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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Cunha	MUN	8.1m	47.5%	Likely
Calvert-Lewin	LEE	5.8m	94.6%	Likely
Rice	ARS	7.2m	94.8%	Likely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	98.9%	Likely
Hall	NEW	5.2m	78.2%	Maybe
Mukiele	SUN	4.2m	98.0%	Maybe
Alderete	SUN	4.0m	93.1%	Unlikely
Guéhi	CRY	5.3m	89.9%	Unlikely
Gvardiol	MCI	6.0m	82.1%	Unlikely
O'Reilly	MCI	5.3m	82.7%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	80.9%	Unlikely
Virgil	LIV	5.9m	78.1%	Unlikely
Tarkowski	EVE	5.5m	69.5%	Unlikely
Saliba	ARS	5.9m	73.4%	Unlikely
Heaven	MUN	3.8m	68.4%	Unlikely
Roefs	SUN	4.8m	70.4%	Unlikely
Tete	FUL	4.5m	69.7%	Unlikely
Dalot	MUN	4.5m	31.8%	Unlikely
Pickford	EVE	5.5m	63.8%	Unlikely
Watkins	AVL	8.5m	64.3%	Unlikely
Andersen	FUL	4.6m	66.6%	Unlikely
Cherki	MCI	6.7m	19.5%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	61.8%	Unlikely
Dorgu	MUN	4.2m	0.7%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	55.9%	Unlikely
Mount	MUN	5.9m	61.1%	Unlikely
Ekitiké	LIV	9.1m	24.7%	Unlikely
Konaté	LIV	5.4m	54.3%	Unlikely
Schade	BRE	7.0m	47.1%	Unlikely
E.Le Fée	SUN	4.9m	53.1%	Unlikely
Keane	EVE	4.8m	17.2%	Unlikely
Igor Jesus	NFO	5.8m	49.8%	Unlikely
Trossard	ARS	6.9m	52.8%	Unlikely
Rúben	MCI	5.7m	50.6%	Unlikely
Palmer	CHE	10.4m	44.5%	Unlikely
De Cuyper	BHA	4.3m	46.1%	Unlikely
Van den Berg	BRE	4.5m	50.1%	Unlikely
A.Becker	LIV	5.4m	46.2%	Unlikely
Thiaw	NEW	5.0m	39.2%	Unlikely
Smith Rowe	FUL	5.6m	45.9%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Cucurella	CHE	6.2m	101.8%	Very Likely
Barnes	BUR	4.3m	100.5%	Very Likely
Nwaneri	ARS	5.1m	100.3%	Very Likely
Yoro	MUN	4.3m	100.1%	Very Likely
Trafford	MCI	4.6m	100.1%	Very Likely
Adams	BOU	5.0m	97.7%	Likely
Tasker	BHA	3.9m	99.4%	Likely
Bevan	BOU	3.9m	99.5%	Likely
James	LEE	5.3m	100.0%	Very Likely
Mosquera	ARS	5.4m	97.9%	Maybe
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	98.0%	Maybe
Fitzgerald	MUN	4.4m	93.0%	Maybe
Fer López	WOL	5.2m	96.5%	Maybe
Mateta	CRY	7.7m	85.3%	Maybe
Anthony	BUR	5.2m	88.5%	Maybe
Johnson	SUN	3.9m	93.5%	Unlikely
Jair Cunha	NFO	4.3m	96.5%	Unlikely
Hermansen	WHU	4.3m	93.7%	Unlikely
Broggio	AVL	4.5m	90.1%	Unlikely
O.Dango	BRE	5.9m	77.8%	Unlikely
Robertson	LIV	5.8m	90.2%	Unlikely
March	BHA	5.8m	82.4%	Unlikely
Aké	MCI	5.3m	89.6%	Unlikely
Seung soo	NEW	4.4m	87.1%	Unlikely
Benitez	CRY	4.0m	88.8%	Unlikely
L.Guilherme	WHU	4.9m	97.0%	Unlikely
Bellegarde	WOL	5.2m	88.4%	Unlikely
Saka	ARS	10.3m	77.5%	Unlikely
Morgan	BRE	4.4m	84.9%	Unlikely
Reinildo	SUN	3.9m	84.4%	Unlikely
Bruno G.	NEW	7.0m	90.0%	Unlikely
Gibbs-White	NFO	7.3m	90.6%	Unlikely
Bayindir	MUN	4.8m	86.5%	Unlikely
Agbadou	WOL	4.3m	81.6%	Unlikely
R.Gomes	WOL	4.4m	83.0%	Unlikely
Raúl	FUL	6.3m	77.0%	Unlikely
Anderson	SUN	3.9m	81.9%	Unlikely
Sousa	AVL	3.9m	79.4%	Unlikely
Wan-Bissaka	WHU	4.2m	79.3%	Unlikely
Bettinelli	MCI	3.9m	72.5%	Unlikely

