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FPL Transfers: The Most-Bought And Most-Sold Players
Ownership MoversGW6Words: FPL Accountant · Numbers: the FFIQ engine
The call —The Ledger, 8 October: Nobody Moved — But the Pennies Are Telling Not a single player changed rank across all four positions today. Thirty names tracked per position, zero shuffles. In accounting terms: the books balanced to the row. That almost never happens, and when it does, the story isn't in the ranks — it's in the small change underneath…
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One squad, picked before a ball was kicked and run for five gameweeks on three transfers — no hits taken. Scored on FPL’s own results.
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So let's read the small change. The quiet accumulator is Pascal Groß. Brighton's midfielder, owned by about 3 in 10 managers, added more new owners than anyone else on the board today — nothing dramatic, but steady buying is exactly how price rises start. De Cuyper and Hall picked up a trickle of new owners too, and Rogers — already the most-owned midfielder in the game, sitting in roughly 4 in 10 squads — is still ticking upwards. The template isn't shifting; it's calcifying.
The slow leak is at the top of the forward line. João Pedro, owned by well over 6 in 10 managers, shed more owners than anyone today. Isak, Palmer and Havertz all bled a little as well. None of it is a sell-off — it's managers quietly tidying their squads before the next deadline. But drips become falls if they run for a week, and a price drop costs you £0.1m of selling value you don't get back.
The honest read: a day this flat means no bandwagon is worth chasing and no transfer should be forced. Haaland (roughly 7 in 10 own him) and the rest of the template are going nowhere.
The call: hold your transfers — there is nothing here that justifies spending one today. The only exception is timing. If Groß is already in your plans for his fixtures, buy now, before the steady accumulation tips his price up. And if you were going to sell João Pedro anyway, do it sooner rather than later — the leak is slow, but leaks only run one way.
