S8 Ep31: FPL Pod: Gameweek 24 Wildcard guide
FPL Pod
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4.6 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
It’s the hottest topic this Gameweek as FPL managers decide whether to try and capitalise on the favourable fixture changes by using their Wildcard now or save it for later 📈🃏📈
So Kelly Somers and the FPL Pod team discuss the best players to go after, how to juggle the midfield spots, as well as if we’re starting to have a problem with Erling Haaland.
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* European review (04m 50s)
* Chelsea investment (10m 42s)
* Man Utd double (16m 26s)
* Haaland dilemma (26m 30s)
* Differential of the Week (39m 17s)
* Transfers and captains (40m 47s)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's the fixture swing week we've all been counting down to. There's plenty of Chelsea and United Chat. |
| 0:06.4 | Why Bournemouth are the best budget-friendly option, and we think one of us is going to play our wildcard. |
| 0:17.4 | Hello, guys. Thursday's here once again, which means another FPL deadline is looming. |
| 0:21.9 | But before then, we've got loads of hopefully help to get you through Game Week 24. |
| 0:27.1 | Jules and Sam back with you. And this feels like quite a big game week, doesn't it, Jules? |
| 0:31.9 | Because there's a lot of talk of wild cards. Yeah, because we've said for quite a long time now that there was a massive fixture |
| 0:39.2 | swings for some of those teams that on paper certainly looks like an easier fixture list. |
| 0:44.4 | So if you wanted to invest in Chelsea players, maybe, in Manchester United players, in |
| 0:49.2 | Bournemouth player, maybe even Crystal Palace players, despite the poor form, this is the time. |
| 0:54.0 | And for that, there's nothing better than playing your wild card. And you can start with this fresh 15 with the players that you want to try to hit those, those fixtures that on paper certainly looks very good, look very good for those teams. It is tempting, isn't it? Someone that doesn't have that temptation, of course, is Sam. Let's talk about, we'll talk |
| 1:11.9 | about wild cards and all the things that we think you should potentially be doing going into Game Week 24 very shortly, but let's do as we always do. Reflect on last game week. Sam is into week two, heading into week three of your wild card. How's it going? It's going all right. I did absolute benching nightmare, didn't I, this week? So it was just one of those where I decided that |
| 1:29.6 | I did not trust birds to keep a clean sheet away at Burnley and spent a very long time debating. Probably rightfully so. Right. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. But it was right. Is your own team? I know, Jules, but we aren't very good defensively. So I was like, |
| 1:44.9 | Bern-Leal score, they always seem to. And so I spent a disproportionate amount of time deciding |
| 1:49.9 | between playing Mickey Van, Morgan Rogers, and Dominic Calvert Lewin. And in the end, of course, |
| 1:55.3 | got it wrong and bench Mickey Vanderbent and then spent the rest of the weekend praying |
| 1:59.1 | that somebody would miss out through, you know, something. And he'd come off the bench, but he didn't add to that the fact that Sennesse then pulled out and assisted against Liverpool and he was on my bench, was frustrating. And then, of course, I played Roofs over De Bravka because I thought Ruth had more opportunity for a clean sheet and that was a four-point swinger as well. |
| 2:18.1 | So a bit of a disappointing one in the end. Having said all of that, I still feel like my team is now set up and in the right place moving forward. |
| 2:26.3 | So I'm not too bothered about it. It was a very, very small red. But all in all, I think it was a relatively good week in terms of setting myself up a little bit more ready for the future because I rolled my transfer. So now I've got two free transfers going into the next week. And I think only one thing I want to do. It felt like a good week to have a bad week, if that makes any sense, doesn't it? Because everyone was pretty low. It was a low average. once again. I mean, I missed you had the worst week of all of us. |
| 2:52.1 | Jules, how was your game week? |
| 3:07.0 | Yeah, pretty good, 49 points. Another green arrow. I played the back fight because I thought Van would do something against Burnley and he did. You know, I would never betray one of my, you know, my club. I had a double Arsenal defence which didn't go that well with my... |
| 3:08.3 | Are you calling Spurs your club? |
| 3:09.7 | You should have betrayed your club and gone back. betray one of my, you know, my club. I had a double Arsenal defense, which didn't go that well with. |
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