GW15 FPL: King Juilen Alvarez

Ever wonder how to master the ever-evolving game of fantasy football? Strap in as we, your hosts Dominic Adams and Martin Elliot, dissect the realm of fantasy football, sharing our current team lineups and potential gems like Gabriel Jesus and John McGinn. We're also putting a spotlight on the fatigue factor among the heavyweights of the field - think Trent Alexander-Arnold and Mohamed Salah. Are they burned out? What does this mean for your team? Manchester City's recent struggle also gets a full evaluation and we discuss how it could ripple into your player choices.

Take a seat at our round table as we shift gears to EPL player performance analysis. From underdogs like Hey Gee, Julian Alvarez, and Son to consistent point-getters like Sanchez, Sucek, and Kufal, we bring you insights based on recent games and potential future game outcomes. But it ain't all serious, folks. We mix it up with a friendly wager on the performance of Son and Eddard - loser gifts Steve two mugs. So get ready for a rollercoaster ride of in-depth insights, player evaluations, and a healthy serving of laughter. This is fantasy football talk like you've never experienced before!

Transcript

Dan (00:02.402)
Hello and welcome to Red Blue, I'm Dan Adams.

Diaz nuts (00:05.9)
I'm Dominic Adams.

Andy (00:09.921)
the items.

Dan (00:11.598)
Well done guys, well done. Well, we're over some midweek Christmas treats courtesy of Amazon Prime apparently. So kicking off tomorrow and running all the way through till Thursday, Game Week 15 has a few interesting matchups that we're gonna look at and possibly some chances for redemption for those questionable player picks. Looking at you, Darwin Nunes. Can I just pause this intro for a second? Now go back into a minute. What the fuck has Darwin Nunes done to his head? Have you seen him?

Andy (00:34.101)
Mm-mm. Is it worse than it was before?

Dan (00:37.278)
Oh, go find a picture and I'll carry on talking. So we'll go through the games. We'll shout out players we may or may not pick and then we'll go down the league before talking about our team. So with that in mind, and now you've seen Nunes, we'll talk about that as well. Let's dig in and have a look at the teams. As a reminder, before we do team selection closes tomorrow at 6pm UK time. So Darwin Nunes, have you seen it? Fucking little Nunes.

Diaz nuts (00:37.856)
is worse than going at Joe.

Andy (00:43.541)
Oh, God.

Andy (00:50.669)
I've got a ponytail.

Andy (01:01.897)
He hasn't even that long? Has he got like, Extents?

Dan (01:04.35)
Little Nunes X now, he's put fucking braids in or something He looks like he's a failed fucking mumblecore rapper There you go

Andy (01:07.629)
What does he have his face on? I didn't even think his hair was that long.

Diaz nuts (01:13.674)
It's a choice.

Andy (01:15.797)
Bad at football, I'm bad at hair now.

Dan (01:18.402)
Jesus, he looks like a fucking failed mumblecore rapper. It's just the absolute worst.

Andy (01:24.961)
Glad I didn't pick him.

Dan (01:26.614)
I picked him. Anyway, so the first match we're going to talk about is Wolves versus Burnley. Obviously Burnley smashed it this week. Hit a big five, unusual for them. Well...

Diaz nuts (01:37.571)
Yeah, again, Sheffield United then subsequently sacked the manager, didn't they?

Andy (01:40.34)
and.

Dan (01:43.018)
Not yet, they're going to I think, it's on the cards, it's not happened yet has it?

Andy (01:45.749)
seriously considering publicly.

Dan (01:49.491)
Though the question I was going to ask off the back of that, obviously we're not picking Burnley players, I get that, but are we targeting Sheffield then? If they're that bad they're getting smashed 5-0 by Burnley?

Andy (02:01.557)
We were talking to them already because they were in the only bottom of the league or second bottom of the league.

Diaz nuts (02:01.574)
Mm.

Dan (02:05.706)
Well, I don't think we've actively targeted or talked about actively targeting teams for a while.

Andy (02:08.801)
I don't think you can activate. Targeting is a stupid concept. It's a really stupid concept. You can't target people because you only get one, you only get two games for each player that you pick against any specific team all season.

So you can, I mean, I guess you can make it like a deciding factor in a transfer you might do if there's like an easy fixture as part of like the next couple of games, but it's hard to like specifically target a team unless you're coming off a wild card and you get like three players against them for a week.

Dan (02:38.398)
Okay, that's fair. So effectively the answer is no.

Andy (02:44.645)
No, but I'm happy if I've got players who are playing against the bottom three, usually. Especially generally because they ship goals every other week except this week.

Dan (02:49.419)
I mean that.

Dan (02:53.602)
So Wolves then on the flip side who are playing Burnley, obviously you've got Wang and Kunya as the two people we'll be picking from. Are they feeling any more attractive to you two now? Because you two rubbish it last week and the week before.

Diaz nuts (03:10.091)
Not really, no. They have not got any better in my mind, even though Kunya probably scored, right?

Dan (03:17.257)
Mm-hmm.

Andy (03:17.681)
Again, two games in a row.

Dan (03:20.107)
Exactly.

Diaz nuts (03:20.419)
and they do have a good run coming up.

Dan (03:23.066)
Oh, look at that. It's not hard to turn you dumb with it. I'm not thinking about it at all, although actually. Choo-choo. All about the Keenie train. What about you, Andy? Any walls, please, would you consider?

Diaz nuts (03:26.706)
No.

Andy (03:28.79)
He's already brought it man.

Diaz nuts (03:31.399)
It's not happening.

Andy (03:37.257)
Doesn't really mean a swear word in Portuguese. Like what's the one, what's the bad word in Portuguese? Anyway, we can come back to it, but I think it means something bad.

Dan (03:50.058)
Pass. I failed Portuguese and...

Andy (03:51.4)
Maybe it's in Spanish.

Diaz nuts (03:53.295)
It's not the C word, because I've just checked what that is.

Andy (03:56.886)
Okay, yeah, I'm not bringing him in. I don't want any wolves plays though.

Dan (04:01.151)
Right, that's a nice easy one. We'll breeze past that and the negativity that you see generated. Hopefully you can generate some positivity around the fact that Arsenal are a way to Luton as a second match on Tuesday. How are you feeling about your Arsenal assets Dom?

Diaz nuts (04:13.799)
Fucking terrible, aren't I? You got Martinelli who doesn't do shit, and then I've got Gabby Jesus who actually comes out and public says, yeah, I'm not all about the goals. I'm about the work, great type of shit. Like, why the fuck did I bring him in?

Andy (04:24.429)
There you go. He doesn't even care about it.

Dan (04:28.853)
He's about the work rate though. He's a team player.

Diaz nuts (04:31.419)
What kind of asshole is what he is?

Andy (04:33.045)
Just out here to help everyone else. Have a good time.

Dan (04:35.666)
Replace by Eddie and Keter is what he is, which we actually called last podcast to be fair.

Andy (04:40.489)
I think SACA worked out pretty well. Still happy with that pick.

Dan (04:44.034)
Yeah, I do miss the fact I don't have soccer to be fair. I think he is becoming essential

Diaz nuts (04:47.078)
Yeah.

Andy (04:48.513)
How is he becoming essentially dipshit using like the top three of all the fantasy players in the midfield in the league?

Diaz nuts (04:56.251)
Hmm

Dan (04:56.307)
So that's why it's becoming essential.

Andy (04:58.588)
He's been essential all season.

Diaz nuts (05:00.712)
All season.

Dan (05:00.88)
Has he? Has he? Oh Dom come on quick save me. Tell me he's had a shit patch.

Andy (05:04.329)
I don't know how you can say it, there's only two players with more points than Zacher.

Diaz nuts (05:04.504)
Yeah

Dan (05:07.778)
Tell me these other shitpatches like 3 games or something where you went through.

Diaz nuts (05:11.367)
There's only two midfielders who have more points than Sacher andi. There you go. So it's only top five.

Andy (05:14.825)
Oh there you go, yeah. Saka sitting at 8-10 points. He has more points than everyone except Watkins, Harland, Sun and Sala.

Diaz nuts (05:26.523)
So that's it, top five.

Andy (05:29.665)
So how you can, like, you should have, in theory, you could make an argument that if you have those five, you should have those five players, right? The only one I don't have out of those five is Watkins.

Diaz nuts (05:42.503)
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Dan (05:42.882)
Yeah, Saka, I struggled to make the argument against him. I was looking to see if he had like a bad patch of form or a reason why you wouldn't have played him. The only game he didn't play was the Man City match and in pretty much every other game bar two he's returned.

