The Scout Squad: Our top picks for FPL Gameweek 22

Price Change Predictions

	Player	Club	Factors
Up	Gabriel Magalhães	ARS	A, Vs
No Change	Keane	EVE	B, Vs, Inj
Up	Mukiele	SUN	A, £
Up	van Hecke	BHA	C, Vs
Up	Cash	AVL	C, Vs
Up	Thiaw	NEW	C, Vs
No Change	Marc Guehi	CRY	C
Down	van Dijk	LIV	B
Down	O’Reilly	MCI	C
Down	Andersen	FUL	B

Risers

Fallers

Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Gabriel	ARS	6.7m	99.4%	Likely
Kelleher	BRE	4.5m	97.3%	Maybe
Garner	EVE	5.1m	98.9%	Maybe
Saliba	ARS	5.9m	98.0%	Maybe
Frimpong	LIV	5.7m	85.8%	Unlikely
Ødegaard	ARS	7.8m	88.6%	Unlikely
Thiago	BRE	7.1m	86.3%	Unlikely
Bruno G.	NEW	7.2m	77.1%	Unlikely
Dorgu	MUN	4.2m	79.3%	Unlikely
Roefs	SUN	4.9m	74.0%	Unlikely
Rice	ARS	7.3m	65.9%	Unlikely
Palmer	CHE	10.4m	61.8%	Unlikely
Thiaw	NEW	5.1m	55.2%	Unlikely
E.Le Fée	SUN	4.9m	55.3%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	53.6%	Unlikely
A.Becker	LIV	5.4m	50.3%	Unlikely
Mané	WOL	4.5m	50.7%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	50.1%	Unlikely
Schade	BRE	7.1m	49.4%	Unlikely
Wissa	NEW	7.3m	46.1%	Unlikely
Konaté	LIV	5.4m	44.7%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	45.9%	Unlikely
McGinn	AVL	5.4m	45.5%	Unlikely
B.Fernandes	MUN	9.1m	39.8%	Unlikely
Šeško	MUN	7.2m	43.4%	Unlikely
Tielemans	AVL	5.9m	43.4%	Unlikely
Xhaka	SUN	5.2m	43.9%	Unlikely
Hall	NEW	5.3m	41.4%	Unlikely
Lewis-Potter	BRE	4.9m	41.7%	Unlikely
Igor Jesus	NFO	5.8m	41.7%	Unlikely
Kayode	BRE	4.5m	37.4%	Unlikely
Aaronson	LEE	5.4m	35.5%	Unlikely
L.Paquetá	WHU	5.9m	38.7%	Unlikely
Dalot	MUN	4.5m	36.6%	Unlikely
Martinez	MUN	4.8m	34.5%	Unlikely
Mykolenko	EVE	4.9m	33.4%	Unlikely
Smith Rowe	FUL	5.6m	32.7%	Unlikely
Wharton	CRY	5.0m	32.7%	Unlikely
Matheus N.	MCI	5.5m	32.3%	Unlikely
Bijol	LEE	3.9m	31.8%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Mount	MUN	5.9m	100.4%	Very Likely
Fer López	WOL	5.2m	93.6%	Maybe
Hincapie	ARS	5.3m	92.3%	Maybe
Bellegarde	WOL	5.2m	96.6%	Maybe
Sousa	AVL	3.9m	96.5%	Maybe
Lewis	MCI	4.7m	94.9%	Maybe
Harriman-Annous	ARS	4.5m	94.7%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	94.3%	Unlikely
Adams	BOU	5.0m	94.3%	Unlikely
Abdullahi	SUN	4.3m	93.6%	Unlikely
Robertson	LIV	5.8m	93.7%	Unlikely
Ward-Prowse	WHU	5.6m	89.6%	Unlikely
G.Rodriguez	WHU	4.8m	89.4%	Unlikely
Rees-Dottin	BOU	4.4m	87.7%	Unlikely
Phillips	MCI	4.8m	80.8%	Unlikely
Benitez	CRY	4.0m	82.4%	Unlikely
Arthur	BRE	3.9m	82.7%	Unlikely
Kovačić	MCI	5.9m	82.1%	Unlikely
Grealish	EVE	6.5m	77.4%	Unlikely
Gana	EVE	5.4m	78.2%	Unlikely
Poveda	SUN	4.8m	77.1%	Unlikely
Gvardiol	MCI	6.0m	74.9%	Unlikely
Henderson	CRY	5.1m	76.5%	Unlikely
Roberts	BUR	4.4m	78.5%	Unlikely
M.Salah	LIV	14.0m	75.3%	Unlikely
Bergvall	TOT	5.3m	73.3%	Unlikely
Meslier	LEE	4.2m	73.2%	Unlikely
Woltemade	NEW	7.3m	69.3%	Unlikely
R.Williams	LIV	3.8m	72.6%	Unlikely
Neil	SUN	4.8m	71.3%	Unlikely
Mateta	CRY	7.6m	69.4%	Unlikely
Anthony	BUR	5.1m	70.3%	Unlikely
Bajcetic	LIV	4.3m	70.1%	Unlikely
Nichols	ARS	3.8m	69.9%	Unlikely
Iwobi	FUL	6.3m	68.5%	Unlikely
Onyeka	BRE	4.8m	67.4%	Unlikely
A.García	AVL	3.9m	66.9%	Unlikely
Kporha	CRY	4.0m	66.4%	Unlikely
Wood	NFO	7.2m	66.3%	Unlikely
Weiss	BUR	4.3m	67.2%	Unlikely

