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S7 Ep7: FPL Pod: Salah must-have on Wildcard · FPL Pod

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  Speaker 1: Three weeks in and we're already on an international break.
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  Speaker 1: We're taking stock by talking wild cards is big at
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  Speaker 1: the back back and we're desperate for Trenton Sellar after
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  Speaker 1: Liverpool's strong starts. Hello and welcome back to the FPL pod.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: You know the drill by. Now it's an international break,
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  Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean that we are going anywhere. San
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  Speaker 1: boron field tune and Lao alongside me, Sam. How are
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  Speaker 1: we already at the first international break? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It feels really quick, doesn't it. Like last year was
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  Speaker 1: after game week five? I think, so it's after game
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  Speaker 1: week three. It feels really early this year. But it's
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  Speaker 1: nice to stop and have a breath and reflect. I guess, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's reflect a bit. Juells morning, how are you feel
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  Speaker 1: about your team?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was not a great week sixty six. I
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  Speaker 2: mean it's not bad sixty six, just slightly above average.
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  Speaker 2: But there's obviously players in and that's the good thing
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  Speaker 2: I guess about this international breaks that you can look
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  Speaker 2: at your players and people that you fancied at the
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  Speaker 2: start of this season and now after three games you
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  Speaker 2: have a bit of a feeling of who's doing well,
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  Speaker 2: what team are doing well. What's working was not working
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  Speaker 2: for you, but also for the real players and the
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  Speaker 2: real managers in real life, not just in the game.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a good time for something.
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  Speaker 2: It might be a bit early to change everything and
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  Speaker 2: play worldouts. Some want to wait follow the next international
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  Speaker 2: break next month, which will arrive.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's what you do, isn't it. Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Usually I like it, but others might feel like right
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  Speaker 2: now is the time to change five, six, seven, eight
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  Speaker 2: players whatever you want in your squad. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: good time because I think you've you have a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a trend now of what's been working. You see
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  Speaker 2: the team that do well, the ones that maybe are
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  Speaker 2: on the web, the ones on the way down. Even
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  Speaker 2: after three games, you got more of a feeling, really
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  Speaker 2: than a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: How are you feeling about your teams?
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  Speaker 3: Then?
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  Speaker 1: I still really like my team. There's a couple of
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  Speaker 1: players in there that I would happily swop for somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: I feel a bit bad. I'd really like a new goalkeeper.
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  Speaker 3: That's nothing new.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you'll be on your so much like
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  Speaker 1: I with the same goalkeeper as you at the start.
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  Speaker 1: No one knows, Kelly. I mean me and goalkeepers. We
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  Speaker 1: have a very much a love hate relationship and I
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  Speaker 1: love them, they seem to hate me and bringing me
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  Speaker 1: any points. So I would like to change my goalkeeper.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I had the strategy right in pre
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  Speaker 1: season when I had Reya for all that time and
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  Speaker 1: then saved the money and went instead with Henderson, and
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  Speaker 1: I'd really like to fix that. And there are a
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  Speaker 1: couple of other positions where I'm kind of looking and
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  Speaker 1: going Barco for example, now that he's gone headache, I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to sort that. But the rest of my team
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at and I'm thinking with the exception of Salah,
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  Speaker 1: who I'd obviously like, but don't have the rest of them,
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  Speaker 1: I'm still quite happy with. Okay, Well, we'll come on
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  Speaker 1: to our teams in a bit more detail, maybe our
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  Speaker 1: plans for them very shortly. Do you know what I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do this early on because I did it
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  Speaker 1: very late in the last podcast. Let's check in with
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  Speaker 1: the FPL pod Mini League. I'm meant to do that
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning, so I'll follow instructions today. A reminder
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  Speaker 1: if you haven't joined our o J it's Q seven
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  Speaker 1: y c zero and there's actually some new at the top.
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  Speaker 3: I and a Langer.
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  Speaker 1: Their team, Young Bucks had a game week score of
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  Speaker 1: ninety eight, so close to that one hundred. They did
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  Speaker 1: play their free hit chip, meaning they had all three
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  Speaker 1: of the week's top scoring players and very jealous of
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  Speaker 1: this in Salah, Harland and Boomer Iander has now plaid
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  Speaker 1: both their free hit and triple captain chip in the
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  Speaker 1: opening three game weeks of the season. But I'm guessing
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  Speaker 1: I also triple captain Harland the week before, so that's
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  Speaker 1: probably two very very good uses of chips. James White
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  Speaker 1: is in second his team is Joe Linton Enjoyer guessing
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  Speaker 1: a Newcastle fan. They've got ninety seven points for the week,
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  Speaker 1: but it's been chip happy so far, playing the wild
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  Speaker 1: card for game week three and the three hit and
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  Speaker 1: bench boot chips in game weeks one and two. That
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  Speaker 1: means he now and he has triple captain to play. Also,
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  Speaker 1: big shout out to Brett wind him in eighth place,
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  Speaker 1: the only manager in our top ten to reach the
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  Speaker 1: all important one hundred club this week. He got one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and two points and triple captain Harland for his
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  Speaker 1: second hat trick. Of the season. It's already getting very
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  Speaker 1: interesting at the top. So in terms of our mini league,
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  Speaker 1: for once, I got the most out of the three
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  Speaker 1: of us, I should say four, because he's still in
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  Speaker 1: our league. We won't mention him because well, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: we have to mention it. And why do I make
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  Speaker 1: me and jewles because he.
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  Speaker 2: Was terrible this week because he didn't captain Harland, Yes exactly,
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  Speaker 2: that's why right to be clever?
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  Speaker 1: Didn't he?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, too clever? And you know and come on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what you're doing? Won't let you back on this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm joking, I'm being mean as well. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I got seventy eight somehow, which was quite useful, to
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  Speaker 1: be honest, because I had a bit of a poor
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  Speaker 1: start to the season. Sam still LEAs the way with
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  Speaker 1: sixty nine points two hundred and eighteen overall. I'm in
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  Speaker 1: second place on two hundred and seven overall. Jeweles got
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  Speaker 1: sixty six for the game because he said, and he's
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  Speaker 1: on two hundred and five. Would you say at this point, Jules,
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  Speaker 1: you're on course of where you thought you were going
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  Speaker 1: to be. Are you happy with how the start's gone?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you always won more points obviously, but to
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  Speaker 2: be fair, as we always say, this is a long season,
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  Speaker 2: it's a Martha, and there's plenty more points to get
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  Speaker 2: more players to find.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing I.
