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S8 Ep23: FPL Pod: Navigating the midfield power trio · FPL Pod

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: It's a chaotic show this week, as Jules is unsurprisingly
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: running late. We plow on through though, as we discuss
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: the big moves in midfield, if we all need the
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  Speaker 1: Power three, and who can help us with budget? Hello Ange,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to this week's FPL Pods, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: pod with a slight difference this week because Good morning Sam,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning Kenny, and we don't have our usual third guest.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Lee Bonfield.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Kelly.
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  Speaker 1: How are you? I'm all right, Thank you. We are
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  Speaker 1: indebted to you and the Bonfield family. We've had a
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  Speaker 1: bit of chugging around this morning because unsurprisingly the ender
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  Speaker 1: one has overbooked himself. He was on his way back
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  Speaker 1: from Paris because he was working there last night. You
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  Speaker 1: may have seen him gloating all over social media and
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  Speaker 1: his train shock is delayed, and so Lee has kindly
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  Speaker 1: stepped in. So yeah, Lee, how much notice did you have?
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  Speaker 1: Not much? Not a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it feels it feels kind of typical for
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  Speaker 2: this season. So many last minute winners, that's very true,
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  Speaker 2: last minute draft into the pod. So yeah, feels all
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  Speaker 2: right for this season.
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  Speaker 1: Okay for those of us, of those listeners that perhaps
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  Speaker 1: haven't heard from you as much or don't know how
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  Speaker 1: your season's going. Just fill us in on how it's
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  Speaker 1: gone to this point.
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  Speaker 2: Oh rollercoaster, Kelly. I mean, I listen to you guys
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  Speaker 2: every week and you're always talking about, Oh, good game week,
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  Speaker 2: bad game week. I feel exactly the same. I can't
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  Speaker 2: get any consistency this season. It's a very very tough season.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, we've had all the different rule changes, haven't
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  Speaker 2: we with the defensive contributions, extra chips, everything else. But
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  Speaker 2: even if you chuck those into the mix, it's still
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  Speaker 2: been a very inconsistent season, I think. So I'm about
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  Speaker 2: six hundred ish K at the moment. A really good
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  Speaker 2: week actually in game week sixteen, so it's a good
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  Speaker 2: week to get me on. But yeah, up and down, Kelly,
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  Speaker 2: I think is the way I would describe my season.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, it sounds like it's been more up than
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  Speaker 1: mine and Sam's that's for sure. I know from Lee's rank.
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  Speaker 1: I was about to my next question is going to
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  Speaker 1: be who's winning out of the two of you, But
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  Speaker 1: I know from Lee telling me his rank there it
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  Speaker 1: is Lee. At the moment, Sam, let's talk about the
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  Speaker 1: last game week, how did you feel about it, because
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  Speaker 1: for me, it was a good game, meek, and it
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  Speaker 1: felt like it was overall when I looked at your team,
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  Speaker 1: actually hold on a sec. I got a bone to
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  Speaker 1: pick with you. You did not mention you were doing
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  Speaker 1: that many transfers, Kelly.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't planning to do that many transfers, and I
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  Speaker 3: was going to confess to it on this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Because no, I'm not letting you confess. I'm telling you
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  Speaker 1: off about doing that before you were able to confess.
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  Speaker 3: I apologized and I was like what I honestly so,
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  Speaker 3: I had made two and I was fully intending to
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  Speaker 3: just make too. I'd done Pope to Reya, I done
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  Speaker 3: Matesta Citiago, and that was going to be it. I
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  Speaker 3: was going to stop there. And then I just went
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  Speaker 3: into Bruno Fernandez panic and I was like, I need him.
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  Speaker 3: I can't do any understand it.
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  Speaker 1: I do understand it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It was one of those where I was like, I
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  Speaker 3: can't do another Monday I just can't sit through another
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  Speaker 3: Monday night football without Bruno Fernandez. And in the end
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  Speaker 3: it was it was a good thing that I did it.
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  Speaker 3: I made a few sacrifices. One of them I'm I
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  Speaker 3: did Virgil to Cash and that was a bit of
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  Speaker 3: a one week punt. It was like, let's play the
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  Speaker 3: fixture this week and then cash on again. On reflection,
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  Speaker 3: with Cash getting zero, it actually would have been more
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  Speaker 3: sensible for me to just go straight to the player
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  Speaker 3: that I wanted.
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  Speaker 1: For this week.
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  Speaker 3: But at last it is what it is. It was
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  Speaker 3: a green arrow, which I was peaced about in the end.
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  Speaker 3: It was red until Bruno, and then Bruno made it green,
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  Speaker 3: which made me think that using.
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  Speaker 1: All five transfers exactly.
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  Speaker 3: So I was happy in the end sixty nine points
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  Speaker 3: and my team feels like it's set up now, apart
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  Speaker 3: from the one chansfer that I plan to make this week.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm set up now for the busy
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  Speaker 1: Christmas period. So you are still planning to use transfer
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  Speaker 1: this week, I didn't know if you'd try and hold them.
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  Speaker 3: I'm planning to still do one. That was fully part
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  Speaker 3: of the intention. When I used five last week, I
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  Speaker 3: thought I'll use one as a little fun pump for
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  Speaker 3: the week.
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  Speaker 1: That was the Matty Cash pick. It was no fun.
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  Speaker 1: I did not enjoy out and so now I'm moving
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  Speaker 1: on this week. But I won't spoil that. I'll say
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  Speaker 1: it till the end. Yes, stay till the end when
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  Speaker 1: hopefully a certain tune in one might have joined us
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  Speaker 1: by then. Who knows, It depends on that train. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for myself, I just made the one transfer and I
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  Speaker 1: was what was my one transfer? I'm looking at my
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  Speaker 1: team and I can't remember what one transfer was.
