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Everton FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — Everton: the value's at the wrong end — buy it anyway Here's the tell: Everton's best defender and their best midfielder project for exactly the same points over the next six, and the defender's a centre-half who never gets subbed off. When the back end matches the front end pound-for-pound, you know which end of this team the money should…
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Our model has Everton with one of the meaner defences in the league — top half, comfortably — while the attack sits in the bottom third and has been handed a rough run of opponents to boot. Chelsea at home, then Arsenal and Newcastle away, is nobody's idea of a goals bonanza. The kinder appointments — Ipswich (H), Hull (A), Coventry (H) — are exactly the sort of fixtures where a stubborn defence collects.
So Tarkowski is the buy, and it's not close. £6.1m, nailed to the teamsheet, only about 1 in 10 managers own him, and he's usually good for 4–5 points a week with the odd set-piece goal to spike it. If the budget won't stretch, Mykolenko at £4.5m is the proper enabler — same clean sheets, two million cheaper, starts every week. That's the kind of player who pays for a premium elsewhere without ever costing you a start. Pickford does the same job at £5.5m if you need a keeper.
The honest caveat: an "average" clean-sheet run is what it says. Chelsea, Arsenal and Newcastle in three of the six means you're really buying the shutouts against the promoted sides and hoping the defence nicks one elsewhere. That's fine at these prices; it wouldn't be at £7m.
The attack? Barry at £5.6m with penalties is a tempting third-forward price, and Dewsbury-Hall has genuine involvement — but a fourteenth-ranked attack walking into a tough run is precisely where cheap forwards go to blank. Ask yourself who's scoring at the Emirates. Nobody, is the answer.
The call: buy Tarkowski if you've got £6.1m to spend on a defender — Mykolenko if you haven't. Leave the Everton attack alone until the fixtures turn. Boring, starts every week, never blanks badly. That's what value looks like.