Andy (05:57.609)
How much does he cost again, Dan? Remind me. I don't think that was what I paid for him. What did I pay for him? I paid 8.5.

Dan (05:59.794)
8.9, expensive. No.

Dan (06:07.819)
Yeah, so he's coming within Sun territory, which I guess could be a reason why you would not be able to bring him in.

Andy (06:15.109)
If I had Son right now, this week complicates it though, because he did return this week. But I would be convinced there are very few players I would not take out for Saka if I didn't have him.

Dan (06:20.214)
He did.

Dan (06:27.828)
Hmm.

Diaz nuts (06:27.833)
Mmm.

Andy (06:29.493)
Phil Ford and I would trade for soccer for sure. Million percent.

Dan (06:32.142)
Well, you wouldn't because he's 7.5 versus 8.9.

Andy (06:34.781)
No, I would make the money somewhere to trade food and for soccer.

Dan (06:41.45)
What about the other arsenal assets then? So we obviously joked about Dom's, Jesus, is it, is it that bad?

Andy (06:48.81)
I don't think-

Diaz nuts (06:48.839)
I'm not even going to keep Jesus for his birthday. Jesus can get fucked. He's out.

Andy (06:51.861)
Yeah. Don't bring him in now. I think Odegaard is an interesting one after this week. If he's back to doing stuff again.

Diaz nuts (06:59.432)
One week does not a man make.

Dan (07:01.954)
too hot and cold. What about the defense? Obviously I've got two, I think you both have got one. It was looking really good.

Andy (07:02.069)
Oof.

Andy (07:06.805)
Well, it was going great till the 89th minute or whatever it was.

Dan (07:09.758)
Yeah. So is that a blip? Do you think they'll do better obviously against a team like Luton?

Andy (07:15.773)
I don't think they did badly. Like, I mean, they conceded one goal in a Premier League game and they kept cleans for like 90% of the game, like 95% of the game. It just sucks. Like it's just really hard, I think, for any team to keep a clean sheet these days.

Dan (07:30.754)
be interesting to know how many how many clean sheets that have been this season compared to last season that being interesting to start to review.

Andy (07:35.913)
It feels like it's not great. Like even against the bad teams, teams that can see, you know, like Liverpool conceding three goals against Fulham. Like there's no, like, aside from Burnley and Sheffield United, there's no teams that are like struggling, struggling to score. Oh, United actually is the other one. Man United.

Dan (07:44.619)
And then.

Dan (07:54.008)
Yeah, that's one gold merchant that we are. Martinelli? Yes or no?

Andy (07:55.966)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (07:58.981)
No.

Andy (07:59.146)
No.

Dan (08:00.482)
That was easy. Alright, moving on. So the next games kick off on the Wednesday, the first one of which is Brighton versus Brentford. We're going to have that conversation again, but we'll start with the Brighton side of things. So I was looking at doing transfers. Bear with me. I was looking at doing transfers earlier. You look at Matoma, he's actually within like the top 10 for midfielders, even though he's done jack shit for the past three games.

Andy (08:28.885)
But when's it from? Like when are his points from? I think that's the problem. I think they're from a while ago, right? Most of those points.

Dan (08:35.682)
Week 2, 6 and 11. So not too far away.

Andy (08:40.405)
I mean, he said, no, if the way that you have to look at Matoma is he's had four returns on the season, right? And then three of those were in the first six weeks. No, sorry. He said five and four of those were in the first six weeks.

Dan (08:54.618)
And not worth it, that's what you say.

Andy (08:57.781)
Well, he's had one return from game week seven to game week 14, including playing against Sheffield United, Fulham and Forrest, in which he didn't return in any of them.

Dan (09:06.41)
Yeah, but we're not targeting teams, Andy, we've already discussed that.

Andy (09:09.949)
No, I think it's more like if you can't even score points against bad teams, like why would you bring him in?

Dan (09:13.79)
Yeah, I hear you. What about little Evan Ferguson? He seems to be getting minutes 78 then 90. He's scored five and then didn't have a great game last week, but... Very cheap. 6.1 million? He's a way to get your money in for soccer if you don't already have him or...

Andy (09:19.53)
Nope.

Andy (09:26.677)
Who are you dropping for?

Andy (09:33.961)
Maybe. I don't think I'd wanna... I mean, the problem is, you're probably not gonna play him in most games, right? So he's an expensive bench player.

Diaz nuts (09:42.223)
Yes, agreed.

Dan (09:42.314)
Yeah. So we're actually then, at this point in time, fully divested out of Brighton. There's no one you'd want on Brighton.

Diaz nuts (09:49.602)
Mm-hmm.

Andy (09:50.91)
Right now, yeah.

Dan (09:53.23)
I just find that really strange, it's almost like a complete 180 from 6-7 game weeks ago. How have they got so bad?

Andy (09:59.209)
I mean, if you're dumping this, yeah, Brighton have done a 180 form was, it just happens. I think it happens when you like, when players get injured and then like, I think form can turn really quickly. Like look at City, right? Like they're on like a little bit of a dodgy patch right now. Even the good teams like can go through like rough patches of form.

Diaz nuts (09:59.419)
because Brighton have done a 180.

Dan (10:03.338)
I have to go so bad though.

Dan (10:20.77)
Hmm. Is it a rough patch of form or is this a revert to norm?

Andy (10:26.665)
I think it's where they should be. It's like 7th, 8th.

Dan (10:30.338)
That's where we are, Andy.

Andy (10:32.029)
No, that, but if you were to tell me, like if you were to ask me to predict like four league places that they would land between at the end of the season, I'd say between sixth and tenth.

Dan (10:40.63)
Yeah, I think that's fair.

Andy (10:42.515)
Not top 6.

Dan (10:44.542)
No. And then Brentford, obviously, in Bueno did stuff. Counts, still in the assist. They smashed Luton 3-1. Are you thinking about Brentford players at all? They seem to go on. That feels a little unfair. If you look from Gameweek 9, they've beat Burnley, they beat Chelsea, they beat West Ham. They lost to Liverpool on Arsenal, which is not unexpected, to be fair. And then they beat Luton. So that...

Andy (10:50.487)
Why did you get an assist? One assist.

Andy (10:55.undefined)
Hmm.

Andy (11:02.046)
No.

Diaz nuts (11:02.244)
No.

Dan (11:13.911)
doing stuff.

Andy (11:15.413)
What's that fixture run after this game?

Dan (11:19.294)
They've got Brayton, then they've got Sheffield United, then they've got West Ham. No, sorry, Aston Villa, and then Wolves, then Crystal Palace, then Forest.

Andy (11:23.698)
Actually that runs on that.

Diaz nuts (11:27.203)
Ah ah ah, you forget. You missed the blank.

Andy (11:28.524)
You missed the blank on purpose.

Dan (11:31.298)
What bank?

Andy (11:32.702)
Blanking game. You don't want I mean so who's

Diaz nuts (11:32.903)
In case.

Dan (11:35.574)
Well, you wouldn't have like three of them, so you can bench one. It's not going to kill you to have.

Andy (11:39.565)
Well, it depends, like who's blanking in 18.

Diaz nuts (11:42.459)
Man City in Bramford. Yep.

Andy (11:44.181)
Those are the only two. So you have to be careful because I've got two city players.

Dan (11:45.622)
Yeah.

Dan (11:49.058)
But we did speak about this, you've only got two and a lot of people will only have two because everyone's come out of Alvarez and they've come out of Gradiol and such.

Andy (11:55.005)
No, I don't disagree with you. I need, I need a fully playing bench if I'm going to have three blank players. And I don't right now. So I'd have to contemplate that if I'm going to bring in a Brentford player, I would know that if I'm going to keep two city players and bring in a Brentford player, then I need a fully playing bench by game week 18, which you can do. Like it's playing a time.

Dan (12:17.396)
Mm-hmm. I just wondered if it was a consideration, because it feels like we're giving them a short shrift.

Andy (12:19.77)
I think, I think Lamo is a good pick. I don't think he's a terrible fantasy pick. He's just not an urgent position in my team to bring in.

Dan (12:27.959)
Tom, what about you?

Diaz nuts (12:31.203)
I'm not bringing them in and I just had the opportunity to bring them in. So I think there's at least about four or five six.

Dan (12:36.298)
Are you doing transfers in the middle of this fucking conversation again?

Andy (12:39.543)
Not even paying attention.

Diaz nuts (12:41.211)
I think there's at least five or six midfielders you'd place ahead of Mbembo, even in that price bracket. So he's not on the radar. What you give me is a range. Okay, we...

Dan (12:47.459)
Call it.

Andy (12:49.993)
is a file.

Dan (12:51.082)
on the spot right now. So I paid for example, I paid for Emboemo 7.1 million. So between 6.5 to 7.5.

Andy (12:58.635)
Oh, right.

Diaz nuts (12:58.783)
7.1 million.

easy done. I would take Gordon with Newcastle's fixtures. I would take Kulasevsky. I would take Bilva. I'd take Gross.

Andy (13:05.005)
Sterling.

Dan (13:08.619)
with a yellow flag.

Andy (13:10.366)
Yeah.

Yeah. Bowen.

Dan (13:18.688)
Mm. But really, Bonato Silver? Like, he's the man behind the man.

Andy (13:21.189)
No, you're stretching them. I wouldn't take Bill. I think-

Diaz nuts (13:26.219)
I would possibly say kudos.

Andy (13:29.777)
I would take sterling ahead of him, a million percent.

Diaz nuts (13:32.631)
Yeah, Raheem the Dream.

Dan (13:34.07)
Look, I'm all for a hee mee dreamy but-

Andy (13:36.425)
You know the only player that's been in the top point score of the week twice this season? Raheem?

Dan (13:43.564)
You know what that speaks to? Inconsistence.

Andy (13:46.877)
I think Raheem is a solid fantasy pick for 7 million.

Diaz nuts (13:50.523)
He's in my team, sweet baby.

Dan (13:53.154)
Have you seen that now?

Diaz nuts (13:54.827)
Uh-uh. I had him last week. I had him last week.

Andy (13:55.106)
You had him last week. He had to reach the one week where he didn't do anything.

Dan (13:56.735)
Let's do it.

Dan (14:02.318)
points for him. Sad. Okay Dom, next match is Crystal Palace versus Bournemouth as our resident Crystal Palace expert. What are we doing with them?

Diaz nuts (14:02.543)
This much is true.

Diaz nuts (14:12.611)
Um, you know, they've surprised me to be fair because I thought they were just absolute dog shit.

Andy (14:18.265)
They are.

Dan (14:19.547)
Turns out they were.

Diaz nuts (14:20.055)
And they are, but they drew with West Ham, so it can't be that bad. And Edward's done all right for the past couple of games.

Andy (14:25.985)
Jared Bowen with his leg hanging off playing.

Diaz nuts (14:29.611)
Yeah, that was another annoying one where he supposedly had fluid all over his knee but then it's just good enough to play.

Andy (14:35.725)
because they couldn't tell.

Dan (14:37.066)
Yep, it's that fat or fluid. They're playing everyone's favourite game.

Diaz nuts (14:37.595)
Hehehe

Diaz nuts (14:41.331)
Fat or fluid? No, Edward's got two returns in the past three games, so he could enter into it, but they've got Liverpool and C.

Andy (14:49.833)
And we really advocate new lessons pick up palace players.

Dan (14:54.342)
No, not at all. I think the annoying Dom with it to be fair.

Diaz nuts (14:55.591)
He's 5.5. He's 5.5 mil and he's got three returns at the past two game, two returns at past three game.

Andy (15:03.101)
I'm just saying, I'm putting it out there, Dominic may be telling you to get Odds and Edward, I am absolutely not, so he's on his own on Little.

Dan (15:08.182)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (15:10.635)
Yeah.

Dan (15:10.754)
See if he returns this weekend, he'll feel foolish then.

Andy (15:13.759)
How foolish I will feel you never mind

Dan (15:16.466)
On the other side of it you've got Bournemouth which means you have to talk about Dominic Salanke again. Do any of you still have him?

Andy (15:21.649)
Yeah, of course I did. Freaking right I did. Got points? Go to goal? Yay!

Diaz nuts (15:22.082)
Andy has them.

Dan (15:23.778)
How did he do last week? I don't recall.

Diaz nuts (15:25.588)
Dexordical.

He wasn't involved in the first goal. And I was going to say in the brother chat, should we start to keep count of how many Bournemouth goals without a slanky involvement we have.

Andy (15:38.025)
He's closing the points gap on the leaders up front. He's number four now out of all strikers.

Dan (15:44.238)
So we just spoke earlier about players that are inconsistent. I can't recall which player we're talking about now who had three returns. Matoma.

Andy (15:49.429)
Solanke is really consistent. This is the wrong hill to die on with Solanke and consistency. He is.

Dan (15:55.958)
What? 7-2-2-13-2 last week.

Andy (15:59.421)
Yeah, but you're missing out a lot of the season. 7-5-2-7-2-6-2-1-7-2-2-30-2-6.

Dan (16:06.563)
What, what, I'm gonna start, you're saying too a lot there, Andy. Like every second fucking word out your mouth was too there. It wasn't a great, great track.

Andy (16:14.569)
I mean, I don't know where he is in the Premier League assists and goals list, but he's got to be pretty high up.

Dan (16:20.918)
Why is he sitting just strikers in general? If I go to ult...

Andy (16:23.157)
He's number four out of strikers in terms of points.

Dan (16:26.018)
How shit are the strikers this year if he's number 4? Jesus. Eddie was number 5 though Andy so, you know, if we're talking about hills to die on.

Diaz nuts (16:30.775)
Yep, this is what happens when you miss a game.

Andy (16:34.673)
I mean, Darwin Nunez is number six, number six is on there as well. So like it's a really poor crop of strikers this year for sure. But he's better than Isaac and he's better than Wilson. He's better than like people that other people are advocating you should pick.

Dan (16:47.458)
So this falls into something I was hoping we could talk about, which is the feel versus form. Because if you watch the games, he doesn't feel like he'd be better than Isaac, for example. Well, I know. So should we advocate for picking on the stats and the form rather than the eye test or the feel?

Andy (16:58.183)
But he is.

Diaz nuts (16:59.503)
That's because Newcastle are better than Bournemouth.

Andy (17:10.545)
I do, that's why I picked Salanki.

Diaz nuts (17:14.918)
This Addy's on a different strategy now. So he's not on, he's not on.

Dan (17:18.726)
He's not on packed singular defense anymore now, he's on moneyball strikers.

Diaz nuts (17:21.583)
No.

Diaz nuts (17:24.72)
Yes.

Andy (17:26.149)
No, I mean, I think selenky is just a good cookie. It's got a lot of gold.

Dan (17:31.094)
But would you or have you been picking the rest of your team based on the stats, the underlying stats rather than what you've watched in matches? Because we watched a lot of football between the three of us.

Andy (17:40.585)
Yeah. I don't know. I would say like I pick my team mostly based on form. That's why I had like Louise and why I put in like Solanke. Like people on form. I think people who, this year I've tried, like, I'm going to play Louise this week against Man City because I'm like happy to go on form of players over fixtures. Cause I think we've been burned like millions of times on fixtures this season. Now, like you could argue if you're going to bring in a defender this week, it should probably be Trent based on form.

Diaz nuts (18:12.055)
if you have a spare billion pounds in your pocket.

Andy (18:15.189)
But if you do, I mean, that's the play right now, right? Like he's scoring, he's not assisting, he's scoring goals this season.

Dan (18:22.094)
Hmm... This is expensive though.

Andy (18:24.961)
Cause you will climb rapidly up the defender charts if he keeps scoring. Dude, he's already, what are we talking about? He's already number four out of all defenders.

Dan (18:29.934)
And he might do this week to be fair. I mean, it's not the next game.

Dan (18:37.218)
Where's Trippie?

Andy (18:38.718)
Number one.

Dan (18:39.854)
That's all right then, because that would be the only real swap you could actually really do, isn't it? It's Trippier to Trenton and it just, that feels like a bad move.

Andy (18:47.081)
Yeah, I mean defenders this year is just a hard thing to do.

Dan (18:53.326)
Alright, so we talked about Salanki and the surprising position he holds in the striker chart, so let's move on to the next match.

Andy (18:58.565)
Oh, no, I don't want to move on. I have one more thing. Cause I was, yeah, no, I am. Yeah. Cause I, so I need to make weight potentially to do a transfer upfront that I want to do if I could go sun to Tavernier and then I could go my bench and Bwemba Wemba or whatever his name is for West Ham that doesn't play and change him to Watkins so I could tap and then not play Tavernier like having be the first on the bench.

Dan (19:01.8)
No.

Diaz nuts (19:03.112)
Ugh, too bad, eh? Oh, god.

Dan (19:27.054)
Could you really, in your heart of hearts, not play Tavernia through sat in your team, Andy?

Diaz nuts (19:27.363)
about how many times.

Yeah.

Andy (19:31.069)
No, and I can't do it to Hyeong-min's son either. He's done nothing to him. Disrespectful.

Dan (19:37.394)
All serious note, would that be given what we were just talking about earlier, would that be a form change then?

Andy (19:40.001)
in that post-informatics. Yes.

It would cause Watkins is on, well, you could argue that Sun just scored this week. So like form wise, he's probably doing pretty decent. And I think he is like in the, he's number two, right? In terms of, yeah, he is. He's second in terms of midfielders and he's third overall for points or fourth overall for points. So like, it's kind of hard to drop a player who's doing that well.

Dan (20:04.494)
But that feels like it was very, if I recall rightly, it was very front-loaded when Spurs went through that purple patch at the start of the season.

Andy (20:11.213)
Um, yeah, but I mean that, but coming back to Tavernier, like, I don't know that he's a player that you bring in, like wanting to start him every week, but I do think if he's not injured, he's like a decent differential off the bench.

Dan (20:15.022)
Mm-hmm.

Diaz nuts (20:22.311)
Fuck are you... He is not a good differential. He's a fucking terrible player. He's had one hit in the past. Three, six, nine. In the past nine games.

Andy (20:27.116)
Why not?

Andy (20:32.882)
I'm going to look- yeah.

Dan (20:35.85)
That's exactly what I was talking about.

Andy (20:37.569)
To be fair, like the way I'm looking at this is like their form has turned around since game week 10 and then he did do good last season when he wasn't injured. Like that's what I'm, and he's very cheap.

Diaz nuts (20:49.735)
5.4. I'm pretty sure it's a better midfield than that. Yeah, perm.

Andy (20:52.441)
It's a call Palmer. Like those are my two choices for like Philip. He doesn't, is it though? You just said like what you just said about to Vanya is almost exactly the same of Palmer is like two returns. Carl Paul only has two words. Anyways, but I'm sure I wanted to mention it cause I don't want to get shit when I bring him in and everyone cry about it. I am considering bringing in to Vanya as a fillet so I can get in what can.

Diaz nuts (21:03.815)
Carl Parma, get him in.

Dan (21:06.154)
Coral and Parma, it's our favorite, pod favorite, Coral and Parma.

Dan (21:18.478)
Okay, so then we will move on to the next match which is a bit of a nonsense one. It's Fallen versus Nottenham Forest. I don't think we need to talk about any people in that match. Willian I guess slightly given that he was on pens but that's a bit of a reach given his price.

Diaz nuts (21:29.909)
No.

Andy (21:35.585)
I'm kind of sad. I was hoping to talk about Bobby Reed after he put them 3-2 up and then they bottled it.

Dan (21:40.394)
They did, they bottle it. Well, they didn't bottle it. Did you watch the match the whole thing?

Andy (21:45.202)
No, I hate watching Liverpool.

Dan (21:46.754)
Fucking the end of way came on and just yeah full of broke. It wasn't even like it was a valiant defense They just can give up at the end

Andy (21:54.369)
Someone needs to tell people, like, if you're 3-2 up, or way to like a really good, just play like shithouses and foul people the whole time. Alright.

Dan (21:59.434)
Yeah, just waste time. Be at Let it Call Madrid. Just fucking play like shit houses.

Andy (22:04.033)
Stop trying to play, just hurt people.

Dan (22:07.562)
Yeah, the other style of football. Don't play the ball, fucking hurting. Moving on then from Fulham versus Forrest, because we're not gonna forget for any of those players is.

Andy (22:10.89)
Play the man.

Andy (22:15.853)
What about Forest? You don't want to talk about your boy Gibbs White? Usually you can't shut up about him? What about Abernene? You never shut up about him either?

Dan (22:20.454)
No, let's be realistic.

If we want to be realistic though, we want to talk about form and... Well, Eli has a Langer actually, he brought him in.

Andy (22:28.478)
Alanga.

Andy (22:32.221)
He does have a longer score to a couple of goals in the last couple of games, right?

Diaz nuts (22:37.78)
He's got two returns in three games, yeah.

Andy (22:40.913)
Yeah, not bad. Six, seven, two in the last three games. And he has another couple returns this season. He's actually had like five or six returns on the season, which is way more than I thought he'd have.

Dan (22:45.751)
Yeah, sad.

Dan (22:52.078)
But for us they're weird and surprising like that, their players go through fits and starts of having returns, but I don't think they're worth talking about realistically.

Andy (22:59.229)
I don't really think they are either, but it's probably a decent one to mention.

Dan (23:03.458)
So Sheffield United versus Liverpool is the 730 match. We won't talk about Sheffield United except that we don't advocate for targeting, but let's talk about Liverpool. So you just mentioned Trent. How much is Trent now? That is a question.

Andy (23:16.106)
Hmm.

Diaz nuts (23:17.319)
Mmm.

Diaz nuts (23:22.471)
The question is, Liverpool played on Sunday, right? And Trent and Salah played most of that match. And they play again on Wednesday against a shit team. Do you expect them to start both those players?

Dan (23:38.57)
Um, yes, I do because if you look at their defense, for example, they've got Robertson out, they've got Matip out, so are they going to play fucking Kanate and Gomez on the wing or something?

Diaz nuts (23:52.231)
Bet against Sheffield United probably wouldn't you?

Dan (23:55.094)
And the same goes for like the midfield slash up front, you know, they've still got Jota out. So there's gonna be some kind of rotation between the other players, unless it's gonna be like a fucking Doke Jones midfield going on. I just-

Andy (24:07.913)
Turkey's the most good, right?

Dan (24:10.494)
No Duxing. Yeah, well he's fit anyway, but I don't know if he's going to get a game. The point I'm making is that it doesn't feel like they've got that bigger pool to be selecting from still, especially in defence, that you're going to see at least. And Salah plays every fucking game anyway.

Andy (24:11.981)
Is he?

Diaz nuts (24:27.728)
Yeah.

Dan (24:30.526)
In fact, that's another point. I've not seen much resting of players, even from fucking Pep. He's had a fairly solid team.

Diaz nuts (24:31.323)
Just saying.

Andy (24:32.816)
Mm-hmm.

Andy (24:39.757)
I think because he's got a lot of injuries, isn't he? Comparatively, with KDB being out and...

Dan (24:44.778)
I think everyone does it, that's the problem, a lot of people are carrying a ton of injuries right now so the squads aren't rotating much.

Andy (24:51.625)
Yeah, I think that's true. It's probably good though, because it makes it easier to pick this season. But people are more tired, so it's also bad.

Dan (25:01.078)
predictability wise, going back to what Dom was saying, it feels like you probably would see it. Like I would bet a reasonable amount of money on Trent and Salah starting on Wednesday.

Andy (25:12.617)
Yeah, those are the only two I want out of that whole team anyway, so it doesn't really matter about the rest of them.

Diaz nuts (25:17.347)
I wouldn't batten them getting 90 minutes.

Andy (25:19.925)
Salah will play almost every game. They're gonna ride him and then flog him to the Saudis.

Dan (25:23.69)
Yep. I think Trent will as well, purely because who else are they gonna play?

Andy (25:30.921)
Well, they benched him for Jomez a few times anyway. He hasn't played every game this season.

Diaz nuts (25:36.529)
They had a Sunday game, a Wednesday game, and a Saturday game.

Andy (25:40.173)
They'll play Sala and Trent, I bet you. Liverpool, no, we got no Sala, no Poi.

Diaz nuts (25:42.503)
and they play their early game on Saturday as well.

Dan (25:44.864)
I guess they're.

I guess the real problem is, Trent is 8 million pounds. That's... prohibitive. Exactly, I- no. That's prohibitive to me.

Andy (25:52.345)
8. If he was a midfielder, would you buy him?

I probably wouldn't if it was in midfield. That is a bit of a downer season because they don't come with any clean sheets this year, which is a little bit of a value to track there.

Dan (26:04.044)
No.

Diaz nuts (26:04.557)
Nope.

Dan (26:07.402)
What about upfront? Talk about Darwin Nunes. A lot of people including Magnus Carlsen, chess master and fantasy football player also brought in Nunes on a minus four for Watkins like myself who then Watkins went and played.

Andy (26:08.046)
And up.

Andy (26:20.567)
I didn't like sh- He took out Watkins for Nunez. Jesus, what?

Dan (26:23.51)
He was injured, he had his orange flag, muscled injury for at least a couple of weeks apparently, and then played

Andy (26:28.706)
Don't trust Emory. That's what we learned this week.

Dan (26:31.352)
Uh, yes.

Diaz nuts (26:31.723)
Trust John McGinn.

Dan (26:34.524)
I can't always get access to John McGinn's fantasy football team, can I?

Diaz nuts (26:38.44)
He started him. He knew what was going to happen. John McGinn was in on the act.

Dan (26:42.274)
Did they not get in trouble for that like a while back all of the Premiership players for almost effectively insider trading or whatever it would be the equivalent of because they were using inside team knowledge for their fancy football teams? I seem to recall that

Diaz nuts (26:54.555)
given the fact that there's no monetary proportion to it.

Dan (26:57.338)
But there is, technically there is. There are prizes associated, therefore it technically is a competition.

Andy (27:03.561)
I don't think you're ever in danger of winning it.

Dan (27:06.376)
No, I don't think so either.

Diaz nuts (27:06.615)
It's the only thing John McGinn's in danger of winning anyway.

Andy (27:10.087)
Look at insider information, they still count with...

Dan (27:13.719)
Alright, so effectively Salah is the only one you'd pick from the Liverpool team.

Diaz nuts (27:18.279)
or smick ass.

Andy (27:18.417)
Yeah.

Dan (27:21.966)
So you're going to carry on playing?

Diaz nuts (27:22.135)
If he's cheap. Yeah, hopefully. Good question. But Smick has played 90 last week, so it's all good.

Andy (27:24.553)
When's Robert's come back?

Dan (27:30.498)
21st of January for Robbo.

Andy (27:33.198)
Oh, okay, you can have some, I guess. I mean, you're basically praying for assists to continue because he's not going to get any clean sheets. Can't even keep form up, form a terrible.

Dan (27:39.435)
No.

Diaz nuts (27:42.55)
He's had three clean sheets in the past six games.

Dan (27:45.058)
He's not getting any more though. That's it, he's had his lot. Don't use a decent amount for the price you pay for him.

Diaz nuts (27:47.739)
That's it. You're not getting any more fucking.

Andy (27:53.249)
He didn't clean against the wall in this week.

Diaz nuts (27:55.465)
He's had three assists in the past six games, and he's had three clean sheets in the past six games.

Andy (28:00.685)
There you go, keep them.

Dan (28:02.198)
fucking will. He's got Sheffield and then they've got Crystal Palace and then they've got us in game week 17.

Andy (28:07.222)
Mm.

Diaz nuts (28:07.431)
Three easy games.

Dan (28:10.754)
Well, gimme a minute.

Andy (28:10.889)
I mean, poem wise, I wouldn't say that's true.

Diaz nuts (28:12.139)
Yeah.

Dan (28:16.382)
Alright, the next match after the Liverpool one then is Aston Villa vs Man City. Which I guess is one where we can ask the question around Luis and Watkins, which would be playing them against this Man City team. Feels like that's a yes. Strong yes in fact.

Diaz nuts (28:29.647)
play Watkins against any team.

Andy (28:31.581)
I think you play your good plays against any team. I don't know now that Sitsi are like beatable like or at least draw with a ball like I don't know that you don't play.

Dan (28:39.402)
Well, draw with the ball seems a bit harsh. Like it was literally, and I don't mean this in a kind of hyperbolic sense, it was literally taken away from them. They had Grealish one-on-one through by himself and then the ref pulled it back. And that was bullshit.

Andy (28:52.181)
That was bullshit. They got absolutely robbed on that.

Dan (28:55.87)
Yeah, that was shitty.

Diaz nuts (28:56.83)
Yeah, the robot went fucking mental.

Andy (28:58.029)
I don't know how they get away with that. How does a ref get away with that without losing his job?

Dan (29:02.526)
Oh he'll go down and do like one championship game apparently, that's what happened last time he fucked up. He had to go referee one championship game and then came back.

Diaz nuts (29:08.935)
Tell you what though, for saying that it was just a one thing for City, they've drawn their past three games. Liverpool, Spurs and Chelsea.

Andy (29:19.005)
Not a big time team.

Diaz nuts (29:22.587)
Definitely not.

Dan (29:24.277)
Hmm. Isn't this a pattern for them though? Like every kind of Christmas period they go to hibernation and they come out fucking all guns blazing January onwards and smash like a 13-14 games in a row or whatever.

Diaz nuts (29:36.399)
I mean, it could be possible because every other game of the season, they've fucking just kind of walked. But at the same time, maybe this is where they start to see their fatigue with the grads to play in champions league and play in Permi league.

Dan (29:51.762)
On the city side of things, are you concerned about starters? Obviously Highland always starts, that's not a problem, but you've got now the mix-up of your Fuldon Grealish back now from his sickness bug. Alvarez still getting the full game.

Diaz nuts (30:06.455)
I would be worried for Halland. I don't think he'll get both halves. I think he'll get one half.

Dan (30:11.702)
And they got a Champions League match this week as well.

Diaz nuts (30:15.335)
Well, they've got three games this week, so...

Andy (30:18.084)
They're already through, what do they care? And how long do they play every freaking day?

Dan (30:23.203)
So, sub 2 I watched the City match, I was surprised to see Alvarez stay on the entire time. That wasn't what I expected.

Andy (30:32.285)
I think they'll just keep riding all of them. I don't, I think that this is like, especially like Holland, he's like really young.

Dan (30:40.47)
So you think it'll be Haaland, Foden on one side, Alvarez up behind, Degrees on the other side, and that'd be it.

Andy (30:43.925)
Grielish only has... Yep, well Grielish only played half the game, right, with Dooku getting engines. He'll definitely play. Foden will definitely play because they haven't got anyone else.

Dan (30:49.644)
Yes.

Diaz nuts (30:50.992)
Yeah.

Dan (30:56.246)
Okay, so save bits then.

Andy (30:58.321)
Well, they have to win. You know, this is the other thing, right? Like everyone's like, oh, they're going to rest the players. You can't fucking rest your players when you've drawn three games in a row and you're like four points off the top, like in the Premier League.

Diaz nuts (31:06.255)
They could start bilver.

Diaz nuts (31:10.351)
Bielzic I guess though. He's a good player.

Dan (31:10.366)
You're obsessed with Bill Fano.

Dan (31:14.363)
Put me in your fucking team.

Andy (31:15.765)
You fucking love Bilver this week, Jesus Christ.

Diaz nuts (31:17.591)
I put in a city player into my team, as part of my transfers.

Dan (31:20.195)
Oh, mysterious.

Andy (31:21.441)
Hopefully it was Doku before the injury.

Dan (31:23.806)
or Edison maybe is the truth.

Diaz nuts (31:24.211)
No, no, I made it right now, so I'm not that stupid. I'm close, but not that stupid.

Andy (31:28.001)
Didn't that fit? Now that I have doku this week.

Dan (31:33.209)
No. No, that one. So last match on the Wednesday is Man United versus Chelsea.

Diaz nuts (31:41.103)
Come on, Chelsea.

Dan (31:42.35)
How are we feeling about that Andy?

Andy (31:44.257)
I don't know, probably a draw.

Dan (31:46.799)
That was such a defeated sigh. I don't even know anymore man.

Diaz nuts (31:50.499)
I think it's the first time you've ever said manual draw. Fucking hell.

Andy (31:53.889)
Because at Chelsea are kind of on form and they did win this week.

Dan (31:59.198)
Are they though? Fucking Chelsea it's just... I'm not arguing it just feels like they're a complete enigma. Like you don't know which and again not being overly hyperbolic but you literally don't know which fucking Chelsea you're gonna turn up.

Andy (32:00.417)
They still have three goals with ten men.

Andy (32:12.509)
Yeah, but this, I mean at least they have a dangerous half.

Dan (32:16.078)
That's true. Yeah.

Diaz nuts (32:16.635)
There is that.

Andy (32:18.249)
Like if the good ones show up, you're going to get done. If the bad Chelsea show up, I agree. We might pull something out, but I don't know. I have a feeling they'll probably exactly. It will be one. I said, how many goals did we score one goal against Everton?

Diaz nuts (32:24.327)
So, while now.

Dan (32:26.978)
Penalty. One-nil penalty for Bruno.

Diaz nuts (32:34.663)
Hmm

Andy (32:35.493)
That was three goals, sorry, I got it mixed up. I think that we'll probably draw that game, is what my gut says, like a 1-1 or something stupid and annoying. And it will be boring to watch.