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  Speaker 4: You.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you very much. I'm glad you know
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  Speaker 1: the team better than I did. Yeah, well, I know,
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  Speaker 1: I knew it was. It feels like so long ago now,
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  Speaker 1: and it was such a boring transfer. It felt that
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  Speaker 1: everyone was doing But I'm pleased. I'm pleased I did it,
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  Speaker 1: and I've done what I wanted to do. I'd already
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  Speaker 1: set myself up with doing Fodin and Bruno before because
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  Speaker 1: they were the two.
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  Speaker 2: Like you said, there there were the two.
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  Speaker 1: That if one was clamoring to get one and if
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  Speaker 1: you hadn't been able to get them in before, the
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  Speaker 1: five transfers were your opportunity. So it makes total sense.
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  Speaker 1: But I've done that. So I'm hoping to just be
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  Speaker 1: using one or two transfers a week to just keep
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  Speaker 1: me ticking over and.
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  Speaker 3: Phone and Bruno. Yeah, it was was really good for
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  Speaker 3: me Van, by the way that you know you used
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  Speaker 3: a lot of transfers Jews did four. Yeah, I was
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  Speaker 3: going to say, do you want to fill the listeners
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  Speaker 3: in on? I was about to reel off what he did,
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  Speaker 3: but you can go with it gone. The thing is
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  Speaker 3: that I'm not surprised.
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  Speaker 1: And he was. He's just like one of those people
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  Speaker 1: that would just do He always does the opposite to
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  Speaker 1: what he says on this show. I expect that. I
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  Speaker 1: don't expect that of you.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he might get soccer actually, and he didn't
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  Speaker 3: do that. So did Minster Bruno. He did Netto to
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  Speaker 3: Harry Wilson, which was the transfer or League got Harry
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  Speaker 3: Wilson as well. Both both great with his sixteen point
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  Speaker 3: haul that was lovely, Pope Deraya, and then he also
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  Speaker 3: did Gabrielle to Anderson. So yeah, I was surprised that
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  Speaker 3: he didn't get soccer as part of his transfers, but
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  Speaker 3: I guess that was probably budget funded. I'm sure you'll
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  Speaker 3: tell us later.
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  Speaker 1: We still got eighty one points even without that. Dene
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  Speaker 1: he had a really good eighty two. Eighty Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: it's me that got eighty one, damn it. I thought, Yeah, Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: eighty two points without soccer, is you got pretty impressive
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  Speaker 1: in there. Yes, And actually we should probably talk about
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  Speaker 1: that because I did say last week I was probably
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  Speaker 1: ninety ten at this point last week of going to
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  Speaker 1: triple Captain soccer because I've still got the bench boost
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  Speaker 1: as well, and i still actually don't know when I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to use the bench boost, but it just came
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  Speaker 1: down in the end too. It's a straight shootout for me.
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  Speaker 1: The triple Captain is a more powerful chip than bench boost.
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  Speaker 1: I think bench boosters, Yes, you can plan it well,
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  Speaker 1: but also it just feels like it's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more luck. I don't know it just I never have
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  Speaker 1: good bench boosts. So I was like, whereas I think
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  Speaker 1: trouble happens a lot more potential And it just did
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  Speaker 1: a straight shootout socker against Wolves when I was still
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  Speaker 1: a little bit worried about his minutes. And to be honest,
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  Speaker 1: that was a roller coaster watching him last weekend, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 1: I just preferred Harland at home to west Ham players
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  Speaker 1: going to Afcon and I think sit here in better
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  Speaker 1: form at the moment, or on better run of momentum.
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  Speaker 1: I should say the Arsenal. So yeah, watch Harland blank
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  Speaker 1: this week. But I get the thing, I won't be
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  Speaker 1: the only one activating that chip this week, but we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about that later. Milli League time, Oliwa tarbi Ajai.
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  Speaker 1: He's back at the top ninety two points and he's
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  Speaker 1: still got his wild God, I wonder when he's going
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  Speaker 1: to play it plus bench boost and three hit So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he just a reminderus is a really good point to
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  Speaker 1: remind it. Actually, there's three weeks left before we kind
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  Speaker 1: of get to the halfway point, and you're going to
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  Speaker 1: lose your chips, so Lord Tobe, please make sure you
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  Speaker 1: use one this week, otherwise you're only going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to use two of your three remaining. So that's
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  Speaker 1: a reminders of everyone as well. I mean I've got
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  Speaker 1: two chips to use in three game weeks as well,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm kind of in the same boat. Harry Hine
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  Speaker 1: is second. He got sixty seven this point this week,
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  Speaker 1: he's one point off top and still has his triple
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  Speaker 1: captain to play. Armored El Maddie drops to third. That's
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  Speaker 1: despite getting eighty four points this week. He's three points behind.
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  Speaker 1: Henry Dean Freeman is up into fourth. He got one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and six points this week. He has played his
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  Speaker 1: wild card and we'll have five free transfers in place
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  Speaker 1: for this week. And he's still got his free hit
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  Speaker 1: chip to use as well. Or reminded the code is
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  Speaker 1: x y six XPL now at this point, normally Jules
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  Speaker 1: wax lyrical about everything that's happened in the Champions League
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  Speaker 1: or Europe this or Caravell Cup this week, He's not here.
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  Speaker 1: Are you going to do it? So I'm going to try,
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  Speaker 1: all right, let's see.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't promise that it's going to be anywhere
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  Speaker 3: near as good. And I was asked to do this
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  Speaker 3: in a French accent, but my French accent, as he testify,
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  Speaker 3: he isn't very good. So I'm not going to do
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  Speaker 3: that and instant the whole France. So let's start with Brentford.
