
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Arteta in his soccer comments, haven't we. Though it did
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: sound like he was a bit bit more kind of
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: brutally honest after that game on Saturday. So yeah, but
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: I I osaka keep an eye on his fitness as
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: always we run over on the podcast. We were hoping
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: to have a big overview look at the festive week
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: but let's be honest, we can barely keep the FPL
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: pod into the FPL pod let alone when we try
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: and make the off the bench as well, but we do.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: I feel like it will be REMISSI us Sam not
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: to just quickly mention Manchester City because we talked about, well,
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: we glossed over their defeats to Aston Villa at the weekend,
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: and we use the fixture ticker a lot, particularly this
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: time of year, I find because it's really relevant because
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: it kind of the fixtures are supplice close together it
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: kind of tells us what not only a team's long
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: run is. But like the next two weeks, City are
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: actually top of the fixture ticker At the moment, I
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: can't even consider investing in them because the form just
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: isn't there. Can you or do we just have to
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: at the moment go until we see any glimmers of
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: light from pepside. We kind of have to ignore this
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: fixture ticker in the fact they're top.
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's weird, isn't it, because the next three
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: fixtures Everton, Leicester and west Ham. In any other fprcas
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: you just go invest, but not just invest. It'd be
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: like Harlem plus two more and you just treble up
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: and you try and absolutely get as many points as
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: you can from the next few weeks. But Everton have
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: become peak defense again over the last couple of weeks,
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: So would it surprise.
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: You for sure?
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: And diice to park a bus, particularly as man City
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: aren't scoring a lot of goals now. The one thing
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: I will say is that that phone and goal was
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: a bit more of the phone that I am used
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: to watching at the weekend, but still not a great
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: performance from Manchester City. So it's difficult. I'm not going
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: for Harlem because the budget thing is too much. I
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: can't work out how I do and there's no.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Form there to get there.
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: There's no form.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: I did have a moment on Saturday where I thought,
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: when Saka got injured, where I thought maybe a pump
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: on a man City midfielder because it's literally just going
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: to be a temporary thing. But I've been there once
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: already this season with Phoning and it didn't end well.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: So I'm kind of looking at it thinking I'm not
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: really sure where i'd go. So for me, I'm just
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: not going to have any Man City, which feels mad
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: when you look at the fixtures, But I just don't
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: know how I would invest, and that particularly worries me
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: for Game Week nineteen in the Leicester fixture, with the
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: way that Leicester have been conceding goals. But right now
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: it's tough to know who the best Man City asset
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: to go to is to cover out this period.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, just to mark your card in case you haven't
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: checked the fixture ticker recently and you don't want to
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: invest in Manchester City. Just behind them, it's Chelsea, Southampton,
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Spurs and Liverpool behind them on the ticker. So yeah,
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: maybe a couple of teams there Spurs as well, if
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: you fancy it, and if you're as optimistic as Sam
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: to maybe.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Investing and come on to Mystic.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: There's suspension site Rover quick check in there just to
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: let you know that Nico Williams, Morsey, Pakeetta, Dominguez and
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Young all picked up their fifth yellow cards of the season.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: They're now suspended. In game week eighteen, Max Corne ineligible
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: to face his parent club on Boxing Day two. Okay,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Differential of the Week Sam one last week with kudos
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: nine points. Jorge Charda got two points.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: The worst pick. He was dreadful in that games just
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: for him terrible.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, it doesn't mean that you have to go
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: second on differential pick as well. So Sam over to you.
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: I actually had two and I can't decide which one
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: I prefer.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Do you want to Jews go next, Jews go first?
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: Then a great one, great one this week.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Really worse than last week.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true, that's true. My pick this week for
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: differential is John duran was there one of yours? No good?
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: I mean he scored again, returned in the last three.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: Now seven points five points eight points only on by
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: four point two percent of the managers. It would cost
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: five point eight million, so it's really cheap compared to
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: some of the other four wards that you could look at.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: And he's just on fire. And I know before he
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: was a super SEP, so it was hard for us
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: to invest in him because because it's a super SEP,
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: so he would get five minutes, twenty minutes, fifty we
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: never knew for sure. And now it seems to be
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: the starter ahead of Ali Watkins and delivering as well
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: every time he starts now, so really really impressed with him.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: They have Newcastle which's nine easy game, and then Brighton
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: and Lester, so it's not one just for this game
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: we're coming, but more for the next three easily. But yeah,
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: I just think that he brings something very different, all
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: that energy that left for his great the physicality him
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: and Rogers get on, I think much better than Rogers
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: and Watkins ever did so far this season. And I
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: think that is something that I am also noticed. So yeah,
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: John d run for me.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: Okay, Sammy on a bit of a roll with these,
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: aren't you. It's not going too badly at the moment,
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: and these two, I think both could. So I had
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: Deck and Rice and Jotta this week, so I think
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: I'm going to go for Diego Jota. So he's seven
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: point two million, so a little bit more expensive, but
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: still not ridiculous. And if you've got a sacker spot
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: on your team could fill it quite nicely. He's only
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: own by three point two million, and there is a
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: risk here. It is risky him because he is very
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: much being eased back in gently. He got eleven minutes
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: against philm in game week seventeen. In that one, obviously,
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: he scores the goal and gets two bonus points.
