GW14 FPL - Put your Mbeumo where your mouth is

Are you ready to score big in your fantasy football league? Let's gear up for an in-depth analysis of the upcoming Premier League matches in this episode of Red Red Blue. We dissect the Arsenal vs Wolves game, share our predictions and potential picks. Keep an ear out as we debate the merits of having two Arsenal defenders and discuss the performances of standout players like Wolves' Huang and Kunya, and Arsenal's Saka and Saliba. Martinelli's performance and whether he deserves a spot on your team is also up for discussion.

The action doesn't stop there! We also tackle Liverpool’s and Manchester City's intense rivalry and how injuries might shake things up. Everton's recent slump and the Manchester United match are also on our radar. From potential fantasy picks to the rising stars of Newcastle, such as Gordon and the value of Trippier, we cover it all. We even have a quick rundown of Everton's showdown with Manchester United, and potential fantasy picks like Shaw and Rashford. 

Wrapping up, we look back at the recent matches between Bournemouth and Tottenham, and Chelsea and Brighton. We shed light on Tottenham's form and the potential impact of their returning players, and discuss Chelsea's lackluster performance. Standout players like Sterling, McTominay, and others also make it to the discussion table. Transfer options and final thoughts on the upcoming matches are also up for grabs. Join us and get the scoop on everything Premier League and fantasy football! Let's score some goals together!

Transcript

Dan (00:01.721)
Hello and welcome to Red Blue, I'm Dan Adams.

Diaz nuts (00:05.438)
I'm Dominic Adams.

Andy (00:07.861)
I am Andy Adams.

Dan (00:10.073)
The game is back. Liverpool are held by the City Machine, a United won the goal, set the tone at Goodison and Newcastle spanked Chelsea. With that all in mind, let's just go straight into looking at this week's picks. Make some more wild predictions as we all want to do and look at the leagues before. We'll probably do some live in the moment transfers given that it is Thursday. So let's just go. The first game on Saturday, so there's no Friday game, which is a win. First game on Saturday.

Diaz nuts (00:19.008)
Oh, fuck no.

Diaz nuts (00:37.525)
Yay.

Dan (00:39.379)
is Arsenal versus Wolves.

Diaz nuts (00:43.153)
BOO

Dan (00:43.245)
Now, before we dive into Arsenal, because I know it's where you're going to want to focus, I just want to say I called my Huang. My Huang was right. He-Chan got a goal. Dad also had Kunye up front and he also got a goal.

Diaz nuts (00:47.886)
Bang.

Andy (01:03.134)
I don't have anything to say about that.

Dan (01:04.946)
The listeners can't hear your eyes rolling in the back of your head Andy.

Andy (01:09.894)
I think the Chan one was a reasonable pick. Kunya was just like absolute punts and really lucky.

Dan (01:16.899)
Um.

Diaz nuts (01:17.014)
You could say that Dan really channed it instead of jammed it.

Andy (01:21.982)
You could say that, but it wouldn't be funny.

Dan (01:22.202)
Just thinking about the length.

Diaz nuts (01:22.274)
I mean you could say that. You could say, but I probably wouldn't.

Dan (01:27.661)
And you have. And you have. So Wolves, obviously, assets wise, he's going straight to the bench for this match. I wouldn't be playing him against Arsenal, especially since I've got two Arsenal defenders. I need his cheapest chips anyway, so that's not a problem.

Diaz nuts (01:29.046)
Oh yeah.

Diaz nuts (01:43.502)
finish up.

Dan (01:44.749)
What would you think if you had wolves assets?

Diaz nuts (01:47.938)
Let's look at the fixtures. Dan, let's go to the fixtures. F.D.R.

Dan (01:52.665)
Just, I mean, firstly for this game specifically and then for...

Diaz nuts (01:57.926)
Arsenal are gonna whoop him. But following for that, you have Burnley Forest, West Ham, Chelsea, Brentford. So it's not a bad run of games.

Dan (02:04.145)
Oh, he's not... They're not leaving the team. What I mean is, if you had wolves assets like a Huang or like a Kunya, would you play them against Arsenal?

Diaz nuts (02:13.622)
If I had a wang, I wouldn't use my wang if I had one. But if it was netto, then I would have them in the team. But I don't think wangs, it's explosive.

Andy (02:13.758)
You don't have to say it that way.

Dan (02:18.707)
No, neither do I.

Dan (02:23.629)
You play Pedro Nessa against Arsenal.

Andy (02:26.45)
Hasn't Winesquad like eight goals now?

Dan (02:28.845)
He's scored in the past six games. He's had, he's had returns here.

Andy (02:33.382)
I wouldn't play him against Arsenal though, to be honest.

Dan (02:35.073)
No. Okay. And then we talked about walls for a good a minute and a half though, which is way more than we ever normally talk about them. So let's flip on to the other side of that fixture. You have the Arsenal team and do you have Saka I believe? Are you happy with them still?

Andy (02:50.843)
I do.

I mean, it's hard to not be, I guess. He's still probably in the, is he in the top five still points-wise for midfielders? Yeah, so probably I'm fine with him. Until he drops out of the top five, I'm probably okay with it. You've got to give him a little bit of time. You've got to give him the Marcus Rashford two game.

Diaz nuts (02:59.668)
He is number three for midfielders.

Dan (03:09.969)
Well, I think in Microsoft I actually got three games if I remember rightly, not two.

Diaz nuts (03:11.31)
Did you keep?

Andy (03:14.331)
I told you, because he's special. Everyone else gets two.

Diaz nuts (03:14.431)
That's right.

Dan (03:16.154)
Ha ha ha!

Diaz nuts (03:18.098)
I guess he deserves a knighthood.

Andy (03:20.582)
He does? You're not out there feeding children free school dinners are you?

Diaz nuts (03:24.594)
I feed three children, school dinners, does that count?

Dan (03:28.398)
Yeah, but you made those three Dom, it doesn't count.

Andy (03:28.69)
Emily doesn't even go to school, so you're already lying now.

Diaz nuts (03:33.6)
thing.

Dan (03:36.865)
What about other arsenal assets? I have Celeba and Gabriel on the fence. Obviously it went really well this week. But yeah, pretty you have Dom, with the face pulling.

Andy (03:42.186)
Feels good, feels good.

Diaz nuts (03:45.79)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had Gabby, and Gabby didn't do stuff for me this week, but I feel he's going to against Wolves and then he's probably going to against Luton the week afterwards.

Dan (04:00.377)
I might remember right there that he got pulled for Enketea.

Diaz nuts (04:04.542)
Yeah, but you had 65 minutes at least. So we know Gabby is number one. Yes, you did. In the six nil lens battering.

Andy (04:06.674)
Didn't Jesus? He scored in Europe, didn't he? I think he scored in Europe. Yeah. But that's Len's all garbage.

Dan (04:14.105)
But you can call that Andy, but it wasn't the six different scorers for that match. So it wasn't like, you know, he was uniquely special in that one.

Andy (04:21.106)
I'm thinking more like he didn't score for a long time and now he's at least scored.

