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Liverpool FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid

This is the version of Liverpool FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid from 3 September 2026, kept for the record. The picks and the numbers have moved since. The current version →

The call — Liverpool: buy the corners, not the clean sheets Start with the awkward truth: our model has Liverpool's defence down as the 19th meanest in the league right now. Not mid-table shaky — second-worst. And the clean-sheet run coming up is grim, with Manchester City at Anfield and trips to Bournemouth and Brentford in the next six. Whatever you're buying from…

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That matters because the value here sits entirely at one end of the pitch, and the table on this page tells you which end. Virgil at £6.5m and Alisson are priced like Liverpool of old — you're paying for a reputation the fixtures and the defensive numbers won't cash. Jacquet at £5.0m is at least starting, which is more than most cheap defenders can say, but a nailed enabler behind a leaky defence is still a route to a lot of 1s and 2s.

The attack is a different conversation. Our model has Liverpool as a decent-but-not-elite attack — eighth — into a run that isn't kind: Ipswich away and Fulham at home are fine, but City, Brentford away and Brighton are work. Which is exactly why the pick is Szoboszlai. He's £7.0m, he's nailed, about 4 in 10 managers already own him, and he's on everything — penalties, free kicks, corners. When a team's fixtures get tough, the man taking every dead ball is the one whose points don't dry up. He's the floor pick, and I like floors. Isak is the bigger name at £9.0m with a marginally higher projection and the upside to go massive on his day, but you're paying £2.0m more for roughly the same points over six — that's £2.0m that could fund a premium elsewhere.

Gakpo at £7.0m and roughly 1 in 10 ownership is the quiet differential if you already own Szoboszlai — he's nailed and shares set-piece duty. Wirtz is the one priced for what he might become rather than what he's returning; at £7.5m behind two cheaper teammates in our order, leave him.

The call: buy Szoboszlai at £7.0m — nailed, on pens, cheapest route into this attack. Isak only if the £9.0m doesn't cost you a premium elsewhere. And don't touch a Liverpool defender until the fixtures — and the defence — improve.

Who to own at LIV
PlayerPosPriceProj (next 6)Own %Minutes
SzoboszlaiMID7.025.741.5Nailed
IsakFWD9.026.116.5Nailed
GakpoMID7.022.38.1Nailed
WirtzMID7.517.910.1Nailed
VirgilDEF6.515.317.9Nailed
A.BeckerGK5.510.83.8Nailed
Mac AllisterMID5.514.41.5Nailed
JacquetDEF5.09.92.6Nailed
LIV set pieces
Set pieceFirst choiceBehind him
PenaltiesSzoboszlaiIsak, Gakpo
Direct free kicksSzoboszlaiWirtz
Corners & indirect FKsSzoboszlaiGakpo, Wirtz
Players in this pieceSzoboszlaiIsakGakpoWirtz