S8 Ep28: FPL Pod: New year, new team
FPL Pod
Premier League
4.6 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The final Gameweek of a busy set of festive fixtures is almost complete, ahead of an FA Cup weekend, but it’s been a huge few days as drastic changes are made 😮🚨😮
Kelly Somers and the FPL Pod team look at the managerial moves at Chelsea and Man Utd, why it could be time to mix up your Man City assets, and there’s a surprise Chip activated by one of our pundits.
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* Manager changes (05m 48s)
* Thiago must have (15m 58s)
* Selling Everton defence (23m 48s)
* Man City conundrum (27m 07s)
* Brilliant Bruno Guimaraes (34m 58s)
* Wildcard team reveal (37m 15s)
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| 0:00.0 | The game week isn't over, but we're eager to review it. |
| 0:03.4 | We discuss the impact of managerial changes at Chelsea and Man United, |
| 0:07.2 | whether it's time to part ways with the city defence |
| 0:09.2 | and stay till the end for the reveal of a surprise chip usage. |
| 0:17.2 | Well, this feels rather strange. |
| 0:18.6 | It's a Thursday, and it's an actual FPL pod with you in our normal slot. |
| 0:23.5 | Still not a totally normal podcast though because, of course, we're midway through. We're nearly complete a midweek of Premier League action. Welcome back, everyone. Thanks for being with this. Kelly Summers, Julian Laurent, San Bonfield, back with you. Let's start with how has the game week gone so far? There is, of course, Liverpool |
| 0:39.0 | and Arsenal still got a face off this evening. I'm going to come to Jules first on how the game week's going because I think Sam's still kind of simmering down. Yeah, it's probably better to give her a bit of time to digest, you know, what happened last night. It's been good for me so far, 50 points, even if |
| 0:53.6 | Pep Roulette did me a little bit because |
| 0:55.5 | Shurkey was on the bench and I |
| 0:57.3 | expected me It's been good for me so far, 50 points, even if Pep Roulette did me a little bit because Cherokee was on the bench and I expected maybe O'Reilly to be on the bench, to be fair, and have some sort of rotation. When you saw that, they called back Max Allen, who was on Lona, Watford, Kel. Fuming about that, by the way. I know, he was very good for you, wasn't it? He's been brilliant. I don't know if he probably won't play, will he? |
| 1:12.7 | He's just gone back to be on the bench. |
| 1:13.7 | You could have been part of a promotion push anyway. |
| 1:15.3 | That's another podcast. |
| 1:15.9 | I know, I know. |
| 1:16.7 | But he started yesterday and I thought it did well. So there might be more for him. But I was a bit disappointed from a Cherokee owner's point of view |
| 1:24.5 | because I thought between him and Foden, |
| 1:26.8 | I would have benched Foden every day, |
| 1:28.4 | considering the poor form that he's been in really recently compared |
| 1:31.0 | to Shirky. And I thought Shirky changed the game really when he came on and Citi were a bit |
| 1:35.3 | unlucky not to win and they should have won it. But apart from that 50, Bruno Gimaris with |
| 1:39.8 | another wonderful home 11-pointer with the penalty and the assist. |
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