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Manchester City FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — Who to own at Man City: the verdict Six fixtures, one trip to Anfield, and then the fixture list basically apologises: Ipswich at home, Brighton at home, Fulham at home, with Villa and Forest away in between. For a side we rate as one of the league's sharpest attacks and one of its meanest defences, that run is about as…
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The honest answer is both ends work, which is rarer than it sounds. The table tells you the prices and projections; what it can't tell you is where the value actually sits. Haaland is priced for his ceiling and still earns it — he's nailed, he's on penalties, and with about 7 in 10 managers already owning him, he's not a pick so much as an entry fee. You don't gain much by having him; you bleed by not.
The value, though, is in the defence. City rank among the stingiest back lines in the league and the clean-sheet run is genuinely gentle — Ipswich, Brighton and Fulham all visit the Etihad in this window. Gvardiol is the model's preferred route in: nailed, starting every week, and a defender in a team this mean is the cheapest reliable points you'll find at a top club. Guéhi projects almost identically if you'd rather save the slot elsewhere, but Gvardiol gets the nod.
In midfield, Cherki is the interesting one — on free kicks, on corners, and only about 3 in 10 own him. The caveat is minutes: four starts from the opening stretch, not five, and Pep's midfield is exactly where the man getting subbed on 60 lives. Anderson starts every week and is cheaper, but the attacking slots in this team are crowded, and the model clearly prefers Cherki's share of them. Ndiaye and Enzo are for the brave only — Enzo's three starts tell their own story.
One warning: the window opens at Anfield. If you're moving this week, expect a quiet first return and buy for the five games after it, not the one in front of you.
The call: if Haaland isn't in your team, fix that first. If he is, Gvardiol is the buy — a nailed defender in the league's third-best defence with Ipswich, Brighton and Fulham incoming is the most reliable money you'll spend this month. Cherki is the upgrade when funds allow, not before.