As the deadline looms closer, it is time to decide what to do with our precious free transfer(s). Aside from playing chips or selecting a captain, our transfers are the single most important aspect of our FPL campaign, and the importance of getting it right cannot be overstated.

In this article we crunch the numbers, analyse the fixtures, take advice from the Algorithm, and decide which player to buy, which player to sell and which player to keep for Gameweek 5.

BUY: Pascal Groß

• Cost: £5.8m
• Selected by: 15.8%
• Projected Points (5 GWs): 21.2

Groß has been transferred in by over 580,000 managers ahead of Gameweek 5 - taken from Transfer Analytics

With three price rises already, and a fourth due overnight, Pascal Groß (£5.8m) is one of the most transferred in players ahead of Gameweek 5, with almost 600,000 managers bringing the German midfielder in.

With many disappointed managers opting for either Pedro Neto (£5.3m) or Leon Bailey (£4.7m) as their budget midfielder in Gameweek 1, Groß looks to have been the correct answer all along.

With an average goal involvement of one per game, and good underlying statistics for both creativity and goal threat, Groß seems to be at the heart of everything Brighton does and is about to enjoy a run of gentle fixtures.

Groß outperforms Neto across the majority of metrics - taken from Opta Player Heatmaps