Always Cheating Fpl Podcast

After two wild game weeks, the #FPL deck seems to be reshuffled, but has anything really changed? From goalkeepers and defenders to the almighty need for a midfield differential, the Always Cheating hosts look at which players to buy or sell as the blanks of GW30 loom large. We take your listener questions and then optimize our squads for #GW29. Hail Cheaters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's time to unveil the exciting results of the Always Cheating 2/3 Season Awards—from the most valuable #FPL asset, to the least, and from the most underrated player to the one most likely to mount a comeback in the final third of the season. We've also surveyed how many of you have yet to play your chips, who you think is sure to be relegated, and which Premier League manager is likely to ruin the rest of your season. Plus your listener questions and a preview of #GW27. Hail Cheaters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From Özil's assist to Agüero's blank, we recap all of the major #FPL happenings from the action-packed #GW26. And as we head into an FA Cup break, the discussion turns heavily to differentials and how managers can beat the template and climb the ranks in this season's home stretch. We're also preparing our 2/3-season online poll for listeners to vote on the major hits and misses through the first 26 weeks. Follow us online for more details. Hail Cheaters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Always Cheating hosts revisit the infamous "Huth Game" and Leicester's complete annihilation of Manchester City, along with the other major events of #GW25. And still more blockbuster fixtures are to come in #GW26, so we discuss how to set up our #FPL squads ahead of the two top-four showdowns. Along with your listener questions, we cover Chelsea and Southampton defenses, midfield rotations, and a possibly ascendant Manchester United team. Hail Cheaters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Leicester City leaves Game Week 24 in their dust, and so it is with the Always Cheating #FPL podcast. Brandon and Josh turn their immediate attention to this weekend's #GW25 match-ups and discuss the trouble with Arsenal, Lukaku's continued disappearing act, a new love affair with the Southampton defense, and playing the waiting game with Dimitri Payet. Hail Cheaters! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Always Cheating hosts put Game Week 23 into perspective and give what may be their final thoughts on the greatest guitar soloist in the entire FPL. From there, they discuss midfield replacements for an injured Kevin De Bruyne, the predictably swooning Arsenal, surging defenses, and fixture blanks ahead in Game Week 27. And then it's time to optimize for Game Week 24 and our first-ever "dirty watch." Hail Cheaters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Heading into Game Week 23, the Always Cheating hosts hail the Return of the Heavy Hitters! Brandon and Josh rank the current luxury-priced FPL strikers in light of recent attention-getting performances from Agüero, Rooney, Kane, Costa, and Giroud. There's also a lot of debate over Liverpool assets, affordable defenders, and the demise of FPL folk hero Riyad Mahrez. Poku Forever! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Always Cheating hosts talk through all twenty of the fixtures from Game Week 21 and 22, which hit in quick succession. Sifting through clean sheets and captaincy options, and answering all of your listener questions, Brandon and Josh discuss cheap defensive options, mid-priced midfielders, and team spines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Always Cheating hosts recap all (or most) of the events from the recent festive period featuring three weird and wild game weeks. Is Leicester City really falling away for good? Has Dimitri Payet been resurrected? Does one headed goal against Watford now make Agüero a must-own? And where does Chelsea's pummeling of Crystal Palace factor into the rest of these knee-jerk reactions? We cover these issues along with your listener questions. Happy New Year, Cheaters! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Always Cheating dives headlong into the Festive Period fixtures with our first-ever guide to surviving the FPL holidays. The hosts look to pack your squad's bench with budget performers likely to play 270 minutes and they formulate an armchair strategy of rotation risks, likely defenders, and who to sensibly captain from Game Week 18 through Game Week 20. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Form players reign supreme in this episode of Always Cheating, but who to get into you FPL squad, and for how long? Before we optimize for Game Week 17, Brandon and Josh weigh in on a high-flying Bournemouth, league-leading Leicester City, and recently-revived Newcastle. And, yes, it may finally be time for us to bury our Chelsea assets in a shoebox in the backyard. Hail Cheaters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fire up the Stoke City bandwagon as Game Week 15 made complete converts of the Always Cheating hosts. But which Potter will best fit your FPL needs? And what have we learned, if anything, from Sunday's oddball fixture at St. James' Park? Optimizing for Game Week 16, Brandon and Josh discuss where to go with Liverpool assets, how to reset our thinking with Hazard, and juggling Leicester, Everton, and Spurs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The head-to-head rivalry between Brandon and Josh is really starting to hit its boiling point, so who was the one left wounded after Game Week 14? Speaking of wounded, we discuss who will replace Alexis Sanchez—and, yeah, we're looking at options beyond Özil and De Bruyne. Optimizing for Game Week 15, how much more juice is left in this Watford attack? Will your Everton clean sheets finally come good? Is Josh joking about Chelsea's prospects? And how close is Vardy to evolving into a beam of pure, clean energy? Hail Cheaters! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Agüero is back! Liverpool is back? Spurs probably haven't gone anywhere, but we'll check on that. So where does that leave United, Arsenal, and Leicester City? Brandon and Josh review all of the happenings from Game Week 13 and then take a look ahead to the clean sheets and captaincies that await us in Game Week 14. Plus we have a Rate My Team and take listener questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Before we optimize our FPL squads for Game Week 13, Brandon and Josh reveal the results of the First Annual Always Cheating Awards, 1/3 Season Edition. Our listeners vote on best new players, biggest disappointments, most improbable moments, and which manager is next to be sacked, among others. The hosts take a few listener questions and also relive some moments from last weekend's #BlazerCon event in Brooklyn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Game Week 12 gave us more Vardy, more Lukaku, and more punching! (Thank you, Rob Elliot, for punching absolutely every ball that comes into your area.) The Always Cheating hosts also discuss everyone's favorite Stoke enigma, Marko Arnautovic; what to do with poor old Dimitri Payet; and the grander FPL philosophy of playing form over fixtures. Be sure to tune in next week for our First Annual One-Third Season Awards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Game Week 11 gave us plenty of goals (and that beautiful Arouna Koné smile), but there were still some FPL headaches for the Always Cheating hosts. Brandon and Josh get to it by talking about defender rotations, differential strategies, and the impact of filling an Ashley Westwood sized hole on our benches. There's also a new Rate My Team feature and we fire up the Optimizer for a Game Week 12 preview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brandon and Josh look back at the Game Week 10 fixtures, giving their FPL assessments of the derby results, Arsenal's continuing form, and Klopp's second consecutive draw. Key transfer targets for both Everton and Manchester United are highlighted, Game Week 11 gets the Optimizer treatment, and our hosts present their first-ever "rate my team" review. Submit your RMT requests to @hailcheaters on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is Wijnaldum's windfall in Game Week 9 enough to convince Brandon and Josh to bring a Newcastle midfielder into their FPL squads? To compare, the Always Cheating hosts try to pinpoint this season's truly essential players. There's a quick review of last weekend's action and then it's into the Optimizer for a look ahead to Game Week 10 and the difficult choices therein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This international break has been filled with more than just Klopp puns, though 'Kindergarten Klopp' does weigh heavily on our minds. More immediately, FPL managers must wrestle with the striker stats and who exactly will replace Agüero—and then what to do with all of that extra cash-flow? Looking at a long list of injuries and lineup doubts popping up during the break, we recap the international play of some main FPL targets, measure their distance traveled, and then bring it all into focus with a preview of game week 9. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices