Every good Fantasy Football team needs a leading marksman up front - someone to put the goals in and rack up the big points. There are a number of perfectly good options - Robin van Persie (£12.5), Sergio Aguero (£12m), Daniel Sturridge (£11.5) and more besides, but if your coffers are running low, a cheap option is Chelsea new boy Diego Costa. Costa has just signed from Atletico Madrid and enjoyed a breakout season under Diego Simeone, scoring an astonishing 27 La Liga goals in just 35 appearances, marking the Brazil-born Spain international's best campaign on record. That's just one of the reasons why the Blues agreed to pay £32 million for his services. You can get him for much less than that - just £10.5 million in fact. And if Costa can replicate his storming form in front of goal in the Premier League in 2014-15, he will be worth every one of those pound signs and more besides. The South American scored 15 more league goals than van Persie (12) tallied last term, ten more than Aguero (17), and six more than Sturridge (21). With that in perspective, Costa would appear to be the basement bargain of the summer so far. Value: £10.5 million Which bargain signings will you be taking into your Fantasy Football game? Share your own tips below in the comments thread.
Joseph is an accredited football journalist and has interviewed nearly all of the current 20 Barclay's Premier League managers. He is also a correspondent for Bleacher Report and has written for Caught Offside and Give Me Football.
