Midpriced FPL Picks (Part 1): Midfielders and Goalkeepers

Alon is still on vacation, and Walsh has popped the wildcard, so we're just going full wildcard mode for the episode and talking about Walsh's current draft and the pressure points of it. Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro, Farming, and Anus Slaps 00:02:17 How'd We Do in GW3: Double Chipping with a Free Hit and a Triple Cap 00:11:54 A Very Quick Fantasy Baseball Divergence 00:13:08 Man City Players for Walsh's Wildcard Team: Enzo In 00:22:02 Adjusting Our Everton Sliders: KDH Good 00:27:08 Isak Is In, and Gakpo Throws His Hat in the Mix 00:32:23 What to Do with Chelsea Players: Triple Attack 00:37:39 Szobo vs. Rogers vs. Enzo as a Thought Experiment 00:44:30 Bye Bye Bruno? And Do You Do Mbeumo to Rogers, or Bruno to Palmer? 00:52:36 What Are the Current Wildcard Decision Points for Walsh: It's an Easy Game 00:56:42 Josh King Round Two, and Groß 01:03:11 Egan Should Be Nailed in the Wildcard Team, and Here's Why 01:12:17 Sir Yeremy of Piño 01:20:17 Outro, the Week Ahead, and Questions Will Come on the Thursday Patreon Episode FML FPL is supported by our Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/FMLFPL FML FPL is a Fantasy Premier League podcast hosted by Alon and Walsh, two veteran FPL managers riding the highs and lows of every Gameweek. Expect brutally honest reactions, fantasy football advice you probably shouldn’t follow, and full Gameweek therapy. #FPL #FantasyPremierLeague #FPLPodcast #FantasyFootball #GW4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We just hit record and chatted. Alon just got back to Paris from London, and the boys dove into GW2 and looked ahead: no stats, and no questions, just us and FPL. And BTW, sorry if any audio/video glitches… I'm not fully set up for remote podding, but next time will be better. Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro, a Little Alon in London Review, and Anus Slaps 00:06:09 Our Teams GW2 Recap: The 100+ Club 00:15:09 Back to Friday: Starting with a Crystal Palace in Trouble 00:23:21 Manchester City's Destruction of Crystal Palace: Cherki and Foden 00:40:17 Chelsea Are Flying High: Palmer and João Pedro and Rogers 00:45:50 All These Great Midfield Picks Have Arrived, and Now What Do We Do with Hat-Trick Bruno Fernandes? 00:51:57 Oh, and Mbeumo of Course Too: He Gets on Base 01:12:53 Alon's Team Situation: Should Probably Consider Wildcarding, but Don't Wildcard 01:17:00 Walsh's Team Situation: It's Probably Time to Rip the Wildcard FML FPL is supported by our Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/FMLFPL FML FPL is a Fantasy Premier League podcast hosted by Alon and Walsh, two veteran FPL managers riding the highs and lows of every Gameweek. Expect brutally honest reactions, fantasy football advice you probably shouldn’t follow, and full Gameweek therapy. #FPL #FantasyPremierLeague #FPLPodcast #FantasyFootball #GW3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All of this week is about identifying maybe THE GUYS, while also holding and being patient with your guys. Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro, Admin, and Anus Slaps 00:02:00 GW1 Review of Our Teams: Some Cucking and Some Flying 00:11:30 Patience and Overreacting 00:14:54 Reaching Back to Remember the Arsenal Game: Tsolis, Tsolis, Tsolis, and Maybe Kai or Saka or Ödegaard Too 00:24:32 Villa Mauled by the Brightoning: De Cuyper Process 00:39:08 Man United Lost to the Worst Team in the League, and We're Holding Their Players 00:43:28 Another Mauling at the G-Tech Stadium: Sangaré and Dango and Tottenham 00:48:26 Ndiaye Maybe a Great Pick? 00:52:08 Cherki, Oh Baby, Oh Lord: What Do We Do with This Guy? Also Haaland and Nico O'Reilly and Other City Players 01:01:28 2-2 Newcastle vs. Liverpool: We Do Not Agree on Szobo, and We Do Not Agree on Wirtz 01:18:45 Chelsea, Another Dongfest: We've Got Our Palmer Back 01:26:34 A Few Questions from Discord, and Then a Few Lifestyle Questions from Discord FML FPL is supported by our Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/FMLFPL Shoutout to @kunning and @nycsaladlover on instagram for the camera and for the computer FML FPL is a Fantasy Premier League podcast hosted by Alon and Walsh, two veteran FPL managers riding the highs and lows of every Gameweek. Expect brutally honest reactions, fantasy football advice you