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

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

This is the version of FPL Transfers: The Most-Bought And Most-Sold Players from 4 October 2026, kept for the record. The picks and the numbers have moved since. The current version →

The call — The Day the Ledger Didn't Move Here's something you don't see often: a full day of transfers across every position, and not a single player changed rank in any top ten. Goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders, forwards — all forty names sat exactly where they were yesterday. The biggest swing anywhere in the market was a tenth of a point. In accounting…

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What does a frozen market tell you? Two things.

First, the template has hardened. Haaland is owned by roughly 7 in 10 managers, João Pedro by about 6.5 in 10, and Calafiori leads the defenders with roughly half the game holding him. Raya tops the keepers at a shade over 4 in 10. These aren't picks anymore — they're furniture. When ownership this heavy stops moving, nobody's selling and nobody's left to buy. The price risk on the big names, in either direction, is effectively nil right now.

Second — and this is the useful bit — a flat day means zero pressure on your transfer timing. The usual reason to move early in the week is to beat a rise or dodge a fall on a player the crowd is piling into or fleeing. Today there's no pile and no flee. Palmer and Semenyo shed the faintest sliver of owners, Isak likewise, but a drop of a tenth of a point is noise, not a trend. Nobody's bandwagon is leaving the station, because nobody's driving one.

The honest caveat: stillness like this usually comes just before movement, not instead of it. The first injury bulletin, the first team-news leak, the first surprise haul — and the herd will stampede all at once. When 7 in 10 managers own the same forward and half the game owns the same defender, corrections are violent when they come. A flat ledger is calm, not safe.

So here's the call, and it's about timing, as it always is: hold your transfer. There is no price rise to chase today and no fall to outrun. Bank the move, wait for team news, and keep an eye on the quiet fallers — Palmer, Semenyo, Isak — because if those tenths of a point become whole points, that's your early warning that the crowd has found the exit. Until then, do nothing. Doing nothing on a day like this is the sharpest move in the book.

Goalkeepers — most owned (top 10)
PlayerClubOwn %ΔPrevNow
RayaARS42.30.011
VerbruggenBHA21.60.022
KinskyTOT17.20.033
DubravkaTOT17.10.044
TzolakisHUL12.80.055
LammensMUN9.90.066
PickfordEVE9.10.077
DonnarummaMCI7.60.088
KelleherBRE6.10.099
TraffordLEE5.50.01010
Defenders — most owned (top 10)
PlayerClubOwn %ΔPrevNow
CalafioriARS50.50.011
De CuyperBHA27.9+0.122
GvardiolMCI26.9+0.133
GabrielARS22.70.044
KonsaARS19.40.055
GuéhiMCI18.20.066
HallNEW17.40.077
TarkowskiEVE16.7+0.188
VirgilLIV16.20.099
AjayiHUL13.90.01010
Midfielders — most owned (top 10)
PlayerClubOwn %ΔPrevNow
RogersCHE40.6+0.111
B.FernandesMUN38.50.022
SzoboszlaiLIV32.70.033
GroßBHA29.2+0.144
CherkiMCI28.40.055
PalmerCHE25.5-0.166
MbeumoMUN20.50.077
ØdegaardARS19.80.088
Gibbs-WhiteNFO15.70.099
SemenyoMCI15.2-0.11010
Forwards — most owned (top 10)
PlayerClubOwn %ΔPrevNow
HaalandMCI73.9+0.111
João PedroCHE65.00.022
Calvert-LewinLEE24.80.033
IsakLIV22.2-0.144
WissaNEW18.70.055
ThiagoBRE9.10.066
BarryEVE8.30.077
HavertzARS8.20.088
BrobbeySUN6.90.099
Kusi-AsareFUL5.40.01010
Players in this pieceDe CuyperGvardiolTarkowskiRogers