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S9 Ep2: FPL Pod: Pre-season shakes up the draft · FPL Pod

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  Speaker 1: Hello again.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a couple of weeks, hasn't it since FPL launched.
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  Speaker 2: I think gradually everyone's awakening and getting excited. I'm seeing
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  Speaker 2: more and more people as the days and weeks go
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  Speaker 2: on saying they're opening the app, they're sorting their teams out,
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  Speaker 2: and they're watching pre season. So we're going to run
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  Speaker 2: through our drafts very shortly. I promise you mine is
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  Speaker 2: a lot better. I'm going to start this pub with
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  Speaker 2: an apology because I was not in a fit States
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  Speaker 2: pod last time. But everyone's feeling a lot better now,
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  Speaker 2: including Jewels. Because if you're watching this on YouTube, reminder
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  Speaker 2: we are on YouTube. As you'll see, he's selling himself,
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  Speaker 2: aren't you Jewels?
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  Speaker 3: He okays, Hello everyone, it's just holiday time, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so FBL and holidays on the beach is perfect.
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  Speaker 1: It is holiday time. And I was on holiday last week.
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  Speaker 2: And I kept seeing one man, John from Halifax shout out.
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  Speaker 2: Kept seeing him at the breakfast buffet, the kids disco,
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  Speaker 2: and we had a lot of FBL chat. And he's
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  Speaker 2: loyal because he said that he went on on the
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  Speaker 2: day and tried to get a low team ID. He's
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  Speaker 2: a proper player anyway, Sam, how are.
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  Speaker 1: You all good?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I enjoyed trying to get a load tea, my dear.
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  Speaker 5: That was fun. But yeah, I've not been on my holidays. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you two are making me jealous. So got a couple
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  Speaker 5: of weeks till mine I would come. Yeah, I gotta
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  Speaker 5: get game. We went out the way first. Then I
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  Speaker 5: can have a holiday where Jeels I have to.
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  Speaker 2: Squeeze it in before the season starts. Weirdly, all the
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  Speaker 2: preseason interviews have already started this week. That really has
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  Speaker 2: to no break this summer, but that's the way we
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  Speaker 2: like it. Of course, Jules, have you been keeping an
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  Speaker 2: eye on preseason while you've been.
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  Speaker 1: Out there though?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I have kids and we'll focus on the big
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  Speaker 3: clubs for now. We can do maybe a bit more
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  Speaker 3: next week, but some of them have already played, some
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  Speaker 3: are playing tonight the second game or over the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: But if we start with Arsenal the champions, obviously, the
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  Speaker 3: first preseason game against Girona was one for one. I
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  Speaker 3: think it was a really good display. Max Dammond was excellent,
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  Speaker 3: scored a goal played on that right hand side.
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  Speaker 4: Have it also scored.
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  Speaker 3: We saw good for Soulis on his kind of debut
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  Speaker 3: if you want on a friendly game, Gabrius also scored.
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  Speaker 3: We saw a more scare in cap here partnership at
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  Speaker 3: center back, so there was a lot of interesting things
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  Speaker 3: if you want to in Arsenal Calafiuria left back for
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  Speaker 3: example as well. They played tonight so on Wednesday night
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  Speaker 3: against Bettis in Dublin, so something to keep an eye on.
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  Speaker 3: For example, Monster City drew with inter one one Divan
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  Speaker 3: Obama's court. So a few of the youngsters at the
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  Speaker 3: club I thought did really well, Mbama being one, Ryan
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  Speaker 3: mcadoob being the other one who's only eighteen years old,
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  Speaker 3: may have a cameo road to play this season for
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  Speaker 3: endSo Mareska or all. We saw Phil furn as the
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  Speaker 3: number ten Semnia with an assist. There was still no
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  Speaker 3: Doku for example, and some of the World Cup players
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  Speaker 3: that they have they played tonight so again on Wednesday
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  Speaker 3: night against the old Stars from the current league.
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  Speaker 4: Master United actually to comment.
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  Speaker 3: With two to one to Gold for and Bomo, who
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  Speaker 3: plays at a number nine, So if you're thinking about
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  Speaker 3: a United asset, Brandon Boomo was a number nine, was
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  Speaker 3: very very efficient in that game. Showa left back, Yo
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  Speaker 3: right back for example, two Chelsea lost to one to
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  Speaker 3: Sam's beloved Spurs last minute from Richardison. We were wont
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  Speaker 3: doering if Belonso we played with the backfower of back four.
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  Speaker 3: He played with the back four in that game. We'd
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  Speaker 3: had to left back for example, and Palestra, the young
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  Speaker 3: Italian player that they signed in the summer a right
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  Speaker 3: back Steve Aer scored for them and as I mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: Richarlison scored the winner lactonally in that game in a
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  Speaker 3: fourth three three formation for Spurs, and deserve Joe Pedro
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  Speaker 3: was really good again by the way for Chelsea. And
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  Speaker 3: then finally Liverpool lost four to two against Leeds in
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  Speaker 3: the US on their preseason. They went to one up
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  Speaker 3: and then collapsed completely in the last twenty minutes or
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  Speaker 3: so and considered three goals verts playing as a ten
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  Speaker 3: scoring a goal. Rio and Gomua was on the left wing,
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  Speaker 3: which was really good. Eastac played at the number nine
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  Speaker 3: not so good. So there's I think there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of pondering for Iraula to do with Liverpool.
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  Speaker 2: Very impressive considering you on holiday, you managed.
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  Speaker 1: To keep across a lot of it there.
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  Speaker 2: That's where I've got a cough, which isn't going to
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  Speaker 2: help this part, but I guess there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: escaping from the kids and using it as an excuse.
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  Speaker 4: And the rest of the five million Lodgers, the kids,
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  Speaker 4: we know you too well.
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  Speaker 1: We know you too well.
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  Speaker 2: Transfers as well, Sam, I think we touched upon a
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  Speaker 2: few of them on the last pub because some of
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  Speaker 2: them had happened. I know we spoke about Morgan Rodgers
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  Speaker 2: going to Chelsea, for example, but of course it's the
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  Speaker 2: busy time of year, isn't it. If any caught your
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  Speaker 2: eye in terms of could be of interesting FBL.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's been a few that have happened. So if
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  Speaker 5: you remember back in my first draft I had Carl
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  Speaker 5: Rushworth in my team. He's now made that move back
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  Speaker 5: to Coventry, so that makes for another interesting goalkeeper choice
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  Speaker 5: if he wants to go there and rotates Nicety Wispurs.
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  Speaker 5: As I think I mentioned last time out, we've got
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  Speaker 5: Mamadu Sangari now at Brentford. He could be a really
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  Speaker 5: exciting prospect for us in FPL. He could be the
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  Speaker 5: kind of next Elliott Anderson, if you like. So we've
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  Speaker 5: got to keep an eye on him in pre season
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  Speaker 5: because what we might see is a number of deafcon
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  Speaker 5: being wrapped up there and if we've got a cheap
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  Speaker 5: enabler in our teams like that, then again that will
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  Speaker 5: make budgeting for the rest of the team so much easier.
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  Speaker 5: MaxEnt Laqua made the move from Crystal Palace to Chelsea again,
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  Speaker 5: that could be a really nice option for us. He
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  Speaker 5: has been pretty consistent over the last couple of seasons
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  Speaker 5: at Crystal Palace, not so much in the attacking threat stuff.
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  Speaker 5: He's had a goal and two assists and eleven clean
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  Speaker 5: sheets in the last two seasons, so he's pretty consistent.
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  Speaker 5: But it's the deaf con threat again with him that
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  Speaker 5: makes him really interesting and in that Chelsea team he
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  Speaker 5: could do really well. Those are the kind of three
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  Speaker 5: main ones I think for me that offer some real interest.
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  Speaker 5: And Valentine Barco is back, so those of you that
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  Speaker 5: remember a few years ago had him in our drafts
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  Speaker 5: and then he disappeared off before it even played in
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  Speaker 5: game we won, which was very frustrating. But he's back
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  Speaker 5: and could be of interest. We'll have to see how
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  Speaker 5: that goes over the next couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Any others you want to add to that. Jeeles that
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  Speaker 1: have caught You're.
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  Speaker 4: Right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Gonzolo Gacia from Ramdrid to Fulham I think is an
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  Speaker 3: interesting one. He's not in the game just yet, so
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  Speaker 3: we don't know the price, the pricing and the value.
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  Speaker 3: But he was very efficient when he played and he
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  Speaker 3: didn't play that much for Madrid, including at the Club
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  Speaker 3: World Cup for the people who remember that a year ago.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it could be interesting because I think
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  Speaker 3: he will start for Fulham, so depending on the pricing
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  Speaker 3: as a third forwards that I think in an Arbelo.
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  Speaker 3: Arbelo a team who knows him really well, and I
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  Speaker 3: think we play on his strength. He's a great finisher
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  Speaker 3: right full left, foreheader, this kind of number nine really
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  Speaker 3: if you see what I mean. I completely agree with
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  Speaker 3: someone on Songari at Brentford's, who we saw a lot
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  Speaker 3: in France obviously because he was playing in France last season,
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  Speaker 3: who is a deaf com monster and I think will
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  Speaker 3: have a huge impact on this Branford team and we'll
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  Speaker 3: do really well. And his price at five point five million,
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  Speaker 3: so I think it's a really disurprised for what he
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  Speaker 3: can bring to this team. And then the other one
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  Speaker 3: I would mention is Danny Welbeck, who you know, went
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  Speaker 3: to Chelsea and we don't know if he will have
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  Speaker 3: the same season as as the last one at Brighton
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  Speaker 3: on even the same game time.
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  Speaker 4: But I think again, he is a very interesting player
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  Speaker 4: to look at.
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  Speaker 3: If if he starts getting game time, and if, for example,
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  Speaker 3: he plays up front and jew Pedro finds himself in
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  Speaker 3: another position with Rogers and Palmer, then you will have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of options to pick from, depending on your
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  Speaker 3: budget and where you want to spend your money.
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  Speaker 4: From the Chelsea attack, Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Saw a lot of people when that transfer went through
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  Speaker 2: kind of saying, oh, is that going to affect schwel Pedro.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's something else to think about, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: So let's get to the good bit then, guys. Well
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  Speaker 2: that's what I think is a good bit anyway. Team updates,
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  Speaker 2: Draft updates. I won't ask what draft number on because
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  Speaker 2: I think we're all on about four hundred and eighty seven.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure I've certainly got a lot more into it,
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  Speaker 2: and my draft looks a lot more. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: still a bit imbalance, but it certainly looks a bit
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  Speaker 2: more like if I had to start the season with it,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be quite scared as I would have the
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  Speaker 2: other week. Sam, do you want to run through yours first?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so, same two goalkeeper combination, Kinski and Brushworth. I
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  Speaker 5: haven't moved off of that in any of the draft,
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  Speaker 5: so I suspect that's pinkly where I'll end up.
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  Speaker 1: I think so.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: The fact that I'm on about Draft eight hundred and
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  Speaker 5: fifty five and I haven't changed them at all probably
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  Speaker 5: means that that's likely to stick. Now a backline that
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  Speaker 5: currently has more scare Gavadio, Mitchell van Heck and then Thomas.
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  Speaker 5: I might still shave point five off of that by
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  Speaker 5: having Diop instead of Mitchell, because that would enable me
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  Speaker 5: to upgrade elsewhere. But we'll see about that.
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  Speaker 1: Midfield you've a hold on You've got rid of Gabrielle.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, Gabrielle.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, but I got so much stick on the last
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  Speaker 2: pod and you said, I remember your words have echoed
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  Speaker 2: around my head. Oh you're going to get the fear
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  Speaker 2: kill in. You're going to bring Gabrielle. Not once have
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  Speaker 2: I bought in Gabrielle, and I've stayed back.
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  Speaker 1: If you've come over to the dark side, the light.
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  Speaker 5: Side or the light side. Yeah, whichever way you look
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  Speaker 5: at it. Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it, Because I think
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  Speaker 5: when you first build it, I love the idea of
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  Speaker 5: having Gabrielle in there. And obviously, when it comes to
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  Speaker 5: picking an Arsenal defender, picking Gabrielle is the obvious choice.
