Sunderland with Spencer Barrowman | Correspondent Week ep. 14 | Planet FPL 2026/27

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I know we dropped off a bit near the end. But yeah, we took until Liverpool to lose at home, I think. So that was around Christmas time. I think we'll want to last five games later than that midweek in February. I think I want to say it's meant. Well, yeah, it all kind of merged into one now. I think it's far ahead. Yeah, but I think that's the sort of there is a narrative where you could go, look, you could struggle with after five games, but the one thing that we've got in comparison to other things. I know we've got Europe coming into now, but we've got pretty much the same squad. We've got the same manager. If anything, things have stayed the same, which is a positive for us in terms of squad, we, there's players that could have gone. Yeah, I guess that's an interest in thought. Would you have rather some of roaths, sediki, jacke, would you rather than gone and you've gone and bought six seven players, are you just happy that looks like they're all going to stay as it stands? I think I'd rather them stay. I think the club expected offers for all of them. Maybe not shakas, much obviously, but that was the one we did get an offer for. But if they're here, then my roots is going to play 38 games of season in the league. So a couple extra in the cup. If we need to mix it up, we can. We've got Elbow, who's a bit raw, but you can play in the cups if we need them, the FA Cup, whatever. A trick in the the trick in Europa League groups. So you do want to finish in the top eight, you'll realise this if you're close to it. Yeah. That getting the two weeks off in January is really handy. If you end up inside the league cup semi-finals as well, it almost becomes like I have to have that kind of gig. So if you're in and around it, you'll realise the importance of it. The trick with it is you realise when you can use it to manage the squad and when you shouldn't. So if you are playing in the San Siro, really, certainly all the first teams are going to want to play it. If you've got a certain team where it's like we should be strong enough to deal with it, play four or five at a first team, bring six other players in rather than just like four 11 changes or something like that. You can't take the piss in Europa League the way you can and say to conference league. No. Well, I think that's the difficulty, isn't it? You don't really know who you're going to play until that draws made. We can't go inside 11 players and then like said, we might get some pretty favourable fixtures, especially I mean, who's going to want to play us at home on a Thursday night in Europa League? Like no team will want to play against us away in Europa League. If I'm going to play you, it's a stadium of light pretty much at any time to be very honest. You and your rivals from a little bit more nor that's why I mean, it's just going to be that what we've seen with kind of new cast and champions league, I think it's going to be very similar to that sort of you. Yeah, everyone will be up for it. You're going to exactly that style. But there is a knock on impact to this Premier League. You're subconsciously you're explaining it. Those first tonight are going to be important for the football club. So in a weird way, if you've got Milan at home on the Thursday night, he's obviously like he's one of the most prestigious games in your history. And then you look on the Sunday, it's just Brian. But Brian's dangerous. Yeah. And then the atmosphere at the stadium like, you're not the same. And it's not the same because your expectations, your psychology was our first, he was massive. If we don't beat Brian, it's right. It's another 37 games to fix it. But then before you know it, you're looking at a lot of teams above you, the first, the Sunday stuff as Rory said on the palace podcast, it is a slog. And you need some depth to deal with it. So only one new sign in at the moment, that's Thomas Munier. Firstly, he just thoughts on him. And if you think he's he's going to come in as first choice. He won't be first choice. He's already mentioned how he's going to have to battle for his position in the squad. He's primarily a right, right back, can play right wingback. But I think if you've watched a bit of European football before watching play for Belgium, he's quite an attacking fallback really. And I think you've shown that in the first game that you played on Saturday versus Long's linked up really well with Trayhume on who's playing in the right midfield position. And kind of doing his underlapping runs and getting to the bar line and crossing it in, which is similar to what Mouquille he'd done. So another brilliant kind of player to have in that position because we do look like that right hand side is going to be the main sort of attacking threat that will have a special build up. Okay, what's needed? Are you expecting signings on where is it needed? Definitely need a left back as cover or potentially as a starter with with Serkin going now. So we've only got Ray Nieldo who can play well, Trayhume can play left back King Arthas has gone as well, isn't he? Yeah, we weren't mentioning he was crap. But right wing as well, we need we need a right winger really because that position that we we were kind of we had trial already last