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S9 Ep5: FPL Pod: Chelsea triple-up and updated squad drafts! · FPL Pod

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  Speaker 1: Okay, so we've done it. Well, we've survived one game
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: week of the season. Welcome back to the FPL Pub,
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: where we're going to look back on it all. And
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  Speaker 1: don't worry if you had a disastrous first game week.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to sort it all out for you. A reminder,
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  Speaker 1: if you haven't joined the FPL Pub Mini League, before
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  Speaker 1: we go any further, the code is Q0HV1Q. Still waiting
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  Speaker 1: for plenty of you to join us in there.
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  Speaker 2: So looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 1: Those laughs that you just heard were, of course, the
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  Speaker 1: laughs of Sam Bonfield and Julian Laron.
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  Speaker 2: We will get into our teams in just a moment.
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  Speaker 1: And Jules had a better week again than all of us,
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  Speaker 1: so he's going to be absolutely unbearable.
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  Speaker 2: Some things never change.
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  Speaker 3: I love this game. I love this game.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to try and round up the game week, right,
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  Speaker 1: and talk about the key talking points. But inevitably, our
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  Speaker 1: own game week scores are going to come up, I think,
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  Speaker 1: because it's just inevitable, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Shall we start with the.
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  Speaker 1: Let's actually start with the fact that the most popular captains,
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  Speaker 1: Haaland and Bruno, both blanked.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back, FPL, Sam.
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  Speaker 4: I know. And do you know what's really annoying is
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  Speaker 4: that after I got off this and I said to
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  Speaker 4: you guys last week, I was really close to the
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  Speaker 4: Bruno captain and I pondered for ages. And then on
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  Speaker 4: Friday afternoon, I was like, do you know what? I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to say something I'm going to regret now. Maybe
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  Speaker 4: Jules is right. Maybe the right answer is actually to
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  Speaker 4: Captain Jal Pedro. And then I moved it to Jal
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  Speaker 4: Pedro and it stayed there for about four or five
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  Speaker 4: hours on Friday afternoon. And then right at the last minute,
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  Speaker 4: about half an hour before the deadline, I was like,
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  Speaker 4: I can't do it. I'm moving back to Harlem. And
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  Speaker 4: I massively regretted it all weekend. And as soon as
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  Speaker 4: I did it, I was like, I've done the wrong
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  Speaker 4: thing here. I know I have. And alas, I did.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, the thing is when the captains, the major
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  Speaker 4: captains blank like that, then you know that it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be a disappointing game week because obviously the majority
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  Speaker 4: of the points usually come out of the captain. So
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  Speaker 4: really low scoring one this time around as far as
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  Speaker 4: game week ones go. But You know, at least everyone
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  Speaker 4: was in the same boat, I suppose, apart from certain Frenchmen.
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  Speaker 2: That's how I feel. When it happens with... Yeah, take
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  Speaker 2: Jules out of the equation.
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  Speaker 1: When it happens with someone like Haaland, you do kind
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  Speaker 1: of think, OK, it's not like I've gone with, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, Mbomo, and Haaland's gone off and I've missed
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  Speaker 1: out on loads of points. And the fact, I think
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  Speaker 1: it made it better, didn't it, that we watched Bruno
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  Speaker 1: Blank in the early game, and then, although you're thinking, great,
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  Speaker 1: there's a real advantage if Haaland goes off, at least
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  Speaker 1: you felt better knowing that the other captain hadn't done
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  Speaker 1: as well. But, of course, some people... Get lucky. Some
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  Speaker 1: people tapped him. A player in the last game of
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  Speaker 1: the game week to shoot them.
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  Speaker 2: Up the ranks. And those people are people like you, Jules.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's a skill. You know, it's an absolute
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  Speaker 3: skill to be there. I'm joking. I'm joking.
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: But the thing is, and we can say it's a
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  Speaker 3: bit of luck. And of course, again, Haaland has two
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  Speaker 3: massive chances.
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  Speaker 2: So much of this game is around luck, isn't it? No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: But one thing that's true, though, and to be fair,
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  Speaker 3: it's true in FPL and it's true in normal football life.
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  Speaker 3: is I think the form that a player is in,
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  Speaker 3: which is very obvious, I think matters. And we said
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  Speaker 3: last week that Joel Pedro had been exceptional in pre-season
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  Speaker 3: for Chelsea, that the system with two tens behind him
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  Speaker 3: in Palmer and Rodgers suited him really well, that he
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  Speaker 3: had a free summer because he was not called up
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  Speaker 3: by Brazil for the World Cup. And when you think
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  Speaker 3: of Haaland, who had not played a single second of
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  Speaker 3: pre-season matches until the Community Shield, where he was not good...
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  Speaker 3: there was no momentum there for him, no form, similar
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  Speaker 3: to Bruno, who obviously came back late to United after
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  Speaker 3: the World Cup with Portugal and didn't really do that
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  Speaker 3: well in the little bit of precision that he played.
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  Speaker 3: And then you arrived and that's it. So I think
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  Speaker 3: as much as luck as he was a bit, because
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  Speaker 3: Haaland missed some chances and Bruno was maybe not that
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  Speaker 3: great like United on the day, I thought the form
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  Speaker 3: of João Pedro meant that for a game like that
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  Speaker 3: against Fulham, where you knew Fulham were going to try
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  Speaker 3: to play and there would be a lot of space
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  Speaker 3: to attack in for Chelsea, that Joel Pedro was a
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  Speaker 3: good pick.
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  Speaker 1: The Chelsea attack in general, as Jules mentioned there with
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  Speaker 1: the 2-10s behind, it looks exciting. We spent the whole
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  Speaker 1: pre-season saying Pedro was the best option. I think we
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  Speaker 1: were proven right, but there's all of a sudden potentially
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  Speaker 1: a case to have more than one Chelsea attacker.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we already knew that they were probably
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  Speaker 4: going to be quite good with that front three, with
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  Speaker 4: Joel Pedro, with Morgan Rodgers now and Cole Palmer. And
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  Speaker 4: particularly as Cole Palmer and Jal Pedro had had the
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  Speaker 4: summer off, hadn't been to the World Cup, it looked
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  Speaker 4: like that they might start the season well. But it
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  Speaker 4: was a fixture that in a London derby, we kind
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  Speaker 4: of weren't sure how that might go. We probably thought
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  Speaker 4: Chelsea would still win it, but it was a bit
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  Speaker 4: more difficult to call. And then the next two matches
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  Speaker 4: that Chelsea have against Brighton, who started the season incredibly well,
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  Speaker 4: and then Arsenal, who are, well, Arsenal. The first three
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  Speaker 4: just didn't look that attractive for the double up. Whereas
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  Speaker 4: when you get beyond that into game week four, and
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  Speaker 4: then you've got the whole Brentford, Bournemouth, Everton, Spurs run
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  Speaker 4: of fixtures, even Manchester United, Sunderland and Leeds that follow that.
