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S9 Ep9: FPL Pod: Wildcard time? · FPL Pod

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Speaker 1: I'm going to let the listeners in on a little
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Speaker 1: secret before we go any further here. We've just had
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Speaker 1: a debate before we started recording as to whether we
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Speaker 1: actually enjoyed the last game week. And we don't say
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Speaker 1: that very often because regular listeners will know we love FPL.
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Speaker 1: We love this podcast. But oh my goodness, what a
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Speaker 1: low scoring game week. I have not been looking forward
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Speaker 1: to coming on and talking about it.
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Speaker 2: My lowest game week score ever.
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Speaker 3: Is that bad?
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Speaker 1: Yes, but I think it was a disaster for most
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Speaker 1: of us, wasn't it, Sam? Offer me some kind of
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Speaker 1: comfort here.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I also think that partly because the previous
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Speaker 4: game week was so good and the scores were so
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Speaker 4: high that when you go from one extreme to the other,
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Speaker 4: it feels like even worse.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, it was a really difficult week, wasn't it?
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Speaker 4: And it was kind of like, at one point I
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Speaker 4: was thinking, am I actually going to score any points
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Speaker 4: this whole weekend? Or are we just going to have
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Speaker 4: a whole team of just twos? But a couple of
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Speaker 4: them did decide that they wanted to return.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations on a couple. I only had one. Oh, Ed too.
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Speaker 2: So maybe I'm one.
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Speaker 1: Oh, what a disaster.
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Speaker 2: At least you captured him.
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Speaker 3: But then we say that, but the average score is
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Speaker 3: actually quite high. It's 47 or 48 points considering Arsenal blanked,
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Speaker 3: Chelsea blanked. I know, but if you look at game
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Speaker 3: week three, for example, the average was 51, but you know,
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Speaker 3: We played that triple captain, so it's a bit different.
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Speaker 3: But at least more people kind of returned in that
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Speaker 3: game week. I really thought, before seeing the average for
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Speaker 3: all the players in the world for the last game week,
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Speaker 3: I thought this is going to be really low, like
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Speaker 3: in the 20s, because as we said, Chelsea blank, Bruno blank,
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Speaker 3: Arsenal blank. Obviously, Haaland only scored one goal. So even
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Speaker 3: if he was your captain, so unless you had one
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Speaker 3: of the high performers, which I didn't expect so many
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Speaker 3: people to have, I thought the average is going to
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Speaker 3: be quite low here. And actually, the average is really high,
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Speaker 3: I think, for such a difficult game week.
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Speaker 4: But I think there was players like Pascal Gross, who
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Speaker 4: was really highly transferred in last week, who returns again,
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Speaker 4: holds the game week up. Plus there was quite a
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Speaker 4: few free hits activated in the last sort of few
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Speaker 4: days of last week. So I do think that if
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Speaker 4: you got on the right players, like there was a
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Speaker 4: lot of people deciding to go for an Everton defender,
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Speaker 4: for example, on that free hit. And of course, then
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Speaker 4: if you've got Tarkovsky or Branthwaite or something like that, that's.
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Speaker 2: Holding you up as well.
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Speaker 4: And really only took having one of those players that
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Speaker 4: got double-digit return, and then you're at 40, 47. So
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Speaker 4: I think that's part of the reason for it, but
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Speaker 4: there's a lot of managers that have had really difficult weeks. Like, Kels,
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Speaker 4: you think yours is bad. Well, even worse than us two,
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Speaker 4: to be honest, Jules. There's a lot that are in
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Speaker 4: the teams, like, of the really good FPL managers. So
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Speaker 4: it's just sometimes those weeks happen.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's discuss exactly these awful scores that we're
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Speaker 1: talking about. Jules, as we said, didn't have a bad
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Speaker 1: game week at all, really, 47. I would have absolutely
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Speaker 1: bitten your hand off for that. And Sam got 33.
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Speaker 1: I got, actually, I thought I got 24.
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Speaker 3: I got 28.
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Speaker 1: So it's a little bit better than I thought. It's
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Speaker 1: got worse and worse. I thought about it in my head.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, 28. I think the main painful thing for
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Speaker 1: me was lack of returns. And then my bench got
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Speaker 1: 11 points. And my first sub, it was the most
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Speaker 1: FPL thing ever, wasn't it, Sam? To make your first sub,
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Speaker 1: Sangari at home, when Brentford win in the manner that
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Speaker 1: they do, When we play our Chelsea attackers, in the hope,
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Speaker 1: of course, that Pedro starts, he doesn't. And then Sangare
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Speaker 1: comes off the bench for zero. What is going on, man?
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Speaker 4: No, and that was the moment, I think. As soon
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Speaker 4: as I saw the Brentford team line up and he
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Speaker 4: wasn't in it, I thought.
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Speaker 4: Oh, this is going to be a hard week because
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Speaker 4: then I'm, and then I'm relying on, I had Konza
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Speaker 4: as my second sub. So then I'm thinking, well, maybe
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Speaker 4: it won't be so bad. Maybe Arsenal keep a clean
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Speaker 4: sheet against Brighton. Then Sangari comes off the bench. So
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Speaker 4: I was like, right, well, okay. We're just, we're hoping
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Speaker 4: for what it is. He gets a yellow card, ends
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Speaker 4: up with zero. So zero points coming off the bench
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Speaker 4: at a time where a lot of managers have Pascal
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Speaker 4: Gross coming off their bench.
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Speaker 2: That was really tough to handle. And then of course.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Standard Jules jamming behavior.
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Speaker 3: Planning absolutely planning and vision his vision I knew he
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Speaker 3: was going to do something great I knew he was
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Speaker 3: going to do something great I knew Joel Pedro would
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Speaker 3: not play but you know it's like this is what
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Speaker 3: we do at my level.
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Speaker 4: At my level and then I had Bobby Thomas who
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Speaker 4: I wasn't expecting to do anything as my third sub
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Speaker 4: so who got nine points so it was just one
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Speaker 4: of those weeks but I must admit when Van Heck
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Speaker 4: headed in that consolation goal for Spurs I thought that
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Speaker 4: might be actually helpful to me because that was my
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Speaker 4: other return that I had this week. So Harlem with,
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Speaker 4: with a goal, Van Heck with a goal and everyone
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Speaker 4: else on twos and yeah, really, really difficult week, but.
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Speaker 2: We just move on from it.
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Speaker 4: And it's one of those, isn't it? Where at least
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Speaker 4: it happens early. It happens sometimes you just have a
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Speaker 4: week that doesn't go particularly well. So we can now
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Speaker 4: move on and, and get a better one in game
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Speaker 4: week six when we finally get back to it.
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Speaker 1: Jules, explain where all your points came from, because people
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Speaker 1: have already listened. It's a bit confused. Pascal Gross being
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Speaker 1: a big one of them, of course.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, 14. Yeah, of course, of course. And I didn't
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Speaker 3: expect him to have, obviously, that kind of game. I
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Speaker 3: didn't expect Brighton to be so perfect, pretty much, against Arsenal.
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Speaker 3: But they were, and he was, again, excellent. I think
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Speaker 3: he's been the Premier League best player so far this season.
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Speaker 3: He is the best player in the game, too, to
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Speaker 3: be fair, the one with the highest points. So, credit
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Speaker 3: to him. Then I had Lamens with four, because he
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Speaker 3: had to make a lot of saves for United away
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Speaker 3: at Fulham. I had Vardol, with an assist, despite conceding
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Speaker 3: the three goals against Sunderland. But Valjean has been consistent
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Speaker 3: with that, you know, with those kind of assists. We
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Speaker 3: saw that in the derby. We saw that even previously.
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Speaker 2: It's every week, isn't it? I think.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much, yeah. Iliman Ndiaye with five points with
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Speaker 3: an assist that is not an assist. And to be fair,
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Speaker 3: I've been quite vocal, as you know, on the show
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Speaker 3: about those. And even for me, that benefited me. But
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Speaker 3: I don't think Ndiaye should get an assist because he
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Speaker 3: gets a foul. that then Enzo scores a great free
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Speaker 3: kick to score that goal and then NDI gets the assist.
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Speaker 3: For me, it just doesn't add up. It could have
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Speaker 3: been slightly better because I have Wissar who missed the
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Speaker 3: penalty for Newcastle. But yeah, overall 47 with really one, two, three, four,
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Speaker 3: five players, if you can, Haaland as well, that returned.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's move on because we've done that. But the
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Speaker 1: good thing is now, well, we've got a couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks to stew on it. Not so good. But the
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Speaker 1: good thing is we've got plenty of time to plan
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Speaker 1: and make it all better. We'll check in on the
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Speaker 1: FPL Pod Mini League very quickly. Let's see if you
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Speaker 1: guys had as tough a game week as us. Probably not.
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Speaker 1: Nils Arvind Nordberg, sorry if I'm not saying that correctly.