season on like sort of one year deal with Noxion that didn't get taken up. I don't know where he's going to end up now apparently use training the North East somewhere. So he might pop up some whole championship team maybe. Oh yeah. Yeah. So they'll take anyone at the minute I think. So yeah, we need a right winger really to cover that spot unless they think that Trayhume and Chris Rigg is enough but looking at the sort of links we've had this it's a bloke called Katamur is a Mozambican from not Katamol. Not Katamol. No relation. Okay. But yeah, so I think left back we definitely been linked with left back. So I think Matt Matale from Toulouse who few teams have been sniffing around but they want about 40 million from him. And that's another thing as well. That's probably why we've not really gone crazy in the market because now we're in Europe. I don't think with the new SIR rules we can spend 40 million on the left back and kind of get away with it if everything goes to shit. So yeah. And you are more russian it's a bizarre way that it works but being in Europe you're a little bit more russian, you have been more careful in terms of your expenditure on on the team and the salaries and stuff. Okay. Right. This jacket saga that happened with Chelsea. It's all to bed now it's finished. It's all forgiven. Was there anything to forgive because like there was a lot of rage in our Sunderland channel at the time it was all going on. Yeah, no, I think in terms of a timeline that if people have kind of somehow not seen it. Obviously during the World Cup it was Romano sort of here we go. A move for Jacque from Sunderland with Chelsea. Supposedly 8 million on 9 million bid from Chelsea which obviously is ludicrous really when you think about the level of player and how much he means to the club. A lot of outrage like you said especially I would say generally on our slack it was okay but I saw quite quite a bit stuff that kind of irked me a little bit in terms of what people said and you know like the classic AI sort of videos and furries of Jacque I might. So I did tweet and got a bit of backlash for some people just kind of said some people might be eating their words in a couple of days time. The thing is we've seen it so many times in Romano. He's a bit of a ratty me really. I think I say really feel. Yeah well the 90% of people would probably agree with me that listen to this. He's just actually done me out of a massive sponsorship deal there spent thanks mate. What you're going to start doing cryptic or actually now as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, would that. It's coming to planet. Yeah, I'm probably sure it's not guys. But yeah, no, so it will kind of fizzle out with Jacque. It's actually happy to stay and the wording was changing every day. Obviously he's staying and he's come out and said that he's happy and he wants to show what he can do in your ear pleat with us. So it was all agent talk and Chelsea with obviously Jacque will also be in there and Jacque have that sort of friendship and link with him from by level okay isn't it makes sense and look they've got a signed Jordan hence and now which is quite funny in a way because that was someone that we were linked with when we signed Jacque. Obviously. So do we actually know what happened? Was there a bid from Chelsea? Yeah, there was a bid. Yeah, I think it was about nine nine million and they would only go up to a certain amount. I think we wanted upwards of 20 and I think the highest there we go is probably about 15 with add-ons and are we working on the basis that Jacque would have been happy to go and wanted to maybe go. Yeah, he would have been happy to go. I guess where I'm leading with that is he's then now any angst from the supporters to him bearing in mind how good he was for you. Larshine's captain as well already, right? Yeah captain. Yeah captain has been to KMN. Yeah, yeah. So for me personally there's nothing. I mean I've kind of completely forgot back, but it's back in my mind. It's more than football in the day. these players have paid ridiculous amount of money. They don't owe anyone anything really. I've kind of just completely forgot about it and get ready for the next game. I mean I watched on Saturday. I thought it was one of our best players. Well he is our best player. So as long as you play and put 100% in every week, which he always does anyway, then I'm if he gets linked with Chelsea, if he wants to go to Chelsea, if he likes, if he really loves Jabrio Lonso, then they've got to pay the money. They're not paying to now, are they? Exactly. No, not good to know anyway. So he's 5.5 now this year. He did really well last year. He ticked over really nicely. I think for people around him, goals, six assists, plenty of defcons knocking about 32 starts. I'm on 24 points. The reconsideration for you this year at 5.5? Not really. I think I'm looking at other midfielders. I would rather go up by 0.5 or down by 0.5 in the Sunday midfielders. I think if you were running the zombie team or maybe you had a position in draft that you needed to fill or something like that, Jacques is a good pick-up. He'll play every game. But in terms of actual fantasy relevancy, I'm not sure he's the best 5.5. I mean, comparing him to gross. Gross has definitely got obviously set pieces. I guess potentially penalties now at Brighton. So I think I