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

The Crowd's Ledger: Gvardiol Leads a Three-Way Buying Spree

Three players moved the needle hardest yesterday, and all three moved it the same amount: Gvardiol, Rogers and Groß each pulled in the day's biggest wave of new owners. When the crowd buys in lockstep like that, price rises follow — and if you were planning any of those moves anyway, the clock is now running.

Gvardiol is the one that interests me most. Just over 2 in 10 managers own the Manchester City defender, and yesterday's surge was the sharpest of anyone in the game. City's clean-sheet potential is doing the selling here, and defenders at that ownership with momentum behind them tend to tick up in price before the weekend. De Cuyper is riding a similar wave at Brighton — nearly a quarter of managers now hold him and the number keeps climbing.

In midfield, Rogers has quietly become a template piece — about 3.5 in 10 own the Chelsea man, and he's still the one the crowd is adding while they trim elsewhere. Because "elsewhere" is telling: Szoboszlai took the day's biggest hit, shedding owners faster than any midfielder despite nearly 4 in 10 still holding him. Fernandes and Tzolis are leaking too. That's early-stage selling — the kind that turns into a price fall if it runs another day or two. If Szoboszlai is on your own sell list, the value-preserving move is to act before the drop, not after.

One quiet reshuffle at the back: Ajayi of Hull climbed into the defender top ten, nudging out City's O'Reilly, who's been bleeding owners. Two City defenders rising while a third falls out tells you the crowd has picked its lane in that backline — don't be the manager left holding the one they abandoned.

Up front, nothing structural: João Pedro and Haaland remain the twin pillars at roughly 7 in 10 apiece, and Barry swapped places with Brobbey in the cheap-forward shuffle without much money moving either way.

The call: if Gvardiol is on your shortlist, buy him now — he's the fastest-rising asset on the books and the price will catch up with the crowd. And if you're wavering on Szoboszlai, sell before the exodus takes £0.1m off your selling price. Timing is the whole game this week.