Final Call | Pre Season | FPL 26/27 | EP.209 |

Uh, right, pre-season.

How much have you been following pre-season, and how much would you say impacts on some of your decisions, if at all?

all?I, I've been following it quite a bit.

I've always thought the best thing about preseason is knowing the minutes that, that you're expecting from players in game week one, two, and three really, is, is looking at it and thinking who is, is most likely to play.

And, and one of my lessons I put earlier is that, or later, you'll see it later, sorry-

Sorry

... is, yeah, is the, is, is, you know, minutes are key.

Especially with the fact that a lot of us look, looking to bench boost in the first couple of weeks, you need those players that are actually gonna play minutes, and preseason helps you massively knowing who it is that's likely to, to play those minutes to start with.

The press conferences this week have been really important.

I mean, Sunderland, you know, Labroue came out with a, a press conference saying about a few players, so it really does help us look at that.

I don't really take too much into it in terms of form.

I know we're gonna be looking at preseason form here.

I think it can maybe help you see whether they're, you know, kind of flowing and attacking sense, but this doesn't say anything about opponents or...

And some of the Prem results in preseason, this, this preseason have been ridiculous.

Like, there's been so many.

Like, there's been a 7-nil, a 10-1, like-

A 10-1, yeah

...

so, yeah.

So I think it helps you with minutes massively.

Um, and I think obviously Community Shield is a big one to help you, I think.

Yep.

Brighton are playing tonight-

They are

... which isn't really preseason.