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  Speaker 3: There was no Tiago for Brentford in the squad on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 3: He was missing alongside Jordan Henderson. Both left at home
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the game. Andrew's talked about how
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  Speaker 3: they didn't quite make this one, but neither of them
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  Speaker 3: are far off, so hopefully we'll see them at the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: It is interesting to note that both players have been
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  Speaker 3: carefully managed this season, and in fact, neither of them
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  Speaker 3: has started a midweek game in the League Cup or
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  Speaker 3: in THEA in the FA Cup as it will be
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  Speaker 3: in the.
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  Speaker 1: Future, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: So it does seem like they're missing out on those
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  Speaker 3: ones and therefore getting a bit more rotation, so hopefully
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  Speaker 3: they'll be all right for Wolves at the weekend on
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  Speaker 3: to Manchester City. After ten minutes or so, Oscar Bob
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  Speaker 3: picks up another injury, which is disappointing for him. He
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  Speaker 3: played just twenty that's now the third man City winger
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  Speaker 3: that they are without, with my mooshof for f Con
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  Speaker 3: and Doco out injured. Pep obviously then brings him fold
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  Speaker 3: and he talked after the game about how he didn't
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  Speaker 3: really want to bring on fold And for that long,
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  Speaker 3: but hadn't really got a lot of choice in the
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  Speaker 3: matter because of the injury to Bob. He did also
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: bring Polden off again a bit early. Also stated that
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  Speaker 3: he didn't want to play Nico O'Reilly, but again he
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  Speaker 3: didn't have a lot of choice because he doesn't have.
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  Speaker 1: Eight Nory at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: There are a lot of minutes and he talked about
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  Speaker 3: how Saturday's really important against west Ham, so Nico O'Reilly
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  Speaker 3: probably still okay for that one, and of course Erlin
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  Speaker 3: Harnon had a complete rest. It was an our new substitute,
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  Speaker 3: so that bodes well for any triple captain as this
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  Speaker 3: week MORESCA made eleven changes to Chelsea this weekend. Would
• 9:01
  Speaker 3: have expected Esteval to have started in that one, but
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: he missed out through a muscle injury, which is also
• 9:05
  Speaker 3: going to keep him out of the weekend. Geu got
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  Speaker 3: the start, had a shot on target in the thirty
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  Speaker 3: first minute, but that was his only penalty area touch
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  Speaker 3: in the whole game and it was really disappointing for
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  Speaker 3: him in a game where he could have really shone
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  Speaker 3: with Liam de lapout and had an opportunity to get
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: into that starting eleventh for the weekend, but he definitely
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: didn't take it gone. Actually, and jel Pedro did come
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  Speaker 3: on God and actually missed three big chances against Everton
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  Speaker 3: at the weekend. Didn't do the same here, scored twice
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  Speaker 3: from his three big chances that he had.
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  Speaker 1: In this one.
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  Speaker 3: We did get some four breathers at Chelsea, Enzo Fernandez,
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  Speaker 3: Reece James and Sanchez all our new substitutes. Co Career
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  Speaker 3: was suspended because he picked up two previous yellow cards
• 9:42
  Speaker 3: in the competition, and Cole Palmer missed out entirely because
• 9:44
  Speaker 3: his minutes are being managed after three match Bam.
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  Speaker 1: We saw Caise Doo back. He played all ninety minutes.
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  Speaker 3: He did get booked again in this one, so we
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  Speaker 3: al missed the semi final first leg, which happens between
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: game weeks twenty one and twenty two. It is quite
• 9:57
  Speaker 3: a significant one though, having him back because Reeese Shames
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  Speaker 3: has been pay in midfield recently, so now it's going
• 10:01
  Speaker 3: to be a straight choice between playing Reise James and Gusto,
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  Speaker 3: who obviously we saw it the weekend is in great
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  Speaker 3: form Newcastle. Wister got the start, scored ten minutes in
• 10:10
  Speaker 3: Voltemado was rested. It came on on seventy two to
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: replace Fissa Libremento went off injured. How we're saying after
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  Speaker 3: the game that doesn't look good. In fact, he came
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: off as a worrying sign and that they're really stretching.
• 10:20
  Speaker 3: It was going to be a big blow, so that
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: was a problem. Wilson and him and Az both played
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  Speaker 3: the full ninety for Fulham. Smith Row started but was
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  Speaker 3: replaced on seventy five.
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  Speaker 1: By Josh King.
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  Speaker 3: Just as an interesting point to note, Chelsea, Newcastle, Man
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  Speaker 3: City and then either Arsenal Palace will now play in
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: the semi finals of this competition. The first legs are
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: between twenty and twenty sorry, twenty one and twenty two,
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: and the second legs between twenty four and twenty five,
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: so a little bit more potential rotation from those guys
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  Speaker 3: at that point.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it won't be very good. It won't be very long.
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: I didn't have lines time, but that was brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jewels is out of a job.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I mean that, don't tell it. I was gonna
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: say it's getting close not turning up. Now we found
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  Speaker 1: someone that can. All you need to do is inject
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  Speaker 1: some awful singing and we'll be there. Let's move on
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  Speaker 1: anyway now and discuss the midfield because it feels like
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  Speaker 1: there's been like in terms of it been a roller
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  Speaker 1: coaster season in consistency, it's also felt like that was positions,
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  Speaker 1: Like we were all really excited about the defenders because
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  Speaker 1: the defensive contribution, and now in the recent weeks it's
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: kind of shifted to now on the roller coaster by
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: the way, Sorry if you get and my daughter she
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: is shouting very loud. She doing her best June in
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: Laarron impression. I think this past is chaos. I can't remember.