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  Speaker 4: That feels like the time to invest in an extra
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  Speaker 4: Chelsea attacker. So as much as my finger was kind
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  Speaker 4: of on the trigger for wanting to get another Chelsea
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  Speaker 4: player this week, I think the sensible part of my brain,
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  Speaker 4: knowing it's Brighton and then Arsenal, goes just hold that
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  Speaker 4: enthusiasm for a little bit. give it another couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks and then you'll know for sure whether you want
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  Speaker 4: to pay the 9.5 for Cole Palmer or the 7.5
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  Speaker 4: for Morgan Rodgers or get all three of them.
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  Speaker 1: I bet you're going to double up, aren't you, Jules?
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  Speaker 1: Because you had Rodgers in your team for a lot
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  Speaker 1: of pre-season. I feel like it won't take you long
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  Speaker 1: to get him in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. Although you two swayed me of moving
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  Speaker 3: him out for... Brian Mbomo, which I did, to be fair,
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  Speaker 3: and also attracted by the fact that United had Hull
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  Speaker 3: and Ipswich in the first two games. So you thought
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  Speaker 3: this is easy, really easy as a pick to make it.
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  Speaker 3: So I did. And now I'm just going to wait
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  Speaker 3: for this Ipswich game to see what Mbomo does with United.
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  Speaker 3: And also I agree with Sam on Brighton and Arsenal.
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  Speaker 3: For Chelsea, it's a bit tough. And then after that,
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  Speaker 3: I expect a lot of the managers after the Arsenal-Chelsea game,
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  Speaker 3: which is game week three, to probably go for that
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  Speaker 3: second Chelsea attacker. And then it's whether you have the
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  Speaker 3: budget for Palmer. Palmer is the best choice here. There's
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  Speaker 3: no doubt. He was far more involved. He will always be.
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  Speaker 3: Every time somebody has the ball, they look for Palmer first.
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  Speaker 3: Rodgers is more on the periphery, probably, after Palmer and
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  Speaker 3: Joel Pedro. So I would go, if we have the budget,
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  Speaker 3: I would go for Palmer every single time, more than Rodgers.
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  Speaker 3: But Rodgers would be... a great kind of replacement. If
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  Speaker 3: you can't get to the 9.5 of Palmer, then 7.5,
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  Speaker 3: you've got Rodgers. He's very good as well, but I
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  Speaker 3: expect Palmer to score more points, to have a better
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  Speaker 3: season than Rodgers in a different way. But it might
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  Speaker 3: not be possible for everyone to get Palmer and Joao
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  Speaker 3: Pedro on the team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the problem, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Also, like if you've got Bruno and you've got Haaland
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  Speaker 1: as well, finding that money for Palmer is very expensive.
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  Speaker 1: But as you mentioned there, I think there's going to be,
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  Speaker 1: particularly after these Man United fixtures, they could, Praz was
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  Speaker 1: on there fancy TV show last week saying he's not
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  Speaker 1: going to own Haaland and Bruno all the time to
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  Speaker 1: enable him to own these other players. And I think
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  Speaker 1: there could be a fixture swing. Well, there is a
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  Speaker 1: fixture swing and a bit of a change around as
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  Speaker 1: early as game week three. And you mentioned the Arsenal-Chelsea
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  Speaker 1: fixture then, actually, Jules. I wanted to know, as an
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  Speaker 1: Arsenal man, what your thoughts were on Arsenal on Friday night.
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  Speaker 1: I know they had the home game against a newly
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  Speaker 1: promoted team, et cetera, et cetera. But, I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: spent a lot of pre-season worrying that certain players weren't
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  Speaker 1: going to start, the likes of Saka, Rice.
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  Speaker 2: They did. Solis also returned. Odegaard returned.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was a good night for us FPL owners,
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  Speaker 1: but where are we left thinking our investment should be
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  Speaker 1: with Michael Arteta's side, I suppose is the question.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was at the game. I thought they were outstanding. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: Coventry were really poor and I think it'd be a
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  Speaker 3: battle for them to to stay up, which we expected.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't think we expected Arsenal to maybe be
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  Speaker 3: that sharp, although they played well against City in the
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  Speaker 3: Community Shield the weekend before. Odegaard outstanding again. That form
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  Speaker 3: that we mentioned for Joel Pedro, Odegaard was the best
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  Speaker 3: player in the Community Shield. He was the best player
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  Speaker 3: again five days later in this game. And when he's
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  Speaker 3: in that kind of form, I think that makes the
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  Speaker 3: whole Arsenal team kind of click. Then you've got a
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  Speaker 3: defence that is obviously very strong and will have tougher
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  Speaker 3: tests starting on Monday night, where Villa, even a Villa
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  Speaker 3: team that struggled very much against Brighton, but is still Villa.
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  Speaker 3: And then Chelsea, the game that we mentioned in Game
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  Speaker 3: Week 3 at the Emirates. But Calafiori, who we expected
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  Speaker 3: having this kind of free-flooring role a little bit in possession. Again,
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  Speaker 3: with nine points, provided an assist. You had Ben White
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  Speaker 3: on the right-hand side. That was also very good. Rice
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  Speaker 3: in midfield, Odegaard, and then Saka with a goal. And
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  Speaker 3: then Tolis, who is the newcomer, who was heavily owned
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  Speaker 3: after doing well in the community shield, who's not just
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  Speaker 3: great because, again, he was heavily involved in this game,
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  Speaker 3: got a lucky assist, because I don't think that should
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  Speaker 3: have been an assist. But at least he knew the
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  Speaker 3: FPL rules really well, because he knew this assist was coming.
