FPL Budget Picks: The Best MID Under £9.0
The call — Budget midfielders under £9.0m: one of these is not like the others Here's the number that should stop you scrolling: Groß, £5.8m, projects for more points over the next six gameweeks than anything else in this bracket — and it's not close. Our model has the Brighton man nearly doubling the return of players costing two quid more. At that…
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The rest of the shortlist, in the order our model prefers them:
Rogers (CHE, £7.7m) — the template pick, about 4 in 10 own him. Favourable fixtures, Bournemouth at home next. Solid, but you're paying £1.9m more than Groß for a lower projected return. Cherki (MCI, £7.8m) — nice fixtures after Liverpool away, but City's attack is a crowded room and nobody's minutes are safe there. Mbeumo (MUN, £7.9m) — decent numbers, average fixtures, Spurs at home next. Fine, not urgent. Szoboszlai (LIV, £7.0m) — a very tough run beginning with City at home; 3 in 10 own him and I'd wager most regret it shortly. Tavernier (BOU, £6.1m) — honest mid-price option, average run, Chelsea away first. Barnes (NEW, £6.1m) — the quiet one. Very kind fixtures, Coventry away next, and hardly anyone owns him — fewer than 1 in 10. If you want a cheap differential, this is where I'd look. Gibbs-White (£8.0m) and Dewsbury-Hall (£6.6m) both face very tough runs — leave them. Schade (£6.2m), Semenyo (£8.4m) and Cunha (£7.9m) are watchlist material, nothing more.
The usual caveat: at this end of the market, minutes are everything, and none of these come with a written guarantee of ninety every week. Watch the first teamsheets before you commit a hit. A cheap midfielder who gets subbed on at 75 is a £4.5m bench body in disguise.
But the call is simple. Buy Groß. He's the best-projected player in the entire bracket at nearly the cheapest price in it, with the fixtures to match. If you already have him or want a second, Rogers is the alternative — and Barnes is the punt for the brave. Everything else here is paying more for less, which is precisely what this column exists to stop you doing.