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  Speaker 1: I was saying, basically, we all want midfielders, don't we,
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  Speaker 1: and is a case of are we putting all our
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: money into midfield? That's what it feels like so many
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: of us are doing with our five transfers lead. There
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: were so many midfielders we want to mentioned Bruno and Foden.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the points feel like they're coming, and that's
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  Speaker 1: where we need to put our money.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, Kelly, Yeah, I think there's there's
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: definitely a move towards that kind of power three, if
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: I can call it that, in midfield, the kind of
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: fod and Sokka and Bruno, Fernandez kind of triumvira if
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: you like Foding in particular. Right, and Sam was right,
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: he Pep sort of through necessity had to bring him
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: on in the Caravell Cup in midweek. He kind of
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: came on as Sarban went offers a sub which we
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: very rarely see. But that shows you how much Pep
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: is trying to just look after him and manage his minutes,
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: which again for us in FPL, I think is a
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: great sign that Foden is a key part of that
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: Manchester City midfield and that Pep is wrapping him.
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  Speaker 1: In cotton Wall like that.
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  Speaker 2: In the past we kind of go, well, who do
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: we go for in the man City midfield? We've got
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: the Pep Roulette. We're not sure about minutes here and
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: minutes there. I don't think Foden's going anywhere soon in
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: the Premier League. I think he's going to play as
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: many minutes as possible, particularly a city have got some
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: ground to make up at the top, haven't they. Six
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: goals across his last four games for Foden Actually noticed
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: in the last two rounds of FPL he's been transferred
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: in by three point three million FPL managers. His price
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: has gone from I don't know what he is right now.
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: He's like eight point eight I think, And I'm.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: Surely I got him after I got him, after I'd
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: missed a couple of price rises, and I've still made
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  Speaker 1: point five on.
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  Speaker 2: Him totally, and I still don't think it's too late
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  Speaker 2: to get him. The city fixtures still look pretty good
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  Speaker 2: going forward. So he's just definitely going to be a
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: cornerstone for us in midfield, and then Bruno doing Bruno
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  Speaker 2: things week on week out. The high scoring midfielder could
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: have had more points this season because you've missed a
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: couple of penalties and just missed out on death gone
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: a couple of times. And then so Saka is the one.
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: I'm interested to hear what you guys think of Socca
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: because he's been okay, eleven pointers of this week, but
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: ticking over every week? Is that? Is that enough?
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: While I don't know if you agree with me on this, Sam,
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: a few weeks before, I was thinking, oh, I need
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: some funds because my team value wasn't great. It's got
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: a bit better now, but I was looking at it going, oh,
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: maybe go Saker to Rice. There's there's another option there.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: But that was when Rice had that kind of mini
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: purple patch and I was what I realized, I was
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: actually desperate to find someone else in the Arsenal attack.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: And for me, it's just really hard to find someone
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: else in the Arsenal attack, and you can't with the
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: injuries in defense at the moment, you can't. You're at
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: risk of just having one or two defenders and then
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: not having an Arsenal attack. If you don't have Sacer,
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: I just.
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: Don't know where else to go, Sam No, I agree,
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: And I was looking at Sakka's involvement in the chances
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: that Arsenal were creating, and so over the last four matches.
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: In game week thirteen, he was involved in sixty two
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: percent of the chances that they created. In fourteen, it
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: was down at twenty nine, but that's still Yeah, I'm
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: just still a third of the chances. Game week fifteen
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: it was fifty seven percent of the chances, and then
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: game week sixteen it was twenty five. So he is
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: involved in at least a quarter of the chances that
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: they are creating in every single match, and actually over
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: the course of that chunk it's significantly more than that.
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: It's more like fifty percent. So he definitely feels like
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: the best option in that Arsenal midfield or even the
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: Arsenal attack generally, because we saw it the weekend, right,
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: we've got gaby Ja Zeus coming back from injury as well,
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: So what does that mean for your cares? Like there's
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: so many potential rotation risks, and yes, Madawaka is coming back,
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: and yes, maybe that gives some rotation for soccer, but
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: I think in reality all that means is that maybe Soccer,
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: in the games where they are really ahead, that we
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: might see him with drawn a little bit early. And
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: I think for you and Ikels, that was the reason
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: why we didn't end up triple captain in him, because
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: I was really worried that we might see Soccer come
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: off at sixty to kind of protect him a little bit.
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: At Madawaki get the last half an hour of that game,
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: and I just kind of thought, well, I'd rather have
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: ninety minutes. I'd rather have a ninety minute man. And
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: I do think that there are kind of be times
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: where Socca comes off a little bit early, but he
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: is so involved in everything good that Arsenal are doing
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: in attack that for me, he just feels like a
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: necessity because, as you say, at the minute, the double
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Arsenal defense is great, yes, normally, but we don't have
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: Gabrielle at the moment, although it does seem like he's
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: getting closer and that has weakened them defensively.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: So I just think soccer is too important.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: It's why I used five transfers last week to have Socca,
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: Bruno and Foden, although immediately then thought well do I
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: have to have all four? Like do I now have
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: to get Palmer as well? And if I do, where's
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: the money coming from? And like you said at the beginning,
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: I think the only way to do that is going
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: to be to take money out of the defense, because
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: most of us have already stripped quite a lot out
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: of the forward line.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Anyway. Yeah, well that's my next thing at the moment
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: is I've still got Valtamada And I mean you mentioned
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: it in your round up whistles back Whista's scored now
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: as well. So I kind of knew Waltamada was going
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: to become a problem at some point, but I just
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: wanted to get out of in what I could. But
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at going down because we're going to need
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: to fund what I did. I've got a bench boost,
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: so I kind of don't want to do that, yeah immediately.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: But the other problem we're going to have is Cole Palmer.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Like he didn't play in midweek, but he's going to
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: make a big difference at Chelsea. Team Lear were going
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: to get ourselves in a situation do you think where
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: we're going to be looking at the four in midfield
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: or are we just going to have to make decisions
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: because of course we've got all that money in Earling
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Harland too.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be so difficult to get Palmer
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: back in our teams, isn't it. But when we were
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: talking there about Socca kind of ticking over, and I
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: hear what you're saying, Sam about him being so creative
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: and so much the harbor of everything that Arsenal were
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: doing in terms of, you know, in the final third.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: But you know it's only going to take a couple
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: of you know, a brace from Cole Palmer for us
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: to go, well, I can move from a ticking over
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Sakka to go into a Cole Palmer ten point three million,
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: isn't he?