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  Speaker 2: And always try to play forward and to create for
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  Speaker 2: my teammates.
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  Speaker 3: Good early cross there. Counts for assist or not? I'd
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  Speaker 3: like to give it you, but... In fantasy, it counts.
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  Speaker 3: I take the three points.
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  Speaker 1: I know Martin's got a million questions for you, but
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: we're about to go off air, Christos.
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  Speaker 3: We could talk all night.
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  Speaker 1: Confirmation I'm hearing, it is a fantasy assist.
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  Speaker 3: So congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: That's all that matters, isn't it? As long as he
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  Speaker 2: gets the fantasy assist.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: The rest of us were buzzing. Good to know that.
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  Speaker 1: Players are also aware of it these days. They pretend
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  Speaker 1: they're not, but they very much are. Just a word then,
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  Speaker 1: because we could talk about every single team, but I
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  Speaker 1: think it's important at this point just to check in
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  Speaker 1: on the big teams, the teams we've spoken about a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Jules mentioned Arsenal Villa there.
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  Speaker 1: We know that it's been a summer of change for
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  Speaker 1: Aston Villa with a couple of potential more transfers looking
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  Speaker 1: likely they could go through in the next few days, Sam.
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  Speaker 1: It It's leaving us in an interesting position in terms
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  Speaker 1: of not only an investment with Villa, but also the
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  Speaker 1: teams that are playing Villa at the moment, because we
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  Speaker 1: saw the points that the Brighton players got.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's come almost at the wrong time for us,
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  Speaker 4: I think, in FPL, because obviously we would ideally like to...
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  Speaker 4: when they're a team to target right now aren't they
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  Speaker 4: because they're not they're not in particularly good form they
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  Speaker 4: seem to be having problems and it's Arsenal up next
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  Speaker 4: and so in my head on when I was watching
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  Speaker 4: the Aston Villa Brighton game at the weekend I was
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  Speaker 4: thinking I need to get three Arsenal in, but then
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  Speaker 4: obviously you have to be mindful of the fact that
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  Speaker 4: then coming out the back of that, Arsenal have a
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  Speaker 4: tougher fixture in game week three. So you're kind of
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  Speaker 4: mindful of how you invest there. Plus I would really like,
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  Speaker 4: like I was, I was impressed by Edgar, but I
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  Speaker 4: was really impressed by Saka in this one. And I
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  Speaker 4: was thinking, oh, it'd be a really nice opportunity to
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  Speaker 4: go for somebody a bit different and have a bit
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  Speaker 4: of a differential Saka in my team if I could
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  Speaker 4: go there early. But the problem is, I can't sell
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  Speaker 4: my Manchester United assets yet because they've still got a
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  Speaker 4: newly promoted club to play in game week two. And
• 10:40
  Speaker 4: we had them for game week one and game week two.
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  Speaker 4: That's why we told Jules to invest in the double
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  Speaker 4: up last week, right? Because you invest for those two
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  Speaker 4: weeks and then you can look to sell. After this
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  Speaker 4: Ipswich game, I can see, much like Pras was saying
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  Speaker 4: on Friday, that there's definitely a part of me that
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  Speaker 4: thinks I'll just sell both of my Manchester United midfielders
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  Speaker 4: and instead have Saka and Palmer in those two positions
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  Speaker 4: because then you can invest in the most premium assets
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  Speaker 4: across those clubs who I think are going to have
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  Speaker 4: really good seasons, still replaces Bruno as a penalty taker
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  Speaker 4: with other penalty takers, particularly Cole Palmer. So I think
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  Speaker 4: that there will be a massive shift, particularly if we
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  Speaker 4: don't see a Manchester United performance in this one, there'll
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  Speaker 4: be a shift there. But I am looking at Arsenal
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  Speaker 4: against Villa and thinking just the two doesn't feel like enough. Like,
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  Speaker 4: don't get me wrong, I'm happy to have Solis. I'm
• 11:28
  Speaker 4: glad he knows what a fantasy assist is. But I also,
• 11:32
  Speaker 4: and I'm very happy to have Califuri. He played really
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  Speaker 4: well as well. but I wish I had another one
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  Speaker 4: for this fixture because it does feel like a really
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  Speaker 4: great opportunity to target a team that have started the
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  Speaker 4: season particularly badly.
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  Speaker 1: And just quickly, obviously, it was incredibly disappointing for Man
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  Speaker 1: United and their fans, but we're just going to hold,
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  Speaker 1: aren't we, given the fixture, Jules?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. And again, I think they will
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  Speaker 3: have to bounce back and there's already a bit of
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: pressure after that defeat where they defended poorly, especially. You
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: go to Old Trafford, it's the first home game of
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  Speaker 3: the season. You have to put things right. You have
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  Speaker 3: to show much more than what they did against against
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  Speaker 3: Hull City. So I think it's fair if you have
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  Speaker 3: any United asset, whether it's just Bruno, Bruno Mbomo, Kunia,
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  Speaker 3: even a Shaw, a Maguire, all that kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 3: keep them for now. After that, like Sam just said,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's tricky. I think it's the way I
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  Speaker 3: ever turn. Then there's the Manchester derby at some point.
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  Speaker 3: There would be a Champions League first game at the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of September too. So after that, we can reassess
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  Speaker 3: maybe the options on United. I agree with Sam. I
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  Speaker 3: think the Bruno and Mbomo for two other of that
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  Speaker 3: kind of price, Saka, Palmer, Rodgers, Palmer, that kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 3: I think makes a lot of sense, especially if United
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  Speaker 3: are not good again on this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, then let's check in on our scores. And when
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: we check in on our scores, I also think it's
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: probably worth just running through our teams as we kind
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: of ended up, because we spoke on Thursday morning, we'll
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: have all made probably a few changes between then and
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  Speaker 1: the deadline so Jules as you you got 72 points
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  Speaker 1: Sam got 56 I got 52 literally the difference between
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  Speaker 1: myself and Sam was the goalkeeper that was the only
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  Speaker 1: difference um we both had benching headaches though I had
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  Speaker 1: an even more severe one because I benched even more
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  Speaker 1: because I have got a slightly different uh looking bench
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  Speaker 1: at the moment but Jules do you want to run
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  Speaker 1: through your team um and what got you 72 points.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I had laments in goal, as I
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  Speaker 3: mentioned last week, which I was fuming watching that game
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  Speaker 3: because of the two poor goals they conceded on set pieces.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just the one point for him. Then Guardiola
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  Speaker 3: did really well with that late goal for City to
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: win it. Not so much defensively before that, but nine
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  Speaker 3: points for him, nine points for Calafiori and the assist
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  Speaker 3: for Kai Havertz in that Coventry game. Robertson with three.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why I pick players from small teams
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  Speaker 3: in there because they will get battered. Spurs get battered
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: everywhere they go, as we know. I'm kidding.
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  Speaker 2: Good job we're at home next week then.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even know Robertson got that extra point from
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: the two to the three, but hey, well done to him.
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  Speaker 4: He picked up defensive contributions for the first time ever
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  Speaker 4: in FPL. He didn't get any last year.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say, God knows how. The midfield
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  Speaker 3: was very good from the other guard side with 11 points.
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  Speaker 3: A lucky goal, but I thought he was outstanding in
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  Speaker 3: that game and the bonus points. And Illiman Ndiaye with
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: nine points, who again could have had more than that
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  Speaker 3: because I thought he was super good and super dominant
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  Speaker 3: in that win for Everton. Mbomo 2, Bruno 2, let's
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: not go there because that's your fault, you two. And
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: then Haaland blanking despite having some chances. Again, maybe a
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: lack of sharpness a bit. Broby, two points, again, had
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: a big chance that he squandered, but Sunderland went off
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: very good. And I was happy that Calvert-Lewin didn't do
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: better than Broby because I was really torn in between.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: And then Joao Pedro with 11 points, becoming 22 as
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: the captain.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: Nice. Sam, what about yours?
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: I actually didn't make any changes after we spoke on
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: that Thursday morning. So that was very decisive of me, unusually.
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: Played with Bruggen for his six-pointer, was happy with that. Calafurri, obviously,
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: as Joao mentioned, with the nine. Van Hecht didn't hit Defconn.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: He sat on nine, which was very frustrating because one
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: more would have seen those extra two points. Roden, very
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: happy with him with the six points for him. Bruno
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: Fernandes and Bomero, as we've mentioned, nothing for them. Solis
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: and Sabozlai with six and eight each. Really happy with
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: the Dom Sabozlai pick in the end, particularly taking that
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: last-minute penalty. And then Iwaiola's comments afterwards, it maybe hopefully
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: means that he's going to be taking any more penalties
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: that they have as well. So happy with that one.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: João Pedro with the 11. Haaland just the fourth. because
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: he was my captain, Calvert-Lewin, with one.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: The bench hurt.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: I benched Sangari. Maybe you might argue there was a
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: little bit of spares bias going on there. There possibly was.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: But equally, he is my eighth attacking player. So I'm
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: not really sure who else I would have benched. Maybe Calvert-Lewin.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: That was the same as me.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I liked the fixture better for Calvert-Lewin than I
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: did for Sangari. So I was really torn there. But
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: a 14-pointer sat on the bench is just painful because
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: had I played him over Calvert-Lewin, obviously I'd have been
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: 13 points better off. So then I'd be like 69
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: and then I'm closer to Jules even with a captaincy blank,
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: which yeah, it's disappointing. Davis with two and then Thomas
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: also last minute picked up Defcon, which is nice. So
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: he got three and then obviously Kinski is my backup
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: goalkeeper with two. So in some ways, I wish I'd
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: bench boosted because it would have been 21 points off
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: the bench. But equally, I was never even close to
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: doing it. So we are where we are. And I'm
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: quite happy with the team. Like as far as starts go,
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: this is a much better start than I had last year.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: So feeling a little bit more like I've got something
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: to build on with this lot.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Well, imagine what it's like benching Sangare and Brentford defender
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Aya and playing Kinski.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I did. My team's basically the same
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: as Sam. How many points? On the bench for you, Kelly? 24,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: if you include Diop as well.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Aye.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Did you have a booger on the bench as well?
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: It even hurts me and it's not my bench, Kenz.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: It really hurts me and it's not even my bench, Kenz.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: No, Sam, I decided.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: So at the last minute, I changed around because I
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: was stupidly so desperate to get from Shaw to Maguire.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I sold Vardyol, who obviously scored. I couldn't believe that
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: when he scored that late winner. And so I saw
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: the transfers. So my team is the same as Sam's,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: except I've got, I can't remember the differences to yours actually.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: I've got Aya and Diop.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Who have you got that I haven't got? I'll run
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: through my team.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I've got Kinski, Rodon, Maguire, Calafiori, Mbomo, Fernandes, Bozlai, Solis, Cavaloon, Haaland, Pedro.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Then on my bench, Dubravka, Sangare, Aya, Diop. I opted to,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: because I wasn't going to bench boost, I opted to
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: just do the two Spurs keepers and put the 0.5
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: into Aya instead, which in hindsight... Was great if.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: You'd played him. Yeah.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: But I just thought Spurs were going to score. I
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: wasn't confident, don't get me wrong, I wasn't confident of
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Kinski getting a clean sheet.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: I didn't quite expect it to go like that.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, in hindsight, I should have maybe invested the 0.5
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: in a keeper and then I potentially would have bench boosted,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: but I just didn't want to bench boost this early.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I felt like there was too much uncertainty. Let's be honest,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: we all knew Sangare was going to be quite good.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: We didn't know he was going to be that good
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: and run the game the way he did.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: No. And his game is about DEFCON, to be fair.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: For him to have that many points, I don't expect
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: him to have, I think he would have good, good
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: games and good points and for the value for the
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: money is great, but never like that. Even in France
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: last season, that was not really his game. Again, I
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: think the weakness of the opposition helped him massively to
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: do that well.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: I'm not even going to argue with that.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: In our attack, because we have got the same attack,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: you're never going to bench United players against newly promoted sides.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: You're not benching the champions. You're not benching Liverpool. Chelsea,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Man City. So it comes down to who do you bench,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Leeds or Brentford? And Leeds, as proven, they've beaten Nottingham
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Forest twice in the past week, had a really good.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Fixture as well.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and actually it's really hard this week as well
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: because they play each other, Brentford and Leeds. So now
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: we have a straight choice to make between do you
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: go for Calvert-Lewin, who's got a home fixture and started
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: the season really well, Leeds did, or do you go
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: for Sangare, who, yes, he's away, but also has had
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: a good week and had a bit of a rest.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: See, I've got.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I've got Calvert-Lewin and Rodon and Sangari and Aya. So
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: it's like which way they're playing each other and they're
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: going to wipe out each other's points. I hadn't really
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: thought of that when I picked the team. I'm the
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: least happy with Calvert-Lewin, but I'm really happy with all
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: three of those four picks in my squad.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: It's really hard, isn't it?