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  Speaker 5: But at eight million, and when we're talking about an
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  Speaker 5: extra two and a half million of budget, it is
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  Speaker 5: quite it's quite hard, and it's very tempting not to
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  Speaker 5: just move that budget elsewhere because it does significantly upgrade
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  Speaker 5: what you can do in the midfield and across that
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  Speaker 5: forward line. So yeah, that's where I'm at the minute.
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  Speaker 5: We've got a lot of preseason to play out, and
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  Speaker 5: as was mentioned at the beginning, we've got you know,
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  Speaker 5: other competitions where we can see what Arsenal we're up to.
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  Speaker 5: So I will keep my eyes on that Arsenal defense.
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  Speaker 5: But I am really tempted to save a little bit
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  Speaker 5: of money there. Okay, let's in fact, let's we've done
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  Speaker 5: your keepers and defense. Let's use Joss keepers and defense.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I've changed mine. Remember how don our room in.
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  Speaker 3: And I went for Verbrugen and Kinski because we saw
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  Speaker 3: Kinski already playing.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's guaranteed to be the number one A Spurs.
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  Speaker 3: I think Spurs will concede goals because of the way
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  Speaker 3: they will play, and that's a deserve it team and
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  Speaker 3: that's fine. But I think he will also be very good.
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  Speaker 3: We'll make a lot of saves, and I think Verbrugen
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  Speaker 3: is a similar one. But for the two of them
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  Speaker 3: at four point five million, I think you take that really.
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  Speaker 3: So I've got them to now and try to rotate
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  Speaker 3: them and you know, pick the right one each week.
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  Speaker 3: I've dropped Gabrielle as well. From my defense, Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 3: this is because you're divorce of wisdom, Cares, you're the
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  Speaker 3: voice of wisdom, and you're the one.
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  Speaker 1: Right taking you this long. But you've started to listen to.
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  Speaker 3: Me only because and we'll get to the structure of
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  Speaker 3: all our teams and what you do with premiums and
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  Speaker 3: stuff later on. But I think if you want, let's say,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Bruno and Rogers and Harland, I think just
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  Speaker 3: gabriel doesn't fit in. If you want Bruno, Sacca and
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  Speaker 3: Harland for example, there's no room for Gabrila. Or if
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  Speaker 3: you want to go there, then the rest of the
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  Speaker 3: players is US three and some rubbish enablers really, so
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  Speaker 3: I think it's very difficult to fit Gabriel in your
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  Speaker 3: team if you already want Sacca, Bruno and Harland there.
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  Speaker 4: So it's whatever you prefer in terms of premiums.
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  Speaker 3: But I think with most Querra in it looks like
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  Speaker 3: he would start the season certainly, And we don't know
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  Speaker 3: yet when Gabriel is going to come back. Will he
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  Speaker 3: play on the Community Shield, will he play the first
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  Speaker 3: game of the season, then after that, because he hasn't
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  Speaker 3: come back to training just yet, so let's wait and
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  Speaker 3: then if something happened with gabrielle if he started the
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  Speaker 3: scene really well, will we should play our wild card
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  Speaker 3: quite soon? Anyway, I think in that first half of
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  Speaker 3: the season, around that long international break maybe, so then
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  Speaker 3: there's time to change. Anyway, So I'll have Mosquerra and
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  Speaker 3: now instead of Gabriel if you want for the Arsenal defense,
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  Speaker 3: that enables me to bring Gay in because I lost
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  Speaker 3: on a rumor, so I still have a city defender,
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  Speaker 3: a bit like what Sam did with Guardiol. I've got
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  Speaker 3: concert because I still think a four point five million
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  Speaker 3: concert is must have because it's such a great value
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  Speaker 3: for money. And then the other two are job a
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  Speaker 3: four million and Von Heywig from Coventry a four million
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, interesting, just a word on I've got Gavardio as well.
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  Speaker 2: In my defense, I had, I had Irilly I think
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  Speaker 2: on the last part. Then I did go to Gayhe.
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  Speaker 2: Now I've gone down to Gavardio mainly because of the comments,
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  Speaker 2: and it sounds like he's going to be quite central
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  Speaker 2: to what Yeah Resk is going to be doing there.
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  Speaker 2: And I think he mentioned Harland Foden Gavardio, didn't he
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  Speaker 2: And we know that Vardio has got goal threat and
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  Speaker 2: the like.
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  Speaker 1: He's a little bit cheaper than gay Were you not
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  Speaker 1: tempted to go there? Jeee? Why are you spending more
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  Speaker 1: on Gayhe?
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  Speaker 5: It's interesting?
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  Speaker 4: No I did. I did. It's just.
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  Speaker 3: I thought Gayy was a superb last season and I
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  Speaker 3: know he's a six million now, which is obviously more
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  Speaker 3: than what we used to see him a palace And
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  Speaker 3: I really hesitated between the two, to be fair, and
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  Speaker 3: I went for Gayhey because I had enough money and
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  Speaker 3: because I still thought that if there's a bit of rotation,
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  Speaker 3: despite what Mariska said and despite Vardio being left footed,
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  Speaker 3: which he really likes having a left footed there.
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  Speaker 4: I just thought that Gayhey might be more locked in.
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  Speaker 3: But to be fair, one or the other, as long
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  Speaker 3: as I think you need, I think you need a
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  Speaker 3: city defender, whoever you choose. Orriley I think is the
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  Speaker 3: second most owned defender now with twenty two percent of
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  Speaker 3: the managers having him, just behind Gabrielle with twenty five,
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  Speaker 3: but ahead of Gayhee, Vardil, Virgil, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, anybody else.
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  Speaker 3: So clearly a lot of the managers are going for
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  Speaker 3: are going for O'Reilly. But yeah, I think with already
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  Speaker 3: I'm to show exactly where he will play and like that.
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  Speaker 3: But between Vargel and Geee, I think he's really what
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  Speaker 3: you prefer between the two.
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  Speaker 2: I think Samu you and nodding along with me with
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  Speaker 2: those comments when you heard about gavardi Old potentially being central,
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  Speaker 2: with the fact that o'reiley's been at the World Cup
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  Speaker 2: as well, and we don't quite know where he's paid
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  Speaker 2: at the moment. At five point five million, for me,
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  Speaker 2: he just feels incredibly great value. I mean, I had
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  Speaker 2: Kirks and then maybe have something to do with the
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  Speaker 2: fact that they shipped all those goals against Leeds. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, but I just felt like Jills said, like
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  Speaker 2: five point five million city defender who were getting all
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  Speaker 2: the right noises from watching me dropped in gave week one.
