It’s day two of the Fantasy Premier League (FPL) price reveals – and we’ll bring you all the live announcements as they happen.
Individual clubs are revealing the prices of five of their players on Friday, starting with Chelsea.
You can catch up on all of yesterday’s price reveals in this article here.
KEY UPDATES
- Chelsea: Palmer rises to £10.5m, James drops to £5.0m
- Brentford: New signing Thiago comes in at £6.0m, Flekken still available at £4.5m
- Aston Villa: Maatsen comes in at £5.0m, Martinez + Konsa stay the same price
- Crystal Palace: Eze climbs to £7.0m, Kamada enters at £5.5m, Guehi still £4.5m
- Wolverhampton Wanderers: Cunha up to £6.5m, defenders still £4.5m
- Leicester City: Vardy re-enters at £5.5m, another £4.0m defender priced up
- West Ham United: Kudus a non-mover at £6.5m, Areola up to £4.5m
6pm – END OF THE DAY’S PRICE REVEALS
That’s our lot for the day, with 35 more players priced up from seven different clubs.
There’ll be more to come over the weekend, so keep checking back on our site for the latest announcements.
5pm – WEST HAM UNITED
No huge shocks from the West Ham announcement.
Mohammed Kudus (£6.5m) is the umpteenth player who could easily have been priced higher. As it is, he’s unchanged from what he was a year ago.
The winger had to wait until Gameweek 10 to make his full Premier League debut, going on to deliver 16 attacking returns in 27 starts under David Moyes.
One of the criticisms of Moyes was that the dour football was a waste of the attacking talent at his disposal. We’re unlikely to see a gung-ho mentality under Julen Lopetegui, however.
What Lopetegui has done is produce defensively competent teams, particularly at Sevilla. That could rekindle interest in Alphonse Areola (£4.5m) and Max Kilman (£4.5m), who has just signed from Wolves. Areola, predictably, is no longer the £4.0m bargain he was last season.
West Ham were in the bottom four for goals conceded and xGC in 2023/24, with only four teams keeping fewer clean sheets. Lopetegui has his work cut out.
Set-piece expert James Ward-Prowse (£6.5m) and the fading force of Michail Antonio (£5.5m) are the other two Hammers priced up.
Ward-Prowse has been absurdly consistent in recent years. For example, his attacking return totals in the last four campaigns have been 14, 13, 15 and 15.
On penalties and for a long time a nailed starter, he actually suffered a couple of benchings as his form dipped earlier this year. Let’s see how much the incoming Lopetegui fancies him.
Something will have gone badly wrong if the 34-year-old Antonio is still West Ham’s first-choice striker come Gameweek 1. He’ll surely be back-up at best this season.
4pm – LEICESTER CITY
Four attack-minded assets from Leicester have all been priced up – and not one of them will set you back more than £5.5m.
Jamie Vardy might seem like a bargain at £5.5m but remember that he turns 38 midway through the 2024/25 campaign.
His minutes were managed carefully in the Championship due to his advancing years.
In fact, he was named among the substitutes on more occasions (19) than he was in the starting XI (18).
There’s life in the old dog yet, though: he scored 18 goals in the English second tier, the fifth-highest tally in the division.
Patson Daka (£5.0m) was even more sparingly used, again benched in more matches (20) than he started (15).
There’s a new man at the helm of Leicester, of course, in the form of Steve Cooper. He might have radically different ideas in terms of favoured tactics and personnel. Keep a careful eye on the pre-season friendlies for any clues.
New Leicester signing Bobby De Cordova-Reid joins fellow winger Stephy Mavididi as a £5.5m midfielder.
De Cordova-Reid has never cracked double digits for attacking returns in four previous seasons, although he may get more game-time than he did at Fulham last year.
Mavididi appeared in all 46 Championship matches last season, starting 42 of them.
A left winger, he scored 12 goals and assisted a further six others in Leicester’s promotion push.
