It's one of the first blockbuster battles of the season, so we ponder plans for Arsenal and City.

We review a bumper midweek of matches and frustrating forwards are on the agenda as one of us plans a points hit.

Hello, it's Thursday. Welcome back to the FPL pod. Kelly Summers with you as always. Julian

LaRont and Sam Bonfield also here. Before we go any further, Sam, you're going to call me out for doing

a Jules. I did a transfer that I didn't say I was going to do on the pod. I literally went, what on earth

happened? Because of course, the first thing I do is check what you two have done.

But you always do what you're supposed to do and Jules never does what he's supposed to do or what he says he's going to do. But this time around, Kelz, he was you that went rogue.

Sorry, I just wanted to get out the way in the first 30 seconds of the podcast because I knew I was going to get called out if I didn't say it. Jules, hi, sorry. I'll say hello to you as well.

So what did you do then? Because I didn't check your team. You're not as dedicated to this podcast as myself. No, I am. I am. I used two of my free transfers, the two free transfers I got to,

I wasn't copying you, but it was more, can we bear in mind that? A bit like you, Sam, I spend my time between when we do a podcast and the deadline with a lot of people doing fantasy because I do the fantasy show for TV as well.

And the more and more people I spoke to, everyone was going Sala and I just got the absolute fear.

So I did a double transfer.

I got rid of Slanky, bought in Chuelo Pedro, delighted about that. But I had to do that to be able to get rid of Saka to bring in Sala. Nice. And obviously it didn't pay off though, did it?

But you didn't Captain Sala unlike me. No. No, I'm glad you brought that up. Yeah. Okay, let's discuss our game weeks then. Mine was okay. It was actually, if anyone,

if you're listening to this, and like me, I know the transfers I did there were incredibly

popular. Sam, were they the most popular kind of transfers of last game week? Yeah, they were,

yeah, Salah was hugely popular and Saka was very heavily sold, so you weren't alone in that decision.

No, and if you did do that, it didn't pay off.

There's still weeks for its payoff, and of course, it was the lowest scoring game week of the season so far. It feels like we've had quite a lot of high scoring game weeks.

We've all been able to feel quite good at the end of the game week, but it was only 51 points

this week. I ended on 50 just below average. So disappointing, but I know there's

going to be so many people in the same boat. Jules, it's disappointing for us.

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