S3 Ep7: Off The Bench: Is Saka essential?

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Arsenal midfielder Bukayo Saka finally delivered on his performances with a massive haul against Southampton ❤️✨

So FPL experts Sam Bonfield and Az Phillips discuss if he is a must-have moving forward, what to do with Man City assets, and how great Mbeumo is.

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* Brilliant Brennan (04m 37s)
* Waiting on Brighton (10m 38s)
* Magic Mbeumo (22m 46s)
* Considering losing Liverpool players (29m 20s)
* Super Saka (40m 39s)
* Man City conundrum (45m 30s)

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0:00.0	Welcome back to this week's off-the-bench podcast from the Premier League.
0:19.3	I'm Sam from FPL family.
0:20.7	I'm As from FFL Blackbox.
0:22.1	Oh, as back to back blanks for Erlin.
0:26.0	It's not often that we see that, assuming that you captained him to.
0:29.7	I did indeed.
0:31.3	Typical, isn't it?
0:32.6	I know there was lots of people running with no Harlan teams,
0:35.3	ripped their teams apart to bring him in off his back-to-back hat tricks and then it's back-to-back blanks.
0:41.2	That is FPL in a nutshell, isn't it?
0:43.0	It feels like it this year as well, doesn't it?
0:44.9	Like the chasing the premium points and knowing, I have to have this one this week.
0:49.9	And this week, of course, going into it, everyone was all aboard the Erlin Harlan train,
0:54.4	a lot of people thinking about sacrificing Saka to bring in Col Palmer,
0:58.9	massive swings again with those premiums in terms of the points that they returned.
1:03.4	Was Game Week 7 a good one for you?
1:05.2	Yeah, it was pretty good.
1:06.6	I mean, I think if you had Saka, you probably ended up with maybe a small green arrow.
1:11.4	He was obviously the standout performer.
1:13.2	And a lot of the other big name players that you mentioned didn't do so well.
1:17.3	Salah didn't return.
1:18.3	Harland.
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