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S8 Ep16: FPL Pod: Best Arsenal players to pick · FPL Pod

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  Speaker 1: A busy European week, but still an FPL pod packed
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  Speaker 1: with Premier League chat. We debate Arsenal and is Rice
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  Speaker 1: really a better option than Soccer? Plus, we discuss value
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  Speaker 1: in the field, and for once, Jews has already made
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  Speaker 1: his transfers. Welcome back to this week's FPL pod, where
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  Speaker 1: natural order has been restored. Sam joking, but I took
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  Speaker 1: a lot of heat on last week's pods that all
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do was just have a slightly better
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  Speaker 1: game week. I mean, admissively, Jews had a better game
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  Speaker 1: week than all of us, which seems to be scarily
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  Speaker 1: common at the moment. Yep, but I'm a bit happier
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  Speaker 1: this week.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, everyon Kelly smm's a be san Bonfield,
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  Speaker 1: Sam over to you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I do know. I had a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a.
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  Speaker 4: Shocker, but that's what happens when you go against the
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  Speaker 4: obvious captain, because you try and do something a bit
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  Speaker 4: different and it doesn't pay off. Like Jewels or I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure have something to say about his captaincy later, I
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  Speaker 4: went for Soccer, who had to massive opportunities, two big chances,
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  Speaker 4: doesn't score either of them, and as soon as he blanked.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, well, that's my game week done. Regardless
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  Speaker 4: of what happens across the rest of the team, it's
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  Speaker 4: done at this point because as soon as you have
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  Speaker 4: the captaincy fail, and then not long into the Manchester
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  Speaker 4: City game on Sunday, of course Harland scores and I'm like, right, well,
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  Speaker 4: that is really going to be a difficult a difficult week.
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  Speaker 3: I also undernad all.
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  Speaker 4: Week about what to do about Rinders and Caido and
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  Speaker 4: which one of them to play, and of course in
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  Speaker 4: the end went for.
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  Speaker 3: The wrong one.
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  Speaker 4: And the PEPs comments before the game, I was thinking, well,
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  Speaker 4: maybe just leave Rinders on the bench and I'll get
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  Speaker 4: Kido's ten points come off of it. But no, that
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  Speaker 4: wasn't to be. Came off for a one point cameo.
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  Speaker 4: So difficult week ended up on fifty seven. It actually
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  Speaker 4: wasn't as terrible as Red Arrow as I feared it
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  Speaker 4: might be. I think on Sunday when Manchester City were playing,
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  Speaker 4: I was like, this is going to be a massive
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  Speaker 4: Red Arrow.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't that bad. In the end, It's put me.
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  Speaker 4: Off captain in anyone other than Harlan for the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the season, though I'll be honest.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen a fair few people saying that. Actually
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  Speaker 1: that in the form he's in and the goals he's scoring.
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  Speaker 1: But Juels, you you so nearly beat all the Harland captains.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't you?
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  Speaker 3: Fair play?
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  Speaker 1: You did go bold? You said you do. Gabrielle, I
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  Speaker 1: was on the final score with your friend Naden. It
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  Speaker 1: was funny because when he got the assist, I said, now,
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  Speaker 1: Nadan was watching that game, and I said, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: obviously watching four games we had thirty four cup ties,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not watching everything. And I said, who was that header?
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  Speaker 1: Who got the assist? And he was like sleep, oh, no, Gabrielle.
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  Speaker 1: And then he just opened my head in my hands.
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  Speaker 1: He's like what And I was like, I think Joe's
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  Speaker 1: captained him. And then we went to the next reporter.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I just need to check and you did,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean fair play it Like as Sam said,
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  Speaker 1: then it is so bold and so brave to go
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  Speaker 1: against him. But he probably was that what he was.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't he the second best captain option?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and if he doesn't get that yellow car fourth
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  Speaker 5: minute for the home ball, then it's actually better than Harlan.
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  Speaker 5: He would have gone fourteen. Instead, we'd have gone two
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  Speaker 5: more points instead of the.
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  Speaker 4: It would have actually been four more points because he
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  Speaker 4: lost a bonus point on the back of you.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, well completely, so it would have it could have
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  Speaker 5: been much better. The thing I would say, though, as
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  Speaker 5: good as it was, and we explained you know last
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  Speaker 5: week's show that it was, it would have been a
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  Speaker 5: good captain because of how good he is and said,
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  Speaker 5: this is how strong defensively Arson, and there was there
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  Speaker 5: was high probability they would.
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  Speaker 2: Not concede a good against against Burnley.
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  Speaker 5: How stressed I was on somebody, I would really advise
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  Speaker 5: anyone to just not do anybody else but Harland because
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  Speaker 5: as we were saying in our group chat with producing
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  Speaker 5: Jesse and everybody, yeah, Grabria good. I was super happy
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  Speaker 5: with his points tylely and everything as a captain. But
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  Speaker 5: then I was just like, please Harland, don't score more
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  Speaker 5: than two. And then literally Harlan could have had four
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  Speaker 5: in the first time alone. So the levels of stress
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  Speaker 5: was just not worth it. So just people, just captain
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  Speaker 5: halland and your heart will thank you.
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  Speaker 1: A good week over will for you that otherwise Joel's
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  Speaker 1: eighty two points, I got seventy five Sam and she said,
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  Speaker 1: got fifty seven. Jules, you had minto you had you
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  Speaker 1: had a good week again, didn't you have that school show?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Minte with nine good gehe with ten Gabriel who
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  Speaker 5: said twelve times two Matta's called was good. My My
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  Speaker 5: big regret again a bit like last week, was Casido
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  Speaker 5: on the bench and I don't know already as well,
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  Speaker 5: but already I don't I don't think I would have
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  Speaker 5: started Cacido. I thought Semnu against City is bored because
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  Speaker 5: I was not sure how much Bournemouth would do with
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  Speaker 5: the board. Really and Semineo, as we said last week
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  Speaker 5: on last week, sure hasn't been in great.