probably shouldn’t follow, and full Gameweek therapy. #FPL #FantasyPremierLeague #FPLPodcast #FantasyFootball #GW2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The final week has arrived, and we're podding IRL. Join us as we embark on the 2026/27 FPL season. Lots of angst and despair to still be had. Kick off your 2026/27 FPL Season right with 25% off your first year when you pay annually for our Patreon! You get ad-free episodes / Discord access / prize league / more episodes / etc… https://www.patreon.com/1069944/join And don’t forget to join the prize league / mug league!!! https://www.patreon.com/FMLFPL/posts/signup-for-prize-164652803 Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro and Anus Slaps 00:01:58 Do We Need to Revisit EDOT (Elliot Anderson) with Set Pieces and Recoveries? 00:03:53 Szoboszlai: Avenues and Wisdom of the Crowd Situation 00:10:25 Time to Talk About Isak, and Possibly No Haaland or Isak with Haaland 00:17:54 Is Fading João Pedro Too Big a Bet, or Just the Right Amount of Bet, and a Little Morgan Rogers to Boot 00:26:31 Welcome Calafiori to the Team, and Other Arsenal Picks — Also O'Reilly 00:35:29 Is Brighton Still Good for Bench Boost GW1? 00:40:44 Couple of Bench Boost Questions 00:49:48 Coming Around on Thiago and Brentford 00:56:48 Shaw vs. Maguire 01:02:40 Ödegaard and Some Tzolis 01:08:31 Jacquet: Huge Upside and a Risk 01:10:15 Are We Still Out on Semenyo? 01:13:25 Taking Some Questions from Discord: Exploitable Fixtures, Mbeumo vs. Wirtz vs. Semenyo, Finding DefCon Monsters, Hume and De Cuyper 01:24:44 Back to Our GW1 Teams: What Decisions Do We Have Left? FML FPL is supported by our Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/FMLFPL Shoutout to Keivon and @kunning + @nycsaladlover on instagram for the studio, the camera, and for the computer FML FPL is a Fantasy Premier League podcast hosted by Alon and Walsh, two veteran FPL managers riding the highs and lows of every Gameweek. Expect brutally honest reactions, fantasy football advice you probably shouldn’t follow, and full Gameweek therapy. #FPL #FantasyPremierLeague #FPLPodcast #FantasyFootball Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're both fairly settled, which feels… odd. Maybe this weekend will change it all, but we have two versions of building very similar GW1 teams: one trying to stave off the early wildcard, and one embracing the early wildcard. Kick off your 2026/27 FPL Season right with 25% off your first year when you pay annually for our Patreon! You get ad-free episodes / Discord access / prize league / more episodes / etc… https://www.patreon.com/1069944/join And don’t forget to join the prize league / mug league!!! https://www.patreon.com/FMLFPL/posts/signup-for-prize-164652803 Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro, Admin, Anus Slaps, App Review, and Census Talk 00:04:25 Walsh's GW1 Team: Cheap at the Back 00:06:59 A Little João Pedro Chat: Are Any FPL Forwards Worth It? 00:10:14 Alon's GW1 Team: Forwards Are Out 00:15:51 Thinking About Isak a Little Bit: £6.5 Million Cheaper Than Haaland 00:19:09 The Midfield Guys Everyone Is Talking About: Szoboszlai and Morgan Gibbs-White, and Then Some Mbeumo and Wirtz 00:31:54 Ndiaye vs. Le Fée vs. Kluivert and More: Set Pieces and Penalties Are Volume Games 00:37:30 Back to Walsh's Cheap Defense: Setting Up for an Earlyish Wildcard 00:45:32 Shaw and Maguire 00:48:05 No Arsenal in Our Drafts Even Though They're the Best Team: Tsolis? Mosquera? Calafiori? Ben White? 00:56:24 Back to Alon's Team: VVD, and Then Full Circle Back to Pascal Groß 01:07:10 One Week Left: What Spots Are We Still Analyzing and Figuring Out FML FPL is supported by our Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/FMLFPL FML FPL is a Fantasy Premier League podcast hosted by Alon and Walsh, two veteran FPL managers riding the highs and lows of every Gameweek. Expect brutally honest reactions, fantasy football advice you probably shouldn’t follow, and full Gameweek therapy. #FPL #FantasyPremierLeague #FPLPodcast #FantasyFootball Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Walsh and LR chat about why they suck and also why they're going to win FPL. And both make sense. Check out The FPL Wire on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheFPLWireFantasyPremierLeague Lateriser on Twitter: https://x.com/lateriser12 Chapters: 00:00:00 Walsh OKAYYYYYYYY and Intro 00:02:39 League Upheaval, 10ish New Managers, and 9ish Teams in Europe 00:05:57 Man United: More Goals for Bruno and Flexibility 00:10:59 Don't Sleep on Mbeumo 00:16:10 Semenyo: Could Play 90' Every Game and Be the Guy 00:19:34 Wildcard GW3? Free Hit GW3? Avoid Haaland? 