I don’t want to pay 13% of the entire budget for Salah.
You have to have some other premium to captain then, do you trust Kane, Haaland, Son or De Bruyne more than Salah? That is all that matters.
Only position I have problem with this season is 3rd striker, I would prefer 4.5M one but they are all extremely bad and will not get any minutes. In the end I will just settle on one with low ownership. Don't want to loose money on bench filler position when people start to sell them.
I'd probably (currently do) have Salah in, but not having Salah early on might not be overly costly, it will depend on other premium member he'd rather have and its effect on his entire team plan/budget, because once you have Salah, you're likely not going to sub him out all season long regardless of his performance unless he gets injured or you need another premium member who have better sets of next couple of fixtures.
My major problem is from the midfield department, some relatively average midfielder seem rather too costly but I'd like to have one or two of them, since I've decided to do away with KDB.