AZ From FPL Blackbox Explains How To Fit Haaland, Salah AND Palmer Into Your Fantasy Teams

32 years old Mohamed Salah – Liverpool’s all-time top Premier League goal scorer with 163 goals and three-time golden boot winner has been overlooked by many at the start of the season due to a certain £15.2m Norwegian striker taking up a good chunk of our budgets.

Therefore, when working out how to fit Salah in isn’t easy – especially if you want a few other big-guns in your side too.

The form of Bukayo Saka (£10.0m) and Cole Palmer (£11.0m), as well as banking on premium defender picks such as Gabriel (£6.3m), Josko Gvardiol (£6.2m) and Trent Alexander-Arnold (£7.0m) means that many of us are struggling to fit the Egyptian into our FPL teams.

But, by using planfpl.com, AZ From FPL Blackbox presents a couple of different strategies for how we can viably move towards a Salah-In draft.

Haaland, Salah and Palmer/Saka

It’s not easy to do but it is possible to fit in the three most expensive players in the game into your team.

We are blessed this season with some real cut price options to consider in attack. Emile Smith-Rowe (£5.7m), Morgan Rogers (£5.4m), Raul Jiminez (£5.7m) and Mattheus Cunha (£6.5m) have had brilliant starts to the season and have the ability to go on and make a mockery of their price tags.

To afford this ‘threemium’ draft, you’ll need to pick up these players, as well as taking significant investment out of your backline.

Rayan Ait-Nouri (£4.6m) has five goal involvements already this season, Matz Sels (£4.6m) is the current joint top scoring goalkeeper and Rico Lewis (£4.8m) lets you tap into the backline of the current league leaders.

Add in an Everton defender, such as Vitalii Mykolenko (£4.3m) and a couple of other cheap defenders, and things really don’t look so bad.

Haaland & Salah

Dropping a premium player in midfield does allow for some fairly substantial upgrades, most notably in defence.

For example, you can conceivably keep an Arsenal, Liverpool and Man City defender (you can downgrade Gvardiol to Lewis if you lack the required funds).

You should also have a bit more leeway with that 4^th midfielder spot too. I’ve opted for Brennan Johnson (£6.7m) here, but someone like Eberechi Eze (£6.7m) could also fit the bill.

It’s a strong and well-balanced team overall, but you may struggle for flexibility if you decide you want one of Palmer/Saka and don’t want to downgrade one of Salah or Haaland to accommodate this.

No Haaland

For the manager who wants to spread the money round even further, selling Haaland has become a viable strategy. He does after all have just 1 goal in 4 games, making us question whether he is worth the price.

With this team, you can fit Salah, Saka and Palmer into the side and not have to go below £6.4m for an attacking option.

If you have a decent team value, you can also stack your defence with premium picks alongside attacking options such as Ait-Nouri.

This team could thrive over the coming weeks, it just depends on whether you have the cojones to go without Haaland – but with the form we are seeing Salah in, there’s no reason why we shouldn’t at least be considering going without the big man.