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Brentford FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — Brentford: the value is at the wrong end of the pitch — which suits me fine Here's the quiet story on the Who to Own table: Brentford's back line is where the money is. Our model has them as the seventh-meanest defence in the league, they've got a kind run for clean sheets coming, and every single defensive asset on…
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Thiago tops our list overall, and fairly. He's on penalties, he starts every week, and only about 1 in 7 managers own him — a fair way short of template. At £8.0m for a nailed penalty-taking forward on a mid-table attack, our projections make him a solid 4-a-week pick who can go big when the spot-kicks and the home fixtures line up. The honest other side: Brentford's attack is middle of the pack — ninth in our reckoning — so you're buying reliability, not fireworks. He's priced for what he actually does, which is rarer than it sounds.
But the picks that make a squad work are cheaper. Kelleher at £5.0m and Kayode at £4.6m both start, both sit behind a top-half defence with a friendly run, and hardly anyone owns either. That's the whole job description for an enabler: plays every week, never blanks for minutes, funds a premium elsewhere. Collins actually projects best of the defenders in our model and is owned by almost nobody, if you've got the extra £0.9m lying around — but Kayode does most of the same job for less, and less is the point.
The caveats, plainly: we're two starts into the season, so treat every "nailed" tag as early evidence rather than gospel. And the fixture run isn't spotless — Chelsea at home and Liverpool at home sit in the middle, which is two weeks where clean sheets go to die. The Bournemouth and Villa away trips are winnable but not gimmes.
Schade, Sangaré and Lewis-Potter are all fine, all starting — but with the attack only average, I'm not paying midfield prices for it when the defence is the better-ranked unit.
The call: buy into Brentford through the back. Kayode is the pick — cheapest route into a nailed starter in a good defence with Sunderland and Hull bookending the run. Thiago's a sensible buy too if you need a mid-price forward, but if you're only making one move, make the cheap one that plays.