00:25:52 Can Arsenal Defense Be Taken On? 00:29:31 How to Do Well at This Game and Where Do We Fuck Up: This Time It Will Be Different 00:41:58 What's the Meta This Year: Cheapish Attackers and 8th Attackers 00:44:33 Szoboszlai and Wirtz and Liverpool (and Gibbs-White and More Boomo) 00:51:04 £4.5 Million Defenders: Shaw (but Maguire Better), Rodon, and Hume 01:01:56 Third Forward Situation: DCL and… Fulham? 01:05:27 Wirtz Time: Yes 01:11:28 Chelsea Time: Xabi, Palmer, Rogers, João Pedro, Palestra 01:16:04 What Do You Think About Spurs Defense? Robertson, Van Hecke 01:26:17 Early Chip Thoughts 01:28:51 Early GK Thoughts 01:30:10 Outro and Mug and The FPL Wire FML FPL is supported by our Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/FMLFPL FML FPL is a Fantasy Premier League podcast hosted by Alon and Walsh, two veteran FPL managers riding the highs and lows of every Gameweek. Expect brutally honest reactions, fantasy football advice you probably shouldn’t follow, and full Gameweek therapy. #FPL #FantasyPremierLeague #FPLPodcast #FantasyFootball Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The most scattershot, vibey preseason pod of the bunch so far. There are simply far too many budget guys to thoroughly talk about all of them, so we jump around like psychos, guys here and guys there. Kick off your 2026/27 FPL Season right with 25% off your first year when you pay annually for our Patreon! You get ad-free episodes / Discord access / prize league / more episodes / etc… https://www.patreon.com/1069944/join Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro and Admin: More Pods and More Fireside(s) to Come 00:02:15 Cheap Forwards: Starts with DCL and Brobbey 00:11:45 Other Forwards, Igor Jesus, Rutter, Richarlison, McBurnie: And Should They Be Rotated? 00:31:01 Time to Talk About the Very Few £4.5 Goalkeepers 00:39:20 Jumping Around Some £6.0 Million and Under Mids Off the Dome: Le Fée, Garner, Buendía, Kluivert, Harvey Barnes, and the Brighton Guys Groß, Hinshelwood, and Diego Gómez 01:13:19 Naming Some £4.5 Defenders We Like and Don't Like, and Calling It a Day: Shaw, Maatsen, Aïna, Hume, O'Nien, and More 01:31:40 The Potentially Big DefCon £4.5s That Are Currently Unknowns 01:34:17 Outro, Plans, and When Is Walsh Gonna Make a Team FML FPL is supported by our Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/FMLFPL FML FPL is a Fantasy Premier League podcast hosted by Alon and Walsh, two veteran FPL managers riding the highs and lows of every Gameweek. Expect brutally honest reactions, fantasy football advice you probably shouldn’t follow, and full Gameweek therapy. #FPL #FantasyPremierLeague #FPLPodcast #FantasyFootball Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alon chats again with Pras, but this time it's more of a "pre-mortem" — discussing what we learned from last season and how to apply it to the upcoming one. Check out The FPL Wire on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheFPLWireFantasyPremierLeague Pras on Twitter: https://x.com/Pras_fpl Rob T Data Graphics: https://x.com/robtFPL And Solio FPL Analytics: https://fpl.solioanalytics.com/ Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro and Greetings and Where to Find All of Pras' Stuff 00:01:47 Starting with Pras' 2025/26 FPL Season: How Well Did He Play, and What Went Wrong and Right? 00:06:25 Actionable Things We Can Do to Rectify Alon's Mistakes from Last Season, and Vice Versa for Pras 00:11:11 What the Hell Do We Do with DefCon? Starting with Defenders 00:18:37 Forwards Have It Rough in FPL These Days 00:24:27 The Different Types of DefCon Midfielders and the Slots Where They Belong 00:32:42 Judging a Transfer and Following Your Gut (or Not) 00:44:59 Teams and Players Pras Is Higher On Than Most People vs. Teams and Players He's Lower On 00:52:19 FPL Burnout: Dopamine and Being Boring FML FPL is supported by our Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/FMLFPL FML FPL is a Fantasy Premier League podcast hosted by Alon and Walsh, two veteran FPL managers riding the highs and lows of every