No real surprise that we don’t have any Manchester players at all. City and United left out of the team of the month completely. Some bargain basement buys in defence, I suspect nearly all of those players, apart from the obvious Saliba would have been able to be picked up fairly cheaply at auctions.
Looking further into Midfield, Murphy is STILL a free agent in many leagues, Palmer would have cost a fortune.
Then moving up to the top and you can have expected to pay top drawer for Isak and Salah, but might have picked up Gakpo for a much smaller fee, as perhaps your second Liverpool player.
All in all a very affordable team. In fact if you look at this team from an auction perspective, I wonder if this could actually have been assembled from your budget?