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  Speaker 2: Now just feels like a bit of a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a gift to us. So I've got moscaa Gvardil. I've
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  Speaker 2: also got Conza as well Jeels because I was really
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  Speaker 2: surprised when I saw him priced at four point five million,
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  Speaker 2: and I love it when there's a cheap England player,
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  Speaker 2: and we've also got I've.
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  Speaker 1: Also gone for Luke Shaw as well.
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  Speaker 2: I've had Harry Maguire and in a lot of my drafts,
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  Speaker 2: and then actually Luke Shaw's a little bit cheaper. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if I'll definitely stick with him. I worry
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  Speaker 2: about the injuries, of course, but United fixtures are good.
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  Speaker 2: I'll keep an eye on pre season, but just sort
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  Speaker 2: of four point five five million he was good value.
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  Speaker 2: And then Thomas as well. You'll probably spend quite a
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  Speaker 2: lot of time on my bench, particularly at the start
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  Speaker 2: of the season.
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  Speaker 1: But you never know.
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  Speaker 2: We're always looking for those cheap newly promoted players, aren't we.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goalkeepers are currently Kinski because it feels like
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  Speaker 2: everyone in the world is going to start with him.
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: But at that price point for a Spurs starting goalkeeper
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: four point five million, we're being.
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: Told that Spurs are going to be great.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: So let's let's see, let's watch, let's watch. Yeah, maybe
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: I'm just being influenced because it's not very often I
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: started the season with the Spurs player. I've got to
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: Bravka as my backup at the moment, but that's just
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: because he's cheap and I haven't really I'm going to
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: see demoslairs goalkeepers. Yeah, but if I don't really like
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: rotating goalkeepers. I don't like that headache, but it does
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: make me a little bit uneasy. So I'll see if
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: i can fine point five later on when I'm toying
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: with my drafts, and i'd go to another four point
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: five starting keeper, I think into midfield, Gone, Jewels, you
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: go first this time, Okay.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: So I've got with Bruno Fanners and I think for me,
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: and again we talk about that no I had Soaka
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: in and I think it's for me. It's a straight
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: pick between one of the others. So I've got a
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: draft with both of them. Socca and Bruno, and to
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: be fair, that squad is decent. I think, yeah, you
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: have both. I think you can you can build with
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: both and haland obviously and have that's your three premiums
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: and I have a really good team. But obviously if
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: you go for one or the other, so Socca or
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: Bruno with Harland, then you've got more options, You've got
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: more money to spend, especially if you go with Socca.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: Instead of Bruno.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: So but I went for Bruno because United's first two
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: fixtures especially, and I think he's guaranteed to play with
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Michael Carrig obviously very good. I kept Rogers in simply
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: because he's cheaper than Coo Palma. And I still think
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: Rogers is a really good signing for Chablonzo, even if
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: he's still currently on holidays and we haven't seen him
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: yet just yet playing because of what you know, because
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: he went so far the World Cup, Iliman and Jai
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: six million with Everton. I think he had a good
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: season last year and we'll be very good again this season.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah maybe, but then we.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Cross that bridge when when that happens, if it happens,
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: and to be fair, Elemeninga are a bigger club lested
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: only a stronger team in a stronger team than Everton
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: right now would be very interesting to see. I put
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: so listen because I think he's going to start on
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: the left hand side for Arsenal the season and again
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: I likewise saw from him in that yearn again on
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: pre season, So let's see what he does against Bettis
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: on Wednesday night. And then Enzola is my fifth one
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: because I think he's going to bring a lot of
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: deaf con is going to be on penalties, very likely
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: again on set pieces, and I'm not sure if something
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: will be as good as they were last season, especially
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: by playing in Europe too at the same time, but
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: I think if there's one player that you could believe
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: in in terms of consistency and talent is definitely Enzos.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: So I've gone for him.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's on my watch list as well. Sam, have
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: you gone through in the field?
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: So Bruno and Dominic Sabosla remain from my original draft
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: I fully brought into the Maresca comments, and so Phil
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: Frankner's now is now making an appearance in my draft.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: A million. He's seven million, yeah, and I think it's
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: seven million for an extra city attacking player. It just
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: feels really nice, so I've gone with him for now,
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: and then Danny Welbeck leaving Brighton means that I'm expecting
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: Pascal Gross to have more set piece responsibility. So and
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: I did love owning Pascal Groce at the back end
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: of last season. He was the one that went a
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: long way and turning my season round if you remember.
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: So Pascal Gross is there. I've currently with this draft
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: got a million in the bank, so I've still got
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: Matt Grimes from Coventry in there in my fifth midfielder slot.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: But he might very well get an upgrade to a
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: six million midfielder. But then it depends on where I
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: go with my chips and how much I think I
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: might want to play my Coventry players in game week
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: two as to whether I keep him and then change
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: it up on wildcard because I do really like Sangar,
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: so I might move from Grimes to Sangari and go
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: with him instead.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Okay, we've got a lot of similarities because I've also
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: gone pastcal Gross. I'm sorry, but for five point five
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: million a set pastaker. As soon as Welbeck went, I
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: was just like, it's great because it's enabled me still
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: to have Fernandez, Suboslai and Soccer. I'm still not one
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: hundred percent and I will wait and see when Socca
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: comes back. The noises that one could go down to
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: the wire, to be honest, because I don't think he's
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: going to start, then I'm not going to waste all
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: that money on him. But at the moment, actually, Danny
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Welbeck moving has enabled me to keep Socca insidantly, So
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: that's my starting for midfield, and then I've got Slater
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: from harl on the bench. Is my four point five
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: million But that's obviously the compromise that you have to
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: make when you've spent so much money on those players.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: So yeah, not dead to say.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: I think I'm interested actually about the positioning of Suboslai
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: because it looks like Verts Versus is a little bit
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: more expensive. But it looks like Versus going to play
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: in that ten, doesn't it. And actually that worries me
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: a little bit, and I'm wondering if we're all going
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: to regret not going that way.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: Sam, Yeah, maybe he's point five more Verts. It's not
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: the end of the world. It's only point five. What's
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: interesting is that we're seeing them both doing different things,
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: so they're going to have different routes to points. Right,
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: Verts looks like he's going to play in that ten
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: off of Esak, so you would expect probably more goals
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: out of him. Dominisbosli has set piece, a lot of
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: set piece responsibility. You'd expect some assists from corners, that
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: kind of thing. I'd also expect if he's in the eight,
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: him to pick up the defensive contribution points and support
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: the defense as well. So I actually think that they
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: might be relatively level over the course of the season
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: when you play out the extra points that I think
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: the bos might pick up versus what Verts might do.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: That is another thing I may do with that extra
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: money that I have in the bank. So I think
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: what we saw against Leeds in the at least in
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: the first sort of half of the game was they
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: both looked quite good. So let's see what what the
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: rest of the preseason pans out and what it looks
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: like for Liverpool. But there is definitely a case for
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: moving for suboslight Averts. But then we all started last
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: season with senate didn't end so well for us. So
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: whereas the Boslight was consistent over the course of the season,
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: consistently really really good and obviously had the summer off,
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: so I want to watch. I think between those two.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I feel I feel like Vert's is a bit more
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: of an erailar player, but I could be wrong.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Where do you stand on that tool?