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  Speaker 2: Form either, and I regret a little.
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  Speaker 5: Bit now I havn't played instead so I would play
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  Speaker 5: cas because now I think between this week and last week,
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  Speaker 5: I've missed out twenty one points from him or something
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  Speaker 5: like that. So you're going to be in the team
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  Speaker 5: this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think I'm regretting the oh ends I
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  Speaker 1: is worth that extra point nine million or whatever it was.
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  Speaker 3: Clearly at the.
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  Speaker 1: Moment he is not. Okay. Then let's check in with
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  Speaker 1: the top of the FPL Pod Mini League, Barry Roberts's
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  Speaker 1: top Now his team is Barry's Believers, ninety one points
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  Speaker 1: for him, so he moved up seven places. He actually
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  Speaker 1: sold Mickey van Dervem, which was something that Sam discussed
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  Speaker 1: that she was thinking about on the pod last week.
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  Speaker 1: Well but you regretting that bit. Barry though didn't return
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  Speaker 1: last week. What a goal in midweek he got an
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  Speaker 1: additional four points by selling him though he also had
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  Speaker 1: returns from Raya Kukurea, gabrielle Gahee, Pedro Matteta and Harland
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  Speaker 1: Prosper Melusa climb from fifth to second with eighty five points.
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  Speaker 1: They did rinders to Minta and that one certainly paid off.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually so tight at the top of that league.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, it was fifteen points separating the top ten.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll keep you posted on how that goes. X
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  Speaker 1: Y six xpl is your code. Now we're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about Arsenal in just a moment. They've been in
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  Speaker 1: Champions League action this week and lots of teams have.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, so je was before we come on to
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  Speaker 1: Arsenal and the Premier League. Can you give us your
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  Speaker 1: legendary That's what Sam's put in the script. European Midweek
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  Speaker 1: round up.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so let's start with Liverpool because it was the
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  Speaker 5: biggest game really against from Madrid Unfield, second clean sheet
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  Speaker 5: in a row, much better balance. McAllister's scoring that was
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  Speaker 5: really good, so ran the show and they were good
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  Speaker 5: on said pieces even if they only scored one goal.
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  Speaker 5: They were very good on said pieces again. Arsenal very
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  Speaker 5: solid Weslavia Prague. They only considered one shot on target
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  Speaker 5: in the whole nineteen minutes. Two goals for Mickel Marino
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  Speaker 5: who will be the number nine in the coming weeks
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  Speaker 5: because your Keres is interested only against Sunderland on Saturday,
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  Speaker 5: Saka with a penalty and Mac Damond record breaker for
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  Speaker 5: the youngest ever player to play in the Champions League
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  Speaker 5: Spurs and Mickey Messi vonder ven Sam's lover and best
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  Speaker 5: friend and anything you want. Incredible goal obviously Brandon Johnson
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  Speaker 5: despite the red card all the bet PALLINYA pretty good
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  Speaker 5: afternoon against the team that I think I could have.
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  Speaker 2: Played for in Copenhagen.
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  Speaker 5: Chelsea not so good, but drove a Cara bag when
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  Speaker 5: they were not good at to Jared had to had
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  Speaker 5: a nightmare. Good bye, gana show and Stevao a city
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  Speaker 5: just routing win against Dortmund another good for Holland obviously
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  Speaker 5: and two for food On two very nicegorers to keep
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  Speaker 5: in mind before the big lash against Liverpool on Sunday
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  Speaker 5: and then finding a Newcastle.
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  Speaker 2: A proper header by Dan Byrne.
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  Speaker 5: Over all good performance from then Joylington scoring again, but
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  Speaker 5: it's not much from fort Mare if you own him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Voltemado is proving to be very frustrating, isn't he Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Then let's move on. It was brilliant as always that
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  Speaker 1: round up Jels. Don't worry. There you go, there's a compliment.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Arsenal. As you said, then another big
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  Speaker 1: win in the Champions League in midweek. We've said it
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  Speaker 1: for weeks now. You have to own three Arsenal players
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  Speaker 1: and it feels like the defense is the way to go.
