Newcastle United
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Newcastle United FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — Newcastle: buy the attack, rent the defence Hull at home, then Coventry away. That's how the next six start for what our model rates the third-sharpest attack in the league — and the run barely stiffens after that, with Everton and Fulham book-ending trips to Villa Park and Selhurst. If you're going to buy into one club's fixtures this month…
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The question is which end. Easy answer: the front one. Our numbers put Newcastle's attack among the league's best three but the defence only mid-table — 14th — so the clean sheets here are being carried by the fixtures, not the back line. That matters when you're deciding where to spend.
Wissa is the way in. Nailed, on penalties, a proper forward at a budget-forward price, and only about 2 in 10 managers own him — for a striker leading the line of a top-three attack against this run, that's the sort of value that doesn't hang around. One dry note: Osula is listed ahead of him on spot-kicks, so don't bank the pens as guaranteed. Everything else about the pick is exactly what I want — he starts, he plays, he doesn't blank often.
Hall is the defensive exception worth paying for, and only because he isn't really a defensive pick. He's on corners and free kicks, so he earns at both ends — the one Newcastle defender whose points don't depend entirely on that 14th-ranked defence holding firm. Roughly 1 in 7 own him. Fine.
The £5.0m centre-halves — Thiaw, Botman — are honest enablers: they start every week, and against Hull and Coventry they'll probably nick a shutout or two. But they're fixture picks, not quality picks, and when the run ends so does the case. Barnes at £6.0m is the quiet one — nailed, on corners, owned by almost nobody — a tidy midfield option if you can't stretch to Wissa.
The call: buy Wissa now, before the Hull game, and Hall alongside if you've a defender slot free. Leave the centre-backs unless you specifically need a £5.0m body who's guaranteed to play — which, to be fair, is exactly what they are. Wissa first. Don't overthink it.