FPL 2025/26 team previews: Everton – Best players, DC magnets + more

Price Change Predictions

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	Mateta	CRY	B
No Change	Thiago	BRE	A
No Change	Welbeck	BHA	B
No Change	Woltemade	NEW	B

Risers

Fallers

Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Woltemade	NEW	7.4m	139.7%	Very Likely
Van Hecke	BHA	4.4m	107.8%	Very Likely
Lammens	MUN	5.0m	100.9%	Very Likely
J.Timber	ARS	6.4m	91.4%	Maybe
Casemiro	MUN	5.5m	96.0%	Maybe
Raya	ARS	5.9m	80.8%	Unlikely
Guéhi	CRY	5.1m	76.3%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	89.0%	Unlikely
Roefs	SUN	4.7m	84.7%	Unlikely
Foden	MCI	8.3m	72.4%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	83.4%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	84.3%	Unlikely
Tavernier	BOU	5.5m	84.8%	Unlikely
Szoboszlai	LIV	6.6m	82.6%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	80.8%	Unlikely
J.Palhinha	TOT	5.5m	77.6%	Unlikely
Matheus N.	MCI	5.3m	75.6%	Unlikely
Neto	CHE	7.2m	64.2%	Unlikely
Rogers	AVL	6.9m	76.8%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	71.2%	Unlikely
Gvardiol	MCI	5.8m	68.5%	Unlikely
Saka	ARS	10.1m	62.7%	Unlikely
De Ligt	MUN	5.0m	71.5%	Unlikely
Amad	MUN	6.3m	65.1%	Unlikely
Sánchez	CHE	4.8m	62.9%	Unlikely
King	FUL	4.5m	62.3%	Unlikely
O.Dango	BRE	6.0m	56.0%	Unlikely
Ballard	SUN	4.6m	55.3%	Unlikely
Schade	BRE	7.0m	54.8%	Unlikely
Lacroix	CRY	5.1m	48.3%	Unlikely
Donnarumma	MCI	5.7m	53.3%	Unlikely
Chalobah	CHE	5.2m	48.2%	Unlikely
Sessegnon	FUL	5.4m	48.0%	Unlikely
Burn	NEW	5.1m	39.0%	Unlikely
Gusto	CHE	4.9m	45.8%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	39.4%	Unlikely
Barnes	NEW	6.4m	38.6%	Unlikely
Livramento	NEW	4.9m	39.7%	Unlikely
Anderson	NFO	5.4m	42.1%	Unlikely
Kroupi.Jr	BOU	4.6m	43.9%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Mbeumo	MUN	8.6m	103.6%	Very Likely
Caicedo	CHE	5.9m	114.5%	Very Likely
Strand Larsen	WOL	6.3m	97.3%	Likely
Rodney	CRY	4.5m	99.5%	Likely
Vicario	TOT	5.0m	97.1%	Maybe
Tel	TOT	6.3m	94.9%	Maybe
Coppola	BHA	4.3m	95.1%	Maybe
Dixon	EVE	3.9m	94.7%	Maybe
Lewis	MCI	4.8m	92.7%	Maybe
Pinnock	BRE	4.3m	96.0%	Maybe
Maguire	MUN	4.4m	92.4%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	94.3%	Unlikely
Kerkez	LIV	5.7m	91.1%	Unlikely
J.Araujo	BOU	3.9m	93.4%	Unlikely
Welch	EVE	3.9m	92.1%	Unlikely
Travers	EVE	4.4m	91.0%	Unlikely
George	CHE	4.9m	91.0%	Unlikely
Mainoo	MUN	4.7m	90.9%	Unlikely
Ortega Moreno	MCI	4.8m	90.5%	Unlikely
Georginio	BHA	5.7m	81.7%	Unlikely
Dasilva	BRE	5.0m	79.1%	Unlikely
Kelleher	BRE	4.5m	88.8%	Unlikely
Knight	BHA	4.5m	84.0%	Unlikely
Boateng	BUR	4.8m	89.3%	Unlikely
Darlow	LEE	4.0m	86.7%	Unlikely
Mac Allister	LIV	6.3m	84.2%	Unlikely
Arrizabalaga	ARS	4.2m	84.3%	Unlikely
Abbott	NFO	3.9m	84.9%	Unlikely
Cox	BRE	4.0m	84.0%	Unlikely
Matete	SUN	4.4m	81.9%	Unlikely
Neave	NEW	4.4m	82.9%	Unlikely
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	83.2%	Unlikely
M.Bizot	AVL	4.3m	85.1%	Unlikely
Baleba	BHA	4.7m	82.4%	Unlikely
McGill	BHA	4.0m	83.3%	Unlikely
Gruev	LEE	4.8m	81.3%	Unlikely
Young	AVL	4.4m	81.1%	Unlikely
Sonne	BUR	3.9m	81.5%	Unlikely
Akinmboni	BOU	3.9m	81.4%	Unlikely
Christie	BOU	5.0m	79.7%	Unlikely

