Best Picks From Spurs

FPL is now live and FPL managers are busy tinkering with potential squads ahead of the Gameweek 1 deadline on the 11th of August. Spurs have already made moves in the transfer window with a new midfielder and goalkeeper joining their ranks. Here we take a look at the best picks from Spurs for the 2023/24 FPL season.

Last season Spurs assets in FPL were a mixed bag. Harry Kane (£12.5m) was the second highest scoring in the game, only nine points behind top scorer Erling Haaland (£14.0m). However, the 21/22 Golden Boot winner Son Heung-min (£9.0m) disappointed, resulting in a £3.0m price drop for the 23/24 campaign. Here we assess who the best picks from Spurs could be for the new campaign.

New manager

Under new manager Ange Postecoglou Spurs are likely to become a far more quick paced and forward thinking team. His style of play includes:

• Inverted full-backs
• Building from the back
• Relentless pressing
• Creativity of players
• Retention of the ball
• Limited opposition ball time

This should make the attacking players the most attractive to FPL managers when it comes to investing in the North London club.

Harry Kane

Kane scored 30 goals and nine assists in the 22/23 season. He also registered 263 FPL points, his highest ever FPL points return. As a result the forward has risen in price by £1.0m from the £11.5m he cost at the start of the 22/23 season to £12.5m. He is the second most expensive player in the game, level with Mo Salah (£12.5m). As a result many FPL managers have questioned whether it is essential to try and own the forward, especially with the price rises for Haaland and Trent Alexander-Arnold (£8.0m) making the budgets tight.

Kane had 130 attempts on goal last season, more than any other player in the game. With the addition of James Maddison (£7.5m) to the Spurs squad this should increase next season with more creativity around him. His 48 bonus points was also more than any other player in the league. In addition only four players registered more double digits returns than the seven Kane managed.

Even at £12.5m Kane feels like the best pick from Spurs. If the forward starts the season in a Spurs shirt, he is likely worth the compromises across the rest of your FPL squad to own him.

Son Heung-min

While away on international duty with South Korea Son announced that he had been injured throughout most of the 22/23 season. The midfielder has had surgery in the off season to rectify the issue.

I wondered a lot if I should even make this public, but I struggled with pain all season. I played through it for eight to nine months, but couldn’t go on anymore, so I made the decision finally and underwent surgery.

Even for simple actions like passing or turning, every movement starts from your core muscles, but that’s exactly where my pain was. I was only able to do 60 per cent of what could do at 100 per cent.

Son Heung-min

Son registered just 152 FPL points last season. Scoring just 10 goals and registering only six assists. Far below the totals from the previous season. Son started the 22/23 season priced at £12.0m in FPL and he has now fallen to £9.0m for the new season. Having had surgery to rectify his injury problem if Son can refine the form of previous campaigns he could make a mockery of his cheaper price tag.

James Maddison

Maddison was relegated with Leicester last season, however quickly signed a deal which has seen him move to Spurs. He is the first player of his style that Spurs have owned since the days of Christian Eriksen (£6.0m). Maddison will likely have free kick responsibilities at Spurs, as he did at Leicester.

Between Gameweek 28 and 38 last season Maddison created 24 chances for his Leicester City team-mates. Only six players in the game created more in that period. He also supplied 50 crosses in that period, more than all of his new Tottenham team-mates with the exception of Pedro Porro (£5.0m) and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (£5.5m).

In this same period Maddison also had 28 attempts on goal, 15 of those coming from inside the box. In Postecoglou’s new more attacking Spurs side Maddison should be a magnet for FPL points with his potential for both assists and goals as well as set-piece threat. Maddison’s new team-mates know how to score goals. Spurs scored 70 goals last season, 19 more than Leicester managed and the fifth most in the league. With players around him to finish the chances that he is creating Maddison should make a great FPL asset, especially at his budget friendly £7.5m price tag.

Pedro Porro

Pedro Porro has been priced in the game at £5.0m and this has excited FPL managers. Porro made 13 starts last season and registered six attacking returns as well as two clean sheets. In Postecoglou’s attacking system Porro could be vital for the way that Spurs move quickly out of defence and create goal scoring opportunities. Between Gameweek 28 and 38 Porro had 22 attempts on goal, more than any other defender in the game. His three goals was also the most of any defender in the same period.

Porro also created 20 chances of his team-mates, a tally that only three defenders could better in that period. As well as supplying 67 crosses, only bettered by Kieran Trippier (£6.5m) and Trent Alexander-Arnold (£8.0m).

In a more attack minded Spurs team Porro could be excellent value for money at just £5.0m in FPL.