FPL Transfers: The Most-Bought And Most-Sold Players

The Crowd Has Found Cherki — And The Ledger Says Move Before They Finish

The single biggest entry in today's books: Rayan Cherki. The Manchester City midfielder took on more new owners than anyone else in the game overnight — comfortably the day's heaviest buying — and it's shunted him past Mbeumo into third among the most-owned midfielders. Nearly 3 in 10 squads now have him, and the direction of travel is one-way.

This is exactly the moment the accountant in me starts tapping the desk. Buying pressure like that is what moves prices. Every day you sit on your hands watching a bandwagon this size roll past, you're paying a tax on the same player later. If Cherki was already on your shortlist, the window to get him at today's number is the narrow bit.

The rest of the day's inflows are quieter but real. Wissa is the forward line's steady climber — about 1 in 10 own the Newcastle man and the money keeps trickling in. At the back, De Cuyper jumped two spots up the defender table, the crowd warming to Brighton's clean-sheet case, while Gvardiol nudged past Virgil in the City-heavy defensive template.

Now the outflows, because someone has to read the debit column. Mbeumo shed more owners than any midfielder on the list, dropping a place, and Tzolis is leaking almost as fast. When the crowd exits at this rate, prices follow — if either is a player you were already planning to move on, doing it before the fall protects your selling price. Doing it after doesn't.

Up top, nothing to see: Haaland and João Pedro are both owned by roughly 7 in 10 managers, which isn't a trend, it's furniture. You either have them or you're playing a different game to everyone else.

The honest caveat: a one-day surge isn't a season-long case, and Cherki shares a dressing room with a lot of expensive attacking talent — the crowd can be early and wrong. But the crowd sets the price, and the price waits for nobody.

The call: buy Cherki now, before the herd finishes pricing him up. And if Mbeumo's on your books and on your maybes list, sell today — lock in the value while it's still there.