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S4 Ep2: Off The Bench: Premium players disappointing

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6 β€’ 749 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Two Gameweeks in and some big name players are struggling to deliver for FPL managers, with lots of early transfers being made to ship them out πŸ’°πŸ‘‰πŸšͺ

So FPL experts Az Phillips and Lee Bonfield are here to assess whether it’s time to sell or hold. They cover Cole Palmer missing out through injury, Ollie Watkins' lack of goals, and what to do with misfiring Liverpool assets

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* Palmer problem (03m 49s)
* Going for Grealish (13m 20s)
* What to do with Wirtz (26m 59s)
* Cunha options (38m 29s)
* Goal-shy Watkins (42m 19s)
* Investing in Forest (44m 14s)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:18.5

I'm Lee from FPL family and And I'm as for your Blackbox.

0:21.4

Well, as Game Week 2 is in the books and we're just starting to spot some patterns and

0:26.6

trends in the performances of our FPL team. Something in the water at North London, no doubt

0:31.3

with Spurs and Arsenal, both looking very good, but Villa and West Ham, though, very much

0:36.2

needing to improve. Lots to discuss, as usual,

0:38.8

including some fairly high profile injuries to some key FPL assets. But before all that,

0:44.7

how was your game week? Yeah, not great. It was an OK game week one for, you know, full of confidence,

0:50.9

roll the transfer going to game week to 48 48 points. So a couple of less.

0:56.1

It's not bad. It's not bad. It's in and around the average, which I think, you know, in the first couple of weeks, we're still, you know, assessing, we're still trying to work out who's good. We're feeling our way through the game, aren't we? A lot of changes this year with the def cons and stuff. That's an all right score, mate. I think you're okay. Yeah, exactly.

0:53.4

So if I'm in around the average, it's an all right score, mate. I think you're okay. Yeah, exactly.

1:11.0

So if I'm in around the average, it's okay.

1:13.1

But, yeah, 3.8 million in the world.

1:15.4

Let's hope that that can climb up over the next few weeks.

1:18.7

Oh, we're doing ranks, are we?

1:19.8

It's only game week, too, and we're doing ranks.

1:21.7

Come on, it's at least game week nine before we start reading those out. Oh, you're one of those, are you? One of those doesn't who waits? No, I'm checking it every week.

1:28.4

I want to see.

1:29.1

It's the time when you get the biggest rank gains, right?

1:31.9

That's true.

1:32.5

Yeah,

1:32.6

I want to celebrate and go, yeah, I went from 3.8 million to 10K. That was a great week. Yeah, yeah, I love it. Well, I did marginally better.

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