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S9 Ep14: FPL Pod: Sell or hold João Pedro? · FPL Pod

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  Speaker 1: Now, I'm going to be honest. I was not looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to the pod this morning because I had another
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  Speaker 1: disaster of a game week. Yeah. Hi, Jules.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Sam.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get it out the way early because
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  Speaker 1: if I don't, you guys will.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, tender country.
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  Speaker 1: Who on earth has the bad luck of having two
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  Speaker 1: midfielders that got minus one each? I know that quite
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: a few people listening to this can relate, but also
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  Speaker 1: to not have Esri Konza. What a disaster of a
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  Speaker 1: game week. And once again, I went into it quite happy. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I've got that out of my system. Welcome to the
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  Speaker 1: FPL pod. I'm fine, really. We're going to have a
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  Speaker 1: great podcast. We're going to talk about how it's all
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  Speaker 1: going to be all right coming into the next game
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: week because the only way is up and game week
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  Speaker 1: nine is finally going to be the one when my
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  Speaker 1: season gets back together. Yeah. Hi, guys. Sam, Jules. I mean, Jules,
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  Speaker 1: yours is marginally better than mine, but not much.
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  Speaker 3: No, I got 47 points. This could go two ways, Kels, really.
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  Speaker 4: One way is I wanted to give Bruno Fernandes another week,
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  Speaker 4: another chance. I could waffle something and not be completely honest.
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  Speaker 4: Or I can just say that I had family over
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  Speaker 4: from Paris.
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  Speaker 1: I wondered if you were going to admit it. This
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  Speaker 1: is bad, Jules. This is so bad.
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  Speaker 3: I'm annoyed.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so annoyed too that, you know, I just, the
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  Speaker 4: deadline got me and then not just me, my kids,
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  Speaker 4: my brother too, everybody who we were together on Friday.
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  Speaker 4: So it was a week where I think this is,
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  Speaker 4: because I think a lot of people can relate. It
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  Speaker 4: happens that you forget or you don't have the time
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  Speaker 4: to change your teams or do your transfers, et cetera, whatever.
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  Speaker 4: But then to watch that Premier League weekend without having
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  Speaker 4: the team that you want on FPL is such a torture,
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  Speaker 4: really is. And in the end, I got 47 points.
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  Speaker 4: So more than the average, far more than you and
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  Speaker 4: your dodgy team.
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  Speaker 1: You got three more than me. Three?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, still three. And so it was not too bad
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  Speaker 3: in the end. It could have been a complete disaster.
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  Speaker 4: Like, you know, one of my kids got 29 points
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  Speaker 4: because obviously he didn't play. So, but yeah, I just
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  Speaker 4: got away with it. But it's not something that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: can happen anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Sam, that's a sackable offense, isn't it? Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I did text him and say, what has happened to
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  Speaker 2: your team? Did you not do it? didn't I? Over
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  Speaker 2: the weekend. I was like, come on now. You're on
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  Speaker 2: the FPL pod. You can't miss the deadline.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I know.
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  Speaker 2: Terrible. I had a great week. So I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what you're all moaning about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, go on then. Tell us about yours, Sam. Come on.
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  Speaker 2: Well, actually I did. I was quite annoyed by the
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  Speaker 2: end of it. And then I looked at our mini
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  Speaker 2: league and was just like, oh, actually I can't be
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  Speaker 2: moaning because I've actually had a, Had a decent week.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously played the wrong goalkeeper, didn't I? Played the Bruggen
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  Speaker 2: over Kinski, which I think pretty much everybody did this week.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe I should have had more faith in my
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  Speaker 2: own defence, given that actually Spurs were very, very good
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday evening. Had the cons of points that you
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  Speaker 2: were just talking about, Kelly. Got a bit jammy because
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  Speaker 2: I also benched Van Hek and got him off my
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  Speaker 2: bench for Jal Pedro with his seven-pointer. So that was
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  Speaker 2: a nice auto-sub in when that happened just after the
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  Speaker 2: game finished. Had Tavernier, who was my transfer in this week,
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  Speaker 2: for his 10 points against Manchester United. So that was
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  Speaker 2: a really positive one. Even Josh King decided he was
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  Speaker 2: going to return in the final week that I was
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  Speaker 2: going to own him. So that was great. Have six
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  Speaker 2: points out of him. Obviously, Haaland captain.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, a decent week.
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  Speaker 2: I got 60 in the end, including the zero pointer
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  Speaker 2: from Pascal Gross. I was also the most frustrated Bobby
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  Speaker 2: Thomas owner in the world. I think everyone that owns
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  Speaker 2: Bobby Thomas was. To see him get subbed off on 59.11,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, Bobby, can you just walk a bit slower?
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  Speaker 2: Can we just take 42 seconds to get yourself off
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  Speaker 2: the pitch? But yeah, that one pointer really, really stung,
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  Speaker 2: but A decent week in the end, a nice big
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  Speaker 2: green arrow. I think I basically halved my rank this week.
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  Speaker 2: So it was definitely a good week to have a
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  Speaker 2: good week because there were so many people like you
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  Speaker 2: guys that just had a bit of a struggle this week.
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  Speaker 2: Because if you were on the wrong players, it was brutal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it did feel that way, didn't it? Okay, let's
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  Speaker 1: check in on the FPL Pod Mini League. Nils is
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  Speaker 1: still at the top and he's actually second in the
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  Speaker 1: entire game. He did have Gabriel for his 17 points.
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  Speaker 1: Also had returns from Rea and Dai. He did play
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  Speaker 1: the wrong goalkeeper though. He had Trafford's 10 points on
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  Speaker 1: the bench. He also benched Hayto's six points, as he,
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  Speaker 1: of course, went off before the Spurs clean sheet was lost.
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  Speaker 1: Jack Dunn got 86 points with Tavernier as captain, got
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  Speaker 1: returns from Gabriel Marinovic and Antonio Silva. He also plays
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  Speaker 1: bench boost to add the points from Trafford, a huge
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  Speaker 1: 10 points from him. Thiago Thomas, who, as Sam just
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  Speaker 1: said then, was unlucky to go off 40 seconds before
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  Speaker 1: the hour mark. And Rodoni Ragre went down to third
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  Speaker 1: with 50 points for the week, and Carl De Sanctis
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  Speaker 1: climbed into fourth, getting 61 points. A reminder then, your
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  Speaker 1: code is Q0HV1Q. Jules, before we look back on Game
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  Speaker 1: Week 8, there's been EFL Cup action this week. Anything
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  Speaker 1: of note from an FPL point of view?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, some big games.