probably edge towards that or drop down to a 5 million and just go for a pure defcon. You some pens for you by the way, but I always forget the rest of it. Yeah, well, it's the big one. Well, that's really because last season it was Lafay and Habib Diara. Now I've been quite nervous about saying it's definitely going to be someone. But after the first couple of preseason games, I'm happy to nail my colors to the mass now whatever it is that said. I think it'll be Lafay. Diara is not going to start for us this season or at least for the first four or five weeks until. He takes a pen and score at least, but it was a bit of a shocker. And obviously Lafay took penalties until Brent for the way I think. I would have the penenca. Yeah, penenca. Yeah. So yeah, it's a bit up and yeah, but Lafay will take them if he's on the pitch and Diara isn't. I think Diara would probably take them otherwise, but I just can't see Diara starting for us right now with the setup we've got. Okay, we'll come back onto Lafay in a bit because I think he is really interesting. But I think many people want to know what's going on with your defensive assets. Let's start at the top then. Same price as Jacca, Nordy McKelle, 5.5, 4.7 points per match last season. There is as far as I can tell, only one pretty much guaranteed starter in the game in defense who got more than that last year, which is Gabriel. I think all the others are questionable for game week one who got more points per match than him, which by the way is a list of just Mark Gay and Julian Timber. Minozo Riley Sonese got the same. Yeah. Is he fit first and foremost, those spent? He's a doubt game week one. So immediately you kind of put off by it at 5.5. He was like, isn't worth it? Well, he was our talent's my last season, wasn't he? So if it carries on the same, then he is worth 5.5 the same way that a man yours is worth 5.5. He does his best season. Yeah. I mean, last season, he could have been 5.5 and you would have said you would have him anyway after the first couple of games. But when you look at it compared to the other options you've got now from us, I don't know if it's worth starting. We're definitely worth starting them. He's a doubt, but I don't know. Maybe you think about Ghost Morales. Okay, I have a feck of word because I think this is interesting to think about context for maybe the other players from Wapem's Artworks because as it stands, we can't start with him unless we've got some former clarity. Let's say we get that clarity. Would he start at centerback or right back? He'll start at right back. So we need a not supply in their foreign opinion. Money is going to be happy with this second fiddle role, basically. I think so. Muckiella's had a full preseason with us. It's not like he's been at the World Cup and you picked up a bit of a knock in who playing his wrecks for the Delphiah and you picked him a knock then and he wasn't wrist. But if he plays next Saturday, like 45 minutes, I think he'll start, but at the minute, he's a doubt. I wouldn't go there. So at the moment, I'm guessing then first choice, centerbacks is ballad and al d'aretti in a world where everyone's fit and okay. Yeah, in a world where he's fit and okay. Okay, because al d'aretti is also a doubt, isn't he? Yeah, he has a doubt. Don't worry, this isn't turning into the whole city podcast. This is about for injuries. Just just the clarity. Yeah, I mean, al d'aretti got an injury in a World Cup group game for Paraguay and when I saw the slow motion of it, it always looks worse in slow motion, but it just looked worse than it was being said it was. It looked like ligament and yeah, it's always a worry, especially with the way he plays. It's quite a, I don't know, he's quite like a strong character, isn't he? That comes out and does leave one on strikers. So whether we risk him in the first game, it's which away, if he was a doubt or like he's going through some rehab now at the minute, I just can't see him starting. So and even the week after that, I think he probably wouldn't start, especially with the amount of fixtures we've got coming on. So it would be ballad and 09 starting at the back. Right, that's interesting because there's a knock on context. What that does me at the moment, there is as it stands, there's only one choice between ballad and al d'aretti. Firstly, on ballad, we know the defconce can be there. I would say that when he plays his number one threat for you from set plays, absolute animal, right? Almost perfect FPL defender in a defcon world that we're now in. Easy under serious consideration for you. I mean, we're basically at this moment, so I'm unless he was to get injured and the last friendly, we can say he's 100% started at the moment, can't we go with one? Pretty much. Yeah, he's 100% starter. The one, obviously the one sort of problem he has had over the years is his injury record. In a way, the red card that he got against wolves was a positive in the long term because it allowed him to have surgery. So he's had that time off. He's recovered. He's had full preseason, which I don't know the last time he probably had that. I know he's picked up a little bit of a knock against the lawns, but I don't think it's that serious. I think it was probably just minute management. But yeah, like I said, he's that sort of the classic center back that you want in the FPL team. A bit like