FML FPL - Fantasy Premier League Podcast

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.

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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

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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.

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Walsh and LR chat about why they suck and also why they're going to win FPL. And both make sense.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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
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