Crystal Palace
Selhurst Park
Crystal Palace FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — Palace: the league's leakiest defence just drew Newcastle, Spurs and Liverpool in the same six-week stretch. Let's manage expectations early. Our model ranks Crystal Palace dead last of 20 for keeping the ball out, and the fixture computer has responded by handing them a trip to Elland Road, Brighton away, then Newcastle, Tottenham away and Liverpool. If you're shopping here…
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And yet the value at Selhurst Park — such as it is — still sits at the back. Which tells you everything about the attack, ranked mid-table and facing the same grim run.
Tyrick Mitchell is the one that survives the cynicism test. He's £4.5m, he's nailed, and he's started every week — which is the entire job description at that price. You're not buying him for hauls; you're buying him because he plays 90 minutes every Saturday and frees up funds for someone who actually scores goals. Fewer than 1 in 10 managers own him, and our projections have him as a perfectly serviceable bench-filler-who-starts. That's not romance. That's a mortgage payment.
Adam Wharton is the more interesting one — the model's top-projected Palace asset over the next six, on corners, nailed, £5.5m, and owned by almost nobody. As a fifth midfielder who never blanks on minutes, he's honest value. Just know his big weeks come from assists off set pieces, not from ripping games apart.
Now the warnings. Sarr is on penalties and priced £6.2m — and hasn't started a game. That's paying for a ceiling attached to a bench. Pass. Strand Larsen is listed as nailed but has only two starts so far; at £6.0m I'd want more evidence before spending forward-slot money on him. And every one of these picks carries the same asterisk: a defence this porous means Palace could be chasing games most weeks, which is bad news for everyone in red and blue.
The call: Mitchell is a buy — the classic £4.5m enabler who actually plays, fixtures be damned, because his job is minutes, not clean sheets. Wharton is a fine cheap fifth mid if the price band fits. Everyone else at Palace, leave on the shelf until the fixtures — and the defence — stop being a horror show.