Newcastle United
St James' Park
Newcastle United FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — Wissa is £6.0, he's nailed, and barely anyone owns him — not even 1 in 10 managers. Our model has him down for roughly 24 points across the next six, which at that price is the kind of maths that funds a premium at the other end without asking you to gamble on minutes. That's the whole pitch, really. The…
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The fixtures are the reason to move now. Newcastle open with Liverpool at St James' and a trip to Spurs — grim, no argument — but then it's BOU (H), LEE (A), HUL (H) and COV (A), and our projections rate this one of the kindest attacking runs in the league. This is a top-half attack (seventh-strongest by our reckoning) about to face a queue of teams it should be scoring against. Wissa is the man the model backs to cash that in, usually good for a steady 4–5 with proper double-digit potential when the soft fixtures land. The honest caveat: he's third in the penalty queue behind Woltemade and Osula, so you're buying open-play output, not spot-kick insurance.
At the back, the value question is which £5.0 defender to take, because there are three of them and every one starts. The table gives you the projections; what it can't tell you is that Hall is the pick despite not topping them — he takes the free kicks and the corners, which means he's the one defender with a route to points when the clean sheet doesn't come. And it might not come early: this is one of the league's meanest defences (fourth by our model), but the run rates as only average for shutouts, mostly because Liverpool and Spurs sit at the front of it. Thiaw and Botman are perfectly serviceable if you just want a body who plays — owned by almost nobody, both nailed — but they're pure clean-sheet plays.
Elanga and Barnes are fine, not urgent. The midfield slots at £6.0 return less than Wissa does at the same price, which settles that comparison on its own.
The call: buy Wissa now, before Bournemouth in GW3, while he's still a nobody-owns-him price. If you want the defensive route too, Hall is the £5.0 with something extra. Get in before the soft fixtures do the advertising for you.