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  Speaker 4: The big upset, obviously, is Arsenal's defeat. They were at Fleetwoods,
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  Speaker 4: that's League 2 Fleetwoods, with a red card.
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  Speaker 3: For Max Diamond.
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  Speaker 4: A bit of a mixed team to start with, three teenagers,
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  Speaker 4: but then the big boys came on, Bruno Guimaraes and
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  Speaker 4: and Martin Odegaard, for example. And you had a very
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  Speaker 4: strong team, Beresieze too, at the end. And yet, Arsenal
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  Speaker 4: lost on penalties. City beat Brighton on penalties as well.
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  Speaker 4: Rotation on both sides, but still some big players. Gross started,
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  Speaker 4: Schalke started, Foden started. Schalke gave an assist.
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  Speaker 3: There was no Haaland.
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  Speaker 4: Doku came on later. Lakenzo, for example. Reuters scored for
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  Speaker 4: Brighton and gave an assist as well.
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  Speaker 3: He had a really good game. for Brighton. Pascal Gross also,
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  Speaker 3: I think I said, started.
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  Speaker 4: Bournemouth continued their amazing weeks with a third win in
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  Speaker 4: a row in the last eight days or so, really,
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  Speaker 4: if you count Europe and the winner United.
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  Speaker 3: Beating Aston Villa, beating, really, 3-0.
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  Speaker 4: Sunderland, big win for Regis Lebris and then Malik Fofana
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  Speaker 4: with a goal. Same for Pierre Sage and Crystal Palace,
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  Speaker 4: where Fulham 1-0 at the end. KTR scored that goal. Again,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of rotations in all those games, to be fair.
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  Speaker 4: And then the big games was Liverpool against Chelsea, obviously,
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  Speaker 4: and we had more penalties in there. And Liverpool, who
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  Speaker 4: always beat Chelsea on penalties in the League Cup anyway,
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  Speaker 4: had a big win. And yeah, that was a good performance. Again,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of rotation. Isak and Virts were on the bench,
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  Speaker 4: came off the bench for Liverpool. And Chelsea had Rodgers, obviously,
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  Speaker 4: with Welbeck up front. No Cole Palmer, who was suspended.
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  Speaker 4: And no Joe Pedro, who was obviously injured.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the only good thing as a Cole
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  Speaker 1: Palmer owner, knowing that His suspension was going to be
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  Speaker 1: in the Cup in midweek and at least he won't
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  Speaker 1: miss a game in the league. Not that I'm especially
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  Speaker 1: excited to own him given what he's done in his
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  Speaker 1: first performance, but I've got him for now. So at
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  Speaker 1: least he's available for this weekend on a weekend where
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  Speaker 1: maybe there's a few struggles elsewhere in my team. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: I'm referring there to Joao Pedro. But before we come
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  Speaker 1: on to that, I just wanted to talk about Chelsea
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  Speaker 1: overall in general, because I think they struggled at the weekend, Sam,
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  Speaker 1: as you said, obviously, Spurs are brilliant, etc.
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  Speaker 4: etc.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm wondering how Pedro's availability changes our overall view
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  Speaker 1: about Chelsea in general and the way their attack functions
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  Speaker 1: when he's not there to spearhead it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it massively does for me because, I mean, we
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  Speaker 2: saw it against Brentford, didn't we, as well, when they
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  Speaker 2: played against Brentford a few game weeks ago. They weren't
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  Speaker 2: the same in attack. They really struggled to kind of
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  Speaker 2: get that attacking unit going. And so when the team
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  Speaker 2: sheet came out on Saturday... And Jal Pedro's name wasn't
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  Speaker 2: on it. I was like, as a Spurs fan, I
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  Speaker 2: was thinking, okay, well, if they play against like they
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  Speaker 2: did against Brentford, then that probably bodes quite well for us.
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  Speaker 2: I was surprised not to see Welbeck in the team
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  Speaker 2: as well. But yeah, I think it does because, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you look at their number of goals that they've scored.
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  Speaker 2: When Jal Pedro's been there, it's been 17. When Jal
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  Speaker 2: Pedro hasn't been there, it's been none. They haven't yet
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  Speaker 2: scored in the league without him. The XGI expected goal
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  Speaker 2: involvements per 90 has gone down. it's a 1.5 when
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  Speaker 2: Jal Pedro's in the team. It's a 0.65 when Jal
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  Speaker 2: Pedro's not. So they really do struggle to kind of
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  Speaker 2: find that final product without him. And it makes Morgan
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  Speaker 2: Rogers and Cole Palmer worse assets for me when Jal
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  Speaker 2: Pedro's not there.
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  Speaker 1: Does that mean then if you're a Morgan Rogers or
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  Speaker 1: a Cole Palmer owner, Jules, you should think about doing
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  Speaker 1: something with them in his absence? I guess it makes
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  Speaker 1: it trickier in that Alonso's words were that he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be out for a few weeks. I know a
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  Speaker 1: lot of FPL people have been saying to journalists in
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  Speaker 1: the press conferences, but what did he say after that?
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  Speaker 1: Did you get the sense that that means definitely a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks? Does that mean before the international break? Does
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  Speaker 1: that mean after it? Because of course there is only
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  Speaker 1: two game weeks before the international break.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the good news for us is, and for Pedro
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  Speaker 4: and Chelsea to be fair, is that there's that international
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  Speaker 4: break probably in the middle where he will still be injured,
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  Speaker 4: but should be back maybe after the international break, although
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  Speaker 4: it's the The shorter one, the one that we used
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  Speaker 4: to have before, not the big one that we had
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  Speaker 4: last month.
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  Speaker 3: So that could be good news.
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  Speaker 4: I think you keep him and you put him on
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  Speaker 4: your bench if you can, if you have two other
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  Speaker 4: good forwards, if you have Haaland and another one. If
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  Speaker 4: the third one is not that great, make sure that
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  Speaker 4: your third one, who would then start for you in
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  Speaker 4: the absence of Joel Pedro, is a good one. Because
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it would be that long for Joel Pedro.
