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Newcastle United FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — Newcastle's Kind Autumn: Where the Value Actually Sits Our model has Newcastle as one of the league's three sharpest attacks, and the fixture computer has handed them Coventry away, Aston Villa at home, Crystal Palace away, Everton at home, Fulham away and only then Arsenal. Five very playable games before anyone scary turns up. That's the sort of run you…
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Here's the dry bit first: not one Newcastle asset is what I'd call nailed. Everyone at the top of our list has started five of the last six rather than six of six, which means whoever you buy, you're accepting the occasional rotation shrug. Price it in and move on.
The value, for once, sits at the back — which is odd for a team ranked mid-table for keeping the ball out. Hall is the pick and it's not close. At £5.3m he's on free kicks and corners, so he doesn't need a clean sheet to pay you, and only about 2 in 10 managers own him. He's the rare defender priced for his floor who carries a midfielder's upside. Our projections have him as Newcastle's best asset over the six, comfortably.
Wissa is the attack's route in — he shares penalties, he's just over £6m, and roughly 2 in 10 already have him. Fine pick, decent haul most weeks. Barnes at £6.1m is the quiet one: hardly anyone owns him and he's on corners too. But both are forwards-and-mids on a team where the defender is projected higher. That tells you something.
If you're funding a premium elsewhere, Thiaw and Botman at £5.0m are proper enabler territory — starting regularly, owned by almost nobody, and sat in front of that favourable clean-sheet run. Thiaw edges it on our list. Horníček at £5.0m in goal is the same logic for your bench.
The honest other side: the rotation risk is real across the whole squad, the defence is only 15th-best in our numbers, and the run ends with Arsenal at home — plan to have banked your points by then.
The call: buy Hall now, before Coventry away puts him in everyone's team. If the budget's tight, Thiaw does the cheap version of the same job. Skip the shiny forwards — the defender's the value here, and I don't say that often.