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S8 Ep30: FPL Pod: What to do with Erling Haaland?

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6749 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

After four blanks in his past five Premier League matches, Erling Haaland is starting to cause FPL managers a headache or two as they wonder what to do with the star forward 📉🤖📉

So Kelly Somers and the FPL Pod team review his recent performances, the wider problems at Man City, and look ahead to the favourable fixture changes in Gameweek 24.

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* European review (04m 19s)
* Haaland dilemma (06m 21s)
* Chelsea consideration (22m 57s)
* Investing in Man Utd (30m 00s)
* Differential of the Week (35m 08s)
* Transfers and captains (38m 50s)

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Transcript

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0:00.8

It's the week after Sam's wildcard, so we analyse its success. It's time to have a conversation about City and Erling Holland.

0:07.6

We discuss a potential wildcard next week, and the guys have come up with two serious differentials.

0:17.2

Hi, guys, it's been another busy week of football. We've had Champions League. In fact, we've only had Champions League so far because it's Wednesday night, but it feels like there's been loads going on. Loads for us to talk about in FPL, so FPL pod back with you. This is a Wednesday night record. And often on these Wednesday night records, we go off on a few tangents. It ends up a bit weird. And as always, it's George's thought we're doing it late, isn't it, Jules? I'm so sorry, guys. Yeah, I'm in Marseille, where I watch Liverpool toying with Marseille at the start, Velodrome in the Champions League while you were watching traitors, which I'm a bit jealous. I don't want to know anything. Don't tell me anything about the episode. But yeah, I'm so sorry that we have to record so late. It's okay. I was midway

0:54.9

through watching Traders on Catch Up, so I don't know anything about Traders, so let's not talk

0:58.2

about it. about the episode. But yeah, I'm so sorry that we have to record so late. It's okay. I was

0:54.6

midway through watching Traders on Catchup, so I don't know anything about Traders, so let's not talk about that. Sam, let's talk about your wild card instead, because you played it. How did it go? Good, Green Arrow, happy days. And actually, sometimes when you play a wild card, it doesn't always necessarily go exactly

1:11.5

how you think it's going to first or all. But this one was good. I'm happy with it. Looking back,

1:17.2

are there a couple of decisions that maybe I should have done differently, possibly. I think more

1:22.1

that's to do. Which ones? I think more it's to do with the captaincy, to be honest, because as you

1:26.4

know, from the amount of time we spent together last week, I was really torn on whether to go for VERS or whether to go for Harlan. And in the end, I behaved like you in some ways and did the sheathish move, which was to get up to Narlane. And I should have gone for Verts. And the thing is, as soon as the deadline passed, I knew I should have done it as well, which is one of those things. The Chelsea defence, I didn't expect them to keep a clean sheet against Brentford. And I looked at the fixtures and thought maybe with the amount of fixture congestion that they have, there wouldn't be, maybe there'd be some rotation, maybe they wouldn't be the clean sheet. So I decided not to get one.

2:01.5

And I kind of regret that. But otherwise, I think I'm fairly happy with the decisions that I made. And it's set up nicely now, I think, for the next few weeks. Well, I hope anyway, because it's got last me now until the end of the season. Yeah, it has indeed, hasn't it? Well, Jules, what about you? when you sent us a message

2:17.1

the other night asking

2:17.7

to move the time

2:18.9

of the pod,

2:19.3

you did say,

2:19.9

I hope your game week

2:20.8

went better than mine. I mean, let's be honest, none of us had the world's best game week. We were all in the 40s. But above average, how was your game week? Yeah, 40 points, which is exactly the average. I said that because I think it could have gone much better. I chose to Captain Ekitke. I still don't know how he didn't return in that game against Burnley at the weekend. Like Verge should have had more Liverpool overall. I think the XG was around three in that game. So they should have had more. Akitika should have had more, didn't get me anything.

3:08.8

And when I saw Halland Blanking again, obviously earlier on that Saturday, I thought, brilliant. My AKitakei is going to get me a few points. That's going to be a big green arrow. In the end, it was still a green arrow, a small one. My defenders did the business, really, Raya, six points, Gabriel A, Tarkovsky 8, that's more than half of the points I got.

3:08.8

So I was happy with that, but I had the feeling that he could have been. business. Really, right at six points, Gabriel A. Tarkovsky 8. That's more than half of the points I got.

3:10.2

So I was happy with that, but I had the feeling that it could have been better. Yeah, I know the feeling I made. The popular transfer of Cunia to Rice was buzzing when he was benched. Wasn't so buzzing when he came on, had an assist. I probably could have got more, to be honest. so maybe I should be

3:22.1

really.

3:23.6

Okay,

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