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  Speaker 3: It's not.
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  Speaker 4: It's not an ACL injury. It's not something big and
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  Speaker 4: we won't see him for another six months. So I
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  Speaker 4: really think he could be back, if not straight after
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  Speaker 4: the international break, not long after really.
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  Speaker 3: So keep that.
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  Speaker 4: But we've been saying all season long that he was
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  Speaker 4: the most important of the three, the one that make
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  Speaker 4: the other two ticking. So if you have both Palmer
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  Speaker 4: and Rodgers, I think you're in trouble. If you have
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  Speaker 4: one of the two, I think you can still play
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  Speaker 4: Rodgers because Chelsea will still be a good team and
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  Speaker 4: Rodgers will still be a good player. He might be
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  Speaker 4: not as good as when Joe Pedro is there, because
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  Speaker 4: Joe Pedro, I think, helps the other two massively in
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  Speaker 4: his all-around game. But he's still, Palmer and Rodgers are
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  Speaker 4: still quality players. We saw Rodgers being quite threatening against
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  Speaker 4: Liverpool on Wednesday night in the League Cup, for example.
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  Speaker 4: He scored a penalty, could have had maybe one or
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  Speaker 4: two other good chances. So they're still good players there.
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  Speaker 4: It's just, I think, they're so much better when Joe
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  Speaker 4: Pedro is on the pitch that I would not keep
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  Speaker 4: Palmer and Rodgers in the same team if you have
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  Speaker 4: them without Joe for example.
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  Speaker 2: Sam, do you agree? So I have sold Joel Pedro
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  Speaker 2: already this week. And maybe my attitude to it is
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  Speaker 2: a bit different because I have my wild card still
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  Speaker 2: to play. So in my head, I'm thinking, well, I
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  Speaker 2: don't need to hold a player that's injured. I can
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  Speaker 2: sell him because if I do want him back and
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  Speaker 2: let's be honest, we are going to want our Pedro
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  Speaker 2: back when he's fit because he has been so good
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  Speaker 2: for us in FPL this season. I can't see a
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  Speaker 2: time where I won't want him, but right now while
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  Speaker 2: he's injured and given the uncertainty as to how long
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be, I don't really want to sit
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  Speaker 2: with an injured player for three, potentially four game weeks
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  Speaker 2: or however long that might be when I could just
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  Speaker 2: hold that position for him by using somebody else in
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  Speaker 2: the meantime, because The way I kind of looked at
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  Speaker 2: it was there were other forwards who over the next
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  Speaker 2: three or four weeks have a really nice run of fixtures.
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  Speaker 2: And rather than having a spot just that's dead effectively
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  Speaker 2: in my team while Jal Pedro is out, I can
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  Speaker 2: use that to have a player that's got a really
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  Speaker 2: good run of fixtures, is showing some form and maybe
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  Speaker 2: differentiate my team a little bit in the coming weeks
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  Speaker 2: to help me climb up the overall ranks. Because most
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  Speaker 2: managers that have already wildcarded will have a decision to
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  Speaker 2: make about Jal Pedro. Do I hold him? and do
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  Speaker 2: what Jules says, stick him on the bench, keep him
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  Speaker 2: there because you know eventually you're going to want him back?
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  Speaker 2: Or do you sell him, lose some value in him potentially,
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  Speaker 2: and then have to bring him back in again later
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  Speaker 2: using one of your free transfers? Maybe they'll be managers
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  Speaker 2: that think, I don't really want to use my free
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  Speaker 2: transfers on that. I'd rather hold them for something else
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  Speaker 2: that's more important. But with the wild card still to play,
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  Speaker 2: he's a really easy buyback. So I kind of feel
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  Speaker 2: like it's time to chase the upside of some of
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  Speaker 2: the other forwards while he's out.
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  Speaker 1: And it also feels quite rare that we I mean,
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  Speaker 1: can we ever definitely say that a player is going
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  Speaker 1: to be out? But it feels quite rare that we
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  Speaker 1: have some clarification with a few weeks. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean? I half expected Alonso to say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we don't know and keep his cards close to his chest.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, he could still rock up, probably not this week,
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  Speaker 1: but he could still rock up in the game before
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  Speaker 1: the international break. But also there's an argument that he's
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  Speaker 1: not going to want to lose him for longer, is he?
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  Speaker 1: So it's almost like getting beyond the international break. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I'm not a medic, but That's kind of
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  Speaker 1: what it feels like. So Jules, you're planning on holding
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  Speaker 1: him and just benching him. Is that the plan at
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  Speaker 1: the moment?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, probably.
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  Speaker 4: But I also have the wild card and I think
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  Speaker 4: it's a great point by Sam. If you've played your
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  Speaker 4: wild card already, it might be difficult for you to
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  Speaker 4: bring him back simply because of the different prices. Let's
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  Speaker 4: say if you have cost two laps instead and to
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  Speaker 4: get that money and it might cost you two free transfers.
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  Speaker 3: It would be a bit of a strategy to bring
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  Speaker 3: him back.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe it's different for me as well because I
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  Speaker 1: actually have four free transfers at the moment. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: you can argue that my team's in the mire and
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  Speaker 1: I should maybe be using those transfers to make it better.
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  Speaker 1: But actually, if I only had one free transfer, I'd
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  Speaker 1: be looking at benching him. But Sam taught there, I
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  Speaker 1: thought was interesting. You said chasing the upside. I now
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  Speaker 1: need to find an upside because I have had a
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  Speaker 1: poor start to the season. So I haven't got a wildcard,
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  Speaker 1: but I have got four free transfers. So, and I
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  Speaker 1: would have moved him on earlier in the week. If
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: I'm honest, I basically... came home from work. My daughter cried.
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  Speaker 1: I missed the midnight. I was still deciding whether I
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: wanted to go Evan Nielsen or Jackson. And I thought,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to get home. I was at work.
