FPL Injury News: The Players Returning Within A Week
The call — RETURN DATES: THREE PLAYERS DUE BACK INSIDE SEVEN DAYS Three players carry dated return notes from their clubs. All three are ruled out of the next round. Zero per cent chance, each of them. Here is what is on record.
Garner (EVE, £6.0m). Groin injury. Everton list him as expected back 22 August. That is five days away. He misses this gameweek. Our projections put him around 19-20 points over the next six once he returns — call it 3-4 points a week, with the occasional bigger score in there. Ownership sits at fewer than 1 in 10 managers. In fact almost nobody: about 4 in every 1,000 squads. He is the pick of this list by some distance on our numbers.
Baleba (BHA, £5.0m). Ankle injury. Brighton date his return 23 August — six days. Projected at roughly 10-11 points across the next six gameweeks. Owned by about 2 in every 1,000 squads. The projection does not force a move.
Bajcetic (LIV, £5.0m). Hamstring injury. Liverpool date his return 23 August. Projected at 7 points over six gameweeks. Ownership is at zero for practical purposes. Midfield minutes at Liverpool are contested. No case on the numbers.
The procedure. A player with a zero per cent chance this round does not go in your team this round. That rule disposes of all three for this gameweek. The transfer question is separate. First weeks back tend to mean managed minutes — that is the pattern with dated returns, and no club has confirmed a full workload for any of the three.
The call. Baleba and Bajcetic: leave them. The projections do not justify a slot. Garner: he is the one to line up. Do not buy him for this round — he is out. Pencil the transfer for the gameweek after his 22 August date, before ownership moves off 0.4. One move on this list. That is it.