FPL Gameweek 6 — Best Squad, Captain & Deadline

The back three is where the value lives. Bogle at £4.5m is the eyebrow-raiser — hardly anyone owns him, about 4 in 100 — but he projects near six and a half points this week against Palace, and that's the cheapest route into the Leeds clean sheet. De Cuyper carries attacking bite for Brighton even with Arsenal visiting, and Guéhi rides the same Sunderland fixture as his keeper. Yes, doubling up on City's defence against a promoted side is deliberate.

Midfield is a spread bet. Stach is the one that needs explaining: £6.0m, owned by fewer than 3 in 100, and my top-projected midfielder this week at close to seven points — set pieces and that Palace fixture do the work, which is why he wears the vice-armband. Groß offers similar service for Brighton. Rogers and Palmer give me the Chelsea double at Brentford, and Fernandes is the template tax at £12.0m — Fulham away is decent, and you don't leave the most-owned midfielder out lightly.

Up top, the captaincy. Calvert-Lewin, £6.0m, Palace at home, projected nearly eight points this gameweek — the best single number in my squad. About 2 in 10 own him, so the armband is a genuine swing on your rivals, not a safety pick. The honest caveat: this is a one-week call on one fixture, not a claim he's a season keeper. Thiago partners him, backing Brentford to trouble Chelsea at the Gtech in the same game my Chelsea pair play — I'm covered whichever way that one breaks.

The bench is functional: Dalot and McBurnie are playing bodies, Chavarria is the £4.9m passenger. If the Leeds team news wobbles on Calvert-Lewin, the armband slides straight to Stach and the whole plan survives.

My call: field this XI as drawn, and captain Calvert-Lewin.

The back four is where I've gone hunting. De Cuyper at £4.9m is my top-scoring defender over the six — Brighton's left side keeps producing, and only about 2 in 10 own him. Bogle is the eyebrow-raiser: a £4.5m Leeds full-back that fewer than 1 in 10 managers have, yet my numbers make him one of the best value defenders in the game right now, and this week is his biggest score of the run. Hall gives Newcastle coverage with attacking involvement, and Calafiori is the second Arsenal shield — half the game owns him, so leaving him out is a rank risk I won't take.

Midfield is five deep and it's the engine. Groß is my captain, and that's a one-week call: at £5.7m he's my highest-projected player this gameweek, full stop, and only about 2 in 10 managers have him — cheap armband, real upside this week. Over the six he tops the whole squad too. Rogers and Palmer double up on Chelsea's attack, Fernandes is the £12.0m banker who's usually good for a solid haul and can go big, and Tavernier at £6.1m is the value play barely 1 in 20 own — Bournemouth's set-piece duty makes him a steady 5-6 most weeks.

Up top, Haaland stands alone. He's the priciest player in the game and his six-week return here is honest rather than spectacular — but he can go massive any given week and 7 in 10 managers own him, so going without is braver than I'm prepared to be over this stretch.

The bench is deliberately cheap — Dubravka at £4.0m is the only one likely to see the pitch, with three enablers funding the eleven above.

The honest cost: no Szoboszlai, no Cherki. If either hauls repeatedly, this squad feels it. But the fund went into a fourth and fifth midfielder who actually score, and I'd make that trade again.

The call: hold this fifteen for six weeks, and captain Groß this week.