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Coventry City FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — Coventry are two different teams in one shirt. Our model has them bottom of the league for attack — dead last, 20th of 20 — and ninth-meanest defence in the division. That's not a club you buy into. That's an end of the pitch you buy into, and it's the back one.
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One squad, picked before a ball was kicked and run for five gameweeks on three transfers — no hits taken. Scored on FPL’s own results.
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The fixture list agrees. Newcastle at home and Spurs away are rough openers, but then look at it: Fulham (H), Sunderland (H), Everton (A), Palace (H). Our projections rate that a genuinely kind run for clean sheets — and a brutal one for anybody hoping Coventry score at the other end. So the attackers, pleasant as the £4.9–£5.0 prices look, are a trap. Thomas-Asante has started twice in five. The midfielders are nailed but attached to the league's blankest attack. You'd be paying for appearance points and hope.
The actual value is Bobby Thomas at £4.0. Nailed, started every week, and the cheapest price in the game buying into a top-half defence with four very winnable clean-sheet fixtures out of six. He's good for roughly 3–4 points most weeks, and when Coventry keep one out he returns like a player a pound dearer. About 1 in 10 managers already have him, so the secret's half out — but half out at £4.0 is still a bargain. Jay Dasilva is the same price, the same minutes, and almost nobody owns him if you want the quieter route. Rushworth at £4.5 is a perfectly sensible budget keeper on the same logic, started every game, owned by basically no one.
The caveats, because I'm paid to be miserable: Pinnock has only started three of five, so he's the one back-line name I wouldn't touch until the minutes settle. And a ninth-ranked defence is solid, not a fortress — Newcastle and Spurs in the first two weeks could make this look silly before the kind stretch arrives. If the price-locked romantic in you is eyeing Rudoni's free kicks, remember who ranks 20th for attack.
The call: buy Bobby Thomas at £4.0 as your set-and-forget starting defender, Dasilva if you want the nobody-owns-him version, and leave every Coventry attacker alone. The money you save down here is what pays for the players who actually score.