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  Speaker 2: Would say right now is because, which is normal a
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  Speaker 2: start of any season, a lot of the managers have
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  Speaker 2: similar players, which is true. You go for the for
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  Speaker 2: the same names, and it's important to find differentials already,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what that's what set you up. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: you can find the right captain and and we've mentioned
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  Speaker 2: Ian and Haland if you if you miss this one out,
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  Speaker 2: then it's hurting you massively. But even outside that, if you,
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  Speaker 2: for example, if you went with Salah and Haland, if
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  Speaker 2: you were either brave enough or if you were happy
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  Speaker 2: with your team with those two, which I wasn't, that's
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  Speaker 2: why I didn't keep that drafting, which maybe I should have,
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  Speaker 2: but at them on the moment, I was just not
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  Speaker 2: happy with the players around them. Then obviously, Salain halland
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  Speaker 2: have forty one points each already in the game. That's
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  Speaker 2: eighty two points just for the two of them. So
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty incredible when you think about it. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: and that's with that captaincy. So this is this is
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  Speaker 2: good if you've started well with those players, if you
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  Speaker 2: had found differentials already, even better. So if you had
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  Speaker 2: well back from the beginning or very very soon after
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  Speaker 2: game with one somebody like that, it's massive. If you
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  Speaker 2: had Trent or the Liverpool defenders, because they're the only
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  Speaker 2: teams who haven't considered yet, obviously that's great.
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  Speaker 3: So it's all of that. So I'm where I am now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you can really have any regrets after
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  Speaker 2: three game weeks unless you've played the chip.
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  Speaker 3: And you played it badly.
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  Speaker 2: But outside of that, I don't think I could have
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  Speaker 2: any regrets, and I don't think really anybody should, because
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  Speaker 2: it's only three games. You've tried things that you thought
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  Speaker 2: was good, players that you like, players that you saw
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  Speaker 2: in preseason, player that you saw game WITHK one game
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  Speaker 2: week two, and like we said earlier, now it's the
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  Speaker 2: right time if you want to match adjustment or changes,
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  Speaker 2: food changes, little changes doesn't matter so much. But it's
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  Speaker 2: hard to have regrets after three game weeks really, unless
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  Speaker 2: you've done something silly.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, sure, do we all regret having Barkay from Brighton?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: But it's on your bench. Yeah, I see, Well, even
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  Speaker 2: of course you do. But he's on your bench, and
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  Speaker 2: I think he could have stayed there. I'm not even
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  Speaker 2: sure even if he had been a Brighton player, how
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  Speaker 2: much we would have played him anyway considering the schedule.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, you're right, this is one of the little
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  Speaker 2: things maybe you would have done differently. But on the
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  Speaker 2: bigger picture, after three games, I think it's hard to
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  Speaker 2: have really big, big regrets.
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  Speaker 1: I think my big regret is probably not going bold
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  Speaker 1: and doing the Holland and Sala wild Yeah not sorry,
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  Speaker 1: the draft at the beginning of the season. Because those
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  Speaker 1: managers that have got Holland and Sala to this point, Sam,
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  Speaker 1: they've been rewarded, haven't they for stripping the rest of
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  Speaker 1: their team essentially? They have. But also I think if
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  Speaker 1: you had Lewis Dass instead of Sad, we went the
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  Speaker 1: wrong way. Maybe didn't we. Yeah, it didn't feel that
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  Speaker 1: way in game we one did it? Like game week one,
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  Speaker 1: we were all like, okay, well jot, it feels like
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be okay. But game it's two and three.
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  Speaker 1: It's very much been Lewis Dass that's been the one
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  Speaker 1: that's been covering Salah from a Liverpool perspective, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that was what was difficult. So this week I
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  Speaker 1: was on for a huge green arrow and I was
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  Speaker 1: so happy with you on Saturday night, and then someday
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  Speaker 1: Roll Round Spurs lost for Esax squads, so I was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: my FBL team is at least doing well. My actual
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  Speaker 1: teams in the mud, but there you are. And then
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  Speaker 1: the game kicked off and only having Jotta. The impact
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  Speaker 1: on my rank was absolutely huge because obviously the clean
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  Speaker 1: sheets stuck for Trent and Robertson and Allison. There was
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  Speaker 1: goals for Sealer and there were goals for Das and
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  Speaker 1: all of that stuff. Was just like, oh, this is
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  Speaker 1: having a knock on impact, and it has. That's probably
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  Speaker 1: for me. The one thing I need to think about
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  Speaker 1: is Liverpool. I wasn't exactly sure what we'd see from
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  Speaker 1: Liverpool on the slot, and therefore I've played it a
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  Speaker 1: little bit safer with my investment there at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the season. Now I think that's the area of
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  Speaker 1: my team that I need to fix the most and
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  Speaker 1: make sure that I'm a bit more heavily invested in
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  Speaker 1: Liverpool moving forward. Yeah, I think there'll be a few
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  Speaker 1: managers thinking that and as a result, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: managers will probably be tempted into a wild card. As
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  Speaker 1: George mentioned, a really popular time of the season to
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  Speaker 1: play it. As it stands, so we're recording this week
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday morning. First thing, there's over four hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eighty thousand World Cards active. There's already a few people
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  Speaker 1: that have gone big with their drible captain, but a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these are on Harland just because he's got
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  Speaker 1: Brentford at home and they're thinking, come on, he keeps
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  Speaker 1: getting these hat tricks. And there's over a one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and ten thousand of those active, over sixty seven thousand
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  Speaker 1: three hits and over forty two thousand bench boosts. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it does feel like international breaks are a popular time
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  Speaker 1: for wild cards in particular, and Sam, can you understand
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  Speaker 1: people playing them even as early as three game weeks in.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also going to buy it the way at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out Glenn Murray who told me he actually played
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  Speaker 1: his wildcard last week. He had an amazing week. He
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  Speaker 1: got about ninety points. But I was on the train
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  Speaker 1: back from Manchester with him on Saturday and he said,
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  Speaker 1: I've had a really great week, but I've got to
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  Speaker 1: admit I played by wild Card already, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't hate that. I do think there's merit and
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: if your team isn't performing, sort it out. Do you agree, Sam? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's interesting because obviously Lee played his last week and
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: it went well for the most part. I think there's
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  Speaker 1: pros and cons to doing it both ways. Obviously, there's
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: pros to going early, like we spoke about last week,
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  Speaker 1: and that you can get on people quickly as the
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  Speaker 1: fixture runs are about to happen. But there's also pros
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  Speaker 1: of leaving it later, particularly now that we can roll transfers.
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  Speaker 1: If you are relatively happy with your team and you
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  Speaker 1: don't have any major issues, then you could do it
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  Speaker 1: that way. I think for me, the international break always
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  Speaker 1: feels like a nice time to wild Card. It gives
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  Speaker 1: you two weeks of thinking time and you're not feeling
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  Speaker 1: quite so rushed into making decisions, like there's nothing worse
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  Speaker 1: than trying to make them. I think, like you did
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  Speaker 1: last year, hout was between a weekend game weekend and
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  Speaker 1: midweek game week. Yeah, I did. Having that short amount
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  Speaker 1: of time, there's not enough time to think about it,
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  Speaker 1: whereas over an international breakup, so you get the for
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  Speaker 1: two weeks. It means you can deal with injuries that
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: come pre the international break, but also you can watch
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: performing injuries and later returns and stuff over the international break.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it also means that you can work
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  Speaker 1: on your team value, and for me, that's something that's
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: really important at this point in the season. You're trying
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: wherever you can at this point to catch the price
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  Speaker 1: wise is before they happen, and to get off players
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  Speaker 1: before they take a price drop, because that will improve
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  Speaker 1: your team value. And whilst at the moment that's probably
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  Speaker 1: not making much difference, sort of point one point two
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  Speaker 1: here or there, by the time we get to Christmas
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  Speaker 1: January and you're looking at your second World card, if
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: you've successfully got on the players that have taken price risers,
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: then we could be in a position where by January
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: your team budget is like one point one point three million,
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  Speaker 1: and that extra three million goes a long way in
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  Speaker 1: bringing you in all of the kind of key players.
