FPL Budget Picks: The Best FWD Under £7.5
The call — Budget forwards: who's actually worth your £6m? The sharpest number in this bracket is Wissa's: our model has him down for roughly 36 points over the next six gameweeks — call it six a week from a £6.2m forward. Nobody else under £7.5m gets close.
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That's not romance talking. Wissa starts, he's proven at this level, and Newcastle's run is about as kind as fixtures get, opening with Hull at St James' Park. Nearly 2 in 10 managers already have him, so he's not a secret — but at this price you don't need secrets, you need points. He can go big on a good week and he clears a respectable score most weeks either way.
The rest of the bracket, one line each, in the order we rate them:
Calvert-Lewin (LEE, £6.0m) — starts every week, average fixtures, Crystal Palace at Elland Road next. Around five a week projected. About 2 in 10 own him. The best alternative if you want to save £0.2m.
Barry (EVE, £5.6m) — starts, but the fixtures are tough after Ipswich at home. Hardly anyone owns him (~1 in 10). Fine, not thrilling.
Evanilson (BOU, £6.0m) — nice run of fixtures overall, though it opens with Liverpool at the Vitality. Starts. Barely owned.
Emersonn (IPS, £5.5m) — unproven at this level with a tough run. Cheap enabler at best.
Brobbey (SUN, £5.8m) — starts, but City away next and a brutal run after. Pass.
McBurnie (HUL, £5.5m) — Newcastle away, unproven, very tough fixtures. No.
Gonzalo (FUL, £6.0m) — unproven, ugly run starting with United at Craven Cottage.
Marmoush (TOT, £7.0m) — the priciest name here for the thinnest return. Very tough fixtures. Avoid.
Solanke (TOT, £5.8m) — same fixture problem, fewer projected points than half the £5.5m crowd.
Delap (NFO, £5.5m) and N.Jackson (AVL, £6.5m) — starters, but the projections say bench fodder that costs real money.
There are 28 forwards who qualify at this price; only two are worth building around. The gap from Wissa to third place is a chasm.
The call: buy Wissa. He's the rare cheap forward where you're not paying for hope — he starts, he scores, and the fixtures do the rest. If the £0.2m genuinely matters to your build, Calvert-Lewin is the honest fallback. Everyone else here is either an enabler or a mistake.