Newcastle United
St James' Park
Newcastle United FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — Newcastle: one of the league's sharpest attacks, and the fixture computer just handed them a gift Our model rates Newcastle's attack as the second best in the league, and the schedule agrees to be kind: Coventry away, Villa at home, Palace away, Everton at home, Fulham away, before Arsenal finally spoils the party in six weeks' time. If you're buying…
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.
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Now, the small print — because with this club there's always small print. Nobody in this squad is properly nailed. Every name on the page has started four of the opening rounds, not all of them, and that word "not" is doing work. You are buying good odds of a start, not a guarantee, and you should price your patience accordingly.
Where's the value? Up front. Wissa at £6.2m is where the model wants your money — the biggest projected haul in the squad, about 35 points across the six, and he's on penalties (shared with Osula, which is mildly annoying but better than nothing). About 2 in 10 managers own him, so you're not late. He's the closest thing here to a starter's floor with a striker's upside.
Behind him, Hall at £5.2m is the defensive route in — on corners and free kicks, so he scores even when the clean sheet doesn't come. And that matters, because the clean sheet often won't: for all the attacking sparkle, our model ranks this defence mid-table, 14th of 20. The fixtures flatter it, the underlying numbers don't. That's why I'd steer you past the £5.0m centre-halves — cheap, barely owned, and priced correctly for a back line that leaks more than the badge suggests.
The dry little bonus is Barnes at £6.1m — third in the model's pecking order, on corners, owned by fewer than 1 in 2o managers— sorry, about 1 in 20 — and projected for a very tidy return if the minutes hold. He's the one that makes your mini-league nervous.
What changes the call? A benching. Any of these players losing his shirt for a week turns "value" into "dead money", so watch the first team sheet of the run.
The call: buy into this attack, and do it through Wissa. Hall if you need the defender, Barnes if you fancy the cheap seats. Leave the £5.0m defenders alone — a 14th-ranked defence is a 14th-ranked defence, whoever's coming to town.