Premier League fantasy football tips: The Saka or Haaland captain gamble

The archetypal Fantasy Premier League deadline of the caller play is astir upon america truthful the clip for tinkering with each those drafts is astir over.

Is Bruno Fernandes excessively bully to disregard astatine £8.5m? Should you person 3 Arsenal players from the start? And who are the champion differential picks to effort to springiness you that borderline implicit your mini-league rivals?

Those are immoderate of the cardinal questions we've each been wrestling with and I've besides been discussing them with Chris Sutton and Statman Dave successful the latest occurrence of our Fantasy 606 podcast which is backmost connected the BBC Sounds app for its 5th season.

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All of america person gone for Haaland and arsenic I constitute this, nary of america person gone for either of the Liverpool men though I find myself wavering connected the Salah front.

Salah is truthful tempting due to the fact that he's specified a bully captaincy enactment successful gameweek 2 erstwhile Liverpool are astatine location to Bournemouth, and his stellar FPL past gives him a reassuring reliability that nary of the cheaper Liverpool attacking options tin match.

I tin compression him successful if I spell for Brighton's Joao Pedro arsenic my 2nd striker but it leaves maine with a fund seat of George Baldock, Marvelous Nakamba and Divin Mubama and it perchance uses up each £100m of my fund erstwhile I would similar to person £0.5m to spare for transfers successful the archetypal fewer gameweeks.

We each ain Bukayo Saka who looks similar a bargain astatine £8.5m, and Dave and I person some paired him with Gabriel Martinelli for an Arsenal attacking double-up. Dave's besides got a Manchester United attacking duo with some Bruno Fernandes and Marcus Rashford, hoping to nett from the archetypal 2 location games against Wolves and Nottingham Forest.

Can Bukayo Saka steer Arsenal to the Premier League rubric this season?

Chris, who ever likes to bash thing a small spot different, has gone for the Tottenham duo of Son Heung-min and Richarlison successful his midfield successful the anticipation Harry Kane volition marque the determination to Bayern Munich.

That whitethorn alteration travel deadline clip but Chris is convinced Spurs volition people plentifulness of goals nether their caller brag Ange Postecoglou.

So what are the large calls for gameweek one?

Captaincy

The evident reply present is Haaland arsenic Manchester City commencement the defence of their rubric distant to Burnley connected Friday but I'm toying with the thought of giving the armband to Saka for Arsenal's location crippled against Nottingham Forest.

Haaland's grounds distant from location successful the Premier League isn't rather arsenic awesome arsenic astatine Etihad Stadium and I bash expect Arsenal to commencement the play with a bang. It's ever a hazard going against Haaland but it would springiness you an aboriginal borderline connected the remainder of the tract if it comes off.

Marcus Rashford and Bruno Fernandes are some captaincy options for Wolves' sojourn to Old Trafford and Brighton volition beryllium beardown favourites to bushed Luton astatine location truthful if you person a steadfast appetite for risk, past instrumentality your prime from options specified arsenic Kaoru Mitoma, Solly March oregon Joao Pedro.

Fixtures to target

You ever person to see a tally of fixtures astatine the commencement of the play erstwhile picking your archetypal squad and I similar the look of Arsenal, Brentford, Brighton and Manchester City successful particular.

An Arsenal defender and 2 attackers looks similar the mode to spell though Ben White has been overpriced astatine £5.5m.

Brentford's caller goalkeeper Mark Flekken could beryllium 1 to see astatine £4.5m if David Raya moves to Arsenal and Bryan Mbeumo (£6.5m) is understandably a fashionable prime but we request to perceive from Thomas Frank whether he's going to beryllium acceptable for the opening crippled against Tottenham.

Choosing your different Manchester City assets aft Haaland involves the accustomed crippled of Pep roulette - I similar Phil Foden arsenic the midfield prime though Jack Grealish looks a much definite starter, portion Statman Dave has gone for John Stones successful his backline who whitethorn beryllium capable to connection the astir attacking menace if helium continues to measurement into midfield arsenic we saw past season.

Differentials

This is the 1 each manager wants to nail astatine the commencement of the play due to the fact that a batch of FPL teams are going to beryllium truthful akin but it's truthful hard to predict.

I'm conscionable going to chuck a fewer names retired determination - Pascal Gross oregon March from Brighton, Yoane Wissa astatine Brentford, immoderate of the Liverpool trio of Luis Diaz, Diogo Jota oregon Cody Gakpo, Kai Havertz successful his caller relation astatine Arsenal and Statman Dave besides mentioned Aston Villa's Moussa Diaby successful the podcast.

Gamble of the week

Saka arsenic skipper implicit Haaland.

Alistair Bruce-Ball presents the Fantasy 606 podcast alongside erstwhile Premier League victor Chris Sutton and Statman Dave. The latest occurrence previewing gameweek 1 is disposable connected the BBC Sounds App. The codification to articulation the Fantasy 606 league is 'j03mnp'.