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: I think that was I checked that a couple of
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: days ago. I might even have gone up because he's
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: going to be popular. I think he's still being managed
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: and I think if there's one thing that MORESCA has
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: shown this season is that particular players aut reece James,
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: he's willing to ease them back in use his squad.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: I think he's still conscious that he had the Club
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: World Cup in the summer. Let's not have too many injuries,
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: so I think we'll still see Cole Palmer kind of
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: ease back in. But listen at Newcastle aware. I don't
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: think it's a great entry point for him this week
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: in game week seventeen, but after that Villa at home,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Bournemouth at home, could that be a better entry point? No,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Villa in good form right City away in twenty I
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: personally don't see me going to Cole Palmer over the
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: next four but in twenty one the fixtures for Chelsea
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: do then start to get pretty good, starting with Fulham away.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't think it's a priority by Kelly,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: but he's for sure back on radar because he's cold
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Palmer and we know what we can do.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: We've only had ninety minutes out of Palmer once this season,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: got in game week one then man, yeah, game week
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: four he had forty minutes game week five, twenty then
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: since it's been coming back, it's been thirty four, fifty
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: seven fifty seven, so two.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Pre sixty minutes.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: So we're not even hitting that sixty minute mark that
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: we all look for as FPL managers, right because that's
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: where you get your clean sheet locked in and over
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: the last two weeks he'd have had two more points
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: for clean sheets because they've kept them, but he's not
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: got them because he's gone off before sixty. And I
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: think if you're talking about a plus ten million player,
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: you need to see consistency of starts and minutes with people. Actually,
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: you know, him coming on and staying on for more
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: than sixty because there are other people in that Chelsea
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: team that you could go to. You know, there's netto
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: that you could have instead if you wanted, or I
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: know that you know, some people are moving away from him,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: but nonetheless he's still looking like a decent option. And
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: I don't think I would get rid of any of
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: the other three premium midfielders in order to have him
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: right now.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Okay and right on Q. I don't know if he
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: can hear us, but Jewels he can. He's smiling. Jews
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: had lived this week.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you so much for stepping in. What happened
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: the train We had a problem on the Eurostar from
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: Paris back to London this morning.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: But what we've realized, myself and Sam have realized, you
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: don't leave any contingency. Do you like it? Get fifteen minutes?
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: You don't leave like a ten minute window in case
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: it's going to happen.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: But for once, for once, because you know, usually I
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: give you a time where I know I can't make
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: that time.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: You know, me, this time admitted it. It's like how
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: many seasons we admitted it?
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Like my dad, everybody in my family does that, right,
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: But this time I was. I was realistic on the time.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: So okay, well you're going to stick and still like anyway,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: just to point out that we were recording, the time
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: that we'd set was an hour and fifteen minutes later
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: than usual, and so yeah, so anyway, I'm glad you
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: could make it. And now there's four of us, which
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: is even best than more the marriage. I was were
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: just talking about Midfields actually and the fact that at
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the moment everyone wants Bruno, everyone wants Foden. You're not
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: a Sakarna actually, so it's quite an interesting point forew
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: to come into conversation. These guys were just debating because
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: with Cole Palmer coming back into the fray as well,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: is soccer the least desirable? How have you felt about
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: not having him?
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: I feel that's that, guys, maybe the least in form
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: of those options. And I have to say I received
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: many messages people sliding in my dms us right, even men.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Who foxes letters.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: I got letters pigeons to com pigeons to complain about
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: that Soca assists on the first goal against Wolves, because really,
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: let's be honest, Yeah, has never been given about you
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: should have never been Maybe I'm just the voice of
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: the people. This is this is all I received.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: The captains were very happy about. Yeah, it was a
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: real roll, wasn't he got the point?
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, clearly that that tells you everything about it. But
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: but yeah, I think because also are still a little
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: bit I think finding their feet attacking wise with your
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: cares or whoever plays number nine, even to be fair,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: who plays as a ten, whether he's or whether he's
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: or the guard or the guard coming back, and there's
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: a bit of rotation, and and that's why I think
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: maybe Soaka for the price that is, considering comparing with
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: the with Bruno Fernandez for example, and you see the
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: form of Bruno. Even if the United fictions coming up
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: with Villain and Newcastle are not too easy before Wolves,
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: I would still go for Bruno more than Saka right now.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're you're staying without soccer and you've I mean,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: you're still outscored us despite not having him this week.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: So I think, guy, oh, remind me only only by point.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: You only beat me by a point. So yeah, I
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: feel like jeles Cole Palmer has got a you move
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: written all over it. You'll go for him early, won't you.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but not now. It's a bit too early now
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: because he's going to play. I think I record the
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: end of what Sam was saying, and I suspect that
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: was on Palmer. He's not going to play nineteen minutes
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: for the next maybe two league games, especially now with
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: the congested fixtures. Let's wait until he's fully fit to
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: play the whole nineteen minutes back to back games, and
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: then I think he'd be back in the conversation.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: It's fooding going to be able to keep this up, Sam.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I want him to out of all of them, because
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: he's the cheapest, well, let's hope so, because he's easy
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: to own and he's performing really well at the minute,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: and it gives us an easy route into city that's
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: not early in Harlem because at the minute Otherwise you
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: have Harlan and you're kind of go, well, I'm just
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: picking up the same points.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: That's seventy percent of the game of picking up because
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: I'm I'm always going to have him and I'm pretty
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: much going to captain him every week, so he's kind
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: of a bit of a non event, which is a
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: horrible thing to say about the piet scoring player in
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: the game. But because everyone's got him, it doesn't make
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: a difference. Whereas Foden the last few weeks, and I,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: like UKs, I got on him a bit too late,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: like I should have gone a couple of weeks before
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: I did, but I wanted to make sure that he
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: was actually informing it wasn't just a one off before
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I went there. So I'm pleased to have gained all
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: the price risers out of him. But can he sustain it?
