{"id":554104,"date":"2026-07-22T13:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/554104\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:51:07","slug":"haaland-handed-a-record-price-for-2026-27-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/554104\/","title":{"rendered":"Haaland handed a RECORD price for 2026\/27 Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man City star surpasses his own previous mark after ending 2025\/26 as the top-scoring player<\/p>\n<p>Erling Haaland has become the most expensive player of all time after being priced at \u00a315.5m for 2026\/27 <a href=\"https:\/\/fantasy.premierleague.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fantasy Premier League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City\u2019s Norwegian forward surpasses his own previous record of \u00a315.0m from the 2024\/25 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Haaland now appears four times in the list of the nine most expensive players of all time, having cost \u00a314.0m at the start of both 2023\/24 and last season, 2025\/26.<\/p>\n<p>Most expensive players of all time in FPL<\/p>\n<p>Player<br \/>\nPrice<br \/>\nClub<br \/>\nSeason<\/p>\n<p>Erling Haaland<br \/>\n\u00a315.5m<br \/>\nMCI<br \/>\n2026\/27<\/p>\n<p>Erling Haaland<br \/>\n\u00a315.0m<br \/>\nMCI<br \/>\n2024\/25<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Salah<br \/>\n\u00a314.5m<br \/>\nLIV<br \/>\n2025\/26<\/p>\n<p>Thierry Henry<\/p>\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo<\/p>\n<p>Robin van Persie<\/p>\n<p>Erling Haaland<\/p>\n<p>\u00a314.0m<br \/>\nARS<br \/>\n2005\/06, 2006\/07<\/p>\n<p>\u00a314.0m<br \/>\nMUN<br \/>\n2008\/09<\/p>\n<p>\u00a314.0m<br \/>\nMUN<br \/>\n2013\/14<\/p>\n<p>\u00a314.0m<br \/>\nMCI<br \/>\n2023\/24, 2025\/26<\/p>\n<p>Frank Lampard<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Aguero<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Salah<\/p>\n<p>\u00a313.0m<br \/>\nCHE<br \/>\n2011\/12<\/p>\n<p>\u00a313.0m<br \/>\nMCI<br \/>\n2015\/16<\/p>\n<p>\u00a313.0m<br \/>\nLIV<br \/>\n2018\/19, 2022\/23<\/p>\n<p>Scroll across to see the full table on mobile \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Haaland has risen \u00a31.5m from his starting price last season, when he went on to top the player charts on 239 points, thanks to 27 goals and eight assists.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, that output made the Man City star both the most-owned and most-captained player in any Gameweek last season. The jump in cost for 2026\/27 Fantasy means that if you plan to keep that strategy then you\u2019ll need to make sacrifices elsewhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As FPL managers have a \u00a3100.0m budget to start the season, owning Haaland leaves you with just \u00a384.5m left to spend on the other 14 players in your 15-man squad.<\/p>\n<p>Strong starter<\/p>\n<p>Despite his hefty price tag, Haaland\u2019s history in Fantasy suggests that going without him would be a very risky tactic.<\/p>\n<p>He has been the top-scoring player after the first six Gameweeks in all four of his seasons at Man City.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the table below, the Norwegian has averaged nine goals over the first six Gameweeks in each season of his Fantasy career.<\/p>\n<p>But it is worth noting that this season will be the first time Haaland has been involved in an international tournament beforehand, due to Norway\u2019s participation in the FIFA World Cup, where Haaland scored seven goals.<\/p>\n<p>Haaland&#8217;s first six Gameweeks per season<\/p>\n<p>Season<br \/>\nPts<br \/>\nGoals<br \/>\nAssists<\/p>\n<p>2022\/23<br \/>\n67<br \/>\n10<br \/>\n1<\/p>\n<p>2023\/24<br \/>\n51<br \/>\n8<br \/>\n1<\/p>\n<p>2025\/26<br \/>\n65<br \/>\n10<br \/>\n0<\/p>\n<p>2026\/27<br \/>\n62<br \/>\n8<br \/>\n1<\/p>\n<p>Scroll across on mobile to see full table<\/p>\n<p>Early Triple Captain option<\/p>\n<p>Man City\u2019s early schedule is another big factor in Haaland\u2019s favour. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Enzo Maresca\u2019s side have four home matches in the first seven Gameweeks, and TWO of them are against promoted sides &#8211; they host Coventry City and Ipswich Town in Gameweeks 2 and 7 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>That boosts the appeal of playing your first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/news\/4679879\/whats-happening-with-fpl-chips-in-202627\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Triple Captain chip<\/a> of the season on Haaland.<\/p>\n<p>In his first home match against a promoted side last season, Haaland scored twice and supplied an assist in a 5-1 win over Burnley to collect 16 points, his joint-best total of the entire campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/news\/4675493\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fixture Difficulty Ratings<\/a> (FDR), those Coventry and Ipswich matches, as well as Man City\u2019s home contest against Sunderland in Gameweek 5, score only two.<\/p>\n<p>Man City&#8217;s first seven matches<\/p>\n<p>GW<br \/>\nOpp.<br \/>\nFDR*<\/p>\n<p>1<br \/>\nBournemouth (H)<br \/>\n3<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\nCrystal Palace (A)<br \/>\n3<\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\nCoventry (H)<br \/>\n2<\/p>\n<p>4<br \/>\nMan Utd (A)<br \/>\n4<\/p>\n<p>5<br \/>\nSunderland (H)<br \/>\n2<\/p>\n<p>6<br \/>\nLiverpool (A)<br \/>\n4<\/p>\n<p>7<br \/>\nIpswich (H)<br \/>\n2<\/p>\n<p>*1=easiest possible fixture, 5=hardest possible fixture<\/p>\n<p>Monitoring Man City\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/news\/4679613\/what-to-look-out-for-in-pre-season-ahead-of-202627-fantasy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pre-season matches<\/a> will be vital to keep an eye on Haaland\u2019s fitness, with the forward set for a late return to action due to his exertions for Norway.<\/p>\n<p>But providing he\u2019s fully fit and ready to start at home to Bournemouth in Gameweek 1, Haaland\u2019s early-season history and kind fixtures once again make him a must-have for 2026\/27 Fantasy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man City star surpasses his own previous mark after ending 2025\/26 as the top-scoring player Erling Haaland has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,4277],"class_list":["post-554104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}