GW7 Transfer Suggestions: Pedro and Cherki Lead the Buys, Liverpool Owners Wait for Friday

The market has already voted. De Cuyper, Gross, Joao Pedro, Cherki and Morgan Rogers lead the transfers in. Fernandes, Isak, Szoboszlai, Gakpo and Schade lead the transfers out. Liverpool’s injury list has cleared three names from a lot of squads, and City’s fixtures have pulled in the money they free up. The question this week is which of those moves still have points ahead of them, and which have already been paid for in price rises.

By the time a player tops the transfer table, the price rise has already happened. The only question left is whether the points are still ahead.

Bring In: Joao Pedro (Chelsea, £7.8m)

Pedro is already owned by roughly 70 percent of managers, so this is a catch-up transfer rather than a differential. It is still the right one. He scored twice against Bournemouth for 12 points, his third double-digit haul of the season, and has scored in each of his last three starts against them. He did it after missing Gameweek 5 and international duty with injury, which is why the market had sold him. Chelsea’s schedule is the kindest for attackers in the league, with Tottenham at home next week, and this week he travels to Everton at 12:30 BST. His price has already risen. Waiting costs more, not less.

Bring In: Rayan Cherki (Manchester City, £7.9m)

Cherki is the mid-priced way into the best fixture run in the league. He has four league goals, 18 points across the last two gameweeks, and has been involved in more chances than any City team-mate, with 14 shots and 14 chances created. Ipswich at home, Aston Villa away and Brighton at home form the first half of a run that averages 2.60 on FPL’s own scale. The honest caveat is minutes. He has been benched this season, his playing time fell in Gameweeks 3 and 4, and Foden is back from suspension with a busy schedule ahead. One respected panel rates him a keep rather than a buy for those reasons. If you own no City attacker besides Haaland, he is worth the 7.9m. If you do, hold.

Bring In With Caution: Maxim De Cuyper (Brighton, £5.1m)

De Cuyper is the most-bought player in the game, with roughly 418,000 transfers in, and the case is straightforward. He scored 15 points at Sunderland, his third double-digit haul, he leads all players on points, and his minutes look secure in the short term with Mitoma still out. He is also a defender whose points come from goals as well as clean sheets. The caution is the schedule. Palace at home is soft, but Brighton then go to Liverpool and Manchester City, and Hurzeler has reportedly signalled rotation with a European fixture in the week. Buy him for Palace, check the teamsheet, and do not plan around the two matches after it.

Buy Low: Marcus Tavernier (Bournemouth, £6.1m)

Tavernier has three league goals at 6.1m and ownership of around 7 percent, and the price reflects a team that has not won in six rather than a player who has stopped producing. Sunderland visit on Sunday, 17th with four points and 12 goals conceded. The Differential Picks column covers the case in full. As a transfer, it is the cheapest route to a differential midfielder with a clear fixture.

Consider Moving On

Liverpool owners are the main group with decisions to make. Isak and Gakpo are rated at 0 percent by the official game and are the most-sold players in the market, and there is no price benefit in waiting because they will keep falling. Szoboszlai, owned by more than a quarter of managers, can be held until Friday’s press conference and sold if there is no good news. Christos Tzolis is out until around 1 November and is another sale with a falling price. Kevin Schade was substituted early with a possible injury and is rated at 75 percent, so Friday’s news decides him as well.

Bruno Fernandes is the big sale of the week, with more than 270,000 transfers out, and the case against him is made in the Captain Recommendations column. At 11.9m, and owned by more than a third of managers going into the week, he is a lot of money for a one-point gameweek. If you hold him, the question is what you would buy with the money, and City attackers are the obvious answer.

Budget Watch: Donnarumma in Goal

Gianluigi Donnarumma costs 5.5m, is owned by about 7.5 percent, and kept a clean sheet at Anfield with six saves. City’s next five fixtures are Ipswich, Aston Villa, Brighton, Nottingham Forest and Fulham, and none rates above a 3. A goalkeeper at a club with that run is a cheap way to cover the back end of a team that already contains Haaland.

Price changes run overnight, so anything on the rising list is worth locking in before Friday night rather than after. Deadline is 11:00 BST on Saturday, 17 October, ninety minutes before Everton host Chelsea, and Friday’s press conferences settle most of the injury calls above.