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Tottenham Hotspur FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — Spurs: kind fixtures for the front end, ugly ones for the back — and yet the best buys are defenders Here's the awkward bit up front: our model has Spurs' clean-sheet prospects as rough over the next six, and it still likes their defenders more than anyone else in the squad. That's not a contradiction. It's a floor argument, and…
Start with the fixtures: BRE (A), NEW (H), NFO (A), EVE (H), AVL (H), MUN (A). For attacking returns that's a genuinely friendly run — Spurs sit around seventh-best going forward in our rankings, and there are goals in those games. For shutouts it's less charming; they're a mid-table tenth defensively, and Brentford away, Newcastle and United away are not where clean sheets go to thrive.
So who do you actually buy? Senesi, £6.0m, tops our list — projected for roughly 24 points over the six, call it 4 a week, which is proper defender money even with the clean-sheet picture being what it is. Only about 1 in 10 managers own him. If £6.0m stings, Van Hecke at £5.0m is the pragmatist's version: around 21 points projected, similarly owned, and a full million cheaper. That's the pick I'd make with a tight budget, and I usually have one.
Kinsky at £4.5m is the template goalkeeper — about 2 in 10 already have him — but 14 points over six is enabler money, not a reason to move. Fine if he's already in your side; not a transfer.
The attacking angle is the quiet one. Fernandes, £6.0m, owned by hardly anyone — about 2 in 100 — is projected for roughly 21 points over the run, which for a six-quid midfielder in an attack with these fixtures is tidy. Richarlison at the same price projects a touch less, and our model ranks him below Fernandes for a reason, so don't get romantic about the forward slot.
The honest caveat: a tough clean-sheet run means Senesi's big weeks may be rarer than his price suggests, and you're paying £6.0m largely for reliability rather than fireworks.
I'll take reliability. Buy Senesi if the budget's there; Van Hecke if it isn't. Start whichever one you land on every week through GW6.