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  Speaker 1: But just wanted to take a look at the ownership
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  Speaker 1: of some of the Arsenal players and discuss who the
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  Speaker 1: best three are because I wonder if maybe we're changing
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  Speaker 1: our mind on some of them. So the most heavily
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  Speaker 1: owned player is Gabrielle, the second most owned player is
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  Speaker 1: David Raya, then this is Timber and then it is soccer,
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  Speaker 1: and then we kind of go down into the teams
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  Speaker 1: in terms of ownership, and it's a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: spread around. Some people have got Califuri, then Rice Eza
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  Speaker 1: they're the most popularis a few people have got Saliba
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  Speaker 1: as well, So yeah, it's kind of spread Oh and
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  Speaker 1: Yokra is actually Yukares is pretty highly owned. I forgot
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  Speaker 1: about him, but it is. I think now, Sam, it's
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  Speaker 1: about getting your three Arsenal players. But it's when you
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  Speaker 1: look at the combinations of Arsenal players that's where if
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  Speaker 1: you're look into climb rank, you almost have to get
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  Speaker 1: the right combo, don't you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think you know, last season we didn't
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  Speaker 4: see this quite so much. But if you remember the
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  Speaker 4: season before, we spent a long time talking about how
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  Speaker 4: owning one Arsenal defender wasn't enough because if you've picked
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  Speaker 4: Timber as your one arsenal defender or Kalifuri or Saliba,
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  Speaker 4: they don't ever seem to keep up with Gabrielle. So
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  Speaker 4: if you've got Gabrielle, you're starting you know, it's starting
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  Speaker 4: off well each week, but the reality is that everyone's
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  Speaker 4: got one of them. So those six points are kind
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  Speaker 4: of irrelevant unless they do something more than keep a
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  Speaker 4: clean sheet. So you have to kind of double up
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  Speaker 4: on them now because it's the only way to make
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  Speaker 4: them work for you in terms of overall rank game
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  Speaker 4: because you're just not seeing it otherwise. So for me,
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  Speaker 4: the decision to go for the double arsenal defense on
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  Speaker 4: wild card definitely feels like a really good one, And
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  Speaker 4: I think going for two defenders rather than a defender
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  Speaker 4: and the goalkeeper feels better because of the potential ceiling
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  Speaker 4: being higher for the defenders with the upside of defensive
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  Speaker 4: contributions and bonus points that are more likely to come
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  Speaker 4: as a result of them, and also attacking returns, whereas
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  Speaker 4: Raya does really feel like he's getting six every week
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  Speaker 4: because you know, as Joe said, actually you only can
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  Speaker 4: seed one shot on target again in midweek, so there's
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  Speaker 4: not really an opportunity for save points for him. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I think it's looking at effective ownership that becomes really
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  Speaker 4: important over the coming weeks and just making sure that
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  Speaker 4: you are putting your team in the best position possible
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  Speaker 4: to gain green arrows, and just one arsenal defender won't
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  Speaker 4: get you a green arrow anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Is three defenders a good.
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  Speaker 2: Strategy, Jewels, I don't like it personally.
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  Speaker 1: Cleaning.
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  Speaker 5: You just imagine if at some point they will consider goal.
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  Speaker 5: It's inevitable. They can't stay like this to the.
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  Speaker 2: Whole to the whole season.
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  Speaker 5: And putting three, like putting all your arsenal eggs in
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  Speaker 5: the same basket, is just when you've got all the
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  Speaker 5: good options.
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  Speaker 2: That's the thing.
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  Speaker 5: If really the three as because you have you've got
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  Speaker 5: basically and Kells you mentioned them pretty much all. You've
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  Speaker 5: got nine players to choose from, so three out of nine.
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  Speaker 5: You know, if you want to add all the guys
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  Speaker 5: when he comes back, that would make ten. But for now,
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  Speaker 5: even if you count your caress without your caress now
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  Speaker 5: who's injured, it's actually eight. So three out of very
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  Speaker 5: three out of nine. Let's said that your caress hopefully
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  Speaker 5: is not not out for too long, so you just
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  Speaker 5: have to pick three. And I just think if you
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  Speaker 5: really add only three defenders because they're outstanding players, where Gabriel.
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  Speaker 2: Saliba and Timber, then it'd be easier.
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  Speaker 5: I just think if you can go for a rise
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  Speaker 5: of for Soaka or even for Ez, I think I
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  Speaker 5: think you should more than having Timber Saliba and Gabrielle,
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  Speaker 5: just because at some point.
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  Speaker 2: They will concede and those three players will.
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  Speaker 5: Go from you know, would just get you the two points,
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  Speaker 5: whereas in the same game then they might concede, wi's
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  Speaker 5: my score or give you an assist or something like that,
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  Speaker 5: And I just think, I don't know two already two.
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  Speaker 5: I'm so I'm a bit tech you about two defenders
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  Speaker 5: of the same team in your team, but three, I
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  Speaker 5: think is one too many.
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  Speaker 1: Sam.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I normally agree with you on this, Like
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  Speaker 4: I don't like the defensive double ups usually because the
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  Speaker 4: clean sheeps upset me when they go. It's really annoying
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  Speaker 4: because you go from like thinking it's going to be
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  Speaker 4: twelve points here at least, and then it's down to
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  Speaker 4: four and that feels really difficult. So I normally would
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  Speaker 4: agree with you, But I think the Arsenal defense is
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  Speaker 4: different because they are so solid, and yes, in the
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  Speaker 4: coming weeks, maybe there's the odd game here or there
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  Speaker 4: where they can seede one, but with the way that
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  Speaker 4: Gabrielle and Timber are playing with defensive contributions with attacking potential,
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  Speaker 4: I think they're unlikely to just get two, even if
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  Speaker 4: they can Seede because of the potential upside that they
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  Speaker 4: both have.
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  Speaker 3: And then I think, you know, you look at the.
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  Speaker 4: Rest of the defenses in the league and they aren't
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  Speaker 4: anywhere near as solid as what Arsenals are. When you
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  Speaker 4: look at the top scoring defenders in the game, and
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  Speaker 4: of the top twelve players in the game for points
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  Speaker 4: at the minutes, seven of them are defenders, eight if
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  Speaker 4: you include the goalkeeper who's in there, and three of
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  Speaker 4: those seven defenders are Arsenal ones. So it tells you
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  Speaker 4: how good the Arsenal defense has been. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: then you compare it with their points per start average.
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  Speaker 4: Gabrielle's averaging eight points per start at the minute, that
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  Speaker 4: is significantly more than any of the midfielders Timbers at
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  Speaker 4: seven point three, Kalafuries at six. The best defend, sorry,
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  Speaker 4: the best midfielder in the game right now is se Meno,
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  Speaker 4: who's averaging seven point five points per start, and actually
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  Speaker 4: that average keeps getting lower and lower every week because
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  Speaker 4: he hasn't returned for a while. After that's Declan Rice
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  Speaker 4: who's at six point nine, and then it's Lerma at
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  Speaker 4: six point five points per match. So when you're thinking
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  Speaker 4: about how to invest these defenders are cheaper than the
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  Speaker 4: midfielders on the most part, and they're more consistent in
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  Speaker 4: terms of their points per start.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know. Like I have.
