FPL Transfers: The Most-Bought And Most-Sold Players — 21 Aug

The other bandwagon rolling downhill at speed is Tzolis. The Arsenal midfielder is the day's second-biggest riser and has climbed into the top-10 most-owned midfielders — about 2 in 10 now own him, and the momentum suggests that number isn't done. Mbeumo is doing the same thing more quietly: already owned by nearly 4 in 10, still adding owners daily. Neither is a secret anymore, but a rise costs you £0.1m of value every time you wait.

Two other names worth noting on the buy side of the ledger: Maguire jumped a place among defenders with a healthy day of buying, and Calvert-Lewin keeps gaining as the third-most-owned forward at 3 in 10. João Pedro, meanwhile, is edging towards genuine template status — over 6 in 10 already, and still climbing. He's fast becoming a player you own or explain why you don't.

On the sell side, the crowd is quietly walking away from Guéhi and Konsa — both shed owners and slipped down the defender rankings — while Rogers, Watkins, Wirtz and Rice all bled support in midfield and attack. None of these are panic-sell numbers; they're slow leaks. But slow leaks become price falls, and price falls become £0.2m holes in your squad value. If you own Watkins or Rogers and were planning to move anyway, do it before the market does the maths for you.

The honest caveat: day-over-day shifts can be noise, and one big day doesn't guarantee a rise tonight. But Calafiori's surge isn't noise — it's the biggest move on the board and it's been building.

The call: if Calafiori is on your shortlist, buy him now, tonight, before the price catches up with the crowd. Tzolis is the secondary buy if you've a midfield slot free. And if you're halfway out the door on Watkins or Guéhi, complete the sale — protect the £0.1m, because the crowd already is.