with like how people are saying about how he would require where you've got like a five million center back who's likely to play most minutes and obviously gets his head on these massive heads. So he does win those headers. Defcon's great as well for him. So yeah, yeah, another option at five million if people are looking at that and they want to attack those first two fixtures. Yeah, it feels like an appropriate time actually to mention fixtures because I think I'd spoke to you about this off camera. If you're thinking about wild card in really late, I think it's very difficult to analyze your players for the long term. I would you don't really want to be pissing about with defensive options because of the Europa League nature, even a defensive guys, Alderetti, Daar, Michele, Daar, do you buy another left bag? It's a little complicated thinking about a long term at the moment. But there's a number of people looking very short term. And if you're looking at free hit free or wild card free or something very, very early, even wild card four or even free hit four, then I think some of the assets go up massively in terms of the appeal. You're probably on paper got the best first two. There are challenges in that. It's such a way I'm feeling behind. I'd say obviously barbed man's united. So if you're wild card in free, you're pretty much in most of those, you're committing to Sunderland definitely, I think, has to be. I can't believe someone with wild card in free and almost not have any Sunderland assets with those two. And clearly to me right now of your first choice because there might be different choices will come onto. But of your first choice players in defence, he would be the standout one. Would he not? Yeah, I think he would be, especially from what, like we've said, the Defcon. The Defcon and the clean sheets of what you're after with them, the any sort of attacking threat is a bonus with Balard, isn't it? What's really interesting with these fixtures, like I've got you third on my ticker across the first free. I've only got the two Manchester clubs above you. That's including obviously fixture, Brentford. Probably is them for people who are carrying through and want to use a Balard. Five, you look at Arsenal and Man City in a row and you just don't want to look at it. So if you're going with like your double it switch or your double commentary, double it switch would be weird if you're going Sunderland as well, maybe. If you're going to say the double commentary and you're like, "Oh Balard's playing these, this looks a bit ropey, not sure I want it." But then it comes back around again. So then Brian at home, former for way leads at home, commentary away is then like another really good run of force. It's like good free, worse too you can have. Good four. If you could free hit twice in the row, that'd be nice, right? But if you could free, if you were going to free hit in four and five, you'd probably have trouble sundering for the first eight times weeks of the season. Yeah, you probably would. There's a world where you can just hide them. Of course, you could, you could just, if you were going to free hit four and then not play, like not play them in five, there never is a world where you can just bench a ballad or bench one of the others. And listen, there'll be plenty of people listening to this for watching this and going, what is the defcon monster? I'll just play him. I'll take my three, four points because I know that anytime it could go off, right? You knew if you did keep clean sheet and be awesome, one deal. I mean, I mean, the awesome at home, that was last season, what was that goal in the system for ballad? I want to say that's correct. Yeah, in the two, two, three, yeah. So good show. We did get man sit you away. Oh, it's a goal. That means that one's even worse is it just because it's a way, I think as well. So I do think what people are doing with their strategies does have an impact here. Yeah. I would say my view is that I would definitely want to ballad if I was well-cardening going week through until you tell me that actually you should save some money. So I talk to me first about Luke 9 because you've just said you think he's going to start and he's 4.0. Yeah. Come on. Well, in terms of Luke 9, I think now after a year, if I'm being in the Premier League, I think people kind of come to grips of what he is and they sort of Mr. Sunderland High Performance podcast, all that sort of LinkedIn rubbish that he does. But I think the one thing you can say about him is he kind of loves to prove people wrong and he gets, well, I've done it and I've said it for years that he's like, oh, we need to kind of find a replacement for him. He's not good enough. And you always do it and then you watch him, you go, actually, he played really well with him. He kind of proved the doubt is wrong all the time. And it was the comments after I think it was a game of Saturday. LeBrie came out and said he's so happy with how O'Neil has been over the preseason and he's confident in O'Neil playing. There's no doubt in his mind about him playing at Centreback for us. And we've got 50 plus games potentially this season. He's going to be needed. So I think he's kind of letting people know straight away that O'Neil isn't here just to kind of be that sort of guy in the changing room that does a team talk every now and