He was the Foxes’ leading shot-taker (90) and second for chances created (72) – although mostly as a result of his prolonged game-time. A chance created every 50 minutes, for instance, isn’t too eye-catching.
New signing Caleb Okoli is the latest centre-half from a newly promoted club who costs just £4.0m.
He hasn’t scored a goal in over three years, so don’t be expecting fireworks.
3.15pm – WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS
The next quintet comes from Wolves. There are two risers, two non-movers and one new entry.
Like Ezri Konsa below, the two defenders from Gary O’Neil’s side – Rayan Ait-Nouri and Craig Dawson – remain at £4.5m. There’s good reason for this.
Wolves were in the bottom half for goals conceded (65) and xGC (68.92) last season. The same goes for shots, big chances and efforts in the box conceded.
Only the three relegated clubs and Nottingham Forest kept fewer clean sheets than Wolves (five).
Ait-Nouri offers more than clean sheet potential, of course. He was second among defenders for big chances (seven) last season, having a few stints ‘out of position’ on the wing.
Pablo Sarabia (£5.5m) and Matheus Cunha (£6.5m) rise by £0.5m and £1.0m respectively.
While you’re never sure of Sarabia’s minutes, Cunha was pretty nailed when fit. He delivered 12 goals and seven assists from just 29 starts last season.
Those two will have fresh competition in the front three from Jorgen Strand Larsen (£5.5m).
A loan signing from Celta Vigo, he scored 13 goals in 37 La Liga appearances in 2023/24.
Larsen is primarily a centre-forward, so it’ll be interesting to see how O’Neil lines up his attacking troops in pre-season.
A front three of the big Norwegian, Cunha and Hwang Hee-chan is possible, with Pedro Neto (£6.5m) linked with a move elsewhere.
3pm – CRYSTAL PALACE
A modest rise for Eberechi Eze (£7.0m), up half a million from where he was a year ago.
Eze produced some eye-catching numbers last season, particularly after Oliver Glasner’s arrival.
Despite starting on only 24 occasions, the England international scored 11 goals and assisted a further five.
Among Premier League midfielders with more than 1,000 minutes to their names, he was fourth for minutes per shot (24.7).
The departure of Michael Olise may see Eze play an even bigger role at set plays, too.
Daichi Kamada (£5.5m) has been captured from Lazio, perhaps to replace Olise.
Although he had an underwhelming year in Italy, Kamada previously played under Glasner at Eintracht Frankfurt.
Nine goals and seven assists at Glasner’s Frankfurt in 2022/23 was a high point – and a decent chunk of that season was spent in a deeper central midfield role.
If he gets to operate in a more advanced role in the Eagles’ 3-4-2-1, he’s one for the watchlist.
Eze’s England teammate Adam Wharton remains priced at £5.0m. A huge talent, for sure, but not much of a Fantasy target unless the scoring system is revised. From his 15 starts last season, his total xG was 0.34.
There are two more defenders for the £4.5m rung, too: Chris Richards and Marc Guehi.
Palace kept 10 clean sheets last season, half of which were recorded in Glasner’s 13 games in charge.
The Eagles were also an impressive fourth for xGC (52.78) over the course of the season.
1pm – ASTON VILLA
On the face of it, Emi Martinez (£5.0m) and Ezri Konsa (£4.5m) staying the same price appears to be generous. Aston Villa did, after all, qualify for the UEFA Champions League last season.
But Villa were far from watertight in 2023/24. They were resoundingly midtable for clean sheets (eight), expected goals conceded (xGC, 60.73) and actual goals conceded (61). Only three clubs allowed more big chances (108).
Should they tighten up, then there’s obvious value to be had.
Ian Maatsen (£5.0m) joined Villa’s defensive ranks this summer – we assume. Primarily a left-back, he does have experience further forward.
With neither Lucas Digne nor Alex Moreno particularly impressing last season, the assumption is that Maatsen arrives to displace the pair as first choice.
