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Sunderland FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — Sunderland: cheap on paper, expensive in headaches Here's the thing the table can't tell you: not one Sunderland player is nailed. Not the forward, not the set-piece taker, not the goalkeeper. Every name on this page has been rotated at least once already, and most have started four of the last six. That's the whole story of this club as…
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Start with the attack, because that's where the model still puts its money. Brobbey at £5.7m is the top pick here — a proper forward price with genuine goal upside on his day, and hardly anyone owns him. But he sits in one of the league's bluntest attacks — we rank Sunderland third from bottom for goal threat — heading into a run our model calls genuinely nasty for scoring: Brighton and Chelsea at the Stadium of Light, trips to Bournemouth and Villa. A cheap striker who might not start against teams who won't let him score is not value. It's a lottery ticket in a nicer font.
Le Fée is the more sensible version of the same bet. He's on penalties, free kicks and corners — that's the classic budget-midfielder cheat code — and at £5.7m with about 1 in 30 managers on board, he's the pick if you insist on a Sunderland attacker. The caveat is the same one: four starts in six is not a guarantee, it's a coin with a thumb on it.
The honest value, if there is any, sits at the back. Sunderland's defence is mid-table respectable — 11th by our reckoning — and the clean-sheet fixtures are merely average rather than dreadful. Ballard at £4.9m and Roefs at the same price are the kind of enablers that fund a premium elsewhere. Home games against Brighton, Leeds and a newly promoted Coventry away are winnable shutouts. But again: neither is certain to start, and a £4.9m defender on the bench is £4.9m doing nothing.
The call: hold off on the attack entirely — Brobbey's a trap until the fixtures turn and his shirt is safe. If you want a Sunderland player, make it Ballard or Roefs as your fifth defender or backup keeper, and only once one of them strings three straight starts together. Until someone here is actually nailed, your money works harder elsewhere.