The Best Bargain Buys in Fantasy Premier League 2024/25

With the new Fantasy Premier League season underway, it’s time to start building your team and making those crucial decisions that will make or break your campaign. One of the most important factors in FPL success is sniffing out the best bargain buys - those players who will bring in the points without breaking the bank.

In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the top bargain buys in FPL 2024/25, including Chelsea and Manchester United stars who could make all the difference to your team.

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Christopher Nkunku - £6.5m

The Chelsea forward had an injury-interrupted debut season at Stamford Bridge, but is believed to be fully fit and raring to go under new head coach Enzo Maresca. At £6.5m, Nkunku presents a tempting gamble for FPL fans, given that he is not only cheap but also classified as a midfielder, despite the fact that he may well play plenty of games up front.

With a goal-scoring record of 36 goals and 17 assists over his last two seasons in Leipzig, Nkunku could be worth a huge points haul if he can recapture that form and get regular gametime. The question, of course, is whether he has that form and whether (and where) Maresca will play him.

Hwang Hee-Chan - £6.5m

Arriving at the same price point, Hwang is the safer bet but perhaps has a lower top end. However, all the signs suggest that the Wolverhampton Wanderers man can still be more than worth his price over the course of the season.

Ideally, you want your mid-price midfielders to be pushing towards 4.5 points per gameweek - last year, across the 29 weeks he was able to play, Hwang hit 4.31, and there are no real reasons to believe he will drop off. His team-mate Pedro Neto is another midfielder worth looking at. The Portuguese winger missed a lot of matches last year but averaged out at 4.3 and could be on for a move to a bigger club, which may well help him by surrounding him with stronger players.

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Joachim Andersen - £4.5m

There has been a definite uptick in the prices of high-scoring defenders this season, with players like William Saliba and Gabriel up at £6.0m. It’s pretty hard to get close to an ideal points per gameweek at such a high price (with defender, 3.5 per gameweek is excellent), so that means picking out the right defenders at £4.5m will be essential.

If Crystal Palace can maintain their late-season form from last season, then Andersen - who has passed 120 points in two of the last three years - is likely to be a must-have. Palace kept clean sheets in four of their last seven games and look likely to be a tough nut to crack again.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin - £6.0m

A very tempting gambler’s option here. Calvert-Lewin’s long battles with injuries meant that his days as a stellar FPL player seemed to be well behind him, but he enjoyed a bit of a mini-renaissance at Everton towards the end of the last season and is cheap enough that there’s a lot of potential for him to be a great option once more.

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João Pedro - £5.5m

Probably the best reason not to pick Calvert-Lewin is that Brighton & Hove Albion’s record signing is even cheaper - and while his first season, which saw him start 19 games and score nine times, was patchy rather than spectacular, he may well play more this campaign and could well be on penalties again too.

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Taylor Harwood-Bellis - £4.0m

If picking out good £4.5m defenders is important, then finding a cheaper defender who will actually pick up points is often even bigger as it enables so much further upfield. Jarrad Branthwaite was the breakout £4.0m man last year and of the options available to players this time out, new permanent Southampton signing Harwood-Bellis is probably the most tempting.

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Takehiro Tomiyasu - £5.0m

With the rest of Arsenal’s regular back four at £6.0m or more, the Japanese full-back is a definite option if the Gunners don’t sign a left-back before the end of the transfer window. He won the starting job towards the end of last year and if he keeps it then he’s slightly underpriced and very much worth including.

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Marcus Rashford - £7.0m

Well, here’s the real roll of the dice. Rashford struggled badly last year but racked up over 200 points the year before and has passed 170 points twice more in the past. A fully fit and firing Rashford is worth at least £9.0m, and here he is at two whole million pounds less. If the real Marcus stands back up, he will quickly become an auto-include.

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