Dan (32:50.774)
What about your United assets? You've got Dallow, Dom, you've got McGuire and McTominay, maybe not both now you've done transfers, but are you playing them both against Chelsea?

Diaz nuts (32:59.023)
Next look up us.

Andy (33:01.993)
I'm gonna play Dullo, yeah, because I think there is a real possibility it could be a 0-0.

Diaz nuts (33:10.1)
I may play McTominay but that's only because Gordon's yellow flagged otherwise him and McGuire are both on the bench.

Dan (33:20.598)
Proud of. And on the Chelsea side then, you've already shot at Stirling, a few people have them in their team. Saw a different suite of strikers, or strikers of goal scorers even this week. Any of those taking your fancy? Enzo's.

Andy (33:34.869)
You're picking Enzo up here, defensive midfielder, right?

Dan (33:38.134)
He's got a goal, he did things.

Andy (33:40.789)
Got too close?

Andy (33:44.717)
Still not gonna buy him though.

Dan (33:44.91)
This is where Dom's like, yeah, but I'm already...

Andy (33:48.474)
You can't pull in on it. You're gonna get Christ Angel as you're stuck in the field.

Dan (33:49.934)
Well, Paul's deep on Enzo.

Diaz nuts (33:50.381)
No.

Diaz nuts (33:54.171)
Having the dream is enough for me.

Dan (33:56.906)
Defensive wise for the Chelsea defenders any of those?

Andy (33:57.238)
I don't know.

Andy (34:00.765)
No, I wait till you die. These are not good times to bring them in if you don't have them. I mean, I wait till a home game against someone easy.

Diaz nuts (34:06.987)
After United, the Chelsea fixtures get quite good. So after United, they have Everton, Sheffield United, Wolves, Crystal Palace, Luton.

Dan (34:17.156)
It is a fucking sweet run.

Andy (34:17.397)
Probably, I didn't talk about this before, like it's probably, is DeSassi back yet or not?

Dan (34:23.463)
uh... yeah he's not flagged anymore anyway goes to one chill wall out, sassy back and call wool

Andy (34:26.715)
Thanks.

I think Tiago's a liability, so as soon as they get like good roundabout play again, I think they'd be interesting to have.

Diaz nuts (34:37.135)
What's Rhys James doing these days? Has he got the shits again?

Andy (34:39.245)
Bye, everyone.

Dan (34:39.726)
used noise back use of the bomb on it

Andy (34:43.069)
Yeah, but I think he's not doing anything fantasy-wise, though, is he?

Dan (34:46.034)
He's on 7 points so far but I don't think he's played many matches to be fair.

Andy (34:49.345)
Seven points the whole season.

Diaz nuts (34:51.987)
Didn't play last game.

Dan (34:53.023)
He's played four matches, none of them in 90 minutes.

Andy (34:57.001)
Four matches and got seven points.

Diaz nuts (34:59.911)
to be fair, you did minus three against Newcastle because you got sent off, so.

Andy (35:03.693)
I don't know. He's not, I don't think bringing him Reese James is like a big brain fantasy move until he's proven he can actually do anything. No, wouldn't be doing it myself.

Dan (35:08.692)
It's not the recent streams of the yesteryear.

Dan (35:15.106)
So the last set of games are on Thursday. We go into an Everton versus Newcastle.

Andy (35:21.885)
Newcastle when, isn't it? Obviously.

Dan (35:24.158)
It is. And it reveals my transfer. I brought Isaac in.

Diaz nuts (35:24.394)
All day long.

Andy (35:26.027)
Yeah.

Diaz nuts (35:29.339)
Da na

Andy (35:30.999)
Hmm. Do you have Watkins or not? What are you doing? What are you doing?

Dan (35:31.19)
my big well they've got no I don't have Watkins I can't afford him can't afford him he's like a million or so more than Ezek

Andy (35:40.341)
Who did you get rid of?

Diaz nuts (35:40.487)
How much did I pay for organs?

Dan (35:44.251)
uh... seven point five

Andy (35:44.295)
Good to know.

Dan (35:47.571)
What can see 0.4 million? I won't Isaac because I had previously Alvarez.

Andy (35:55.041)
I wouldn't have got rid of Alvarez either.

Dan (35:57.994)
I just don't think he's doing enough. Like he got one assist in the past three, four games, whatever it's been disappointing.

Diaz nuts (36:04.38)
I brought in Alvarez this week.

Andy (36:06.525)
Oh.

Dan (36:09.352)
The best bit is if you take an easter egg out for him.

Andy (36:12.446)
Oh this is good.

Diaz nuts (36:13.002)
I don't know.

Dan (36:14.078)
That will be interesting content then, we'll see what he does. Tell you what, if he fucking scores I'll just quit, I'll just leave, that's it, it'll be red-blue. Ha ha ha!

Andy (36:22.069)
Did you look at Isaac's last like games before you did this?

Is that one return in the last six weeks?

Dan (36:30.55)
He's not played three of those matches. That's a little unfair, Andy.

Diaz nuts (36:35.303)
Come on, Andy.

Andy (36:35.421)
I can play- no, he's not played two of them, right? Like he's- Oh no, he's not played three, okay. Oh.

Dan (36:38.398)
Three!

Diaz nuts (36:40.667)
He's not scored in any of England's national games, it's because he's not fucking English, it's what.

Andy (36:44.36)
He couldn't even score against United.

Dan (36:47.274)
Out of the past, if you look at the games he has played, out of the past 5 games he has played, he's done 3 out of 5 and he's scored well, 3 out of 5.

Andy (36:55.765)
Oh, let's rescue this one. Rescue this one. He's no Dominic Solanke.

Diaz nuts (36:56.231)
fucking well.

Dan (36:59.018)
the boy just watch it just watch it he's no domnix lanky right he's not

Diaz nuts (37:04.879)
He's no Gillian Alvarez either.

Dan (37:07.846)
Newcastle players obviously, Trippier is essential Julian He's like he's like the No, he's like the dude out of fucking Madagascar Julian

Andy (37:09.085)
I'm not telling you.

Diaz nuts (37:12.741)
Jillian.

Andy (37:23.884)
Is Holland like his mother? No, Bilver and Maurice.

Dan (37:27.951)
Bill Favreau is racing. Oh me. Back to Newcastle. So obviously Anthony Gordon is flagged. 75% chance of playing. Is he still going in your team?

Diaz nuts (37:42.415)
He's already in medsium, so I can't really do much about that now.

Dan (37:47.094)
What about you Andy, would you bring him in? Anthony Gordon?

Andy (37:49.366)
too.

Diaz nuts (37:50.959)
A-A-A-G

Andy (37:52.306)
No, because I still fucking hate him.

Diaz nuts (37:54.592)
A G

Dan (37:56.22)
That isn't moneyball Andy, you're not allowed to bring your feelings into it. The whole point is stats. I'm not going to do that.

Diaz nuts (37:59.131)
That's not money ball. Cause I did, you go for his past six games. He goes eight, two, seven, two, 13, 10. A G.

Dan (38:07.286)
Like, EG is on the fucking money.

Diaz nuts (38:10.503)
He's done the tear.

Dan (38:12.939)
It feels like it's a good show.

Andy (38:13.353)
No, no thank you. No thank you.

Diaz nuts (38:15.408)
He's off his tits.

Dan (38:17.201)
No thank you sir.

Dan (38:20.85)
Alright, and then Nick Pope obviously dead, so that's going to affect Newcastle's defence. He's out. Yeah, fucking dead, dead. Yeah, yeah. Shoulder tear. No, it's... Yeah.

Diaz nuts (38:25.572)
Or is he dead, Dad?

Andy (38:26.845)
Yeah, no, he's at five months. Yeah. Fractured rib. Well, no dislocated shoulder. That's what it was. Dislocated shoulder or something.

Diaz nuts (38:28.827)
Fuck off. What happened to him?

Ugh.

race on a bike.

Dan (38:36.042)
But here's the best bit I was reading. Apparently Newcastle might be in for a shock move for David De Gea. Holy fuck. Imagine that.

Diaz nuts (38:41.927)
David the Hater, get it up here.

Andy (38:43.145)
That one uh...

Andy (38:47.229)
I've just done the picture for this week's podcast, and it's really good.

Diaz nuts (38:51.98)
Is it Julian Alvarez's cake?

Andy (38:53.397)
Yeah, that's right. Just wait. It's good.

Andy (38:58.432)
a civil.

