GW9: FPL General's Team Reveal | BEST João Pedro Replacements

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Joe (1:13)

Hello, welcome to another video and podcast of Fantasy Football Scout. My name is Joe, and today I'm joined by Mark, aka the FPL General. We'll be revealing his team ahead of Gameweek 9

Hello, welcome everyone. So we're recording this on Monday, the 26th of October, just to timestamp that. So we're waiting on some injury news. Welcome Mark, how are you?

Mark Sutherns (1:42)

I'm good, Joe. Survived the storm that battered the UK, and thankfully didn't postpone any games over the weekend. A lot of people are worried about that. So yeah, I thought it was going to be a great game week on Saturday, but my big green arrow kind of evaporated on Sunday, which I'm sure we'll get into. But yeah, another very interesting weekend at FPL action.

Joe (2:02)

Yes, certainly. Storm battered our teams as well. Lots of unexpected rotation and injury surprises. I ended up with a small red arrow and it was a big red arrow, but then it became a small red arrow. So I'm OK with that. Just outside the top 50K. That will do me. But yeah, my captain didn't play João Pedro, which was a surprise. And before we get into some of those things, there's something I noted that he was actually asked in a press conference afterwards.

He was how Alonso, that is how he felt that the injury news had already been leaked ahead of the game. Obviously, it was too, we had a Friday night deadline, so it wasn't an impact us because it was noted, I think it would have been probably FPL focal probably revealed that I think it was the under 21s coach had transferred in Pedro and then immediately transferred him out again. So why would you do that for a home game where he was a captain potential and various other people had done that as well. And then suddenly the bookies odds dropped as well. And we didn't know why that was.

But yeah, so, you know, I don't know what that's going to mean. I mean, Chelsea staff aren't allowed to do FPL anymore.

Mark Sutherns (3:19)

Yeah, I mean, we've had we've had this a few times. I remember it was at Dean Smith at Aston Villa.

Joe (3:23)

Yeah.

Mark Sutherns (3:23)

Seeing he lives in the real world, not the fantasy world. And I think it was a gruelish incident. I think that was the gruelish incident.

Joe (3:29)

Yeah.

Mark Sutherns (3:30)

But yeah, it's be interesting if anything comes of that. So it's like Shabby Alonzo himself is not into the magical world of fantasy.

Joe (3:38)

Yeah. But the thing about that was, is that we were starting to think, oh, he's okay in the press conference, he's telling us things. That has came as a complete surprise. It's looking bad.

He could be back this week. We're going to find out this week, but we're not going to find out from him. So we're going to be relying on some Chelsea in the nose, some Leagues, some Journalists, those types of things. So I mean, I might have to take him out, but I've got a wild card, so I'm going to bring him back in. And most, not most, a lot of other people, yourself included, won't have that option. There's defenders as well. Calafuri, one point for me. Thank you very much.

He was a surprise. And then he picked up a problem towards the end of the match as well. Bobby Thomas joins your 59-minute club for Coventry. Very popular player, very cheap source of Defcon points particularly. He could be an injury dad. So we've got loads and loads of injuries to look at there. So we'll look to see how Mark cope with those in Gameweek 8, how he's going to cope with those in Gameweek 9 We'll look at some forward replacements, possibly for Pedro. We'll assess those options there. Defenders may be needed too. We'll look at the most attacking and the most Defconnable as well. Plus we'll look at the captaincy matrix for the weeks ahead. There's a new name that's appearing in many Gameweeks. And I've certainly got my eye on him on my wildcard. Lots to chat about. Do press that like button, it does help us out. Do remember to subscribe, keep up to date with our latest videos and content wherever you see the podcasts. And do check out our latest membership offers at fantasyfootballscout.co.uk to get access to all the latest tools and gadgets to help you climb up your mini leagues. Okay, let's have a look at Gameweek 8