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Watchlists

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	C, Vs
No Change	Alisson	LIV	C, Vs
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	C, Vs, Sus
Up	Ramsdale	NEW	C
No Change	Sels	NFO	C, Vs
No Change	Dubravka	BUR	C, £

Last updated: 2 Dec, 2025 3:14pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	B, Vs
No Change	Muñoz	CRY	A, Sus
No Change	Jurriën Timber	ARS	C, Vs
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	A, Vs
No Change	de Ligt	MUN	C, Vs
Up	Thiaw	NEW	A
No Change	Andersen	FUL	A
No Change	Milenkovic	NFO	C, Vs
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	B, £
No Change	Mukiele	SUN	C, £

Last updated: 2 Dec, 2025 2:34pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Saka	ARS	A, Vs
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	A, Vs
No Change	Foden	MCI	A, Vs
No Change	Semenyo	BOU	C
Up	Gakpo	LIV	A, Vs
No Change	Minteh	BHA	A
Up	Anderson	NFO	A, Vs, £
No Change	Fernández	CHE	B
Up	Bruno Guimarães	NEW	B

Last updated: 2 Dec, 2025 2:44pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	Mateta	CRY	B
No Change	Thiago	BRE	A
No Change	Welbeck	BHA	B
No Change	Woltemade	NEW	B

The clean-sheet-keeping, defensive-contribution-accumulating (and low-scoring…) goliaths of Everton are up next in our Fantasy Premier League (FPL) team previews.

In this guide, we’ll be looking at Everton’s best FPL picks for the upcoming campaign.

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EVERTON: REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL

MOYES’ IMPACT

The above image from Football365 shows the Premier League table from the point of David Moyes’ appointment.

Moyes lost his first game as returning Everton boss but after that, it was just three defeats in 18 games. Those three losses all came against sides in the top four.

Away form was particularly strong, with five wins and just six goals conceded in nine outings on the road.

According to Statsbomb, Everton didn’t have an expected goals conceded (xGC) of greater than 1.04 in any of their final 16 matches. They had done so on 15 occasions before that.

Can the honeymoon period continue? Oliver Glasner is a cautionary recent example of momentum loss: he had a brilliant spell at the back-end of 2023/24 but Palace were winless in eight in his first full season at the helm.

DEFENSIVELY SOUND

We’ve already touched on Everton’s big selling point above: their defence.

This is a backline that knows each other well and has barely changed over the last two years. The one new addition, Jake O’Brien (£5.0m), is even an upgrade on what went before at right-back, despite being a more natural centre-half.

The continuity, and the pragmatic approaches of Messrs Dyche and Moyes, have produced results. Everton have been in the top five for fewest goals conceded over the last two seasons. A combined 25 clean sheets have arrived in that time, a tally that only Arsenal (31) and Manchester City (26) can better.

Above: Premier League clubs sorted by lowest xGC per game over the last two years

EVERTON: REASONS TO BE FEARFUL

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Obi 1 Kenobi 0

4 months, 11 hours ago

Please help me, I can’t stop tinkering, for the love of god someone tell me to leave it like this:

Verbruggen
Colwill, VVD, VDV, Wan Bissaka
Wirtz, Palmer, Bruno, Rice
Haaland, Watkins

Dubravka, Tonali, Guiu, Rodon

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Stevie92
4 months, 11 hours ago
If your happy not having Salah then go for it
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1. Obi 1 Kenobi 0
  4 months, 10 hours ago
  I wouldn’t say I’m happy not having Salah, I just think there’s more alt options at Liverpool (Wirtz, Gakpo, Ekitike etc) than there are alt Haaland options at City
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2. Obi 1 Kenobi 0
  4 months, 10 hours ago
  P.s already changed it, Tonali > Le Fee Rodon > Konsa (I need help)
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