In the early hours of Friday, the FPL player prices were released with lots of football lovers happy and eager to start setting up their teams ahead of the forthcoming season.

The long-awaited Fantasy Premier League FPL Player prices 22/23 relaunch appears to be getting closer with the publication of the first round of player prices on Friday.
The order of play started with Arsenal, followed by Manchester City, Brentford, Brighton, Hove Albion, and Leeds United.

CHELSEA

On Sunday morning, Chelsea was the first team to make a statement on the prices of their players in the forthcoming 2022/23 FPL season. Reece James and Ben Chilwell were among the players whose prices had increased. At midday, Jarrod Bowen and West Ham United grabbed center stage.

There should be additional Premier League teams cutting player costs around 2pm, 4pm, and 6pm BST if today plays out similarly to Friday and Saturday.
The question of whether a less expensive Ben Chilwell might ‘cover’ a more expensive Reece James in 2022/23 has received a lot of talk in the fantasy football community over the past month, but we weren’t prepared for FPL to price the two equally.

Chilwell and James both begin the new campaign at £6.0 million, which is fair enough for James given his attacking capabilities and threat. Despite the right back’s inconsistent fitness record and the defensive uncertainty that Chelsea is experiencing this summer as Andreas Christensen and Antonio Rudiger leave, there will be plenty of buyers at that price.

The Blues are also going to enjoy the first seven-game weeks as they will only contend with only one of the last season’s top six teams, which is Tottenham Hotspurs. Otherwise, it could be a smooth ride for the London club.

Edouard Mendy (£5.0m) should also be classified as a “deal” because, like Alisson yesterday, his price has been set lower than almost all of us would have anticipated. Mendy has lost a million dollars since last summer, and the set-and-forget £4.5m FPL shot-stopper method is undoubtedly under fire. Ederson is almost probably going to start at a cheaper price after what happened to the Liverpool and Chelsea goalies.

The two Chelsea defensive players that were valued this morning were Thiago Silva and Cesar Azpilicueta, both of whom cost £5.5 million.

Kai Havertz (£8.0m) has received the anticipated positional reclassification farther up the field. With just over 60% of his league appearances for Chelsea last season coming while playing in the middle up front, the German is now classified as a forward in FPL. If Havertz had been a striker in 2021–2022, he would have lost 18 clean sheet/goal points, but gained an estimated 10 bonus points more to partially make up for it.
Following his best-ever season for FPL points, Mason Mount’s price has slightly increased to £8.0m. The England international averaged a remarkable 6.1 points per start while racking up 22 attacking returns in just 27 starts and five substitution appearances.

The other Chelsea midfielders with higher asking prices are Callum Hudson-Odoi (£5.5m), Jorginho (£6.0m), and Christian Pulisic (£6.0m), while Timo Werner (£8.0m) remains a forward and is priced the same as Havertz.

S/N	PLAYER’S NAME	POSITION	PRICE
1	Reece James	Defender	£6m
2	Mount	Midfielder	£8m
3	Chilwell	Defender	£6m
4	Mendy	Goalkeeper	£5m
5	Azpilicueta	Defender	£5m
6	Silva	Defender	£5.5m
7	Hudson-Odoi	Midfielder	£5.5m
8	Jorginho	Midfielder	£6m
9	Pulisic	Midfielder	£6m
10	Harvertz	Forward	£8m
11	Timo Werner	Forward	£8m

WEST HAM UNITED

Jarrod Bowen’s (£8.5m) witnessed a £2m increase on his last season’s price following a dominant performance in the 2021–2022 campaign, during which he amassed 29 attacking returns and outperformed all FPL midfielders beside Son Heung-min and Mohamed Salah.

There will most likely be few first buyers for the right-winger, and not just for financial reasons: In the first six Gameweeks, West Ham plays against Man City, Spurs, and Chelsea in addition to high-spending Aston Villa and a deceptively difficult Brighton team.

Michail Antonio (£7.5m) had a hot start to last season before being somewhat of a letdown, getting 40 points in the first three Gameweeks but just another 100 in his last 33 outings. As a result, FPL chose to maintain his price at £7.5m, and Gameweek 1 should see little interest in him.

If recent acquisition Nayef Aguerd (£5.0m) can tighten up a backline that preserved more shutouts than just four other teams in 2021/22, there are some possible future bargains in defense.

Over the last two FPL seasons, Aaron Cresswell (£5.0m) and Vladimir Coufal (£4.5m) have provided decent attacking threats and rewards, but sometimes that hasn’t been accompanied by clean sheets at the other end. They both now cost less than half a million in price as compared to last season.

Aguerd, who is highly regarded, had two seasons with Rennes when his team had the third-best defensive record in Ligue 1.

Ben Johnson, who sold for peanuts in 2021/22, is now available for £4.5 million.

