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FPL Transfers: The Most-Bought And Most-Sold Players
Ownership MoversGW2Words: The Accountant · Numbers: the FFIQ engine
This is the version of FPL Transfers: The Most-Bought And Most-Sold Players from 23 August 2026, kept for the record. The picks and the numbers have moved since. The current version →
The call —The Crowd's Ledger: Porro Bleeds, Havertz Sneaks In The biggest line in today's book is a red one: Pedro Porro shed almost a full point of ownership in a single day — the sharpest drop anywhere in the top 30 — and if that pace holds, a price fall is when the ledger really starts to hurt. He's still in…
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The green ink belongs to two names. Virgil van Dijk added the day's biggest gain among defenders — about 2 in 10 now own him — and Havertz quietly climbed into the forward top ten, nudging Mateta out. Havertz is still a genuinely uncrowded pick at roughly 0.6 in 10, which is exactly the profile the Accountant likes: buy before the crowd does, and the rise pays you rather than costs you.
There's also a changing of the guard at Manchester City and United. O'Reilly leapfrogged Luke Shaw into third among defenders — the crowd adding City cover while trimming the United kind. Shaw's slide is small but it's the direction that matters. Meanwhile the two most-owned midfielders in the game, Bruno Fernandes and Mbeumo, both bled ownership at the same rate. When over half the game owns Fernandes and the number still goes down, that's the template loosening its grip — worth watching, not yet worth acting on.
Everywhere else, the book barely moved. Haaland (about 7 in 10) and João Pedro (over 6 in 10) remain the two forwards nobody dares be without, and the goalkeeper market didn't shift a rank all day.
The honest caveat: these are one-day movements, and one day doesn't make a trend. Porro's drop could be a blip; Havertz's climb could stall. But price changes don't wait for trends to be confirmed — they follow exactly this kind of flow.
The call: if Porro's in your side and you were already wavering, sell now and bank the full price before the market does it for you. And if you've been eyeing Havertz, this is the cheap end of his ownership curve — buy the bandwagon before it has wheels. Fade the Mateta drop-out; at 0.57 in 10 there's no rush either way.
Goalkeepers — most owned (top 10)
Player
Club
Own %
Δ
Prev
Now
Raya
ARS
37.7
+0.1
1
1
Kinsky
TOT
24.1
-0.4
2
2
Verbruggen
BHA
21.7
-0.3
3
3
Dubravka
TOT
19.5
-0.2
4
4
Lammens
MUN
16.5
-0.3
5
5
Donnarumma
MCI
8.3
+0.1
6
6
Pickford
EVE
8.1
+0.2
7
7
Kelleher
BRE
5.8
0.0
8
8
Palmer
IPS
4.7
-0.1
9
9
Martinez
AVL
4.5
+0.1
10
10
Defenders — most owned (top 10)
Player
Club
Own %
Δ
Prev
Now
Calafiori
ARS
40.0
+0.2
1
1
Gabriel
ARS
29.6
-0.1
2
2
O'Reilly
MCI
21.4
+0.2
4
3
Shaw
MUN
21.2
-0.4
3
4
Virgil
LIV
19.4
+0.4
5
5
Diop
IPS
18.3
-0.2
6
6
Maguire
MUN
18.2
-0.2
7
7
Guéhi
MCI
17.1
0.0
8
8
Pedro Porro
TOT
16.0
-0.9
9
9
van Ewijk
COV
13.8
-0.2
10
10
Midfielders — most owned (top 10)
Player
Club
Own %
Δ
Prev
Now
B.Fernandes
MUN
51.3
-0.6
1
1
Szoboszlai
LIV
41.7
-0.1
2
2
Mbeumo
MUN
38.3
-0.6
3
3
Semenyo
MCI
26.2
-0.1
4
4
Tzolis
ARS
25.3
+0.1
5
5
Rogers
CHE
24.4
0.0
6
6
Rice
ARS
18.0
0.0
7
7
Ndiaye
EVE
15.9
0.0
8
8
Groß
BHA
14.3
-0.2
9
9
Wirtz
LIV
12.7
+0.1
10
10
Forwards — most owned (top 10)
Player
Club
Own %
Δ
Prev
Now
Haaland
MCI
69.2
-0.1
1
1
João Pedro
CHE
64.1
-0.2
2
2
Calvert-Lewin
LEE
30.9
-0.4
3
3
Thiago
BRE
17.2
+0.1
4
4
Isak
LIV
17.0
+0.2
5
5
Brobbey
SUN
14.1
-0.1
6
6
Watkins
AVL
10.4
+0.1
7
7
Gyökeres
ARS
8.7
-0.2
8
8
Kusi-Asare
FUL
7.4
-0.1
9
9
Havertz
ARS
5.9
+0.3
11
10
Dropped out of the top 10
Player
Pos
Club
Own %
Δ
Was
Now
Mateta
FWD
CRY
5.7
0.0
10
11
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