S7 Ep28: FPL Pod: Is this the week not to captain Salah?

FPL Pod

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4.6 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

With the cup action out of the way, Kelly Somers and the FPL Pod team look ahead to the upcoming midweek action and whether or not you should go against Mo Salah with your armband this week 😳

Talking points this week also include; the north London derby, investing in Palace and Assistant Manger strategy, as the manager prices have been revealed.

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* FA Cup recap (00m 58s)
* Best-value managers (08m 11s)
* Top of table clash (19m 14s)
* The north London derby (26m 38s)
* Who to buy from Palace (32m 40s)
* Salah captaincy alternatives (47m 03s)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	A bonus FPL pod for a bonus midweek round.
0:04.0	We dissect the FA Cup Fallout, preview the week's big matches.
0:07.6	Sam continues her love of Palace and none of us are captain in Sala.
0:17.2	But good morning, everyone.
0:18.5	Happy Monday.
0:19.5	It's the 13th of January and I'm going to say it because I feel like we are the real heroes of this week. It's 7am and we are bringing the FPL forward to you. When I say we, I do of course mean Kelly Summers, alongside Sam Bonfield and Julian Lorne. We are here because of course there is another game week, Game Week 21, which is a midweek deadline this week, 6pm on Tuesday
0:38.4	the 14th January, a full round of Premier League action. So plenty for us to get into. And actually,
0:45.5	I think I'll come to you first on this, Sam, because we were both a bit annoyed with our teams
0:48.3	last week. It's actually quite nice, isn't it, to have had a weekend to kind of simmer down, think about what we're going to do and not be quite so angry going into a new game week. Yeah, but I did find that I was watching
0:58.3	the FA Cup matches thinking, please don't get injured, please don't get injured because I don't
1:01.8	want to deal with my FPL team with a million and one injury. So there was a lot of that
1:05.7	going on as I was watching the FA Cup this weekend. but it was nice not to be stressing about how many
1:10.8	points it's everyone got in this game and just be able to watch the games for the games.
1:14.5	Does it not make you angry though when one of your players in FPL does something like score?
1:19.2	When Gabrielle scored, I was like, why not do that in midweek, mate? Come on.
1:23.3	Yeah, I did exactly the same when my players were scoring. I was like, man, come on, what are you doing? Save that, Trent.
1:28.8	I was like, save that for the Premier League, please.
1:30.8	Just think about momentum, though.
1:32.2	They carry that momentum into the league in midweek.
1:35.0	So it's good for their confidence, and then they're going to do well for you in midweek.
1:38.4	That's what we needed, Mr. Positive on this Monday morning.
1:41.0	Yeah, it is a very good point. It is a very good point indeed. I'm not sure how much momentum Arsenal
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