The completed transfers keep pouring in as the summer window ticks on, meaning it’s high time for another Premier League transfer round-up.
Some of the most eye-catching signings from a Fantasy Premier League (FPL) perspective will always be given their own Scout Reports, as with the likes of Hugo Ekitike (£8.5m) and Bryan Mbeumo (£8.0m).
But regular round-ups like this one below will recap all other done deals, and could highlight a few Fantasy gems to help fill out your squads now that the game is officially live for the 2025/26 season.
Here, we look at a Club World Cup performer who Wolves will hope can fill the void left by Matheus Cunha’s (£8.0m) departure, as well as a £4.5m goalkeeper who looks set to be first choice at Bournemouth.
JHON ARIAS (FLUMINENSE TO WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS, £15M)
Starting off with perhaps the most intriguing signing of this quartet in FPL terms, we have Wolves agreeing a four-year deal for Fluminense attacker Jhon Arias. It’s a transfer worth just shy of £15m plus a few extra million in potential add-ons.
The 27-year-old Colombian will be a familiar name to any FIFA Club World Cup Fantasy manager.
He starred for the 2023 Copa Libertadores winners as they reached the recent semi-finals of this summer’s tournament in the States, delivering two attacking returns.
And against European opposition like Borussia Dortmund and Inter Milan, he excelled.
Arias won more man of the match awards (three) than any other player at the tournament as Fluminense reached the penultimate round of the tournament, where they were beaten by eventual champions Chelsea. He also created an unbeaten 18 chances over the course of the competition.
MOST CHANCES CREATED IN THE CLUB WORLD CUP
Turning 28 in September, he’s not quite the spring chicken that many South American players are when they cross the pond to ply their trade in Europe for the very first time. But Arias was also a relatively late bloomer, only breaking into a regular first-team role aged 23 and the Colombia national team set-up the following year (he has since racked up 31 caps). He now enters what many consider to be the prime years of a footballer’s career.
At Fluminense, where he has flourished into a “game-changer” in the words of Fluzão boss Renato Gaucho over the past four seasons, he has often been deployed on the right flank. However, he has experience on both wings and even (more sparingly) as a comfortably two-footed second striker.
Such attacking versatility, along with Arias’s agile dribbling and passing ability, set play capability and all-around creativity, would appear to align well with what Wolves will be missing in their post-Cunha days.
His availability recently is also impressive, with only Barcelona full-back Jules Kounde having racked up more minutes for club and country in 2024. That should help alleviate fears that Arias might need to get his fitness levels up to keep pace with a more competitive league.
A goal-scoring record of seven in each of the last three Brazilian Serie A seasons and less than 60 total in over 300 club appearances suggests he may not fill Cunha’s boots as much in that respect, but he could instead rack up assists for someone like Jorgen Strand Larsen (£6.5m), who ended 2024/25 on a prolific run.
The Norwegian striker may be in line to pick up penalty-taking duties for Vitor Pereira’s side, but it similarly could be Arias, who has scored 75% of his career efforts from the spot since 2022. That would certainly boost the latter’s appeal further, as a likely mid-priced midfielder – somewhere in the overflowing £6.0-£6.5m range would seem fair – for a bottom-half club.
In the Midlands, Arias will also link up with former long-time Fluminenese teammate Andre, the Brazilian defensive midfielder who arrived at Molineux last summer, as well as fellow Colombian Yerson Mosquera, which should further assist him in hitting the ground running.
He will take the No10 jersey vacated at the Molineux when Cunha left for Old Trafford. The Old Gold will hope he can step into that void in more than just shirt number.
DJORDJE PETROVIC (CHELSEA TO BOURNEMOUTH, £25M)
From an attacker that’s brand new to FPL to a goalkeeper we’ve had a glimpse of before.
Bournemouth have brought in Đorđe Petrović (£4.5m) from Chelsea for a £25m fee on a five-year deal.
The six-foot-four Serbia international has 23 Premier League appearances and five clean sheets in the English top flight to his name, having taken over from Robert Sánchez (£5.0m) between the posts during the latter two-thirds of the 2023/24 campaign.
In that time, he helped the Blues – whom he joined from New England Revolution for £14m two summers ago – to lose just one (to Arsenal) of their final 15 league matches.
The xG prevented column (below) doesn’t make for great reading in that campaign – but then Matz Sels (£5.0m) and James Trafford (£5.0m) bounced back in style the following season, too. Petrovic’s record on either side of 2023/24 is very good, too.