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  Speaker 1: So there's definitely merit in going early with the wildcard
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  Speaker 1: and playing the game of price changes to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that your team has the best value possible. Okay, just
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  Speaker 1: checking none of us. Are World Card in this week?
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  Speaker 1: Are we not yet?
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  Speaker 3: No? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: So Sam, if you have, for example, you've rolled down
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  Speaker 2: your transfer, so you've got five free transfers. By the
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  Speaker 2: time you play your wild card, you keep them, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't cancel them like you used to, right, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So when you come back out of your wildcard,
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  Speaker 1: any transfers that you had will still be sitting there
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  Speaker 1: waiting for you to use.
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  Speaker 2: Because there's also so let's say you don't want to
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: play your Worldcard now because ideally you wanted to play,
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  Speaker 2: you want to play next international break, which by the way,
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  Speaker 2: will be a month after the end of this one
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  Speaker 2: pretty much. I think there's four or five game weeks
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  Speaker 2: between the two, so that goes really quickly. So you
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  Speaker 2: can easily play your Worldcard now, and then by the
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  Speaker 2: time the next international break comes, you've got your five
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  Speaker 2: free transfer to do. Which, as we've been saying from
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  Speaker 2: the beginning, with this new rule, it's almost half of
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  Speaker 2: a kind of half of a World Card if you want,
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  Speaker 2: because you can change five of your eleven starters for example,
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  Speaker 2: pretty much if you have the money and if things
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  Speaker 2: for in the right places. So this is something that
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: you can easily do play your worldcard now, and even
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: if that worldcoud works for four game weeks, then you
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  Speaker 2: still have plenty and you've rolled on your transfers, you
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  Speaker 2: still have plenty of stuff that you can do by
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  Speaker 2: the next international break. So I find this new role
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  Speaker 2: on five free transfers that you even keep when you
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: play like you're a world card for example.
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  Speaker 3: Super useful for that.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're in between, you're not sure what to do,
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  Speaker 2: you can easily do that worldcard now and then have
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  Speaker 2: this mini world card in four game weeks or five
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  Speaker 2: game weeks, depending on how many free transfers you have
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 1: I thought I was going to be really clever then
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  Speaker 1: be able to help my transfers into these many world cards,
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  Speaker 1: but it's actually really hard to hold onto the transfers.
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  Speaker 3: Do you not find jews, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I guess it will depend on every manager, because if
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  Speaker 2: you're happy with your team and you just feel lesser,
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  Speaker 2: for example, like a Jota who hasn't really fired as
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: much as we've been saying with Dias or Salad, but
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  Speaker 2: you feel this is just a question of time until
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: he also scores. Because it's inevitable. Jota is not going
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  Speaker 2: to finish the season on two goals, it's not he's
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  Speaker 2: too good for that and Liverpool are far too good
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  Speaker 2: for that too.
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  Speaker 3: So it depends how you feel about the players that
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  Speaker 3: you have.
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  Speaker 2: If you've got, okay, somebody long term injury or like
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  Speaker 2: a Baco that you want to change, or if you're
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: not sure about what kings. So Solanki for example, up front,
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  Speaker 2: but we said about Eastad, didn't we let's give him
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  Speaker 2: a bit more time because again there was no way
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  Speaker 2: Issac would not score at some points, especially playing Spurs
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  Speaker 2: at the weekend, so we were right to keep him.
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  Speaker 2: But so if you're happy with your team, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's easier obviously to roll on your transfers. Then if
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: you feel like, okay, I need to move him, I
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  Speaker 2: need to change him. I don't have a good feeling
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  Speaker 2: about him. He's got tough fixtures coming up, et cetera,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera, But I don't think I think the insane
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  Speaker 2: of having all those free transfers, so up to five
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  Speaker 2: of them.
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  Speaker 3: It's really really good. So I for me, it's actually
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  Speaker 3: the other around.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: Kids, I felt like, okay, yeah, I want to keep
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: them a bit longer, and then I can have three
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: free transfers in one game week or four in one
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: game wek or even five, which is amazing.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: Really yeah, I wanted to do that, but then I
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: had obviously the world's worst defense, so I have to
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: and I was just felt like there was a headache
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: after headache coming up. But yeah, I know what you mean.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: I know what you mean. It's certainly making the game
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: more interesting as well, which is always good. Okay, So
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: we've said over four hundred and eighty thousand managers are
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: currently World carding. We expect that to absolutely shoot up,
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: so we often do this in international breaks, but we
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: give you an idea of the best players to target
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: on your World card, and this is useful even if
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: you aren't activating the chip, because of course, it basically
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: just means we're going through the best players in each position.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: So we'll starting goal And for some reason, I'm going
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: to go to some on this. Why because going to
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Jeles last twice so I've expertise clearly your expertise of
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: the last few seasons. This is my area of absolutely specialism,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: the goalkeepers. I think this season we were hoping that
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: there were going to be some really good four point
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: five options, and so far that just hasn't really been
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: the case. I think in pre season most people were
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: looking at going for a Fleckin' or a Henderson and
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: if you were going in at that cheaper price point,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: or maybe even an Ariola, who you'd have been really
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: annoyed about at the weekend when he went off at halftime.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: But I think for me, if you want to go
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: for a four point five right now, I'd go for
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Fleckin even with Manchester City up next, because after you
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: get past the Manchester City and Spurs games, the Brentford
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: fixtures are really nice then for a long time. So
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: you have the west Ham Walls, Manchester United, It's which Fulham, Bournemouth.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: It goes on and on and on and on and on.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: So that feels like the kind of run that you
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: would want to invest in if you are going in
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: the four point five bracket. But my honest opinion right
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: now is that the value with the goalkeepers is coming
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: in the more expensive premium ones or the allisons, And
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: I think if I was wild carding right now, that's
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: what I would do. I'd go for David Raya or
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: if you think you'd prefer to use your three arsenal
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: assets differently, So you would prefer to go for don't know,
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Saliba Saka and have its for example, or Gabrielle and
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Saliba as you'll double up defensively. Then I get that.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe then you look at Alison at Liverpool. But I
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: think that's the only negative between going for one of
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: those is it takes up one of those all important
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: three slots from the two teams that you probably want
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: to invest in most bar Manchester City and so right
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: now would go Raya. But Fleckin is the other option.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: If you want to hold your arsenal spots for someone else,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: you always looking smug. You've got flecking, an't you?
