Bargain Watch: MID Under £6.5
The call — Sixty-nine midfielders under £6.5m, and the one you want costs £6.0m and starts every week. The read: Ndiaye at £6.0m tops our order of preference in this bracket, and it isn't complicated. He plays, Everton's run is kind starting with Crystal Palace at home, and our model has him good for a little over 20 points across the next six…
Behind him, Sarr (£6.5m, roughly 1 in 10 owners) is the same story from the other dressing room — nailed, similar points over six, and he goes to Goodison first. Then Le Fée at £6.0m, a Sunderland starter with fixtures that are neither here nor there, owned by hardly anyone. He's unproven at this level by our reckoning, which is the polite way of saying he might be brilliant or he might be a £6.0m squad filler.
Now the caveat, and it's the one that matters. Anderson at £6.5m has the highest six-week points number on this list. Our model still ranks him below Ndiaye and Sarr, because he isn't an expected starter. Points don't come from the bench on 25 minutes, and Manchester City have a habit of rotating exactly the players you've just bought. Same warning applies to Wilson (Leeds) and Fernandes (Tottenham) — rotation risk in a bracket where minutes are the entire argument. If you're spending £6.5m on a midfielder, you're buying starts, not vibes.
Worth a note lower down: Groß at £5.5m and Eze at £6.5m both start, both have friendly runs, and both are owned by almost nobody. Eze's fixtures are the kindest of anyone here, beginning with Coventry at home. Dewsbury-Hall (£6.5m) is the third Everton option and starts, but you only need one of them.
FPL VERDICT: buy Ndiaye at £6.0m. He starts, the fixtures are on his side from Palace at home onwards, and 20-plus over six games from a £6.0m midfielder is exactly what this price band is for. Best alternative if you'd rather not double up on the Merseyside–London fixture: Sarr at £6.5m. Avoid Anderson until he's actually in the eleven.