Pras Singhal: On the back of the tough away game to Newcastle, Manchester City now go into a run of excellent fixtures that sees them playing Leeds, Sunderland twice and West Ham in the next seven gameweeks. Their opponents this week, Leeds, have conceded 13 goals in their past six league matches and have failed to keep an away clean sheet in 2025-26.
Erling Haaland is the obvious choice, and possible triple captaincy shout in many of the coming weeks, but who else can we target?
In defence, Josko Gvardiol (£5.8m) is the safe longer-term choice given his security of minutes, but Nico O’Reilly (£5m) at left-back provides an excellent attacking threat with one goal and two assists this season.
His competitor for the spot Rayan Ait-Nouri (£5.7m) failed to impress in the Champions League in midweek and the place very much feels like O’Reilly’s to lose.
In midfield, again we have the safer choice in Phil Foden (£8m) who has started nine league matches in a row, averaging 86.7 minutes per appearance. However, he only has two attacking returns to show for it.
Meanwhile, Jeremy Doku (£6.5m) has been the explosive option with five attacking returns already this season.