Fantasy Podcast | Gameweek 1 | New season, big decisions! Who should you choose for opening weekend?
Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Sky Sports
4.0 • 760 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
We look ahead to the new season and run through the important decisions facing FPL managers ahead of the opening gameweek...
Haaland, Salah or both? Who to pick as your goalkeeper? Who to make your captain?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Sky Sports Football Podcast is brought to you by Bet365. |
| 0:04.0 | Last month, Bet365 boosted the odds on more than 20,000 bets. |
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| 0:23.3 | download the app to see why it's never ordinary at Bet365. Hello and welcome along to the first edition of the Sky Sports Fantasy podcast. |
| 0:47.3 | On today's episode we're going to focus on setting up your team for success ahead of the new season, which is just a few days away. |
| 0:55.0 | But first, a quick word about our brand new podcast. |
| 0:59.0 | You'll be getting episodes every Tuesday throughout the season. |
| 1:03.0 | We'll bring you tips and advice from some of the best FPL managers in the game. |
| 1:07.0 | Plus, invaluable insight from our host of SkySporters news reporters who speak to |
| 1:12.5 | all 20 Premier League managers on a weekly basis. But without further ado, let me introduce |
| 1:18.5 | my co-hosts and Sky Sports colleague Mark Briggs, who will be joining me every week. Mark, |
| 1:23.3 | just how excited are you about getting going this season? |
| 1:26.3 | Oh, I can't wait, James. |
| 1:27.8 | I'm so excited for this podcast. |
| 1:29.7 | So excited for the new Premier League season. |
| 1:31.5 | It's kind of like Christmas Eve, isn't it, this week? |
| 1:33.7 | Probably one of the most exciting times in fantasy football that week |
| 1:37.7 | where we've had the summer to build up getting our team ready. |
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