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	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	B
Up	Pickford	EVE	B, Vs
Down	Alisson	LIV	C, Vs
Down	Donnarumma	MCI	B, Vs, Sus
No Change	Kelleher	BRE	B, Vs
No Change	Dubravka	BUR	C, £

Last updated: 26 Dec, 2025 1:46pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	C, Vs
No Change	Jurriën Timber	ARS	C
Up	Keane	EVE	Vs
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	Marc Guehi	CRY	A
No Change	van den Berg	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Thiaw	NEW	C
Down	Andersen	FUL	C
No Change	Milenkovic	NFO	C, Sus
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	A
No Change	Mukiele	SUN	C, £

Last updated: 26 Dec, 2025 1:50pm

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

Last updated: 26 Dec, 2025 1:54pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	A, Vs
Up	Ekitiké	LIV	A, Vs
Up	Bowen	WHU	B, Vs
Down	Thiago	BRE	C, Vs, Inj
No Change	Mateta	CRY	C
No Change	Woltemade	NEW	B, Rest

Last updated: 26 Dec, 2025 1:56pm

Getting the right backline in your winter Wildcard will be crucial. For those of you either still with a Wildcard or looking to overhaul your backline here is a list of the best cheap defensive rotations, which offer good rotation until the end of the season. I have included some of the key players to consider as well as the ideal fixture list (upper case for home games) using these pairings.

SWANSEA – SUNDERLAND

Players to consider: Kyle Naughton* (Swansea, 4.3) and Patrick van Aanholt (Sunderland, 4.2)

BUR/SUN/QPR/WBA/bur/hul/AVL/avl/HUL/CPL/lei/new/STO/eve/LEI/cpl

*Assuming the rumoured Naughton transfer from Tottenham goes through.

SWANSEA – STOKE

Players to consider: Naughton (4.3) and Philipp Wollscheid (Stoke, 4.5)

QPR/SUN/wba/avl/HUL/EVE/wba/CPL/HUL/EVE/lei/SUN/STO/TOT/bur/cpl

SWANSEA – WEST BROM

Players to consider: Naughton (4.3) and Andre Wisdom (West Brom, 4.5) or Chris Baird (West Brom, 3.9)

TOT/SUN/wba/sun/bur/avl/STO/avl/HUL/LEI/lei/new/STO/new/MCI/cpl

STOKE – WEST BROM

Players to consider: Wollshield (4.5) and Wisdom (4.5) or Baird (3.9m)

QPR/bur/SWA/avl/HUL/avl/STO/CPL/QPR/LEI/cpl/SUN/swa/new/bur/LIV

SUNDERLAND – ASTON VILLA

Players to consider: Van Aanholt (4.2) and Alan Hutton (Aston Villa, 4.4)

BUR/swa/QPR/WBA/new/WBA/AVL/SWA/NEW/CPL/QPR/sto/EVE/WHM/LEI/BUR

NEWCASTLE – WEST BROM

Players to consider: Paul Dummett (Newcastle, 4.3) and Wisdom (4.5) or Baird (3.9)

hul/bur/cpl/sun/AVL/avl/STO/ARS/QPR/LEI/cpl/SWA/lei/WBA/qpr/WHM

LEICESTER – HULL

Players to consider: Marcin Wasilewski (Leicester, 4.0) and Curtis Davies (Hull, 4.8) or Michael Dawson (Hull, 4.6)

NEW/CPL/AVL/QPR/sto/SUN/HUL/tot/swa/wba/SWA/bur/NEW/BUR/sun/QPR

Jaffalicious! #SomosCubanos

10 years, 11 months ago

Thanks Jonty!

With Naughton passing his medical, it looks like a lot of these rotations are viable.

The Hull players mentioned are slightly above budget but that is due to the sheer amount of injuries they have.

Let me know if anyone has found any more. I may post an update involving triple rotations if it's something the community are interested in.

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J ⚒ Gimme ur Mané
10 years, 11 months ago
I like the Swansea Sunderland combo of naughton/van aanholt!

Thanks.
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J0E
10 years, 11 months ago
no worries - thanks for posting.
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BubbleBlower
10 years, 11 months ago
Jaffalicious, i would greatly appreciate your views on triple rotations.
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J ⚒ Gimme ur Mané

This is a great article, thanks.

mambo

Good stuff, thanks!

Sylvester the Investor

Sunderland Newcastle is missing

Clam. ☘️

A triple rotation article would be brilliant!

stuart21

Do u think Monreal will get regular game time? Put him in instead of Chambers for AVL (H)

True Blue

Who is the cheapest nailed on option in the stoke defence? When are shawcross and pieters expected back, and what will it do to wollshield's playing time?

Evanio

Fantastic analysis Jaffa, thanks mate.

If you do a triple rotation article I'd certainly be very interested to hear your thoughts.

Same as most others, changing my WC plans every few seconds 🙂 currently toying with 3 or even 4 cheap defenders to try and get some of the costlier mini-differentials further up the pitch.

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