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Speaker 1: I'm hoping I am. They are still at the top,
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Speaker 1: got 61 points, which is incredible. And that's despite captaining
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Speaker 1: Bruno Fernandes, who of course blanked. He had both Gross
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Speaker 1: and Tarkovsky's 14-point returns and also had holes from Sharda
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Speaker 1: and Isak. He also benched Trafford's 10-point return. Alex Dawson
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Speaker 1: moved from 19th spot up into second. Alex played the
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Speaker 1: triple captain on Harland, registering 77 points. Like Nils, Alex
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Speaker 1: had Tarkovsky and Gross as well as Barnes. He did
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Speaker 1: also bench Dick Kuiper's six points. Philippe Patapa had a
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Speaker 1: great week going from 11th into third. He got 72
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Speaker 1: points without a chip. He had Hall, Sharda, Shirky, Gross, Gavardio,
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Speaker 1: Barry and Harland as his captain. Chris Todd in fourth
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Speaker 1: also had a massive climb up. from 51st up to 4th, wow,
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Speaker 1: in our league. It reminds us the code is Q0HV1Q
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Speaker 1: if you do want to join. Okay, then let's dive
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Speaker 1: into a little bit more behind that torrid, torrid game
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Speaker 1: week and kind of just work out where it all
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Speaker 1: went wrong, really. And I think the most obvious place
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Speaker 1: to start is the Arsenal result, Jules, against Brighton because,
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's been a lot of fallout since, hasn't there?
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Speaker 1: And I'm sure Arsenal, Mikel Arteta, will just want to
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Speaker 1: park it and hope it's a one-off. And I guess
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Speaker 1: as FPL managers, we kind of have to view it
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Speaker 1: in the same way, would you say?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. Because, I mean, pretty much everybody would have
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Speaker 3: either two Arsenal players or three, like a lot of us,
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Speaker 3: whether that's two defenders, like Conce and Calafiori that I have,
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Speaker 3: for example, or some even coupled up defensively with Raya too.
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Speaker 3: Or if you have another guard, Saka, Havertz, you know, Solis,
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Speaker 3: whoever you want. It was just a bad day at
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Speaker 3: the office. They were beaten in the intensity, for sure.
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Speaker 3: Brighton were very, very clinical, super efficient, especially in the
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Speaker 3: first two goals that they scored outside of the box
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Speaker 3: from Gross and Kosulas. And it was just one of
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Speaker 3: those games where I think you try to move on
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Speaker 3: very quickly from an Arsenal point of view. And from
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Speaker 3: our point of view, that doesn't mean sell one or
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Speaker 3: two or all of your Arsenal sets at all, even
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Speaker 3: with quite a tough game, although at home against Leeds
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Speaker 3: when we come back after the international break. But it
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Speaker 3: was just one to forget, I think.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Okay. So in terms of our Arsenal assets, don't
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Speaker 1: panic just yet. In terms of Brighton, Sam, I'm going
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Speaker 1: the opposite way. I'm going all in.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. Brighton is just.
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Speaker 4: I have a Bruggen who obviously I benched this week because,
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Speaker 4: you know, of course you did that.
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Speaker 2: But it doesn't feel like enough anymore.
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Speaker 4: Obviously, at the beginning of the season, I kind of
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Speaker 4: felt like it was a 50-50 choice between going for
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Speaker 4: Sangari or going for Pascal Gross. And of course, I
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Speaker 4: went with Sangari in game week one. That looked okay
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Speaker 4: ever since it's looked like the wrong decision. But now
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Speaker 4: they're increasingly looking good to Kalpa with attacking threat. You've
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Speaker 4: got Vuskovic who's playing incredibly well, picking up defensive contributions regularly.
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Speaker 4: It just feels like almost trebling up on Brighton is
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Speaker 4: the way to go because they're super cheap as well.
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Speaker 4: So it's not like you're going to have to spend
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Speaker 4: loads of money on them. So going for Verbruggen alongside
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Speaker 4: either a De Kalper, who of course has taken a
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Speaker 4: load of price rises, or Vuskovic, who I think is
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Speaker 4: actually where I'd go now, given we're getting some news
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Speaker 4: about Matoma coming back. I think if I was going
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Speaker 4: to invest now in a defender, I think it would
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Speaker 4: be him. And then Pascal Gross feels like, just a
9:44
Speaker 4: bit of an essential pick now. And the move from
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Speaker 4: Sangari over to him just feels like a bit of
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Speaker 4: a no brainer because every week you don't expect it
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Speaker 4: to be a Brighton player that's kind of killing your
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Speaker 4: rank every week. They're not normally the ones that are
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Speaker 4: doing that. Normally it's like, oh, I haven't got Saka and,
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Speaker 4: you know, he scored a brace or I haven't got
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Speaker 4: Palmer and and he's he's done whatever he's done whereas
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Speaker 4: this time around it's always like okay well Brian have
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Speaker 4: scored again if it's Pascal Grace that's going to have
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Speaker 4: a really negative impact on me and at the price
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Speaker 4: point he is it just feels a bit silly to
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Speaker 4: just not go and get him and and deal with
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Speaker 4: that so that in the future we don't have that
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Speaker 4: as an issue.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the transfer. I did a rage transfer
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Speaker 1: on Friday night. I was like, before any prices change here,
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Speaker 1: I need to sort this out because it can't go on.
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Speaker 1: Sangarese had one real proper return of the season and
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Speaker 1: I benched that. So yeah, time to get rid very much.
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Speaker 1: I think the other big story was a lot of
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Speaker 1: people piled in on Nottingham Forest, didn't they, against Coventry
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Speaker 1: and what a result for Coventry. People went in big.
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Speaker 1: There was a lot of interest, wasn't there, in Morgan
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Speaker 1: Gibbs-White and also people went for a defender as well.
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Speaker 1: Do we still hold our Forest assets if you have
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Speaker 1: gone there, Jules?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought they were a bit unlucky. They've got
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Speaker 3: this goal rule out for Igor Jesus towards the end.
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Speaker 3: They actually didn't concede that much. It's a great goal
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Speaker 3: by Silva in the way he took it, the pass
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Speaker 3: from Rushworth, which we don't have often goalkeepers with assists,
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Speaker 3: but they're beautiful to see when they happen. But I
11:10
Speaker 3: still think that what Glasner is building there with the Munoz,
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Speaker 3: for example, if you like him like we do, even
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Speaker 3: with Gibbs White, probably with a centre-back too, I still
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Speaker 3: think he's quite positive going forward, certainly. So I think
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Speaker 3: I would keep. But I know a lot of people
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Speaker 3: on free hits, I think invested quite a lot on
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Speaker 3: Forrest because he was also Coventry, because he was at home.
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Speaker 3: And in the end, you get disappointed. But I still
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Speaker 3: think that there's a couple of players there that are
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Speaker 3: worth investing in.
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Speaker 1: Sam, do you agree?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
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Speaker 4: I think obviously if you free hit it, they'll disappear
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Speaker 4: from your team, but I still think they look like
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Speaker 4: a team to invest in. The fixtures are nice as
11:51
Speaker 4: well for Nottingham Forest. They've got a decent run coming up.
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Speaker 4: So I think, yeah, Munoz or Williams, even Sells, if
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Speaker 4: you're looking for a new goalkeeper, Gibbs-White, don't mind the
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Speaker 4: Igor-Jay-Z's pick either. I think those players all look like
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Speaker 4: decent options and For us, definitely, even with this result,
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Speaker 4: I feel like a team that I'm looking to invest
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Speaker 4: in over the coming weeks.
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Speaker 1: Okay, elsewhere, Liverpool. I feel like Sabozlai has been on
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Speaker 1: a lot of people's potential chopping block for a little while. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: Liverpool got that result against Bournemouth. Isak with the goal.
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Speaker 1: They weren't great again, were they? Maybe you could argue
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Speaker 1: their defence is the way to go. When you view Liverpool,
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Speaker 1: how are you looking at it, Jules?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you, Kate. I mean, you look
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Speaker 3: at Sabozlai, he had two... really long range shot against Bournemouth.
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Speaker 3: No touch in the box. He seems to be playing
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Speaker 3: sometimes deeper and deeper and deeper. Really, the passing is
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Speaker 3: still great. There's a lot of passes in the final third,
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Speaker 3: but those are usually the pass before the pass that
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Speaker 3: something will create, for example, that somebody will create. So
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Speaker 3: I think Soboslai, if I had him, I would sell him.
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Speaker 3: I know he's on pens and I know he's on
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Speaker 3: free kicks. And of course, there might be a return
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Speaker 3: at some point because of that. But I just don't know.
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Speaker 3: I thought that game was a lot of what Soboslai
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Speaker 3: is going to do for this team. And I don't
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Speaker 3: think that was enough. Isak didn't do much either. Biscoli
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Speaker 3: was in the right place at the right time again
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Speaker 3: for what is a tap-in. But for the rest, if
13:20
Speaker 3: you look at the rest of his stats for a
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Speaker 3: game like that, he's got one shot on target. He's
13:26
Speaker 3: got two passes in the final third. It's just he
13:28
Speaker 3: doesn't give you much. So I know you take the
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Speaker 3: points and it's great. I think he scored eight points.
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Speaker 3: You take it. I'm just like we said, I think
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Speaker 3: last week, For me, it's a little bit too inconsistent.
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Speaker 3: You just don't know what you're going to get, not
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Speaker 3: even within the game and what could happen in the game.
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Speaker 3: It's just from his own performance. So I think it's
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Speaker 3: a bit difficult. So you're right. I think defensively, Jaquet
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Speaker 3: looked like an absolute Rolls Royce or Peugeot or Renault,
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Speaker 3: but the high standard of Peugeot and Renault, obviously, more
13:54
Speaker 3: than Virgil. But yeah, I think Jaquet potentially defensively, although
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Speaker 3: Liverpool will play City on the back of the international break,
14:02
Speaker 3: so they'll have tough games coming up. But potentially, Xhaka
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Speaker 3: is somebody that you need to keep an eye on.
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Speaker 1: Sam, where are you at with Liverpool? And Sabozlai, because
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Speaker 1: you're a Sabozlai owner like I am, slash was, I've sold.
