The most eye-catching Fantasy Premier League price reveals so far - including Man Utd & Newcastle stars

Believe it or not, the 2023/24 season has begun. Well, administratively, anyway. Last season’s contracts are at an end, the FFP fairy has been as the children slept, and Fantasy Premier League is back. Yes, already. Seriously. Why would you want a break from it anyway?

Yesterday marked the first of three days of price reveals ahead of the new season, as the hype feed gathers gradual steam courtesy of a gradual drip-feed of data and debate. We’ll provide plenty of tools, tactics and advice to help you get the best out of your FPL team over the course of the season – but to start with, let’s take a quick look at the first handful of prices revealed to the world and see whether we’re looking at bargains or busts.

The FPL has given us the prices of one player per team to kick things of and while some aren’t going to set too many pulses racing (are you really that interested in how much Jordan Pickford costs?) there are a few reveals which make for interesting reading heading into the new campaign. Let’s take a look…

Erling Haaland - £14.0m

Equalling a long-standing FPL record, the Nordic robot/meat hybrid joins Thierry Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo and Robin van Persie in the 14.0 club, the most any player has ever cost in the game. His league-best haul of 272 points last season suggest he’ll still be worth it.

Some players may disagree but broadly speaking, the best way to play FPL is to get the two or three highest-scoring players available, regardless of price, and then find all the bargains around them to make up the rest of the team. When there’s a blatant points-hauling behemoth in our midst, it’s generally best just to buy them and build everything else around them. See also a certain Mohamed Salah, whose “bad season” still reeled in 239 points – he’s back at 12.5m. We’re probably going to be building a lot of teams which need 13 players and start with 26.5m out of the bank, put it that way.

Bruno Fernandes - £8.5m

A hefty price reduction for a man who scored 244 points in 2020/21 and still managed 176 last year – at 8.5m, Fernandes could well be the mid-price midfielder with the highest ceiling of the lot, as long as Mason Mount doesn’t bully him out of his position after his arrival from Chelsea.

By way of comparison, Martin Ødegaard comes in at the same price point having notched up a hefty 212 points in 2022/23 – but Bruno has an even higher ceiling than that, and the Arsenal man is likely to move from the number ten position to a deeper-lying role behind Kai Havertz. If you think Erik Ten Hag’s United will continue their forward progress this season – and don’t think Mount will pinch too many minutes – then Bruno could be one of the best buys in the game.

Christopher Nkunku – £7.5m

Common wisdom says that you should hold your horses on new signings. They often need a bit of time to bed in to their new clubs, get used to the tactics and the pace of the Premier League, and generally find their way – and that’s probably doubly true of anyone playing for Chelsea, who could easily continue their rapid derailment even with the appointment of Mauricio Pochettino.

But Nkunku, their new number nine, is a pretty impressive player – he scored 16 goals for RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga this past year, with four assists on top. If he can offer up the same sort of numbers, he’s an absolute steal at £7.5m, and is likely to get plenty of game time right from the beginning. A gamble, as with any new player, but the ceiling is very high.

Kieran Trippier - £6.5m

When is one of the best defenders in the game not worth it? Well… perhaps when they cost 6.5m. Trippier was comfortably the highest-scoring defender in the game this past season with 198 points, and if he can replicate that sort of form then he’ll demand to be crowbarred in – but he’d need to replicate every point of that haul when there are defenders who can get to around 150 at just 5.0 (Ben White, Gabriel and Ben Mee are all examples from last season).

In terms of points per million though, he’s still got massive potential – and it’s hard to argue against Trippier when so many of us will cheerfully fork out even more for Trent Alexander-Arnold. Then again, if the Liverpool man spends large parts of the season tearing it up in midfield and smashing in screamers like he did for England, then he might be the better bet after all… it’s fair to say few teams will be able to find space for both.

Bryan Mbeumo - £6.5m

An interesting wrinkle here – Mbeumo has been made a midfielder for the new season despite the decent likelihood that he leads the line for Brentford while Ivan Toney is suspended. That isn’t nailed on – both Yoane Wissa and Kevin Schade are options up front – but Mbeumo is the most likely new penalty taker for a club who got more penalties than all but two teams in the league.

Mbeumo bagged a pretty respectable 150 points as a supporting act last season, and that was when he was down as a forward, which cost him a point per goal. One to keep an eye on at a price point which is usually both very competitive and very important – and that’s probably a fair comment about Morgan Gibbs-White too, revealed at 6.0 and sitting on a 145-point season for Nottingham Forest.

Justin Kluivert - £5.0m

What kind of player really is Kluivert, Bournemouth’s rather exciting new signing? Since breaking through at Ajax, his form has flailed all over the place, first for Roma and then on a string of loans – at Nice he picked up five assists as a winger, but then at Valencia he not only failed to get a single assist in La Liga but generated a total expected assists of 0.00, which is almost impossible to do. He also scored six goals that same season…

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So he could easily be a brilliant bargain at just £5.0m, and could finally make the long-expected step-up when given a starring role by one of the Premier League’s smaller clubs. Or he could barely make a dent. It’s almost impossible to avoid signing at least one budget midfielder in the FPL, so Kluivert could be an interesting option… albeit one we’ll most likely wait on before investing in. Keep an eye on him.