Fulham FPL Guide GW9 2026/27

• DEFCON: centre-backs and full-backs who rack up tackles, blocks, clearances and interceptions now have a second scoring route beyond clean sheets.
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Fulham are 18th on 5 points after 7 games (LDDLW). Last time out they beat Hull City 1–0 at home in GW7. Next up in GW9: away at Aston Villa, Sat 31 Oct, 20:00 GMT, difficulty 3/5. Top FPL scorers so far: Alex Iwobi (£5.4m, 29 pts), Timothy Castagne (£4.5m, 28 pts), Josh King (£5.6m, 28 pts). Open predicted XI → · GW9 preview →

Fulham have one of the lowest price ceilings in the league — Gonzalo García, a summer arrival at £6.0m, is now the only player above £5.5m. Muniz leads the rest of the line at £5.4m, alongside a midfield cluster in Smith Rowe, Bobb and Kevin (all £5.4m), plus Iwobi and King at £5.4m. Dara O'Shea, in from Ipswich, adds further depth at £5.0m, and Hugo Larsson has joined from abroad too. Leno is £4.5m in goal, and the entire defence sits between £4.5m and £5.0m.

Fulham barely have a premium tier at all — García at £6.0m is the one player above £5.5m, and he's still an unproven route into their attack until he shows he starts regularly. Muniz at £5.4m remains the more secure first-choice striker and their real goal source. Smith Rowe, Bobb, Kevin, Iwobi and King all offer creative returns in roughly the same bracket. Mostly, Fulham assets exist to fund the expensive picks you're making elsewhere.

Everything at Fulham outside García is a budget pick, and that's not a criticism. Leno at £4.5m is an experienced first-choice goalkeeper priced like a backup — one of the better value keepers in the game. Castagne, Robinson, Cuenca, Sessegnon, Bassey and Tete all sit at £4.5m, with Andersen at £5.0m the more established centre-back. O'Shea adds a budget midfield route at the same price. Robinson and Tete are the two worth targeting for attacking upside from full-back.

I'd rarely captain a Fulham player. García at £6.0m is the only one with any real case, and only once he's a confirmed starter — otherwise the goal threat here is spread too thin and the ceiling sits too low. Fulham assets mostly earn their squad place through price alone, freeing up budget for the premium attacker who should actually be wearing your armband.

Ownership across this squad runs low enough that basically any Fulham starter counts as a differential. García at £6.0m is the newest and least-owned if he wins the striker role outright. Bobb and Kevin at £5.5m are the most technically gifted and the likeliest source of a surprise haul. King and Smith Rowe are the alternatives in the same range. Robinson at £4.5m is the structural pick — an attacking full-back stacking clean-sheet points on top of genuine assist potential.

The core problem is simple: Fulham lack a reliable goal source. With almost the whole squad at £5.5m or below, attacking returns are spread thin and unpredictable, so I wouldn't chase them. Their 21-man squad is also the smallest in the league, which means one injury can wipe out a pick with no obvious backup. Own Fulham players for the money they save you, not the points they'll score, and I'd keep it to two at most.