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I agree, Supersid.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: He's already owned by almost fifty percent of the miners,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: so again, I think he's on forty eight or something
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: just below. If he does well, especially in the first
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: couple of games in the season, the first two game weeks,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: and you don't have him and half of the game,
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: you know, apart from you as him, then that's going
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: to hurt you massively.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: So that's something to keep in mind.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, Rogers is quite heavily owned too, and he's
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: zero point five more expensive. But we've seen supper as
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: I play already, like Sam said, he had he had
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: the summer off, he's ready.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: He would be ready to go. Rogers, we don't know yet.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Chad Belonzo might consider that he's not ready to play
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: before the start of September four we know, so that's
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: also to keep something in mind.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Vilts went to the World Cup.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Obviously, it was home much earlier than than Rogers, for example,
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: or the or the players in the game. So it's
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: it's it depends, I think Vilts. I think a lot
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: of what Irala is going to do will be built
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: around Viltz and Issac and Riley certainly with the ball,
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: but you can also play a right back frame. Punk
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: picked up a small injury again in the game against
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Leeds that we mentioned earlier, and really there's no other
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: right back right now or good enough certainly or better
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: than even so like playing there.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: So we might have some.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Games where Soos like maybe deputize again left right back
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Storry like he did last season, but if he plays
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: in midfield, seven million is a really good investment.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: M hmm. Okay. Then moving on to forwards, I think
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: it could be quite similar.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: Sam uh yeah, Harlan jil Pedro. I'm currently on egor Jaesus.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: Oh so was I and I changed a couple of
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: days ago. Interesting. Well, I've been backwards and forwards and
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: backwards and forwards on that position because I've had Selanki
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: in there for a little while. I've had Igor jay
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Zus in there for a little while. I've had Olie
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: McBurnie in there for a little while. I just kind
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: of can't decide on that third forward slot whether I
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: want to spend six. I've had Mateta in there as well,
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: whether I want to pay six and a half six
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: or five and a half, And I think it depends
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: on where I settle in terms of that Grimes position
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: in midfield, because if I decide I wanted six and
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: a half or slightly more as my fourth midfielder and
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: have Pascal Gross's my fifth, then I need to find
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: a bit of budget. But Egor jay Zus has been
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: in fantastic form in pre seasons at his four and
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: four now for him, so really really good. And what
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: we're seeing with Selank is he starts the games. But
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: as Jews mentioned at the beginning when he was talking
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: about the friendly against Chelsea, it's Rich Charlison that comes
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: on and scores the winning goal, So I mean it
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: was very lucky and you know all of that jazz.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: But nonetheless he's he is the one that's in form
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: in pre season, so it's quite tough to pick there
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: and I don't know Egor Jase's just it was like
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: the one to pick right now, so I'm tempted to
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: start with him. As things stand.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was on him until the other day. I'm
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: on Harland Pedro and Calvert Lewin at the moment because
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: he's also been scoring for the front and I really
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: like Leeds his early fixtures. Though every time I own
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Dominic Calvert Leewin it ends in a world of pain,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: so I mean, I'm not totally sold on that, but
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: it looks quite nice in my team at the moment.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: So it is him.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: But as I said, I had Hadigle jaysus as well, Jews,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: what are you on in front three?
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: So Harland and Rob Pedro I think like pretty much
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: of the whole world. My third one is Brian Brobi
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: because again it's what he brings to the Sunderland team.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: And Sunderland attack sorry double Sunderland attack.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Well I'm not sure if Lafeees is Sunderland attacker really
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: in that sense, but yeah, yeah, and again I'm not
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: too convinced by the fight that they will have another
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: great season. We said that they were play in Europe too,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: which I think is going to bump alow the energy anyway,
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: so we'll have to see. I just I just like
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Robie's strength and I think the momentum from not just
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: last season or only the end of last season, but
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: also him going to the World Cup and doing quite
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: well for disappointing Dutch team in the end. But still
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: I think that would bring him a lot of confidence
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: and to keep that kind of form into the start
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: of the season, So that that was the thinking about him.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: There's there's a dominic A Luin as well in one
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: of the drafts. The thing about Igor Jesus is and
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: I think Glasna is going to play with the front
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: tower forest and Forests have I think Liverpool game week
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: two and Spurs game week three, something like that, which
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: is quite tough. So I was not sure about him,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: despite him scoring against North County uh and another rubbish team.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: I think in the second preseason game, I see where
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: you're coming from. Both of you.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Just yeah, I'm just not too convinced yet by gorgeous
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: and also the fund two. I think goals would be shared,
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: whether it's Wood that plays with him in front, whether
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: it's I don't know, even my boy callin Wundo.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: I don't think we'll stay.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: But still I think a front like a lung striker
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: obviously like a draw pedroad type or Haland type or
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: you know whoever Arsenal player front or Issac and that
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: kind of guys would be very different if you then
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: if you have a front two like like Forest will
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: have M.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, I didn't feel I Also when
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: I look at Forest, I think if I want a
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Morgan Gibbs White or someone like that.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: So that's kind of also why I got rid.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: It's hard, isn't it, because we can so get lured
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: into stuff in pre season, but it is only pre season,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: but it's it's kind of all we've got to go
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: off at the moment.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: So I think we watch ownership on that third one
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: because you want you don't want to go with somebody
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: too highly owned, and that third slot in some ways
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: in case it goes wrong and they don't start the season,
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: because they'd be the ones that people jump off quickly.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: So like that's kind of where I always I am
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: thinking with with my cheaper options in every position, is
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: I don't want to go for necessarily the most popular
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: of those because if they don't start well, I could
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: see my team value drop because people will just get
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: off of them straight away. So it's a fine balance
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: that slot. And I think between the from six six
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: and a half right down to five and a half.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: There are probably seven or eight viable options that you
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: could pick in that frontline, and it's just working out
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: who the right one is based on what we see
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: in pre season and then trying to use the fixtures
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: to kind of give you a head start onto who
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: is the best one.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Basically it's Harland Pedro plus one, isn't it And it's
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: kind of yeah, aim and hope.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: It feels like yeah, yeah, and.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: It depends on your budget.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: But there's for example, a lot of love and ownership
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: for the young kid that Fulham signed from Bayern Munich,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Joana Couciosare, who is owned by almost nine percent of
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: the managers right now, he's on four point five million.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: He's done really well in preseason. He scored with Gonzalo
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Garcia arriving at Fulham. And Mooney's still being there obviously,
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: I think he's probably it's not going to play a
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: ton of minutes, although he looks very promising. He was
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: a very promising youngster anyway, and Fulham paid quite a
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: lot of money for him too, So you think when
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: you invest that kind of money, even on a young player,
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: it's also to develop him and play him and things
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: like that. But clearly a lot of the managers think
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: that that third spot a four point five is.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Good for him.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Then you've got more money to invest somewhere else. And
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: even if you have a high and drawer pedro fond
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: two and a very strong midfield, that's fine if that
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Fulham kid stays on your bench for example.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: Well it's fine if you're not planning to play a
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: bench beast early though, because that's the other thing to consider, because,
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: like Kels was saying, Scott de Bravka, that pretty much
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: rules out a game week one or game week two
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: bench boots, which is fine. I think as long as
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: you go into it with your eyes open knowing that
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: you can't bench boost or you probably don't want to
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: bench boost if you've got a risk, then that's okay.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: But I think that's why deciding on a chip strategy,
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: or at least having a plan for a chip strategy,
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: is quite important.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Right now, clearly you've decided on yours.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: Some gone, yeah, I'm not. I'm not planning to play
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: one in game week one or two, and I.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Still lunch boost thing in game week one and two.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Some is this something like, I don't know not people
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: are talking about it.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Feel that was never talked about before.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: And I've been a bit because people build a squad,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: don't they, And it's like if you've got all these
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: players and you want to play them all and then
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: once you've got rid of your bench boots or I
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: interrupted you a bit, then some But for me it's like,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: once you've got rid of your bench boost, in a way,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: you can have the cheapest bench ever and not worry
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: about your bench almost.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think there's a couple of things to it,
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: or like it started being a thing properly last season
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: when we got the second set of chips coming in,
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: because obviously in the first half of the season, you
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: don't get the doubles necessarily, so people are looking for
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: an opportunity to look where they play it. The bench
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: boost always feels, in my mind anyway, is the weaker
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: of the chips in terms of the possibilities of extra
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: points that it could bring, Like when you're talking about
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: three hits and triple captains and obviously the wild card,
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: there's so much potential upside that those can bring. For me,
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: an early bench boost this year feels really risky for
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: a number of reasons. One, you have the World Cup players.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: So if you're gonna invest in a player that's been
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: away at the World Cup and played, you know, for
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: a long time, Morgan Rogers is a prime example. We're
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: not exactly sure Morgan Rodgers's minutes might look like in
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: the early parts of the season, so if you want
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: to go into the season with him, it makes that
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: a risky bench boost early on. I think there's other
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: factors that play as well with that. That is, we've
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: got multiple and actually even since we potted more new
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: managers in the Premier League, so again you have a
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: little bit of uncertainty around what those actual starting elevens
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: might look like across those new teams and how they
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: might set up in the formations they might play in.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: So for me, that's another factor, and the bigger factor
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: for me right now is that if you bench boost
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: in game week one or two, one of the key
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: reasons for doing it, Cals like you say, is because
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: you can then strip money out of your bench. So
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: you this year, we don't have the de Bravka four
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: point zero starting goalkeeper. We don't think anyway that we
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: did last year, so to go down to a four
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: point zero, you're having to go back in with Debravka,
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: but he's not going to be first choice at Spurs.
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: He'll be the backup. So if you do that and
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: you strip the money out of your defense, that probably
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: means that you are going for a very early wild card. Now,
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: last season, when we had our double chips for the
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: first time, we also got five free transfers at Christmas
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: because we had Afcon, so we could build almost a
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: third wildcard, like a mini wild card, to help us
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: get through that period. If you wildcard in three or
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: four and you hold your second World card till closer
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: to doubles in the blank game weeks like we normally
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: like to do, you could feasibly have twenty weeks where
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: you've just got to manage with transfers. And I don't
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: like the idea of that. I like to give myself
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: a little bit more flexibility in terms of how I
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: change out my team. So for me, I'd rather wait
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: play through the early part of the season, learn a
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: lot about the new managers, learn a lot about the
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: World Cup returners and how they're going to start, learn
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: about the new signings. Wild card. Maybe for the international break,
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: possibly even push it back a little bit later. Right now,
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: I'm looking at a wild card six BENCHBU seven strategy,
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: but that's kind of where I am, and I'll push
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: the free hit in the triple captain right back. Triple
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: captain probably Man City in sixteen. But we'll see where
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: they are when we get that.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: She was thinking of the answer this, you've got any
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: chip plans yet?
