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Tottenham Hotspur FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — The value at Spurs is all at the wrong end — or the right end, if you're sensible. Our model has Tottenham's attack down as one of the bluntest in the league — 19th of 20 — while the defence sits comfortably top-half, eighth-meanest around. That's not a team you buy for goals. That's a team you buy for the…
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And the fixtures agree. Yes, the run looks ugly on paper for the forwards — Manchester United and Chelsea away will do that — but the clean-sheet picture over the six is genuinely kind, because Coventry, Palace and Ipswich all come to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Leeds away in between. A blunt attack doesn't care who it's playing; a decent defence does, and these are the games it eats.
So who? The table has the answer, but here's what it can't tell you. Kinsky is the headline — a keeper at the cheapest end who starts every week, and already roughly 2 in 10 managers have clocked it. Van de Ven and Robertson are the quieter wins: both nailed, both projected to out-score every Spurs attacker over the next six, and hardly anyone owns either. Robertson at £4.4m is the kind of price that funds a premium elsewhere while still starting 38 times a season, which is the whole point of the exercise. Senesi, note, is the trap in the list — pricier than both and not actually starting. Don't pay £5.8m for a bench.
The attack is where romance goes to die. Marmoush is on penalties and he's the nailed forward, but £7.0m buys you a man leading the line for the 19th-ranked attack into a tough run. Sávio has only started three of five — ask yourself who's coming off on 60 before you spend £6.5m finding out. Tonali and Bentancur are honest mid-price midfielders with honest mid-price returns; nothing wrong with them, nothing exciting either.
The call is simple: buy into Spurs at the back, not the front. Kinsky if you need a keeper, Van de Ven or Robertson if you need a defender — Robertson's my pick purely on price, because he does the same job for less. Leave the attackers on the shelf until the fixtures and the goals say otherwise.