10. Juan Mata
Selected in 17.3% of teams
The first of three Chelsea players in the Top 10, Mata created more goals (27) than any other player last season and was Telegraph Fantasy Football’s top-scoring midfielder.

9. Sergio Aguero
Selected in 17.4% of teams
Despite the recent arrival of Jovetic and Negredo, Sergio Aguero is Manchester City’s most in-demand striker. He scored 15 goals last season.

8. Eden Hazard
Selected in 18% of teams
Hazard was outstanding in his first season in the Premier League with 10 goals and 18 key contributions to his name in Telegraph Fantasy Football.

7. Petr Cech
Selected in 19.3% of teams
The most popular ‘keeper in the game so far, Cech kept 17 clean sheets in 41 appearances last season – only Joe Hart scored more points between the sticks.

6. Jesus Navas
Selected in 20.1% of teams
The Spanish winger is by far and away the most popular new recruit in Telegraph Fantasy Football but how quickly will adapt to life in the Premier League?

5. Theo Walcott
Selected in 25.3% of teams
Walcott enjoyed a productive 2012/13 campaign with 15 goals and 15 assists. Only Santi Cazorla scored more points for the Gunners.

4. Leighton Baines
Selected in 28.9% of teams
Everton’s ever-reliable left-back has been a Fantasy Football must-have in recent years offering both clean sheets as well as seven goals last season.

3. Phillipe Coutinho
Selected in 34.7% of teams
Having arrived in the January window, Coutinho hit the ground running with three goals and six key contributions in his 12 starts for Liverpool.

2. Gareth Bale
Selected in 48% of teams
Nearly half of fantasy managers are hoping Gareth Bale can reproduce his form of last season (22 goals / 13 assists). Maybe the other half expect him to be in Madrid.

1. Robin van Persie
Selected in 48.4% of teams
RVP has been comfortably the top scoring player in Fantasy Football in each of the last two seasons. Can he go where even Thierry Henry and Cristiano Ronaldo couldn’t and make it a hat-trick?