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: I think probably, But we do know that he is
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: a purple patch player, so as soon as it stops,
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: you do have to get off. And it would be
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: really handy for us in FPL as if it kind
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: of timed itself with Parma's revival, if they kind of
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: swapped over at the same time, because it is going
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: to be a challenge. I think when you look at
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: that midfield and you've got Bruno and Sacca and Palma
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: and Fodin, like owning all four alongside Harlan and at
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: the same time when you'd expect to see Gabrielle coming back,
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: and then if you want to have Gabrielle alongside a
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Raya or a Timber, that's going to be almost impossible
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: to create that team. So somebody has got to be
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: the sacrifice. Now, I don't I don't think I would
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: want to watch Arsenal without having Sokka the way that
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: they are, and you know, we went through the numbers
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: of his involvements earlier, like I think he he for
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: me feels important and I want to cover out that
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Arsenal attack. I've already kind of covered the City attack.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: So Foden that's the team I'm doubled up on. He
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: feels like the one that would probably be the one
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: I would want to sell. But I just don't see
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: it ending at any point. He's so important they're playing
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: around him, and with the injuries and Afcon and everything
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: else that's going on for man City at the moment,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: I think he'll be a long term hold.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Do you think that do you think the temptation is
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: to switch to others though, to save a bit money,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Like if Palmer comes back on the radar, you can
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: see a lot of FPR managers saying, well, I could
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: save over two million by going from Foden to say,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: for example, Cherkey, now Churkey. I watched him last night
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: at Jawles. I don't know if this guy's Paris born
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: and bred, but he's eating unbelievable. Like you know, when
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: you watch these footballs, you just think you are just
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: a joy to watch. I mean, he's got seven assists
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: so far in his last seven game weeks, which is
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: joint top in the league with Minter, and he's creating
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: a chance every twenty nine minutes in the league. Then
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: he goes and scores the goal that you know made
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: us all stand up and applaud last night in the
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: caravell cut. I can see a lot of FPM managers saying, well,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: if I want Harland and Palmer and I don't want
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: to sell Sokka Foden to Cherkey. I'm not saying that's
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: a move that I would personally do right now, but
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I could see it being on a few FPM managers
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: radars if they need to save some.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Money, choose do you think?
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, he's not unfortunately par Won and Breadley.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: He's from Lyon, But that's okay. That's why I exactly
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: we still love him, although he's my differential this week.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, I know i'd give it away before we
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: get there, but because I think you're right, it's a
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: great point to make just if you need a bit
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: of money. I think the thing with Foe then, and
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: I mean the return for the last four game weeks
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: is unbelievable for food and I'm not sure you can
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: keep that up anyway. Because against Paalacy was not very good.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: I know he's called a Gordon, he says good taking
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: gold and Chirky got the assist, which she's not really
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: an assist, let's be honest. But they struggled, especially for
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: the first hour or so. So I don't know about
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Foden in terms of this incredible street that he's on
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: right now, but I think Shirkey would get more and
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: more important in this city team. They're going to build
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: around him more and more. His relationship with Harland, his
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: relationship with all the other players, because he's just been
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: that good so far this season.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned Churkey being a little bit cheaper, then
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I wonder if actually we do need some cheaper midfielders
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: as well, don't we need to balance out, particularly with
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: some of the players that have gone off to Afcon,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the likes of I know, and Bermo's a little bit
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: more expensive, isn't He's kind of in the fod and
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: price bracket. But Dan go and Die are two of
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the other popular midfielders as well, And we've seen a
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: lot of excitement and I get why because people on
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: this podcast owning for Harry Wilson. So there are some
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: cheaper options out there, aren't they, And Sam all of
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: a sudden, we need players like that to be registering
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: hauls like that. Absolutely. Yeah.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: And it's one of those isn't it, where if you're
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: going to have the power three is we're now currently
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: referring to them in FBL with Bruno and Saka and Foden,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: And you want to maybe put yourself in a position
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: where you have got some money in order to be
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: able to get to Cole Palmer, then you need the
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: players to be playing really well, and over the last
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: four game weeks I had a look at the total
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: points that the midfielders have got to try and work
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: out whether the premiums were the right investment. So obviously,
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: in terms of the midfielders, Phone in his top for
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: points scored over the last four with fifty five, but
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: behind him it's closely. It's Bruno Fernandez with forty six,
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: and then after that it's Harry Wilson with forty six.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Now obviously a lot of them came last week with
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: his sixteen pointer. Then it's Jewsby Hall, who I think
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: a lot of people were considering going to in a
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: couple of weeks time. I know Lee was saying that
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: was his plan, was to go from Wilson to Gewsby
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Hall in a couple of weeks time when the fixtures
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: swung for Fulham and for Everton. Obviously we'll have to
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: see how Gewsby Hall is following that injury, and then
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: after that it's Rogers before we get to soccer, then
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: it's Sanghara and then it goes down. But the ones
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: that follow from Sanghara down they're all priced at most
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: at seven million, and that's Bruno Gimaraz and you've got
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: to get down to what is he won two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: eleven twelve. He's twelve for scoring midfielders. So when you're
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: looking at cheap options, they definitely are available, like they're
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: definitely there. And I think we will have to balance
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: the desire for all of these premiums and squeezing them
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: in with having cheaper options, because the one thing that's
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: really important is that you don't skew your team too much.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Like it's very easy to go, well, I'll have Harlan,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: I'll have those four premiums, I'll strip all the money
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: out of the defense and I'll just go for four
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: four to five million defenders and I'll get like the
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Brogannga or with the Bravkris the backup. But that leaves
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: you with quite an unbalanced squad, Whereas if you can
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: get in players like Harry Wilson, have him for this light,
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: little mini purple patch of great fixtures that he's having,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: then shift him on to another cheaper player that's also
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: going to about to go into this nice run of fixtures.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: You can manipulate your squad to your advantage and hopefully
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: then get the best out of the premiums. Whilst also
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: getting your best out of your mid priced and cheaper
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: options in midfield.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: So Lee, who are your cheaper options alongside the Power three?