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  Speaker 2: I was at five live.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to get home and sort it. And
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  Speaker 1: I got in bed at 10 past midnight and realized
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  Speaker 1: I've missed the price rise and price fall. That said,
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  Speaker 1: so it is what it is, but my, luckily I've
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  Speaker 1: got enough in the bank to do it. But I think,
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  Speaker 1: I think that can also, it depends on how many
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  Speaker 1: transfers you've got. And if you want to chase the
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  Speaker 1: upside and if you're happy with your bench, because also
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  Speaker 1: I've got a bench boost to consider as well. And
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  Speaker 1: if he's, it ends up being out longer, then all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden I'm holding a player and it's also
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  Speaker 1: stopping me to play a bench boost. So I think
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  Speaker 1: it completely depends, doesn't it, on the structure of your team.
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  Speaker 1: But I think, Sam, you might have just changed Jules'
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  Speaker 1: mind during this podcast, Jules.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, actually, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Because it's just, I think it's always difficult, I think,
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  Speaker 4: to bring back players who are expensive. And rightly so,
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  Speaker 4: it's very obvious to state that, but it's the truth.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it could be quite... difficult and you
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  Speaker 4: have to manage things like that. And it might cost
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: you just more than one free transfer, maybe two or three.
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: So if you don't have that, if you can do that,
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: then I think Sam is right. Make sure that you
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: have three forwards who are in good form. So if
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: you can have, I don't know, Haaland, Nico and Evan
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: Nielsen this week, for example, sure, you know, go for it.
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: And then make sure that you can bring Joel Pedro
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: back when he's fully fit and back again, because like
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: Sam said, we would need him back.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: So in terms of the players that are being brought
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: in for Joel Pedro at the moment, the one that's
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: completely out in front is the player that I mentioned,
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Aston Villas, Nico Jackson, with over 386,000 transfers at the
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: time of recording. That will have gone up, I'm sure,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: by the time this is even in your ears. Second
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: up is Isak and third up is the other player
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: that I mentioned, Evan Ilsen. Sam, which one did you
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: go with firstly? A little spoiler for the transfer section.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: I went with Jackson. And it was a really tough decision, actually,
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: because I spent a lot of time looking at... The
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: fixture for ESAC this week put me off. Like, this
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: week's ESAC fixture, I was like, if it wasn't Arsenal,
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: I would have gone... I think I would have gone there.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: I've got 7.2 million in my bank at the moment.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: What? Sorry.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: 7.2 million. That would have just hurt people's ears.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: Sorry.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: It's ridiculous. It's borderline ridiculous. I've basically got a whole player...
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: in my, a mid-price player as well, not even a
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: cheap one. To be fair, you could almost get to
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: 4 million defenders.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: So, and I keep looking at my bank thinking, I
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: really should spend that. And then looking at my team
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: and thinking, but it looks all right. I don't feel
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: like I need to. So when I was replacing Jao Pedro,
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: money wasn't an object. So I was like, well, do
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: I go up to Isak? I could go to Thiago
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: if I so chose, who's actually finding a bit of
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: form as well. I can go with Nico Jackson, who
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: feels like, the sensible pick given the fixtures I can
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: go with them. I can go anywhere. So I'm looking
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: at my team and the fixture against Arsenal definitely put
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: me off ESAC because I think I would have gone
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: there otherwise, but given the fixtures that Aston Villa have
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: coming up, given the form that Jackson is in, um,
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: he just felt like the obvious choice when you compare
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: the numbers between him and ESAC as well, despite the
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: fact that, you know, we've seen, um, Less FPL points
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: for Jackson so far. The numbers are not dissimilar. And
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: I think we saw that Aston Villa had a very
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: tough start to the season and now are finding their form.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: So I think we'll see some really good returns from
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Jackson over the coming weeks.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Who's the best replacement for you, Jules?
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: I think if it was not a Liverpool-Arsenal game. And again,
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: Alexander Isak can score against Arsenal too.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: He's got a good record against Arsenal from his Newcastle days.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: And Liverpool are in good form, apart from the City loss,
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: which came after the red card from Gravenberg. They're unbeaten,
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: apart from that game. And he was kind of rested
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: in midweek, as we said, against Chelsea before coming off
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: the bench. So I think Isak is still probably the
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: most expensive. Isak is at 9.1 right now. We said
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Nico at 6.8. So that's 2.3 million difference there. Evan
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Nilsson is even cheaper at 6.2. If you look at
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: Evan Nilsson, who's in great form, Nico is 4-4. Evan
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Nilsson is three goals and four assists in eight Premier
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: League matches, which is pretty incredible for him.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: And Isak is three and three. So they're all really
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: in good form.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: If you have the money and can wait after the
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: Arsenal fixture if you don't fancy it, for example, I
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: think Isak is still a great shot for sure. But
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Nico has a lot of good form and the fixtures
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: for Vela are great. But if you have Manzambi and
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: you don't want to double up Manzambi, Nico Jackson, I
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: can understand. If you've got Tavernier and you don't want
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: to go Tavernier, Evan Nielsen, you.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Can understand it as well.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: That was why I hesitated in the week, Jules, actually,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: because I was like, I kind of like the idea
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: of bringing in Manzambi and Evan Nielsen or doing it
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: the other way around. I mean, you can double up,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: but it just felt nice to have, cover on both
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: that said last night Bournemouth played Aston Villa didn't they
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: and one attack certainly came out on top although of
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: course in a different competition etc but I think that's
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: a consideration Sam and maybe that came into your thinking
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: as a Tavernier owner it.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Massively did because I was looking at it thinking well
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: I've got Tavernier do I want to double up on
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Bournemouth like if we've had conversations for weeks now about
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: the treble up on Chelsea haven't we and do you
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: really want to go for it I did it last
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: week let me be the experiment for all of you
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: don't do.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: It it doesn't work.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: But I think you know when you have when you
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: go for a double up in attack of a team
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: if that attack doesn't fire that week it is quite
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: damaging to the way that your team goes I like
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: to spread my attack if I can across multiple different
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Premier League clubs because at that point then you have
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: the opportunity where if one team has an off day
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: like we saw with Chelsea on Saturday that we can
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: rely on the rest of our team to kind of
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: bring up our fpl points total if you've troubled up
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: on one team's attack or doubled up it does have
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: and can have a negative impact if they don't return
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: well so when I was looking at my team I
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: was thinking well I've already got Tavernier in there if
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I double up with Evan Ilsen it looks good for
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Bournemouth's fixtures the pair of them are playing well we've
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: also got the creepy factor with creepy coming back into
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: the to the squad and How's that going to impact
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: on the position of the two of them and how
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: they play and Bournemouth's performances? I think it will only
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: improve them, but nonetheless, it might have an impact. Or
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: do I go for somebody that's outside and I don't
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: really have a Liverpool attacker at the minute. I mean,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: I still have Sabozlai sitting on my bench, but he
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: just sits there injured and I'll deal with him at
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: some point, possibly this week. but ESAC does feel like
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: a good way to invest in a really good team.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Liverpool have been really solid so far this season, but
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: the Arsenal game put me off. so then I was
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: looking at Aston Villa and I really wanted Manzambi the
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: transfer I wanted to make this week was to go
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: from Sir Bosley to Manzambi but Jao Pedro felt like
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: a bigger issue given he was going to drop in
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: price I wanted to protect some team value and I
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: saw it as an opportunity to get their inform goal
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: scorer into my team so Yeah, but it definitely had
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: an impact. That kind of like, do I want to
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: double up on Bournemouth or Aston Villa? Do you change
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: the way that I viewed it?
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: You can still do it though, because I suppose we have... Absolutely.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: And when you look at an attack like.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Both of them scored our traffic, for example.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and also when you look at Bournemouth, and Bournemouth
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: three wins in a week, it kind of feels like
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: we've been waiting for this bit of form on Bournemouth's fixtures.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: It feels like if you're going to do it with
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a team, although both Bournemouth and Aston Villa do have
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Europe as well, so that's also something to think of.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I think maybe... With Chelsea, we all felt a little
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: bit more, I don't know, maybe I'm just trying to
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: find excuses here as to why I was stupidly putting
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Cole Palmer on. I want to get rid of him
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: straight away, but I won't. Okay, so there's some good options, basically. Also, Thiago, Sam,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I think that's an interesting one because you mentioned, you
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: alluded to him before, he actually returned for the fourth
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: game in a row, didn't he? All of a sudden,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: we're not really talking about him because of the other forwards,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: but he probably should be.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and scored in the Cup as well. So we
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: have got, like, But weirdly, for somebody that was so
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: brilliant for us in FPL last season, and we all
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: owned for large chunks of the season, because he's gone
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: up in price at the beginning of the season, we
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: didn't have, there was no kind of need to buy Thiago.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: We all kind of looked at him and went, oh,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: he feels quite expensive. And Jao Pedro's cheaper and Dominic
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Havert-Lewin is cheaper. And all of these guys felt like
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: really good value for money. So Thiago was kind of
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: like the forgotten man of the forward line. And because
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: we've been locked on the Haal and Jal Pedro double
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: up with them one spot for someone else. And we've
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: seen performances, good performances from, again, the likes of Evan
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Nielsen and Dominic Calvato in. Thiago hasn't been in conversations.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Like I listened to FPL conversations about how to invest.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: And at no point have I heard anybody really talking
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: about buying Thiago. But he's low-key gone under the radar
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: because now we've started to see the returns, like you said,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: four in the leagues in back-to-back matches now, plus the
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: League Cup. I do think there's an opportunity to go
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: with somebody a little bit different there. The fixtures for
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Brentford are all right, and he's finding a bit of form.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: So he's kind of one that's sitting there on my radar, but... You'd.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Have to sell DCL now to get to him.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Now I would, yeah. And actually, I'm now thinking, well,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: if DCL doesn't perform in game week nine.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Same as me. He's got one week for me.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I've got so much money in the bank
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: that DCL to ESAC for game week nine onwards is
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: definitely on. So maybe there's an opportunity to go there.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: But Thiago is definitely in the back of my mind.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: If we see him return again at the weekend, he'll
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: be someone that's definitely on the radar. He's so lowly
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: owned that any return from him will improve your rank.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Jules doesn't look sure.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: No, it's not that. It's just that it's right on
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: the way.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: They would have Arsenal City back-to-back in game week 12
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: and 13, I think.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: So it's not.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: The games I've watched, he might have had... So he
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: scored in the League Cup, but the goal before that
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: was Chelsea. That's the only goal in the season. And
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: then there's a couple of assists that, you know, some
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: of them are... They still count goals.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: You know what I think about assists. They still count.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Of course, they still count some.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: But I think there's players in better form, certainly goal-scoring form.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: I agree with that.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Than him. But yeah, keep an eye on him for
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: sure because he hasn't turned into a bad player. I mean,
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: I think the World Cup might have hurt him a
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: bit and what happened there and after starting the first
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: game and then not playing at all. But I think
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: they're still obviously a very good player. They're in a
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: team that is performing well.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Before we move on from this kind of forward chat, Sam,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: there's actually someone that I know and I talk about
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: FPL with quite a lot that works on the TV
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: show with me, actually said the other day he was
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: considering a free hit. Do you understand that off the
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: back of, because I think also the Pedro injury is
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: probably compounded by the fact that it's harder this week
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: because a lot of people will be using their bench
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: slots for the likes of Brighton if you're double or
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: tripled up on them because they have a tricky fixture.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: People are planning putting them on the bench. So all
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: of a sudden putting Pedro on the bench when Pedro
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: had a good fixture on paper feels a little bit
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: more difficult. Do you understand why people could activate that chip?
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I do get it. And I think if
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I wasn't, it's difficult though, isn't it? Because Brighton have proved,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: and obviously we had a preview of Brighton versus Man
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: City yesterday. in the League Cup yesterday evening. So we
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: have seen that they can score goals. There's plenty of
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: opportunity for them to still be good. You could easily play.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I know Pascal Gross's last week, it didn't go so well,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: but you could easily pay Pascal Gross this week and
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: see him returning points. I think the free hits, this
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: the first free hit always feels a bit of a
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: weird one because it's like well there isn't going to
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: be a blank game week that's planned around cup action
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: so there's not like a a really obvious week where
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: you go well I'll play it there because I'm only
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: going to have three four five however many players playing
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: so this time it is very much personal preference and
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: it's kind of like if you feel if you look
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: at your team and think it doesn't look great for
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: this week there's a lot of players playing each other
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: if you've got the treble arsenal defense but you've also
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: got Isak if you've got Gavardio and Haaland, but you've
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: also got De Kalper and Gross and you're looking at
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: it and you're thinking, oh, I've got six, seven players,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: you know, that are playing in two games. It does
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: feel like it could be an opportunity. The worry I
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: would have is that you could end up taking out
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: players that I wouldn't take, if I had Isak, I
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: wouldn't take him out this week against the Arsenal defence.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: But equally, I also wouldn't take out the likes of
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Konza if I had him because we've, you know, we've
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: seen some good things from him in recent weeks. So,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I get it. I do think you could end up
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: making some difficult decisions though. You really have to go
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: and chase the upside of it and go for the
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: players with really good fixtures this week, dribble up on
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: them and hope that they outscore the players that are
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: playing each other this week.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Could you even wildcard if that feels extreme to me?
