Liverpool
Anfield
Liverpool FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — Liverpool: one way in, and it costs £7.0m Dominik Szoboszlai currently takes Liverpool's penalties, free kicks and corners. That's the whole dead-ball portfolio in one £7.0m midfielder, and it's why our model puts him at the top of this squad — above Isak, who's £2.1m dearer and projected only a couple of points better over the next six.
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.
Let's be honest about what those next six look like, though: Bournemouth away, Man City at home, Brentford away, Brighton, Arsenal, then Palace away. That's about as unfriendly a run as the fixture computer can cook up, and our numbers have Liverpool sitting mid-pack at both ends right now — roughly ninth-best attack, twelfth-meanest defence. This is not a team demanding a triple-up.
So where's the value? Not the back line. Virgil and Alisson are fine footballers, but a middling defence facing City and Arsenal in a six-week window is not where you shop for clean sheets. Jacquet at £5.0m is the tempting one — he's starting, he's cheap — but a starting defender behind the twelfth-best defence in this run is a bench body, not a plan. Same logic kills the Isak case: £9.1m is ceiling pricing, and you're paying it into fixtures where the ceiling rarely shows up. Wirtz at £7.4m is the shiny toy hardly anyone owns (~1 in 10), but he's ranked below Szoboszlai for a reason — the Hungarian holds the set pieces and the surer route to returns.
Szoboszlai is the exception because his floor doesn't depend on the fixture. Pens, free kicks, corners — he gets his touches in the box whoever's in front of him, he's nailed, and about 4 in 10 managers already know it. Roughly 26 points over six against this schedule is respectable work for £7.0m.
What changes the call? If the set pieces migrate elsewhere, or if the fixtures after this run open up, Isak becomes the conversation. Not yet.
The call: own exactly one Liverpool attacker through this run, and make it Szoboszlai. Hold him if you've got him, buy him if you need a £7.0m mid. Everyone else — including the defence, including Isak — wait until the fixtures turn.