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	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	C, Vs
No Change	Pickford	EVE	B, Vs
Up	Verbruggen	BHA	C, Vs
Up	Martinez	AVL	C, Vs
No Change	Kelleher	BRE	A
No Change	Dubravka	BUR	B, £

Last updated: 3 Jan, 2026 9:39am

	Player	Club	Factors
Up	Gabriel Magalhães	ARS	A, Vs
No Change	Keane	EVE	B, Vs, Inj
Up	Mukiele	SUN	A, £
Up	van Hecke	BHA	C, Vs
Up	Cash	AVL	C, Vs
Up	Thiaw	NEW	C, Vs
No Change	Marc Guehi	CRY	C
Down	van Dijk	LIV	B
Down	O’Reilly	MCI	C
Down	Andersen	FUL	B

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Saka	ARS	A, Vs
No Change	Foden	MCI	B
No Change	Matheus Cunha	MUN	B
Up	Rogers	AVL	A, Vs
Up	Bruno Guimarães	NEW	B, Vs
Down	Semenyo	BOU	A
Down	Wirtz	LIV	A
No Change	Grealish	EVE	C, Vs
No Change	Schade	BRE	A
No Change	Minteh	BHA	C, Vs, Inj
No Change	Anderson	NFO	C, £

Last updated: 3 Jan, 2026 9:31am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	A
No Change	Ekitiké	LIV	A
No Change	Bowen	WHU	B, Vs
Up	Watkins	AVL	A, Vs
Up	Calvert-Lewin	LEE	A
Down	Thiago	BRE	C

Last updated: 3 Jan, 2026 9:38am

After the annual winter hiatus, the Scout Squad returns for Gameweek 22.

In this article, our in-house team discuss who they think the best Fantasy Premier League (FPL) players are for the upcoming Gameweek in isolation.

MORE ABOUT THE SCOUT SQUAD

The focus is only on the upcoming Gameweek with the Scout Squad, so there’s no medium-term planning involved.

Staff writer Marc, general manager Sam, deputy editor Tom F and editor Neale each take turns explaining their picks.

The players who get the most votes are much more likely to make the Scout Picks. However, the final XI can’t exceed £83.0m – so occasionally, we have to source cheaper alternatives.

Each of our writers must meet the following requirements for this feature:

At least one sub-£5.0m goalkeeper
At least one sub-£5.0m defender
At least one sub-£6.0m midfielder
At least one sub-£7.0m forward
No more than three players from the same club

SCOUT SQUAD: BEST FPL PLAYERS FOR GAMEWEEK 22

The rest of this article below is completely free to read but requires a Fantasy Football Scout user account for access – you can get yours at no cost here

My heart goes Salalalalah

1 hour, 13 mins ago

Wirtz?

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mixology
3 mins ago
He has been returning, tbf
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Tomerick
just now
What’s the Wirtz that could happen?
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Look at his face!

44 mins ago

What do you do with Gordon and O’Reilly? Give them one more week or sell?

Bale11

41 mins ago

Got offered Salah for Foden. Any views? I think it’s wise taking it seeing how much Phil has cooled off and Cherki/semenyo doing well

Bale11
just now
Draft q
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Letsgo!

37 mins ago

Capt saka or enzo?

carlmas
14 mins ago
Saka (4.5) > Enzo (3.4)
If you have Bruno G (7.5) even better!
Check performance on https://fplprophet.com/performance ,
for easy to use and free transfer optimization as well if you have your team ID handy
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1. TorresMagic™
  9 mins ago
  Please stop with those links.
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  1. carlmas
    just now
    sorry, that was the last one
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Bavarian

28 mins ago

Cash or Chalobah?

Bggz
4 mins ago
chalobahs very consistent
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Bggz

10 mins ago

Which 2 to play? I dont like having Thiago vs Chalobah... RMT says bench Thiago but thats a big call.

Thiago che
Alderete CRY
Chalobah BRE
Caicedo BRE

Bavarian
1 min ago
Never bench a striker
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Philosopher's Stones

5 mins ago

Gotta feel sorry for people who pay money to a site which is recommending to bring in Wirtz.

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