Dan (04:25.387)
Mm.

Diaz nuts (04:25.83)
Could we say the same thing for Martinelli as well? Because I also have him from Arsenal, and he's also dog shit right now too.

Andy (04:31.838)
wouldn't have him.

Dan (04:32.025)
Did he score in Europe?

Diaz nuts (04:34.422)
Did he score in Europe? Let me find out because it might put my mind at ease a little bit.

Dan (04:39.922)
Uh, spoiler, I don't think he did.

Diaz nuts (04:42.414)
Oh Dan, that's a fucking hash. You knew that didn't you and you just sodded me off then.

Dan (04:47.706)
I just, I remember looking at the Arsenal lens BBC news page and seeing that it had a massive rack of names underneath the Arsenal list. Quite surprised that it was unique scores for it all, but I don't remember seeing Martin Alley.

Diaz nuts (05:02.186)
a hole. Anywho, yeah, I've got Martinelli. Jesus, I'm happy I have Saliba, but I'll give Gabby some slack, but I might cut Martinelli this week.

Dan (05:15.885)
If you were picking your arsenal assets again, you would have free rain, money was no object, which three would be making your team then?

Diaz nuts (05:23.618)
Sacka, saliva, and I'm confident Gabby will do something.

Dan (05:29.987)
And if...

Andy (05:31.undefined)
I don't think I want two of them. I probably just have Saka and Saliba, which is what I do have.

Dan (05:37.458)
Okay. Nice. Alright, moving on. Yeah, it'd be the three, yeah. Don't worry.

Diaz nuts (05:37.974)
You meant the number three, right? You said you didn't want two of them. You meant that one.

Andy (05:42.354)
Yeah, don't shut up. I mean, I was trying to say some of us are operating on like not very much sleep on the wrong side of the world. So like, I wouldn't have to arsenal defenders because it feels like not good. And Gabrielle hasn't done anything for it. Yeah. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Dan (05:55.725)
Whoa whoa whoa! Just back up the train like three po- Whoa whoa whoa! Back up the train like three pods ago when you were captain all in singular team defense. Wait, wait, was he not? It was Chelsea that it was Spurs. Why is it not good for Arsenal though?

Andy (06:07.034)
I... You know what? So this is like actually a good tactical conversation for the listeners. I've actually flipped back to the... Aside from Saliba who's the outlier, I flipped back to the wingback strategy actually. Because it worked really well for me this week with Poro and Delot.

Dan (06:28.858)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (06:29.73)
You know when you're drowning and then you just keep doing different things to see if you can stop drowning? Is this what's happening? Oh man. True.

Andy (06:35.442)
Hey, I got more points this week than you did, idiot.

Dan (06:38.902)
Yeah, if I find these drawings and I'm that meme of the skeleton in the chair at the bottom of the swimming pool It's not going well

Andy (06:47.229)
Yeah, it's like the Drake meme. Dom's like the first one and then you're like the second one.

Dan (06:51.661)
Yeah. Uh, okay. So you're saying to Saka definitely on there and sleeper definitely on that. Dom you are pining for Jesus to do something useful.

Diaz nuts (07:04.546)
You gotta think you will do.

Andy (07:04.79)
I don't think you want him. Why would you have Jesus now? I honestly don't understand it. Like, striker-wise, there's so many better options than Jesus.

Dan (07:12.741)
Feels that way.

Diaz nuts (07:12.994)
I don't know if there's so many. I mean, how did Solanki work out for you last week?

Andy (07:15.078)
Watkins, Harland, Salanke. Okay. I'm not even mad. They're still winning by a lot of goals. And this was the one week he didn't score. I'm okay with that. And he was around the ball. And it was my boy Tavonier that got the two of the goals out of the three.

Dan (07:17.837)
I knew he was going to mention the donkey.

Dan (07:31.629)
I did enjoy the chat though, every time Bournemouth scored, you were like, oh shit.

Diaz nuts (07:37.87)
Three goals, not one input from fucking Slanky, Christ.

Andy (07:42.043)
Well, he's not out there getting assists, so I knew that wasn't going to happen.

Dan (07:44.429)
It's no, it's no six goals for Lopel with no salary input. Remember that? Nine goals, sorry, and no salary input, yeah. Brentford versus Luton is the second match of the afternoon. We won't talk about Luton, obviously, but Brentford, we have to have the conversation again. I'm not gonna say the names.

Diaz nuts (07:49.118)
Yeah, that was nine goals actually, but yeah.

Diaz nuts (08:00.854)
So now.

Andy (08:03.91)
I still don't want them, and we talk about this every time. When's Tony back? It's not long.

Diaz nuts (08:07.854)
but he's number four. He's number four in midfield as points Andy. Go on your metric, you need to have him.

Dan (08:09.431)
How did they do?

Mm-hmm.

Andy (08:14.598)
You don't, you don't need to have him.

Diaz nuts (08:16.982)
Brian, you need to...

Andy (08:18.791)
I don't want him.

Dan (08:18.969)
But in all seriousness, we're into game week 14 now, and he's maintained fourth in the midfielders' league. But.

Andy (08:26.578)
Have you got him, Dan? I feel like you talk about this, Dan, all the time. You're talking crap about Brentford all the time. Wait, do you have any Brentford players? No, you don't have any Brentford players.

Diaz nuts (08:26.626)
Don't do it there. Don't.

Dan (08:33.925)
Come.

Diaz nuts (08:36.486)
They also have a blank fixture in five weeks as well.

Dan (08:39.781)
Five weeks? That's like four weeks away, don't worry about that. That's miles away.

Diaz nuts (08:42.172)
That's like two years away.

Andy (08:45.919)
Who has the corresponding double? Say you have the double. Who has the double then?

Diaz nuts (08:46.326)
Man City. Man City has a blank.

Dan (08:50.041)
and then they'll double up afterwards.

Diaz nuts (08:52.542)
It's because they missed games earlier on. Did they play a double earlier on in the season? I think they did.

already.

Dan (09:03.145)
I'm just having a look for my boy, All Clubs Brentford.

Andy (09:07.852)
All right, well, let's ignore that and go back to how much I don't want Brentford players.

Dan (09:09.961)
Embuemo, 7 million. I could get Embuemo, I could get Embuemo for a wall of prowls. I just got, I just got Embuemo, I just did it look. Embuemo's in the team Andy, talk about it now.

Andy (09:13.31)
Although Dan really does want Brent for players, but he never picks them, but he wants them.

Diaz nuts (09:13.678)
I'm KK.

Diaz nuts (09:24.214)
Live transfer, Brian's in the team for Dan.

Andy (09:26.854)
Live transfer. Oh god. Where did you drop from?

Dan (09:28.351)
Be Ryze in the team. Suck it. Uh, Warp Parales.

Andy (09:33.626)
Oh well, to be fair. To be fair. Anyone, you could have done whatever there to be honest. Yeah, just dart board and blindfold and you would have been fine.

Dan (09:35.025)
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Diaz nuts (09:38.402)
Pissed on a fire.