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: That was nice.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: Gets twenty two minutes against Spurs in game week seventeen.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: I'm expecting him to start a game over Christmas, it's
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: just which one. I'm hoping it'll be this one because
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: obviously it's against a lesser side of conceded fourteen goals
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: in their last five game weeks. So he could definitely
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: return well in this one if he gets minutes. Even
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: if he doesn't start and just comes on for sort
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: of thirty five forty minutes in this one, I still
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: think he could do well over the course of the season.
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: Seventeen attempts on goal created six chances and he's been
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: out for a while, so yeah, I kind of I
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: don't know if I've picked the right one, but we'll
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: go with Jotta anyway because I like that fiction more.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, nice couple of differentials their transfers and captains. There's
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: not a chance that George has thought about this, considering
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: there's Christmas Eve, He's probably he's probably not done his
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: Christmas shopping yet, his Christmas.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Day, Christmas and day exactly. I've gone transfers and captains.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: No. I tried to get to his sack, and I
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: love Salas captain. I don't think I don't think you
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: can take take the armbue off him.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah okay, oh wow, that was more decisile than I expected. Sam,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: I'm going to sell soccer. I don't know who for definitely, Yeah, yeah.
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: Unless unless Artista comes out and says no, it's fine,
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: he's going to play.
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: I'm going to sell soccer four.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: This is the hard of it of the question.
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: This is the hard of it, and this is why
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: I didn't do it last night, because I don't know,
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: Like part of me wants to go Jotter or Das
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: and target that fixture at Liverpool, but it's working out
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: which one is the right one, and it's a bit risky.
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: I did ponder on doubling up with Kulisvski and Selanky,
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: but that also felt like too much given its forest
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: and forests are actually really good defensively, so I don't
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: think I want to go there. I like Bowen for
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: this week, but I don't like him for the two
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: that follow. So basically this is why I didn't make
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: the transfer last night. I've got to make a decision
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: and go. I might just go really cheap, might come
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: right down in price point and free up a load
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: of money.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, enjoy that you said that you put on
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: the last podcast that over Christmas you actually focus on
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: your kids and you make your transfer and you don't
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: focus on it on Christmas Day. But I get the
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: feeling that Sam might beat in a turkey making an
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: FBL transfer under the table this year, giving the amount
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: of options she seems to have there. Yeah, I haven't
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: got clue what I'm going to do yet either, because
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: I'm waiting on news for Kunya. So I could have
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: really done without that book. I sacker injury plus of course,
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: something were we mentioned Mikolenko. I've got some defenders with
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: some not such nice fixtures as well, so I haven't
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: made any points hits recently, but potentially there could be
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: one on the cards, so.
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: Stay points here.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm hoping that Santa kind of maybe delivers me
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: a lot of FPL points so the points the points
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: hit doesn't feel quite so bad. A reminder, then, guys,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: your deadline is eleven am, ninety minutes ahead of the
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: twelve thirty kickoff between Manchester City and Everton on Boxing Day.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: We're going to be back.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: On Saturday, that is, the twenty eighth of December, as
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: we'll be looking back on Game Week nineteen. The deadlines
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: do come thick and fast, so do what I always say,
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: put your alarms on. I know your family m are
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: not appreciate it, but your FPL team certainly well. The
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: Fantasy Show is going to be back with Ian today
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: on Monday, and he'll also be back with you on
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Friday as well, so plenty of FPL content for you there.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: I'll then be back on The Fantasy Show in the
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: new year because I unfortunately can't make it this week,
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: but we'll be back as I said on Saturday. Have
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: a wonderful Christmas if you are celebrating as I said.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: If not, we hope you get lots of FPL points regardless.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to us, and we'll see you on Saturday.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: Guys.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Bybye,