Welcome back to this week's off the bench podcast from the Premier League.

I'm Sam from FPL family.

And I'm Janie. Well, Johnny, another week and another Harlem blank. But it wasn't really

Harlem that hurt me this week. And I'm sure we're going to spend a lot of time talking about

Bruno Fernandez in a minute. But how did we 15 go for you? Yeah, it was all right till Monday night

football. And it's it's kind of been, yeah, one of those seasons. It's, I'm around the half a million mark in terms of overall ranks. I guess I'm fairly happy. And obviously, the five free transfers is great and now really exciting. Fortunately, I've had Foden for three weeks. So that's, that's, that's been huge and Foden another big score this week, 12 points. But yeah, Harlan Captain Blank wasn't, wasn't fun, especially you know in the week before, you know, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he'd, he points. But yeah, Harlan Captain Blank wasn't fun, especially

knowing the week before, you know, he'd hauled and that was a week I decided to bet against him.

So just can't get the Harlan captaincy right at the minute. And again, captaincy moving forward is a big

one this week. But yeah, fine, I had a Bermow on Monday night, just not Bruno, and Bruno's score was massive. Do you know, it's funny, isn't it? Because for the last two game weeks, I haven't had a Manchester United asset. And I've sat here on both Monday evening and Thursday evening and thought, am I going to get away with it? And I have, because the Manchester United assets haven't returned. But I knew I wouldn't really get get away with it against wolves on Monday evening. I knew this was going to be one of those. So I had a really nice green arrow going into Monday night and Bruno turned it a little bit red. But it was only a little bit red in the end. So it could have been far, far worse than it was. I brought in Phil Foden this week. so that was nice. I was glad to have his points

in my team rather than acting against me. And the Gayee last minute goal that we'll talk about

in a little bit was really nice. That really did boost my rank. But Gianni, I had a nightmare

with my bench this week because it was one of those weeks where obviously I played who I thought

would be my

strongest defence and therefore I benched van der Ven for a clean sheet and I also benched Sennesse for

a clean sheet because I just didn't see Chelsea and Brentford not scoring. So we'll talk about

those two games in a little while. But we've all had our transfers topped up, like you say. So for

everybody looking at the app or the website now, you'll have your five free transfers in the bank.

Have you spent any of yours yet? I haven't. And I have noticed a huge amount of volatility in the

transfer market, the price rises. I don't think we've ever seen anything quite like it, sort of mid-season. And it's not surprising. You know, managers are seeing, checking the app and going, five free transfers, they're going, I better spend these. Some probably think they need to spend them more. They'll lose them. And that's not the case. So, yeah, I haven't spent any yet, but I'm fortunate that the players that are really shooting up in value, many of them I already had. So Foden, for example, I've had. He's gone up 0.6 million in eight days. I think that might be a record. Like I've never seen anything like that. Players like Tiago going up in price, I've got him. So, yeah, I don't feel like my hand has been forced yet. but no doubt I'll be using a couple of them. And I've got my eyes on a couple of players that no doubt I'll be bringing in. Yeah, I'm the same. Not used either or any of them yet, but I'm definitely getting a little bit trigger-happy and going to wait and see what happens in the European football this week before I make any major decisions with those transfer plans. Should we start with Monday night and just rip the band-aid off given that we both were on

the wrong side of a bit of a battering from Manchester United? So Wolf scored their first goal

in over eight hours of football. So from that perspective, I suppose, you know, we take some positives

and they will take some positives from that. But it really was all about Manchester United. And in particular, it was really all about Bruno Fernandez, wasn't it? It felt like it was going to be a Bruno game from minute one. I watched the first half thinking, okay, second half's going to be ugly here for Bruno. Bruno's going to really turn it on. And with no Gomez in the middle of the park for Wolves, it was clearly a huge amount of space.

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