Dan (09:45.042)
Burnley vs Sheffield United is a game I don't think we need to talk about unless anyone wants to shout anyone from there.

Diaz nuts (09:50.675)
Now...

Andy (09:50.782)
Who's? No, I don't think you do, but like... Yeah, I just don't think you do actually, no, I think about it. I don't think you do.

Diaz nuts (09:57.121)
I don't even want to watch it. Don't want to think about it. Don't imagine that game.

Dan (10:00.133)
The good thing is it's on at the same time as the Brentford and Arsenal matches, so they're more interesting to watch.

Andy (10:00.661)
Bye.

Diaz nuts (10:05.527)
Yes.

Andy (10:05.662)
Well, on the plus side, I can guarantee you we're not going to have to talk about that much next season.

Dan (10:10.37)
No, no we're not. For neither team, sadly.

Diaz nuts (10:10.766)
But who is that, too? Well, you might talk about it in Division One when they're both there.

Dan (10:15.769)
So Nottingham Forest and Everton are the 530 slots. Everton obviously got slotted by United. They were meant to have a fire in the belly. They were meant to be, you know, this is it. Everton versus the world. They were gonna come back and show them. Didn't quite pan out that way.

Andy (10:30.986)
Turns out the world won.

Dan (10:33.815)
The world... The world wrestling have gone that shows massive balls one... Fucking hell what a goal

Diaz nuts (10:34.075)
I fought the law and the law put me in jail.

Andy (10:41.627)
Dude, that was so good. It was so good. And then he scored again. You know, honestly, the one in Europe, I literally thought the Galatasaray fans were going to like rush the pitch because he was like taunting them after he scored against Galatasaray. I'm like, dude, just chill.

Diaz nuts (10:42.095)
Oh god. Fuck it.

Dan (10:55.589)
Someone said that he's speedrunning all the Ronaldo celebrations. Apparently he's running through them all. But... Back to Forrest vs Everton. So the Everton side first on. Is there anyone from Everton that are watching that match? And seeing where they are that you'd want?

Andy (10:56.658)
No, I can find him. He's big, but the alcohol is three hours long. Maybe. Yeah, wait till he does his CU and we'll see.

Diaz nuts (11:11.479)
No.

Andy (11:12.458)
Did you watch the match?

Diaz nuts (11:14.23)
There's no one from Everton I want, full stop. All I want for Everton is to get relegated, get bought by someone, and then come back again.

Andy (11:21.618)
I don't think people are going to buy you because of the FFP. I don't think they're going to buy them because of the FFP overhang though, because you can't even do the cash injection thing because they can't sell anyone.

Dan (11:22.224)
That's a big wish list.

Diaz nuts (11:30.526)
Can we do like what Rangers did where we get like we get dissolved and come back as The Everton instead? There's a fucking Brazilian player called that isn't there?

Andy (11:33.751)
dissolved.

Dan (11:34.585)
Yeah, I come back as Bleverton.

Andy (11:39.673)
Liverpool Blues.

Andy (11:44.368)
There is a Brazilian flavor called Aveton.

Dan (11:44.384)
There you go. On the forest side, you've got a 1 year still out, is he? Just want to check.

Diaz nuts (11:50.786)
He's dead still, he's dead.

Andy (11:51.814)
No one cares about forest. No one's picking forest plays. Come on. Elanga's probably the one. Elanga you could pick.

Dan (11:54.477)
People were picking a 1-year. Who was on pens? Did they not get a penalty because I was interested by that one?

Diaz nuts (11:57.672)
I was picking a one-year till he broke.

Andy (12:04.134)
I think we can talk about it, but no one in their right mind should be fantasy-transferring in... Like, in midfield there are better options, in forwards there are better options, and you don't want any of their defenders.

Dan (12:15.717)
Well, with that in mind, let's just move on then. So the last match on the Saturday is Newcastle versus Man United. Obviously Newcastle spanked Chelsea, United spanked Everton. Not really on the same par in terms of teams getting spanked, but still both are coming in off winning runs. So.

Diaz nuts (12:16.567)
It makes a point.

Andy (12:35.23)
Well, no, because they both drew in Europe as well, right?

Diaz nuts (12:35.734)
Could be a tough one.

Dan (12:37.498)
That's it.

technical castle tour as well.

Andy (12:41.726)
They did, they bottled it right at the end against PSG. Last minute.

Diaz nuts (12:42.502)
They drew against PSG, but it was a...

controversy.

Andy (12:48.05)
It was 1-1 though, so it wasn't like there was like that much going on in the game. I think like, if United are gonna play them, like this is the week to do it while half the team's freaking injured.

Dan (12:58.521)
I mean, isn't that what Chelsea would have thought?

Diaz nuts (12:58.588)
Oh, Newcastle, yeah.

Andy (13:02.802)
Yeah, but if you look at, I mean, it may be against bad teams, but on the form table, United are the best team by form in the league.

Dan (13:11.321)
Hmm. I feel if I'm coming into that one, fantasy wise, I don't think I want any defensive assets from either team because I think both are probably going to score.

Andy (13:23.378)
I'm gonna play the lot because I bet he assists again. He's like a cross merchant.

Dan (13:28.942)
Mmm.

Andy (13:29.702)
And they're playing over, and Shaw's back as well on the left side as well. So I do think like they'll be better. Once we get through this difficult runner game, Shaw is very interesting as an option. Cause he was going forward against Gala Tessera.

Dan (13:43.269)
What about Gunn-Achill as an option then? He scored twice in a row now.

Andy (13:45.41)
I think going on actually was 100% an option, because his confidence is, this might be an Almaron slash Rashford form situation to jump on.

Dan (13:48.47)
How cheap is he?

Dan (13:55.429)
He's 4.7 million.

Andy (13:58.undefined)
Dude, I really want him now.

Dan (14:00.121)
Cheapest chips 4.7 Jesus. He's got Newcastle. You want him in like three games. He's got Newcastle Chelsea, but then it goes to Bournemouth after that

Andy (14:02.41)
That is rubbery.

Andy (14:09.534)
You know what? I would not be surprised if he scored in the Newcastle or Chelsea games. He scored, I mean like, the overhead and then that goal he scored against Galatasaray was an absolute banger.

Dan (14:14.236)
Actually, we have a-

Dan (14:20.761)
We have a shit running game Xandei.

Diaz nuts (14:21.046)
You can't undo it.

Andy (14:24.077)
You gotta have faith, man. Don't be a bitch.

Diaz nuts (14:26.07)
you can't undo your Embrembo transfer either, so.

Dan (14:28.725)
I don't want to undo my own webmo transfer. We've got Newcastle, Chelsea, Bournemouth, Liverpool in the next four. It's not a great run.

Andy (14:28.914)
Yeah, too late. I'm too late.

Andy (14:34.562)
Yeah, I'm all in on Garnacho. I could see so many goals from Garnacho and then shithouse celebrations after in those games. 100%. Throwing down like a CU against Liverpool. Ugh.

