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S4 Ep4: Off The Bench: Haaland performing better than ever

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6 โ€ข 749 Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 15 September 2025

โฑ๏ธ 47 minutes

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Summary

Erling Haaland is becoming a must-have this season following his match-winning display in the Manchester derby, which saw him climb to the top of the FPL points standing ๐Ÿ“ˆ๐Ÿ’ชยฉ

So FPL experts Az Phillips and Lee Bonfield assess when to get him into your team and whether itโ€™s time to sell Mo Salah to help fund the move.

LISTEN ๐Ÿ‘‡

* Arsenal assets (03m 43s)
* Keeping Pedro (15m 28s)
* Superb Semenyo (27m 01s)
* Selling Salah (34m 44s)
* Superhuman Haaland (37m 54s)
* Watkins' last chance (42m 57s)

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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. I'm Lee from

0:20.6

FPR family. And I'm Lee from FPR

0:20.9

Family. And I'm As Smithfield Black Box. Well, as good to see you, Game Week 4 is in the books.

0:25.9

Plenty of chips being played by FPR managers this week. Just over 936,000 managers opting to

0:32.7

play the wildcard this week, alongside nearly a quarter of a million free hit chips as well being

0:37.3

activated.

0:38.4

And for those that played them, I think it was a relatively successful game week.

0:42.7

But before we dive into all the games, as did you play any chips this week?

0:46.5

And how was your game week?

0:48.0

Yeah, I went into this week, not very confident at all.

0:51.1

I was on a hit down in the 6.6 million trenches. You know,

0:56.3

I had a couple of forest players away at Arsenal. I didn't think things were going to go too

0:59.9

well. I ended up sort of in and around the average, which, you know, sometimes when you just

1:04.1

look at your team, you just think, if I can just escape this with like a sort of a grey

1:07.7

damage limitation. Damage limitation week, exactly. That was the aim this week and I sort of got got away with it I bought some menu in for the hit which nice good basically the main the main reason why I managed to escape I hadn't done that and I'd kept a languor it would have been another sort of disastrous disastrous week so yeah got away of it. No chips played this week.

1:27.9

No chips played this season.

1:29.9

Hopefully, when I start activating them, I can shoot up the ranks and salvage something because it's already looking a bit, a bit rubbish this year. How do you get on? Well, as we always say, it's early days, isn't it? It's early days. How many points did you get then? You were about the average.

1:42.6

Average was 63 across the game week.

1:44.6

61, I think I got.

1:46.2

So just...

1:46.6

61. Okay.

1:47.6

Okay, not bad.

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