Building Our FPL Teams From the Ground Up

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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