Dan (14:46.029)
Maybe. On the Newcastle side, obviously Wilson is still out, you've got EZak as a striker, you've got Gordon still doing stuff, Dom, fair play. Although, Eli was trying to steal your thunder, as is one transfer in, making 13 points. Ha ha ha!

Andy (14:47.391)
baby.

Diaz nuts (14:59.534)
That's my fucking transfer. I transferred in Gordon. Me. I transferred in him. It's bullshit. Fucking bullshit.

Andy (15:03.186)
I think Eli said it first.

Dan (15:05.479)
I'm fairly certain that you know I did it.

What about...

Andy (15:09.234)
I can't believe you're trying to take credit from a late-age kid.

Dan (15:12.049)
I think I have my 9 year old son. What a monster you are. No, the question I actually want to ask is Gordon feels like a, almost like a gimme- he's like, if you're feeling a bit spicy, but what about Trippier? Because it doesn't feel like he's worth what you're paying for him right now.

Andy (15:26.034)
Done the gifs. I think this is an Alexander Arnold situation.

Diaz nuts (15:30.746)
Yeah, he hasn't returned recently other than Arsenal, which was two weeks ago, three weeks ago.

Andy (15:35.73)
It's kind of streaky. How many clean sheets have they got? There's not that many, are there, is there?

Diaz nuts (15:42.228)
He has... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...

Andy (15:47.97)
Okay, it's not bad though. I don't know. I don't

Dan (15:50.021)
5 out of 4, 13.

Andy (15:53.182)
I don't really want it, to be honest. I'm not bad for it right now. I think, honestly, a better off with Pedro Poro.

Diaz nuts (15:55.188)
No.

Dan (15:57.039)
on.

But on that note then, I think we spoke about it last week, but we can talk about it again now briefly. Is this the point where we want to divest out with defenders and get in as cheap but as sensible as you can and pile it all into the midfield? So like Trippier, Trent, they're all far too expensive to be investing in.

Andy (16:18.93)
I already did, I'm down to 3 defenders and they're all relatively cheap.

Diaz nuts (16:23.534)
You know, you need when you talk about cheap defenders. Harry Maguire, 4.2, I bought him for 6.67, he's got me.

Dan (16:23.865)
Tom.

Andy (16:29.302)
Mm. He's like B-Tech theologo'd a lot.

Diaz nuts (16:36.97)
It's okay.

Dan (16:37.169)
I think he got more points than Dalot in the past three games, hasn't he?

Andy (16:39.974)
in three games, in the last two Deloitte's got more.

Diaz nuts (16:40.122)
Only... No, no. It's a lot more over three games than...

than McGuire, but only for everyone who picked him for the last three games, and he only picked him for the last two. So in that specific battle, I won.

Andy (16:47.963)
And yeah.

Dan (16:47.99)
Ah, okay.

Andy (16:54.698)
Ah, yeah, sure. But if I was going to pick today, I would pick the lot.

Dan (16:56.441)
But with United's fixtures.

With United's fixtures though, would you pick either? If you were looking at it fresh? No, you have them already though. If you were looking at it fresh, if you were going to buy defenders, would you buy the lot now?

Diaz nuts (17:03.297)
No.

Andy (17:03.378)
Yeah, I'm going to. I'm going to start him as well.

Andy (17:12.766)
probably would go Shaw now. Yeah.

Diaz nuts (17:12.982)
No, he'd buy a loop show.

Diaz nuts (17:17.331)
It's fucking predictable.

Dan (17:17.393)
Even with even with Liverpool Newcastle and Chelsea coming up

Andy (17:17.598)
But.

Andy (17:22.002)
Luke Shaw is really, really good. I think United will turn around like the, well, it's not even a turnaround because they've won four out of the last five. Like, I think they will actually start getting results against decent teams now that players are coming back from injury.

Dan (17:36.917)
Okay, right, let's move on to Sunday then because we've talked about that a lot. First match on Sunday is Bournemouth versus Aston Villa. Obviously Aston Villa did the unthinkable against Spurs. Kind of been too happy about that Andy.

Andy (17:52.254)
It's not unthinkable anymore though, is it? Like I think the Angeball thing is like kind of over at this point.

Diaz nuts (17:59.33)
Ali Watkins, get up you fucking dancer. When I put him as my cap.

Andy (18:03.378)
He got one gold on Calm Down. It's not like he's getting like hat tricks. Oh, yes. Thank you. Yeah, I don't know.

Diaz nuts (18:08.622)
Get it up here.

Dan (18:11.057)
Did he get more points than... I wish we all got table servers, no, he got... points wise... five. Okay.

Diaz nuts (18:11.498)
It's time to get in table service.

Diaz nuts (18:19.502)
You got five points.

Andy (18:22.051)
It's a solid 5.0, yeah.

Diaz nuts (18:23.734)
Yeah, but I'll get six.

Dan (18:26.569)
I only got seven and Salah got five.

Andy (18:27.706)
I didn't cap Harlan, did I? I capped friggin' Sun. I would have beaten you guys by even more points if I capped the right player.

Dan (18:33.957)
Well we'll get to this one in a minute because I think, I suppose I'm becoming a bit of a trap. But anyway, so Bournemouth side, Salanki, you still got me on your team Andy?

Would you swap him for Tavernia right now if you had to pick one of the two?

Andy (18:45.925)
No, I'd keep Slanky. Slanky's a good pick.

Dan (18:48.625)
Okay. And then on the Aston Villa side, obviously.

Andy (18:54.31)
Louise is a good pick, by the way, on the Aston Villa side. Very happy with him returning this week. What? I kept him. Yeah, I played him this week. Yeah, I played him. Finally. Got some steam.

Diaz nuts (18:56.834)
Did you keep him? Did you keep him, yeah?

Dan (18:56.953)
passé.

Dan (19:02.541)
What other Aston Villa players could or would you have if, or is it only Watkins and Luis?

Diaz nuts (19:06.044)
Just Watkins.

Andy (19:08.66)
Yeah, I think those are the only two. And Louise is kind of a fringe pick, to be honest.

Dan (19:13.901)
Okay. Moving on, Chelsea versus Brighton is the next one. Chelsea got stunned. How did Brighton do? I don't actually remember. It was that memorable.

Diaz nuts (19:14.904)
Yes.

Diaz nuts (19:28.29)
Brighton Beat First 3-2.

with goals from Yau Petrao and little Evan Ferguson.

Dan (19:36.817)
So I'm at home but definitely still not doing anything useful at all.

Diaz nuts (19:39.618)
Atomic, still a useless shape.

Dan (19:42.611)
Uh-huh. Okay.

Diaz nuts (19:44.598)
and lamp D is broken. And who else is either broken or not?

Dan (19:48.106)
Oh, they do have another injury, remember.

Diaz nuts (19:50.236)
And Sufati, he's broken as well now.

Dan (19:54.189)
I just think you were right with the last podcast Andy where you said that the wheels will come off bright and now they're just not the team they were at all.