Gameweek. Expect brutally honest reactions, fantasy football advice you probably shouldn’t follow, and full Gameweek therapy. #FPL #FantasyPremierLeague #FPLPodcast #FantasyFootball Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We ended up going team by team for defenders and then we threw in a couple of forwards at the end. We've now entered hyper speed mindfuck vortex for the 2026/27 FPL season. Let's go. Kick off your 2026/27 FPL Season right with 25% off your first year when you pay annually for our Patreon! You get ad-free episodes / Discord access / prize league / more episodes / etc… https://www.patreon.com/1069944/join Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro and YouTube and People Watching Podcasts 00:05:44 Defenders and Wrapping Our Heads Around What to Do with DefCons 00:12:11 Starting the £5.0-5.5 Million Defender Train in Sunderland: Ballard, Alderete, and Mukiele 00:14:47 Spurs: Porro, Van Hecke, VDV, Romero, and Danso 00:23:06 Transposing Glasner's Palace Teams to His Current NFO Team: Milenkovic, Murillo, Neco Williams, Morato, and Possibly More 00:31:04 Man United and Their Fixtures Are Irresistible: Maguire and Lisandro 00:34:03 Manchester, But City: This Team Is a Whole Bunch of Dudes and We Don't Really Know Who's Gonna Start 00:37:44 Liverpool Are Kind of a Mess but Also Have Some Very Attacking Fullbacks in Kerkez and Frimpong 00:43:26 Leeds Next Up with Bijol and Our New Friend Tarik 00:48:53 Everton with Branthwaite and Keane and O'Brien 00:50:36 Palace Have Munoz and Richards and Canvot 00:51:36 Heavy Palestra Interest for Alon: and a Million Other Chelsea Defenders 00:55:15 Brighton and No Idea Who Is Gonna Play 00:59:37 Finishing Up an Hour on £5.0-5.5 Defenders with the Reigning Champs of Arsenal: Calafiori, Hincapié, Ben White, and Mosquera 01:05:52 Forwards List of £6.5-7.5 Million Is Just Not a Lot: Gyök & Kai, João Pedro, Šeško, and Mateta 01:16:14 And That Is a Pod: Plans for Budget Pod, Bunch of Fireside Chats Incoming, Here We Fucking Go FML FPL is supported by our Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/FMLFPL FML FPL is a Fantasy Premier League podcast hosted by Alon and Walsh, two veteran FPL managers riding the highs and lows of every Gameweek. Expect brutally honest reactions, fantasy football advice you probably shouldn’t follow, and full Gameweek therapy. #FPL #FantasyPremierLeague #FPLPodcast #FantasyFootball Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Part 2 (Forwards and Defenders) will come soon. Our eyes were bigger than our stomachs, or however the expression goes. Tons and tons of guys and things to talk about in the midpriced region of FPL picks. Kick off your 2026/27 FPL Season right with 25% off your first year when you pay annually for our Patreon! You get ad-free episodes / Discord access / prize league / more episodes / etc… https://www.patreon.com/1069944/join Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro and Admin: We Have to Break Midpriced Pods into Two Parts 00:03:15 Straight in with Declan Rice at £7.5 Million: Steady Eddy 00:09:00 Another £7.5er in Morgan Rogers: A Rising Tide Buoys All Ships 00:14:30 On Our Wirtz Behavior: Priced to Buy (and We're Buying) 00:22:18 Cherki and Doku and Foden: One of Them Won't Start 00:30:07 Running Through Some Other £7 Million Mids: Enzo, Gakpo & Szoboszlai, Bruno G, Rashford 00:39:22 Starting the £6.5 Million Mids with the Large Group of Arsenal Guys: Tzolis Curious and Not Much Else 00:47:20 Rayan and Dango: Athletic Freaks with Upside 00:52:26 Neto and Estêvão, Chelsea Wingers If They Even Play With Wingers: A Little Chelsea Talk 00:58:05 New Manager for Sarr and Mateta at Crystal Palace 01:00:35 Finishing the Rest of the £6.5 Mids with KDH, Harry Wilson, Elliot Anderson (EDOT), Kudus, and Skipping Most of the Rest of 'Em 01:11:48 Round Up Part 1 with All of the £5.0 Million Goalkeepers and Who We Like and Who We Don't Like FML FPL is supported by our Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/FMLFPL FML FPL is a Fantasy Premier League podcast hosted by Alon and Walsh, two veteran FPL managers riding the highs and lows of every Gameweek. Expect brutally honest reactions, fantasy football advice you probably shouldn’t follow, and full Gameweek therapy. #FPL #FantasyPremierLeague #FPLPodcast #FantasyFootball Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices