Palmer or Haaland? FPL Andy moves from captains to benching headaches

The deadline stream leads Let's Talk FPL's recent uploads, while Andy's next reaction turns to Gvardiol's absence from the starting lineup.

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Why this story? The whole channel is running at 629,885 views a day, 8.3 times a normal day (76,228).

The deadline drew the crowd. FPL Andy's Palmer-or-Haaland captaincy stream has the largest audience among Let's Talk FPL's recent uploads, narrowly ahead of his Gameweek 6 final-thoughts video.

Across the channel, daily views climbed to roughly 630,000, more than eight times the usual pace. That jump comes alongside a particularly recognizable fantasy-football sequence: choosing a team, weighing the last bits of team news, then confronting what happened after the deadline.

The captaincy choice gives the deadline stream its central question. In Fantasy Premier League, a captain's points are doubled, so picking between Cole Palmer and Erling Haaland can matter as much as several other decisions combined.

Andy's final-thoughts upload takes a broader route, moving through club-by-club team news before addressing benching headaches, James Garner, a De Cuyper-or-Vuskovic choice and whether to use the Free Hit chip.

His follow-up is labeled a Gameweek 7 kneejerk reaction, with Gvardiol being benched among the title's talking points. The shift is familiar to anyone managing a fantasy squad: before the deadline, the question is whom to trust; afterward, it is what to change.

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The numbers

Channel views rose sharply above their usual daily pace. The deadline stream and final-thoughts video also have closely matched total audiences.

views per day, whole channel

typical day

76,228

now

629,885

subscribers

513,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

223,133,050

views per day

629,885

typical day: 76,228

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Zedsnap

541,000

Leeds United Official

534,000

The Rest Is Football

519,000

Let's Talk FPL

513,000

FutbolEssence

507,000

The Football Terrace

505,000

As of October 12, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.