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: Absolutely not? The only chips that is the one I
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: eat at the beach.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: No, but I find this this bench books really interesting
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: because I understand if you build the squad and you've
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: got really good players, and often that's what we do,
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: then why not playing them if you if you show
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: that we'll all play and start game with one again
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: with two for example, and the fixtures are decent. I
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: don't really like the idea of it, but I can
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: understand what people are tempted.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: Sure, no problem.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: I think some early triple captains shouts Okay City home
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: to ipswitch game with three for Earling Harland for example,
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: because there won't be a double in the first half
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: of the season, so you will play your triple captain
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: on a single on one game and very likely we
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: target Harland and easy fixtures at home are deity hard
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: for cities, So there's that one to keep in mind.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: If you want Bruno Fernandez United at home to against
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Ipswich again in game with two, for example, there's a
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: bit of check to see against her City at home
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: in game week four. So there's a few games where
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: if you want a really good early styff. Let's say
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: you started game with one and two really well then,
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: and you're ahead in all your mini leagues, and you're
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: doing really well in the big rankings and things like that,
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: and Hallan is on form and Mariskaan and City are
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: on good form, then why not playing your triple captain
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: as early as then to just get ahead of everybody
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: as even before the international break, even before you wild
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: card or everything like that.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: That could be a smart idea certainly, you know in
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: my planning.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it does just feel like a triple captain is
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: perfect for a whrleand home to a newly promoted team,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: doesn't it.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: That's what I always think.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I haven't got a major tip strategy in
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: terms of I just know that I don't want to
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: play the bench boost early on for all the reasons
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: you said pretty much, Sam. I just I like to
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: feel things that I'm not confident enough in my starting eleven,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: let my whole squad to play a chip on it,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: And I just think there's too much uncertainty as to
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: who's going to play in minutes and returning from a
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: World Cup personally for me. Although I do see the
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: merit in just getting rid of it so that you
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: don't have.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: To much, I think the Coventry versus Whole game in
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: game week two is also playing into a lot of
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: people's minds as they think, well, there's an opportunity to
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: maybe go very heavy on Coventry and hope that they
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: win that game. But those two games in the Championship
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: last year both finished nil nil, and they will also
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: go into it both of those teams thinking well, we
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: have to beat the fellow news teams exactly. Yeah, yeah,
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: so we just we'll see. But again, that game feels
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: a bit uncertain in the same way that even like
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: last year when the newly promoters played each other, they
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: weren't that always that easy to call. So I'm with you, Kels.
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: I think I'm just going to hold fire and wait
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: a little bit.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, just looking at our team structure. Then we've kind
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: of broadly all gone the same. I feel like we
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: were all quite different on the first pod and we've
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: kind of amalgamated into more similar teams. I mean, I'm
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: still obviously premium heavy. I've got Saker over at you two,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: and I've discussed the compromises that I've had to make
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: with that, and whether I'm one hundred percent comfortable, I'm
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: not so sure. Although the likes of Asrie Coonzo is
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: on my bench at the moment at four point five million,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: which actually doesn't feel that bad. At one point I
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: had a a bench Storrow that was just full of
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: newly promoted players and that felt really weird. I don't
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: hate my team, but it is compromises.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: So how many.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Premiums do you think we should be aiming for? And
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: kind of it enables? It's important to get the balance,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: isn't it.
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: It is two feels really comfy having Harlan and Bruno
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: is comfortable. You can have a really great squad around
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: those two. Three I think is okay. If it's not Bruno,
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: that's one of them. So if it's Harlan and then
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: a Palmer or a Sakka or a Gabrielle and then
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: you go for one of the cheaper Manchester United midfielders
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: instead the Ken years the Enbel.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Do you think that's a viable strategy, by the way,
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: because I've seen a lot of people and George mentioned
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: and Bemo playing in the nine role in the pre
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: season the other day.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: That caught my eye.
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and I'm i am. One of the
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: things I still haven't yet decided on is is whether
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: I'd like to double up on Manchester United's attack for
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: the first two weeks of the season. That feels really good,
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: it's just how I do that. If I could, if
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: we saw a little bit of Cessco, if we saw
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: him a peer and was starting in pre season, I
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: would be super tempted to go there for game weeks
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: one and two and then move on. But I do
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: think either a could you could instead of having Bruno
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: go for Mbambo and Kuna and double up and cover
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: it out that way, and I think that is a
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: viable strategy. I personally think that with the season Bruno
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: had last year, I'd like to have him and then
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: double up with somebody else, and I'd rather trade Gabrielle
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: for a different Arsenal defender and save the budget that
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: way than I would save it by not having Bruno,
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: because just think his roots and points are just too good,
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: and he has the penalties and everything else. So it's
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: a risk I think going without him. But I think
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: two is really nice. Three you can do it. It's
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: just you do have some compromises elsewhere.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: It was why do you stand on the Bruno versus
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: another Man United attacker? Because being honest, actually, if I
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: don't start with soccer, it will probably be going from
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: soccer to and Bumo.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: Very smart. Yeah, I agree.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: And Cesco was in my first draft of our last
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: or two weeks ago, but he still carrying that small injury.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: He hasn't played in that artlytical Madrid game, and I
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: think and Bomo was there maybe because Cisco was not
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: available there, you know, And and and Bomo can play
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: there and might not be there.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: For the whole season in that position.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: If Cesco is fit and doing well, and Bomo could
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: well go back onto the onto the wing and that
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: that would be I think he can be very good there.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: But I think that's h and Bomo is a great
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: option too, And I agree with Sam in the sense
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: that Bruno's expensive. It's twelve million plus the fifteen point
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: five for Harlan already Between just the two, if you
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: have them, this is a third of your whole budget.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: So it's it can it can be in a way
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: difficult to look at it and thinking that really all
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: that money on just two players, as good as they
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: might be this season. And again we we just don't know.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Bruno hasn't played yet with United. He's coming back this
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: week or so, yeah, this week, so we would have
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: to see. But if Bruno is playing, is fit, is
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: ready to go straight away? When you've got those two.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: First games for United Hearth City and ipswich away.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: And home, it's hard to not have him because I
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: think that could really really hurt you if you don't
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: want to go for Bruno that Like I said earlier,
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: I think there's such a strong team to have without
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Bruno and having Soccer, Gabrielle and Helen for example, as
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: you have three premiums in the team, that's very very doable,
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: far more than having Halen Bruno and then trying to
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: find some money somewhere for Soccer or Gabrielle or Palmer
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: or somebody like that. Yeah.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: I agree, it's interesting, isn't it. And I think the
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: pricing this season has made it even more interesting because
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: we're all going to have slightly different premiums. I'm seeing,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: like you know, less and less people going with Gabrielle.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: So all it all take is him to score two
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: on the opening weekend or something like that and we'll.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: All go, oh my gosh.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Because Sam, you always raised the point that it's easier
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: to go and it's the same with Bruno, isn't it.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: It's easier to start at that price point and go
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: down than it is to go up and find and
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: find all of the money. And what about differentials? Then
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: a quick word on those before we go, because it's
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: something that we go big on on this pod. We
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: do differential of the week. We're not going to start
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: that just yet, because of course the game hasn't actually
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: he started the Premier League match, heeven't started. But differentials
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: at this time of year, if you get the right one.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: You're onto a winner, aren't you.