Declan Rice (£5.0 million), Said Benrahma (£6.0 million), Pablo Fornals (£5.5 million), Manuel Lanzini (£5.5 million), and Tomas Soucek (£5.5 million) have all been valued in the midfield today.

S/N	PLAYER’S NAME	POSITION	PRICE
1	Bowen	Midfielder	£8.5m
2	Antonio	Forward	£7.5m
3	Aguerd	Defender	£5m
4	Coufal	Defender	£4.5m
5	Johnson	Defender	£4.5m
6	Cresswell	Defender	£5m
7	Rice	Midfielder	£5m
8	Fornals	Midfielder	£5.5m
9	Lanzini	Midfielder	£5.5m
10	Soucek	Midfielder	£5.5m
11	Benrahma	Midfielder	£6m

FULHAM

The most notable price disclosure from Fulham was Aleksandar Mitrovic, whose £6.5 million price tag was precisely what was anticipated.
The Serb hasn’t quite won over the Premier League, but he scored a record-breaking 43 goals in the Championship last season, and the Cottagers under Marco Silva are a lot more offensive than they were under Scott Parker in the 2020–21 campaign.

Harry Wilson, who made 41 league appearances, and contributed 29 attacking results, was another player who stood out in the English second tier in 2020–21. The set-piece expert, who last appeared in FPL in 2019/20 when playing for Bournemouth, assisted more goals than any other player in the Championship last season and returns to the game at a price of £6.0m.

Neeskens Kebano, a winger who primarily played on Wilson’s opposing flank, receives a £5.5 million listing. Nine of his 40 appearances came as a substitute, showing that he wasn’t quite as reliable as his fellow wide player as a starter. Additionally, with nine goals and six assists, he only provided an attacking return that was half of Wilson’s.

With four defensive players priced at £4.5m each—Tim Ream, Tosin Adarabioyo, Kenny Tete, and goalie Marek Rodak—there is certainly not much Fantasy interest elsewhere. The west London team led the league in the fewest predicted goals allowed the previous season but only finished joint-sixth in the Championship for clean sheets (xGC).

However, they are still thought of as a more aggressive squad, and this season, there aren’t many expectations for their FPL defensive choices.

Bobby Decordova-Reid (£5.5m), Ivan Cavaleiro (£5.0m), Tom Cairney (£5.0m), and Rodrigo Muniz (£5.5m) weren’t even guaranteed starters at Championship level, so they won’t matter unless they have an unexpectedly strong preseason.

S/N	PLAYER’S NAME	POSITION	PRICE
1	Mitrovic	Forward	£6.5m
2	Wilson	Midfielder	£6m
3	Rodak	Goalkeeper	£4.5m
4	Ream	Defender	£4.5m
5	Tete	Defender	£4.5m
6	Tosin	Defender	£4.5m
7	Cairney	Midfielder	£5m
8	Cavaleiro	Midfielder	£5m
9	Kebano	Midfielder	£5.5m
10	Muniz	Forward	£5.5m
11	De Cordova-Reid	Midfielder	£5.5m

NEWCASTLE

Allan Saint-Maximin, who was Newcastle’s top point scorer in the 2021/22 FPL season, is still available for the same fee of £6.5 million, although he is now a midfielder rather than a forward.

Joelinton has also been altered; he is now a £6.0 million midfielder option rather than an attacker.

Other price hikes include Bruno Guimaraes, who goes from £5.0 million to £6.0 million, and Dan Burn, whose asking price is £4.5 million, who would be a good buy.

S/N	PLAYER’S NAME	POSITION	PRICE
1	Saint-maximin	Midfielder	£6.5m
2	Guimaraes	Midfielder	£6m
3	Wilson	Forward	£7.5m
4	Pope	Goalkeeper	£5m
5	Burn	Defender	£4.5m
6	Schar	Defender	£4.5m
7	Targett	Defender	£5m
8	Trippier	Defender	£5m
9	Willock	Midfielder	£5m
10	Joelinton	Midfielder	£6m
11	Wood	Forward	£6m

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BOURNEMOUTH

Newly promoted championship side Bournemouth has on Sunday released the prices of its players in the 2022/23 Fantasy Premier League.

Notable among her players is Dominic Solanke a prolific forward that goes for just £6m, a fair bargain to many FPL manager considering the current price hikes of star players.

SOUTHAMPTON

Southampton also released their FPL player prices ahead of the 2022/23 campaign set to begin next month. The prices were fair enough considering an 4.5m pounds for all-five defenders – Bednarek, Bella-Kotchap Perraud, Salisu and Walker-Peters.

Two players that FPL managers will put into consideration in the southampton team are Che Adams and Ward-Prowse both priced at 6.5m but are capable of bringing g