then and as a bit of a laugh in the trainer sessions. I think he's going to be playing quite a bit. Obviously, don't have to think about a long term. And I know there's loads of 4 million options that are probably going to play most weeks. I know it's like obviously for the Switch and Hull and Coventry, there's loads of them. But those first two, I would probably go, I go 100%, he'll start against Ipswich and I probably go 100%. At this moment in time, 100%. Yeah, unless we get that, our deretti is completely 100% fit and available to play. But that would seem odd having no real preseason. So even then, I'd probably be 100% on him starting against Ipswich and then I would say that probably dropped down to about 80% for Fulham at home. But I think you've got that sort of thing Fulham's on the Sundays, isn't it? So you've got the Saturday game into the Sunday game, I think. I've mentioned Coventry. If you're on a game week two bench push straight ahead, is it double Coventry? Defense, like if you're looking at that sort of thing. The idea of our nine playing at home to Fulham. Yeah, he's arguably just good, maybe. Yeah, he's good at Defcon as well. I mean, I think Everton will weigh. He came on after about 27 minutes for Alderetta and he picked up seven Defcon there. So yeah, I think he got an assist against Chelsea the last game of the season. So weirdly, he's kind of, he just pops up and run the place sometimes, you think, what's he doing there? I think that's just sort of like the sort of player he is where he's just, sometimes you think, what's he doing and he spots a perfect pass into Brobby or something like that. So yeah, I think you probably start first to, if I was going to bet on it. Okay, two further questions on him. If you were on this wildcard free strategy, you sound like 100% game at one, maybe 80% game at two, to you, you saved the money, 09 versus Ballad. Yeah, I've got 09 in my team at the minute because of that strategy. That sort of early, early. If you're looking at a late wildcard and he's just going to be the 15th player effective, you'd still be okay, so I'm a 4.0. Does that change? Okay, you said it's going to play every game for so you're going a different direction. Yeah, I think the nature of how I would play it would be that whoever looks the best out of those 4 millions after a few weeks, then you'd probably move to that one off of 09. But I just think that having, I want to have that sort of, for me, spot no matter what, just for squad building. And yeah, if I think going on, he's going to play the first two and then Ben, you're matter that, then that's fine. You don't have to just give me two 60s and that's fine, I'll just hit the clean shoot. Okay, that's more than that. At that price. It gets more interesting because the right son of the nants, it might not be I've read these two, might be somewhere sandwiched in the middle, Tray Hume, 4.5. I would pay. I'm spence. Yeah, he's playing, it's worth watching the I know people don't have the time sometimes, but watch back at the highlights if you can find them from Saturday and maybe the games before, possibly the rexam game. And you'll see how Hume is playing the sort of right midfield position where he's very wide and very high. And this allows for Mookielli or Muneo, who obviously they both played in those two games, how it allows him to both bomb on. And Hume now is, when he when he started playing there, which was middle of last season, I'd say, and he was sort of a lot more tucked in as a sort of right centre midfielder. And now he's been allowed to always learn how to play the position better. And he's allowing himself to get wider and open up the passing sort of lanes and although it's sort of things. So I mean, as a as a player, he looks absolutely fine to play there now after a bit of coaching and learning the role. The only problem with with Hume is that obviously if we do sign a right winger, it's likely they come in and then I don't know where he plays. But history shows us that he'll play no matter what. I mean he played 34 games last season, left back, right back, centre midfield, right midfield. I mean, he'd play anyway for us to be fair. If he was asked, it's one of those players, but I don't think he really want to be if we do sign a winger, you don't want to be messing about and worrying about 4.5 million defender starting if you're if you're in trouble with other players. No, but again, if you're attacking Sarah Bench, who's upon strategy, the idea of him playing right inside the midfield against Sip Switch, you think he's going to get a number of attacking returns or not? There is obviously some appeal in that. Yeah, just just for game week one, I guess just you would save on our own nine versus ballad, would you save on own nine versus Hume? I think that's that's like a more difficult one to answer. I think I probably go Hume only because I probably be more confident that you would definitely play both and obviously with that sort of attacking position. I haven't really looked into the new both's point stuff, but I mean, as a full is technically a full backplayed so high up. I don't know if that's that's changed and there's probably a whole number of podcasts isn't it about how that affects it, but he has got set peace share in a way with sort of some corners sometimes and and the odd sort of indirect free kick, but yeah, it's a it's a fine option. It's just where he fits it if we do so longer serving FPL matches will be drawn to the idea of if they're on that early wild card strategy, the idea of a 4.5 defender playing right wing with some good fixtures get all the outside noise of BPS and Defcons. Ultimately, if he scores in game week one or two, you are to light. Yeah, he pops up in positions as well. I mean, yeah, he's not just right back playing out of position. It's someone that's playing in as a right midfielder. I wouldn't say it's necessarily out of position. He probably could have put him as a midfielder this year. I wouldn't have been surprised. It feels like it should have would be my take on it. Just the way he played last season. Unless I've read that wrong. No, yeah, he kind of played that sort of inverted winger position like right next to Jacques and Sidiqy and then it would push up and and obviously off off of the opportunity to pass ball down the violin to like Moukie, whatever. Okay. Do you know what your strategy is at my own in terms of wild card? I think it's like a wild card for I think quite early. Yeah, early wild card. I just think that's important to reference for the listeners and the viewers that you've got that subconscious bias that you're like, okay, I'm really thinking about the sun and the lassets for the first three because I think all three of those choices could be bad for the long term. He's my view at the moment. Right. Your potential you're looking at these three good fixtures at the start. I think Brent, for the ways, okay, you had a bad day that last year, but it's okay. Your game with one of these three aren't you? Definitely. Or are you going with two? I'll be going with one of them. Which one? Yeah. What's your use of the spence? Lean into what's hume, but if we hear any more on Al Durette, if that in the injuries as bad as I thought it was and it's just not being said, then oh nine goals. comes a better pick. Okay. Keep an eye on what we do in the transfer market. We haven't done much yet. So, right, if you're getting this early, I also believe you're going to have something attacking Sun at Sunderland as well, spent. So, talk to me about Mr. Brobby. Yeah, I mean, I love him. He's brilliant. He's just, is it a striker like no other really, isn't he? It's just a horrible player to play against. He's huge. He knocks people over. I'm not talking spurs. It's another one. Honestly, pick up the phone. And he's not just, he's not just like a bit of a classic, always bit thug. He's quite like, he's good at football. He's not just going around like smashed into people. Although he does that quite a bit. And it's quite funny to watch to be fair. I think he's projected score about 10 goals this season, looking at sort of the betting projections and all that sort of stuff, which I found was a bit high. I don't see him as much of a goal scorer as the odds would say. I see him or maybe his goals for the Netherlands in the summer. Yeah, impacted that positively marginally, maybe. Yeah. And I think, yeah, we saw a lot of season. He's sort of personally gets like three chances in the game in us. He might score one, but he's more than likely going to hold up the ball nine times out of 10 and lay someone lay someone off for put someone through on goal. So I would say that is more like if you said 10 goals into assist, that's like the projection. I'd have a more like seven goals and five assists. I think he's more likely to win a flick on or like lay the ball off to a wingo, smash as well, they're not something like that. I think that's more his game. I don't think he's a sort of person that will hit anywhere near 15 goals of season. Okay. Is he in fear at a moment? No, he's not, he's not in for me for that reason. I just don't, I just don't see him score like. I bet you 10 found now that he'd never score a hat trick again, like at the elite level. And you're not making the whole, you're not making a long term decisions. So I think time recording Cavaloon is the most popular at 6 million. But I think if you look at just the first two or first three as some people will be, you it's difficult to resist the urge of the fixture and the possibility. A preview doesn't feel like the sort of player that will get a hat trick or so. But if you're while cutting game week free, if your scores in one and scores in two or even just provides an attack and returning both, you are delighted. Yeah, but I think this, I always say that it's more likely to cover living does he's got penalties probably doesn't probably is going to be playing as a back three in the first game and he'll be playing against full and which will be Calvin Bastian coin coin, coins, is that what we're expecting or Anderson maybe? And how full of get on game week one. It's full of full of mate and buyer right side, it's not about possibility, mate as well. Calvin Bastian is a. Those sort of players is one set, the matchup is good for Bastian that way because he's physical, he's aggressive. So that might suit. Bastian, Bastian's probably is a war actually can't I think of it? That's a good that's a good battle that is a is a door any threat to Bobby from a minutes perspective? Yeah, he'll he'll eat into the minutes. It's a long old season. Is law isn't going anywhere? I know Danny mentioned in the whole pod, which is probably out of date a little bit with the is it all stuff? But Riggie's has said you can you can like have it on paper or whatever that he's not going anywhere. So he's the second fiddle to probably at the minute, but he's more likely the one that would score in a couple of goals in the game. He has that sort of you'll shoot from distance if shoot whenever he gets a chance. So that's always good for like an attack and asset, but yeah, his minutes aren't there. And this probably had to come out of the team for an injury or something like that. I just can't see can see his door start in a string of games, which makes you think or I'll get him in the fantasy team. Okay, so I'm going to vote for now. Funny. So you're not start me probably your start with enter the fade in on you. Yeah, I am. Yeah. Okay. Why? Well, in the last season, I remember I said on X or Twitter about Enzo Lafay in the 10 and how that would open up his game, especially for fancy football and everything now revolves around him in an attacking sense. And he's a lot more involved in he was playing on the left wing kind of doing a job for the team. And this is now kind of come around after Angulo's come in. So we've got two left wingers, which means we have to play him out there. So having him in the 10 allows him to thrive a lot more. He's so good at picking out a pass, especially in that sort of last line of defense playing like if you want to have a look through old games, I think Everton, when he played the ball into to probably for the, I think that's the first goal. That sort of past that sort of one touching and pass it straight through. That's what he's good at and he's wasting on a win. So I'm penalties now as well. I'd say I'd say probably unless and that's something crazy happened. He's going to be taking penalties. And he's got set peace share as well. He's got corners free kicks as well. I think that's just a root to point. He's got on death on as well. I see him obviously that was on the left wing as well for the majority of it. So he does rack them up. So just roots to all points. Obviously six millions. 0.5 more than the gross or someone like that, which is a bit annoying. But I just think with those two fixtures starting. It's every chance it's about for right is every chance people be looking for a six millimeter fielder. And I think again, because of the start, if you are looking short term, I agree with you. I think it's better than probably and I think how it ruins fine. Yeah, if I if I knew I was well cardin early, I think he'd probably end up in for me, actually. I just have the same reservations about the long term stuff at the moment. I mean, I'll throw you some names in terms of just exact same price, six million, you know, tabernacle, a shard, a J Nansen, he's gone to Brentford, Brennan Johnson, gone to Everton, Illuminum, and Dyer James Ghana and Sonstack will be like really consistent. We own Gamma was minutes could go up for Liverpool. Your rival's north of you have actually got a brilliant turn of fixtures ironically from game week three. And I do think there's a potential free, maybe not, but certainly from four or five Harvey Barnes, Torre, Elanga. There's a few in there. They're all at six million. I'm not certain that you've the test for now there's maybe another one you could maybe continue in terms of consistency longer term, because the longer term concern for me is Europe. And that impact, but they do think the long term. Yeah. Yeah. And you could always buy a movie one. Yeah. You could ironically, there is a set there to chain potentially from Sunderland to Newcastle is and he won't lie that but it's potentially a thing. I feel like he there is a possibility he makes a mockery of that price. I don't that's not to think that he's been under price. They don't tell you I think it's right. But if he could eat, he does feel like of all those six is he could be the best. And I am aware of that. So he's very much on my mind. I think there's also like you said, there's a lot of players you just mentioned there like stack, tavern here, like their players that a lot of people owned last season that had joy from them. So the one thing that puts me off, like let's take Bournemouth, for example, that first game, it's just like a right office and it's like, oh, I'm not going to bother any of them. But if you take the faith for two weeks, get tavern here after that, you could probably hold tavern here for the rest is like until you just didn't want to name one of the newcastle players. Did you base it? Like I don't even know their prices. I don't know if they got left. They've all gone. To say you got to be careful. But whenever the enemy's coming on after you, that's why Ricky never picks one Adam this week. He knows Adams got the chance to have the last word and the sign might get you back for that. I think Enzel of phase a good pick. My yeah, I do too. And he that's ways in my team. I just think it's a good yeah, good all rounder flat price. I don't disagree with you actually. Okay, quick ones on the 5.5s, 5s, so 5.5 you've got D.R.A. you said you think it's possibly not going to start. Yeah, yeah, when Bob touch him, yeah, Jack, we know we get what about towel Bayer? And I don't know if that maybe just links straight into the 5.0s and and go. Firstly, would towel be be a bit of pick than Jack? I'm going to guess no. No, he's not but is it's going to be