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  Speaker 4: Timber and Gabrielle and I'm very happy with them too.
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  Speaker 4: I have soccer as well. I've got some itchy trigger
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  Speaker 4: fingers about him. I might potentially because he's expensive and
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  Speaker 4: there's cheaper options at Arsenal who you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, maybe are better.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm going to be honest. On Saturday, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, I was on Final Score and we got
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  Speaker 1: Declan Rice live into the program straight after, and I
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  Speaker 1: and my last question to him was, Declan, I've got
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  Speaker 1: Bocuyosaka in my fantasy team. Should I be bringing in
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  Speaker 1: you instead? Because you're about four million cheaper. It's not
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  Speaker 1: quite four million, is it? And he laughed and he said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: the problem is I might stop scoring goals now at
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  Speaker 1: the moment you bring me. And we were all joking,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not saying that is a transfer to do.
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  Speaker 3: But what is he?
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  Speaker 1: Is he six point six now? Sam? He Declan Rice
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  Speaker 1: is yeah, six point six million.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: There is something if you've got a third Arsenal spodules.
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  Speaker 1: There is something to me saying Declan Rice is brilliant
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  Speaker 1: value for money.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 5: That's why I've just done you to the movie Declan Rice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah then copying me, aren't you?
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  Speaker 5: I did it before you even said it. But I
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  Speaker 5: agree with with you. I mean, there's one thing about
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  Speaker 5: Decline Rice. I think he's got He's got sixty three
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  Speaker 5: points already this season, which is incredible. And if you
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  Speaker 5: look at the starts, you've got sixty two points of
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  Speaker 5: a just below three x g n x A combined.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know where those points have come from,
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  Speaker 5: and I don't want to like go into this habit roles.
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  Speaker 1: He's also getting points for a clean sheep, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and gets it collects deaf cone as well, doesn't he
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  Speaker 1: He's got ten.
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  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, but that's incredible the guy. You know, if
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  Speaker 5: you score I don't know already five he's only got.
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  Speaker 3: Two goal is it? Two goals?
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  Speaker 1: Three assists? I think he's got off my head.
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  Speaker 4: He's got six six attacking returns, six death com points,
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  Speaker 4: ten bonus points and pints per much average that promise.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I just think, and then you can redistribute that money,
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  Speaker 5: you know, whenever you want on whoever you want really
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: to upgrade, maybe your fifth midefielder and get somebody better,
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: somebody who has great fixtures coming up, or I don't know,
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: anything like that.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: So Socca was a bit disappointed.
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: Some mentioned the two chances that he missed against Berley,
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: where I thought at his best, really.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: He would have scored them.
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: He's got two goals and zero assists in eight Promi
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: League matches so far. This is seven of them starting.
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: This is not you know, we've used because it's because
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: he's world class. We used to excellence really from him.
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: But if you think about it, he's had a bit
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: of injury at the start of the season.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: He's missing all the guard.
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: The team has evolved a little bit tactically in the
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: sense that before a lot of the patterns of players
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: we're going on to that right hand side, timber or
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: the guard and Socca all of that. Now it's more
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: of a four to three one than the fourth to
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: three that we were used to for the last few years,
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: where you're ten, whether that's or Janieri or you know,
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: whoever he's been playing.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: There is more central.
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: The ball doesn't go as much or suddenly not as
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: quickly to succer on the right Haan side. So his
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: game is a little bit different and that's why maybe
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: he's not as effective in a way then we used
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: to in past season. So I thought, let's do it.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: I guarantee you. That's like I was going to scratch
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: obviously and not that can rise. But I just thought
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: it was too good, too tempting to to not do.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: So I did it.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: With the way your season's going, Joels, to be honest,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: he'll probably get a hat trick. Now it's not soccer,
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: I mean right, I mean right, I still get a
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: hat trick because it feels like everything you touch this
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: season is kind of turning to go Sam your thoughts
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: on on that move, I.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: Thought, yeah, it's something I'm thinking about for sure. I
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: think that the thing for me is that, and we'll
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: talk about midfielders later. But the midfielder is like usually
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: it's that kind of like reassuringly expensive.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Thing, isn't it.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: It's like, oh, I'll go Kob Parmer because he's expensive.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: I'll go Bruno Fernandez because he's expensive. To guarantee, don't
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: we like a guarantee point? So if I spend X amount,
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: of money on a premium player. They are guaranteed to
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: bring me points. That's that's kind of how it feels
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: in your head if I go for the cheaper option
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: or it's a big risk, like whereas actually this season,
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: you look at the Chelsea team, it's not Cole Palmer, right,
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: he's injured at the moment, but it's not Cole Palmer
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: that's performing Manchester United. It's also not Bruno Fernandez, who's
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: their top scoring player. You look at Arsenal and it's
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: not Soccer. The exception is is Harlan of course, but
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: you know he's the exception to.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Every rule right now.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: So when you when you consider that over the course
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: of the season, you can do so much more with
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: your budget if you are prepared to take some risks.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: And what we're seeing from the numbers actually is that
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Deck and Rice isn't a risk in comparison to owning Soccer. Yes,
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: over the you know, the next few weeks, I'll be
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: very surprised if Soccer doesn't return points for his FBL
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: managers in the coming weeks. But for the price that
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: you have to pay, Deck and Rice will probably return
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: just as many points per million pound that you've spent,
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: and if that means that you're able to go for
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: a better and the defense is all important right now, right,
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: So if you can go from having three cheap options
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: or most FPR managers the minutes and to have the
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: double up of four point zero defenders.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: So if you can move Goodmunson.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: Or Alderat or Rodin up to Muna's because you save
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: money from soccer to Rice, that's not just then a
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: conversation about soccer versus Rice. It's a conversation about soccer
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: and a very cheap defender versus Rice and a very
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: good defender. And that's the difference. So you kind of
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: have to try and avoid looking at this in isolation.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: It's just it's not just soccer versus Rice. It's the
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: difference that that extra budget makes across the reci of
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: your team.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: What about your careers then, Jules, because he's been a
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: frustrating by I think he's owned by still around twenty
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: percent of the game, he's been frustrating for owners, would
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: you hold at this point, we.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Don't really know exactly how long you'll be up for.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: I think the hope suddenly is that he will miss
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: the SOUNDLN game. We know that, but then it's in
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: the international break. He's not gonna go with Sweden, so
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: potentially coming back after that is obviously the game against
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: Tottenham and the North London Darby. Then they've got Bayern
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: Munich in the Champions League two. They will play Chelsea away,
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: I think as well. So there's big games coming up
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: and if it can be fit for that and just
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: missed the Sounderland game, I think you can keep him
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: because his form as I think he was good thing
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: in the South of the season, but in terms of
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: returns to the goal that isqulled obviously Apparie he'd scored
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: in the Champions League a few a week or so
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: ten days before that, so it's there and it works
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: so hard for the team.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: I know working hard.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: For your team doesn't bring you points in FBL, but
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: I think he's very important and getting more and more
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: important for this team, so I would keep him. If
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: art Attack can confirm at some point that he might
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: just miss a couple of weeks which means the and
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: then it's international break anyway, and he will be back
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: after that, then I think, yeah, I think you should
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: be a kid.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, then let's move on to midfielders, because we've
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: already had part of this conversation, I think when discussing
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: whether we should move Saker to Rice, but the midfielders
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: in general. I sent a couple of text to a
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: couple of friends at the weekend somewhere I just said,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: midfielders are really starting to annoy me.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Now, yeah, that's so fushy.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: I look at my five every week and I go,
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: you should do really well, and then I come out
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: of it and they've got one point here, two points there.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: If they're like three points, I'm excited, which all.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Do you know what Kell's Actually It reminds me because
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: Lee played Josh King this week and at the end
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: of the game he.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Went, oh, he's only got three.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: And I was like, I'll guarantee you that at the
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: end of this game week you won't be saying, oh,
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: he's only got three.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: He'll be pleased about the three.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Roll forward the end of the week and he came
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: over to me and he went, you were so right,
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: I'm so pleased with the three. I was like, you see,
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: I told you that there's something about the midfielders this year.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: They just aren't setting the world on fire, particularly the
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: expensive ones. The cheap ones they look great because they
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: getting the defensive contribution points, and then you've got players
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: like Kaisedo who just will not stop getting attack in returns.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: So those cheap options lovely, but the expensive ones they
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: just feel like a real source of disappointment. And even
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: the ones that at the beginning of this season that
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: we were kind of guaranteeing points out of, like Semeno,
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: since creepy Junia has been playing alongside him and being selfish,
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: which is what we all like in FPL right, selfish players.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: So creepy Gina has been great, but Semenos numbers just
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: have just died, and yeah, it's really frustrating.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah some stats for you. Then, of the top fifteen
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: players in the game, only four of them are midfielders,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: and even more interestingly, they are Semeno, Rice Kaido, and Bomono.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I know that Semnu is up to eight point one million,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: but he started the season at seven million, which is
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: a crazy price rise. So three of the four mids
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: in the top fifteen points scots or started the season
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: priced under seven million or seven million. Even in Buomo
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: was eight million, So none of these are premium players.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: So Jules, is that obviously you've already done it. You've
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: gone from a premium to a kind of mid mid
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: price cheaper midfielder this week. Is that the way we
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: should be doing shifting all our money around, because I
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: guess we do now need the Harland and maybe the
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: more expensive defenders.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I agree completely.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: I mean, if you look at the top nine midfielders
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: so far in the game, five of them are defensive midfielders,
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: and this case he Theo, Rice gravenbers Check and even
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: even Joe Pallina, So you know, at some point, I
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: think def cons has changed, certainly the narrative and the
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: dynamic completely, and we've said that pretty much through the season.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: But it's true, combined with the fact that your superstar
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: midfielders you just explained I not performing like they should,
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: whether it's Saka or Bruno Fernandez and Corparma is injured,
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: but all those kind of guys that usually guarantee you
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: points because not just the expensive but also they are
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: the best players in their position in the league, really
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: some of them even in the world. That's that's why
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: you have to be a bit smarter maybe or just
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: go with your feeling. Just don't think about the price
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: or the pedigree or the name of the guy.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Maybe go more with.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: The fixtures too, And I know, I know we often
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: say look at the starts, but also look at the
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: fixture very important.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Even if the.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: Premier League I think this season is maybe a bit
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: more unpredictable than past seasons.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: It's still it's still you know, your guy.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Has more chances against the wicked team to do well
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: than against much the City House or Liverpool obviously, so
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: all of that has to come in consideration. And there
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: are other good options that a A. The superstars, your
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: NDI for example, and players like that.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: But the best right now your defensive midfielders.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And even when you look at that first page
