FML FPL - Fantasy Premier League Podcast

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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Part 2 (Forwards and Defenders) will come soon. Our eyes were bigger than our stomachs, or however the expression goes. Tons and tons of guys and things to talk about in the midpriced region of FPL picks.

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Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro and Admin: We Have to Break Midpriced Pods into Two Parts

00:03:15 Straight in with Declan Rice at £7.5 Million: Steady Eddy

00:09:00 Another £7.5er in Morgan Rogers: A Rising Tide Buoys All Ships

00:14:30 On Our Wirtz Behavior: Priced to Buy (and We're Buying)

00:22:18 Cherki and Doku and Foden: One of Them Won't Start

00:30:07 Running Through Some Other £7 Million Mids: Enzo, Gakpo & Szoboszlai, Bruno G, Rashford

00:39:22 Starting the £6.5 Million Mids with the Large Group of Arsenal Guys: Tzolis Curious and Not Much Else

00:47:20 Rayan and Dango: Athletic Freaks with Upside

00:52:26 Neto and Estêvão, Chelsea Wingers If They Even Play With Wingers: A Little Chelsea Talk

00:58:05 New Manager for Sarr and Mateta at Crystal Palace

01:00:35 Finishing the Rest of the £6.5 Mids with KDH, Harry Wilson, Elliot Anderson (EDOT), Kudus, and Skipping Most of the Rest of 'Em

01:11:48 Round Up Part 1 with All of the £5.0 Million Goalkeepers and Who We Like and Who We Don't Like

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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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The building blocks of your FPL team start here with the most expensive picks in the game.

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Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro Explaining What We're Up To

00:01:30 Kicking Off the Premiums with Isak

00:06:51 Is There a Haaland Conversation to Be Had?

00:13:09 Ollie and Thiago Both Meh at £8 Million

00:21:21 Moving to Midfield with Bruno and Cunha and Mbeumo

00:29:31 Saka and Palmer, the Midfielders Formerly Known as Double-Digit Premiums

00:37:08 Semenyo, an Obvious Second Man City Pick?

00:39:31 MGW (Morgan Gibbs-White) Is Walsh's Guy This Season

00:46:26 Time for Defenders: £6 Million and Up, Starting with Gabriel and the Arsenal Defenders

00:51:11 Maresca's Man City Defenders

00:53:12 The Rest of the Expensive Defenders: Lacroix, Senesi, Tarkowski, and VVD

01:03:49 The Expensive Keepers: Raya, Pickford, Alisson, and Donnarumma

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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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The 2026/27 FPL Season has arrived, which means our preseason podathon begins. Today we're just reacting to the game being out and some prices, but starting Monday, we'll be back with our first proper preseason episode.

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Chapters:

00:00:00 Welcome Back, FPL Is Back: Intro and Patreon Admin

00:04:43 A New Season Brings About New Treats from the Administrators of the Official FPL Website and Game: Rules Changes, Bonus Points Changes, Positional Changes

00:12:29 General Thoughts on the Pricing: Buy Buy Buy

00:17:49 We Always Start with Goalkeeper and Let's Not Break That Tradition: Not a Lot of 4.5s to Choose From

00:24:21 Starting Our Chat with the Arsenal: Gab's Too Expensive but There Is Value Elsewhere

00:32:00 Aston Villa: Is There Anything You Like? We Can't Do All 20 Teams but We Have to Do Something

00:34:41 Bournemouth: New Manager and a Price Hike

00:36:36 Some Interest in Brentford and the Bees: Except Thiago

00:39:28 Brighton Are Always Interesting but Their Squad Is Humungous and They Have European Fixtures to Navigate

00:42:58 Chelsea Have a Manager Now and No European Fixtures

00:48:30 We Can't Keep Going Alphabetically, We Have to Start Jumping Around to Different Players and Teams: Sarr, MGW and Forest Guys, Jacquet and Some Liverpool Guys, Man City Guys, Solanke, Osula, Harvey Barnes, Šeško and Cunha, Ndiaye

01:06:09 There Are Practically No Easy Fixture Runs

01:11:06 The Schedule for Our Preseason: Fireside Chats to Be Scheduled

FML FPL is supported by our Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/FMLFPL

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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