The big fantasy news from this international break has been the official announcement of the doubles in GW34. With the double fixtures in GW37 also coming into focus, it’s time to get serious about our strategies for maximizing points in the run-in. In this episode, the Cheaters take a closer look at the key clubs and players who will impact GW34 and how we plan to use our remaining chips. Most importantly, when are we thinking we’ll wildcard? Plus, as to not forget the gameweek right in front of us, we talk about GW30 transfer targets, captaincy options, and just how quickly Salah might be playing his part. Hail Cheaters!

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Hey cheaters welcome to the always cheating podcast my name is Josh L I’m here with Brandon K Brandon K how are you last name redacted uh we reveal why I’ve been on the run this International break I should have just said I should have said Josh X and Brandon X you know

Really kept it totally wide open oh yeah yeah totally we’re going for the the formerly known as Twitter sort of sponsorship um good good good I’m glad to be talking with you you know sometimes International break pods you kind of struggle for what do we talk

About it like the next game week feels so far away even though it’s just a week away but there has been a big announcement of course the double game weeks for gameweek 34 or have officially I don’t think yeah I don’t think you should say of course because I think

It’s a um I it was kind of like a Saturday news dump you know the way that like like when the White House has bad news they want to share they wait until 4 4:30 on Friday afternoon to to share it I feel like that was like the double

Game week sort of were dropped secretly dur the international price so yeah the the Premier League and their endless pursuit to thwart or make make it uh trickier for us I mean I’m supporting the Premier League I’m wanting wearing my summer series t-shirt you can check

Check us out if you’re listening on the podcast feed of course go uh find us on YouTube where you can see uh what I’m wearing uh of course that’s the new name of the Pod is going to be always cheating what what we wore and put this on with always cheating yeah yeah

Exactly um cool how are you Josh I mean so the this news of the double game weeks kind of reinvigorated you in your your your your fantasy brain we’ve been sort of locked in on March Madness and college basketball for like the last four days that’s true although

My my beloved Michigan State our beloved Michigan State Spartans already out of it so um take the one one win it was a respectable showing no one thought they’d beat ex exactly nice respectable showing um no I I think um it was nice it was actually nice the international break

Was was timed with um with with the um launch of March Madness because it’s a it’s already a lot of sports for me my family you know not even me so much I could probably watch an even 16 hours a day with really no problem like I’m such

A sports junkie that that would be fine I’d watch almost anything you know as long as as long as there were two sides Brandon you know and something to be one I would watch it so what about golf uh often referred to as a as a metaphor for

Fantasy because it’s just guys out there playing against themselves would you watch golf I’ll even I’ll even watch golf yeah I won’t watch Liv because I have some like kind of uh moral issues with with with Liv but you know but I I will I would watch a PG I’ll watch the

Valero open or the vpar or the they all have terrible sponsorships I they really okay we we can’t get we can’t go down this road too much because there’s there’s so much there so much to discuss but yes I’ll watch almost anything Welter boing match I’d watch a

Welterweight boxing match I boxing is actually probably one of my least favorite sports to watch uh yeah it’s like I don’t really understand it either and like it feels like the best boxers are the ones who are defensive right so they’re just constantly kind coming together right there’s lot of like

Clutching free hugs basically yeah yeah exactly you don’t get those like Mike the reason why Mike Tyson is still popular 35 years after he like you know like his career was over basically is because he would like do what we thought boxing what they do in the Rocky movies

Giant punches yeah exactly GI punches to the face all right so yeah speaking of punches to the face back to Fantasy see so they announc let’s see 1 2 3 4 5 six seven double game weeks but uh all all for for gameweek 34 which is which is in

Late April um and uh but because of when they announced that it sort of allows us to fill in the rest of the puzzle as well in terms of the other fixtures and when we think they’re going to slot in the only real question uh it comes down

To Chelsea and Spurs uh who are the two clubs that have um two two fixers still to make up and so what we suspect and and again I I know this is like a broken record but I just I don’t want to use his stuff without always giving him credit for it because

I think that Ben Ben kin does a great job of of compiling this stuff and so um you know credit to him for for you know pulling together these these charts that sort of you know break things down a little bit and so we know that um so we

You know we kind of we effectively know that um who’s going to play in game 34 now and then we have a pretty good sense of when Chelsea and Spurs are going to double and that is going to be in um uh in gameweek 37 for sure that’s like an

Absolute lock uh like 99% and then most likely gameweek 36 as well right so um it it basically uh allows us to do do some like really serious planning now right like you and I are in a similar position we both have wild cards and bench boost left we both used our free

Hits um unsuccessfully like everybody else who free hited in 29 I think we have to we have to say that unfortunately literally just forgot to activate my free hit and just started um uh Anthony Robinson I would have been in a better place than I was as things

Turned out but you know say lovey right we you have to you have to always be looking forward not backwards Brandon right especially when it comes to Fantasy what’s the point in lamenting uh missed opportunities so we have um basically the big decision point now for

Those of us who still have a wild card which is true for both of us is do you wild card in order to Target the the the doubles that are that that are coming up right the 34 doubles um or do you wild

Card to or do you kind of try to get to 34 try to basically field the best possible team using transfers right because you have five transfer Windows right game week 30 31 32 33 34 it’s five different weeks without any hits right where you could build a team that that

Is ready for for 34 right it’s it’s honestly quite a quite a few weeks when you consider that you probably already have a number these players in your squad already right um certainly like uh Arsenal in my case um they’re kind of the only I guess Bournemouth too is is

Still hanging around a lot of squads so now we have a reason to keep him exactly exactly so we have you know there are some uh there are a handful of players it would not be I you know I don’t think I could get to 11 necessarily uh and so

You know I don’t want to like kind of do everything uh right off the bat here but I think that the real focus of this pod is going to be about about these doubles because I think the strategy that you choose for how you want to play game

Weeks 34 and 37 right is going to dictate what you do beginning as soon as this week right and so it’s really important I think to to start to look ahead a little bit and one thing I thought I you know you asked me earlier

Um if I was energized by the doubles and I think I got there you know like there’s there’s a kind of moment when on Saturday when I saw the announcement and I was I was like I had even want to like go there yet you know cuz you once it’s

Like once you open that door you know you’re going all you’re going to think about it’s a lot of time a lot of energy but then this afternoon as I was getting ready for the Pod and I started to look at it a little bit and think things

Through a little bit and started to think about my own you know my own kind of um you know my own strategy for how I want to Target um the doubles uh you know it did get me sort of energized because I was like okay this I think you

Know it’s like I think step a will work I think step B will work I started to sort of like really think things through and um and I did you know I did find it sort of energizing and I think one thing that I really like too was because they

Launched it on Saturday the benefit from kind of my perspective maybe people’s listening to this pod too is that I have not been inundated with strategy advice yet right like I don’t I honestly don’t know genuinely what the optimal strategy is for for you know for targeting these

So I have been coming up with my own thoughts and not and they haven’t been sort of uh tinkered with by by other opinions that I’ve sort of added to my head right and and sort of maybe and and sometimes cluttered it up I think right

So um you know I think that uh I mean do you have any initial thoughts just on the doubles themselves you know in terms of who plays when they do um maybe what your kind of your early thoughts on what you want to do for your own Squad yeah I

Guess I find the game wi 34 doubles immediately a little bit more intriguing sheerly from a Liverpool perspective and I think I I felt like an outsider with Liverpool assets for uh the you know the last couple of months mostly because Salo was out for such a long time yeah

But looking so you you pinpointed Arsenal and Bournemouth also and those those I think are really the three teams that I’m interested in in 34 Liverpool Arsenal Bournemouth so my immediate feeling is I can put together a team that uh is going to work without a uh

Wild card but the problem going back to Liverpool is mosala and I’m really um kind of struggling to figure out um how to move the pieces around in my squad to get Salah in really it’s a we talked a little bit about this in our patreon pod

On Thursday night of like all of our midfielders right now are working really well from Saka and foden and sun and Cole Palmer where does Salah fit in so I think maybe punting on that and seeing if over the next one two maybe three game weeks we we we understand which of

Those midfielders goes to make way for Salah but prior to gameweek 34 it is Sheffield United at anfield in gameweek 31 this is what’s got me kind of thinking of maybe just saying I’m playing a wild card not for the double game weeks I’m playing a wild card to

Get the best asset in mosala as soon as I can because the way the way they’re kind of split up between 34 and presumably 37 is they’re kind of nice little digestible chunks the teams that stick out are City Spurs and possibly Manchester United if they can put

Another run of form together because they have two home fixtures against Arsenal and Newcastle I’m feeling like I can get uh good squads together for both of these doubles without a wild card does that make sense yeah uh I think it’s um my first thought is that people who saved their free hit

Are an incredible spot right now when it comes to game game 30 37 um I think that um it really would be awesome to have a free hit for 37 now and um yeah I mean it was just a gamble I know I said I wasn’t going to look backwards but I I

Think I I don’t disag like it it didn’t work out like so be it right like there’s there’s a version of this free hit where we end up on 52 points a piece right and James Madison gets a goal and an assist and whatever you know a

Handful of other things like go great and and we’re sort of in a different spot than we are you unfortunately it went almost literally as bad as it possibly could right like to a comical degree um and not just like oh we loaded up on loten player but like literally

Like every single team that played outside of Fulham honestly who we probably you know underrated um well I said on this pod Josh that that that game we is going to come down to what version of Fulham shows up against Spurs and I was correct it just turned out uh

We didn’t we didn’t really uh go in the right direction with that prediction so I’m we’re going to do obviously we’re talking we’re kind of just jumping right into it here but I want to do two things on this pod okay uh actually three things uh the first is how much time do

We have yeah exactly yeah we we’ll see how this goes uh the first is I want to uh talk about General kind of chip strategy which we’re already doing a little bit uh the second one is I want to talk about wild card players that I

Would Target right like I think a lot of people are ultimately and I guess maybe I’m putting the cart before the horse here but I think a lot of people are ultimately going into wild carding in the lead up to 34 right uh if not this

Week the next week or or very soon um and so I want to talk about the players that I would be targeting if I wild carded and spoiler alert there’s a very good chance I do that over the next couple of weeks um so I want to talk

About that uh so chips Wild Card strategy and then I don’t want to make the mistake of ignoring the game week in front of us which is something what sometimes what happens when you have a a big double that’s announced so once we sort of talk through things a little bit we’re going

To talk about game week 30 and look ahead to um to transfers and fixtures and captains because it’s actually quite a tricky week for the captaincy I think right I mean especially if you don’t wild card right if you wild card and you bring in Salah sure probably the the

Easy Captain pick there but if you don’t uh then I think you have a lot of options right Cole Palmer at home to uh to Burnley uh you have um Sun at home to luten toown right like just to name a couple or you could just go with Holland

Right I mean a player who is kind of always a good Pi all the good guys are playing at home except for Arsenal uh who are away at the edod yeah Watkin salanki even uh so yeah this a really I think it’s a great differential week if

You want to try to use the arm band to get ahead I think so too uh because uh in in in Arsenal are arguably the the best defense in the leak right and so that obviously diminishes um Holland’s appeal a little bit as well right so um

So yeah so that’s kind of the the game plan uh for this pod so uh my thinking right now is um I sort of two things one is I think I’m probably going to go ahead and wild card most likely I think in gameweek 31 instead of gameweek 30 um because and

The reason I want I think I’m in a wild card now is because I just think it makes more sense to bench boost in gameweek 34 I just feel like the it’s just a lot easier to fill up your squat with with players that that that might

Return for you uh in 34 um than it is in 37 I also am a little scared of gameweek 37 doubles in general I think that they can be um they can be kind of trappy sometimes right gameweek 37 doubles like um we’re not talking about the house

Music here uh yeah we’re not talking about we’re not talking about house but like I think uh I you know like Man City almost certainly going to be in a um in the title race still I mean maybe maybe by 37 it’s decided um you know in one in

Their favor or someone else’s favor but most likely I would expect at least two of the three teams that are competing to still be there right coming down the stretch so um so they’ll have something to play for but Brighton man united Newcastle like I’m just not certain

We’re going to have you know like a kind of like a squad full of people that we feel really like good about right so so that is sort of Leaning me towards um Wild Card like wild card in early for gameweek 34 I think it’s I honestly

Think it’s really tricky though um you know and I think part of the problem uh and and there’s actually an argument I think for for free hitting in 34 if you still had it is um you know Chelsea in particular have a really nice run of

Fixtures uh in the next handful of weeks right but they don’t double in 34 and even Spurs play uh for they play Luton and Forest at home in two of the next three weeks right uh but it’s very hard to have a strategy where you bring in

Salah and keep Holland and and somehow keep sun in that Squad as well right it’s like you were talking before it’s like ideally you’d wait to see who to drop between like foden and sun and all those players um so you know I think I do think it’s really tricky I think for

Me does Palmer survive a wild card uh in game week 30 31 I think he does and I I think the reason that he does is actually with an eye towards Chelsea’s doubles ahead right I think that would be the reason to to do it because um and

You know and Holland probably survives too for for kind of similar reasons right so you have Holland um uh you know you have Holland and Palmer that’s probably the only two and then the question would be whether it’s worth having three like maybe you could make

An argument the part part of the problem is that if you’re bench boosting in 34 Chelsea play away to Arsenal which is you know so kind of it turns someone like Malo Gusto into a kind of less than ideal option right for a for a bench

Boost and like he’d be your weakest link almost certainly right on a on a 34 bench boost um but you know so maybe it’s like sun I think sun is a really tricky one um I think Spurs blanking in gameweek 34 kind of resolves the Sala

Issue in a way where Sun just become Sala on a wild card or a free transfer if you can if you can do it and I think that’s worth looking at so um I feel like that starts to make things a little easier as you size up

34 yeah I think it’s really um I don’t know I mean could you could you make an argument that that it’s just so hard to get a team for 37 that works that like you really should just hold your W like the problem is right if you there it’s

Just really hard to Target 34 right and just and just I know no one’s like taking notes as we say this out loud here but just as a so Liverpool Arsenal Bournemouth Palace wolves Everton sheffields are the teams that double in 34 and we also strongly suspect 99%

Likelihood that Chelsea Spurs Man City Brighton Man United and Newcastle will double in 37 right no overlap between any of those teams and and as you noted uh Spurs don’t play in 34 uh and we also are going to get doubles from Chelsea and Spurs most likely 36 um you know 70%