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Do you know what? The wildcard has actually been quite
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: popular this week. The Jal Pedro News sent the wildcard
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: numbers up massively because I think people were looking at it. And,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: But there was no part of me, as someone that
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: still has the wildcard left, there was no part of
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: me that thought, oh, I need to wildcard now. Maybe
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: it's because I had a couple of free transfers. I
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: was like, I can deal with my issues because also
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: I've got issue with Bobby Thomas as well now, who's
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: still flagged. There's some doubt around Califuri. Obviously, I've still
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: got Sabozlai. So I've potentially got four players that are injured.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: I think the.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Wildcard can be better deployed when these players come back
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: in a few weeks time and you want to bring
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: them back into your team or nearer to Christmas when,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: we go into that busy period and we might see
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: some rotation or a couple of weeks away from an
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: international break, which does feel like a perfect moment to
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: hit a wildcard button. So it isn't for me, but
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I do understand it because some players will be in
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: a worse position than me and they will have more
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: injured players in their team because there's a hell of
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: a lot of flags going on at the moment. And
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: then we saw rotation, like Jules had it twice with
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Bruno Fernandes and with Wisser this week. You've got that
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: kind of rotation as well. And if you've got them
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: in your team, you could have, rotation issues plus injuries
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: plus some suspensions and then then you're really struggling so
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: i think it's personal choice if your team is really
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: suffering then it could be a moment jules have you
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: got any closer to deciding when you're going to use
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: any of your chips.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: I did think about the wild card to be fair
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: for this week um but then i think i've got
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: three free transfers enough i want to wait for the
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: international break because my team apart from the disaster of
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: last week uh it's still looking good you know once
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: I get rid of yeah exactly once I get rid
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: of Wissam Bruno Fernandes which was always the plan then
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: I think it will look good so.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: I don't really need it now I like the idea of.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: The free hit if like Sam said because we have
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: four very popular teams facing each other in Liverpool and
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Arsenal and City and Brighton obviously that you could find
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: yourself in the position and potentially Chelsea against United too,
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: then you could find yourself in a position where too
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: many of your players are facing each other and you
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: don't fancy it. But you still want to keep those players.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: So free hit for you would be the perfect solution
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: for this game week. But you can also wait and
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: play your free hit when the fixtures for the top
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: teams maybe align and you like who City play and
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Arsenal play and Chelsea play and Liverpool play that week
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: and then you can go and have two of each
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: or three for two clubs.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: You see what I mean?
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: So that But I won't play mine now, neither the
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: World Cup or the Free Heat, obviously. But I think
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: very soon for the World Cup.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, we've spoken a lot about injuries and kind
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: of not knowing about what's going to happen with teams
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: and stuff. This is probably a good point to remind
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: you of the new FPL deadline countdown live stream. This
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: is kind of the nightmare as a manager, isn't it?
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: We're all waiting for injury updates.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: You're coming to the.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Deadline, if you remember it, Jules. And you just want
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: someone to go, what do you think I should do
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: with this person? Well, that's exactly what FPL have done
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: for you now. Lee and Az will be live on
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Saturday morning at 9am over on the Premier League YouTube channel.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: So ask all of your questions. Once we've had an
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: update from all of the managers in their press conferences,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: they'll come armed with as much information as they can
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: from all of those press conferences. And then they can
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: hopefully help you give their opinion or just maybe provide
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: on some nuggets from press conferences that you've missed that
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: will help you guide those last minute decisions. So yeah,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: 9am on Saturday. ahead of the Saturday morning deadline, you
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: can chat to, well, kind of chat to Sam's husband
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: and us. Sounds fun, huh? Okay, let's move on to
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the budget conversation as well, because I actually think Sam's
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: brought up a really important point. I mean, having over
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: 7 million in the bank is absolutely wild. And I
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: think a lot of people will have made a similar
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: noise to me when you said that, because I mean,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I've got, about a million in the bank, I think,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: and that feels a lot. But seven is absolutely wild.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Had I not put in Cole Palmer, I'd be a
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: bit more in the same situation as you. But hey-ho.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I think it also changed, again, when SACA was ruled
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: out last week. A lot of people did move, like myself,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: to Parma, or people went from Bruno Fernandes to Parma.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: But actually, as we saw, as Samuel Transfer proved, the
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: best thing to do last week was to go a
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: little bit cheaper. The likes of Tavernier, Rayan, Tell, Barnes,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: they're all a lot, lot cheaper. So you will have
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: more money in the bank. And with Jao Pedro now injured,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: it's a similar choice again this week, isn't it? People
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: will be tempted maybe to try and spend some of
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: the money, or they might even drop down to the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: likes of DCL, Barry... Evan Nielsen, Jackson, they're all that
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: little bit cheaper, but of course they're still scoring goals. Jules,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: where do you sit in terms of, I mean, Sam's
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: made it very clear, she's actually okay with having loads
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: of money in the bank. What about you? Because it's weird,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: it's a strange position for us.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and everybody should.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because we've never been there. As you know, I
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: never have any money in the bank usually. I spend
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: it all and I love spending the money and that
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: could be a problem because in the past at times
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: I've missed point one or point two to go and
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: sign the player that I want. There's none of that
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: problem so much this season because, as we've been saying,
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: the premiums haven't returned like we wanted. We don't really
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: have them anymore. That gives you so much more money
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: to invest in other positions. And I think for me,
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: more importantly, because I don't really pay enough attention about
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: price rises and price falls and things like that, it
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: gives me just a bit more leeway of I usually
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: have that 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 million to go and get
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: another player.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Because there's plenty of money.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: I've got 2.4 million in the bank right now and
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: I still have Bruno to get rid of, for example,
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: for a much cheaper player like a Tavenier or Manzambi.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: So I will be soon exactly like Sam.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, to be honest, had I not gone Parma,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: as I said, I would have been. So I'm very
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: much guilty of this. Saka and Parma are actually joint
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: 12th across midfielders in the game for points this season
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: as well. Saka's 9.5, Parma is 9.8. The average cost
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: of the midfielders who have more points than them so far,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: is 6.7 million. The cheapest is 5 million. The most
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: expensive is 8 million. Sam, do you almost ignore, well,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: you definitely do, but do we just ignore price tags?
