Crystal Palace
Selhurst Park
Crystal Palace FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — Palace: buy the attack's price tag, not the defence's The awkward truth about Crystal Palace is this: our model rates their attack sixth-best in the league and their defence dead last. Twentieth. Nobody's meaner going forward at these prices, and nobody's more generous at the back — which makes them a club you buy carefully, at one end only.
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And yet the top of our Palace list is a defender. That's not a contradiction, it's arithmetic. Mitchell is the cheapest nailed starter in this squad, he's played every week so far, and at £4.5m he's not asking to be judged on clean sheets — which is handy, because with a run of Ipswich, Leeds away, Forest, Brighton away, Newcastle and Spurs away, our model calls the clean-sheet picture very tough. He's priced for his floor: a defender who plays 90 every week, chips in points regardless, and frees up money for the expensive end of your team. Fewer than 1 in 10 managers own him. That's the value.
The attacking route is Yeremy, and hardly anyone's got him — barely anyone, in fact. He's on free kicks and corners, our model has him as Palace's best pick over the next six, and £5.5m for a nailed midfielder with the set-piece portfolio in a sixth-ranked attack is honest business. The caveat is minutes history: only two starts so far, so you're trusting the "nailed" tag a little earlier than I'd like. Wharton sits just behind him at the same price and also takes corners, but the model prefers Yeremy's upside and I won't argue with it.
What I'd avoid: paying £5.0m for Richards, Henderson or Khalaili. Same tough fixtures, same worst-ranked defence, more money for less. If you're buying Palace defence at all, Mitchell is the only price that makes sense — Canvot at £4.9m starts too, but he's a tenth cheaper for the same job done worse in our numbers.
Would anything change the call? A kinder fixture swing later in the autumn, or Yeremy's starts drying up. Neither is on the horizon yet.
The call: buy Mitchell as your set-and-forget £4.5m defender, and if you want the fun end of Palace, Yeremy at £5.5m is the one — start both, and leave the £5.0m defenders on the shelf.