Uh likelihood um so that really does mean you either pick one or the other and so maybe and again like you you know I’m sorry if this seems like we’re not like coming in super definitively but I think like this is part of this part of what

Makes this fun and I guess I do feel kind of especially engaged right now is that I like it’s fun to think about this stuff like it is not to me it is not written stone that there’s like a very clear way that you should be playing

These right so I think you could make an argument though that 1 2 3 four five transfers right a five five transfer Windows plus any plus any possible hits and just Target 34 possibly without bench boosting right would be would be the way to go and then

And then um and then wild card in 35 or 36 and then with a with a M towards bench bus 37 there is like an argument for that I think right and it and it basically comes down to the depth of the teams that double right in in those in

Those fixtures uh and also if you double in 35 and 36 it’s a lot easier to have four or five players from Chelsea and and and Spurs which you really can’t do right um so that’s scary to because of the Spurs blank and 34 it becomes scary

To drop sun for that week knowing you almost certainly need to have him back for 35 or potentially 36 whenever that the first uh Spurs double happens um yeah so the wild card after 34 just leaves you of that uh responsibility and you don’t have to plan for that so a

Free sort of free transferring Sun out ahead of 34 and I mean I think that’s kind of like what I’m trying to solve is Sun out Salah in done and then I’ll just kind of like build a 34 Squad organically through hits and free transfers than wild card in 35 to just

Blow it out for the home stretch load up on Spurs and Chelsea Etc um yeah wow so we might have both just talked ourselves into a a 35 or 36 Wild Card yeah maybe I mean my my first impulse is your first impulse though we should say is the wild

Card in 31 you know the the first game W after an international break is just always kind of a mess and uh it’s harder to predict I don’t really have an appetite to Wild Card right now heading into gameweek 30 so let’s get our legs

Back check it out wild card into 31 get get myself set that’s like where I am at right now but yes we have just built a very good case for wild card 35 so who are the best teams that uh don’t double in 34 um you have Man City they play away

To Brighton so I think even if I were going all in on the doubles I think I would most likely still have Holland um yeah United have the plum fixture hosting Sheffield United so this is you know I I’m not looking for opportunities to bring Manchester United players in

But that that could be it yep I just think it’s tricky because um yeah I mean yeah that that is that is true honestly I mean uh yeah it’s not a great Burnley right after that also at at home followed by the double which is two it’s like this Manchester United run starting

In 34 home cheffield unit Home Burnley away away Crystal Palace and then a double with two home fixtures granted they’re not the best fixtures with Arsenal and Newcastle but there you have it it’s almost like Manchester United are going to they’re going to be talked about a lot I think down the home

Stretch yeah which we have barely done uh so far I’m not looking forward to not not since gameweek eight or something like that um so yeah I think there’s you know I think you can go either way I think the the real question is whether

Um you’re sort of okay not going all in on the double in 37 right because if you go for the double in 34 and you don’t have a free H right which is the case for not everybody listening but it’s case for me and you and so I guess

That’s kind of on our mind primarily I think if you if you have the free head it just makes sense to just just go ahead and and um and just and I think I think the bench was I don’t know I mean you know maybe it’s just sort of again

It just it depends a little bit um on uh I just like you got to look at like the quality of the doubles there like a lot a lot to consider I mean the problem is once you get past Liverpool Arsenal and arguably Bournemouth it’s

Not a great like you know I guess I mean wolves are home twice which is they can score that’s appealing yeah they can score for sure um I think that for me personally I have two I have two Arsenal players and I have one Bournemouth

Player right so I have a total of three players across uh the seven squads the double I mean effectively it’s six right because I’m not going to be worried about Sheffield but they do double and in 34 as well right so I have five transfers without of hits right so and

That’s assuming no injuries um so that means I could get uh to four five six seven8 let’s say that I keep Holland right um then that gets me to nine and so then I’m maybe looking at like maybe one hit for 34 something like that um

And so that would get me to like 10 effectively nine plus Holland and plus one other Singler um so I think I I think it could work um it’s just uh I don’t know yeah I think it’s I just think it’s really tricky I hate having no Liverpool players is really part of

The problem and the appeal of of wild carding right now is that you could immediately get three right uh jump right from zero to three whether you do it in 30 or 31 yeah I agree with you Liverpool really is the thing and would

I be that excited to uh I mean the main reason to wild card after the 34 double is so you could triple on Chelsea and Spurs who are two kind of uh schizophrenic teams at the moment where Liverpool is uh is very bankable that that team that’s true yeah why am I so

Excited to double up on Chelsea and Spurs and I just I just tripled up on Spurs for a total of five points yeah think got seven because I camped in right but okay so here’s the case for bench boost another way to look at the bench boost and 34 is we mentioned

Keeping Cole Palmer keeping Holland you’re going to end up if if everybody else apart from these guys uh are doublers in your team you’re you’re bench boosting to get single games uh from some of the best assets in the fantasy game being polymer and Holland

So I think a bench boost by that logic feels great you’re either bench boosting some marginal doubler guys from wolves good or you’re effectively bench boosting to get Holland and Cole Palmer into the mix uh which is right honestly good defensive defensively because they’re high ownership um so the the

Bench boost in 34 I think is less a just layout 15 doublers it’s more I don’t know just um just it’s a mix of double players that play twice blended with good quality players you’d want to start regardless of right exactly exactly yeah yeah that makes sense all right well

Let’s um let’s talk a little bit more about um just kind of General thoughts here like like depending on what you still have you know available to you so um I think you know if you’re just like very clean and simple if you have a

Bench boost left um 34 37 those are the two weeks um that you want to you want to Target as far as wild card goes uh if you still have that then Wild Card between 30 and 33 um and which gives you bench boost and 34 most likely um yeah

That’s interesting like is there a way to wild card and then bench I don’t wild card in 34 so no okay oh well I guess you could do that but I was thinking um could you wild card early and but and yet in Target 34 but actually still bench boosting 37 like I

That that is an interesting thought all right we’re covering every possible tactic here I like exactly that is so yeah so I guess there might be a way to do that basically like you’re basically wild carding that you have Salah right that feels like the most important part

Of it and then um otherwise but otherwise you sort of maybe want the bench depth I mean uh we’re going to talk about players to Target um know wild car for 34 U like I don’t wild with 34 in mind um but there are certain spots like with goalkeepers where you’re

Like well maybe maybe I prefer to have I don’t even really know I mean Onana can we go back there again Brandon do we want to go back there Ona’s interesting there was a a chart that popped up in my Twitter feed of goalkeepers in the Premier League who

Have prevented the most XG basically who are the best um defensive goalkeepers in terms of shot stopping in the league and Onana was top of that chart so Onana is having a very strange season he’s had so many comic moments um but he is stopping some really high XG chances as far as

Just like putting our fantasy uh glasses on I still kind of like him I still like him yeah I I this whole Squad I just it’s hard for me to like yeah Tas of them right like it’s maybe I’m not even sure we should given given that they’re

They’re poor you know returns uh capsized both of our fantasy seasons in the first like 10 weeks or so um anyway sorry so you most likely if you’re going to Wild Card the next handful of weeks uh you’re going to bench boost in 34 um

If you know or or at least even if you don’t bench boost just sort of wild card with 34 in mind or you wait until 34 is over uh in which case you wild card in 35 or 36 and then you get ready for 37

