Jan Paul van Hecke

I just don't think it's worth the extra money.

So if not a Bournemouth defender, what about a Spurs one? You've got Van Hecke at 4.9 million and Pedro Parra, who's now back at 5.3.

And I know I've literally just said that most of the time moving forward, I'm going to be looking at centre-backs with good defensive contributions.

But Pedro Parra might be one of the exceptions.

But I think he's more attacking as well from open play, so a bit like True Fair.

I still think...

I would probably take the cheaper guy at Van Hecke for 0.4 million less.

But I do like Pedro Parra as a huge differential.

What's the best team for GW9? Well, the tool has gone with Suzuki and Goal, home to Fulham.

In defence, Pedro Porro, Silva and Van Hecke.

In midfield, Gibbs, White, Palmer, Rodgers and Sharda.

And up front, Haaland, Solanke and Thiago.

So Kinski, very comfortable hold if you've made it this far with him.

I know many of you benched him for his nine points against Chelsea, and that felt like a proper troll, but clearly he's worth playing from now on.

And Van Hecke looking like a nice buy as well.

I really like Silva for 5 mil as well, Mohamovic another option for 5 mil.

And I was fairly shocked when he went to Brighton.

I remember, like, was it Van Hecke went to Spurs from Brighton and Vujkovic went to Brighton from Spurs at the time.

It was a bit of a weird move from Spurs' point of view.

But he has been doing well at Brighton.

Gabriel and Ben White were the first and second best defenders this week.

James Hilford, Van Hecke, obviously we just talked about him in fourth, and Esre Konca in fifth.

So three Arsenal players in the top five.

At the midfield, Oscar Bob leading the way with 23 points, number one.

And there's some nice Kinski quotes doing the rounds of obviously someone that knows what it's like to make a mistake in a big game and kind of his sympathy for him.

And yeah, I mean, great ball into the box.

Van Hecker.

throwing himself at it and yeah it was one of those where we're all in the press box we could see it going back so we're like that definitely looked like it across the line i was worried we were going to have a in a different era we would have had another pedro mendez old trafford incident with the ball crossing the line by a mile but thankfully you know referee looks at his watch and there it pings away and um yeah the first goal and uh Because Fernandes was in the corner celebrating.

He had the ball.

And I thought he played really well.

I thought on the other side, Archie Gray, another incredibly mature performance at the back.

There was one moment when Van Hecker, there was a ball that came back somewhere between them.

Oh, before I forget, I apologize.

Van Hecke is also another good alternative.

So their fixtures are really, really good across the next five.

It's ninth.

But I think with Tottenham, you would hope that they get a little bit more active in defense and you would hope that they would keep a little bit more clean sheets.

And some of these teams that you would probably expect to be lower in the table come the end of the season.

We haven't seen that, and I think some of the numbers that are baked into Van Hecke are because they've started so poorly and they really just haven't gotten going.

I think we've started to see instances of this now that they've gotten past Chelsea with ease.

Since the start of last season, Gehi and Donnarumma, both three each have errors leading to goals in the league.

And Van Hecke and Bart Verbruggen are the ones ahead of them.

So... you know, they can tighten that up.

But basically with that result and us winning against Everton, that brought us joint top, although on goal difference, City is well ahead because we're still getting in our goals era, but a welcome result.

And so I was, I was ecstatic.

I will say that I was a typical Tottenham fan for my fantasy team.

Van Hecker and Kinski were on the bench and I played Jao Pedro.

My, my, I had, I had Kinski on the bench as well, but, and I, I had Tonali in, in my team, but yeah, I had quite a lot.

I think I have Morgan Rogers in my team, so.

I've never been so happy to not get any points.

My luck was I had Bruno Fernandes in there as well.

So Van Hecker came off the bench to fill that slot.