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Fulham FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — Fulham: mid-table numbers, mid-table fixtures — and one very quiet bargain in goal Fulham rank 14th for attack and 14th for defence in our projections, which is about as mid-table as mid-table gets. The fixtures don't do them many favours either: Chelsea at home first up, then trips to Liverpool and a visit from Manchester United buried in the first…
So why are we writing about them? Because the prices are silly cheap and the ownership is basically zero.
Start with Leno at £4.5m. Our model has him as Fulham's steadiest earner over the next six — roughly 19 points in that stretch, which for a bottom-shelf keeper is decent going. He plays every week, he faces plenty of shots (that's the save-points trade-off of a 14th-ranked defence), and about 3 in 10... no, sorry — barely 3 in *100* managers own him. If you're building a budget goalkeeper rotation, he's a genuinely sensible half.
The defenders are trickier. Robinson and Bassey are both £4.5m and both nailed types, but the clean-sheet outlook over this run is honestly tough — Chelsea, Liverpool and United account for half the fixtures. They're bench-fodder-who-actually-play rather than points machines. Fine fifth defenders; don't expect hauls.
Iwobi is the interesting one. At £5.5m he's Fulham's top attacking pick in our rankings, projected around 20 points over the six, and owned by roughly 1 in 100 managers. He won't go massive often — this is a mid-tier attack — but he's the man most likely to be involved when Fulham do score, and at that price he frees up money elsewhere.
The warning light is Gonzalo. £6.0m, 2 in 100 own him, and our model projects him well below every name above — under 7 points across the whole window. That's the productive-minutes problem in a nutshell: the price says forward, the numbers say don't. Avoid.
The call: Leno is a buy if you want a working £4.5m keeper — that's the pick here. Iwobi is a reasonable fifth midfielder if the budget's tight. Robinson and Bassey are bench-only, and leave Gonzalo alone entirely.