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

The Crowd's Money Is Moving — Here's the Ledger

João Pedro has done something almost nobody manages: he's knocked Haaland off the top of the forward charts. Both now sit at about 7 in 10 managers owned, but the direction of travel is the whole story — João Pedro pulled in another wave of buyers overnight while Haaland leaked owners for the first time in a while. When two players are level on ownership, the one being bought is the one whose price is about to move. That's the entry you don't want to miss by a day.

Elsewhere in the shop window, the busiest tills are Wissa (up sharply, climbing to fifth among forwards), Cherki (still gathering owners at pace, now in 3 in 10 squads) and Calafiori, who has stretched his lead as the most-owned defender in the game — nearly half of all managers have him now. That's full template territory: if you don't own him, every Arsenal clean sheet costs you rank *and* the price keeps ticking away from you.

The quieter story is who the crowd is walking away from. Mbeumo shed the most owners of any midfielder, Tzolis slipped down the order, and Gyökeres has fallen out of the forward top ten entirely — down to about 1 in 20 squads and drifting. Rice dropped out of the midfield top ten too, though that looks like slow leakage rather than panic. Palmer, interestingly, is moving the other way — buyers returning, back up to sixth, still only 2 in 10 owned. That's the one where being early is still possible.

Sangaré sneaking into the midfield top ten and Barry into the forwards are worth a note in the margins — small money, but small money that rises is how you bank team value for later.

The call: if João Pedro or Wissa are on your shortlist for this week, move now rather than Friday — the buying pressure says their prices go before the deadline, not after. Let the Gyökeres and Mbeumo bandwagons leave without you; selling into a falling crowd is how you lock in losses. And if you're weighing a punt, Palmer at 2 in 10 is the buy that still pays you back in value as well as points. Buy João Pedro before the rise — that's the trade.