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: And I guess it goes back to don't panic after
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: game week one because I was absolutely gutted when I saw,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: because I didn't get to see loads of the Saturday.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I saw a bit of whole Manchester United. I was
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: vaguely following the 3pm' s. And I watched Brentford Spurs and
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: I was like, this is the worst start to the
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: season ever. But I was like, well, actually it's not
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: because I am, other than Kinski, I'm on the kind
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: of right players. I've just picked them slightly wrong it
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: goes back to not panicking.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: I think that's exactly right like it's very easy to
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: look at a team that's got in the mid 50s
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: and go this has been a total disaster I need
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: to change everything but actually there's a there's a few
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: important things to consider here one is you're still above
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: average which is important which means you're over halfway I
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: was Yeah, but that's fine, isn't it? Things move so
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: fast in FPL. From one day to the next, like
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: on Sunday, it was one of the lowest game week
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: scores we've ever had in game week one. only for
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: then the Chelsea boys to turn up on Monday night
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: and suddenly their game week score is higher because Jalper
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Jaro and all of those guys return. So there's that
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: to consider. There's also the fact that going into the
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: first matches of the season, we don't have loads of
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: concrete knowledge yet. Like we're still learning about how players
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: are playing, how new players are settling in. Even in
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: the last week, since the last dead down, we've had
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: a load of new signings to the league that are
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: going to affect who plays where and how they play.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: So I think as long as you're on roughly the
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: right players, like one of the things I kind of
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: consoled myself with on, Saturday night after Spurs and Brentford,
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: because clearly I was not in a very good mood
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: after that game, was that I have Sangari in my team.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: He's going to be a really popular option. And in fact,
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: he's already taken a price rise. He was one of
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: the first players to go up in price this season.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: So the fact that I was already on him and
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: had him as a 3% differential, I take some comfort
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: in that because I'm not having to chase that player.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: It's one of those players that's already in. And I'm
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: not looking at any of mine and thinking, That was
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: totally the wrong decision. Everyone looks okay to hold for
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: this week. And that is really important heading into game
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: week three. Because if you can go into game week
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: three with two transfers, you're in a much nicer position
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: than if you have to spend one for game week two.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: And also as much as it's hard because you look
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: at George and you go, oh my God, he got
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: 20 more points than me. But like you said, it
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: can be made up quickly. And give it two weeks
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: of like banking a couple of transfers, then you can,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Because there's nothing, when I actually looked at massively what
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I wanted to do, it was maybe I was like,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: maybe just, but that's reactionary off one week. And Jules,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: you said a stat before we came on that actually
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: his XG was pretty good, right?
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he had two almost one-on-one with
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: a keeper.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: So actually it's just like, there's probably, there's loads of
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: you listening that will be in the same boat. It
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: was all three of us. Some of you had a
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: great game week. Some of you a bit frustrated. Some
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: of you have had an even worse game week. I
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: think it is important not to panic.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: That said, there's a wild card there. If you have
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: had a disaster, it's there to be used.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: And we have seen really successful FPL managers wild card
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: in game week one or two in the past. So
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: if you want to do that, by all means do it,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: but don't panic.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Last season winner.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Was it last season? I knew it was recent. Yeah,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: last season. So you can do it. Yeah, last season's winner,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: game week two. It's just being measured about looking at it,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I guess, and working it out.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Anyway, as for you lot, let's talk about the FPL
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Pod Mini Leagues. I said we're still waiting for a
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: few of you to join, but... Jason Cormier is in there.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: He's top. He got 116 points. That's over double what
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: we got, Sam. That's depressing, isn't it? He did play
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: as Benchbusser.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: He did have a chip, though. Yes.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of them did.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: And what a Benchbusser this was. Verbruggen, Emerson, De Kooijpoe,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: who actually we haven't spoken about. He was out of position.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: 17 points for him alone. And then Davis got two.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: He doesn't own Haaland or Bruno. So, like Jules, he
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: captained Joao Pedro. He even got a blank from Thiago Mourinho.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: And still comfortably got himself in the 100 club. Matthew
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Green also in the 100 club with 114 points. Sam
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Caldicourt is third with 112. Only two of the top
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: 20 managers, though, didn't play their bench boost in game
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: week one.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: So maybe the three of us have missed a trick
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: and should have done that. A reminder, the code is Q0HV1Q. Okay,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: and I just touched upon it then. Transfers.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: It's something we often do at the end. But I
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: don't think any of us are planning on making any.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Is that right, Sam Jules?
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: No.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: We're all keeping patient, aren't we? Because.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Like I said then, Jules, you can make a transfer,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: but you can actually do a little bit more surgery
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: with more information if you wait a couple of weeks.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right. I think Sam mentioned it a bit
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: earlier and you just said the word information there. We
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: don't really have a trend yet because it's too early
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: in the season. You can't think that Bruno Fernandes is
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: not going to get better at some point or united
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: collectively or that Erling Haaland is not going to score
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: his chances. And the same for that Chelsea front three
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: that might not have as good as a game against Brighton,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: although I think they will. But you see what I mean?