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: I've got flecking.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: But to be fair, I thought we would have more
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: points bright now and I've got because.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: You know Paris Bone and Breaden is my boy, ETCeteras.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: So there are players I need to have otherwise they
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: won't be happy and they would cross with me, so
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: I need to have him. I think it's a really
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: really interesting debate about gold keepers because if you look
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: at Edison, even like who would have thought City could
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: consider against if switch at home even west Ham away
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: and the fact that he doesn't do any SAVI because
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: it has nothing to do in games really because they
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: are that good already, and yet there's still two of
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: those three first games of the season where they haven't
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: kept the clinch eat and he didn't get the points
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: that Alison, who hasn't considered the toll yet.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Has got for example.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: So Riya Alison at the top day maybe where we
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: expected them to be and fair enough. But for Edison,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: I think he's the one that really is disappointed. Not
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: him personally, but overall. The fact that he doesn't have
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: more points at this stage after the three games that
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: they had is quite surprising.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, so do you agree that Flecking is the best
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: four point five option if a manager is going to
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: go that way for Chie, Yeah.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: I think the best conbo right now is Ria and Flecking.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: I think really, if you can, if you have that
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: kind of money for your two golkeepers and you can
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: go for it, I think them too are.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Even maybe more than Alison. I would go Riyer and Flecking.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: The other option is to go for Murick at Ipswich
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: because they are top of the fixture ticket defensively from
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: game with four to game Week fifteen, So it depends
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: on how much you trust Ipswich, but actually defensively, by
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: the fixtures that they have, he would be the one
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: to go with. So if you want to do pairing
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: four and a half, then you could go for a
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Flecken with Muick. That wouldn't be any sensations ago for
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Allison because he's kept he's been keeping the clean sheets
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: for Liverpool. Or is it a case that you'd rather
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: have a Trent or a Liverpool defender? Sam?
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: I think that's the problem, isn't it with Allison? Is
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: that you've got Trent and you've got Robertson And when
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: you look at the numbers for those two, they are
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: already looking like they're going to be the Trent and
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Robbo that we saw like two three seasons ago when
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: we were all like, oh yeah, let's go big at
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the back and we'll spend all this money on the defenders.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: It feels that way again with those two, particularly with
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the way that Trent is inverting this season, the way
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: that they're playing his set piece threat, all of that
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: means that I am very are we getting Trent this week?
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: That are like whether I wildcard or not that's going
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: to happen. So that would mean that I'm locked on
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: my Liverpool slots because then I've got Jotta obviously as well.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: And if I then did the Allison pick, that would
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: lock me out of having Salah at any point, and
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: that feels like a position I really really don't want
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: to put myself in because then that definitely is a
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: wildcard because you're making multiple changes to deal with that issue.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: And I think that's the issue I have with Allison.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: He feels like it might be an unfortunate casualty of
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: the fact that if I wanted to double up on
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the Liverpool defense, I would do it with Trent and
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Robbo because of the way that they're playing right now,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: or even Trent and Van Dijk because you just have
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: that a little bit of additional threat that you don't
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: really get with Alison. Yeah, definitely something to think about
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: in terms of how many players you can have from
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: each of these top sides. You almost have to plan
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: your city, your arsenal, your Liverpool slots in particular, don't you,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: because you know at some point you're probably going to
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: want to max out on them. Okay, so we've pretty
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: much in agreement. It sounds like they're on the goalkeepers
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: view and four point five with another option names which
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: of course as well and if you want to go
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: bigger then David Ryer looks the best option there at Arsenal. Okay, defenders,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Sam's already revealed she's going to be bringing in Trent
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Alexandra Onald this week. Joes would he make your top
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: kind of wish list for defenders and who else would?
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: I would love to.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I mean we've said the Liverpool boys because they haven't
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: considered yet in the three games they're played, So Virgin, Robertson,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Trent fantastic because they have the right at the top
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: of the defenders with the most points naturally because they
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: haven't conceded and they've been really really good as well
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: on the ball for all of them. So the thing
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: with Robertson and Virgil they one million less than Trend,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: so Trent as seven million with super high ownership obviously
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: because well done to the I think thirty percent of
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: managers who went with him who have him currently is
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: great compared to I think Virgin is fourteen percent. And
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: then Robertson is still a differential because he's less than
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: ten percent on for now, I'm a man. Is some
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: that none of them have gone up in price, so
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: no plus zero point one million on top of them.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: So Trenty is still at seven and Robertson and Van
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Dyke still at six. So right now is there is
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: the right time probably to bring one one in if
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: you want, before the price goes up. But yeah, without
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: a doubt they have. There are the three best defenders
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: to have in the game right now, simply because defensively
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: they've been just perfect.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Sam, I hopefully agree with everything Jews just said.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: And I think Doublin that breaks me out when that happened. Yeah,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I know it's weird, isn't it. Here Jews loves it
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: when it happens though, because he's like, I'm just NETI.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I's not watching on YouTube, he's reading. He's holding up
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: his notepads.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: What does it say, talent, planning and vision The key
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: is they are the keys here, people, they are the
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: recip for success.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I imagine we've got a few new listeners. Actually this
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: is my hopes. So anyway, a few new listeners. He
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: maybe don't know that last year when we did ask
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: jewels the secret to his rather staggering success.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: To be honest, logic no logic unexpected.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently talents, planning and vision are the key. And
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: he has got a notepad for winning our mini league.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: We did get him a notepad that says it, and
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: he loves now that we are not only an audio podcast,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: also visually he's now celebrating. He's waving to all of
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: the fans a year old of them. Back to defenders, Sam, Yeah,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: so I fully agree with Jews on the Liverpool boys,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: and I think doubling up on them. If I was wildcarding,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: that's what I'd do. I'd have two Liverpool defenders right now.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I just think that the way they're playing is madness.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Then I probably would stick. I said when I was
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: going into the season that I would be selling Pedro
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Porrow after game week two. Now, even with Spurs' defensive fragility,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I would still keep Pedro Poro if I was wildcarding
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: right now. He has had eight attempts on goal so far.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: They see it, and that's more than any other defender.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: And only Trent has created more chances for his teammates
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: of the defenders than Poro has, and it's only by one,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Trent's created seven and Poro has created six. The way
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: that Spurs are playing, Poro is basically in the box
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: most of the time. When I look for him on
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the pitch, I'm like, where's Poro?
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Now? Oh?
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: There, he is right on the edge of the box.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: He's having shots all the time. So I think I
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: would be looking to keep him because, like, Spurs haven't
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: kept clean sheets in two of their matches, and he's
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: been averaging five point three points per start. So when
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: you consider the returns that he's getting and in two
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: of the three games he hasn't kept a clean sheet,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I think he's worth having in your team. So I
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: would still go big at the back. I'd have Trend,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I'd have Porro, and then I'd have an arsenal defender
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: at least one of them. Whether you want to go
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: for Ben White and spend a little bit more money,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: my personal preference is for for Saliba. Still, if you
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: want to go Gabriellen's dead, then that's fine. But yeah,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I think having an arsenal defender makes sense. They would
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: have kept a clean sheet as well at the weekend
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: were it not that declar right red card. I'm pretty
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: convinced of that, because it was only when they were
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: changing their the personnel around that they conceded. So I
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: think we could have had two teams with three straight
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: clean sheets and then we'd be talking about doubling up
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: on Arsenal's defense in the same way that we are Liverpool's.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Could this be the first point in the pot where
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: you guys disagree? Would you keep Poro on a world
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: cord Jews?