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: of that top scoring midfielders, if you go on the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Fantasy Premier League website, with the exception of Salah, he's tied.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Faith everyone is priced between five point one and eight
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: point four million. The average price if you remove Sala
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: for those fourteen midfielders is six point four million. By
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: the way, Sam has done this mass and these status
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: these are incredible. It kind of just is backing up
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: everything that we're saying. And I just think we're all
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: kind of blinded sam by what we've done in the past,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: And it's.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: So hard not to be kels because in the past
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: we would do all of these things and we behave
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: in a certain way. And so when you then start
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: looking at your team, and particularly because there's been a
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: load of cheap options this year, you have a bit
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: more budget that you can spend around, So it feels
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: really hard to act in a different way. But we're
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: seeing we should be acting in a different way across
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: the pitch this year because we've got the difference with
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: the defenders that we should be going to and the
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: ones that we invest in, the center backs rather than
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: the wing backs for example, or the fallbacks. So you know,
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: I think in FBI generally this year we have to
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: behave slightly differently and it feels counterintuitive. Like a few
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: weeks ago when I bought in Cado, everyone was like,
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: you're mad, why are you bringing in Casado? Spend a
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: bit more money, getting so, spend a bit more money,
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: get netto, spend a bit more money, get like and
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: it was all of these because you have the money
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: to do it, and it just felt like I said,
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: there was a good option. So yeah, I do think
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: we have to learn a lesson that is maybe at
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: the moment and it just means it will always be
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: this way, but right now I think we do have
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: to behave slightly differently and change the way that we
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: think about our investments.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: And you know, the good thing as well is that
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: in past season maybe not so much so earliness, but
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: later on we all have pretty much the same midfielders
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: because you you know, the ones that we're scoring and
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: et cetera, et cetera. Now it's very different because you
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: need to go for the ones you feel like going
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: to get you the most spots. Maybe not the big stars,
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: not the big names. Look at all the different options
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: that you have. The prices are very interesting because, as
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: we've been saying, you can then redistribute the money for
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: another position somebody else, and that's really good compared to
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: in the end having the similar profiles or similar name.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Who are the best midfielders in the game then at
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the moments and what would the premium we probably anti
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: premium midfield b like as in the best midfielders.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Rice probably Rice and Kaisdo will be the first two
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: that And how weird is it that they're the first
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: two names that I've pulled by the way, and Bombo
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: probably is in that in that conversation.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: So menu is an interesting one because yeah, what are
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: we doing about him now?
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: So every week I say I think I might sell him,
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: and then he blanks again and I go, oh, I
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: should have sold him.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: But then Evan.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Nilsen came back on during this game, and I do
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: think whenever Nilsen comes back it will make some meno bess.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: So I think I'm going to hold him for a
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: little bit longer.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Plus again, his ownership is heavy and he's not expensive,
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: so it's not like it's not like holding a cold
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: palmer all those seasons ago when it was like taking
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: up all that budget in your team. So I think
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: I would still keep him. And then it's just a
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: kind of straight choice really between who you fancy as
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: a bit of a punt over the coming weeks, depending
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: upon what's happening where then die. He's been looking really
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: as an option Liverpool. I keep looking at Liverpool. The
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: fixtures from game week twelve are absolutely delightful for Liverpool.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Salah's returned in the last two but I'm still not
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: feeling hugely impressed by him. But then you've got graven Birch,
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: you've got some bos Lie cheaper options, You've got gag Po.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: So I think I would be inclined to go for
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: one of those as the as a Liverpool midfielder as well.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Joe's what are you thinking about midfielders?
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree, I agree with some. I think NDI
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: is tempting, one because I think he's very good, and
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: two because I think it looks like everything I've balanced
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: a little bit on.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Where the body's going.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: It used to be to grill He used to go
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: to Grillish very quickly, straight away every ball for Gritish
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: on that left hand side. And and nice a bit
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: more shared with nj I too. The goalie scored against
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: Suanderland was beautiful too. But then he's going to go
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: to Afghan as well, and that will arrive very quickly.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: By the way, in a month time they're gone.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: But we will get our five transfers.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah we will.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: But still so you can have him for now. But
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: if you're trying to plan, or if you like the
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: Everton fixtures.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Also you have Tom Jeles.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: If you want him, you have to be so sure
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: that he's going to be worth the return in the
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: next few weeks because he's a transfer that you're going
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: to have to make, isn't it. So it's like you
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: have to really want him almost I.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: Think, yeah, no, I agree, and and then again I
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: think play the fixtures play like look at the Chelsea field.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: The next two for Chelsea. Okay you can't, you don't know,
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: but really should be a banker. So go if you
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: want for gad show for ends of a loving it.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Should be a banker. Will it something like that?
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: I know, I know, get get maybe one of the
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: Chelsea wingers or attacking players for the next two and
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: then move them on to a Liverpool one because like
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: some said, pictures are great or even form because you
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: have to have Spurs this weekend and anyone goes to
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: Spurs and win.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Really, let's be honest.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: We know now wow, shots fired.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: But but after that the fixtures are better. Are good
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: as well for United so but maybe for the midfielders.
