The 2022-23 season will get underway this weekend with 6.30pm BST on Friday, August 5 your deadline for constructing a workforce.

So get tinkering, restart your leagues, be taught your chips, and put together for the lengthy slog to wonderful victory (or, simply as possible, defeat).

Listed below are our <em>FPL</em> suggestions for GW1…

Gabriel Jesus – Arsenal – £8m

The place to begin? Effectively how concerning the first sport of the season, as Arsenal journey to Crystal Palace, and the most-selected participant by far. Nearly 73 per cent of gamers have picked the Brazilian at time of writing and, with seven targets in pre-season, who can actually blame them?

Mohamed Salah – Liverpool – £13m

The concern with FPL’s massive hitters like Salah is that ignoring the probability of his imperiousness simply makes you look slightly foolish. Nonetheless, daring strikes can repay massive on this sport – however towards newly-promoted Fulham in GW1 can you actually afford to not take him?

Erling Haaland – Manchester Metropolis – £11.5m

Strikers in FPL are noticeably a contact cheaper this yr, given their continued discount in purpose and clear sheet factors in comparison with midfielders, and due to this fact a Golden Boot challenger like Haaland has a contact extra worth than anticipated. In brief, this bloke scores targets, and targets equal factors.

Son Heung-min – Tottenham – £12m

The following tips will get much less apparent quickly – since you can not signal all the highest gamers – however the query of handle Spurs in fantasy soccer has been a tough one for, properly, a long time. Son is costlier than Harry Kane however did outscore him final season, whereas alternate options are both not assured to play (Dejan Kulusevski, Ivan Perisic) or suspended (Richarlison).

Lucas Digne – Aston Vila – £5m

The beauty of the opening weekend is predicting outcomes is anybody’s guess. Bournemouth versus Aston Villa is a major instance of this however Digne is an efficient possibility because the first-choice left-back and set-piece taker of an attacking away facet towards a probably nervy newly-promoted host. There are questions over Villa’s aerial presence for truly ending off his set performs, although.

Dean Henderson – Nottingham Forest – £4.5m

A sound defence was a significant side to Forest’s promotion and Steve Cooper has added to that with a top-class goalkeeper who thrived in a not-too-dissimilar circumstance at Sheffield United. All of the stress is on Newcastle of their opening fixture, a situation the Toon hardly ever thrive in.

Mason Mount – Chelsea – £8m

With 11 targets and 11 assists final season, Mount is a little bit of a steal at this value and Chelsea’s away journey to Everton on Saturday night is assured to trigger some type of implosion – almost certainly for the house facet.