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree with something again, yeah no, no,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: But what bothers me is the fact that they would
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: always concede this because of the way play.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah no, no, no, But again.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: It's always the same. It's whoever you replace him with.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: If the guy who you replace him with gets more
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: points on Poro, then you've done the right thing. But
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I still think that is a good is a good
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: player to have in your squad because going forwards only,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: and I expect with the return of solank I hope
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: that Solanki will be the guy who will finally finish
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: all the chances that first created.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: For the players.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: So you know, I think it makes sense if you
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: think that suppose are going to keep scoring, attacking for sure,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: creating chances for sure. So they would keep scoring or
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: being close to scoring. So for that, Poro and whoever
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: you want from the Spers attack makes sense.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Also, sorry if I missed you saying this, have you
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: suggested a four or four point five million defender, because
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: if we're going to go big, if we're going to
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: have all these Liverpool boys, if you're going to keep
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: a Pedro Poro just quickly, does that mean you would
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: get rid of the likes of Vardiol because he's been
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: a real headache. Yeah, that's what you're doing him my
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: money this week.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, a big disappointment really, he's the one.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, massive disappointment because he's not even inverting in the
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: way that he did last season. Rika Lewis is doing
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: that on the other side. So you're not getting any
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: attacking threat really out of Vardiol. They're not keeping clean sheets,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: but that was the same last season. They didn't regularly
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: keep clean sheets towards the back end of last season,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: but Vardil made up for it because he was getting
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: attacking returns and he's not this year, so I'd lose him.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: That's what I'll be doing this week. And I think
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: there's two standout four point fives now in the game,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, one that Jue sold a couple of
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: weeks ago in leif Davis, I think you would have him.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: By the way, by the way, by the way.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Okay, what's coming here?
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: No?
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: You know my second assist theory that they should get no. No,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: But listen, listen the goal that if you scored the
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: weekend the Liam de Lap, great finish, great run with
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: the board that Davey's got an assist for a yard.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: It's a yard pass.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: An assist and a yard pass.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: It is all half and then Liam Delap has to
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: literally run fifty yards have an amazing shot almost in
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: the top corner to score a goal.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: And Davies gets the assist for nothing.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I heard he thanks, I heard he ran back and thanked.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: He didn't. I was watching that game.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I promise you he didn't would have made that pass.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: If you're upset about this one, how upset were you
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: about the Olive Watkins assist?
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: I mean I should never have no to be fair,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: that one does this counting.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: And both of those things. When I was watching these
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: come through, I was like Jewels is raging by this point,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: both of them. I was like, here will be furious
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: because there was also another one. It's just so good
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: though some when it happens, I'm like, yeah, I was
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: just because it was Davis. I was like, this is brilliant.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: He sold him Trent.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I saw Trent the other day with Gary Neville doing
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: some sort of interview I think for Sky and he
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: even Trent was saying, listen, the assistant there is assist
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: and assist because he was talking with him and Robertson
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: and taking kind of very kindly the make of Robertson
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: saying like his assist is just the past there and
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: then Mo Saralad does something amazing scores and then Robertson
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: gets this.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: But Trent is right, sometimes.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: An assist is not a necessary it should not be given,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Like how can Davies gets points for that, or even
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: like you said, Watkins anyway, go back on to your
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Davis point.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'd have Davis. He's created three chances so far,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: put in twelve crosses, he's taking five corners. He's the
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: first two game weeks of the season, a lot of people,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: like Jules did Will kind of look at the first
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: two games of the season and I get why people
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: did it. Moving to the Newcastle defense or moving somewhere
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: else with it, but which started the season with the
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: worst fixtures they could possibly have had, like it couldn't
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: have got any harder than Liverpool and Manchester City. Now
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: they're past those. As I said, defensively, they're top of
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the fixture ticket from game week four all the way
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: through to game week fifteen. So there should be some
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: clean sheets coming. There should be some more attacking threat
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: because he is he is very attacking. We saw that
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: in the Championship where he got eighteen assists last season.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: So I think I'd have him, and then I'd absolutely
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: keep Anthony Robinson from Fulham, create three chances, put in
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: ten crosses again, looking incredibly creative so far this season.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: So personally, I think I'm at the stage where if
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I was wild carding, I wouldn't have a four point
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: zero unless I absolutely had to for budget purposes. It's
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: missed off, my boy and more scare. He provides three points,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: don't you know? Big minus point no last week? Last
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: week he made it too points, which means for the
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: whole season overall, drum well, please, he's got me one point.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: The two was minus two and then it was the
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: one point the first week I didn't play him last week.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: You'll be pleased, no, I mean I don't. I think
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: the four point you've got some playing ones as you've
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: got Kelly, You've got a whole bettert as well. It's
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: one they don't play, but but if you can. Yeah,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: and actually he's probably the best one.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah he's four point one now because he obviously.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Price wise, but he's probably the best. But I would
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: try and find that extra budget to have two four
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: point fives because those four point fives are looking really
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: really nice. Okay, onto the midfielders then, and this is interesting.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Is Salah essential jewels if you are carding?