Um again I do think that the gameweek 37 double is is a tricky one and uh it’s it because as a reminder it is literally the last week of the season right it is it is you know you’re heading into gameweek 38 right the final game week of

The season that’s Sunday right these matches tend to be either gigantically important right or or utterly meaningless and and the utterly meaningless ones are are are pretty scary right because teams can just be completely checked out uh sometimes which can work in your favor occasionally yeah Harry Kane on the last

Day last season yeah exactly um well yeah for some reason in my head I think of 38 as being a typically high-scoring game we and 37 being a like a frustrating double game week but maybe I’m you know I don’t know if that’s backed up by results or not so all right

So but let’s say that you’re going to Wild Card in the next couple of weeks and you’re going to look ahead to game weeks um you know with an eye towards game week 34 where again Liverpool and Arsenal two the best three teams in the league are playing twice right uh it is

A good spot to have six players from those two squads um the Liverpool is honestly in a slightly tricky spot right now I think in terms of who you’d want to want to Target outside of solah um so let’s just start goalkeepers Defenders midfields forwards I’m going to give a

Few options kind of across the line here um yeah so uh goalkeepers I think uh you’ve got a couple of different options now David Rya I think is is one cheap way to get a third Arsenal player into your squad uh Jordan Pickford is again he’s a little bit like in the Onana

Category where he’s actually been quite good um recently but we all sort of think of him as like the guy who couldn’t keep a clean sheet the first you know 10 weeks of the Season or so um and then you have um and then you have

Netto as well who uh obviously has had kind of a tough had a tough run in the double game week but um still I think generally is considered a a quality keeper and even their defense is it’s considered to be a pretty high quality defense at least it was maybe until a

Little bit of slippage um of late I think that um I would I would slip Jose saw or Jose saw in there for wolves um I think I may have misspoke maybe sa actually uh was higher than Onana in that defensive goalkeeper rating chart he’s had one of those seasons and he’s

Been not talked about at all and I think Arsenal with with rehea maybe you want triple Arsenal Elsewhere on the pitch and just sa gives you um just a goalkeeper on a team where you’re not g to be excited to trip to Triple up on

Them yeah I think that makes sense and I think yeah you kind of um hit on one one thing I was thinking about too which is that the the problem with Rya is that it means no um no odard I think most importantly right he’s kind of the

Hardest one to have um if you uh because almost everybody already has Saka almost everybody probably probably has at least one Arsenal Defender if not two right so um if you bring in if you bring in Rya it sort of closes the door on having a more attacking asset um for the double

And speak and and all the Defenders on Arsenal even CBA and quor Ben White as well just get picking up a lot of attacking returns and Rya is kind of just like the lowest H hanging fruit there I think the other player I’ll just throw in there was is Jonstone um and

Obviously no one’s super ever ever ever super excited about having Palace players outside of maybe a but uh they play home at TW twice in 34 and he’s 4.4 million and I think that as we start to Wild Card start to put these teams together for for 34 um we’re quickly

Gonna just run out of money right this is just a CL a classic problem uh during these um uh you know when when you when you’re wild card and you want to build that kind of optimal team so he is a cheap asset and I actually think just

Because um goalkeepers H are such a source of endless frustration for us the fact that Jose sa is 5 million right and that David ran is also five million if not even a little a little more than that it’s like just just get the 4.5 million guys right just get John Stone

At 4.4 million and um yeah speaking your boy Anana is only 4.8 Brandon so there you go I’ll take it y yeah pigford’s at 4.6 neto’s actually up to 4.7 I think some people bought him ahead of the um the double in 28 so yeah I honestly think pford jstone

Such a boring combination but again only cost you 9 million and they do they both play twice um uh in in 34 um Everton uh also are home twice I mean you know the problem with Wolves Everton is that that you know they’re um they both had to

Play an Arsenal or Liverpool Squad right um uh well actually no well that actually that would I guess be the appeal of Jonstone is that Palace play West Ham and Newcastle um so slightly better Newcastle I who knows what they’re going to look like by the time

34 rolls around who knows if Eddie how will still be there Brandon By the time 34 rolls around I think he survives till the summer and then um he goes I think he goes in the summer and then big big Sam comes back right absolutely this TIY T ass uh style yeah

Exactly back to back to base like old long ball back um all right and then Defenders a little more straightforward uh I I group these into tiers right so you have the Arsenal and Liverpool Defender tier the Liverpool Defender tier is a very tricky thing right

Because um you have Trent who is um an awesome player an Amazing Fantasy asset uh has been injured seemingly all all of this season right just a constant problem uh you know expected back um I I mean I guess he actually started more than I realized I’m looking at his his

Numbers right now but um you know he costs 8.5 million he’s really really hard to bring into your squad right if you want to hold on to Holland for example um so I think a lot of us are going to end up with someone like Virgil

Van djk just kind of because we can it’s a little easier to get there with him um I think Robo would be the other one uh but got another player who I would worry a little bit about whether he starts twice in the double right Robo yes totally klopp has been

Rotating quite a bit and the fullbacks and he’s got reliable backup with the youth players coming up I mean like the defensive option we didn’t mention the goalkeeper section was kellerer and then it kind of be it’s awkward timing where Allison is currently by Ben diny projected to maybe be back from

Injury right between gameweek 33 and gameweek 34 um so it’s it feels like an unnecessary sort of self-own to bring in kellerer and just doesn’t play a minute in the temp 34 um but anyway yeah so I’m just kind of like AG adding fuel to this fire of the Liverpool defense is just

Total chaos so then you have to convince yourself that van djk is worth the cost to bring him in yeah 6.5 I think he probably is uh you know little bit of goal threat um probably the outside of a Liverpool Defender the best that’s just tricky it is it is very

Tricky for sure um I think that uh uh just on one more thing on Robertson because it’s obviously tempting to try to like make an argument for him but uh he has played in the last seven matches for Liverpool right uh in those seven matches he has only started twice

Actually think he started three times um and they got subbed up in the 59th minute in one of those starts so three starts in seven subed up the 59th minute 29 minutes in the Man City match 22 in the Luton match uh 32 in the Arsenal

Match and 21 in the Chelsea match so right even even against top opposition they’re not rushing him back they’re still treating him very carefully so I think there’s just a little too much you know to too much on the on the left on the left back spot to even

Consider him and you know if Trent comes back soon then then he’s obviously you know um in the conversation but um I don’t think we’ll know until probably game 33 or 34 right like it may actually be 34 itself when we find out yeah and then the Robertson issue that’s the

Other way where it does him being fit does make the Conor Bradley pick less appealing to me as well yeah yeah and you just almost can’t go Bradley right because you just I mean Trent is unless Trent is just out the real and again I

Don’t wish this on him but like you know a setback for Trent would really be um would really be helpful here Brandon yeah uh you know fully healthy by August completely healthy right healthiest he ever been but if he couldn’t play until then like that would be you know ready for the

Euros I mean there’s there could be an opening there if Kyle Walker pulled up with some hamstring issue against Brazil this weekend I know we had a question um from uh from somebody on the Discord from Leisure rules about uh Which injuries we had to be concerned about

And my initial thought was basically none of the international break injuries like I don’t think there’s like a single one that that I trust right like we may we may more out later but it’s like it was all of them right Holland and Cole Palmer and Saka and like you just you

