One more pod before football returns. Jules rounds up the international games. We ponder what to do with Villa's nice fixtures but lack of form. And yes, I'm still hovering over that transfer for Jack Grealish.

Hi guys. Welcome back to the FPL pod. Kelly Sam and Jules back with you. And if you are watching on YouTube, let's address the elephant in the room. We're only, what, four or five weeks into the season. If that, we've already had Sam Bonfield recording from a car today. Dun, dun, done, done. Over to you, Jules. Explain yourself. I'm sorry. I just thought because of the tube strike,

I had to drive in to work today and thought living early would be okay to arrive on time

to start to record the show in a proper studio, but it didn't. So I'm literally on a Tesco car park

somewhere in kind of central London with a laptop on my lap and the mic in my hands but all ready to go. I've got my nose, I've got my notepad, it's all there. My favourite thing is the fact that just before we recorded he was like, people are walking past and looking at me. Because Sam, at least when you did it, I think you were away from other people whereas George is in a busy shopping like a supermarket car park.

Yeah, at least I was in the hotel car park where there wasn't really many people around, so it was fine. But yeah, good luck, Jules. Anyway, anyway, let's move on. Let's get Jules out of that car park ASAP. It feels like it's quite a big week this game week, because despite there being no Premier League football last weekend, and this being our second second pod kind of previewing the next game week, there are currently 547,000 wildcards

active. That's as of Thursday morning at 8am, so I'm sure by the deadline it is only going to rise.

So lots of people probably listening to this needing plenty of help picking their teams.

We will do our very best. And before we go any further, Sam, I'm sorry, we're not going to hear from you for a bit because I'm just going to let this man take it away with his international roundup. Because loads of things happen, guys, you know, during this international break for Premier League players, I mean, a lot of it was really good, like Erling Highland scoring five goals against Moldova and two assists.

Mikkel Marino also scoring a hat-trick with Spain in a midfield position or in a striker position,

but still good to know a few Mikhail Arteeta and Arsenal fan.

We saw Martineau de Gard also doing well with Norway and playing one full game and one half of them. M Mosala played with Egypt. The two games scored in the first one against Ethiopia, two games for Bruno Fernandez as well, 90 minutes and 66 minutes. The Silva scored. We had all the English boys. You must have been happy doing quite well. Declan Rice, but Madweke is scoring, Gehi scoring, Konsa scoring,

Elia Anderson, being a bit of the star over the two games against Andorra and Serbia.

We had the first minutes of Alexander Isak this season, who played 18 minutes with Sweden

against Posovo, Omar Marmush played with Egypt, played well, and then got injured at the start

of the second game.

We had all the South Americans who did kind of okay, but most importantly for us,

the likes of Joe Pedro, Estevao, Gabriel, Paquetta or Martinelli will come back quite late

as often from South America and the qualifiers. So a lot of things happen for our primary players during this national break. And thanks, Jules, you can go now. You can leave the car park. That was brilliant. I think, firstly, credit to England, Jules. That was almost the most complimentary thing you've said about them because they weren't bad, but this is not the podcast to talk about that. Firstly, the South American players,

that is what worries me a little bit, Sam. Yeah, it's always a risk, isn't it, when we have an

international break with the South Americans. Yeah, you always feel a little bit risky. I mean, I maybe

feel a little bit better about it, given the injury to Liam Delap and the fact that Chelsea

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