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Ep. 28 - Salah, Saka, Sonny, Oh My!

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Spurs beat City 4-0, and the hosts think it says more about Manchester City than a one-off result.

Chris is on the road for Thanksgiving week, and he apologizes for the rough audio before the episode really gets going. The opening mood comes straight from Jace's Saturday texts, which were full of frustration after a brutal FPL run: four assets had missed inside the sticks, Cole Palmer had blanked, Haaland had missed chance after chance against Spurs, and Flecken was the only return before the recording. It is a rough stretch, and the episode leans into that feeling without pretending otherwise. Chris and Jace keep circling the same practical FPL questions that sit underneath a bad weekend: whether the moves already made were sensible, whether the blanks were bad process or just bad timing, and how much patience any manager has left when the margins keep turning on posts, saves, and missed chances. Manchester City comes next. They discuss Rico Lewis as a good passer who fits the system but is asked to do a lot on the defensive side, especially in one-on-one situations and in terms of size, and they start asking whether City will need to add in January if they want to keep pushing for the title. That January talk widens into both ends of the pitch. An attacker to compete with Haaland and a defender to shore up the back line both come up, with Phil Foden's false-nine minutes and the lack of a real replacement for Haaland making the squad feel thin. Minutes matter here too. Chris also frames Haaland's dip across competitions as partly a workload issue, with the team leaning on him heavily and Foden filling in at nine at times, which makes rest and rotation part of the same FPL conversation as form. The useful thread is the transfer angle, because the festive fixtures are close enough to make every sideways move feel expensive and every free transfer look more valuable than it did a week ago. The show stays grounded in actual decisions: whether to hold, whether to buy, and how to read the next stretch when the schedule tightens and the points can disappear fast. Newcastle and West Ham close it out. They record before that match is played, wish good luck to both sides, and say they will be back next week for the gameweek 13 recap, with gameweek 14 and gameweek 15 likely to get folded into the same conversation because the turnaround is so tight. They end with happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating and the usual FPL luck sent out with it.

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Road audio aside, this turns a rough gameweek into useful transfer talk.

Free Hit opens on a rough gameweek and a road recording, with a soft caveat that the audio is not always pristine. From there, the discussion stays grounded in the main FPL headaches: Cole Palmer blanking, Haaland missing chances against Spurs, and Flecken standing out as the…

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A road-logged FPL check-in that starts with rage and ends with January transfer-window chatter.

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