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Brentford FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — Brentford: the value is all at one end — and the template's bought the wrong cheapie Here's the quiet headline in our numbers: Brentford grade out as one of the league's five sharpest attacks, and Thiago — their top pick, on penalties, starting every week — sits in barely 1 in 10 teams at £7.9m. That's a forward priced for…
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The fixtures need an honest reading, mind. The next six are kind overall, but they're back-loaded — Chelsea and Liverpool both come to the Gtech early, with Villa away wedged between. Hull, Forest at home and Brighton away is where the run softens. If you're buying in, you're buying for the second half of the stretch and accepting a bumpy fortnight first.
So where's the value? Not the back line. Brentford's defence is strictly mid-pack in our prediction, which makes Kelleher and Ajer honest, playing, cheap — and reliant on coin-flip clean sheets. Fine as squad fillers, not the reason to come here.
The real money is the two nailed midfielders nobody owns. Lewis-Potter and Janelt both start every week, both project within touching distance of players a pound dearer, and they're sitting in roughly 2 in 100 teams apiece. Janelt at £5.0m is exactly the sort of player this column exists for: a fifth-midfielder price on a man who never blanks his minutes and takes corners. Lewis-Potter adds free-kick duty on top. Meanwhile Kayode — the most-owned cheap Brentford asset by some distance — is the only name on this page who *isn't* nailed. That's the template buying the shirt, not the team sheet.
One flag on the shiny option: Schade projects well and shares the penalty conversation, but at £6.0m he's priced closer to his best week than his average one. Thiago gets the pens first and the projection to match.
The call: if you want the upside, it's Thiago — nailed, spot-kicks, low-owned, £7.9m, and our model has him good for a solid return most weeks with the odd big one when the fixtures ease. If you want the value that funds him, it's Janelt at £5.0m. And if you own Kayode, move him on before the bench does it for you.