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Do you know, it's such a weird season for this.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I was looking at our mini league when I was
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: writing the script and I was looking at team value,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: which as you know, Kelly, you've been working with me
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: for years. I know you are. And for years and years,
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: I spend, I bang on both of you and everyone
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: who listens to me about how important team value is.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Build your team value up. I've done well with that.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Can I have some credit for that? I've not done
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: well with that.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: I know it's useless this year because we have some
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: money in the bank. Right.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: So this year, normally I'm like, it's really important.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: But normally Kelsey would have done exactly the right thing.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: And maybe in the course of time you will have
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: done the right thing. But at the moment it's such
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: a weird season because I'm not like my team value
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: is the lowest of all of us. Like, and quite
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: a lot lower. Like yours is a 102.1. Yours is
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: a 102.8. Mine's a 101.3. So significantly lower than both
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: of you. But yeah, I'm looking at my team and
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking, well, At the moment, I don't need the money. Now,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: in the future, there will be a time where I'm sure.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: What's going to screw you is when Bruno, Cole Palmer,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Saka and all that come into form. That's where the
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: problem is. Right. Exactly. I'm saying when, not yet.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: So we have to.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: And I agree with you. At some point this season,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: there's going to be a moment where I look at
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: my team and go, I can't afford to buy Saka
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: and Palmer and Bruno and have Haaland still. And, oh, goodness,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Gabriel suddenly decided he's the player that he was last season.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: How do I afford him as well? At some point,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: this season, undoubtedly the premium players will come good because
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: they're premium priced for a reason. They're not rubbish players.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: These are like the best players in the Premier League.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: And so they're priced that way. And I'm well aware
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: that over the coming weeks, these players will continue find
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: their rhythm, they'll find their fitness, whatever it is. So
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: right now I'm looking at my team and I'm thinking, okay,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: holding them is not going to improve my team value.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: It won't.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: It's not going to make a difference because either they're
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: going to drop in price, like we're seeing with Jal
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Pedro at the moment, or they're just going to sit
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: holding their value because nobody's going to be buying them
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: and nobody's going to be investing them. So the best
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: thing for me to do is to put the money
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: in the bank, chase the points with the mid-price players
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: who I'm happy to bounce around on based upon fitness, form,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: the fixtures that they have coming up. And I don't
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: feel any undivided loyalty to them in the same way
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: that we do with the premiums. We spend a lot
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: of time at the beginning of every season saying, buy premium.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: And if you hold them all season, eventually over the
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: course of the year, you'll get the points. You won't
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: miss the points. Whereas if you premium jump between them,
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: you're more likely to miss price rises and falls, but
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: you're also likely to miss out on some big points holds.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: So right now I'm trying to build my team value
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: by having the cheaper players. Now what's interesting, Kelly, is
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: that my team value last week as we recorded our
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: podcast was 100.8. So it has gone up 0.5 in
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: a week because I've invested in the mid-priced players. So
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: I'm building my team value slowly that way instead. And
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: hopefully on WorldCard I'll be able to build it a
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: little bit more. But I think you shouldn't be afraid
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: this year to say the premiums aren't in great form.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: harland as an exception possibly isak as an exception and
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: i'm happy to go for the cheaper options because everywhere
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: you look where there's a premium there's been a cheaper
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: option who's performed if not better than just as well
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: you know you look at the arsenal defense with gabrielle
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: and califuri or konza you look at um chelsea with
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: gel pedro or slash morgan rogers over um cole palmer
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: there's always been that kind of cheaper alternative and If
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: you can get on the right ones, you can grow
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: your team value. But don't be afraid to have the
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: money in the bank. It feels weird. Every time I
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: open my app, it does feel very strange to see
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: that much money sitting in the bank. But it's there
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: if I do need it eventually.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's move on to differential of the week then. Jules,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: you won this. You won Evan Nielsen with six points.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Back to back.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: You just picked him on the wrong week, Sam.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: What have you won with this week, Jules?
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: So this week, I'm going to stay in my Bournemouth
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: kind of loving because I think we said they've got momentum.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: They're doing really well.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: With Adrien Truffert, who played for France under Zinedine Zidane
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: in the last international, will be called up again.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Back-to-back returns, six-pointers, ten-pointers.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: He's only owned by 2.9% of the manager, will cost
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: you 5.4%.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: So for a defender, it's a good price.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: He's guaranteed to start in that left-back position For Bournemouth,
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: it's very good. They play Leeds at the weekend and
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: have that kind of momentum going forward. And when you
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: see the form of Tavernier and Evan Nelson, the return
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: of Kruppi, as we said, Ryan is on good form too.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Everybody at Bournemouth, really. Because they're defending well, they're attacking well.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: I think Truffaut, who for me is one of the
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: best left-backs in the league, is a good shot.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Just quickly on Bournemouth, I'm actually wondering if, you know,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: we talked about maybe not wanting the double-up in attack, Sam.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: I'm actually thinking there's quite a lot of options there
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: outside of just Tavernier and And Devin Nielsen as well,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: isn't there? I mean, I looked at Silva on a
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: wild card, didn't go there, but now I would look
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: at him in defence. Absolutely.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: He is one I'm really looking at quite heavily. 12
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: defensive contributions so far this season for him. That's the
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: most of any of the defenders in the game. But
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: when you look across that back line, Hill's made the
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: most defensive contributions so far with 98. Yeah, he's got
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: more points. He's also created seven chances. Truffaut, as you've
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: just mentioned, has created eight chances. He's the only one
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: of the Bournemouth back line that's got an attacking return
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: so far this season. The fixtures are really nice. So yeah,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you want to go, viably you could
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: go for a Bournemouth treble up by having a defender,
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: having one in midfield and one in the forward line.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: You don't have to play them all every week. And
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: there's a difficult fixture in there in game week 15
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: against Arsenal, but that's in game week 15. Like to
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: get there, you've still got to go through a number
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: of really decent fixtures to get there. Maybe the Brighton
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: one in 13 is hard as well, but otherwise the
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: fixtures for Bournemouth are good. So I'm definitely looking and
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: thinking I probably at least need to add a Bournemouth
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: defender to my Tavernier pick.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, and who's your differential?
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: So I'm going with Aston Villa, but not the two
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: that we've spent this podcast talking about. Instead, it's John McGinn,
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: who's going to cost you £ 5.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: 4 million.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: He's currently owned by 3.2% of managers. So as far
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: as the Villa assets go, relatively lowly owned. He's got
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: an attacking return in four of his last five game weeks.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: He's got the most assists in the Villa squad so
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: far this season. He's also supplied the most crosses, created
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: the most chances and also the most big chances and
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: has been involved in 33% of the big chances that
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Villa have had while he's been on the pitch. Plus
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: he also takes set pieces. We've had 12 corners and
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: three kicks from him. So it's, it will be a
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: good route to points potentially to have him on free kicks,
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: have him on corners. And now we're starting to see
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: that creativity and the finishing product in that Aston Villa team.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: I think he could be a decent cheap option.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: He's got as many points as Nico. Yeah, he's done
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: really well and we have hardly spoken about him.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a few nice options at Villa as well,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: isn't there? Okay then, Captaincy, Harlan's got Brighton this week.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: He'll still be heavily captained, I'm sure. Are we going
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: there or are we looking elsewhere, Jules?
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: I mean, again, depending if you, like we've been discussing,
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: replace Joel Pedro and if you've gone for Nico Jackson,
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: for example, against Fulham, that's very tempting from a captaincy
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: point of view, I think, for Nico Jackson or even
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: Amon Zambi or John McGinn that Sam just mentioned there.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: I think this Villa fixture against Fulham, even in a
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: weekend before the Champions League, I the Champions League and
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: European competitions are back next week by the way I
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: think it's still very tempting so I for now it's
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: still on it's still on Haaland but I would not
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: go to Eastside against Arsenal for obvious reasons but I
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: think Nico Jackson against Fulham would be very tempting.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Sam yeah I'm gonna go Haaland I think um just
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: because whenever Harlan's at home, it doesn't necessarily feel like
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: the moment he kind of feels a bit, um, inevitable
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: does Erling. But if I was going to go outside,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Nico Jackson is definitely on my radar of, of options.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: I think he looks like a really decent alternative. Uh,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: I quite liked Tavernier as well, or, or Evan Nielsen,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: if I had him against that lead side, despite the
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: fact that actually leads have been very solid defensively this
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: season in the defense have been really good picks, particularly Maharamovich. Um,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: If I had a Spurs attacker, I might be tempted
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: against Crystal Palace at home. You know, just riding high
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: now on back of a couple of wins in the league.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Maybe there's an opportunity there. Even the defence has been
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: really secure. So you could take a bit of a
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: punt on somebody like Van Hecke if you wanted. But
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: it doesn't, for me, feel like the week to go
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: outside of Haaland.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: No, same here. It depends if you're chasing. But yeah,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: I think it goes back to our conversation about the
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: premiums as well, doesn't it? There's no other premiums that
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: are really returning at the moment. So Haaland just feels
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: an easier cap since he As well, maybe. Okay, then
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: that's why we'll leave it this week. Oh, no, transfers.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: What are you doing? Sam, you've done one already. Are
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: you doing any more?
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: I've done one already. Yeah, I think I'm probably going to.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: I think I'm... I think I was going to go
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: for Manzambi, but now I've done Jackson. I don't want
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: to double up on the Villa attack. So I think
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: I'm going to do Sir Bosley to Kudus. Because I'm
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: going to wildcard shortly anyway.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: You're going to jinx them. You're going to jinx them
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: so badly.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: I've already got two Spurs players.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: I'll have three. Yeah, but defenders, not attackers. Now that
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: they start attacking better.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Now they're attacking better. I'm tempted to take a little
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: bit of a punt on Kudus down that right-hand side.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Because the rest of it still feels a bit of
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: a minefield in terms of who might start and who
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: might not. But I might take a little punt there.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Given I'm wildcarding soon anyway, it kind of feels like
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: a punt might be a good option.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Okay. Jules, what about you?
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: So I think, I mean, I need to get rid
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: of Bruno and John Pedro and something.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I will do it straight after this. Do it now. Yeah,
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: I'll do it. I'll do it today.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: I think I would do one of Mozambique Tavernier and
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: one of Evan Nilsson and Nico. I think this is
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: the good partnership to go, but I don't want to
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: double up. And I'm still, even if Isak plays Arsenal,
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: I'm still very much tempted by Isak, who I should
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: have bought, would have bought in for last week.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: You've got two forwards to kind of sort, haven't you?
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: But three free transfers now. So I think I'm going
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: to use them all and probably do.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: It won't be far from that.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: When's the deadline, Jules, this week?
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: Saturday at 11.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Well done. His face was not convinced. Can I maybe
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: suggest that sometimes you work on Saturdays, you think of
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: doing it now or Friday? But you know what?
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: I think like a manager. So I leave it late
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: like a normal manager in the Premier League or in.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: Any other league. No, no, no.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: You cannot say you think like a manager. No manager
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: forgets to put their team sheet in. True, true.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: But, you know, I still leave it late.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: OK, well, as Jules said, somewhat unconvincingly then, it is
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: definitely a Saturday 11am deadline. And a reminder again, if
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: you do have any last minute burning questions, join Lee
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: and Az on the Premier League YouTube channel from 9am
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: for the FPL deadline countdown stream. And we'll, of course,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: be back. I'm in the studio, I think, with Josh
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: and Harry this Friday. Sorry if it's someone else, but
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: I'm definitely in the studio for the fantasy show. So
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: that will be available wherever you watch that usually. And
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: we'll be back next Thursday. Good luck, guys. Don't miss
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: the deadline, Jules.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: No.