Andy (20:03.414)
I don't know, I think it's kind of the same with Spurs, right? Like, everything comes back, and that's why United are going to start moving upwards. Because people will sort of go to where they're supposed to be eventually. Like, some of them will outperform for a while. And I think Brighton were outperforming for a long time, like across a couple managers. But their centre back is like dunk. It's not like they've got like... You know, they're not Saliba and Gabriel, and it's not... Well, not this week, yeah, because...

Diaz nuts (20:26.551)
Not this week.

Andy (20:30.582)
apparently was like cursing his ass off of the referee in like filthy language so he got three match ban or whatever. I don't know, that was terrible.

Dan (20:38.281)
You know Pausing on that a second. He must have been saying something fucking horrific for it It's gotta be because they cut you see them swearing all the time It can't just be like, you know generic fuck this or fuck that you must been saying something horrific Yeah Probably unsolicited nonsense about his mother

Andy (20:43.021)
Nasty. Just really nasty.

Andy (20:50.258)
I think it's probably something about his mom. Probably something about his mom.

Diaz nuts (20:57.226)
It's a good thing you didn't get Zidane headbutted for that.

Andy (20:59.764)
Yep.

Dan (21:00.323)
Could have happened. Chelsea side!

Andy (21:02.262)
But yeah, I think Brighton and Spurs, that's both happening. But Chelsea also kind of happening, right?

Dan (21:07.525)
Yeah, I'm about to ask you, because you shouted Sterling last week. Is that something that would still be on your radar?

Andy (21:12.562)
I think he's still, I do think he's still a decent bet, right? Like, didn't he do something this week? He got a goal, yeah, so like, I mean, he's still a decent bet.

Diaz nuts (21:15.222)
You got a goal, didn't he?

Dan (21:20.633)
It always just feels very unlikely when you're looking at it though. It does! It does! It just feels so ungainly. It's like someone's got a marionette and they're just messing around with it. Like Pinocchio playing football or something. I don't know, it's just uncomfortable to watch him play football. I feel like he's constantly going to fall over and hurt himself. And somehow the ball goes in.

Diaz nuts (21:23.702)
When you look at still it, and he's flapping around.

Diaz nuts (21:39.79)
Just because you said that, I've just transferred him into my team for that. Just out of here.

Dan (21:43.533)
You haven't. What's that run of, did you even look at their run of form? Their run of fixtures even.

Diaz nuts (21:47.731)
They've got a man new but after man new they've got really good running fixtures.

Dan (21:52.177)
I think that was a risky move, though.

Andy (21:52.946)
Yeah. I think Sterling's a good pick, though, by the way. I would still pick Sterling. I think he's a good pick.

Dan (21:59.621)
Defense wise you were saying to Sassy last week, obviously he wasn't even in the team.

Andy (22:05.298)
It wasn't in the team, no.

Diaz nuts (22:05.362)
He wasn't seen because he got, he got carded didn't he? Or is he injured?

Andy (22:09.63)
I don't know what the deal was, but I think they're much better when DeSassi plays. I think the problem is, you know what annoys me when I watch Chelsea? The commentators love Thiago, but then he makes a mistake and then they turn on him in an instant and start talking about how he's old and everything else. But he's not good. He's not good. They should just play Chalaba. I don't understand why he gets a game.

Dan (22:21.189)
Mm.

Diaz nuts (22:27.582)
old bastard.

Dan (22:29.125)
He's like the fucking Titanic, he's got the turning circle of a Titanic No, he's just slow

Diaz nuts (22:38.318)
You know what was like that? Casimiro, old fucker.

Andy (22:41.403)
Well, he's not getting a game, is he right now?

Dan (22:42.929)
It's not... Oh, did... What did you think of Meenu? That's a good question actually, before I pull back to Unitedment. It's a pretty good watch, no more. Oh.

Andy (22:46.502)
Yeah, Maynard was amazing. Holy crap. That was an amazing debut. Yeah. It's finally insane to actually have someone from the academy who's good.

Dan (22:54.449)
You know the only bit I liked about him? Played the ball fucking forward. That was the best bit about it. He said get the ball and instead of looking backwards at fucking O'Nanah he'd be like oh I'm gonna put it forwards now.

Andy (23:04.146)
He hasn't learned yet. He doesn't know that the play is to pass it to Mubaya so that he can hoof it into the friggin' touchline on one of those.

Dan (23:11.973)
Chelsea wise then, so we're saying Sterling and probably no one else right now.

Andy (23:17.31)
Nah, just Owen. I need to get rid of Sanchez, actually. You keep reminding me, like, because I haven't, I've played Arreola, like, for the last two weeks.

Diaz nuts (23:17.683)
No, Miss Jackson. Maybe you...

Diaz nuts (23:24.898)
Maybe get in Kunco when he comes back as well.

Dan (23:25.157)
That's.

maybe.

Andy (23:28.566)
How are you shouting a player that's not done anything in the league before, seriously?

Diaz nuts (23:31.726)
because he was injured the whole time, but he was good in pre-season.

Andy (23:35.546)
Oh, there you go. So we're going to go with someone who's good in preseason over like all the strikers are actually scoring in the league.

Dan (23:38.885)
14 weeks later.

Diaz nuts (23:40.751)
I bet you he has a return in the next two seconds. Let me get this bet backed up for a sec.

Dan (23:46.649)
Right, why you get that bet backed up? Andy, your point about Sanchez, you also made a point four or five podcasts ago when Dom was doing his Johnstone transfer about not doing keeper transfers. Is it that important to get rid of Sanchez or are you just gonna live with it?

Andy (23:47.031)
You can have two games.

Andy (24:06.534)
No, I'm gonna get rid of him in a wildcard in January. But I'm not gonna play him in the meantime, which is kind of annoying.

Dan (24:09.185)
Right. So we're standing by.

Diaz nuts (24:15.042)
Give me... Get-

Dan (24:15.253)
Oh, I see. Yeah, not this week, because the worst time I've got Crystal Palace.

Diaz nuts (24:19.63)
Give me till Christmas and Kunkko will return before Christmas.

Andy (24:23.698)
Absolutely not. You get two Premier League games for a striker. You don't get like all of the matches until Christmas.

Dan (24:25.509)
That's right.

Diaz nuts (24:29.974)
Fine, two of us playing games for a time. Okay.

Andy (24:32.786)
yet two games where he plays yeah okay

Dan (24:36.385)
Alright, let's move on. Liverpool vs Fulham. Liverpool obviously held Man City to a 1-1 draw. Did you think they looked impressive there or was it City stumbling?

Andy (24:47.698)
It was safe stumbling countdown.

Dan (24:50.405)
Fucking that was quick. Everybody's like, nah, fuck off Dan. The hyperbolic nonsense.

Andy (24:54.779)
were all over them. They were literally all over them. They were lucky they came out of that with anything.

Dan (25:00.249)
Would you have a Day of the Dead players? Or have you got a Day of the Dead players?

Andy (25:03.454)
Salah. Yeah, that's it. Who else are you going to pick?

Diaz nuts (25:03.523)
salad don't you?

Dan (25:06.297)
That's it. I don't know, they have all we... Well, that is one. That's apparently the scouts team actually.

