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S8 Ep7: FPL Pod: Your guide to the best Wildcard picks

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6 โ€ข 749 Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 4 September 2025

โฑ๏ธ 43 minutes

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Summary

Now that the transfer window has closed and the international break is upon us, FPL managers are using the opportunity to review how their players have been performing with some turning to their Wildcards ๐Ÿ“ˆ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ“ˆ

So Kelly Somers and the FPL Pod team are here to run through the best selections if you're using the chip, as well as assessing all the major deadline day moves.

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* Bringing in Isak? (11m 44s)
* Standout transfers (18m 21s)
* Wildcard considerations (27m 24s)
* Defensive considerations (30m 35s)
* Cheaper midfielder options (34m 15s)
* All-firing front three (38m 08s)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

It's already the first international break.

0:03.2

So this week, we reviewed Deadline Day and Ask when we'll all want Isak.

0:06.6

We run through our potential wildcard squads.

0:09.1

And again, Sam wishes she was anywhere else but here.

0:17.1

So somehow we are here.

0:18.6

It's the first international break of the season already. Some of us needed a break from FPL more than others. Should we just, um, should we just go there early on?

0:29.5

Marjorie Johnson is back. Number 32. I don't think I need to introduce us. If you're listening to this podcast, you know us very well. You probably know what I'm getting at. Kenny Summers with you, a very smug Julian Loron. And again, Sam, who doesn't want to be here?

0:43.6

Three and two. It's my lucky number now. Yeah. We're going to retire your shirt soon, Magic.

0:49.8

It's like a band-aid, Sam. We go early. We rip it off. We're done. Do you know what? I think I said last

0:56.1

week, oh, I can't get any worse. It can't possibly get any worse. I'm like a million behind where I was last week now. It has definitely got worse. And yet I still persist in looking at my team thinking, that looks all right. That should have done way better than it did.

0:53.4

Also still, oh, when he came on and I said, have you walked on? And you were like, no, I still persist in looking at my team thinking, that looks all right. That should have done way better than it did?

1:11.9

You also still, I only came on and I said, have you wild card? And you were like, no, I was like, what does it take to do a wild card? Like, how bad does it have to? I'm joking. I'm joking. You're not allowed to do a wild card when you've got less than 33 points, two weeks in a row. Thank you. It's not going to, you can press, you're not going to work.

1:10.9

Anything more to say?

1:11.9

Should we move on? two weeks and more. Thank you. It's not going to, you can press, it's not going to work.

1:29.3

Anything more to say?

1:30.4

Should we move on? Good. Yeah. Do we end the pod? Yeah. See you next week. Yeah. See you everyone next week when I've had a better week. Oh no, actually, because we've still got another pod before I can have a better week. that's where it got worse.

1:25.0

Okay then.

1:26.7

So, Sam, define got worse.

1:30.2

Just, just... I can have a better week. That's where it got worse. Okay then.

2:34.3

So, Sam, define got worse. Just bring this to reality. Make the viewer understand your pain. It's a safe place. Just let it go. It's a surf place. It would be if you weren't here, yours. If it was just me and cowards, it would be a lovely space. And I wouldn't have been mean at all. I'd have been more sympathetic. You'd have been so supportive and yeah, we've got you here. So actually I made, so I decided to bring in Jal Pedro. The news that Col Palmer was out was like, okay, I'll sell you. I'm going to use the money to upgrade Giu to bring in Jal Pedro. let's deal with the elephant in the room that I haven't had in for the last couple of weeks and get him in. And actually, that's transfer won't really well. So obviously, especially with the news, with Gaii moving back to Chelsea, I was like, well, that's a problem solved as well. So actually, this feels like a positive thing that I've done. So I was very happy about that one. The midfield position was much more contentious. Like I couldn't really decide who I fancied. There was a lot of,

2:41.1

ideally I'd have liked Bruno Fernandez, but the only way to get Jal Pedro up top was to save

2:45.9

that little bit of extra money. So I couldn't really afford to go with him. The same with the

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