Haaland’s Fantasy Premier League transfer fee equals record

Fantasy Premier League aficionados now have little over a month to whip their groups into form with the beginning of the 2023-24 season already on the horizon.

To that finish, the primary raft of FPL costs have been revealed this week, and there aren’t any prizes for guessing which free-scoring, treble-winning famous person striker has the most costly transfer fee within the sport.

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Haaland takes high billing

Unsurprisingly, Erling Haaland is the most costly participant in Fantasy Premier League 2023-24 by a transparent margin, with the Man City striker commanding a hefty beginning fee of £14 million. FPL managers will subsequently must put aside a whopping 14% of their preliminary £100m funds ought to they want to embody Haaland of their 15-man squad.

Haaland subsequently equals the FPL record for the best worth initially of a season, becoming a member of Thierry Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo and Robin van Persie as the one stars to have kicked off with a £14m ranking.

The Norwegian began final season with a value of £11.5m, however that quickly elevated to £12.4m by the top of the marketing campaign after he scored 36 league targets and registered 9 assists for City, totalling 272 FPL factors within the course of — greater than some other participant.

Salah caught in second

Mohamed Salah is the second-most-expensive participant in FPL 2023-24, however the Liverpool ahead has seen his preliminary value dip very barely from final season, falling from £13m to £12.5m this time round.

Despite the lower, the Egyptian completed simply 33 factors shy of Haaland’s general whole in 2022-23 after scoring 19 targets and laying on 12 assists for Jurgen Klopp’s facet.

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Son value slashed

Having struggled to copy his most interesting kind for Tottenham Hotspur final season, Son Heung-Min has seen his FPL value tumble dramatically with the South Korean ahead having a full £3m taken off his worth.

Son begins the 2023-24 season with a cut price fee of solely £9m after solely managing to supply an underwhelming 10 targets, six assists and 152 factors with Spurs final time period. By means of comparability, he beforehand tallied 228 and 258 factors in 2020-21 and 2021-22 respectively, even scoring 23 targets to share the Premier League Golden Boot with Salah throughout the latter season.

Odegaard on the rise

As a results of his spectacular season with Arsenal, inventive midfielder Martin Odergaard has seen his value bumped as much as £8.5m for 2023-24 after ending final marketing campaign because the Gunners’ highest factors scorer (212).

The 24-year-old Norwegian’s FPL fee will increase by £2m after amassing 76 key passes and creating 15 huge possibilities for his teammates final 12 months, greater than some other Arsenal participant as he got here near captaining the membership to a primary league title in 20 years.

Bruno downgrade

Manchester United midfielder Bruno Fernandes can even go into the 2023-24 marketing campaign with an FPL worth of £8.5m, although that constitutes a £1.5m drop for the Portugal worldwide.

Despite the dramatic value minimize, Bruno might nonetheless show a cut price after accruing a wholesome 16 targets for United final season that equated to a 176-point haul — solely seven factors shy of the whole mustered by Man City star playmaker Kevin De Bruyne.

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Trent nonetheless a defender

While the controversy continues over what exact position he occupies for Liverpool, it has been confirmed that Trent Alexander-Arnold will nonetheless be classed as a defender within the 2023-24 FPL listings.

The roving Reds full-back has seen his preliminary worth elevated from £7.5m to £8m, which makes him the second-most-expensive defender in FPL historical past (behind the £8.5m fee of Chelsea captain John Terry in 2005-06).

While fluidly slipping between defence and midfield, Alexander-Arnold earned 176 factors final season after pitching in with one aim and 7 assists. In reality, 60 of his whole FPL factors have been generated throughout Liverpool’s last 10 fixtures of the season, which coincided with Klopp’s tactical shift to transferring the England worldwide additional up the sphere.

New arrivals

Several of the Premier League’s high-profile new faces have had their FPL values revealed already, with Chelsea ahead Christopher Nkunku main the cost with a price of £9m.

The France worldwide loved a extremely productive season with RB Leipzig in 2022-23, scoring 16 targets and including six assists in 25 Bundesliga appearances regardless of lacking the center third of the marketing campaign due to harm. In reality, Nkunku solely missed out on a share of the Torjagerkanone award as Werder Bremen’s Niclas Fullkrug scored the identical variety of targets however registered another help.

Further down the checklist, Justin Kluivert of Bournemouth has been added to the most recent FPL midfield ranks with a beginning value of £5m. The Netherlands worldwide is bidding to grow to be solely the third participant ever to attain targets in all of Europe’s high 5 leagues, after Florin Raducioiu and Stevan Jovetic.