Diaz nuts (25:08.962)
Simicast.

Andy (25:11.498)
Don't think so, Don. That didn't work out. Is it? I don't know. It hasn't worked out so well for all the semi-casonas so far.

Dan (25:15.45)
Yes.

Diaz nuts (25:16.622)
Because it's cheap.

Diaz nuts (25:21.194)
I wouldn't say that. He's gone, two 15, one six six.

Dan (25:21.378)
No it's not.

Andy (25:22.29)
You got one week with a return, didn't you?

Andy (25:28.714)
Did he get six against City? No, the two, it's you reading it backwards again. Yeah.

Dan (25:28.881)
How do you get 6 against City? It's inverse. Oh god. Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

Diaz nuts (25:31.47)
2 against 13. 15-1-6-6.

Andy (25:36.378)
Okay, so in the last three games he's had one week where he returned, and two weeks... He had a two and a one in the other two games.

Diaz nuts (25:41.846)
In his past five games, he's had three returns.

Dan (25:42.299)
Yep.

Andy (25:44.575)
Okay, what about in the past 17 games for like a different play?

Diaz nuts (25:48.202)
He didn't play any more than five games. He's only played five games.

Andy (25:51.338)
So lame. I don't, who?

Dan (25:52.441)
And is he likely to keep the spot afterwards either? Probably not.

Andy (25:56.006)
No, I've seen his rabbit since back he's dropped.

Dan (25:59.989)
Um, that was going to go back to the point about Liverpool when you said, who else would you take? We, you know, at the start of the season, they were the attacking team with like plethora of assets you could pick from, you know, Gatpo, Nunes, um, McAllister, Salah, Diaz. Why all of a sudden is it none of them are any good? Is it because you can't accurately pick the right one or it's just because they're not doing stuff?

Diaz nuts (26:16.974)
Diaz.

Andy (26:26.39)
I think you don't know who's going to play. And the ones who are playing aren't very good.

Diaz nuts (26:29.506)
good point. That's also a good point and they're just not a good end, full stop. But...

Andy (26:36.842)
I mean, you don't want Nunez, he doesn't do anything. You don't want Diaz, because he came off the bench at the end of the game. And his dad's home now, so that's not the problem.

Dan (26:42.958)
as much as

Diaz nuts (26:44.746)
He's not even gonna impress his dad anymore. He's fucking done now.

Dan (26:46.953)
No, let's get his dad out of jail. As much as it pains me to say, Darwin Nunes feels like he's just, he's like half a foot away from being an amazing striker. It's just...

Diaz nuts (27:00.85)
Oh no.

Andy (27:02.27)
You know what he is? He's Uruguayan Andy Carroll.

Dan (27:05.665)
Yeah, it's just so frustrating when you watch him. And it's just so frustrating when you watch him because he gets in the right positions and he's there when the ball gets to him and you have somehow some way he'll do everything but score and it's so frustrating.

Diaz nuts (27:07.274)
Dan's been around Dad too much.

Andy (27:21.022)
Yeah, it's annoying. I think, and Joe is probably the next one up who's decent, but they don't play him consistently.

Dan (27:27.065)
No they don't. On the other side of that match was Fulham. I guess there's no really talk about in Fulham, they're not looking great at all. Well, I did want to say, Midfield, well I think I put it in the chat, isn't it? Midfield are taking the penalties, but he's not super, super cheap actually, surprisingly. I don't think.

Andy (27:34.282)
Well, willian, right? Little bit willian on two penalties.

Diaz nuts (27:36.93)
Really, really.

Andy (27:47.53)
And he's also not very good as like actual footballer, only good at penalties.

Dan (27:50.369)
Well yeah, you have to rely on them getting penalties and that he still gets to take them all.

Andy (27:55.378)
Yeah, I don't think I want any full-on players. I don't think anyone should want full-on players.

Dan (27:59.437)
Okay, that makes it very easy. We'll just go into the West Ham versus Crystal Palace much Dom as our resident Crystal Palace expert, do you want to tell us who we should be taking for Crystal Palace?

Diaz nuts (28:05.76)
Mmm.

The Johnson experiment was failed. So I would say don't ever take any Crystal Palace defenders, even if they have easy fixtures. Brett Chiesa, I guess he got some stuff, he did some things, right, last week.

Andy (28:17.426)
I wonder who said that at the time.

Diaz nuts (28:27.607)
Elyse has another one so again the people who you expect to do things do things. Bridge, yes they didn't. He did it two weeks ago. Alright. Well he's young. He's like what, 20, 21?

Andy (28:30.558)
You did it for one game? No, Elise. One game.

Andy (28:40.828)
So he's got a lot of life ahead of him to actually get returns.

Dan (28:41.197)
It's just young, Andy. Hehehehe. It's just young.

Diaz nuts (28:44.151)
He's like Darwin New Year's, he's one foot away from being great.

Dan (28:49.805)
He's just one foot away from it. On the other side is West Ham. Obviously everyone's got Arreola. Probably gonna play him this week, given that the opposite fixture of most people is Sanchez against Brighton. How is Big Bowen doing? Big boy Bowen.

Andy (29:01.77)
Jared Bowen, FC.

Diaz nuts (29:04.182)
Yeah, he's dead still.

He's marked as 50% so I took him out for sterling.

Dan (29:12.909)
Wow. That's to be fair, I took Ward Prowse out and put in, who was I? Who have I just put in?

Diaz nuts (29:15.074)
So bones, he's gone.

Andy (29:23.42)
Buen mo.

Dan (29:24.033)
Embuemo, there we go. Why would I pick Embuemo?

Diaz nuts (29:26.002)
I hope to God that he is injured though. It's a good point. I hope to God he is injured though because like West Ham have really good fixtures coming up. They've got Crystal Palace, they've got Spurs after but then they've got full-on Bulls. So like, the next four games could be points. Let's hope Bowen's broken. Are true, actually.

Dan (29:39.84)
Yeah

Andy (29:42.838)
I suppose there's no bad game.

Dan (29:45.701)
Well, Spurs are the last game on Sunday. We only have matches on Saturday and Sunday, which is great to compare, you know, so no hangover into Monday and no pre-gaming on Friday. It's City versus Spurs. And I don't know why, but I feel it in my stones. City are going to fucking destroy them. Spurs are just on the ropes. It's all going to go over the place. They're going to get smashed.

Diaz nuts (29:52.577)
Oh, gorgeous.

Diaz nuts (30:07.874)
Pause. The reason why there's only Saturday and Sunday games is because it's a fucking Tuesday game, the next game week's on Tuesday.

Dan (30:16.889)
What? No. Gamewick 15? Oh Jesus. Yeah, Gamewick 15 will be kicking off on the Tuesday.

Andy (30:17.279)
Oh no, come on.

Diaz nuts (30:19.863)
see oh you fucking what?

Andy (30:24.301)
Oh well.

Diaz nuts (30:26.463)
You're 15.

Andy (30:27.826)
I'm actually going to be in the UK on Monday, so we'll have to pod on Monday.