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: There's a there's a good idea.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: To play the fixtures more than anything else.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Right now, it depends what kind of manage you, well,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: doesn't it in terms of praying the fixtures, But it
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: raises a valid point. Sam doesn't it absolutely, because I
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: think you know, and the fixtures it's a weird one
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: this season because actually anyone can be anyone.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: That's why the league is so up and down like
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: it is. That's why we're seeing Sundon so high up
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: in the table. It's why it doesn't necessarily shock us
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: when Forrests suddenly come back and draw against United at
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: the weekend. So the fixtures, as you know, the fixtures
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: are the thing that I like to look at the most.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: I love to look at the runs of fixtures and
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: between now and a game week nineteen and game week
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: nineteen is always the end point for me because of
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: the changes for the second set of chips and all
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: of that. So I'm really focused in on that period
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: of time. United a top of the ticker when you
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: sort it by difficulty, so you have to consider them
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: and you have to look at their assets. Liverpool was
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: second despite a difficult start to the season in terms
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: of performances and results. In the last few weeks they're
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: up there and after the Manchester City game, you know, Forest,
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: west Ham, Sundon and Leeds brightened like they are a
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: delightful set of fixtures and I think you have to
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: be their palace are in there as well. We didn't
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: mention Ishmelas are properly yeah either, like everyone moved from
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: jil Pedro to Matteta and that kind of wiped its
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: face last week. But Ishmaelasa definitely feels like a player
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: that we shouldn't sleep on. And I know you went
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: there on your World cardcales and I know that are
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: still I know, and I know it's a little disappointing
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: so far, but I genuinely think that in the next
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: few weeks, with the fixtures that they have, the points
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: should absolutely roll in for you with him. So, yeah,
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: the fixtures are really important and I definitely think it's
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: something you should consider when you're you're buying. But I
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: also don't think that we should let afkon rule our
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: heads because sometimes the thought of not the thought of
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: having a player that's going to leave in three four
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: five six weeks means you don't invest and then you
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: miss out on three four, five six weeks of potentially
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: huge points returns. So just have a plan for them
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: if you are going to go for an f com player,
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: because you will get those transfers as long as you
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: use your time and your transfers wise it over the
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: coming week. So yeah, for me, fixtures are all important.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I brought in granwit Zacha on my wild card. I
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: benched him last week because I'm so lily and I'm
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: silly because he was at home. But five point one million.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: If we're going to talk about value for money, that
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: is it isn't it jells. If you haven't got much money,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: you should be bringing him in as a as a
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: fifth midfielder that you can actually play.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and he's on set pieces, has a great shot.
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: We know that he's a leader. He could get deaf
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: cons as well, and so they're doing great. I wish
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: you could get points in FBL for your leadership because
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: he would get.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Maximum points every weekend because he he ran.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: I love some of the manager, but check out runs
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: these dressing women run this team in an incredible way.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: One of the smartest signings I've seen in a very
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: long time from a Premier league club.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: So I can really agree with you, Kaz to be fair.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Anything to add or do you not want to add?
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Because you know I brot him in on my worldcord.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: No, And I think the thing is Cal's like we've
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: been speaking a lot over recent weeks about owning or
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: playing four defenders, and there is even a conversation around
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: playing five defenders at the minute. So having a player
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: like Shaka is perfect for that because the fixers aren't
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: kind like they're not kind over the next few weeks.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: But that doesn't necessarily matter because it's going to be
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: on your bench most weeks, and in the weeks when
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: you do need him or you want to play him,
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: you can. But he is the perfect He's the perfect
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: foil for going big at the back in terms of
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: playing the four defenders because you're not wasting money on
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: your midfield that you don't have to do. So I
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: think he's very sensible.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Also, I've still got my bench boost too, so that
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: was part of the thinking of bringing him in because
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I was like, and it is very easy to say,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: because two of the four players on my bench word Bournemouth.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: But last week I did. If Bournemuth hadn't got Man
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: City last week, I would have played my bench boost.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: But I just I'm not going to play it.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Well, it was going to be last week and then
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I bottled it. But I don't know. I need to,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I need I need to rethink about it. I quite
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: like my team at the moment, though I'm saving my
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: transfers at the moment because I don't really It goes
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: back to the whole world Calchare. I had a first
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: week disappointing. Last week was better. I'm holding my transfers
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: at the moment because I might bolster my bench a
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: little bit. And then Semnio is a bit of a
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: problem at the moment in the in the midfield every
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: week I'm not looking at it. I'm like, I don't
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I don't love my midfielders. If my midfielders were returning
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: a bit more so, yeah, I don't know. Come back
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: to me next week on that one. Because i haven't
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: got an answer to you right now. I'll ask you
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: again next week. Just keep asking me into one week.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: I'll go this week.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, just before we move on, I saw, as I've
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: just said, I did Rice for Suka. I think I'm
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: going to bring Netal for Josh King because to go
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: back to my son's points about the money exactly now,
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: I had Josh King and I was very happy. He's
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: a lovely, tidy, super talented, promising kid.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: But it doesn't bring me anything.
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: I mean I know it was three points this weekend,
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: which is more than some menu for example, but still
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: and now I can do that and Netto for the
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: next two games. And Chelsea and Nettle didn't play midweek
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: at Cowaby because Mariska changed everybody again and played the
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: beat team until he was too one down and then
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: had to had to bring on the big guns. But
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: Netto had a nice rest and then he can be
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: ready for Wars at home some Bridge at the weekend,
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: so Neto for that, and then in two game weeks
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: when Chelsea's fixtures start to get tougher, then I moved
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: Netto to Liverpool or United Midfield.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Smart we normally at the end of the pod, but
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: there we are moving on. I will go We're going
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: to work backwards here and go back to differentialw of
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the week from transfers. Last week, while it was disaster
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: once again, it didn't even play. So somehow it was
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: by default you won because you went with this store.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: And at least he got two points, I.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Mean trip he got in a city in the Champions League.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Some does that count for you in your spreadsheets?
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: It was so annoying, is that I s when I
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: saw him like in the Champions League. I was like,
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: you're joking me that you've you've picked up your assists here.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: Absolutely the biggest trolling ever by Newcastle.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: That was Yeah, that was very annoyed. But never mind
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: gone Joe was he get.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: To go first?
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: So I go with Petron Netto.
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: I know I talked about him already, owing by six
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: percent of the managers he would have got to seven
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: point one million, so again.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Not too bad for a midfielder. Wolves at home.
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: He should have returned really against Spurs. I mean, sorry,
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: Sam Chessea should have scored five goals easily.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: I'm not arguing with you last weekends.