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Speaker 2: Have you? You've sold him already?
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Speaker 1: Well, I haven't mentioned this yet.
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Speaker 2: Of course, you've got your chip active, haven't you?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually just thought we're over 10 minutes into
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Speaker 1: this pod and I haven't said. But yeah, I didn't
14:25
Speaker 1: hit the wildcard button. We're going to talk about my
14:26
Speaker 1: wildcard very shortly. But just to give a bit of context,
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Speaker 1: and it's a bit annoying now. On Friday night, I
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Speaker 1: did gross to Sangare and thought, I'm not pressing the
14:33
Speaker 1: wildcard button because none of the price changes were going
14:35
Speaker 1: to affect me in terms of players I wanted if
14:36
Speaker 1: I was to wildcard. And Saturday happened, it was a
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Speaker 1: bit of a disaster, but I thought, do you know what?
14:41
Speaker 1: Sunday is big in terms of if I'm going to
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Speaker 1: want Bruno, if I'm going to want Sabozlai. So I
14:45
Speaker 1: didn't press the button on Saturday night, which actually cost
14:48
Speaker 1: me a little bit in terms of prices changing. But
14:50
Speaker 1: then I saw what happened on Sunday and I just
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Speaker 1: was like, okay, enough's enough. This has been the worst
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Speaker 1: game week ever. And Sabozlai was a large, he was
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Speaker 1: a large factor because I really, I feel like he's
15:01
Speaker 1: on the cusp of, like as Jules said, he's on
15:03
Speaker 1: set pieces, he's on penalties. I want, I want to
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Speaker 1: want him. I feel at his price, he should be
15:08
Speaker 1: really good value, but the frustration just got too much.
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Speaker 1: So now he's got.
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Speaker 4: He's a dangerous price point, I think in FPL, because
15:14
Speaker 4: on paper, 7 million is really attractive. It's a really nice,
15:20
Speaker 4: easy gap. It invests you in a team that you
15:23
Speaker 4: expect to do well and to score lots of goals.
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Speaker 4: So it feels like a bit of a gift, but the,
15:28
Speaker 4: flip side of that is that he at seven he's
15:32
Speaker 4: also quite a difficult sell because you go wow it
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Speaker 4: should be good value for money so I'll just give
15:36
Speaker 4: him one more week and then that I'll just give
15:38
Speaker 4: him one more week whereas if you had a nine
15:40
Speaker 4: million if if Cole Palmer or Bakayo Saka was performing
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Speaker 4: in the same way that Sabozlai is in terms of
15:46
Speaker 4: points returns you wouldn't hold them you would sell them
15:49
Speaker 4: but because you've got two and a half million less
15:52
Speaker 4: budget invested It feels like less of a priority selling.
15:56
Speaker 4: It feels like you can give a bit more patience.
15:58
Speaker 2: So he's difficult.
16:01
Speaker 4: I tend to agree with Jules, I think, in what
16:03
Speaker 4: he was saying about the fixtures that they have coming up.
16:06
Speaker 4: I look at the fixtures that they have, Manchester City,
16:08
Speaker 4: then it's Brentford, who have been really good. Then it's Brighton,
16:11
Speaker 4: who we've just seen what they can do against Arsenal,
16:14
Speaker 4: before Arsenal. And then there's a nice game against Crystal
16:17
Speaker 4: Palace in game week 10, although I did think Crystal
16:20
Speaker 4: Palace looked a lot better at the weekend. So the
16:22
Speaker 4: next four for Liverpool are very, very difficult. And I
16:25
Speaker 4: don't think I want to go there with a defender
16:27
Speaker 4: because of that, because I'm not sure I see any
16:29
Speaker 4: clean sheets. But equally, it feels hard. It kind of
16:35
Speaker 4: still feels difficult to sell Sabozlai because I'm not going
16:37
Speaker 4: to wildcard over the international break. So the transfers feel important.
16:43
Speaker 4: And I think that's part of my issue with him
16:45
Speaker 4: because the transfers feel important. He doesn't necessarily hit my
16:50
Speaker 4: kind of priority sell list. Isak, I think, is slightly different,
16:54
Speaker 4: by the way. If I had Isak, I'd hold because
16:56
Speaker 4: he's finding form and Would you? The defences that they
16:59
Speaker 4: have coming up.
17:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would.
17:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd hold him because I just think that he's
17:03
Speaker 4: found some form and I can see them scoring goals
17:07
Speaker 4: against sides like Manchester City. I think that that will
17:10
Speaker 4: be a really attacking game and I can see both
17:11
Speaker 4: sides scoring. So I'd hold him for that. But suppose
17:15
Speaker 4: I am probably, depends what happens over the break, I'll
17:18
Speaker 4: keep my eyes on it. And if there's anything else
17:21
Speaker 4: I particularly want to do, the Sangare to Gross move
17:23
Speaker 4: is done.
17:23
Speaker 2: That's one of my transfers. So I've got two left
17:26
Speaker 2: to go.
17:27
Speaker 4: So Bozlai is probably the next on my chopping board,
17:29
Speaker 4: but I don't know whether I might just give him
17:32
Speaker 4: the Man City game because defensively, maybe this game's quite
17:37
Speaker 4: attacking and maybe he gets something.
17:40
Speaker 1: Okay. In terms of Spurs, I mean, there's a goal.
17:45
Speaker 3: Let's go to goal.
17:46
Speaker 2: Well done, Sam.
17:48
Speaker 3: Two goals.
17:48
Speaker 1: Two.
17:49
Speaker 3: At least one.
17:49
Speaker 1: Still no points. But there has been points for Van Dijk.
17:53
Speaker 2: We have got some points.
17:54
Speaker 3: We've drawn games. Two points.
17:56
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
17:56
Speaker 3: Two draws. Yeah, don't forget those.
18:00
Speaker 4: Don't forget their mirror porn. Yeah, Van Hek with a
18:02
Speaker 4: third return in a row. Like a couple of clean
18:05
Speaker 4: sheets for eight pointers. And now we get a goal
18:07
Speaker 4: out of him. I think at 4.9, because obviously I've
18:11
Speaker 4: had a price drop on him. I do think that
18:13
Speaker 4: he looks like quite good value for money. He's regularly
18:16
Speaker 4: getting close, if not hitting the defensive contribution points. He
18:19
Speaker 4: is very attacking from those set pieces.
18:22
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
18:25
Speaker 4: I kind of look at him and think, There's an
18:28
Speaker 4: opportunity there to go with them. I will say, though,
18:32
Speaker 4: that in that first 20 minutes or so, Aston Villa
18:36
Speaker 4: goalkeeper makes four incredible saves. So Spurs do seem to
18:40
Speaker 4: be finding some.
18:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're finding some form, I think we'll say. They're
18:48
Speaker 4: getting better. Every week they are a bit better, which
18:50
Speaker 4: is all right.
18:51
Speaker 3: I mean, we didn't see the same game. It's hard.
18:55
Speaker 2: The first 20 minutes, we were quite good. And then
18:57
Speaker 2: after that, we were.
19:00
Speaker 2: We were. We just were.
19:01
Speaker 3: In the tunnel. You look good in the tunnel. Yeah,
19:03
Speaker 3: they do.
19:04
Speaker 1: Let's bring this back to FPL rather than making this
19:07
Speaker 1: an Arsenal versus Spurs fan debate. In terms of FPL,
19:10
Speaker 1: is Van Dijk the only option at the moment? And
19:13
Speaker 1: full disclosure, I am considering him on my wildcard because
19:15
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, that price drop as well. I think
19:18
Speaker 1: the fixtures, I think he feels at the moment, Jules,
19:22
Speaker 1: even you with your anti-Spurs.
19:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
19:25
Speaker 1: Can you see potential there?
19:26
Speaker 3: I'm not anti-Spurs. It was just, Yeah, it was just
19:28
Speaker 3: a tea slump. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the only one,
19:31
Speaker 3: really the only one. No, no, no, no prospects, but
19:33
Speaker 3: you know, no Kinski. I would just go, I tried
19:36
Speaker 3: Robertson and I gave him a, you know, I gave
19:38
Speaker 3: him a chance. I think, I think Van Hecke is
19:41
Speaker 3: really the only one.
19:42
Speaker 2: That right now... The other thing, Kels, is you can do.
19:46
Speaker 4: If you have Van Hecke and Konza, obviously because of
19:51
Speaker 4: the North London-ness, they rotate nicely together. And Spurs' two
19:55
Speaker 4: home fixtures that they have coming up are Coventry and
19:58
Speaker 4: Crystal Palace. So you can play the double Arsenal defence
20:03
Speaker 4: in their three home fixtures and then... bench Konza and
20:06
Speaker 4: play Van Hecke for those two nice Spurs home fixtures.
20:08
Speaker 4: So I actually do think, all jokes aside about how
20:11
Speaker 4: Spurs have started this season, I do think it makes
20:14
Speaker 4: sense because you've got options with Van Hecke with the
20:18
Speaker 4: defensive contribution points. We have seen a couple of clean
20:21
Speaker 4: sheets for Spurs this season and now we've got that
20:24
Speaker 4: attacking threat that we've seen with the goal on Saturday afternoon.
20:27
Speaker 4: So all jokes aside about Spurs, I do think he's
20:30
Speaker 4: a decent option.
20:30
Speaker 1: Okay, in terms of Everton, I'm starting to feel I don't,
20:34
Speaker 1: I haven't got an Everton defender on my wildcard at
20:36
Speaker 1: the moment, but I'm wondering if we overlooked Everton's defence
20:38
Speaker 1: and particularly Tarkovsky, Jules, given his price point, really.
20:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, completely. Average is 10.2 Defcon per game per 90.
20:46
Speaker 3: You know, that stays outstanding and will never change. It's
20:49
Speaker 3: also a team that has lost some attacking power. And
20:53
Speaker 3: I know Grealish is coming back to form slowly and
20:56
Speaker 3: maybe we see a you know, Tyler Dibling or someone
20:59
Speaker 3: like that. But still, they lost NDI. They only have
21:02
Speaker 3: Tiano Barry. They lost Beto. So I think they will
21:05
Speaker 3: certainly have a good season from a defensive solidity point
21:10
Speaker 3: of view, in a way. And for that, whether you
21:12
Speaker 3: want to go for Pickford in goal, if you're looking
21:14
Speaker 3: for a goalkeeper, but Tarkovsky is the outstanding pick. More
21:17
Speaker 3: than Brantwaite, more than one of the two full-backs, Maitland-Niles
21:21
Speaker 3: or Mikolenko, or even one of the defensive midfielders. I
21:24
Speaker 3: think Tarkovsky because also he started, you know, we knew
21:27
Speaker 3: he had the odd goal in him, obviously on set
21:29
Speaker 3: pieces and he's had one already this season. But there's
21:32
Speaker 3: a couple of, there's assist and there's like creating chances
21:36
Speaker 3: thing that you never thought you could see from a
21:38
Speaker 3: player like Tarkovsky. So, you know, I think it's great
21:41
Speaker 3: if you look at three clean sheets, one goal, one
21:43
Speaker 3: assist in five games. It's pretty perfect for a start
21:47
Speaker 3: of the season in terms of FPL from him. So
21:50
Speaker 3: I think if I was Walt Carding, I would put
21:52
Speaker 3: Tarkovsky in the team straight away.
21:54
Speaker 1: Okay. In terms of Joao Pedro, we need to address that,
21:58
Speaker 1: I think. What do we do, Sam? If he's not
22:01
Speaker 1: available after the break, do we sell? He's already had
22:03
Speaker 1: a price fall, but I mean, I think a lot
22:05
Speaker 1: of people will have held him because it won't have
22:07
Speaker 1: actually affected the price that you sell him at.
22:09
Speaker 3: I know that.
22:10
Speaker 1: Confuses some people. If you're new to FPL, for example,
22:12
Speaker 1: I think all of us had him from the beginning.
22:14
Speaker 1: So he was 7.5. Then he went up to 7.8.
22:17
Speaker 1: He's now gone to 7.7. But obviously when he was
22:20
Speaker 1: at 7.8, you could still only sell him for 7.6
22:23
Speaker 1: because it's like lower end of the midpoint for one
22:26
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a very good way of
22:27
Speaker 1: describing it but yeah and so when he goes to 7.7
22:30
Speaker 1: his sale point is still 7.6 isn't it Sam so
22:33
Speaker 1: for example I've still kept my wild card for now
22:36
Speaker 1: had he taken two price falls I would I would
22:38
Speaker 1: sell but yeah I'm just wondering do we just still
22:42
Speaker 1: hold and wait for more news that feels like the
22:43
Speaker 1: most sensible thing because surely we're going to want him
22:45
Speaker 1: back when he's available if he's available yeah I.
22:47
Speaker 4: Think so I think so I I gelpedra has been
22:51
Speaker 4: fantastic like we shouldn't forget that over the opening four
22:53
Speaker 4: weeks of the season we've had really good returns from
22:56
Speaker 4: gelpedra he has been great value for money he has
22:59
Speaker 4: been captainable in games that we've had so and that's
23:03
Speaker 4: really important now obviously we've got the break to kind
23:07
Speaker 4: of just wait and see what happens with him if
23:09
Speaker 4: he's not available after the break then there's a conversation
23:12
Speaker 4: to be had because you've got players like barry who
23:14
Speaker 4: we briefly just mentioned you've got brobby who i know
23:17
Speaker 4: A lot of managers have sold over the last few weeks,
23:19
Speaker 4: but suddenly decided that he was going to score a
23:21
Speaker 4: hat-trick this weekend. But there are others as well in
23:23
Speaker 4: that kind of forward line that you can replace him with.
23:26
Speaker 4: But equally, if he is going to be available, then
23:28
Speaker 4: I think you're going to want him. For me, it's
23:31
Speaker 4: going to come down to how long is he out for.
23:33
Speaker 2: If he's going to miss... If he's going to come
23:35
Speaker 2: straight in after the break, then great. He's going to stay.
23:37
Speaker 4: If he's going to miss one game after the break,
23:39
Speaker 4: I'd still hold him. If it's going to be more
23:41
Speaker 4: than one game, then I think you probably have to
23:44
Speaker 4: look at, is there a better option elsewhere that you
23:46
Speaker 4: can go with? Because ideally you don't want to be
23:49
Speaker 4: carrying players through over the next few weeks, particularly in
23:52
Speaker 4: positions where you could look to either get a march
23:56
Speaker 4: on your mini league and get ahead by going for
23:58
Speaker 4: somebody a bit different. Or if you haven't had a
24:01
Speaker 4: particularly good start to the season going against him, while
24:04
Speaker 4: he's out and other people are holding him could be
24:06
Speaker 4: a good opportunity for you to get some points and
24:08
Speaker 4: catch up in your mini league so for me it's
24:11
Speaker 4: going to be a case of what do we hear
24:13
Speaker 4: over the break about Jao Pedro and whether he's likely
24:16
Speaker 4: to be available for game week six or not if
24:18
Speaker 4: he's not maybe have a think about selling him just
24:21
Speaker 4: so that you can get a differential in for a
24:23
Speaker 4: couple of.
24:23
Speaker 1: Weeks How do you think his absence affects the whole
24:27
Speaker 1: Chelsea attack, Jules? Because it's not a case of us,
24:29
Speaker 1: just a lot of us being just involved with Pedro.
24:31
Speaker 1: A lot of us have got a Palmer or a
24:33
Speaker 1: Rodgers as well.
24:36
Speaker 3: I mean, we saw in that Brentford game how indispensable
24:40
Speaker 3: he is, really. And I think you could look at
24:42
Speaker 3: Palmer and say, OK, he's probably the most talented of
24:44
Speaker 3: the three. Shaw, Rodgers, as we've said before. I think
24:48
Speaker 3: maybe not, although he's done really well so far, but
24:50
Speaker 3: maybe not on the same level as a Palmer and
24:52
Speaker 3: Joel Pedro. And then Joel Pedro is not there and
24:53
Speaker 3: it looks like they don't know how to play football anymore.
24:56
Speaker 3: The link-up wasn't there. Danny Welbeck is obviously a very
24:58
Speaker 3: different forward than Joel Pedro and at his age now,
25:03
Speaker 3: probably not as talented and not as good. So you
25:05
Speaker 3: saw that with Joel Pedro, the whole Chelsea attacking fluidity
25:10
Speaker 3: was absent. And for the team that has been great
25:12
Speaker 3: going forward since the start of the season, And in
25:16
Speaker 3: a tough game, if he'd been maybe a weaker opponent,
25:19
Speaker 3: João Pedro's absence might have not felt the same. But
25:23
Speaker 3: certainly in this game, it was. And they had literally nothing.
25:28
Speaker 3: They were so poor creatively. partly because he wasn't there.
25:32
Speaker 3: So yeah, he's huge. This is the longest break ever.
25:35
Speaker 3: We've never had such a long break through the season, right?
25:38
Speaker 3: Apart from the 2022 World Cup. So let's hope that
25:41
Speaker 3: this is long enough for him to be able to
25:43
Speaker 3: recover because Chelsea, I think, need him badly at the
25:45
Speaker 3: start of when the Premier League restarts.
25:48
Speaker 1: What about Man City then? Because we were probably a
25:51
Speaker 1: bit disappointed, although I was just hugely relieved that Haaland
25:54
Speaker 1: got His goal, another return for Gvardio. And it's funny
25:58
Speaker 1: because I obviously am looking at this from a slightly
26:00
Speaker 1: different point of view because I'm wildcarding. And Gvardio, I
26:03
Speaker 1: wanted straight in my team, but I'm seeing a lot
26:05
Speaker 1: of other people wildcard and they're not interested. Maybe that, Sam,
26:08
Speaker 1: is because there's so many other options that are a
26:10
Speaker 1: little bit cheaper that have better fixtures. But for me,
26:13
Speaker 1: Gvardio is currently in my draft because he is almost
26:17
Speaker 1: not fixture-proof, but the fact that he's providing attacking returns
26:20
Speaker 1: even when City are conceding makes him really enticing for me.
26:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, the Man City fixtures are mixed, I
26:28
Speaker 4: think we'd say. Obviously, we've mentioned they come back after
26:30
Speaker 4: the break into that game against Liverpool. But then it's Ipswich, Villa, Brighton,
26:35
Speaker 4: who suddenly feel like they should be red on all
26:37
Speaker 4: fixture tickets because they're playing so well at the moment.