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: I think so, I really think so. I think everybody
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: should get him.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: We discussed it then in pre season in the previews
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: that we did, we were not really sure. Like like
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: we said earlier as well, like some said about how
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Liverpool played. I really thought that Liverpool would be less
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: winger orientated if you want. But then again, Yas and
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Salad don't play as a winger exactly like it was
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: on the club.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: They come inside far more so.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Now I think we've seen exactly what this slot Liverpool is,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: and they would get better because it's only three games
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: in so slot and his team and his philosophy and
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: the way they play the game, they would get better,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: all of them collectively and individually. So I think now
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: we know that Salah, even at thirty two, is a
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: freak of nature physically and an amazing player, which we
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: knew already before. But you think, okay, thirty two, new manager,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: probably potentially likely last season at the club, all of
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: the all of those things could have made us think okay,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: maybe not.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: And also the fight that he is super expensive.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: So, like we've said before, if you want Hal and Salad,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: that means that will impact the rest of your squad.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: And when I tried, I was not really happy with
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: the rest. I should have been happy and I should
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: have kept that draft, but I didn't like you kN So,
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: but yeah, I think Salah is the most and yeah,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: you can have Dias, But I think the counter argument
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: I would give to the Dias option because it's much
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: cheaper obviously than Salah is. Right now, if you had
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: to say who's going to keep that consistency and those
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: kind of numbers for the longest between Dias and Salah,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: you would better your house on Salah more than Dias.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: I love Diaz and he's a great player. The Salai
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Salah and I think Salah has done it for so
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: long that right now, if you had to between the two,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: choose who is going to be that good consistently this
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: season for the long run.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: I would go for Salad ahead of Diaz. And just
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: for that.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: It's where the extra whatever four million or whatever difference
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: there is between them two, because I'm not sure if
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: the as can continue like this for Salah you can
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: you kind of know that he will continue like this.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Then where do the sacrifices come from? Because ultimately, spoiler alert,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I'm guessing we're going to say you have to keep Harland. Yeah,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: you have to keep Harland, So how do we how
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: do we keep Salah? You have to make big success, Yeah,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: both of them. I think you have to sacrifice both
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: of them if you want to make a draft that
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: has And that's where I was. If you think back
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: to our preseason conversations, that's where we were. We were like, well,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: it's a team that doesn't have soccer in it. There's
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: no Arsenal attack. And I didn't feel comfortable about that either. Now,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: so far, this season. I think what's really interesting is
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: that I agree. I think Salah feels essential and if
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: you're wildcarding, I think you kind of have to get him.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: He's already taken a price rise this week, so he's
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: now gone up to twelve point six, so you've got
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: to find a little bit of extra budget now as well.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: That's making it a bit more difficult and I can
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: only see that continuing to go up over the next
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: few weeks. Same with Harlan. He's writing he's at fifteen
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: point two now, so again that's problematic. But I think
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: when you're looking at the midfield, if you really want Salah,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: which I think on wild card you have to, then
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: you have to be prepared to go without soccer or
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: any Arsenal attacker in the midfield anyway. You maybe can
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: afford to get to have it's up top, but you can't.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: You can't have soccer in the middle. Okay, So then
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: if you can't have a soccer, are you then going
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: without midfield arsenal cover? So yeah, because you can't afford
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: guard either, So the only way to do it is
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: to go with Deck and Rice, and I don't.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Think that somebody.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Can, but they're going to start that it's going to
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: cause your problems. So I think you have to basically
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: go without soccer and probably take have As as a
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: forward instead because it's that little bit cheaper than guard is,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: so it helps you with your budget and that feels
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: okay at the moment, but you would be without soccer
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: and I'll be honest, like not watching watching Liverpool not
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: having Salah in my team feels awful. I wouldn't feel
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: any better watching Arsenal without soccer in my team. So
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: there's always going to be a big compromise to make,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: and it's just what that compromise is. If you are
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: happy to go without Salah, then you can go for
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: a d I do wonder whether the arrival of kias
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: And might change the level of minutes Salah gates, because obviously,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: at the moment, Salah's been playing ninety minutes every week.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: He's not been substituted in that sixty seventy minute bracket
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: when the likes of Trent and Jotta and Dias have
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: all come off for the gap Pros and the Darwins
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: and the Connor Bradleys, because he hasn't really had a
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: like for like replacement for Salah that he could do
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: that with, whereas with Kiaser he does have that now.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: So maybe we might see Salah coming off a little
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: bit early. But look, I honestly think the Sala in
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: sixty minutes is still a player that you'd want to
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: have in your team, and it is just what it is.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: I think if you are having Salah, though, your midfield
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: then has to look more like Enbuemo and Esa and
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: players like that in that mid price bracket and you
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: have to just ignore basically anyone from Cole Palmer down
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: to about Urder. God. Col Palmer feels like he's kind
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: of finding some form at the wrong time. It's interesting,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: by the way, though, to see I think it's just
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: precautionary to see he has left the England square for
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: this international break. I don't know.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: There's a few. There's a few of them for all
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: countries that I've done that.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it always is with this early in spectional break,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: isn't it where there's kind of they're still getting over
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: the summer I suppose, and haven't been going for the season. Yeah.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Cole Palmer though, he's someone that I really want and
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I was thinking, oh my gosh, I've got to get
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: him in. But like you said, it's impossible, isn't it really,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: if you're going to go with Salah, yeah, I.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Think so, and Saka and Palma similar amount of Think
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: twenty five for Palama, twenty four for Soaka. So they
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: are where we expected them to be really, And don't
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: forget that cor Palmer had a really slow start of
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: last season before having this incredible form and for us
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: who one of the reason why I did so well
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: because I brought him in really really early, to be fair,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: and then he had this incredible run where he really
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: never after November and never looked back and kept scoring
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: and scoring and scoring and scoring. But he was obviously
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: much much cheaper than what he is now. So it's
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: again it's that balance where you go forwarhere you spend
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: your money on. If you think that Salah will bring
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: you more points, even if it's more expensive than and
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Saka and Palma that you can have instead, then then
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: go for it. But I think I think Liverpool will
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: be very good season. We've said it from the start.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: They will have a really good season. And now we
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: know that Sally is in that kind of form and
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Sam is right Bous I'm not even sure when k
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: I would be ready and how good it could be.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: And Sally is so fit that there's a player that
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: hasn't even been injured in the last eight years or
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: so almost so the guy can play nineteen minutes and
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: again and again and again when even the when the
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Championships starts mid September, I'm sure he will be able
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: to play every three days at the level that it
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: has been out now, even with that intensity, it's just incredible. Really,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: so even if you don't play your world card, find
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: a way of getting sala in.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Sam's probably a good point to mention in the pod
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: that you did actually come up with a most Salad
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: draft and a Harlan draft, because as we've said, we
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: none of us are bon becerus enough to go without Holland.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: And I think this is probably an interesting time in
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: the pod to bring it up. Just so, Jaws mentioned
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: the word balance there. It is getting that balance, isn't
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: it in terms of how much balance can you get
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: in your team? And when you made this team, which
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: will run through in a second, did you feel like
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: it had enough balance for you.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: It's a really good team.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: I think it doesn't sound I don't think it does
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: have the balance. So yes, I think it is a
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: good team, and a lot of them are just in
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: there for the price points that they give you. So
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: you know, like the goalkeeper is a four point five,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: you can go for however you like, You can go
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: for wherever you want to be. But I think my
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: issue with this team is that I've just spent the
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: last however long talking about defenders and how big at
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: the back feels like it's back and you could double
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: up on Trent and Robertson and you want Poro and
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: you want a couple of arsenal defenders. This team does
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: not have a single Arsenal player in it because I
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: can't get one in.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Replace with Harvard.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah correct, yeah, so exactly. So you could save a
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: little bit, and it's just about price points, right, So
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: you could take Watkins out and you could go to
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Havers instead. It's going to save you a little bit
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: of money, like point four. So that point four, then
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: you can put somewhere else and you could maybe upgrade
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: one of the defenders. But equally, you are kind of
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: locking yourself into these cheaper price points across the rest
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: of the team. Because you are going big everywhere else. Now.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: The other thing is that this team also has Trent,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: because for me, I feel like Trent is essential. You
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: could go with a Robertson instead, and then that would
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: save you a little bit more money, and then that
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: maybe allows you if you do the Trent to Robertson
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: and the Watkins to have it, that maybe gives you
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: the budget to get.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: H one eight million, because it is point eight between
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Watkins and Hats and a million between Robertson and Trent.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: So I think the team that you came up with
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: is good and can be even better.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Some everyone's probably going but we can't see this team.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Tell us this team, so run through it. And I
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: think that is an interesting what you made by you
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: said this is a lot about price points, so it's
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: not necessarily the exact players you'd have in each position. Yeah,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: So I think, and I did this as part of
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: you'll be able to see this on site as well.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: There's an article on the Premier League, so the Scout
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: article has this in it as well if you want
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: to look at it as well. But the briggan a
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: four point five. The brigand's there because actually the fixtures
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: are quite nice coming up as well, and Hertzeler said
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: that he was planning to not rotate goalkeepers this year,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: so that's helpful. And then Trent pal Torres and Davis
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: with Kilman and harbor Belli. So you do have to
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: have that four point zero defender there in this one,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Salah Bowen and again Bowen, you could drop down slightly
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: if you were happy to go for another, but I
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: do love Jarra Bowen. Yeah, and actually he's been really
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: good to start the season as a Semnia and then
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Harry Winks and then up top it has Harland Watkins
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: and well Beck. Wellbeck could be Jack Pedro if you
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: prefer Watkins, as we've talked about, could be Habits. I
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: think probably that's what I would do with this team.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: I would probably have have it over over Watkins. I
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: just feel like that would probably give you slightly better balance,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: and it gives you some arsenal as well.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: And some money in the bank.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, have you got money in the banks?