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: But he did really well against Sunderland Forest in the
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: two previous games.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: He's on top form.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: The fact that Mareska doesn't even want to play him
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: in the Champions League in midwek because he wants to
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: keep him fresh for the weekend. I think he's also
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: a good omen in a way because there's a lot
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: of competition for wing this positions. That Vo did well
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: in the Champions League with his goal overall, but that
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: position on the Rahan side is for Neto and yeah,
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: I think he's he's.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Been very good this season so far So Neta fo.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes a lot of sense, Sam.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: I really wanted to pick Jared Boone this week given
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: to the Bernie defensive records. But but George Bowl of
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: how many times you can pick, well, we do. We're
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: not allowed to pick him more than one, So I
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: have yes, and Jors and I have both picked Jared
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: Bone because apparently we both love him. So I'm not
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: going there. Instead, I am going for Morgan Gibbs White.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: He's going to cost you seven point three million, He's
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: only owned by three percent of the game. We're starting
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: to see some green shoots of recovery at Forest now
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: winning nicking cheet in European DICE's first game. Fought back
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: from one nil down last weekend against United secure draw.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: They faced the Leeds side, who have conceded twelve goals
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: on the road this season. Only Bernie have conceded more
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: goals than they have away from home with fifteen. Gibbs
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: White is tied first for attacking returns at Forest this season,
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: or it's only with two, but nonetheless he is, you know,
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: one of their most attacking assets. He's created eleven chances
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: for his teammates and he's had six shots from set
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: pieces and that's the second best in the forest team.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: So I'm going to go for Gibbs why and see
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: how forests get on. But I think we're starting to
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: see a better forest side and one that we should
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: start to just keep on our radar again.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Okay, moving on to transfers, Sam, You're going to have
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: to fill this section because Jewel has already done it.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Just planning and vision, you know, So I'm just.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: You never before report. So it's quite weird.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got organized this week.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: It's unusual for you.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: I actually.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know what I'm going to do this week.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: So part of me is thinking about moving Sokker to
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: Rice to free up some money, because that money would
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: then allow me to move I'm going to say something
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: I never thought i'd say, to move Mickey van Devan
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: to a Yeah, I know, I know, even after last week.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: It's difficult, isn't it.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm thinking about that because it would allow
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: me to move the Palace defense. I need to have
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: an investment there because it's hurting me every single week
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: and I can just go Mickey van deven straight across
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: to Richard's and that doesn't make sense I've got you
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: know that financially as well as you know, just as
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: a straight transfer, and it means I don't have to
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: sell soccer. But I would prefer to have a gay
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: He or a Laquir or even better Amouna's and so
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: by doing the Rice move that would allow me to
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: do that. And in fact, if I do the Rice move,
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: it also means I don't have to sell Mickey van Derven.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: I can keep Mickey Vanderven and I can sell Goodmunsin instead.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: So but I have only got two transfers and I
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: would like to not use them both because obviously over
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: the international break that we have coming up, it's nice
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: to have a couple of transfers just to make sure
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: that everyone comes back. Okay, And I am also pondering
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: on I was pondering on Voldemarden back to Jel Pedro
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: because after the weekend I was so frustrated with Voltemada's
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: performance and also then second half benching. So yeah, very disappointing.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: So I'm not really sure yet what I'm doing.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: But three Pedro, is that a real possibility.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: For the next two weeks. I think it's a possibility. Yeah,
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: The fixtures the fixtures, would you do it?
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: Jells?
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: I like vote him either, But then I've watched him
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: in the Champions League on Wednesday night and I'm like,
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: we don't have the time to go deep into the
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: I think they misusing him or they're not using him
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: like they should and you cast on. So I feel
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: a little bit for him, And in terms of us
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: an FBL To be fair, I don't I think I
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: benched him this week because I don't think it's going
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: to return. I think it needs more time. So yeah,
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: I can see why people maybe don't want to keep him.
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: And if you don't want to keep him again, play
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: the fixtures and job pedro against Wolves?
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Why not?
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah? It does make sense on some levels, I suppose,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: but it just feels like the frustration that we've had
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: all season with him. I just can't bear myself to
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: go through that once again. I'd rather go through it
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: with a new player in Baltimoda. And what about Captain
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: C Then are we just going Harland Harland Harland every week?
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Sam?
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Or Sam you must be after your frustrating a week
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: last week.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: Honestly, I'm so frustrated because this week is not the
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: week to captain Harland. Is it like it's difficult fixture
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: against Liverpool's side who are in a bit of a resurgence.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: The last couple of results have been good, couple of
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: performances have been good, but honestly, the feeling last weekend
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: of captain somebody who I think it would have been
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: different had I captain somebody who returned. I think I
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: would have been more willing to go against him again
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: because even if you'd lost a couple of points like
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: Jeors did, it doesn't feel like the end of the
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: world to be a couple of points down, But it
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: really does feel like the end of the world when
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: you're captain Blanks. And so because of that, it has
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: made me really wary of going different and thinking outside
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: the box with the captain c. So despite the fact
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: that I would like to go elsewhere this week, I
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: am going to be really boring and just go back
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: to Harlan because the fear and the impact on my
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: rank is.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: Just too huge. So yeah, Harlan, it is.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Yep, same for me, and I'm going to roll my
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: transfers again because I'm really boring. Okay, then it's a
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Saturday morning deadline this weekend at eleven am, ninety minutes
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: before the lunchtime kickoff, which is between Spurs and Manchester United.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: The Fancy Show will also be available for you to
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: watch on the Premier League website and app. That's on Friday.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Sam's in the studio with me off the bench. We'll
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: be back on Monday as in Lee talking through all
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: the key talking points from Game Week eleven. Have a
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: great game week, guys, and we'll see you next week.