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Well, I've got I've got the two Fulham boys. So
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I've got Harry Wilson that I bought in this week,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: which was very happy with and I listen when I
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: brought him in. You know, you look at the art
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: of fpl is trying to find the getting in someone
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: on the apex of form and fixtures right, and he
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: had I think the scores before this week were ten,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: eight and eight, so good scores was kind of ticking
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: over and then with these three fixtures coming up, I
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: just thought such a good opportunity to go in on
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: someone that was, you know, two or three percent owned
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: at the time. I suspect he's more now. But then
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: my other one is Josh King. He's my fifth midfielder.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: So I'm very much loaded up on the Fulham midfield.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Wilson's going to stay. King is kind of sitting there
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: as a bit of a not a wasted spot and
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: he could get some minutes over the next couple of
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: game weeks when the Fulham fixtures continue to be good.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: But listen, he's kind of bench fodder for me a
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: little bit, but I do have four three transfers. I
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: do have a bit of money in the bank, so
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: maybe going with a couple of CHP's in midfield, Wilson
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: and then one other Jewsby Hall was definitely on my
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: radar before the injury, alongside the Power three. I think
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: that's a reasonable strategy.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. Jeels. At the
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: moment your midfield, I'm trying to get your team up
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: because I clicked off it. I've been trying to find
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Lee's team for ages what we're doing this part now,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get jos Stein backup. So Jee, your
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: mid is you've got Bruno and Wilson. You don't have soccer,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: but you've had Rice. Haven't you happy with this a minute?
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: I think for and Bruno, Wilson and even Bruno Gish. Okay,
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: it was it was enough day at the weekend in
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: the derby for Newcastle, but I think I think they can.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: I think they will have to bounce back from that.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: We saw that a little bit already in the car
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Bop in midweek, but and after that, I expect them
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: even if it's Chelsea and United coming up before Burnley,
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: those two two tough games, I think they would have
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: to respond to how bad it was, and even even
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: Bruno Gi Marish's criticism over the whole team, I think
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: they have a point to prove coming up. So I
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: don't mind Bruno Gui Maresh right now, but I think Wilson, Bruno,
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Fernandez and and Foden are I'm very happy with. And
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: then I can just play three in midfield and in
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: the fourth with three, for example, I can add Rice
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: even for the event and away game because I think
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: that could be a discent fixture for Arsenal or or
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: at some point I try to upgrade Rise to Sukka
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: and finding some money somewheres.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: What other midfield names should we be looking at?
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Sam Rogers surely know.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Rogers is on there for sure. He looks like
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: a really good option.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: And even when it's not him that's been impressing, he's
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: still getting points, so you know, I think he's definitely
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: up there. In the conversation, I still like the Bruno
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Gimares pick, despite the fact that I think they might struggle,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: particularly if they've lost different Libermento as well. I think
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: that might be problematic, but he is really important and
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: there wasn't a great result of the weekend. I've still
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: got Kudas in my team. I'm definitely holding in form
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: when we beat Liverpool on the weekend, but otherwise I don't.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: I'm not loving that, and I think that's the interesting
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: spot for me in the midfielder is that you've got
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: these kind of six point five millions and if you
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: roll us back to pre season in game week one,
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: we were all talking about the six point fives, how
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: we needed to have them, how many of them.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Should we have. Now I'm looking at him thinking.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Okay, well, realistically I kept him for this week rather
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: than transferring him out because I felt like with the
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: penalty stuff in the Champions League, maybe it was worth
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: just giving him one more week. It was a relatively night,
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: it should have been a relatively nice fixture against Forrest.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: But he'll get one more week because I want to
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: do the plan transfer that I was talking about earlier,
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: and then I'll look to move him on. But whether
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: I look to go up from him, as in free
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: up money elsewhere so that I can raise him up
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: to another more premium masset, or whether I look to
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: drop him down, possibly even Harry Wilson, But to be honest,
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: by the time I looked to drop him down Harry
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Wilson' only have that one nice fixture jews By Hall
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: was where I was kind of had thought by the
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: time I want to drop down Kudas, maybe it's jews
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Beyhol because the Ebotham fixture swing. So I think we've
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: mentioned the kind of key ones I don't. I think
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: you know you can take a punt on Churkey if
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: you want to. But I think he's still going Phodin
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: just one.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: That's going a little bit under the radar for me.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I mentioned it on the Off the Bench of podcast
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: with as On earlier this week. Is he's got six
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: returns and last eight game weeks either a goal or
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: assist or a defensive contribution. No one's going to be
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: looking at him this week because West Ham have got
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: a very difficult fixture against Manchester City. But from game
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: week eighteen onwards the fixtures look great for west Ham.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Mattias Fernandez, he's five point five million, he's owned by
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: get this zero point one percent, Like almost no one's
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: got him. And I've noticed when I've been watching West Ham,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: both Pots and Magassa sit in that midfield. It gives
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: them a tires Fernandez the freedom to get forward, like
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: I say, ticking over. I mean, there's no been, no
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: kind of explosive double digit halls, and no one's kind
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: of really mentioning him. But a five point five million
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: if you're looking for somebody cheaper in that midfield, Sam
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: and I will be once Wilson's fixtures potentially when Wilson's
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: fixtures kind of get a bit tougher, got an eye
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: on him, got an eye on him, you know, zero
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: point one percent. I mean there's a proper differential in
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: there somewhere.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, talking of differentials, let's do Differential of the week.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: We're not going to let Lee do one. Not let
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Lee do one. Make him do one for such a
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: late edition as a Sam and Jules Jews. Actually not
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: a chance. Jeles is going first because Sam picked wils