Dan (38:58.594)
King Hulian. It is as well. That's brilliant. Oh me. Yeah so with Pope out, De Bravica obviously deputizing. Karyos is the second deputy to De Bravica. They're gonna bring in another

Diaz nuts (38:58.62)
Oh Jillian.

Diaz nuts (39:08.022)
Christ.

Andy (39:17.409)
Kind of insulting to Debravka, wasn't he? He was a Premier League goalie, like quality for a while. Like, he's not bad. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I think he's fine. Fine, huh? Yeah, tell me about it. That's like... There's several people I would have over and over from many places.

Dan (39:22.634)
We had him. We had him at one point.

I'd have him now over banana.

Dan (39:39.237)
Okay, and then the last match of the week is Spurs vs West Ham. That's an interesting one.

Andy (39:46.317)
I suppose we're gonna murder them. Absolute murder. This week has like, Hyeongmin's son written all over it. Yeah, way.

Diaz nuts (39:52.984)
No way.

Dan (39:54.254)
It's not Christmas yet Andy, that's wishful thinking.

Andy (39:56.917)
We'll see. We'll see. I bet your son gets a goal or an assist this week.

Diaz nuts (40:01.831)
I bet you. Who did I bring? Who were you talking about? Go get points this week. Fuck.

Dan (40:08.458)
You've got it all over us, Tom. That was your best, that was your big brain move.

Diaz nuts (40:11.205)
Oh

Andy (40:12.641)
to know what's on whether Sun will score or not this week.

Dan (40:14.91)
I don't want to take the bet now because Sun may assist.

Diaz nuts (40:16.855)
Edward. I bet Edward's got more than sun this week. Points wise, yeah.

Andy (40:20.753)
Oh, ew. 100%. Sign me up.

Dan (40:20.842)
Points wise.

Wow. Jesus, wow. Wow.

Diaz nuts (40:27.027)
Odd son, Eddward.

Andy (40:29.385)
Yeah, that one I think is fairly easy points in the back for me. Okay.

Diaz nuts (40:33.399)
Hmm if you lose this bet you have to give Steve two mugs

Andy (40:37.885)
No, Steve's not getting the- that whole thing- That whole thing was a scam the first time around?

Dan (40:38.494)
You haven't given one mark yet? Like how can I give two?

Dan (40:43.746)
Fucking Schrodinger's mug? Has it not been delivered yet?

Diaz nuts (40:44.807)
I'm sorry.

Andy (40:48.249)
Oh, I just realized that I haven't got a keeper for this week.

Dan (40:51.958)
What? Oh, because you don't want to play areola against sun.

Andy (40:53.549)
because it's Sanchez's work.

Andy (40:57.897)
Not good. Areola against Sanchez against United, which I don't think either.

Diaz nuts (41:01.414)
Sanchez against United.

Dan (41:01.686)
Fucking Sanchez against United, I'm a United fan, it's that one all day long. Come on now.

Diaz nuts (41:04.903)
Fucking Goalless Wonders, Jesus Christ.

Andy (41:08.15)
I have two transfers as well and I want to get rid of... I want to get a bad keeper. So I think I might...

Diaz nuts (41:12.303)
He wants Jillian Alvarez.

Dan (41:13.817)
Is it cheap to bravka is if you want to go for cheap?

I think it's a 3.9 or something.

Diaz nuts (41:18.563)
I'm going to say 4.3.

Andy (41:21.044)
Z3.9, that's interesting.

Dan (41:22.562)
the profits three point nine

Andy (41:24.95)
Oof, that is...

Diaz nuts (41:25.101)
Oh, what?

Dan (41:26.322)
Yep, and he's there for at least three months until January, well January transfer is complete.

Diaz nuts (41:30.191)
He's there for the taking.

Andy (41:30.262)
Well, it's always signed David De Gea and then it screws my transfer.

Dan (41:34.647)
Ugh, I'm sure you survive.

Andy (41:37.041)
Everything's on Prime Video now, what the hell's this shit?

Dan (41:39.114)
Yeah, I told you it's brought by Amazon Prime. They got all the midweek games this week. So everything's on Prime this week. Just this week.

Andy (41:44.979)
Just for this week. Okay.

Dan (41:48.834)
Don't panic.

Diaz nuts (41:49.047)
Red, Blue, sponsored by Amazon.

Dan (41:51.978)
I wish. Haha.

Andy (41:52.069)
I wish. Yeah. Red, red, blue, I wish I was in the server bills. I wish I was in the server bills.

Diaz nuts (41:54.684)
Get daddy a proper microphone.

Dan (41:59.53)
So back to the Spurs versus West Ham game. Let's quickly talk about West Ham because then we can finish off talking about Spurs. You got Jarrod Bowen with his Fat or Fluid knee. I've now diverted out of Ward Prowse. Is there anyone on West Ham you'd actually want in your team?

Andy (42:10.484)
Peace out.

Andy (42:15.079)
I don't know you pick him but he's the only other fantasy relevant player right is kudos because he's

Diaz nuts (42:19.702)
sucheck or ku-file.

Andy (42:22.505)
Yeah, but Kudos scored last week.

Dan (42:25.943)
I look at West Ham, how are they sitting?

Andy (42:27.977)
He did. Kudos, God.

Diaz nuts (42:31.83)
Kufal got the assist.

Andy (42:34.941)
Yeah, I wouldn't bring in Kudos, but...

Dan (42:36.162)
Hmm.

Dan (42:39.554)
He's on 44 for the season. Is that because he hasn't played that many games or? No. No, he's played them all. Played them all except Looting. Yeah.

Andy (42:43.317)
Kudos, yeah, yeah. He hasn't played that much. Kudos. I think they played him in like a weird position to start with as well though, like, and then they moved him forward, like as they started getting into the season, but I think he also like grew into the team as well, but probably.

Dan (42:57.471)
Yeah, if you-

Dan (43:00.878)
Form-wise, past five looks great. Season-wise looks terrible. So maybe, you know, if that is the case of, if you were picking for form, you'd be picking Kudos. So it seems to be coming into a patch, or at least is in the middle of a patch. And then obviously Jared Bowen.

Diaz nuts (43:15.111)
Come on, Moneyball, pick him up.

Andy (43:17.997)
I don't need them right now. I have to figure out, I told you, my problem right now is freaking bench. I need to get like upgrade on my bench before all these blanks start.

Diaz nuts (43:28.187)
Get kudos there, he's only 6.6.

Andy (43:30.465)
Well, I've got Van Da Ven from Brighton who I want to get rid of. No, not Van Da Ven, Van Da Hek or whatever. Yeah. And then I've got Bell and then I've got West Ham striker who doesn't get on the bench. So like, I need to like change my bench around. That's what I need to do.

Diaz nuts (43:36.055)
And the heck, yeah.

Dan (43:45.474)
two non-players on my bench which is annoying. So the Spurs side then to round it out and then we can talk about the leagues. Sun obviously doing amazing things, is this a form piece, did well, scored a goal, scored an own goal, just did everything. And an assist apparently, he's got the imperfect trio.

Andy (44:06.133)
He's like in the top five of the fantasy point scorers. I think it's fine to just keep him all season.

Dan (44:11.51)
But it's priced now, if you look at bringing him in now, would you bring him in?

Andy (44:15.881)
I don't know, how much did I pay for them?

Diaz nuts (44:18.567)
There's nearly like 9 million or something.

Dan (44:18.578)
substantially less.

Andy (44:20.437)
What does he know?

Dan (44:21.812)
9.6

Andy (44:23.357)
I paid 9.3, so there's no way I'm getting rid of them.

Dan (44:26.759)
9.6 would you pay that for him now?

Andy (44:30.113)
Probably. There's very other, like, there's not many people who are consistently getting points this season. There's like him, Salah, Harlan, Watkins, Saka.

Diaz nuts (44:30.57)
Mmm.

Dan (44:40.534)
soccer. Yeah.

Diaz nuts (44:43.143)
consistently getting points? Hong Min Sun, you fucker on crack. Consistency is not a question, the question, you just get square points in bunches.

Andy (44:45.065)
Yeah. He's in the top five. Dingleberry.

Dan (44:53.61)
Yeah, when he does it, he does it well. I can see what Dom's saying. He basically hit the fucking roof like four or five times out of the 13... 14.

Diaz nuts (44:59.247)
Five times. Five times he's had double digits, the rest of the time he does fucking nothing.

Andy (45:00.769)
to be fair.

Dan (45:04.366)
So nine blanks, five absolute fucking home runs.

Andy (45:07.087)
He scored 9 goals in 14 games though.