angular that starts left way. I'm really interested in this fellow as a pun stop it. Yeah, that was the first name. So five minutes off. So I was trying to I was at work and I was trying to get on to the app to get my idea wherever. And I was like spamming loads and I just or it filled and it added angular in. I was like random, obviously like complete chance. And it clicked on him. He's 5 million. I was like, that ain't right. That can't be right. Because he's sad of full, well, not full preseason, but he's had six months now to catch up with everything. He's come back after Ecuador. Toby was with Morocco for a bit longer. And he's going to start he was starting a few games the end of last season and he just looks a lot more creative than Toby does. So yeah, 5 million is it is interesting. And if you want to take a pump on someone like that, I know it's a bit risky, isn't it? But 5 million, I mean, there's enough again, like we said, with the faith, there's enough players at 5 million, you could just go, he's crap. I'm going to sell him and buy like Norgar or something like that or Sangare. So just if you wanted to take, if you wanted to have a sundened player in for this first two, then that's a solid option. It's just a minute, it'll be like 70th minute, 75th minute hook. - Is he worth the saving versus Lefay? - No. - Okay, that's interesting. - It's only because we've not seen him actually do much in the Premier League. If you've got this stats there, I think he's got zero or zero assists. - Nah, there's nothing to, I'm just talking about 400 minutes, so I mean. - Yeah, that's what I mean, it's very small. - Like sort of dataset, but. - Yeah, I mean, the expected go involvement of.89 from, I guess, effective four and a half games. Doesn't scream, but some of these are like shitty substitute appearances and stuff, doesn't really feel very fair to analyze his ownership. - Some of those games will be like Liverpool at home. I remember that was, I think it was his debut. - His ownership is nothing, 0.1%, which I'm surprised about, because I don't think there were a huge volume of interesting choices at 5 million. Most of the ones I've spoke to you guys about this week, actually, we've nearly all put off. This is one of the first ones that feels like a, - Yeah. - Yeah, again, it's another one longer term that I'm gonna piss about with it, and there are two players for that position. And I don't think it would be a certain longer term. It might be, yeah, Angula's gonna play first, because it's a big game and Talbi's gonna play the Premier League game. That bothers me, whereas some of that say, "Norgarter Everton was a bit sure on a bar, "I'm like, "Put sure I know what I'm gonna get." But I am intrigued by Angula, I have to say. - There's no reason you would start the first two, I don't think. I just worry about, yeah, like you said, long-term minutes. I think that now we're kind of, this is like sort of chat's kind of ended up being there. If you're going on the early chip strategy, then these are the players you look at, but I think just kind of right off only then of these in the long term, long term view, sorry. - Unless you change. - Yeah, I'm gonna be really honest with you, Spencer, to kind of almost finish up here. I don't wanna change from a potential personally. This isn't advised to anyone else, but I don't wanna change from a potential long term strategy to a short term strategy because of Sunderland. - Yeah, I know, yeah, that's for another. (laughing) - Right, predict the game week one team before you answer that properly. - Right, so everything obviously with the caveats that we've mentioned within Drees and last one. - I suppose, Ruff's as well. We had, not actually spoke about Robin Ruff. - Yeah, he's best five million goalkeeper. That's fine. But don't bother with that. He's best. - He's, you know what you're getting from Robin Ruff. Right, go on, put it to game at one line up. - Now we're gonna go. - There, be Roach's and go. Back four of, if, yeah, like I said, Muneye, Balad, O9, Reyne Elder, Sadee Ki and Jacka, Sennemid Field, team on the right side, and Guler on the left, Lefei in the 10, and then Brobj up from. - I can't believe you had to refer to your notes for that. - Yeah, well, I'm just gonna break it. - No. (laughing) - What do you mean? I got a turn up with something, I know? (laughing) - I'm not, it's not amateur-out, yeah. - But I could have just done that 30 seconds, Jesus. - Right. - Yeah. - What does a good season look like for Sandal and now considering what was achieved last year? - Nice role in the Roe Pelleague, win both the Darby's and finish my table. - What is a bad season of the life? - I finished 20, lose every game in the Roe Pelleague. - You still be happy baiting new cards, will try us, wouldn't you? - Well, that's just tradition now, we just beat them every time. - All right, rather you than me, right? - Spence, thank you very much. I wish you particular luck in Roe Pelleague and we've got more first. We've got more first the Sunday concerns to come on the next episode of Correspondent Week 'cause we're gonna be heading from final feast to South to join Neil Grover for a discussion on Bournemouth. That's next on Correspondent Week. Spence, thank you very much. Good luck for the season, power, be nice to each other very much. - Special, it sub-cue music, please, man-shout.