Know the rundown I may maybe maybe um maybe Walker was a slightly riskier um option but it just seems actually he didn’t look like an excruciating pain coming off the pitch it looked like a that could be very preventative but who knows who knows yeah so um yeah so I think it’s uh

Right so let me let me get back to my my we’re talking about Liverpool fullbacks my extensive my extensive notes yeah right I was I was I was actually confusing uh Connor Bradley on the left or on the right so you know maybe Connor Bradley is is safer than I was letting

On but he’s not no he’s not the only the only safe literally like all four Defender spots and goalkeeper are a doubt except for van dijk right even even konate is red flagged right now now they’re sort of um you know so it’s it’s only it’s only van dijk it’s Van van djk

St like the cheese van d dijk stands alone Brandon so that’s that’s where we are right now with with Virgil um that you have kind of a middle tier which I’m just putting Everton Defenders into um and I think that again it’s a little bit like the argument for Jonstone they are

So cheap yeah right so even if you’re not uh like a believer in Everton or you don’t really want to be loaded up at Everton players if you’re bench boost in 34 you might as well stick one stick one on your bench uh because there’s there’s

Plenty of of cheap options and you know most of them are capable of getting some kind of attacking return like I I’d rather have an Everton Defender than like a Burnley Defender for example right like a um not ex not Burnley um Bournemouth Defender yeah I don’t know bit of a coin toss

There why tell me why I guess it’s just I I just I trust their defense a little bit more I mean someone like Michel Leno is 4.6 million two goals one assist seven clean sheets on the season uh you know even tarkowski like just like a super solid reliable like Center back I

You know I don’t know I just maybe it’s just that like it’s it’s just them conceding a combined five goals to Luton and Sheffield in the last couple of weeks that’s really um like changed my perspective a little bit here they also they did they have not looked good right

Like uh so maybe and maybe like they’re just this is a total drive by pun measures against Bournemouth more than celebration of Everton well yes that is that is true but I mean if you’re if you’re on a wild card you may have to decide whether to keep your Bournemouth players or bring

In an Everton player and I’m just saying I personally just partially because of D’s style partially because I think there’s a little more attacking Potential from them I mean zabar getting a goal is is incredible but like that’s just a a total fluke right so Nessie

Will be fit again most likely by 34 I think he’ll be a popular bouth and he’s got incredible attacking output that’s true uh Bournemouth do you play away twice uh whereas Everton are home twice too that’s maybe the more kind of like um ra cold cold and

Rational um you know angle as well uh and then we get to our bottom tier where your your beloved Bournemouth Defenders can be found Brandon hey guys um we have you have a wolves Defenders who are somehow even more disappointing than Bournemouth Defenders right it’s it’s kind of it’s

Remarkable I mean I think uh uh the eight Nory dream I’ve lived it Brandon we’ve all lived it it’s a it’s a dangerous game you know it’s uh he remarkably has double digit returns in two of his last three matches but I still am terrified to have him in my

Squad eight Nori is like a dream that you you have a dream that you know maybe it’s sort of like provocative in nature and then you wake up and you’re like what I would give to be able to fall back asleep and get back right to where

I was in that really uh fun dream but but you can’t do it you can’t do it and that’s like once your brain have you ever woken up from a dream and then Fallen back into that dream have you ever actually had that happen don’t think I ever have now I think it

Happened once and it was incredible it was really it was like I I was I think I might have been sick though so maybe it might have been lucid dreaming or something but I it was like a I remember it was like the whole night I was sort

Of drifting out of one one dream it really I should have written it I you know what I need is a dream journal yes you do and uh yeah and you’ve been telling me this for a long time and maybe now I’ll finally uh I’ve been saying for a long time always cheating

Would be made better if there was a dedicated section in every episode where we just talk about our dreams like a little Freudian our Freudian corner so uh you’ve got uh yeah you’ve got kilman and um and I suppose a Nori is the kind of high upsid who knows

What you’re GNA get pick it’s just like these are just they’re just dangerous picks right because like the the problem it’s like it’s like kirz right who everybody ourselves incl were like you know maybe maybe kirz is the high up side why don’t you go for it kind of

Pick plays 45 minutes stinks gets subbed off doesn’t even play the next match right so it’s uh these that’s how I feel about a Nory he’s not you look at a nory’s starts over the course of the season and it’s just it’s a very it’s a very inconsistent picture right yeah

Picture so yeah um then the other Defenders are um are Palace and I know you had um you found you found joy as they say Brandon with with uh Palace Defenders I know you really enjoyed having um who was it who did you have was it you had Mark gahi yeah well

Thankfully he’s got a knee injury with an unknown return date so G won’t trouble you anymore this I can’t fall back asleep into that nightmare um Y no they they uh Yokem Anderson was all over Kings of the gameweek UN always cheating earlier this season and that was the

Curse of the king heavy as the head that wears the crown because Anderson and that defense dro off the map after we did that King his hair looks his hair looks incredible on his his profile picture in the fantasy site it’s like a you rarely do you see like that’s like a

Studio level hair like it’s incredible he he could do like a shampoo commercial it’s remarkable he was paying attention when they said this picture day is on this day and yoim was like I’m putting that in the calendar I’m ready I’m ready yeah I know they do two picture days at

My kid school and it’s like it’s one too many like the second one no one like it’s no one does it you know you you do the one in this fall the the spring picture day it’s like we gotta get out of here you know it’s like the school

Year’s gone on long enough um so I think yeah but I suppose Tyreek Mitchell has had some moments so far this season uh I suppose Anderson would be the kind of safest pick though two goals two assists six clean sheets on the season um and again they play home twice so maybe

Slightly more the idea of being doubled up though uh with Palace Defenders it feels like feels like honest it’s arguably two too many but it’s it’s certainly most likely one too many but they are cheap so you know they they have to be part of the Conversation football season may be over but the action on the floor is heating up whether it’s tournament season or the fight for playoff homec Court there’s no shortage of high stakes basketball moments this time of year getting on the excitement with prize picks America’s number one fantasy sports app where you

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Charleston on Rivers Avenue uh the Midfield is um a little easier I think um you have a top tier Sala Saka and odard and again just a refresher because we’ve been talking for so long here Brandon is these are players I would be targeting a wild card

If I was looking towards gameweek 34 so uh the top tier Sal and Saka of course right um Saka uh not only does he double but he’s just been you know incredible form again another one of these players that has a a minor uh illness it was so

Was it just illness okay I believe so so that’s just is very mild as far as injury news goes yeah then odard who didn’t work out for me uh but has worked out for brothers so far this season uh I am going to tab laasa him though Brandon

Blank Slate with me and in Martin odar I’m willing to I’m willing to get hurt again with Martin okay the muscular injury says diny on Saka but um okay who knows who knows yeah I I’m with you on odard I think that he’s just a fun

Player to own too because he’s so fun to watch and so involved in the attack and Arsenal do a lot of attacking and whatever I can do like Saka and Salah um you know they can be very frustrating as good as they are when they’re just like

Pinned to the touchline and they’re just like so wide odard it is so fun to have a fantasy asset who is so Central uh and um yeah so I I see a good opportunity there again it goes back to who are you going to drop to have to uh pick up

Again I think foden foden and son son obviously loses out in 34 and I think foden is just gonna fall away over the next few weeks it’s a shame cuz he’s he’s been great too and they play you know Man City play three three home matches in the next four

