Players/Everton/Midfielder

James Garner

MIDEverton25 years oldat the club since 2022

Available

Next: Hull City away, Sun 11 Oct, 14:002

2026/27 season. Owned by 0.2% of managers (22,025). Transfers this gameweek: -244.

Top 10k: 0.0% · Top 100k: 0.3% GW5 estimates

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Price: £6.0m; unchanged this season
Points: 11; 2.2 per game
Form: 3.0; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 328; 4 starts
xGI: 0.37; 0.10 per 90
Bonus: 0; 71 BPS
xMins next: 71; 84% to start, 88% for 60+
xPoints next: 3.0; FPL's official expected points, GW6

Availability

FPL updated 6 Sept

AvailableFPL updated 6 Sept

No news. Fit and available.

6 SeptDoubt cleared
Doubt cleared, available again.
6 SeptDoubt
Unspecified injury - 75% chance of playing
25 JulDoubt cleared
Doubt cleared, available again.
25 JulUpgraded
Groin injury - 25% chance of playing
25 JulNews updated
Groin injury - Unknown return date

Profile against other midfielders

per 90 minutes, this season

Points per 90
243.02
xGI per 90
170.10
xG per 90
280.05
xA per 90
240.05
Defensive contributions per 90
9212.3
Creativity per 90
4718.7
Threat per 90
143.6
Bonus per 90
280.00
Start rate
3580%

Percentile among 96 midfielders with at least 225 minutes this season. 100 is the best.

2026/27 gameweek by gameweek

5 appearances, 11 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GW	Opponent	Result	Min	Pts	BPS	xG	xA	xGI	Price
1	CRY H	W 2-0	11	1	6	0.00	0.03	0.03	6.0
2	BOU A	D 1-1	61	1	9	0.00	0.00	0.00	6.0
3	MUN H	D 2-2	76	2	19	0.00	0.08	0.08	6.0
4	TOT A	D 0-0	90	4	23	0.04	0.02	0.06	6.0
5	IPS H	W 1-0	90	3	14	0.16	0.04	0.20	6.0
Season			328	11	71	0.20	0.17	0.37

Where the points came from

11 points

Appearances69%+9
Clean sheets15%+2
Defensive contributions15%+2
Cards-2

The categories add up to FPL's total of 11.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 6Likely starter

xMins: 71; one fixture
Starts: 84%; 82 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 88%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 93%; fit, as far as FPL knows

GW1

GW2

GW3

GW4

GW5

Garner started 4 of the last 5 gameweeks (90, 90, 76 minutes most recently). The chance of sixty minutes blends the site's own estimate (83%) with the xPoints model's (93%). Recent weeks count most; a solid bar is a start, a pale one is minutes from the bench.

Last 5 average

2.2

season 2.2, 0.0

Returns

0 of 5 games with 5+

Hauls

0 with 10+

Blanks

60%

3 with 2 or fewer

Last five

CRY H

BOU A

MUN H

TOT A

IPS H

Fixture-adjusted form, last 5 gameweeksFaced average opponents

Adjusted: 2.2; points per gameweek
Raw: 2.2; -0.0 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 0.99x; their defence, 1.00 is average

GW1CRY H · defence 19th1 ×0.89 1.0
GW2BOU A · defence 11th1 ×1.06 0.9
GW3MUN H · defence 10th2 ×1.08 2.0
GW4TOT A · defence 12th4 ×1.00 4.0
GW5IPS H · defence 18th3 ×0.92 2.9

About what it looks: the opponents were close to average. Points above the appearance points are scaled by the opponent's defence (expected goals conceded per game from the analytics table), shrunk toward the league average early in the season and capped between 0.6 and 1.5.