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: Some you are, but there's I would also offer a
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: little word of caution with them, because if you remember
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: last season, I decided that I was going to start
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: the season without Jial Pedro and instead go for a
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: slightly less less well owned forward, and it massively came
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: back to bite me, and I found it really difficult
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: to catch up after that because Joe Pedro went on
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: and did while he had a fantastic season, didn't he,
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: But particularly in those early weeks, he was really good.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: So I think there is there's something to be said
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: for having differentials, and they are the thing that really
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: moves your season. They can be the game changes for
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: you in terms of climbing mini leagus, in terms of
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: improving overall rank, but I think you also have to
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: have the course by and Jael's mentioned it a couple
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: of times while we were talking about teams, like the
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: ownership of some players is really high, and so going
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: without them and picking a differential player like even the
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: Subosli vertzing at the minute, picking verts over Suboslai, you're
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: picking a differential over somebody that's that's very, very popular.
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: So there's a risk factor that comes with that, because
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: if goes off, you're winning and you go flying up
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: the mini leagues in your opal rank, but if it's
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: a Boslai, you fall behind quite quickly. So I think
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: you have to look at the heavily owned players. You
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: have to think about owning at least a good chunk
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: of them, and then use the kind of peripheral players
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: of your team to have your differentials in there. So
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: have the core, have the Harlan's, the brunos, the job
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: pedro is the ones that are going to be super popular,
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: and then around that pick players that can do can
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: make the difference in terms of moving you up your
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: leagues by picking people that are different from everyone else.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good point. You love a differentials.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm so good at picking them as well. But no,
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: it's good. Like Sam mentioned Phil Foden, who's.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: You know in her team that Mariska has talked about
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: and played in the teen In that game against inter Milan,
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: he's won by seven percent of the managers. If he
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: does well at the start of this season and you
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: have him, and obviously many more many other managers don't
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: have him, obviously, then that's that's great for you.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: If you look at Doku or Pascal Gross, it's the same.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: If you like a Kai haverd you got Jesus that
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: you two mentioned earlier, they lowly owned right now, So
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: whatever points.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: Those can get you get ahead of everybody else that
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: don't have them.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: M Okay, then that's where we're going to leave it today.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: But I just wondered if I'm going to leave on
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: this question, which player sound do you have that you
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: don't currently have? Sorry, scares you the most? I'm leaving
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: on a nice upbeat note here.
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: I am sure I don't have any Arsenal players outside
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: of Moscara, So to be honest, Gabrielle and all the
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: Arsenal attackers scare me because not having an Arsenal attacker
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: just feels all kinds of wrong, particularly when they start
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: the season at home to Coventry. So I probably need
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: to find a way to actify that.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, do you know that's every time I get rid
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: of Saka from my draft, I bring him back because
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: it scares me. But it scares me having him as
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: well because of his injury. Is he going to be
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: eased back into the season because he was obviously carrying
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: that injury a bit last season he played so much.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Joeys, what about you?
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: I think Gabrielle is one for sure, and then for
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: the rest I put sole this in for the same
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: fear that you know, you two discussed about Arsenal and
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: not having an Arsenal attacker. And I'm not really sure
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: how much Solace is going to play and if he's
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: going to be very good or not very good or
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: things like that, but I think he's got great potential
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: if Kopama probably a risk not having him because he
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: had a summer off, and I think there's there's a
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: massive you could see it coming that Copama is going
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: to have a great season and the Chabi Alonzo or
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: Chelsea so his players like that. But again, they are
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: so expensive, Sakka and Palmer and Gabrielle, that it's not
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: just having them or owning them, it's finding a way
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: to get them, and then that could also make your
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: team a bit weaker. As good as they can be individually,
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: the whole collective of your squad is very important to.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will leave you on a positive note and
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: give you the FPL Pard Mini League because it has
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: been relaunched and normally by the end of the season,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: I know it off by heart. But this is a
• 42:04
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• 42:08
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• 42:10
  Speaker 2: pod in case people have switched off from our waft
• 42:11
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• 42:13
  Speaker 2: next week, but that is the lead code Q zero
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• 42:20
  Speaker 2: We'll be back next week to look at each of
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: the positions in more detail. We'll also run through the
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: fixtures as well, because I know we touched upon it
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: during our discussions that certain teams have good fixtures to
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: start with. We'll go through those in more detail, so
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: you're up to speed with that. And of course I'm
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: sure there's gonna be plenty of drafts that have changed jewels.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Will you still be on holiday?
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Of course now, of course, of course, all right
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: for some some.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Of us have got about four or five days working
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: between them, myself and Sam. I think I know this
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: is a busy time of the year for Sam. Yeah,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: So we'll be back next Thursday. The Fantasy TV show
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: is also going to return next Thursday as well, so
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: that will be on the Premier League website and app
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: and on your TV screens too. It's all getting very serious.
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: Two weeks two weeks ago. It's two weeks to go,
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: isn't it?
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Less than two weeks, twenty four weeks, doesn't it first, well,
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: twenty first, but let's let let's end this podcast like
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: I often do on some Terrible Maths, just over two
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: weeks ago, guys, until the season starts. And so this
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: is where it gets serious and we'll be with you
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  Speaker 2: every step of the way. We'll see you next week.
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  Speaker 1: By bye.