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Newcastle United FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — Newcastle's run over the next six: Coventry away, Villa at home, Palace away, Everton at home, Fulham away, then Arsenal. One hard game in six. If you're going to buy into a club this month, this is the shape of run you buy into — the question is which end of the team, because the two ends are not the…
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Let's be blunt about that. Our model has Newcastle's attack as one of the three best in the league, and their defence closer to the bottom half than anyone paying £5.0m for a centre-back wants to hear. So the clean-sheet picks here are cheap for a reason, and the attacking picks are where the actual value lives.
Which makes Lewis Hall the pick of the lot, slightly awkwardly, because he's a defender. The reason he tops our list is that he's barely being paid as one — he's on corners and free-kicks, he starts every week, and at £5.3m he's good for around 4-5 points most weeks even when the clean sheet doesn't come. That's the Cheapy definition of value: a floor you can set your watch by, with set-piece involvement bolted on for free. About 2 in 10 managers have worked this out already. Join them.
Wissa is the straightest route into the attack — £6.2m, nailed, on penalties alongside Osula, and projected to be the club's best scorer over the six. Nothing clever about it; he plays and he scores points. Barnes is the sneaky one: similar output expected at £6.1m, on corners, and owned by barely 1 in 2 of the managers who own Wissa. If you want the same run for fewer bandwagon passengers, he's your man.
The honest caveat: the £5.0m defenders and the keeper are tempting on fixtures alone, but a defence ranked mid-to-lower table turns "favourable run" into "the odd clean sheet, not a stream of them". They're fine squad fillers, not points plans. And Willock's only started three of five — that's a bench player's minutes profile, whatever the price.
The call: buy into Newcastle through the attack-adjacent end — Hall first, then Wissa or Barnes depending on your budget. Leave the pure defenders for managers more romantic than me.