Never really given a chance at Chelsea, he had three loan spells in the Football League before joining Borussia Dortmund on a temporary basis in January.
Two goals and two assists arrived in 16 Bundesliga appearances, underscoring his attacking threat from full-back.
FPL have also priced up Leon Bailey (£6.5m) and John McGinn (£5.5m), the former rising by a million.
Bailey was among the top 10 midfielders last season for attacking returns, with 21. That was an impressive achievement, considering he only started 22 games.
The minutes risk does count against him: you’re never completely sure if he’ll start a game or get hooked early. He was more of a permanent fixture as the season went on, starting 20 of Villa’s last 25 league matches, but the midweek Champions League involvement in 2024/25 could be a concern.
11am – BRENTFORD
Following on from Ivan Toney’s (£7.5m) pricing up yesterday, five more Bees to assess.
New arrival Igor Thiago is an intriguing one at just £6.0m. The Brazilian forward may be taking Toney’s place in the Brentford starting XI next season, should the latter move on.
Thiago scored 18 goals in 34 league appearances for Club Brugge last season, six of which were penalties. Could he be the new man to step up from the spot for Thomas Frank’s side?
Yoane Wissa (£6.0m) may also have designs on the centre-forward role. While both he and Thiago can be accommodated in the same team (Wissa out wide in a 4-3-3), he arguably looks better through the middle.
Wissa finished last season strongly with 10 attacking returns in his final 13 run-outs. There were myriad blanks before that, though: 19 in 29 starts over the season.
Kevin Schade, also competing for a starting spot with Wissa, Thiago, Bryan Mbeumo and Keane Lewis-Potter, remains at £5.5m after an injury-ravaged 2023/24.
At the back, Mark Flekken and Ben Mee are again available for £4.5m.
The Bees kept just seven clean sheets last season, down from 12 in the previous campaign.
Injuries were a mitigating factor, however, so with a healthy roster there’s potential there for some bargains at the back.
Indeed, they finished in the top eight for fewest expected goals conceded (xGC) in each of the last two seasons.
They’re not likely to be top of many shopping lists in the first five Gameweeks, however:
10am – CHELSEA
£5.0m last season… £10.5m this time around.
It’s the biggest starting price rise in FPL history as Cole Palmer enters the premium pool following his 244-point campaign in 2023/24.
Palmer had dropped to £4.9m in late August 2023 before his run in the Chelsea XI started in Gameweek 7. Thirty-five attacking returns later, he finished the season at £6.3m.
This season, it’s former club Manchester City up first for the England international. Beyond that, though, is a decent six-game run in which Chelsea assets will feature high up the watchlist:
With Christopher Nkunku reclassified as a midfielder and dropping to £6.5m, there’s some discussion to be had over going with a cut-price alternative. Pre-season will be an interesting watch under Enzo Maresca.
Palmer wasn’t the only notable Chelsea player priced up today.
Reece James (£5.0m) drops to his lowest starting price since 2020/21. Five goals and nine assists in just 22 starts in 2021/22 represented his zenith in FPL, and it’s why plenty of us are drawn back to him time after time.
But “never again” will be many Fantasy managers’ response to any mention of his name, with injury problems dogging him persistently over the last few years.
Of Chelsea’s last 68 league matches, he’s been available for just 19 of them.
He’s suspended for the first three Gameweeks anyway, following a dismissal towards the end of 2023/24.
Elsewhere, Nicolas Jackson’s (£7.5m) rollercoaster debut season of occasional hauls and comical misses was good enough for a £0.5m rise.
The Senegal international ended up with a tidy 14 goals and six assists.
Raheem Sterling, yet to recapture his Manchester City form in west London, remains steady at £7.0m.
Our first new signing is priced up, too, in the form of Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (£6.0m).
The central midfielder delivered 12 goals and 14 assists for Leicester City last season. He’ll now reunite with former Foxes boss Maresca, who has also made the move to Stamford Bridge.
You’ll be able to read a full Scout Report on him on these pages very soon.
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