Dan (30:31.809)
Monday night, we'll do a Monday night pod. Soon as the city result comes in, so on this.

Diaz nuts (30:37.838)
See how it goes. So sit. Yep.

Dan (30:40.897)
I got a couple of questions about City. F- First one. Alvarez. Yeah, your name.

Andy (30:47.102)
Nope. That's a big no-no.

Diaz nuts (30:48.162)
Nope. I dropped them two weeks ago, three weeks ago.

Andy (30:53.447)
Julian is all done.

Dan (30:56.345)
Was that an Almiron style run or is it just that they've changed the way they're playing?

Andy (30:57.974)
Thanks for watching!

change the way they're playing, I think.

Diaz nuts (31:02.031)
I don't know. I think Gillian could come back, but it depends if Gillian's gonna get replaced by Kevin De Bruyne when he comes back. He's called Gillian now. When he's doing badly, when he's doing badly, he's Gillian. When he's doing badly, he's Gillian.

Andy (31:07.634)
I think it's Julian and not Jillian.

Dan (31:07.753)
You call him Gillian? Why you call him Gillian? Say Gillian Anderson Fucking Scully Unbelievable What about... I read

Diaz nuts (31:22.382)
How far away is KTV?

Dan (31:25.329)
I don't know if it's true or not, I read that the only reason why Alvarez got the game was because Grealish was injured or pulled a sickie or else he might not have gotten the team.

Diaz nuts (31:35.07)
Yeah, I heard that as well about Grealish, but KDB is due back mid-December, so you know, you've got to think he's not getting a game when that happens.

Andy (31:35.612)
Mm.

Dan (31:45.465)
I dunno, they haven't needed him have they? It's not like they've been desperate for KDB. They fucking smashed everyone regardless.

Diaz nuts (31:52.618)
Yeah, but when you get the best, like one of the best midfielders in the world come back into your team, that would be like, ah, KDB, just sit on the bench really, mate. Fucking hell. I mean, it's okay for doing that to Calvin Phillips, but not to KDB.

Andy (32:04.214)
They'll bench-fold them for KDB.

Dan (32:06.789)
I was just about to ask, what do you think the post KDB lineup is going to be? Because a lot of people will have Foden. The Alvarez getting benched and they have a singular striker and then they have Foden on one side, Grealish or Dooku on the other side and KDB behind.

Diaz nuts (32:06.92)
No.

Diaz nuts (32:14.622)
Now, fun's in the wing.

Diaz nuts (32:19.053)
Yes.

Andy (32:23.758)
Historically, they benched Vodum for him. That's historically what they did.

Diaz nuts (32:30.006)
That's why it's in the history. It's in the past.

Dan (32:30.157)
You put the shits up, Domnik. You put the shits up, Domnik, now look, he's breaking it now.

Andy (32:32.586)
We'll see.

Diaz nuts (32:35.006)
I don't have either Foden or KDB or any of these people, but I don't think they're a bench Foden.

Andy (32:43.382)
Fili Ferdinand, back to the bench.

Dan (32:43.409)
Just the very thoughts what's putting you off.

Alright, let's end that one for Citi anyway on... If you've already got Harland, who is the next asset you would pick up from Citi then, if you've already got Harland? Even though you're saying you might get benched for KDB. Sorry, confused the message Andy.

Andy (32:57.29)
fun.

Diaz nuts (33:01.902)
I've been voting for two weeks. It says mid-December.

Andy (33:02.274)
when's katie be officially back when's kevin back

Yeah, so we have a couple weeks. Then I'll probably rethink it, but till then, I think Foden's fine. He's playing every game.

Dan (33:14.041)
Tom.

Diaz nuts (33:15.755)
I wouldn't have a second say yes until they've gone past their blank because they go spurs and then they go away to Villa. Granted they then have Luton and Crystal Palace but like then they blank and you can never pick who's going to start because of Europe going on so.

Andy (33:34.585)
Yeah, I wouldn't bring in Foden if I didn't already have him, so I should say that.

Dan (33:40.753)
Spurs is the last team we're going to talk about and they're one that have gone from some kind of towering highs to some very dismal lows right now. You had, well I say you had a lot of Spurs players though didn't you Andy?

Diaz nuts (33:40.974)
You should say that.

Andy (33:50.726)
And it's cool all over.

Andy (33:55.719)
I still have two.

Dan (33:57.169)
How do you feel about having two Spurs players?

Diaz nuts (33:57.742)
planches balls.

Andy (34:00.794)
Okay, Poro is really good. I feel good about that. And then Sun, yeah, it's not going great, but I can't think of anyone amazing to swap them for right now.

Diaz nuts (34:13.602)
Till further.

Andy (34:15.082)
I already have Phil-pho. Can't have two Phil-pho.

Diaz nuts (34:17.658)
Oh my god.

Dan (34:19.165)
That's a shame you got this double up.

Do you have any spurs assets done?

Andy (34:23.318)
I don't know if that's a problem.

Diaz nuts (34:26.138)
Uh, nope. I do not have any spare sass. I had Maddo when he was in, I will get Maddo back when he comes back. But until that point in time, no.

Dan (34:27.545)
Would you want any?

Andy (34:34.034)
It is interesting that their entire team is basically James Madison.

Diaz nuts (34:39.434)
Yeah, it's Maddo and who else is injured at the moment? Because like Kulu is there, right? So Kulisowsky should be doing something, but he's not. The same with Brendan Johnson.

Dan (34:49.637)
Brandon Johnson had that one week where he looked really good, and now he doesn't anymore.

Diaz nuts (34:50.814)
just eight but Maddo's back in no Maddo's back in mid-January so

Dan (34:58.161)
Hmm.

I find it a tough one to be honest, they feel like a team that they're either gonna absolutely destroy somebody or get absolutely destroyed and there's no in between with them.

Diaz nuts (35:09.89)
Well, they're gonna get absolutely destroyed by C. I can tell you that much.

Dan (35:12.377)
But yeah, I mean that feels like a game.

Andy (35:13.67)
I don't know. I think it could be a 3-2. I do think Spurs will score.

Diaz nuts (35:19.082)
Everyone scores against C for some reason.

Dan (35:21.533)
Everyone gets a freebie.

Andy (35:22.133)
Yeah.

I think it will be like a 3-2 or a 2-1. I bet it will be a one goal differential between the two.

Diaz nuts (35:25.122)
I'm ridiculous.

Dan (35:31.793)
I don't know if you can do that on Padi Parirandi, I can't check for you. Specifically a one goal differential.

Andy (35:32.362)
Good beer.

I think you can. You can say, no, you can do that. You can do say plus minus one.

Diaz nuts (35:36.106)
You got plus, minus.

Dan (35:42.321)
have a look for you. That's the matches Saturday and Sunday, Dom dropped a bombshell that the next game week then immediately kicks off in Tuesday so we've got Monday to pod and talk about our teams but before we get there let's look at the leagues. Andy, did you have the league up? Can you see the league where you are? Is the league even available in that part of the world?

Diaz nuts (35:51.406)
Tuesday.

