FPL Budget Picks: The Best MID Under £6.5
The call — Budget mids under £6.5m: who actually plays The most useful number in this whole bracket belongs to a 34-year-old who's never been fashionable: Pascal Groß, £5.5m, projects for nearly 38 points over the next six gameweeks. That's better than 6 a week from a player who costs less than most bench fodder — and he starts every game Brighton play.…
What has not being with FFIQ cost you this season?
One squad, picked before a ball was kicked and run for six gameweeks on three transfers — no hits taken. Scored on FPL’s own results.
Your name and your FPL team name. That is all it takes, and we will have your answer before you have finished reading this sentence.
↓ Start here — your name, then your team.
No FPL password, ever. We only read what FPL already publishes.
The fixtures are only average — COV (A) first up — but Groß doesn't need easy games to return. He's the definition of what this column values: nailed minutes, steady output, funds a premium elsewhere. Boring is a compliment at £5.5m.
The rest of the bracket, one line each, in our order of preference:
- Tavernier (BOU, £6.0m) — starts, average fixtures, BRE (H) next, good for 5+ a week. Barely anyone owns him (fewer than 1 in 10 by a distance). The best alternative here.
- Dewsbury-Hall (EVE, £6.5m) — decent player, but *not an expected starter*, and Everton's run is tough starting TOT (A). Minutes are the whole game at this price. Pass.
- Diego Gomez (BHA, £5.0m) — the cheap Brighton route if Groß money is spoken for. Starts, projects well for a fiver.
- Le Fée and Xhaka (SUN, £5.9m/£5.5m) — both start, both face a brutal run beginning ARS (H). Wrong time.
- Schade (BRE, £6.0m) — starts, but tough fixtures. Fine, not exciting.
- Anderson and Ndiaye (MCI, £6.4m/£5.9m) — lovely fixtures after MUN (A), and both expected to start. City rotation is the tax you pay; go in with eyes open.
- Elanga (NEW, £6.1m) — favourable run, LEE (A) first. Solid, about 1 in 10 own him.
- Stach (LEE, £6.0m) — starts, but NEW (H) kicks off a rough patch.
- Slater (HUL, £4.5m) — the true enabler price, and he does start, but CHE (A) opens a very tough run. He's a fifth midfielder, not a plan.
The romance picks in this bracket are the City pair — and someone's coming off on 60 there most weeks. The value pick is the one who plays 90 every time.
The call: buy Groß at £5.5m. If you want a differential with the same reliability, Tavernier at £6.0m is the alternative. Everyone else is a compromise.