Um again it would be an argument for for waiting um uh to bring them in if you’re going to until 34 right and just and just stick with stick with what you’ve got um I do think just increasingly I’m sort of of the opinion that I want to

Wait until 31 before I kind of lock in if I whether I choose a wild card in 31 or whether I choose a wild card in 35 I I don’t think I’m going to do it this week um Man City Arsenal it’s like okay I don’t really want to be tripled up

With you know it’s like like it’s already just it’s it’s a little messy um and so I think uh and we haven’t even gotten to um what I think is a really tricky question which is which is Ali Watkins uh but just to finish the thought on on midfielders a little bit

So you have the kind of top tier Salah is is an obvious one Saka nard uh kind of a middle tier as well uh where you have Diaz who has been kind of the one consistent Liverpool option um outside of um outside of Salah when salah’s been

Available and healthy uh and then I think e has to get thrown in there as well uh again Palace have those two home matches in 34 and he’s even cheaper than I realized I didn’t know that e was only 6 million you can actually really it’s a great enabler price right if you’re

Looking for like a a fourth mid or something like that yeah what about ois though Michael ois who on his day is as good as e and he’s got to be cheaper than e even and it looks like he’s set to be back maybe this coming game week

Coming back from um uh whatever hamstring injury yeah whatever thing he had going on um of course like every time ois recently has come back from injury he immediately gets injured again uh so that he I wouldn’t want to be bringing ois in around gameweek 30 31

Just to hope that he stays fit yeah exactly it’s I’m glad you like it’s good to like introduce various like because it’s like when in in 20 and 22 like kind of before he got injured again he had a 15-point return and a 16-point return

Inc right so there’s there is a lot of potential there but yeah just probably a little too risky certainly not a player I’d bring in if I was wild card in gameweek 30 um and then um and then the bottom tier is U uh Sarabia who is a 4.7

Million midfielder for wolves a great mid fifth Midfield on a wild card especially if you’re looking at um bench boosting in game week 34 uh they’re also are a ton of injuries uh for wolves right now so he’s a fairly locked in player um and uh I I think a pretty easy

Pick honestly if I were wild card right now and I was going um I almost certainly want to have three forwards right so I just want a cheap kind of fifth Midfield option and I think I have this right that when uh hang Chan is not

Fit in the squad sario can take penalty duties um so there’s a little bonus there okay yeah that’s I actually I’m not I can’t I can neither confirm nor deny but um that is a that that would make some sense well let’s see let’s let’s let’s go to our list of you know

They’ve got the set pieace takers um penalty and set peace takers for wolves uh you’ve got hang matasa and then Sarabia is third in the pecking order okay so there’s a chance we got a we got a chance um and then um the other Midfield I thre in there if you just if

You just hate Sarabia I don’t know maybe you just don’t you don’t like him Brandon is uh Ryan Christie at five million for Bournemouth I I feel like I’m the only one who has I’m like the a fan club of one but I have really enjoyed Ryan Christy’s PL for bourou uh

He’s he’s had some really nice performances don’t hide your light under a bushel man let that shine I know I know so I’m I’m a Christie fan I’m I you know I’m I’m team Christie so he’s another one to consider you’re telling me uh dor at Everton doesn’t crack the

Low tier list like Mr garbage time uh goal I mean Mr I’m going to save Everton from relegation goal gameweek 38 last season yeah he should probably be in the mid tier is yeah 5.5 although he’s so streaky like he actually hasn’t really uh he hasn’t had a return since gameweek

16 you know you know you know what’s biasing you is that you and I were in we were at at the sellur park when he had that amazing performance against Everton uh assist yeah exactly uh this is why the eye test can be so dangerous especially the iners more dangerous yeah

Exactly all right and then that brings you to forwards uh a little more straightforward here um I think for 34 um you have uh Holland assuming you keep him uh and then salani and then I think Darwin would be the third forward that you’d want um and if you and I are

Kind of both the opinion that we hold Holland especially if you’re wild carding and you’re going to need as many players from these doublers for for 36 37 it makes sense to hold him for that reason as well along with the fact that he’s just a perennially good option to

Have in fantasy plays tons of minutes and um and as you know he’s the he’s the he’s the primary goal scorer and arguably the best team in the Premier League right so there there’s not a we have to we have to we like barely ever talk about him because he’s s he’s such

A fixture in fantasy right but um but I think the question is uh Ali Watkins and what we do with Watkins because Watkins does turn into Darwin very easily Watkins does not double in 34 does not double in 3 you are on record saying that you plan

To own Watkins for the entire season and will not drop him um but it’s I think your faith is going to be tested and also as as amazing as he’s been he has blanked in the last two fixtures now again that’s just you know doesn’t hold a candle to his amazing performances

This year but um so he’s got a you know he’s not he’s not completely automatic um and the Run of fixtures for Villa is not fantastic it’s okay uh wolves 30 is good it’s one of the reasons I want to hold my my wild card is to make sure I

Want to I don’t really want to drop Watkins before the Wolves match right um but then you have uh Man City away in 31 Arsenal away in 33 um brenford home in 32 is is a good fixture but like you know but certainly um you know two of

The next four are the worst possible fixtures for oi Watkins uh so I think that the argument for dropping him is is is a pretty good one and I think the fact that in 31 when he plays away to man city is when Liverpool host Sheffield at home it’s going to be

Really hard to avoid a Watkins to Darwin transfer that week even if you don’t wild card I’m with you yeah um I’m I’m GNA be a liar and I you know I hate liars uh but I I will be dropping Henry Rollins yes ex or does he hate them he

Is one one he hate himself I think so um was his tongue in his cheek when he was talking about himself being a li uh have to see watch the Behind the Music on VH1 to know more but I’m with you I think just the upside for Watkins is kind of

In the rear view mirror and if you just think it’s Darwin Holland and then I want the I mean the the the wild card there gets to be are you going to dip your toe in the hland waters for Manchester United’s double and 37 who’s the third Striker for gameweek 34 though

If you say you’ve got Darwin and Holland is unmovable solank right of course of course yes yeah yeah yeah um just because he’s cheap and and you know’s I think he’s the only um real real option even yeah Dominic Calbert Leen anybody no no thank you I know po Sheffield like

It’s just but there’s just nothing to say there right there just you can’t uh MC Bernie many MC ber fans I like MC Bernie you know I’m a fan no shots yeah nothing against him just plays for for a crappy team unfortunately we wish him the best all

Right we we do wish him the best Brandon and you know who I also wish the best too I’m gonna I’m going to do a little pivot here okay because we’ve done this is this a lot of game we 34 talk but there is a game we in front of us right

So uh I hope we set the table for people a little bit help them with their thinking uh by the way we had a wolves fan who commented in the chat that said that Sarabi is the designated pent taker um as long as Wang is out so um I think

That we are no I think that that’s Chris in the chat I think he’s actually saying coona is the pent taker so the issue the further issue there is coia is also out injured but he in all likelihood could be back for gameweek 34 so we’re just

Kind of in a okay yeah we’re going to just table forget I yeah forget everything I just said okay I I made things more complicated um so then we talked a little bit about our strategy I am I will either wild card in 31 or 35 and I plan to

Decide well I mean if it’s 31 then I guess I’ve got another week to to think about it um the real question is whether the the Sala fomo gets gets the best of me right and I just sort of um I I can’t resist making the transfer but I think I