Andy (35:52.906)
Yeah.

Andy (36:00.894)
I can, I can see the, the lead is available.

Diaz nuts (36:02.71)
Is it legal in Saudi Arabia? I know that are ethically very high up, but still.

Andy (36:09.306)
Yeah, please keep saying stuff like that while I'm on their internet. So number 10 is Mohaiki Asuka. Number nine, Michael Akinloy. Number eight, all of the great. Number seven, Alan Sinclair. Six, Aaron Milne. Dom's fifth. He actually had a decent week this week. The points in the top 10 actually weren't amazing for like half of the teams this week. Well, no.

Dan (36:12.025)
Yeah, yeah, good show. Good show.

Diaz nuts (36:16.942)
Hello football.

Dan (36:32.614)
That was a terrible week. Yeah, it was.

Diaz nuts (36:34.799)
Only it doesn't have the transfers in that way.

Andy (36:38.862)
Oh, okay, okay. Okay. Yeah. Well, I mean, kind of gun and fourth had 41 points. Hobie Miller had 40 points. I think Hobie Miller might have had the worst in the Red Blue League this week. He had joint. No, 40. 38 was the worst by Tolo. Well, Tolo will like a G key in 23rd place. 38 points. Tobias Scott and second got 53 and Steve Allen got 63. I don't know if he hit or not. It was a 63 or not.

Dan (36:41.681)
Spoiler.

Diaz nuts (36:44.734)
I want him. And him.

Dan (36:49.28)
Did you say 30 then?

Dan (37:01.047)
Oof.

Andy (37:09.682)
No, he didn't hit. Yeah. He's copying my delight though. Do not appreciate.

Diaz nuts (37:09.71)
Steve.

Diaz nuts (37:14.59)
It's a copy of my Maguire as well.

Andy (37:17.11)
If you did copy your McBuy around my Deloitte, eh. Need to stop giving out.

Dan (37:17.197)
lot of copying going on. I told you he messaged me and work he's still looking for his mug Andy, we'll have to get one over to him at some point. Did you send it back from Mum and Dad?

Andy (37:25.934)
Did not send it back with Mom and Dad. I still think on the technicality of me murdering him points-wise that this is not okay.

Dan (37:27.733)
Ah for god's sake. Ha ha ha.

Diaz nuts (37:32.214)
Andy's gonna send her a book piece by piece. Oh my god.

Andy (37:34.962)
Probably yeah, I'm gonna take a hammer to it and that's what he's gonna get.

Dan (37:35.562)
Shard by Shard. Spitefully send them pieces. Alright, onto the league that matters, the one we all care about. In last place is myself. 51 points in the week for 7-2-0. In fifth place is Dad with 51 points for 7-2-8. And yet, Andy in fourth place with 57 points for 7-3-4. Not the highest points in the week.

We have Noah in third with 43 points for 7.51. Eli got 62 points in the game week for 7.77. How did he get 62 points? He had Dalo, Salah captain. He had Gordon, Harland, Watkins, Saka. Just a lot of really good smart choices to be fair. Needs to be taking advice from him. And then still top of the league is Dom with 48 points for 7.83. So the gap.

Diaz nuts (38:14.902)
You got fucking Watkins.

Andy (38:18.078)
I think it, yeah.

Diaz nuts (38:26.19)
Stealing my choices.

Dan (38:33.777)
closed substantially between you and Eli. There's six points between you both now. And 63 points. Only 63 points between Top and Bottom Dom. Easily catchable. Easily catchable.

Diaz nuts (38:38.402)
Don't look worried. I had to do two transfers.

Diaz nuts (38:46.258)
Yeah, that's exactly what people who are bottom of the table would say.

Dan (38:51.875)
What transfers have you made Andy? Because I know what you've done Dom, you already announced it.

Diaz nuts (39:00.286)
And he's on mute. So he's speaking to himself this time. Now, secret information.

Dan (39:00.407)
uh

want to tell us. It's all secrets.

Andy (39:05.842)
I didn't do it. I didn't do any. I didn't do any. I'm not going to do any. I think I'm going to just save it. I looked at my team and I'm happy with the team this week, so I'll probably just save it to next week. I need to sort my bench out a little bit because most of the players there are garbage. I'll do that next, on the Tuesday.

Dan (39:17.985)
I need to sort my bench out. I'm getting a wee bit concerned with the games coming up and the congestion happening, that I need to have a better playing bench than I do currently. Dom.

Diaz nuts (39:30.914)
I took out Bowen and I've got in the Raheem the Dreamster.

Dan (39:35.773)
Nice. And then I obviously took out ward priors and brought in Embuemo. So what does your team look like very quickly? We'll go with Dom first. Just run us through.

Diaz nuts (39:46.198)
Johnston in goals and we got Trippias, Leib, Smickes for fucking great weeks against bad teams. Then I've got Martinelli, Gordon, Sterling, Saha across the middle with Gabby, Haaland and Watkins leading the lines.

Dan (39:59.949)
Not bad. Andy, do you want to do yours very quickly?

Andy (40:03.09)
Yep, I've got Ariella and Gull, Saliba, Poirot, Dalot, Foden, Saka, Salad, Dougie Louise, Son, Solanke, Howland, Cap. Yep. Howland. Howland all day.

Dan (40:13.849)
Harlan Cap. Harlan Cap against Tottenham, not Salah Cap against Fulham.

Diaz nuts (40:17.174)
I've got a solid cap against fooling all the way.

Dan (40:20.293)
same. Alright I've got Areola in goal, I've got Gabriel, Saliba, Simicast, Trippier as a four-man back because I don't want to play Hwang against Arsenal. I've got Salah and Buembo unfolding across the middle with a Salah cap and then up front I've still got Watkins, Alvarez and Haaland and I'm really just not happy about the Alvarez piece but I'm not sure what to do with them yet.

Diaz nuts (40:40.578)
Get Gabby Jesus.

Dan (40:42.293)
I don't think that's the answer Dom. I genuinely don't think that's the answer. Maybe to my life problems but not to my football problems.

Diaz nuts (40:44.795)
Jesus is the answer, Dan. You always live the answer.

Diaz nuts (40:51.03)
I also have got wolves, lewatin', villa, bright.

Dan (40:55.373)
I honestly don't think that Jesus is going to get all those minutes.

Diaz nuts (41:01.342)
I think Jesus will get at least two returns in four games.

Dan (41:05.922)
A lot of bold statements today though.

Andy (41:06.638)
Nah. Don't think so, though.

Diaz nuts (41:08.706)
but I put my newly redundant nuts on it.

Dan (41:15.509)
You defunct, no one wants you to defunct nuts then they don't even work anymore

Diaz nuts (41:16.066)
There you go.

Andy (41:18.038)
I was going to say, they're not even worth anything. Why would anyone want them?

Diaz nuts (41:19.958)
So that's it, the newly redundant.

Dan (41:23.001)
All right, that is us. As I said, first game kicks off Saturday, three o'clock UK time. There is two days with the football, a one day break, and then another couple of days with the football. Hooray. See you soon.