S8 Ep26: FPL Pod: Optimising your Arsenal investment
FPL Pod
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4.6 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
So Kelly Somers and the FPL Pod team look at how to optimise your Arsenal investment, the best trio to own, and discuss what to do with Chelsea assets following Enzo Maresca’s departure.
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* Chelsea changes (04m 20s)
* Everton options (14m 00s)
* Best Arsenal trio (20m 17s)
* Cherki form (34m 37s)
* Differential of the Week (38m 46s)
* Transfer and captains (40m 25s)
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| 0:00.0 | It's the first FPL pod of the new year. |
| 0:03.4 | We discuss a frustrating New Year's Day, unless you're a defender, with Gabrielle returning |
| 0:07.3 | the new optimum Arsenal investment, and will Sam work out her transfer conundrums? |
| 0:17.5 | Happy New Year. |
| 0:18.5 | It's the first FPL pod of 2026 and I think it's safe to say it started in |
| 0:23.3 | underwhelming fashion, hasn't it? Welcome back everyone. Hello Sam. Hello, Jules. Happy New Year. Sam. |
| 0:29.8 | Same thing. It just feels like it's a continuation of a tough start to the season really, doesn't it? |
| 0:36.2 | Yeah, although I did have a green arrow this week. |
| 0:38.2 | So, you know, we live for the small things right now. |
| 0:41.4 | So it was a difficult weekend. |
| 0:42.5 | It was a week full of frustrations, like I think summed up by Nico O'Reilly |
| 0:46.8 | disappearing off on 57 minutes to not wrap up a clean sheet when he really should have |
| 0:52.4 | got one given that Man City ended up drawing that game, no-nil. |
| 0:55.2 | Yeah, a lot of difficult picks this week, a lot of unexpected benchings, although we did |
| 1:01.7 | warn about Volta Mada and the potential for a benching force over the coming weeks, and we |
| 1:05.9 | had that as well. |
| 1:07.8 | In the end, I think I'm relatively happy with my game week, 46 for the week, |
| 1:14.8 | returns for Van, who I did decide to play this week, thank goodness, didn't rely on him |
| 1:19.5 | coming off the bench. Saka was okay. Yeah, I had a goal and two bonus points out of |
| 1:26.1 | Jared Bowen, and I tell you, that felt like a massive win on Tuesday evening. So I was very, very happy with him. But yeah, 46, it's fine. It's a relatively nice green arrow. So I'm happy to start the new year on that, and then we have to build from here. Yeah, I finally used my bench boost because I had to, of course, 47 points. Not great, but Smuckele, 11 points. I would never have played him. So grateful, not so grateful for an injury that no one told us about. Thanks, David Moyes for Michael King. I literally bought him in for that game for my bench boost. Anyway, whatever, he can remain on my bench now. Jules, as for you, I think it was, I think |
| 2:02.1 | it was very frustrating for you, wasn't it? Yeah, because I left Julian Timber on the bench. |
| 2:06.9 | I had Raya already in the starting lineup. I thought Vila going to score and they did |
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