S8 Ep21: FPL Pod: All eyes on Foden
FPL Pod
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4.6 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
So Kelly Somers and the FPL Pod team discuss the Man City midfielder's recent rise in form, how Aston Villa are also enjoying a golden patch, and provide an important reminder to use all of your transfers this Gameweek.
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* Fantastic Foden (06m 08s)
* Semenyo sale (16m 03s)
* Villa on the up (26m 18s)
* AFCON transfers (37m 33s)
* Differential of the Week (39m 24s)
* Transfer and captains (40m 53s)
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| 0:00.0 | Another bumper pod with a tight midweek to weekend deadline. |
| 0:04.3 | We're all forking out for Foden, not panicking about Arsenal rotation. |
| 0:08.2 | And if you're listening to this on Friday, I'm hoping we'll have all had a huge Bruno Hall. |
| 0:17.2 | Hello, welcome back to this week's FPL pod back on a Thursday morning. And it's going to be a similar pod to the one that we put out at the beginning of this week because of course we've had a midweek round of action. There's no time for off the bench. So we're here to review and preview once again. Also, because we're recording on a Thursday morning, it does mean that we haven't seen the final game, which is Manchester United West Ham on Thursday. And as someone that brought in Bruno Fernandez, I'm hoping the injury rumors aren't true. And the fact that he's going to get loads of points tonight. But let's just check in. Morning, Sam. Morning, Jules. Let's check in with how things are going. I'm going to try and get through this quickly because I've realized on Monday, a fast pace is key to these. hats off to you guys that do off the bench because you do have to rattle through it. No time for our chit chat. |
| 0:56.9 | So firstly, hello, Sam. pace is key to these. Hats off to you guys that are off the bench because you do have to |
| 0:54.4 | rattle through it. No time for our chit chat. So firstly, hello Sam. Good game for you so far. |
| 0:59.9 | Hooray! It's been another good week. Yeah, it was on the back of Tuesday evening, everyone had |
| 1:06.0 | returned and I was thinking, oh, this is going to be great. And then, of course, the normal midweek |
| 1:09.6 | rotation kicked in on the |
| 1:12.4 | Wednesday evening |
| 1:13.0 | fixtures. |
| 1:13.6 | And Timbernot getting his clean sheet points has frustrated me. Saka coming off the bench. At least he came off the bench and got a return. So that was nice. At one point, I was thinking, oh, I might be down to 10 here because Van der Van was my only bench player that was actually available for this week, |
| 1:29.2 | apart from King. |
| 1:31.4 | And he... might be down to 10 here because Van der Van was my only bench player that was actually available for |
| 1:28.0 | this week, apart from King. And he obviously didn't play. So I was down to just one point from |
| 1:34.6 | King on the bench thinking, oh, this is going to be a disaster if none of these players come off |
| 1:38.2 | the bench. But actually in the end, it was fine. So 75 points. I am done, though. I don't have any |
| 1:43.7 | Manchester United or West Ham assets this evening. So there points. I am done though. I don't have any Manchester United or West Ham assets this evening. So there will be a bit of a dent on the rank, but that's another really healthy rank boost this week. So hoping that we're starting to see a bit of an upward trajectory now. As long as Bruno stays quiet and Boris stays quiet, I'll be all right. |
| 2:17.6 | Sam, I'm fuming all Sunday and Monday I was going to bring in Phil Foden. It was always going to be Phil Foden and I just thought, I've already got Erling Harland. I looked at Manchester United next to and for some reason at the last minute I went for Bruno and I mean, I thought someone was joking joke. You might be right. It could still be okay. |
| 2:37.7 | I thought it was a sick joke when I got a text last night saying, have you seen the Bruno injury news? And then I searched on social media and was like, this really would top off a very difficult few weeks for me in FPL. So I'm praying, if you listen to this on Friday, you're probably going to be laughing at me when Bruno doesn't play a minute and I get, I'm going to get a point off, Jacques or off the bench. Jules, how about you? The first thing to say is, |
| 2:43.4 | you were quite brave, giving no transfers, given the fact, midweek rotation and you had a couple of headaches already in there too. Yeah, I just wanted to keep the two for this Game Week 15, |
| 2:48.5 | this weekend, before all the free transfer kicking for Afcon. |
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