Think it makes sense to wait a week and and I’ll just um um I just have to think it through a little bit yeah I can even see if you’re planning to Wild Card in 31 there is an easy enough case to say

Well then just wild card in 32 or 3 3 if you know depending on what happens because now if we’re looking at Sun out as early as gameweek 31 it kind of takes care of a solid uh transfer almost for free without having that’s true if you

Have the money to to do it that’s true although ideally you I I would love to be tripled up on Sheffield for 31 or you know on Liverpool ahead of the Sheffield match for 31 and I have zero at the moment right so that would be the the um

The appeal there um I can hear all the Wednesday fans gritting their teeth right now uh oh I know I know that that’s so true it’s so it’s it’s if you hadn’t you haven’t had said Sheffield like 20 times in this episode I would

Let Let It Go but no no you know that’s a correction that I’m okay with because I wouldn’t say Manchester right that would be very confusing uh now now Grant did Sheffield Wednesday should should have to come up to the Premier League before I get hanged about saying this

The wrong way I want to respect yeah but I want to respect the club system yeah exactly shout out to Danny Bean long time friend and patreon supporter speaking of patreon Brandon I want to say thank you to our patreon supporters okay uh they really do support the podcast the ad market for

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Podcast that you’re listening to uh I just learned this term um a influencer uh a financial YouTuber or financial blogger is a influencer so that’s what I’m really trying to to get at here on this podcast okay I like that yeah oh fin twit is that where that

Comes from that Financial Twitter fin twit that makes sense okay well anyway uh so you know it’s uh you know it’s it’s gotten trickier and trickier and so uh the thing that keeps this podcast to Flo as our patreon supporters and uh whether you uh want the extra podcast

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Really does um add up so um yeah but thank you to everyone who does support the podcast Brandon um so let’s close out the Pod though by looking at gameweek 30 the one right in front of us it is what I like to call uh what do I

Like to call this kind of game week Brandon uh this is a classic an FPL classic I can hear the the can of FPL being cracked in a refreshing way right now classic and I guess they have still not changed the clocks which is wonderful so that means that we get get

A uh an 8:30 start uh 11:00 matches and then they have two bonus matches for us Brandon on Saturday a 130 Prime meridium and a uh 400m okay so uh there’s uh all sorts of matches that happen on Saturday a truly jam-packed day of of fooie Brandon and then uh and

Then Sunday two great matches as well you have uh well or at least one uh you have Liverpool of host Brighton and then you have Man City uh hosting Arsenal and Man City Arsenal is a tremendous match an incredibly important match uh possibly the most important match of the

Season despite uh I mean Liverpool man city was also was a terrific match but I think you know every week that you inch closer to the end of the season when these top three teams play each other it just takes on even more resonance right

It was it was the draw uh with between Liverpool and city that kind of put everything in Arsenal’s hands if they win and then they wi out um which you know in all likelihood is not going to happen but um we’ll see but it is in their

Hands which is great as if you’re Aral yeah M yeah exactly Mr Destiny brand it’s a great a great movie from the early 90s charts shows you what could happen if you follow these different paths you know PR pretty sliding doors you know was a real early oh I I watched

Gwenneth peltro on hot ones this week she was pretty good talked a little too much about goop for my for my liking yeah I know this is sliding doors did come up yeah yeah I mean listen you just mentioned it here on this podcast so I think what what she did worked right

It’s like yeah yeah uh so anyway got a lot of matches on Saturday and Sunday uh I am really excited about Saturday I actually got to make sure I like clear out the schedule now because this is this is amazing uh and then yeah just real and Sunday’s also Easter Brandon so

What a great way to spend Easter with uh with with the Premier League so um the options right now I’m going to um um I will share my squad for gameweek um with for gameweek 30 with you Brandon and we can talk a little bit about um whether

Um a wild card makes sense or or something else I don’t know um so right now uh I’m kind of ignoring all of the um all of the flags because again I just don’t I don’t trust any of them um I like I’ll believe it when I see it so uh

The problem for me is that my defense is my the problem is that my defense is a problem and um I have let’s see um 1.3 million in the bank which is not enough I don’t even think to move a well yeah I’m just actually a little short to even

Move a to like Virgil Van djk right and so I’m I’m G kind of stupid on as well right uh see plays away to Liverpool I want to do everything possible to avoid starting him uh very little chance well actually you know Jamal lell might actually start

Now right with B is out for the season he’s out for like six months with his ACL surgery yeah so maybe I have stumbled into although a double up with with Newcastle just what a terrifying fun but is this is this a squad where you look

At and think Josh has to wild card as soon as possible I look at the squad and think basically fine right turn a into a slightly more fun player right um maybe if I if I if I decide that I’m going to um I can I actually just hold my

Transfer which I think would be an acceptable idea here and just start a and see if I get something from him um I probably move Gabrielle over a stup on I’m actually G to do that right as we’re talking here um he’ll certainly start this match I would think um and um yeah

Or I could move uh if I if decide that I’m going to Wild Card in the next couple of weeks I I would probably bring in poro or Udi uh for for Rock right and and Target that looten fixture um or I could go um stup on to um um like a I

Don’t know maybe like a well there’s kind of no reason to hold on to a in that case right but maybe I would hold uh regardless I could I could look at like a um uh Malo gusto would be another option I think right for the for the

Burnley fixture now if I decide that I want to keep my eye on gameweek 34 the question is is there a player that I could bring in that would sort of begin that that like that process of getting to 34 and still holding on to my

Wild card for the for the for the end run and if I can’t get if I can’t afford Virgil Van Dyke and I don’t want an Arsenal player right because they play away to Man City that leaves me looking at a Bournemouth Defender which is which would be hilarious time to get moleno

Like you’ve always wanted yeah yeah well honestly maybe right I mean that that would be an option um I think uh uh I mean the other option the options just aren’t great right like outside of Liverpool it’d be um uh Arsenal I mean I guess I could you know if I really

Decided I was just going to like throw my hat over the fence and just commit myself to uh to not wild carding uh and to 34 I could just take a minus four right now right and just kind of like start the start the process yeah and

Just bring in Virgil Van djk and then uh maybe get him by um I don’t know I guess I could downgrade Gordon to um Sarabia right and just and just do that right now so that would be that would be one other option Gordon was interesting

Watch in the England Brazil match he was probably like England’s best player honestly Jude Bellingham didn’t have a particular great match I mean England as a whole didn’t play super well but I was impressed with with Gordon he looked great oi Watkins L line pretty well too

But um certainly happy to keep him but you know still yeah it’s like playing playing at Wembley and a friendly is is different than playing for an absolutely sputtering Newcastle so I’m not trying to talk you out of selling Gordon yeah so this is um so this is the squad for

Uh you know maybe you could make an arent for arola over Deka just because deka’s been kind of disappointing and maybe West Hammer just as likely to keep a clean sheet or maybe he’s like or maybe they’re both going to score anyway and so you might as well have arela to to

Differentiate from lel’s a little bit maybe he gets more saves or something like that I think this way is like higher risk higher reward with the double if if Newcastle can somehow keep a clean sheet that’s incredible for you um the more conservative approach is just diversify the portfolio and start

Arola yeah yeah exactly so um so that’s where I’m looking I mean do you have any thoughts on this um any like uh concerns I agree with your assessment that this is not an emergency where you would need to Wild Card the team looks great and I