26:40
Speaker 4: And then Forest. So it's definitely a mixed bag of
26:43
Speaker 4: fixtures for them. But the thing with Gavardio, as Jules knows,
26:46
Speaker 4: because he's had him since the beginning of the season,
26:48
Speaker 4: is that the clean sheet doesn't stick. And okay, that
26:50
Speaker 4: feels frustrating. But then he goes and gets an attacking
26:53
Speaker 4: return instead. And I think those route to points that
26:56
Speaker 4: Gavardio has suddenly got in his locker this season makes
26:59
Speaker 4: him a player that if I was wildcarding, I think
27:01
Speaker 4: he would have been one of the first defenders that
27:03
Speaker 4: I'd have put in. I'd have had Van Hecke, who
27:04
Speaker 4: we've already talked about. I would have had an Everton defender.
27:09
Speaker 4: And I think what I like about them is that
27:11
Speaker 4: you can go different price points. Obviously, Tarkov, is the
27:13
Speaker 4: best and the most, he's the most points amongst the
27:17
Speaker 4: defenders this season, but you've got Branthwaite or you go
27:19
Speaker 4: down again to Mikalenko to afford them. Whereas you look
27:22
Speaker 4: at that Manchester City defence, Gavardial feels like a bit
27:25
Speaker 4: of a bargain, to be honest, at the price that
27:27
Speaker 4: he is to have a Manchester City defender for that price,
27:31
Speaker 4: despite some price rises and constant returns all the time.
27:35
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'd have him if I was wildcarding. So
27:38
Speaker 4: I'm not surprised to see him in your team.
27:40
Speaker 1: What about the rest of City? I've got Semenu in
27:42
Speaker 1: at the moment purely because he was taking a price
27:44
Speaker 1: rise and I'm playing the price rise in the full game.
27:45
Speaker 1: He's not going to be in there long term. I'm
27:47
Speaker 1: just hoping he takes two price rises so that I
27:49
Speaker 1: can gain a little bit of money out of him.
27:51
Speaker 1: He's very much a placeholder at the moment. But is
27:55
Speaker 1: Haaland and Guardiola, are they the only two? It just
27:59
Speaker 1: feels like every week we don't quite know who to
28:01
Speaker 1: go with in midfield, who's going to return and who's
28:03
Speaker 1: going to ultimately start. I know we saw a return
28:05
Speaker 1: for Enzo at the weekend.
28:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's, you know, one for Enzo, one for Schalke,
28:09
Speaker 3: one for Semenyo. Semenyo had a really good game, obviously,
28:12
Speaker 3: against Sunderland. And that's why I think he's fourth as
28:15
Speaker 3: the best midfielder in terms of points so far this season.
28:18
Speaker 3: But before the Sunderland, that's mostly because of the Sunderland game.
28:22
Speaker 3: Before that, it was a bit more difficult for him.
28:24
Speaker 3: Don't forget, Doku will come back. At some point, you
28:26
Speaker 3: can't play and Doku and Semenyo and NDI and Schalke
28:31
Speaker 3: and Haaland. And even Enzo, I think at some point,
28:34
Speaker 3: might play a bit higher up the pitch. It's for
28:36
Speaker 3: them to come back from the suspension after the red
28:38
Speaker 3: card in the derby. So you're right. It feels a
28:40
Speaker 3: little bit in terms of attacking position outside of Highlands
28:43
Speaker 3: is where do we go? And it might be a
28:45
Speaker 3: bit hit and miss on you go for Semenyo, but
28:48
Speaker 3: that game week is Schalke that returns. But then Schalke
28:51
Speaker 3: doesn't return the following week. But Semenyo, I think we
28:53
Speaker 3: maybe need to wait a bit to see who's the
28:55
Speaker 3: most consistent outside of Highlands. Just to finish on Vardal,
28:59
Speaker 3: I think he's great. I would probably put him in
29:01
Speaker 3: my wildcard. I would rather... him having all those points
29:05
Speaker 3: from a defensive point of view, so with defensive performances,
29:10
Speaker 3: because I think attacking returns can't be sustainable for a
29:13
Speaker 3: centre-back playing left-back. At some point, he will stop scoring
29:16
Speaker 3: or assisting. He can't continue like that through the whole season.
29:19
Speaker 3: So I would rather them being stronger defensively because against Sunderland,
29:23
Speaker 3: it was literally the open day at school that you
29:28
Speaker 3: go and visit because you want to join secondary school.
29:30
Speaker 3: It was ridiculous how many I mean, the XG for
29:33
Speaker 3: Sunderland in that game was, I think, one of the
29:36
Speaker 3: highest that City have conceded in recent seasons. It was
29:38
Speaker 3: embarrassing to a certain point. And they won, great, but
29:41
Speaker 3: you can't concede three goals and an XG of four
29:44
Speaker 3: every game. It's not possible. So they will have to
29:46
Speaker 3: get stronger defensively. And for Varjo, that's why I worry
29:50
Speaker 3: a little bit because the day the attacking return stops,
29:52
Speaker 3: if there's no clean sheet behind, it will go back
29:54
Speaker 3: to one or two points.
29:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you still have him.
29:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'll keep him and I'm invested in him
30:00
Speaker 3: and he's been good. But I would still put him
30:02
Speaker 3: in your wildcard, Kels. I'm just saying this worries me
30:05
Speaker 3: a little bit that all the points are coming from
30:07
Speaker 3: attacking returns because for a defender, I think it's just
30:10
Speaker 3: not sustainable.
30:12
Speaker 1: Just finally, before we move on, how are you feeling
30:14
Speaker 1: about Brobby, Jules?
30:16
Speaker 3: I'm gutted. Don't even mention it. Sorry, but I'm normally
30:20
Speaker 3: the butt of all this joke.
30:21
Speaker 1: I'm getting him while I can.
30:24
Speaker 3: But you know, the most FPL thing is that he
30:27
Speaker 3: scores a hat-trick while Luisa, who we've just replaced him with,
30:30
Speaker 3: missed a penalty where I'm like, you cannot, how would
30:33
Speaker 3: you miss a penalty? How good you are at this level?
30:35
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous. So yeah, it was, I love, but Broby
30:38
Speaker 3: is great, but Broby won't have a hat-trick every weekend either.
30:40
Speaker 3: We know that.
30:41
Speaker 4: Kels, George, do you know that Broby's XG in this
30:45
Speaker 4: game week was better, him personally, was better than 17
30:48
Speaker 4: of the Premier League side's XGs this week?
30:50
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, there's a couple of, you know, it's,
30:52
Speaker 3: Easy goals to score, really.
30:54
Speaker 2: But still.
30:56
Speaker 3: Outstanding. Outstanding work.
30:58
Speaker 1: Okay, well, there was so much to talk about. We
30:59
Speaker 1: could talk about that game week forever, but I think
31:01
Speaker 1: part of us would like to forget it. So let's
31:03
Speaker 1: move on and look ahead because, of course, we're in
31:05
Speaker 1: now this elongated international break. Now, international breaks are often
31:09
Speaker 1: popular times for managers to press the wildcard button because
31:12
Speaker 1: you've got that little bit longer tinker. You can see
31:14
Speaker 1: what happens over the break. And it's just a little
31:16
Speaker 1: bit more fun, isn't it, to try and, as we
31:18
Speaker 1: tried to educate Jules on last week, to play the
31:21
Speaker 1: rises and falls. I'm in that stage at the moment, guys,
31:25
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, of checking the prices the last time
31:27
Speaker 1: before I go to bed, which is very sad. Because,
31:30
Speaker 1: of course, now we've got the function on the Premier
31:31
Speaker 1: League website and the app where you can see if
31:33
Speaker 1: prices are going to go up. It's not guaranteed, but
31:36
Speaker 1: it gives you a really good indication as to how
31:37
Speaker 1: many people are bringing them in and if a player
31:39
Speaker 1: is going to go up at midnight. So that's really useful. Sam,
31:43
Speaker 1: it feels like a lot of people are using this
31:45
Speaker 1: opportunity like me to do it and it just makes
31:47
Speaker 1: total sense, doesn't it? Don't at this point say it.
31:49
Speaker 2: Doesn't because I've done it.
31:50
Speaker 1: Yeah.
31:52
Speaker 2: No, it makes no sense.
31:53
Speaker 1: No, it does.
31:54
Speaker 2: It does make sense.
31:54
Speaker 4: Like I think, um, yeah, I think so far we've
31:57
Speaker 4: got about 260,000 managers on wild card. Um, and I
32:02
Speaker 4: think it does, it does make sense. As Jules says,
32:04
Speaker 4: the longest international break we've ever had. Um, and it
32:08
Speaker 4: gives you that opportunity to kind of look, see what's happening.
32:11
Speaker 4: There's some fixture swings that you can get on board with.
32:13
Speaker 4: We've got five game weeks worth of knowledge and information
32:17
Speaker 4: from the opening weeks of the season. Um, So yeah,
32:20
Speaker 4: it absolutely does make sense. I think there are other
32:22
Speaker 4: windows that you can do it in. And I think
32:24
Speaker 4: a lot of managers will look at it. And this
32:26
Speaker 4: kind of what I did with mine, I was kind
32:29
Speaker 4: of thinking about it, but actually a lot of the
32:32
Speaker 4: players that are in my team are the ones that
32:33
Speaker 4: I would go with anyway on wildcard. And I was
32:36
Speaker 4: looking at it thinking, how many actual changes would I make?
32:39
Speaker 4: Probably not that many. And I think it's, there's a
32:43
Speaker 4: kind of double-edged sword to this where don't just do
32:45
Speaker 4: it because your friends are doing it, do it because
32:48
Speaker 4: your team needs it because you think it's, it's worth it.
32:51
Speaker 4: And because you're on the wrong players. Um, but also don't, um,
32:56
Speaker 4: don't not do it just out of stubbornness, because I
32:58
Speaker 4: also think that that can be a part of it.
