A busy European week but still an FPL pod packed with Premier League chat.

We debate Arsenal and is Rice really a better option than Saka?

Plus we discuss value in midfield and for once, Jules has already made his transfers.

Welcome back to this week's FPL pod where natural order has been restored.

Hasn't it, Sam. Joking, what a start. Joking, but I took a lot of heat on last week's pod. So all I wanted to do was just have a slightly better game week. I mean, admittedly Jules had a better game week than all of us, which seems to be scarily common at the moment. That's the theme, yeah. Yep. But I'm a bit happier this week.

Hello, by the way, Kerry Summers will be Sam Bonfield, Julianne. Sam, over to you. Yeah, I just, I do know I had a bit of a shocker. But that's what happens when you go against the obvious captain because you try and do something a bit different and it doesn't pay off, like Jules or I'm sure,

have something to say about his captaincy later.

I went for Saka, who... because you try and do something a bit different and it doesn't pay off like Jules or I'm sure have something to say about his captaincy later.

I went for Saka who had two massive opportunities, two big chances,

doesn't score either of them.

And as soon as he blanked, I was like, well, that's my game week done.

Regardless of what happens across the rest of the team, it's done at this point because as soon as you have a captaincy foul and then not long into the Manchester City game on Sunday, of course, Harlan scores and I'm like, right, well, that is really going to be a difficult, a difficult week. I also um, Dernard all week about what to do about Rinders and Kaisado and which one of them to play. And of course, in the end went for the wrong one. And the Pept's comments before the game, I was thinking, well, maybe you just leave Rinders on the bench and I'll get Kaisado's 10 points come off of it. But no, that wasn't to be. He came on for a one-point cameo. So difficult week. Ended up on 57. It actually wasn't as terrible a red arrow as I feared it might be. I think on Sunday when Manchester City were playing, I was like, this is going to be a massive red arrow. It wasn't that bad in the end. It's put me off captain in anyone other than Harlem for the rest of the season. No, I'll be honest. Yeah, I've seen a fair few people saying that actually, that in the form he's in and the goals he's scoring. But Jules, you, you so nearly beat all the Holland captains, didn't you? Fair play. You did go bold. You said you'd do Gabrielle. I was on final score with your friend, Nadim. It was funny, because when he got the assist, I said, Nadim was watching that game. And I said, because I'm obviously watching four games who had 34 cup ties. I'm not watching everything. And I said, who was that header? Who got the assist? And he was

like, uh, Sileap. Oh no, Gabrielle. And then he just, I put my head in my hands and he's like, I think Charles captained him. And then when we went to the next reporter, I was like, I just need to check and you did and I mean fair play it like as Sam said then it is so bold and so brave to go

against him.

But he probably was what he was, wasn't he, the second best captain option?

Yeah.

And if he doesn't get that yellow card in the 94th minute for the handball,

then it's actually better than Holland.

He would have gone 14 instead.

Well, yeah, it would have gone two more points instead of the minus one. He would have actually been four more points because he lost a bonus point on the back of losing that yellow card as well. Completely. So it would have, it could have been much better. The thing I would say, though, as good as it was, and we explained, you know, last week's show that it was a, it would have been a good

captain because of how good he's on set pieces, how strong defensively are.

And there was a, there was high probability they would not concede a goal against,

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