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: I want to No, no, no, no, You're like.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: I'm going to get I'm going to get more messages.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: You get all the lessons you want, But I'm going
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: for Nikka Riley this week. He's owned by nine point
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: nine percent. Somebody meet him, Somebody mute him. This is
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: probably the last week we can have him as a
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: differential because you know the ownership is going to go up,
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: probably even by the end of this podcast. But Pep
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: talked about how important he is, and I read some
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: quotes from him at the beginning and how he didn't
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: really want to play him, but with Ain't nor Rearway,
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: he hasn't got very much choice. He did come off
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: early and once the match was won against Brentford as well,
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: He's got back to back clean sheets in the last
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: two league matches three domestically if you include the League
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Cup last night, and even when there wasn't a clean
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: sheet in the Champions League, he still managed to score
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: the fiction is against west Ham, who was struggling anyway,
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: but as Kelly mentioned earlier, they're now struggling even more
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: because they've lost Juf and Wambasaka to Afcons, so defensively
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: they're going to be all over the shop. He would
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: have thought, so potential for returns at both ends of
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: the pitch.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Jules who you got.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm him already and Lie talked about him as well.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: I've gone for Ryan Turkey, who obviously started playing just
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: over an hour in the Midlewik fixture in the Cabo
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: Cup against Brentford or Riley also played a similar amount
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: of minutes as well, so you know they're going to
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: start at the weekend is west Ham. Shirkey is owned
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: by five point six percent of the manager, so that's
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: a proper differential, not you know, nine point n still
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: ship really six point five millions, so it's not really
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: too expensive considering his talent. Just returned twelve and six
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: in the last two game week plus as we saw
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: how good it was on the in the cap, So
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: Hurkey I think would be at the heart of everything
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: good that city do this weekend.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, transfers and captains then well you both use loads
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: of them, Sam, still using what is that one transfer
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: that you told us about. I'm doing cash to O'Reilly
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: part at the beginning, I told you and it was
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: one week pun that got you as a oh zero zero.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: It was a little with cash.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: It's ended badly. It's over now and I'm going to
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: go to Roe Riley instead.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: I couldn't you get a really hard time from these two,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Sam in this podcast. But come on, some of the
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: some of these this issue like catching for a week.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Honestly if we if this pub wasn't Celtic enough already,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I'd be going in harder. But and are you tripple
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: perhaps Earling Harland? Yes, I feel Phone.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go Harland. I've been pundering on phone
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: in a week, but I just that the penalties and
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: everything else, I'm just going to go for Harlan.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: I agree, Lee, what are your moves?
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Probably well, almost certainly going to do the O'Reilly move
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: as well. Got an eye on Nownas on the other side,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: but I think O'Riley is the one. So probably Tarkovski
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: to Nouns is going to be sorry, Tarkowski to O'Reilly
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: is going to be my move.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: I've got four other transfers there. I don't feel kind
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: of obliged to spend them. I might just sit there
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: having the.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: While.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Just maybe one transfer last week. It's quite nice, Yeah.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I know, But I see Jaws and Sam having such
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: a great time spending their five transfers in one week.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: I feel like I feel like I'm getting a bit
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: left behind here. But no, I think I'll say the
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: others and just do that transfer.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Give them to me if you like, yeah, I can
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: sell Harland Captaincy.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Harland Captaincy. I don't know about triple captain though, I
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: don't know about triple captain. I've got my eye on Bruno.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: I've got the triple captain. Yeah, and I've got Bruno
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Fernandez game week nineteen Wolves at home in my sights
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: as well. It's either that or Harlan this week. I
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: think it might be Harlan this week, but not sure
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: yet Jee's plans.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: I'm rolling and Harland captain. As you know, I've wasted
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: my triple captaincy already, so I wish. I wish he
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: blanks against west Ham like you did against me. No, no,
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: don't worry. I am mean.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: And we all know that Jewel will still make transfers
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: that he's just not saying them. And I've done one transfer.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I have gone from Granwitch Shaka to Harry Wilson Wild
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: but probably too late for that grantit Shaka, but it
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: was for you. You know what. He's ticked over because
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: he gets deaf cone and he gets the order cist.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: But every time he's got any points, he's been on
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: my bench. He hasn't played that much. And I just
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: thought why not before his price went up? Why not
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: just do a like for like soub. Basically, that's what
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: the power of the five transfers, isn't it? Because I
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: don't think about that transfer quite as much because I'm like, well,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: it's just one transfer. But Volta Marta, I've got to
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: do something about that, but probably won't this week. Yes, okay,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: that's why we'll leave it at a reminder of Saturday
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: morning deadline eleven am, ninety minutes ahead of the twelve
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: thirty game between new Castle and Chelsea Jewels. Don't be
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: late for that because they won't wait for you. Fancy
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Show is back on Friday. I'm going to be seeing
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Sam there and Harry's also in the studio with us.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Next week is actually Christmas. Why did I say that
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: if you wouldn't know it was Christmas? In case you
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: hadn't noticed week to go to a Christmas do your shopping.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: It also means that we've got a slightly different schedule
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: to ensure that we get to you before as many
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: of the deadlines as possible. So we're going to be
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: back on Tuesday next week to review Game Week seventeen
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: and look ahead to Game week eighteen, which kicks off
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: on Boxing Day, and then when we get to that point,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what was happening after Christmas. It's a
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: bit different then as well. Have a good week, guy,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I see you. And by the way, Lee, thank you.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: You can get on with your day now. In fact,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: no jewels, you should say thanks.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: I'm just said thank you and I said thank you
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: when I walked in.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: All right, you see you later.
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: Guys,