Dan (45:10.102)
Yeah, but in five matches is what we're saying. So you've got a five out of 14%.

Andy (45:14.081)
I don't know that it matters. I think part of it is like he goes the way that spurs go. And like they've been in the last few games, like getting send-ins off and conceding early goals. Like he can't do everything on his own. And now he's having to do it on his own.

Dan (45:27.37)
Yeah but it's like a 35% chance he'll do something and then a 65% chance he'll just fuck it up.

Andy (45:34.281)
Yeah, but if you, I mean, we've talked about this in the preseason, right? Like at the start of the season, it doesn't matter if you're going to keep a player for the whole season when they get the points, it just matters the total points that player gets through the season.

Dan (45:48.898)
So if you have him, keep him. Would you rather get buying him now to keep the rest of the season at 9.6?

Andy (45:55.497)
Yeah, I mean, he's going to play every game and he's going to play center forward for a top 16 the whole season. In midfield.

Dan (46:02.072)
You don't seem happy about that.

Diaz nuts (46:06.452)
I just, you know what, if you did have a new team and the one time you didn't start them because he had not scored anything in the past couple of weeks or you considered transfer him out and then you did transfer him out, it'd be the one time where he did actually do something. I don't want to have to keep 9.6 million there the whole time.

Andy (46:20.981)
Put it this way.

Andy (46:24.893)
Salah, you paid 13.1 for 111 points. Son, you pay 9.6 for 94 points.

That's a whole player's worth the difference in defense.

Dan (46:38.322)
Yeah, literally a bench defender worth between them.

Andy (46:44.469)
And the problem is, because he's streaky, you can't try and swap him in and out and predict it, because you probably wouldn't have predicted Man City being one of the return weeks.

Diaz nuts (46:56.248)
The problem is you can't ever catch them in though, because you can't be confident in the fact that it's going to be one of the week's race scores.

Dan (47:01.974)
which flies in the face of your, if you're buying expensive players, captain them, Andy.

Andy (47:01.997)
Wow.

Andy (47:06.545)
I don't consider 9.3 like a must-captain price. There you're talking the Sala- there's only really two this season, right? It's like Sala and Holland.

Dan (47:15.102)
Yep.

Andy (47:16.789)
I mean, you pay over 12 million, you pretty much have to captain whoever that is.

Dan (47:21.131)
or Watkins if you don't.

Diaz nuts (47:23.408)
So, welcome.

Andy (47:23.701)
Yeah, there you go. But I think that's better, so we should play them all. And I've got Poro as well, and I'm going to play him.

Dan (47:25.456)
All right.

Dan (47:29.482)
I was about to say, what about defense? Are you still happy playing all your defenders? And the answer is obviously yes.

Andy (47:33.045)
Just para. I think para is having a good season.

Dan (47:37.094)
Alright, should we look at the leagues? Do you want to go through the red, blue league?

Andy (47:43.497)
Red Road Blue League, yep.

Diaz nuts (47:45.252)
Definitely got it up.

Dan (47:46.564)
Yeah, that one that we always talk about, immediately after we finish talking about the games every week for like a season and a half now.

Andy (47:46.765)
Definitely got it up, definitely not bringing it up right now.

Andy (47:54.122)
Yep. Okay. Number 10, all of the great. Number nine, it was my Shabir. Number eight, Muhayki Oscar. Number seven, Alan Sinclair. Number six, Conor Gunn. Dom's still fifth. I think Aaron Milne got top points in the top 10 this week. 70 points. That's actually really good this week. Hobie Miller, 59.

Tobias Scott 58 and Steve top 54. So Tobias Scott caught up a little bit this week.

Dan (48:22.826)
Are you rooting against, actively rooting against Steve on these? Is that what we're hearing here?

Andy (48:26.205)
I'm like, Oh, I'm fully rooting against Steve. Yeah. I'm really, I am team who's in second Tobias Scott.

Dan (48:30.473)
Okay, just clarifying that one.

Cool. Speaking of being in team whoever's second, the Family League as it stands. So I'm still in last. I scored 55 in the week for 775. Dad scored 58 in the week for 786. Andy scored 59 in the week for 793. We then jump into the 800s. So Noah got 51 in the week for 802.

Diaz nuts (48:41.952)
Nah, fuck it, here we go. Sick.

Dan (49:04.374)
Big change at the top there.

Diaz nuts (49:04.612)
Fucking Jesus, we're on the fucking same points for fuck's sake.

Andy (49:08.446)
I'm going to go ahead and turn

Dan (49:09.255)
64 points in the week for 847 and Eli's taken the top with 70 points in the week for 847.

Andy (49:16.192)
Hmm.

Diaz nuts (49:16.976)
fucking same points.

Dan (49:18.13)
Usurped usurped. Sorry your second place. I'm all I'm hearing is it's crying

Andy (49:24.641)
Tell Noah to watch out, I'm closing the gap on him, another 8 points mode down this week.

Dan (49:29.906)
I'll let him know. I'm sure he'll be really concerned.

Andy (49:31.317)
But no, someone comment. Ask him out. Ask him, you know, Angus working out this week.

Diaz nuts (49:32.588)
You can be like, okay, boomer.

Dan (49:34.434)
Yeah.

Dan (49:40.224)
Teams wise Dom, what's your changes? What have you done?

Diaz nuts (49:45.388)
I did a double change just for shits and giggles. I took out the, who is my third trigger? Gabby, Jesus. And I took out Matt and Ellie.

Dan (49:55.746)
Did you not just get him in? Like you had him for like two games and you're just like, fuck that noise.

Andy (49:59.159)
Yeah, he's directing his horrific pick from a couple weeks ago.

Diaz nuts (50:02.852)
Took out Martinelli, took out Jesus. Brought in Sacher, brought in Gillian Alvarez.

Andy (50:08.925)
Oh god, sack of bandwagon rolls on.

Dan (50:12.438)
Sucker and HULIEN

Andy (50:15.277)
Saka and Jillian, I'll summarize.

Diaz nuts (50:15.472)
Gillian's ghost car for me.

Dan (50:17.442)
All right. Andy.

Andy (50:21.473)
I haven't done anything yet and I'm not sure what I'm going to do, but I have two transfers, so I'll definitely do something. The bench is kind of a mess, so I'll probably end up just swapping one 4.0 defender for a better playing 4.0 defender.

Dan (50:25.014)
He needs to do something. Yeah.

Diaz nuts (50:27.67)
do something.

Dan (50:36.142)
enough and my big change was Hoolian coming out for EZack going in.

Diaz nuts (50:44.74)
You're gonna regret that then.

Dan (50:44.778)
Alright. We shall see.

Andy (50:47.35)
Yeah. It's not a great week for bringing players in because the blank's coming up. I'm trying to be careful about what I'm doing, so I have a full-playing bench for when... Because I'm going to have two city players at least then. So I need to keep playing.

Dan (50:58.946)
That was part of my reasoning, because I had three. I had Hulian, Foden, and Haaland, and Imbuemo, so I would have had four for the blank.

Andy (51:07.07)
Yeah, you need to... If you've got... Yeah, I mean, people should be thinking about that. If you've got three City players and a Buemo, you need to get down to three by the time the line comes around.

Dan (51:16.45)
We'll see how it affects me tomorrow. So the games kick off at half seven teams close at six o'clock. See you there. Ooh, tomorrow's first game Andy is a thriller from vanilla. Wolves versus Burnley.

Andy (51:23.585)
Who's the games tomorrow? What's tomorrow's games?

Andy (51:32.449)
So is there any games that I care about tomorrow? Why not? Okay, so Saka and Suleeba, these guys, decent. All right, maybe I'll bring in another Arsenal play to make it more interesting, I don't know.

Diaz nuts (51:33.552)
So fucking rank.

Dan (51:34.426)
Luton versus Arsenal you care about afterwards. Quote by State.

Diaz nuts (51:47.076)
Gabby Jesus.

Andy (51:48.689)
I think I'm okay for Jesus, Dominic.

Dan (51:49.556)
Just to go full roundabout on the pigs.

Andy (51:53.322)
Dom's just gonna bring him back in again for a minus four.

Dan (51:56.468)
No, I miss him. I miss him so much. Fucking dumb brokeback mountain. I wish I could quit you.

Diaz nuts (51:57.552)
get out of work and bring in Jesus.

Andy (52:00.641)
All right.

Andy (52:04.085)
We've got to stop here because I've got to go edit this until I get it out tonight.

Andy (52:09.905)
All right.