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: So let's wait. There's no need to panic. We said
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: that earlier on in the show. There's no need to panic.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Usually you've built your team, not just for this game
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: week one, but ideally for the first few weeks of
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: the season. And then after that, you can always look
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: into it. If you really feel, though, that you've got
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: one guy wrong because, I don't know, you fancied, let's say,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Igor Thiago for the sake of it and you didn't
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: really like the game against Spurs, not just the missed penalty,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: but also you never felt he was in the game.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: then okay, you can use that free transfer if you
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: want and then replace that player. Same if you want Sakai,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: if you want those kind of players and you can
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: do it, sure. But certainly don't take minus four right now.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I would roll on the transfers and have two for
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: game week three where there's bigger games and we will
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: have more of an idea of who is really in
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: form and who is not in form, who has momentum
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: or not. But for now, I think it's a bit
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: early even to use that free transfer that you have.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a reminder, if you're unused to the game, rolling
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: transfers doesn't mean you have an extra one for the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: following week and you can bank up to five. So
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: if you're really happy with your team, great. You can
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: kind of almost do a mini wildcard in just a
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: few weeks time, really. But as we said, the wildcard
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: is also available when you get two of those this season,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: one in the first half, one in the second. A
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: lot of the reason that people should either wait or
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: might be tempted to wildcard or make big changes, Sam,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: is the fact that maybe they feel like they're on
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the wrong premiums because we do shape our team I
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: think it's safe to say we've spoken about it when
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: structuring our team when we were selecting them in the
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: pre-season pods the first thing you often do isn't it
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: is you go here's my Harland here's my Bruno what
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: else have I got left to spend I guess that
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: a lot of knee-jerky people might go I went the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: wrong premiums I need to rip it up and start.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Again yeah absolutely and I think we have to be
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: really mindful of the fact that there were a lot
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: of maybe that I was going to call them weird
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: results maybe they are still weird results results that we
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: weren't expecting we were not expecting newly promoted Hull to
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: come and beat Manchester United I don't think anyone was
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: really expecting Ipswich to beat Sunderland. I don't think anyone
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: was really expecting Fulham to score in the way that
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: they did against Chelsea. Like I think there were a
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: lot of unexpected turnouts. No one was, I certainly wasn't
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: expecting Spurs to be as bad as they were. So
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: all of those results kind of, when that happens in
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: a Premier League match week, it has an impact on
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: the game week. And it also has an impact on
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: what you then think about your FPL team, because obviously
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: looking at 20 million, in my two Manchester United midfielders
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: with two points each is incredibly infuriating because I think, well,
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: I could have gone for anyone else. I could have
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: gone Erdogan and had the double up of the cheap
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Arsenal midfielders. I'd have been better off with that. I
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: could have gone for Morgan Rogers and had a cheaper
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Chelsea midfielder. I'd have been better off with that. You
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: can't help but look at the premiums and if they
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: don't return, judge them more heavily than you would say
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: a cheaper asset because one of your cheaper assets doesn't perform.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: You kind of go, well, I wasn't expecting too much
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: from them because I've only spent 5.5 or 6 million
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: on them. So yeah, I think when you have that,
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: that's what's tempting to then throw them out. But equally,
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: with Manchester United, we bought them for these opening two weeks.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: We bought them because they started with the season with
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Hull and Ipswich. So to get rid of them ahead
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: of that Ipswich game doesn't make a lot of sense.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: There were, as George mentioned at the beginning of this,
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: there were opportunities in that game where Manchester United could
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: and probably should have scored. And so don't necessarily panic
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: transfer them out because the worst thing that could happen
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: here is that you transfer them out and then they
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: return against Ipswich and then you're even more frustrated because
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: you panic sold them into a game where you would
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: expect them to win it's their first home fixture of
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: the season as well in game week two whereas once
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: we get out of game week two I think a
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: lot of us sat down and said I don't think
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: I'll hold both the Manchester United midfielders from game week
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: two onwards I think I'll look to move them on
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: so then you were making a choice between Bruno and
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: Mbamah as to which one you would keep now may
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: be the answer if they both blank again in game
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: week two going into three might be that we lose
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: them both but that gives you the information to base
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: that judgment on once we've watched what happens against Ipswich this.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Week yeah it was interesting as well I think Gabriel
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: was the lowest scoring the Arsenal defence I didn't actually
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: clock that at the time but that made me feel
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: a little bit better that we didn't actually go there
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: but as you said it was a lower scoring game
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: week one um than we're used to I think it's
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: going to be interesting because like the mid-price players Jules
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: are the ones where they could be a little bit
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: of movement and they're easier to move around, aren't they? Because, well,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: it's obvious they don't take up as much money. I mean,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know if Saka and Palmer mid-price? They probably
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: are just because Bruno is so expensive. But I think
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: that's where I'll be changing my team around in a
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: week or two.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. And you know what? You can even rotate
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: if you want without owning both of them. Players like
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Palmer and Saka because they are similar price and yes,
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: there might be price rises and things like that. So
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: you always have to be careful and as You two
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: always say, because I never do it, but keep a
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: bit of money in the bank for that reason, for example.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: But you can easily do that. The thing that worries
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: me a little bit is Bruno and United and their
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: kind of form. But then again, you go from Bruno
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: down to Palmer, Saka, that's something you can do. Haaland,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure if this team is going to click
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: with Maresca, under Maresca, when there's a lot of new signings,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of players leaving the club. And again,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: we need to keep an eye on that because Joel
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Pedro right now is so close just behind Haaland as
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: the most owned player in the game, which we would
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: have never thought at the start of the season, for example.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: And I don't think, apart from the great years of
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Mo Salah, Haaland has always been the king, right? If
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: he was not Salah, it was him, the most heavily
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: owned all the time. And it could be Pedro very
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: soon now. So even for Haaland, let's keep an eye
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: on him, his form. More importantly, the form of the
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: team at City. But yeah, I think those between, let's say, 7.5,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: so Rodgers, those kind of type of players, even Soboslai
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: to some extent, let's say 7 to 9.5 and the
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Palmer prices. then I think for them, you can have
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: a lot of fun with them through the season. If
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: you feel that Bruno is not the answer and you
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: keep Haaland, for example, then I think you can have
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: a lot of fun with those players between seven and nine.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: I think one thing you have to be mindful of, sorry, Kels,
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: is that you, with Bruno last season, he started the
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: season at nine million. So over the course of the campaign,
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: he averaged 26.1 points per million you had.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: To spend on him.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: If he'd have been 12, like he is this season,
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: his points per million average would have been 19.5. So
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: whereas last season he was the 42nd best value for money,
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: based on this season's pricing, he would have been 111th
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: in the game. So I think we have to be
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: really mindful of that, is that just because last year
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: Bruno was incredible for us, he was a lot cheaper.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: And so the value that you're getting out of him
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: was significantly more than any value you might get this.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: Because if he was to finish at the same point
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: as this season, he'd have to get like 331.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Points, which... It's not going to happen.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just not going to happen. He's not going
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: to score that. It's 313 I got them the wrong
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: way around. He has to get 313 points this season
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: in order to match the value that he was last season.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: That won't happen. So every year we have to look
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: for the value players. And this season it might be
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: the Palmers and the Sackers that offer us that value
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: rather than Bruno. And we have to kind of detach
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: what we learned last season a bit from what we're
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: going to learn from this season.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I was so desperate for Mbembe to do something last
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: week because then when we do make when we do
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: come out of this Hull and Ipswich fixture, it would
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: feel easy to kind of keep coverage in that Man
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: United attack and lose that 12.5 because it's just so
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: much money, isn't it? Let's talk about some of the
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: other teams that impressed them. We've spoken about Arsenal. We
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: probably haven't spoken about, and I know we've said we
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: haven't got enough information yet. It's only one game, but
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I spent a lot of that game going, so is.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: It the Arsenal double up and one attacker? Is it
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: the Arsenal double attack and one defender?