Starts

4 of 5

80% start rate

Minutes per start

2 full games

60+ minutes

80%

of team games

From the bench

0 unused

Home3 games

Points: 6
Per game: 2.0
xGI per game: 0.10

Away2 games

Points: 5
Per game: 2.5
xGI per game: 0.03

Expected against actual

On track

Stat	Expected	Difference
Goals	0.20	-0.20
Assists	0.17	-0.17
Goal involvements	0.37	-0.37

Expected numbers are FPL's own xG, xA and xGC, summed over the gameweeks played. A big positive difference tends to fall back; a big negative one tends to catch up.

xPoints record

frozen at each deadline, graded after

Next gameweek (GW6): 3.0 expected points, FPL's official expected points, GW6.

GW	Projected	Actual	Difference
1	0.5	1	+0.5
2	2.2	1	-1.2
3	1.0	2	+1.0
4	1.3	4	+2.7
5	2.0	3	+1.0

Average miss 1.28 points over 5 graded gameweeks, under-projected on average by 0.80. How the feed is graded.

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Nearest by per-90 profile and price among players in the same position with enough minutes. Not a recommendation, a comparison.

Previous seasons

Season	Pts	Per 90	Min	G	A	xGI	Bonus	Price
2025/26	159	4.19	3413	2	7	8.3	13	5.0 to 5.2
2024/25	42	2.38	1590	0	1	2.0	0	5.0 to 4.9
2023/24	87	2.61	3001	1	2	6.4	3	5.0 to 4.9
2022/23	25	2.83	796	0	1	1.2	0	4.5 to 4.5
2020/21	0	0.00	0	0	0	0.0	0	4.5 to 4.4
2019/20	1	11.25	8	0	0	0.0	0	4.5 to 4.3
2018/19	1	90.00	1	0	0	0.0	0	4.5 to 4.5

Your team

Checking your squad.

Fixtures ahead

GW6
Hull City A
Sun 11 Oct, 14:00 · defence 6th of 20
2
GW7
Chelsea H
Sat 17 Oct, 12:30 · defence 20th of 20
4
GW8
Arsenal A
Sat 24 Oct, 15:00 · defence 3rd of 20
5
GW9
Newcastle A
Mon 2 Nov, 20:00 · defence 14th of 20
3
GW10
Coventry City H
Fri 6 Nov, 20:00 · defence 16th of 20
2
GW11
Brentford A
Mon 23 Nov, 20:00 · defence 5th of 20
3
GW12
Liverpool H
Sun 29 Nov, 12:00 · defence 4th of 20
4
GW13
Aston Villa A
Wed 2 Dec, 20:00 · defence 15th of 20
3

Average difficulty over the next five: 3.2. 1 is easiest, 5 hardest, by FPL's rating. The rank is the opponent's attack or defence among the 20 clubs by expected goals this season, 1 being the strongest.

Value over replacement

points above the cheap option

Not worth the premium47th of 298 midfielders by PAR

Per gameweek: 3.2; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.5; best cheap midfielders
PAR: -1.3; over the replacement
Per £m: -2.62; 0.5m above the floor

-0.2 against players at his price. Replacement is the median of the best playing players at or below the floor price for the position; per million is PAR over the price above that floor. Every player by PAR.

Price and ownership

Ownership by rank

Sample	Selected by	EO
Top 10k	0.0%	0.0%
Top 100k	0.3%	0.0%

GW5 estimates · 300 managers per cohort · Updated 3 Oct, 06:09 UTC

A daily sample spread across 20 rank bands in each cohort, using FPL's Overall standings at collection time (including its tie order). These are estimates, so small percentage differences can be sampling noise. Ownership counts all 15 players in the published GW5 squad, including the bench; transfers since the deadline are private. EO (effective ownership) uses FPL's scoring multipliers: captains count twice, triple captains three times, and only scoring players count. EO includes FPL’s finalized substitutions.

Daily since 9 Aug: blue is price, grey is ownership, dots are the days the price moved.

This gameweek

no change

price so far

Transfers in

2K out

Ownership, 7 days

0.0

percentage points

Towards a change

rising

Tonight

FPL's projection, rising

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

Penalties2nd choice
Club order: Barry, Garner
Corners and indirect free kicks1st choice
Club order: Garner, Dewsbury-Hall, Hackney
Direct free kicks1st choice
Club order: Garner

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