S8 Ep32: FPL Pod: Double Gameweek planning
FPL Pod
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
We have confirmation of the first Double Gameweek of the season following the EFL Cup semi-finals, so it’s time to get planning 🤤🧐🧐
Kelly Somers and the FPL Pod team look at the popular players from those sides with two games, the new arrivals in the transfer window, and how Erling Haaland is no longer a guaranteed captaincy pick.
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* Double Gameweek announced (07m 08s)
* Best Arsenal trio (08m 09s)
* Transfer window (16m 35s)
* Non-Haaland captaincy (24m 55s)
* Differential of the Week (35m 40s)
* Transfers and captains (38m 32s)
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| 0:00.0 | With news of the first double game week, we talk Arsenal Wolves ahead of 26. We debate if we're brave enough to sell Erling Harland. We're eyeing upverts and considering selling Rogers and Sam is especially indecisive on her transfers. |
| 0:17.5 | Hi guys. It's that time of weekend. Another FPL pod that's Sam clanging about with her |
| 0:22.2 | bottles and her water. I think that was Sam anyway. Someone is clanging about. I'm going to warn you |
| 0:26.5 | all. It's an evening podcast and these ones always descend a little bit into chaos. But we are |
| 0:31.5 | recording just after Manchester City of their place in the EFL Cup final, which Sam means |
| 0:37.1 | we now have confirmation of, well, actually it was last night the game's confirmation, but you know what I mean? |
| 0:42.4 | Yeah, the first double game week of the season. It is about to get fun. So double game week, 26 is confirmed. We'll have that starting in the midweek round. So not this one for the weekend, but the one after will be a double game week an interesting double as well the kind we don't really like because it straddles the FA carp so there's always a bit of a risk when you have a double that lasts for that long risk of rotation risk of injury risk of all sorts of things when you've got another set of matches in the middle but exciting to have the first double game week coming up. Exactly. Beggers can't be choos either, can they? We'll take any double game week even if it is around the FA Cup. So yeah, we'll talk about that, I'm sure, a point in the podcast. But let's firstly remind you that Game Week 25 has a Friday evening deadline. Jules, I'm talking to you there as well because you're sometimes a little bit prone to maybe |
| 1:31.0 | for getting deadlines, although you're having a brilliant season |
| 1:33.0 | so I know you're not going to forget this week. |
| 1:34.9 | 6.30pm, that deadline ahead of Leeds against Nottingham |
| 1:37.4 | Forest. Let's crack on with how our game weeks went last week. |
| 1:40.3 | Jules, that wild card went well. |
| 1:42.8 | Yeah, really well, 77 points. A few of the players that |
| 1:47.2 | came in, like Sennesse, for example, like Joe Pedro, like Bruno Fernandez, did really, really |
| 1:52.9 | well. Captain on Bruno worked out well compared to, you know, if Holland had had the armband |
| 1:59.7 | in my team. I went for Evanilssonsen instead of Crupi at front because I just had enough money. |
| 2:05.1 | So I thought, why not for him as a centre forward when Coupy played more as a second |
| 2:10.6 | striker, I'd be on the left. |
| 2:11.6 | And that was a mistake because Coupy was the star of that Bormmouth win. |
| 2:16.0 | And Ahmad, because I didn't have enough money to go to Mbombo, but I wanted two Manchester United attacking players. And to be fair, Ahmad, Ahmad should have had the assist on the CESCO header on the post, by the way. So it was not too far. But overall, it was very good. It's a massive green arrow. I'm top 400 and something like K in the world. So it worked out really well. Dules, I know you've mentioned a few players there, but just talk us through what your final wildcard team was, just so the listeners know he went with. So I listened to Sam and went for Petrovich and Dubrovka in gold, no need for an expensive goalkeeper. I kept Tarkovsky and Gabrielle and Gehi at the back, and I did Senesi and Calafuri. |
| 2:51.7 | I think Calafuri at some point is going to come back as the starting left back for Arsenal, |
| 2:56.0 | and I didn't have the money to go to Timber in the way I did the wild cards. |
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