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: No?
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: No, I like the apic because we've had to wait
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: for him to come good. But he now feels like, hopefully,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: I'm saying this is an as owner. Hopefully that means
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: that his season is going to kick start from here.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Is an interesting pick as well. Yeah, what do you
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: make of that?
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we said it. I think it was one of
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: my differential for this week, the one you.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Didn't go for what I'm sure I didn't go for it?
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, you didn't.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: No. I think.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: We haven't got any differentials this week. And I was
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: really looking.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: He was on my list. It was on my list list. Yeah,
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: my list. Yeah, yeah, as well.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Loves who's almost you know, cam Runian, but he speaks
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: for he's almost French, so almost one of mine.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: And yeah, yeah, great.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: And I think Brighton I think sorry Bournemouth who were
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: not good at Everton, and the miracle that happened in
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: the last ten minutes of that incredible game I'm not
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: sure can be repeated ever by any teams anywhere with Semeneur.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Or with that something.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: But but he's he always in the right place at
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: the right time when something comes up.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: He's good. And I think Bournemouth will not have a
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: game like the one at Everton often so, so I
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: I think I van Neilson would get better for them
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: to up front, so that would benefit the White the
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: white players, whether Semeno Tavenue, whoever sinister are, whoever you
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: want so so this, Yeah, I think Semeni is really good.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: At his price, take him.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: It could be benched easily, there's no there's no problem
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: with that.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: So I yeah, I think it's a It should be
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: a popular, popular spot if you play Worldcome.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: He's returned in every game sover this season. Maybe he's
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: been overlooked a little bit sad because we've all been
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: talking about a Mel Smith, Brow Morgan Rogers by the
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: way our jewels greating is he becoming now.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Don't get me started on on Ronaldo Brazilian Rogers.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: I mean it's so so good and at some points
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: he will return. By the time he returns, we will
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: have the championship again.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yes, so sorry. That just reminded me of
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: the Morgan Rodgers anger that I've had, because every week
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: I look at my team and I think I quite
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: like that, and I think Rogers could get points this
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: week and he plays really well and gets absolutely nothing.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: But a player like sa Menu has probably been overlooked
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: because of the two players I mentioned at Mel Smith
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Rowan Rodgers. Absolutely, yeah, I think so, and I think
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: because of the fixtures being the way that they are
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: for aston Villa and people struggling to afford to have
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Oli Watkins and Oliwakins also not being in the best
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: form right now coming back from the summer with England,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: people have wanted enough way into aston Villa and Rogers
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: are spelt like the right one. Actually, the right option
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: if he wanted to go for aston Villa was to
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: go for Nana. Who is better for XG and XGI
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: And really last week I spent so long faffing about
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: which transferred to make who to go and CANKU two
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: and I ended up going for Rogers, although I was
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: very very close to go and Enboro last week and
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: I really regret the decision not to do that. But
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: I just liked the fixtures for aston Villa in the
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: next three more than I liked the ones for Brentford.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, look, if you've got Rogers, I
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: don't think you can sell him either at the moment
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: because you've you've got nice fixtures coming up. But I
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: do think if you're on wild card and you want
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: to stick at Villa, i'd move to Onana instead. Yeah,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: a really good point actually, and has had a brilliant,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: brilliant starts of the season there. Okay, so I think
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: we've we've discussed most of the midfield there. Forward Wise,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: let's just box off one forward, we're all having Earl
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: in Harland. You've got to spend it. What was is
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: he fifteen point two two now?
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: So also there's an element there we talked about price
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: rises before. You have to be going to have Earling
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Harland and you've got a wild card. It kind of
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: feels like you almost because it would be really hard
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: to get to him without doing major surger on your tea,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: wouldn't it. Does it feel like you have to get
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: him now, Sam, or you are going to get priced
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: out because imagine if he keeps going up, well, yeah,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: and it feels like it could happen because he's still
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: not that highly owned. The same with Salah, he's already
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: taken a price wise, he feels like he's going to
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: increase in price as well. And it does mean and
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: it's one of the problems with wild carding a bit
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: later is that you do risk the price rise is
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: having making it difficult for you to get those bigger
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: assets if they keep continuing to rise. For me, I
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: think Harlan is essential. I think you have to have him.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I just think not having him like he's barely in
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: games and yet then scores a hat trick, Like he's
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: not running around loads, he's just in the right place
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: at the right time. Everything about him is so confident
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: and comfortable this season, like he looks like a player
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: that's gonna have his best season in the Premier League
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: if he stays fit. And Yeah, for me, I think
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: he just feels like a no brainer. And I guess
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: the other benefit of wildcarding is that if you don't
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: have that money up top, as in you've got a
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: forward line this maybe got like Watkins Havetz and Joe
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Pedro in it, you've gotta move money around. So that's
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: going to take a lot of transfers to take that
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: money and put it up front, whereas in midfield you
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: might not have to do it quite too much. With Salah,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: if you've already got like a Parmer and you're prepared
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: to sacrifice him or I don't know, you've got KDB
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: or a Podon or someone like that, you might be
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: able to tweak your money around a bit easier. But
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: in that forward line, he's so much more expensive than
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: everyone else that getting that budget is going to mean
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: you have to you probably have to wild card to
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: get him. Okay, so Sam put Watkins and world Work
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: in a draft. I quite like those, but I personally
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: and I toyed with getting him the other week for
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: SLANKI and I didn't. I personally would like have Its
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: because also, if you're going to have a team that
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: doesn't have soccer in it goes back to you would
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: want Arsenal cover like you'd want me to cover as well,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: but it almost feels even more with Arsenal you need
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: some attacking cover. Would have Its make your front three
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: on the World card Jewels.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, ahead of Watkins for example, and
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: a few o those. If you obviously don't have Sakka
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: the guard in midfield, you need a national player there
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: and that's an attacker there. And Habits will miss chances,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: and we saw that against Brighton for example, where it's
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: called a brilliant goal but then should have had really
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: a second one in the second half, even at with
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: ten men.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: So there's there's the.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: That's the frustration part of having him, I think, because
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: he's still not yet a clinical striker, and he might
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: never be because he's just has other aspects to this
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: game that's great that Harland doesn't have, for example, or
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: even even somebody that Solanki doesn't have. So so I think, yeah,
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Hads is great. The other one I would mention because
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: again it's amazing, but keep in mind that both and
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Bomo and Wesa had a really good start of last
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: season and then after that kind of like slow down
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: a bit.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: They were still very good, but they slowed down.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: But Yo and Wisa is the fourth best striker like
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: attacker forward in the game right now, which blows my mind,
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: not just because it's parts bond and bread and obviously
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: is amazing just for that, but because I don't think
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: anybody would have said at the start of the season,
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: with all the options that you have up front with
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: the Solonki move Watkins after last season, Halan have it,
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: you know anyone that Wesa would do so well so early,
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: So well done to him. So Alan is on forty
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: one points and you've got well back. I think on
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: twenty four, who is the big surprise for sure? And
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: then and then we saw on twenty one and have
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: this on twenty two I think so well done. Still
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: low ownership at seven percent for Visa because you're only
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: six point one million, so it's really really good. Obviously,
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: money wise, you might not be able to put him
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: in your draft or in your World card or in
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: your team, but I think it's definitely someone to keep
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: him man.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: And it won't last the whole season if he won't.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: Have a season where he's causing every game or assist
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: in every game, but for now he's on top form,
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: so it could be the right time to bring him in.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Soy would you front three Jews?