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: And it, It is a hard game to judge because,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: as you said, Jules, Coventry will be disappointed with the
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: way they started the season. What are we thinking? Are
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the early signs? Because you really got Odegaard in my
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: head after last week's pod. And watching that, I was like, 6.5.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Odegaard's going to, if he keeps performing like that, his
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: price is going to go up for one and actually
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: he's going to be great value. So maybe it's the
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: double Arsenal attack and one defender, which goes away from
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: everything we've learned about Arsenal in the last few years.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think they might play differently a bit
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: to last season in that kind of defensive mindset mode,
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: if you want, and having a bit more of a
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: free-flowing game, if you want. So, again, let's see what
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: happens on Monday night against Villa at Villa Park. We
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: can invest on them and treble up and get a
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: third one. So, you could have Odegaard Solis, which is
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: still cheaper than having Saka there, and then your defender,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: whether that's Calafiori, Mosquera, who are, as we said, same price.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: You could go for Saka now if you want, because
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: I think his form is just going to go better
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: and better and stronger because I don't even think he's
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: fully fit and didn't actually play the whole 90 minutes
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: in this game for that reason. So that's a possibility
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: as well. But I would wait a little bit for
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: the treble up for Arsenal, just for that Villa and
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: the Chelsea game. And then we will know a bit
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: more about them after those two games, I think.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: OK, so we're going to hold fire on that.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: We've spoken about Chelsea and potentially holding fire there, but
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: maybe we'll double up.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: On the attack.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I don't think we're too keen on any of the
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: defence at the moment. Leeds, there was a lot of
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: chat about Leeds in pre-season and I was worried I
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: was kind of getting brought into a trap by bringing
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Rodon in, Sam. But I mean, they've had a brilliant
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: start to the season, haven't they? And I'm a very
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: happy Joe Rodon owner.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: And I think that's the beauty almost of the Leeds
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: defence is that there's so many different ways that you
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: can invest in it and at different prices. So obviously
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: Leeds Game week one went well for them against Forest,
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: and as you mentioned, they beat them twice in the
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: last week now. But then the games that follow on
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: from that is Brentford, obviously, up next, and then it's Brighton,
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: Newcastle Palace before Arsenal in six. Now, I would argue
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: that actually you could play your Leeds defenders in most
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: of those pictures.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Maybe you wouldn't want to.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: Play them against Brentford, given how well they scored on
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: Saturday evening. But otherwise, you can go there. We've got
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: Roden as an option, as a cheap option if you want.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: You've got Bojo last year. He was fantastic for us
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: and was good again in.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Game week one.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: Justin was great in this one as well. He was
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: also really good. Plus, you've also got the goalkeeper. If
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: you have a goalkeeper shaped issue and you've gone off
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: whoever it is that you've got already, then Trafford could
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: be a really nice option as well. All the different
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: price ranges as well. So easy to swap from anybody
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: across to a Leeds defender. And it makes a lot
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: of sense given how well they've started the season. I
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: think we might see the very best of Leeds this year.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: So I'm really keen to be doubled up on them.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: At one point during that game while I was watching them,
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: I was thinking, do I need to increase my investment
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: in Leeds? Should I have gone for an Anton Stack
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: or somebody like that in midfield? Now, maybe the treble
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: up is a bit too keen, but I'm certainly happy
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: to be doubled up, even if Calvert-Lewin disappointed.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Jules, have you got any Leeds players?
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: No, I don't. I like Marimovic, to be fair. And
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: everything you both said makes a lot of sense. It
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: was just more Calvert-Lewin between him and Broby. And again,
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: I thought, Sunderland fixture against Ipswich was good and that's
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: why I wanted Broby and again I think he could
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: have done probably a bit better and then it's Fulham
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: at home for Sunderland this weekend which I think Fulham
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: will give you chances, will give you goals because they
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: will play in a way that you will get chances
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: against them so That's the only reason why. But I
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: like Leeds and the fixtures, Brentford at home, Brighton away. Okay,
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: maybe a little bit tricky, then it's Newcastle. They will
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: have Arsenal and United back to back at some point.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: So just keep looking at the fixtures as well. But yeah,
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: I think one lead defender makes a lot of sense. Okay.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: And Brighton fans will be screaming and saying, we had
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: a massive win. Why are you not talking about us?
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: So we're going to talk about them before we move
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: on to differential of the week. The fixtures aren't great now.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: And that kind of put me off. little bit i
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: had gross in a lot of my drafts but he
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: didn't make it in the ink so i went for
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: sangari and i'm pretty happy about that um i mean
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: if you are a gross owner you'll be very frustrated
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: i was very relieved not watching that game saw the
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: scoreline and no returns for him um if you are
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: a gross owner sam do you.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: Panic no i don't think you panic i mean look
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: he's he's your cheap budget midfielder isn't he would i
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: have preferred a a Sangari or even a Gomez who's 0.5 cheaper. Yeah, absolutely.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: But that's, it's just one game week. It's just one result, right?
