Opposite I'd say, players are a LOT cheaper than last season and a bit cheaper than the ones before from what I can see. Haven't been able to come up with a team I'm happy with so quick for about 3 seasons.
Midfielders in particular, over the past few seasons we've had a lot of £10m+ midfielders (Fabregas, Lampard, Gerrard, Arshavin, Nani etc) this year there is basically Silva at £10m and everyone else under that.
edit: maybe the one area it is a little bit tougher is good players at average clubs have maybe gone up a bit, probably fewer goalscoring midielders available at £6m or less. Unless you take a punt on players not obvously guarenteed to start every match, it seems you need to spend upwards of £6.5m this time around to get much threat from that department.
The real issue I have is quite a few new managers about (Spurs, Villa, Liverpool, Swansea, Norwich, WBA etc) making it difficult to know who will be in/out for favour for the start of the season. Villa in particular, I look at their squad and think maybe a few good deals to be had based on player ability to price ratio, but too much of a gamble on whether they will be starting or not. The at Liverpool, Joe Cole the forgotten man potential bargain at £6m, will Rodgers bring him back in from the cold, who knows.