On Thursday I kick started this site by posting an article on budget players for your brand new Fantasy teams. And the response was great! Thanks everyone who read it and I really do hope you’re all up for the second part!

Where part one focused on creating a shoe-string budgeted back line todays post focuses on your attacking options. Cheat midfield squad players and those sought after low priced/high scoring Strikers…

Midfielders

For a midfielder to be ‘budget’ I’ve decided they must be priced at £6.5 or lower. If you want to pick up points where others are missing out look no further than Marko Arnautovic. The new boy at Stoke City last season found it hard to fit in at first, but after a while really started clicking…

The Austrian winger soon became the differential when it came to crunch time last season. He began a scoring streak of only 4 goals in a short amount of time and picked up those lucky enough to take a punt on him, me, a mass of points. If you’re a bit put off by his low goal scoring record it may be useful to hear he bagged 10 assists again in a short space of time.

Priced at £6.5 for the start of this season and only selected by the clever 4.3% of FPL users he could become a very useful player to have in your team…

Robert Snodgrass is perhaps not a name you would associate with gaining a ton of points but let me prove you wrong. Last season Robert managed a respectable 116 points, those points become a bit more impressive when you consider that he was a relegated Norwich player back then.

Now playing for the defensively tight and Impressive unit of Hull City things are looking on the up for the winger.

Like Arnautovic, Snodgrass managed 10 assists last time out. Now with the strike force of Long and Jelavic in front of him Robert could emulate that record. He’s been given the price of £6.0 this season and could be yet another budget differential for the season ahead.

Other options for you budget midfield spots could be West Ham’s Kevin Nolan (£6.5), Sunderland’s Adam Johnson (£6.5), and you could even take a punt on the solid Steven Davies of Southampton (£5.0).

While we’re on the subject of Southampton I’ve spotted something that’s really shocked me. If you’ve gone for a budget defence this season to make room for some of the big guns further up the pitch then you could be struggling for clean sheet points this season.

Box to Box big boy Victor Wanyama could be your answer to that very problem. Clearing the air as to where he will be playing next season Victor has decided against following the crowd flocking out of St Marys and has pledged to further his career under new boss Ronald Koeman.

There have been allot of complaints about the pricing of players in FPL this season with if being hard to find £4.5 priced first team players.

Well, we’ve found your man! If you’re looking for a dirt cheap player with definite starting eleven promise and possible clean sheet points Victor Wanyama is the player for your missing midfield gap! Only £4.5 rated he’s surely worth the punt?

Forwards

Three £6.0 priced strikers caught my eye and I’ve had a right hard time picking out of the three myself! Newly promoted Danny Ings is of course all the talk when it comes to the cheap striker this season. Anyone who like me watched him play a couple of times last season will be excited by his presence in the Premier League, he adds pace, power, and goal scoring ability to his otherwise dull Burnley side.

I’m not tipping Burnley for Relegation just yet but if Ings can recreate the same firepower him and strike partner Sam Vokes had last season then surely Ings is your man!

If Danny however cannot bring goals to his Premier League game then Shane Long of Hull is a solid option. With Hull City looking to further themselves after last season’s impressive football and defensive solidity Steve Bruce looked to bring in both Long and Nikica Jelavic (also priced at £6.0).

With Bruce stating that a team is ‘only as good as its strikers’ just a few days before purchasing his striker partnership you have to agree with him.

Long bagged 7 goals and 2 assists in the second half of last season and with Hull not likely to be buying anybody up front Shane Long looks like the perfect player to complete your front three and isn’t a half bad option to keep on the bench.

The final player to focus on with your £100 budget in mind is none other than Sunderland’s Connor Wickham. Wow. That end to last season was just incredible wasn’t it?!

Connor only played a mere 847 minutes all season and managed an outstanding 5 goals and 2 assists in that time!

Sunderland had won only six games all season before Wickham came into the frame. As soon as he started firing shots Sunderland managed a stunning four wins in a row! Two goals against eventual league winners Manchester City was almost enough to see them bag all three points in Manchester. From there on in Connor managed his next three goals in games against Chelsea and fellow strugglers Cardiff City.

If Wickham can show us all why people were raving about him at the end of last season then that £6.0 could inflate rapidly through the season!

I really do hope that these two articles have helped you in moulding your squad for the coming season, I’ve enjoyed writing them and hope to write more in the coming weeks!

Written by – James Markiewicz