GW9: FPL Final Thoughts | Early Transfer Made!

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Mo (1:37)

Hi, everyone. Welcome to Final Four. It's the head of Game Week 9 Hope everyone watching is well.

Tom, how are you, mate?

Tom (1:44)

Mate, I'm not doing too bad after a pretty disastrous game week, I'd say, and the injuries are starting to rack up. But, you know, I'm always trying to keep positive, to look on the bright side of things. So hopefully, Game Week 9 is going to be my week. What about you, man? How are you doing?

Mo (2:01)

I'm not too bad, thank you very much. I'm excited. I feel like FPL has finally got in the flow after that international break. There's so much going on. You've touched on the injuries. There's fixture swings. There's difficult this game week coming up, some difficult matchups and combinations as well. So I think there's a lot to discuss. And the starting point, actually, I thought we should discuss forwards. I think it's a hot topic. A lot of people have been getting a lot of questions online and on some of my videos. And the reason for that is, first of all, gelpedial injury. Second of all, a lot of us had either Whistler or Gonzalo, who cannot stop blanking. I'm sure it's six back to back blanks. So a lot of us are shopping up front. And I wanted to get your opinion. In fact, I've got a little graphic for us. We can get...

Let me move over here and then bring this up here.

Before we get into your favourite forwards and where you'll be going, who we should be buying, what do you think of the gelpedial injury? We got a slight update from Alonso. How have you taken that?

Tom (3:02)

Yeah, I mean, it was... The quotes around it were very ominous, and I haven't trusted Alonso since, obviously...

I think it was game week five against Brentford, where he just flat up lied to us pretty much. So I'm taking everything he says in his press conferences with a little bit of pinch of salt. So I'm not... I think he could be back for game week 11, but there's a small part of me in the back of my mind that thinks maybe even game week 10, we could randomly just see gelpedia reemerge as an option. So I'm really not trying to dive into it too deeply. I think I would have been more concerned if the injury was the knee injury again, if it was a reoccurring thing, because you've got to be extremely careful with obviously knees. But with it being a fresh injury, maybe he could recover by next game week. Or again, the way that he said a couple of weeks, I'm really not too sure. But I do think there is a window of opportunity here if you believe he's going to be out probably post-international break to look at some of the forward options that we're obviously going to discuss in a second as well.

Mo (4:05)

So are you of the situation that if you have the transfers, so you've got two transfers and he's maybe the only issue you've got, would you attack it and transfer him out?

Tom (4:15)

Oh, 100%.

Yeah, I definitely would. Especially if you've not obviously got too much value built into him. Like I re-bought him after selling him. So I think I only had like 0.2 value in him and that's pretty much already gone. So I think if I had two free transfers available to me this week, I definitely would look to attack it because there are some really good fixtures heading into game week nine.