33:00
Speaker 4: Like sometimes you go, wow, I'm just going to hold
33:02
Speaker 4: fire with these guys, even if they haven't been returning.
33:04
Speaker 4: So it is definitely a, a conversation that you have
33:07
Speaker 4: to have with yourself to decide whether it's the right
33:09
Speaker 4: thing for your team personally or not.
33:11
Speaker 3: Yeah.
33:11
Speaker 1: That was kind of what I did. And, Actually, I
33:14
Speaker 1: don't know as many people as I thought wildcarding. For example,
33:16
Speaker 1: you're not wildcarding, are you? And you plan to.
33:19
Speaker 3: No.
33:20
Speaker 1: What changed your mind?
33:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think I would have been tempted. But again,
33:25
Speaker 3: I thought, like Sam just said, I look at my
33:28
Speaker 3: team and, okay, I need to sort out the Bruno
33:29
Speaker 3: Fernandes situation because I don't... I don't like him right now. Bruno,
33:34
Speaker 3: I really don't like you right now. I think there's
33:36
Speaker 3: a lot of Bruno owners who don't like you. You know,
33:38
Speaker 3: it's not just me. And I don't know what to do,
33:40
Speaker 3: to be honest. It feels like I want to let
33:43
Speaker 3: him go and I can't keep keeping him and say, okay,
33:46
Speaker 3: next week is going to be better, Bruno, don't worry.
33:48
Speaker 3: But it got to this point where it's costing me
33:50
Speaker 3: too much for the rubbish that he does on the
33:54
Speaker 3: pitch and that he brings me, really. You know, there's
33:55
Speaker 3: no point there. There's nothing. So, But I don't need
33:59
Speaker 3: a wildcard for that. I've got two free transfers. I
34:01
Speaker 3: think I could just manage and wait a little bit
34:04
Speaker 3: more to see. The start of my season has been good.
34:07
Speaker 3: This squad has been good. I've used a few transfers. Okay,
34:10
Speaker 3: apart from Wissam and Broby, quite good. So it just
34:13
Speaker 3: felt like it would be unnecessary, really. So I'm going
34:16
Speaker 3: to wait a bit.
34:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're also heavily invested in Brighton. Both of you
34:20
Speaker 1: have got Brighton investment, whereas I kind of looked at it.
34:22
Speaker 1: Because Sam, our teams aren't that different. But our differences
34:25
Speaker 1: have been the difference in our points this season in
34:27
Speaker 1: terms of you've had returns from Van Hecke, you've had
34:30
Speaker 1: Verbruggen as an alternative option to Kinski, whereas I've only
34:33
Speaker 1: had Kinski on the weeks where Spurs haven't kept clean sheets.
34:37
Speaker 1: And yeah, so for me, I was just like, I
34:39
Speaker 1: am that little bit behind, only what, 20 points or something.
34:42
Speaker 1: But for me, it just made sense that actually, if
34:44
Speaker 1: I want to make the most of it and try
34:45
Speaker 1: and catch up ground, I'm notoriously later using my chips.
34:49
Speaker 1: But this made a lot of sense. So I've been
34:51
Speaker 1: told I've got to run through the wildcard on this,
34:53
Speaker 1: but I'm going to caveat this with it. It's not
34:56
Speaker 1: a finished product at all, because as I said, I
34:57
Speaker 1: am rising the price rise. I'm also on holiday at
34:59
Speaker 1: the moment, although I'm very committed to FPL and checking
35:02
Speaker 1: it every night. The price rises, as I said, there
35:05
Speaker 1: is an element of, I'll get a little bit more
35:06
Speaker 1: serious sometimes.
35:07
Speaker 3: You've got plenty of time too, Kels, to be fair. Yeah, exactly.
35:10
Speaker 3: You've got plenty of time to.
35:12
Speaker 1: So at the moment I have kind of, the first
35:14
Speaker 1: things I did were, like I said, I brought in
35:16
Speaker 1: Pascal Gross on that Friday night, because regardless, I wanted him,
35:19
Speaker 1: whether that was just one of my three free transfers
35:21
Speaker 1: or not. Also, I think that's a really important point,
35:24
Speaker 1: isn't it? That in the last few years, it was
35:25
Speaker 1: about two, three years ago, Sam, where the rule changed,
35:28
Speaker 1: where you could keep your transfers. And that made a
35:31
Speaker 1: big thing for me because I kept three transfers going
35:33
Speaker 1: into this international break. So I had that as an option.
35:36
Speaker 1: I was like, I could just use my three transfers,
35:38
Speaker 1: but I liked the idea of having my wild card
35:40
Speaker 1: and then knowing I've got those transfers after. I just
35:42
Speaker 1: decided to do it that way around. Whereas Sam, I
35:44
Speaker 1: guess you're the opposite, aren't you? In terms of you
35:46
Speaker 1: just decided to do it, keep your transfers, use your
35:49
Speaker 1: transfers and keep your wild card. Yeah, exactly.
35:51
Speaker 4: I'm playing it the other way because I had three
35:54
Speaker 4: free transfers, same as you did. I was kind of like, well,
35:56
Speaker 4: I could make three transfers now. It feels like a
35:58
Speaker 4: bit of a mini wildcard anyway. And then I've still
36:01
Speaker 4: got my wildcard for further down the line. Obviously, if
36:03
Speaker 4: something major goes off over the international break and suddenly
36:05
Speaker 4: I lose three players, then it's an easy hit on
36:07
Speaker 4: the wildcard and I'll get my three transfers back. So yeah,
36:11
Speaker 4: for me, I'm playing it that way right now.
36:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, for me, my three transfers that I wanted to
36:15
Speaker 1: make were all in different positions. So actually I needed
36:17
Speaker 1: more than three transfers to be able to do it.
36:20
Speaker 1: so to speak so this is where I'm at at
36:21
Speaker 1: the moment I've gone with Rea in goal purely because
36:24
Speaker 1: he was going to have a price rise I'm not
36:26
Speaker 1: going to keep Rea but I wanted when the price
36:29
Speaker 1: rise happened I can't remember what day it was now
36:30
Speaker 1: it was earlier this week I didn't I hadn't decided
36:33
Speaker 1: on goalkeepers and I still haven't so I was like
36:35
Speaker 1: I'll just bring in Rea and I'll also bring in
36:37
Speaker 1: Salakis because he also as he has his price rise
36:40
Speaker 1: he was due to yeah I don't know if he's
36:41
Speaker 1: had it yet he was due.
36:43
Speaker 3: To it's 4.6 now yeah.
36:44
Speaker 1: So I brought those two in because I'm having price
36:46
Speaker 1: rises and they're options in there if I want them
36:50
Speaker 1: I'm probably not going to do that because I don't
36:51
Speaker 1: want to treble up on the Arsenal defence and I've
36:53
Speaker 1: kept Konza and Calafiori. I don't treble Arsenal defence, not
36:58
Speaker 1: just because of what we saw against Brighton, but it's
36:59
Speaker 1: just too much for me. Double sends me into a
37:02
Speaker 1: cold sweat as it is. So I'm probably going to
37:05
Speaker 1: move off Raya.
37:06
Speaker 4: Who were you likely to go with, do you think?
37:09
Speaker 2: I don't know.
37:09
Speaker 1: I need to look into a couple of rotating ones.
37:11
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do what I did. I didn't
37:12
Speaker 1: enjoy Kinskin to Bravko. I didn't enjoy it.
37:15
Speaker 2: I could have told you that pre-season.
37:18
Speaker 3: And what about keeping Raya but getting rid of one
37:21
Speaker 3: of Calafiori and Konza? Who do I get rid of?
37:24
Speaker 1: You can't get rid of Konza at his price point.
37:26
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I just don't think you can.
37:27
Speaker 3: So for the price point, Konza is better. For what
37:31
Speaker 3: one of them can bring onto the pitch, certainly attacking-wise,
37:34
Speaker 3: as we've been explaining with Calafiori since the start of
37:37
Speaker 3: the season, Calafiori is better. So it's just, if you
37:40
Speaker 3: need more on the budget side... then I think keep Konza.
37:44
Speaker 3: And Konza and Raya would be really nice too and
37:46
Speaker 3: let Calafiori go.
37:47
Speaker 1: Raya is expensive, isn't he?
37:50
Speaker 3: I know, but he's still also... I know the Brighton
37:53
Speaker 3: game was obviously disappointing, but he's still by far better
37:58
Speaker 3: than anybody else.
37:59
Speaker 4: The thing with Raya is that his extra threat is
38:02
Speaker 4: way less, isn't it? So he's likely to get six.
38:05
Speaker 4: He doesn't make that many saves usually because Arsenal defence
38:08
Speaker 4: is so good that he doesn't have to. Whereas Calafuri's
38:12
Speaker 4: got all that upside that goes with it. So you
38:14
Speaker 4: kind of feel like if anyone's going to overachieve, it
38:16
Speaker 4: would be Calafuri over Raya. So yeah, for me, I
38:21
Speaker 4: think I would go for a doubling. Like actually laugh
38:25
Speaker 4: about it all you like, but the Kinski-Verbruggen double up
38:29
Speaker 4: has worked quite well in the opening weeks of the season.
38:31
Speaker 4: Like going for two cheap rotating pair goalkeepers actually isn't bad.
38:37
Speaker 4: And I think I would still do that over having a...
38:39
Speaker 4: A premium asset.
38:40
Speaker 2: It might consider Pickford though.
38:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, Trafford as well. Trafford has been good.
38:45
Speaker 1: It also, I think, just depends the way you play,
38:47
Speaker 1: doesn't it? In terms of, I never really like having
38:51
Speaker 1: a premium goalkeeper and my budget, because I haven't wildcarded
38:54
Speaker 1: early enough and been on the right players, my team
38:56
Speaker 1: value isn't as high as it could have been. And
38:59
Speaker 1: that's why I maybe don't have that extra money to spend.
39:02
Speaker 1: Whereas I think Calafiori and Konza are pretty cheap for
39:04
Speaker 1: what they can offer you. That's the way I view it. But, Yeah,
39:07
Speaker 1: we'll see. If I am to let one of them go,
39:09
Speaker 1: it would be Calafiori, but then you lose in terms
39:11
Speaker 1: of the two defenders, though it would be Calafiori I'd
39:13
Speaker 1: let go. But I'm leaning towards not having Brea. As
39:17
Speaker 1: it stands, my other defenders are De Kooiper, but I'm 90%.
39:22
Speaker 1: I know the Mitoma threat is coming back, but I
39:24
Speaker 1: still really like everything that De Kuyper.
39:27
Speaker 3: Has to offer.
39:28
Speaker 1: And yeah, I just think at his price point, he's
39:30
Speaker 1: really good value. But obviously Vuskovic, if I wasn't to go,
39:32
Speaker 1: there would be the other one that I would go with.
39:35
Speaker 1: I've also gone for Lewis Hall, just because I think
39:38
Speaker 1: Newcastle's defence has been good. Though there's a few defences
39:42
Speaker 1: that I still want to go with the Leeds defence.
39:44
Speaker 1: I haven't got a Leeds defender at the moment because...
39:47
Speaker 1: I just can't get one in because I've got Guardiola.
39:49
Speaker 1: So my three starting at the moment and the two
39:51
Speaker 1: Arsenal boys, Guardiola, Haaland and Kuiper. That is my defence.
39:54
Speaker 3: So no Everton.
39:57
Speaker 4: Benching them every week is going to be hard, Cal.
39:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's not. I think Guardiola, Jules has actually
40:03
Speaker 1: made a really good point about if his attacking returns
40:05
Speaker 1: dry up, it's a problem. So Guardiola is probably the
40:08
Speaker 1: one likely to go. And the defences that I'm looking at, Brighton,
40:12
Speaker 1: Leeds and Spurs in terms of Van Hecke. I think
40:16
Speaker 1: Van Hecht could find his way in there at 4.9.
40:18
Speaker 1: And I hate myself for saying that.
40:22
Speaker 3: I mean, that's what Sam does to you.
40:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Spent too much time with me. Everton aren't
40:28
Speaker 1: off the table at all. I've seen a few people
40:30
Speaker 1: talking about the Bournemouth defence as well, but I just
40:32
Speaker 1: struggle a little bit with that one. They haven't yet won.
40:34
Speaker 1: That's just for me. And I think Europe.
40:36
Speaker 2: The pictures are nice, though.
40:37
Speaker 1: They are nice, but they've got Europe as well, Sam.
40:40
Speaker 1: And they've never had that before. Yeah, Petrovic is a
40:43
Speaker 1: good shout. Actually, I should have asked you, Sam. I
40:46
Speaker 1: don't know why I'd ask you of all the people,
40:48
Speaker 1: but if you were picking new goalkeepers now, who would
40:49
Speaker 1: you go with?
40:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, asking me about goalkeepers is a challenge. Didn't say
40:57
Speaker 2: I'd take your advice. That's probably wise.
41:00
Speaker 4: Do you know, I think I probably would stick with
41:03
Speaker 4: Verbruggen and Kinski because they continue to rotate quite nicely
41:06
Speaker 4: with each other and they're both cheap.
41:09
Speaker 3: I do.
41:11
Speaker 4: Like the idea of Trafford, if that gives you a
41:13
Speaker 4: route into... to the Leeds defence again you can rotate
41:17
Speaker 4: him quite nicely with Verbruggen so you could go for
41:20
Speaker 4: a Trafford Verbruggen double up that works quite nicely I
41:23
Speaker 4: don't mind Pickford at all either I think he looks
41:26
Speaker 4: like a decent option for the fixtures that they have
41:28
Speaker 4: coming up again rotates quite nicely with Kinski so you
41:31
Speaker 4: could do a Pickford Kinski double up but then you
41:34
Speaker 4: have to question whether you want to join me on
41:36
Speaker 4: the chaos that is double Spurs defence although I don't
41:38
Speaker 4: often play them I don't often play them both to
41:40
Speaker 4: be fair very rarely do they get both played together
41:44
Speaker 4: But those two are decent rotating pairings if you want
41:48
Speaker 4: to go for a slightly more expensive with a budget friendly.
41:52
Speaker 1: Okay. So yeah, I've still got a few headaches in defence,
41:55
Speaker 1: but there will be, across my defence and keeper, there'll
41:58
Speaker 1: be two Arsenal represented. There probably won't be a Gavardio,
42:01
Speaker 1: but I just like sitting in my team for a
42:03
Speaker 1: little bit. I think Hall and a Brighton defender are
42:06
Speaker 1: going to stay and probably will be to Kuiper at
42:08
Speaker 1: the moment. So my midfield, so the ones that are set, Gross,
42:11
Speaker 1: as I said, came in. Morgan Rodgers is going to
42:13
Speaker 1: stay for now. I brought in Harvey Barnes because I
42:17
Speaker 1: liked him before the last game week. And I think
42:19
Speaker 1: there's some opportunity there with Newcastle. And I don't think
42:21
Speaker 1: his price point at 6.1 is too bad at all.
42:25
Speaker 1: And then I've gone with Semenya as a holding point.
42:27
Speaker 1: But I would really like Bukayo Saka to be in there.
42:29
Speaker 1: Whether I can get the budget to do that, I
42:30
Speaker 1: don't know. And then I've gone with Sharda. I'm not
42:34
Speaker 1: sure if I've missed the boat with Sharda. But I
42:36
Speaker 1: just think Brentford are brilliant and fun to own. And
42:38
Speaker 1: I think at his price point as well. He's brilliant.
42:40
Speaker 1: He's 6.2 at the moment. So they are my midfield.
42:44
Speaker 1: Go on, give me some feedback.
42:46
Speaker 3: No, on Shad adjust, because I looked at the stats
42:49
Speaker 3: yesterday preparing for the show and he's been great. Three
42:51
Speaker 3: goals in five, as you said, Brentford, outstanding, especially at home.
42:55
Speaker 3: His XG for the three goals is 1.5. He's got,
42:59
Speaker 3: he took 13 shots in the league so far, six
43:01
Speaker 3: of them on target. In terms of rate conversion and efficiency,
43:06
Speaker 3: This is at the level of top, top, top, top
43:09
Speaker 3: strikers now and again, not even consistently, not even Haaland
43:12
Speaker 3: has those kind of numbers this season. And yet, that's
43:15
Speaker 3: shattered for you. So I don't know what he ate
43:17
Speaker 3: during the summer, what he did during the summer, what's
43:20
Speaker 3: happening right now. And if you keep him, if you
43:23
Speaker 3: get him in your team, I wish for you that
43:25
Speaker 3: he stays like this. I don't know again how sustainable
43:27
Speaker 3: this is for him to like basically score one every
43:31
Speaker 3: two shots. It's pretty much that. One every two shots
43:34
Speaker 3: on target and pretty much one you know the one
43:37
Speaker 3: every two shots he's on target too so this would
43:40
Speaker 3: be incredible and he's clearly very much improved in his
43:43
Speaker 3: own being clinical and his own efficiency but he's been
43:45
Speaker 3: outstanding so far this season so I you know I
43:48
Speaker 3: would put him in my wildcard team too yeah so.
43:50
Speaker 1: I think probably four of those five or three of
43:53
Speaker 1: the five are definitely set four of them probably as
43:56
Speaker 1: I said Semenya is just a hold I would really
43:58
Speaker 1: like Semenya to become Saka Sam your thoughts It always
44:01
Speaker 1: scares me. I feel, you know, when you feel like
44:02
Speaker 1: you're at school and you're getting your homework marks.
44:04
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. She's the head, the headmaster. You know, you
44:06
Speaker 3: go to the headmaster office.
44:08
Speaker 2: That was my old job though, wasn't it?
44:09
Speaker 4: Before I did this, I get my, put my teacher
44:11
Speaker 4: face back on. Um, no, I, I quite like it. I, I,
44:14
Speaker 4: Sharda would be a conversation for me as well. Cause
44:17
Speaker 4: I think I would be inclined on Foreman and what
44:19
Speaker 4: we've seen so far to put him in. But then
44:22
Speaker 4: I also think that wild cards are an opportunity to, um,
44:26
Speaker 4: be a little bit different and to try and get
44:28
Speaker 4: on players that have got decent underlying numbers before they
44:31
Speaker 4: go big with them. So if I was wildcarding right now,
44:35
Speaker 4: I would almost certainly put Tavernier in there.
44:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to say, my boy.
44:39
Speaker 2: I think he looks.
44:41
Speaker 4: Like a really good option at the moment, playing incredibly
44:44
Speaker 4: well in that Bournemouth side. And yeah, all right, we
44:46
Speaker 4: haven't seen clean sheets and stuff from them, but we
44:48
Speaker 4: are seeing attacking returns and he's kind of integral.
44:50
Speaker 1: To everything they're doing. The Bournemouth attack is actually more
44:52
Speaker 1: enticing than the Bournemouth defence by far.
44:54
Speaker 3: And the numbers are much better than the points that
44:57
Speaker 3: they've got. And I mean, you said they haven't won yet.
45:00
Speaker 2: Which I think is important as well, Jules. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
45:03
Speaker 2: Either of them.
45:04
Speaker 4: But for me, Tavernier, he just edges it. I just
45:07
Speaker 4: think that when you're looking at that team and the
45:09
Speaker 4: way that they're playing and their XG levels and what
45:12
Speaker 4: they've returned already, they don't look like they're overachieving. They
45:15
Speaker 4: look like actually they could be about to come into
45:18
Speaker 4: a really good run and they've already kind of started
45:20
Speaker 4: that already. And I think I'd also be inclined to
45:23
Speaker 4: take a little bit of a punt on Josh King
45:25
Speaker 4: at Fulham because the fixtures just look fantastic. So obviously
45:29
Speaker 4: over the next couple of weeks, if you run the
45:31
Speaker 4: fixture ticket through the next six, they sit second. So
45:34
Speaker 4: it's Ipswich, Hull and Coventry in the next three before
45:37
Speaker 4: Villa and Newcastle. And I think what we're seeing out
45:40
Speaker 4: of that Fulham side, OK, defensively, I mean, you could
45:44
Speaker 4: go for a Leno in goal if you want to,
45:45
Speaker 4: but defensively, I'm not sure I would want to go there.
45:48
Speaker 4: But in attack, it does feel like these fixtures that
45:51
Speaker 4: they have coming up should be the moment. So defensively,
45:54
Speaker 4: I think if I was wildcarding, I'd be tempted to
45:56
Speaker 4: at least have one of those two differentials because if
45:59
Speaker 4: you go for Bournemouth and for Fulham, they're all under
46:03
Speaker 4: 10% owned. So going for a player from one of
46:05
Speaker 4: those two sides or one each is a nice way
46:09
Speaker 4: to differentiate your team without going really, really rogue because
46:13
Speaker 4: for Bournemouth, we're seeing the form and for Fulham, we
46:15
Speaker 4: have the fixtures as well.
46:17
Speaker 1: Bournemouth have a little bit of bias towards them so
46:19
Speaker 1: they could, well, there could be a spot in my team.
46:22
Speaker 1: And to be honest, like, I've got two Newcastle players.
46:25
Speaker 1: I'm not totally sold on Newcastle. And of course, there's
46:28
Speaker 1: the international break. There's still, I mean, England has still
46:30
Speaker 1: got to play how many more games? Like four games
46:33
Speaker 1: or something ridiculous? A lot of teams have got to
46:35
Speaker 1: play loads. So there's plenty of opportunities for, I don't know,
46:39
Speaker 1: someone to get injured and all of that to change.
46:41
Speaker 1: And then my front three hasn't changed at the moment,
46:43
Speaker 1: but will. We've already addressed the Pedro elephant in the room.
46:47
Speaker 1: We're just waiting on news of him. He could well
46:51
Speaker 1: be a sold.
46:51
Speaker 2: Where would you go if he's out?
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Speaker 3: Isak?
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Speaker 1: I would, I would, no, I wouldn't be able to.
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Speaker 2: She can't have the money for Isak.
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Speaker 1: I would go down. I think I would really, and
47:01
Speaker 1: I'd put more money into my midfield.
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Speaker 2: Oh, burn the slot?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
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Speaker 2: You haven't bench boosted though yet, have you?
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Speaker 1: No, that's the only thing. But then I've got three
47:10
Speaker 1: transfers after. And I think there's some, I think even
47:13
Speaker 1: like a Barry or someone like that, that's saving me
47:17
Speaker 1: two million. Oh, just that low? Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Costulas actually took a price rise the other day
47:23
Speaker 1: and I considered. bringing him in just to take that
47:26
Speaker 1: slot for now but I didn't do it in the
47:27
Speaker 1: end Calvert-Lewin's still in but I think there's a conversation
47:30
Speaker 1: to be had there in terms of I think there's
47:33
Speaker 1: there's some good options there and there is a world
47:34
Speaker 1: where if Charles Pedro comes back fit and we know
47:37
Speaker 1: he's gonna be available for for the next game week
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Speaker 1: then I could just sell I'd take Calvert-Lewin down a
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Speaker 1: little bit and just take a little bit more money
47:44
Speaker 1: out of him I find him hard to sell because
47:46
Speaker 1: he's been he has been so good but then they
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Speaker 1: didn't score last week and I'm it doesn't take much
47:51
Speaker 1: for me to go and And they've got Arsenal away next.
47:54
Speaker 1: But then Arsenal and Manchester United, although Manchester United is
47:58
Speaker 1: another conversation. Bruno was a large part of the reason
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Speaker 1: I wildcarded as well. Sam, Jules has mentioned that he's
48:04
Speaker 1: considering sorting his Bruno-sized headache. What I will say is
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Speaker 1: the moment I sold Bruno on this wildcard, it frees
48:10
Speaker 1: up so many other possibilities in terms of my midfield
48:14
Speaker 1: feels all a little bit more balanced. Like taking 12
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Speaker 1: million or whatever it is out of your team is scary,
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Speaker 1: but also good. Has he fallen yet? He was due
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Speaker 1: to fall. I don't know why I sold him early on.
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Speaker 2: I don't think he has. We'll check. I think he's
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Speaker 2: still at 12.
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Speaker 1: That's annoying for me.
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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I'm at a point where with him, I think,
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Speaker 4: oh no, he has fallen.
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Speaker 2: He's 11.9.
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Speaker 1: Also, that came into my thinking. I got reared and
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Speaker 1: I thought if I have real FOMO of Bruno or
48:43
Speaker 1: something happens over the international break or want him back,
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Speaker 1: I can actually buy him back a bit cheaper.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 4: That's never a bad thing when they're sitting on a
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Speaker 4: price that's been their price the whole time, because you can,
48:53
Speaker 4: if they do drop, you'll gain out of that.
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Speaker 2: See, Bruno is a reason why I.
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Speaker 4: Haven't wildcarded this week, because he faces Spurs next. And despite,
49:03
Speaker 4: you know, us talking about Van Hek and my Spurs
49:07
Speaker 4: biases that come out every now and then, I do
49:11
Speaker 4: think that they could do quite well against us, particularly
49:13
Speaker 4: in attack. So it's at Old Trafford as well. So
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Speaker 4: I'm going to just give him one more week, see
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Speaker 4: how he performs in that game against Spurs, and then
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Speaker 4: I'll make a decision from there. Because to be honest
49:23
Speaker 4: with Bruno, every midfielder is viable from him. So it
49:27
Speaker 4: gives me an opportunity to just go, okay, let's watch
49:30
Speaker 4: one more week. Let's give him that Spurs.
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Speaker 2: Game where I think he actually could potentially do quite well.
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Speaker 4: And in the moments that follow, there's an opportunity then
49:39
Speaker 4: to go anywhere else from him instead. And it might
49:43
Speaker 4: be that that coincides with selling Spurs Solis to go
49:47
Speaker 4: up to Saka or similar so we'll kind of cross
49:50
Speaker 4: that bridge for game week seven I think Jules what
49:53
Speaker 4: are you going to do with him?
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Speaker 3: Yeah I think I'll do the same I'll give him
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Speaker 3: one more chance and then see what happens but I
49:59
Speaker 3: just think with the ball they've been struggling.
50:02
Speaker 1: I can see it now it's bad.
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Speaker 3: It's okay because you know you'll have Tavernier instead.
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Speaker 1: And Sharda and all those other top... And at last
50:12
Speaker 1: I'll have Pascal Gross if I get sent off or something.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: About 800 million in the bank.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. You'd be really rich in the bank.
50:18
Speaker 4: I'm actually surprised you can't afford ESAC with that midfield.
50:23
Speaker 1: I've got 0.5 in the bank. My team value isn't great.
50:26
Speaker 1: That's why I also wanted to use this break. That
50:28
Speaker 1: was a big part of the reason because I remember
50:30
Speaker 1: one of my learnings from last year was saying I
50:32
Speaker 1: wildcarded too late and it really affected my team value.
50:34
Speaker 1: And so I went, I've got 0.5. I don't know
50:37
Speaker 1: what my team value is overall. Right, I'm getting messages
50:39
Speaker 1: saying we've got more over. Guys, we've got two more
50:42
Speaker 1: pods before there's any more football. And I promise you
50:44
Speaker 1: my wildcard will have changed a lot in that time.
50:46
Speaker 1: So you can continue assessing it.
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Speaker 3: You can do the whole next week's show on your
50:50
Speaker 3: wildcard if you want. Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 4: No, no, it's stressing me out too much.
50:54
Speaker 1: Right, okay. As I said, no FPL for absolutely ages,
50:56
Speaker 1: which is a bit rubbish, especially if you've got a
50:57
Speaker 1: wildcard active.
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Speaker 2: Because it means a lot of stressing.
51:01
Speaker 1: But no, I'm actually quite enjoying it. It gave me
51:03
Speaker 1: a little bit of fun after a really stressful game
51:04
Speaker 1: week because... I could rage transfer out of all of
51:07
Speaker 1: those players with blanks pretty much. Just remind though, if
51:11
Speaker 1: you aren't playing your wild card, don't be too, don't
51:13
Speaker 1: use all your transfers now. Keep an eye on the
51:15
Speaker 1: price change, of course, but so much can happen because
51:17
Speaker 1: there's so much football, not Premier League football, international football
51:21
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51:24
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