When Sánchez returned from injury and took the No1 jersey under Enzo Maresca, Petrović chose to cross the Channel and link up with Ligue 1 outfit Strasbourg on loan. He spent the entire 2024/25 season in France, keeping 10 clean sheets in 31 league appearances en route to winning the club’s player of the season award.
Maresca had deemed him to be lacking in ability with the ball at his feet, but Petrovic seemed to show improvement in that aspect of his game at Strasbourg.
At the Vitality Stadium, he now replaces fellow ex-Chelsea goalie Kepa Arrizabalaga (£4.5m), who spent last season on loan as the Cherries’ No1 but has since joined Arsenal for a cut-price £5m.
Another member of that shot-stopper roulette, Neto (£4.5m), has now returned to Bournemouth after a season-long loan spent as David Raya‘s (£5.5m) back-up at the Emirates.
It would therefore, at this stage, appear to be between Petrovic and 36-year-old Neto when it comes to Andoni Iraola’s first-choice goalkeeper in 2025/26, with the other three in-game goalies on Bournemouth’s books all £4.0m non-options.
A job-share is every FPL manager’s nightmare, so we can hope for pre-season to offer some clues as to who is leading the race for the no1 shirt this season on the south coast ahead of the opening Gameweek’s deadline. Given the outlay,
It is, however, worth noting that Petrovic’s chief reported reasoning for leaving Chelsea was his desire to be a regular starter. Also taking into account the £25m outlay, you’d therefore expect the 25-year-old to become that under Iraola. In which case, he could provide a decent £4.5m goalkeeping option with relatively good fixtures from Gameweek 2 onwards.
KYLE WALKERS-PETERS (SOUTHAMPTON TO WEST HAM UNITED, FREE)
Kyle Walker-Peters (£4.5m ) has left relegated Southampton and joined West Ham on a free transfer.
The 28-year-old full-back, twice capped by England, has signed a three-year deal with the Hammers.
After joining Saints permanently from Tottenham in the summer of 2020, KWP made over 200 appearances for the St Mary’s Crew and was a regular feature of their backline over their last two top-flight campaigns.
“He is a player I’ve always thought highly of and been impressed by whenever he has faced one of my teams.
“He has a really good pedigree, a top professional who has established himself as a respected Premier League player and still has his best years in front of him.” – Graham Potter on Kyle Walker-Peters
Walkers-Peters has never been much of an attacking prospect, with only a handful of career goals to his name and no more than three assists – a tally he managed in 2024/25 – in any one Premier League season.
Capable of playing both sides as a full-back/wing-back, he’ll likely play back-up at first.
He will struggle to displace fellow Englishman Aaron Wan-Bissaka (£4.5m), who ended last season in fine form, from his preferred position on the right of West Ham’s defence.
Meanwhile El Hadji Malick Diouf (£4.5m) has arrived on the opposite flank. He looks a prospect, too, based on what we’ve seen so far in pre-season.
SEAN LONGSTAFF (NEWCASTLE UNITED TO LEEDS UNITED, £12M)
ANTON STACH (HOFFENHEIM TO LEEDS UNITED, £17M)
Lastly, Newcastle have parted ways with one of their own as Sean Longstaff (£5.0m) heads to newly promoted Leeds on a four-year deal.
The Magpies have recouped £12m for the home-grown midfielder, who departs St James’ Park after more than 200 appearances and an EFL Cup victory with his boyhood club.
Longstaff, who turns 28 in October, was always a solid cog in the Newcastle machine – at least prior to this season’s slightly more bit-part role, when Eddie Howe’s preferred midfield trio took form – but a prolific goal-scorer or creator he was not. Six league goals in 2023/24 was a single-season career high in the top flight, likewise four assists as a first-team regular in the prior campaign.
We’re not expecting fireworks at Leeds, then, even if he nails down a starting spot under Daniel Farke.
And fellow new arrival Anton Stach (£5.0m) won’t get you lots of goals and assists, either. His best goal tally in the last five seasons is two.
In 2024/25, he managed just three attacking returns in 30 league appearances.
But then, that’s not his game.
What he might get you, as a midfield spoiler, is defensive contribution points. He was among the top 10 Bundesliga players last season for tackles per game. And look at these numbers…
Anton Stach is ranked in the top-four in the Bundesliga across the last two seasons for… #lufc
Interceptions (120, 1st)
Tackles (142, 4th)
Possession won (393, 3rd)
Duels won (381, 4th) pic.twitter.com/KPQVhjYQGB— Jonny Cooper (@JRCooper26) July 16, 2025