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: So I'll go haland have it and Wesa for example.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: I think that's a very well balanced, really nice and
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: Sam said about Branford's fixtures coming up as well for
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Fleck and in goal, and I think I think it's
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: them to say for Lisa, So I would be very
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: happy with the Harland, have Itz and Lisa from.
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: Three because I would have also Salah behind even with that,
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: Saka and Palma for example.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: Sami front three as you mentioned is Watkins, Welbeck and
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to sort of memory Eve though it's on
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: my screen welfare of Welbeck, Watkins and Harland. But would
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: they be the three that you would go with. No.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: I think I think if I was going to look
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: in a front three on Worldcarve right now, it would
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: be Harlan probably have its, and then the third one
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: would very much depend on price, because even Jelle Pedro
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: and Welbeck aren't that cheap anymore. They've both taken two
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: price rises, so they're at point seven now, which is
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: making it a little bit more difficult. But I think
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: they're both options. I love the this pic. I had
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: him on my list as well. I think he's brilliant
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: and if you don't have m Bormeo in midfield, then
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: go with him up top instead, like have one of
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: them at least. I think we also have to kind
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: of mention Niko Jackson at the moment, because if you're
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: not going Kyl Palmer and you don't have any other
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Chelsea assets, then maybe Jackson might be an option. He's
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: had six goal attempts, all of them have come from
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: inside the box, four of them have been big chances.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: He's got two goals, he's created four chances. He's actually
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: all right, and in terms of creativity amongst the forward
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: and only can You at Wolves has been more creative
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: than Jackson has been, so I think he's got to
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: be in the conversation if you're going without Chelsea elsewhere
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: because of the way that their fixtures are over the
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: next few weeks. And then there's Selankey as well, if
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: he gets fit again and it's again it's that if
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: he gets fit again and when he comes back. But
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: I think right now this week I do Harlan have
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: a probably jow pedro jeels very quickly as it stands.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: Are you keeping Selanky?
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because there's no reason why, like until we hear
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: from Ernest saying like it's another two weeks, three weeks,
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: he's more serious than expected all he's bad, training looking great,
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: and he would play against Arsenal at the weekend because
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: that's the fixture coming up after the international break. Then
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: then then until until we're not for sure. There's point
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: right now unless you play your world card and then assorted.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: But if you don't play your world card, I don't
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: think there's the point changing him now and using one
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: of your free transfers or minus four to get rid
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: of Solanky when we don't really know what the latest
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: is and there's two weeks for him be less now
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: because this is Wednesday, but there will be like a
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: week and a few days to make sure if he's
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: ready or not to go, because he might well be
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: and in their case, to go back to the point
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: we met. For Poro, I think Spurs creates so many
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: chances that Selanki will score goal this season. He will
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: have a good season, like a lot of the Spurs
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: attackers from Madison to Son to Brandon Johnson and Poro
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: and maybe even a Dogie.
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: So so I would keep him then.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: But if Andre says it's another two weeks, mate, listen, mates,
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: it's another three weeks then then in that case, then yeah,
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: I think it will be time to say simply because
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: you can't afford to have somebody that expensive on your
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: bench simply because he's flagged, So change gym and then
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: you can always bring him back later.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, watch this space at French Pastacogloose press conference, which
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: is still quite far away to be still only on
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: the Wednesday of the first week of the international break.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: But yeah, probably lots of managers with a similar dilemma there. Okay,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: that's where we're going to leave it. This week is
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: international break. Jewels, where are you off to you cover
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: in France.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: Games France Italy on Friday, which is which is cool
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: on paper, it's cool.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure the game will be that cool, but
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: we see.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: It's always a weird international break, this one isn't it?
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, Nation, But there's some good games like look at England,
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: amazing fixtures for you to watch.
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: Are you in the B League on you? Oh yeah?
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: I mean yeah?
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: So why is it Finland? Fill in England is great?
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: Who would not want to watch Finland against England?
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Well for the first international breaking, However, many years I'm
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: either not having a baby or I'm not working on
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: That's good for you.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: On the TV channel what I did work for in
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: these games don't have the rights for these games anymore.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: They've gone to another TV channel. So while I was
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: very disappointed about that, if you're watching on YouTube, you
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: may notice this is not my usual room. I'm in Portugal,
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: so I'm very much having my own international break. So
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: every cloud has a silver line and all that. I've
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: got a holiday, Sam, What about you? What are you
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: going to be doing over the break? Trying not to
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: press the wild come busting you will? So there is
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: a chance you could do this by the next podcast.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: I don't think there is no I am really happy
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: make a better podcast if you could do it. Yeah,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: I know it's the salad thing, isn't it. Like I
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: think that's just what's doing. I'm just enjoying the fact
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: my kids have gone back to school on this in
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: peace and quiet in my house, I can work happily.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: At this point, George is going to pretend that that's
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: also something that he's feeling, but then he remembers that
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: he's never around his kids anyway.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: I've got too many of them anyway. I'm not even
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: sure when they got back to school.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: So on that note, that's why we're end the podcast
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: because I want to go and enjoy the sunshine. Thank
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: you very much the good news as well. No deadline
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: to remember this weekend, so just enjoy watching those brilliant
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: international fixtures, particularly those stellar England ones. I cannot wait
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: to see how they get on against what was it
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Republic of Island and Finland all jokes, as I do
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: still quite like watching them to be fair. We'll be
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: back next week barring a disaster, which will probably be
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: a Junie in the wrong shape disaster.
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: We will all be together doing it.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you'll probably have another seventeen podcasts and we'll
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: give us a seventeen minutes start. But yeah, hopefully we'll
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: all be together next week recording our first podcast in
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: person of the season, which always maybe doesn't make any
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: difference for you guys, but does for us. And of
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: course that will be on YouTube, as all of these
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