Mean it’s like to the triple City I think is is the only issue one would have with this but then you’re like well I have triple of one of the best teams in the league so sometimes it’s just worth rolling the dice with them and I

Probably would move a to um to somebody else as well yeah so I’m so I’m I’m kind of faced with the same dilemma it’s an interesting transition to to my squad share yours with me because I’m sharing your woses with the defensive options but I I have

More in the bank I actually have um you can see 2.1 million so I can even turn Sven botman into Virgil Van djk um and and that would work and then I could bench AK I mean AK I think has to go obviously eventually anyway um but then

It’s sort of like weighing the pros and cons of just rooll is it better to just roll the transfer and then have two to possibly avoid wild carding next week um and to spend that EXT that extra money that I have in the bank on a Defender when I’ve been talking this

Whole episode about trying to turn hman Sun into mosala and I’m going to need every penny so 2.1 plus let’s see what what’s my sellon value for sun right now it’s uh no I’m in I’m on the wrong page doesn’t matter but you get what I’m saying yeah I don’t know what’s yeah

Yeah you you’ve led me down you get what I’m saying I don’t do do I want to uh try to get instant gratification and spend all my savings on a Defender like van djk and foro that plan of trying to turn some into solid that’s what I’m

Afraid of so that would be the argument for Rolling or just turning Sven botman into another 4.5 player into you and I look the only two people who still have a it’s so hilarious in your your team and yeah so you yeah your defense feels like a problem yeah a major problem yeah

And cabore can’t really be relied upon for any returns either I mean Kor is coming back and being fit thank God and I hope he stays that is aacle for at the I think the people who had some Borth Defenders are really in a better spot right now right because you could just

Start him for the Everton match and and just and just and easily hold your transfer there I think uh yeah because yeah bobman you it’s like you might as well move him but but again it sort of goes back to what we talking about before but just what’s what’s the move

That makes the most sense I mean yeah if if there was a way to turn if there was some cheapy well I mean I yeah is tricky I I you really can’t go into 31 without Salah I’m I’m I’m I’m with you there right I think you can go you can go into

31 without Darwin that’s fine Darwin is a Darwin is chaotic and like he should never be that scary but Salah for Sheffield is pretty scary like that’s probably like triple camp in in a single game week levels of scary right so um so I think that feels like the the strategy

Either is you need to wild card into Salah or get there or figure out figure that out you know someone would suggest I move um uh in the in the chat I move um Evan was suggesting that I move um Sal or that I move Gordon excuse me uh

Into e uh which which does make sense but again if I’m thinking about freeing up a little extra cash then Gordon to Sarabia starts that process um and again I I really just have to I have to decide almost this week right even before 31 I’ve got to decide what when when I’m

Going to wild card and uh and I don’t know I just I just think it’s really tricky I think that it’s uh it feels to me like there the logic for wild carding late is really built around that that double game week and whether that feels like like double gamings can be super

Frustrating though right like they you know and so it’s like does it make sense or should I just I mean because the argument for wild carding like this week or next week would just be like I’m in a wild card to bring in a bunch of Liverpool players and they’re great

Right they’re like they’re an awesome team and then I would have three of them and I have none right now right and it’s just like you know you kind of do that and I could sort of maybe replace my Keepers and um so that’s that’s kind of

One point of VI the other point of view is like okay I’m gonna drop all of my Man City players right I’m gonna drop foden who’s been great for me I’m gonna you know so it’s sort of I think it is um um it’s just it’s just I I don’t know

Like I don’t know I don’t think we should be on this pod necessarily um suggesting a clear path that both both both of which make sense yeah right and it feels like um it’s almost like a coin flip which one is better and I’m just going to decide in

The next couple of days but I think um I think maybe holding my transfer is honestly the way to go because it just gives me maximum flexibility I could still wild card in 31 if I wanted to but it also just gives me the option to

Really figure out what I want to do over the next um handful of no yeah I watch I watch your strategy with great interest as a podcast partner and if it would be interesting if you rolled and then wild carded because then that would be two free transfers that you have flushed

Down the toilet in the last couple of weeks because I think you you had like two frees that you slept yeah thanks for thanks for bringing me up for bringing that up you know ultimately I saved points on that I’m not trying to criticize I just think it’s kind of

Interesting how it worked out like that yeah makes you H all right now we I I agree there’s not necessarily a clear path that we have to recommend right now but we must for the captain SE now you can see here on the screen right now that I’ve got Cole polymer captained and

Hman Son Vice you know I think a lot of people will be a little Twitchy on Spurs after their performance against Fulham that was a good time for the international break they can wipe that slate clean Sun always good for fantasy points where are you at the Palmer versus Sun

Debate I’ve got it on Sun at the moment um just I think I I don’t know F Fulham have shut some teams down at at home you know and so I think I think it was more of a Fulham issue than a Spurs is I

Don’t or a FM FM playing well instead of Spurs just being bad both can be true obviously um but I think uh my inclination is to go with sun he’s just a you know we have almost a decade of or whatever it is how many years been in

The Premier League he’s got a great long track record um and you know I just I expect him to be very good at home as well so yeah and I think that’s fair it’s fair if you just want to go uh even farther out with that lens is Spurs even

Though they laid an egg at Craven Cottage have just been remarkably more consistent than Chelsea this season and to pin any hopes on Chelsea is like that’s a much more fragile framework than saying I’m just going to roll with sun so I agree with you there if if you

Had Salah for you and I end up wild carding this week and we get Salah I who knows like a bunch of injuries could could pile up over the next couple of days and we’re kind of forced into a move right uh but if you had Salah would

You would he be an auto Captain for game week 30 I I that feels like a strong way of putting it I mean he is yeah he is home anfield Brighton defense bad I’m just kind of going through the list in my mind um but let’s see Salah currently team selected by

24.3% like what part of that ownership are dead teams uh Salah doesn’t feel like he’s poised to bury you I feel like active managers are still like us going to be looking more closely at Olli pal or Cole Palmer and uh son so that’s like kind of a case I’m making

For having Salah just having him and not captaining him is an advantage yeah I I think I probably would for the same reason that I argued for for son a minute ago he’s like an even better version of that right which is just like it’s a home match he’s

Super consistent you know um I think but but I but I I don’t know that he’s worth bulling up your team to get right like it’s he’s not such a runaway Captain like he will be next week that you have to you know tear up your squad to to fit

Him in um I think that um I guess I would go Sal yeah go Salah Sun Palmer that would be my top three and I guess I’d make Holland the fourth just because he’s you know because he’s Holland he’s Holland Holland we love you Holland I hope he’s listening this week I could

See Saka doing something in that that match though I would not be surprised if he got some kind of attacking return just having pens is a great thing I mean uh that’s for in in regardless of fixture that’s kind of what makes Cole Palmer so appealing but then sun is

On pens as well for Spurs like we’re talking about all these pen takers which is great so I agree Saka is still like a fun differential though to bet on that match feels wild to me in a fantasy wi fantasy way yeah I agree it’s like there’s a lot of outcomes that are

Possible one one maybe feels like the most likely outcome honestly um all right well that is I think we’ve covered a lot of ground on this pod Brandon a lot of ground and um uh let’s let’s WP wrap it up here um want to Once yeah

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