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: So I don't think you can kind of, we shouldn't
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: just go, well, Pascal Gross is terrible and we need
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: to take him out in FPL. That's not the case.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: I think you do have to consider those around because
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: like you said, I don't, I didn't invest in Brighton
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: apart from the goalkeeper because I wasn't entirely sure I
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: liked the opening round of fixtures. Like Villa, I was
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: expecting them to not be great given what we've seen
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: so far this summer, but I wasn't absolutely certain that,
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: that they wouldn't do something in this one and so
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: just for Bruggen felt enough but now I'm looking at
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: that thinking well they've absolutely well it was a great
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: result wasn't it and whether that is says more about
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: Brighton or Villa remains to be seen and I think
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: we'll find out more about that in the coming weeks
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: but obviously the Brighton fixtures now they are very mixed
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: as you say it's Chelsea away up next before Leeds
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: who have just been saying have been really good there's
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: a nice fixture in there against Coventry but then after
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: that is Arsenal so They aren't the very best of fixtures.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: I think you give him another week for sure. If
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: you then need money, then going down to a Gomez.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Armstrong was good at Everton. He's 0.5 cheap.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: He could go there.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: If you want to clear it so that you're not
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: like you and I, Kels, and particularly if you've already
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: played your bench base, you could drop down to Slater
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: at Hull who's 4.5. And that gives you an easy
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: bench option in the attacking players every week rather than
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: you and I having to negotiate between Calvert-Lewin and Sangari
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: or somebody else every week where you're inevitably going to
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: get it wrong. All of the Brentford boys, they all impressed.
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: So Sangari's gone up 0.1. So you've got to pay
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: an extra 0.1 for him now. But Jenson and Lewis
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: Potter both looking good. Same prize. Jan out 0.5 cheaper.
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: Lots of other options, but I wouldn't do anything just yet.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: Let's give him another week or so and see where
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: we are.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Differential of the week then. The first one and the
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: trend continues. I mean, you both got a return, but Sam,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: you got double, your player got double the points of Jules's.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: You went for Gakpo. You got 12 points with a goal.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Two Defcon, three bonus. Jules got Haver six points because,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: of course, he scored against Coventry. Sam, that does mean
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: you get to go first.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: I've really struggled actually picking one this week because the
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: fixtures are really mixed for picking differentials. All the teams
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: that I really fancied have got, all their players have
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: gone over 10% already because they're popular picks because they've
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: got early, nice runner fixtures. So in the end, I've
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: settled on Gonzalo Garcia from Fulham. I wasn't very impressed
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: by Sunderland in game week one. Wasn't hugely impressed by
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: Fulham either against Chelsea, but they did score goals against
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: that Chelsea defence. He's currently going to cost you six million.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: He's owned by 3.1% of the game and he scored
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: on his Premier League debut against Chelsea on Monday night.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: He also had three shots in that game, which only
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: Haaland with five, Isak, Wissert and Jal Pedro had more
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: than with four each. And Sunderland did struggle. So I
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: wonder whether we could see a decent return out of Fulham.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: Even if they don't win the game, I do think
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: that they'll score and he seems to be involved in
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: all the good stuff that they're doing. So I'm going
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: to go with Garcia.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: Jules? I went with Maxime de Kuyper at Brighton. Again,
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: to come back on the theme of the show for me,
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: that kind of form and the momentum. He was outstanding, obviously,
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: against Villa with the goal and the assist. 17 points
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: last week, which was the highest in the whole game.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: His expected goal is 1.47. He was everywhere, played higher
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: up than usually. I mean, I think he can play anywhere, really,
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: but he was more of a left-back or left-wing back.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: This time, as a left-winger, he went up in price already.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: He's 4.6 when he was 4.5. But he's still only
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: owned by 6.8% of the managers. So I think It's
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Chelsea away, which obviously is tough. But I think what
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: we saw from Chelsea against Fulham in this Xabi Alonso
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: system is that they will attack, but they will also
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: give you chances and be quite open. So defensively, especially
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: with Robert Sanchez in goal, if he continues, because I
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: don't expect it. I think I expect him to be
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: dropped and Mike Pandas to start this game in goal
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: for Chelsea. But I think there will be chances for
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Brighton and the keeper. We could have gone for Hinchelwood
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: as well if you wanted, because I think Hötzler has
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: made a really good player in there, but the keeper
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: is my pick for this one.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, so we're not making any transfers. I think we've
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: all agreed on that. Who's the best captain?
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: I'm on Bruno, but part of me thinks, don't be burned,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: let's go for Pedro. So I could go for Pedro. George,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: are you going for Pedro again?
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: It's him or Bruno at home against Ipswich. I'm thinking like,
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: come on, I can't. This is too good not to
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: go there, you know?
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, so Jules will end up on Bruno.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: Sam?
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: So I think Arsenal have got the best fixture of
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: the week, which means I've only got Solis or Calafuri.
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: There's something about the captain in a 6.5 million midfielder
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: that feels really wrong. If I had Saka or if
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: Solis was priced at 9 million, I think I'd have
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: thrown the armband on him. But because he's cheap, I
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: kind of go, well, I've spent all this money on Bruno,
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: so surely I should captain him. I also quite like Harlem,
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: but it's Friday night. I hate captaining in the early game.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: It's going to ruin my whole weekend and I'm on holiday.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: It's going to ruin my whole holiday if that goes wrong,
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: isn't it? So better off to wait. And also Arsenal
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: play on Monday night just before I fly home. Maybe
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: that's the better option. I don't know, basically, is what
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: I'm saying. I'm Bruno or Solis. It's one or the other.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Okay, so not even considering Pedro. Anyone plan to play
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: a chip?
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: No.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Bench boost two will probably be quite popular, won't it, Sam?
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: That was a lot of people set up their teams
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: for that.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, if you had a lot of Coventry in your team,
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: a lot of people were going high on Coventry for.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: A bench boost.
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: Having said that, after Hull's performance in game week one,
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: and if you've got double Coventry defence, I'm not sure
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: I'm that hot on that anymore, to be honest. But
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: I think if you have set up your team for
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: the bench boost, then you probably play it anyway, because
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: then you can carry on with your strategy rather than
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: kind of just throw it out. But I do think
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: that Hull will score against Coventry. So it might be
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: a bit of a disappointing week if you've doubled up
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: on their the fence.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Okay that's where we're going to leave it then a
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: reminder the fantasy shows back on friday harry and holly
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: are in the studio with me your deadline is 6
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: 30 p.m 90 minutes head of crystal palace versus manchester
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: city so good luck get your transfers done and don't
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: panic see you next week