Players/Chelsea/Midfielder

Cole Palmer

MIDChelsea24 years oldat the club since 2023

75% chance of playingMuscular injury - 75% chance of playing21 Sept

Team of the week once

Next: Bournemouth at home, Sat 10 Oct, 15:003

2026/27 season. Owned by 25.6% of managers (2,819,148). Transfers this gameweek: -126827.

Top 10k: 48.7% · Top 100k: 53.3% GW5 estimates

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Price: £9.7m; +0.2m since season start
Points: 28; 5.6 per game
Form: 2.7; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 442; 5 starts
xGI: 2.10; 0.43 per 90
Bonus: 3; 148 BPS
xMins next: 61; 69% to start, 67% for 60+
xPoints next: 2.0; FPL's official expected points, GW6

Availability

FPL updated 21 Sept

Doubtful75% chanceFPL updated 21 Sept

Muscular injury - 75% chance of playing

21 SeptDoubt
Muscular injury - 75% chance of playing
24 AugDoubt cleared
Doubt cleared, available again.
24 AugDoubt
Calf injury - 75% chance of playing

Profile against other midfielders

per 90 minutes, this season

Points per 90
825.70
xGI per 90
780.43
xG per 90
800.27
xA per 90
670.16
Defensive contributions per 90
275.9
Creativity per 90
7629.6
Threat per 90
8829.3
Bonus per 90
790.61
Start rate
74100%

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

2026/27 gameweek by gameweek

5 appearances, 28 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GW	Opponent	Result	Min	Pts	G	A	Bonus	BPS	xG	xA	xGI	Price
1	FUL A	W 3-2	82	13	1	1	3	60	0.28	0.19	0.47	9.5
2	BHA H	W 4-3	90	7	1	0	0	28	0.66	0.13	0.79	9.5
3	ARS A	L 1-2	90	1	0	0	0	11	0.11	0.04	0.15	9.6
4	HUL H	D 2-2	90	5	0	1	0	28	0.13	0.25	0.38	9.7
5	BRE A	L 0-3	90	2	0	0	0	21	0.13	0.18	0.31	9.7
Season			442	28	2	2	3	148	1.31	0.79	2.10

Where the points came from

28 points

Appearances34%+10
Goals34%+10
Assists21%+6
Bonus10%+3
Cards-1

The categories add up to FPL's total of 28.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 6Nailed

xMins: 61; one fixture
Starts: 69%; 88 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 67%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 71%; FPL says 75% fit

GW1

GW2

GW3

GW4

GW5

Palmer started 5 of the last 5 gameweeks (90, 90, 90 minutes most recently). FPL puts his chance of playing at 75%. The chance of sixty minutes blends the site's own estimate (68%) with the xPoints model's (66%). Recent weeks count most; a solid bar is a start, a pale one is minutes from the bench.

Last 5 average

5.6

season 5.6, 0.0

Returns

60%

3 of 5 games with 5+

Hauls

20%

1 with 10+

Blanks

40%

2 with 2 or fewer

Last five

FUL A

BHA H

ARS A

HUL H

BRE A

Fixture-adjusted form, last 5 gameweeksFaced average opponents

Adjusted: 5.3; points per gameweek
Raw: 5.6; -0.3 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 1.07x; their defence, 1.00 is average

GW1FUL A · defence 13th13 ×0.91 12.0
GW2BHA H · defence 7th7 ×0.94 6.7
GW3ARS A · defence 3rd1 ×1.36 0.6
GW4HUL H · defence 6th5 ×1.03 5.1
GW5BRE A · defence 5th2 ×1.12 2.0

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

5 of 5

100% start rate

Minutes per start

4 full games

60+ minutes

100%

of team games

From the bench

0 unused

Home2 games

Points: 12
Per game: 6.0
xGI per game: 0.59

Away3 games

Points: 16
Per game: 5.3
xGI per game: 0.31

Expected against actual

Running hotAnalytics feed: expected

Stat	Actual	Expected	Difference
Goals	2	1.31	+0.69
Assists	2	0.79	+1.21
Goal involvements	4	2.10	+1.90

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): 2.0 expected points, FPL's official expected points, GW6.

GW	Projected	Actual	Difference
1	3.2	13	+9.8
2	3.2	7	+3.8
3	10.0	1	-9.0
4	7.0	5	-2.0
5	6.5	2	-4.5

Average miss 5.82 points over 5 graded gameweeks, over-projected on average by 0.38. 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	114	5.25	1954	10	2	13.0	11	10.5 to 10.3
2024/25	214	6.03	3193	15	10	26.3	35	10.5 to 10.5
2023/24	244	8.39	2617	22	13	25.5	32	5.0 to 6.3
2022/23	19	4.78	358	0	1	0.9	0	4.5 to 4.2
2021/22	9	6.69	121	0	1	0.0	0	4.5 to 4.5
2020/21	0	0.00	0	0	0	0.0	0	4.5 to 4.4
2019/20	0	0.00	0	0	0	0.0	0	4.5 to 4.5

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Fixtures ahead

GW6
Bournemouth H
Sat 10 Oct, 15:00 · defence 11th of 20
3
GW7
Everton A
Sat 17 Oct, 12:30 · defence 2nd of 20
3
GW8
Spurs H
Sat 24 Oct, 17:30 · defence 12th of 20
2
GW9
Man Utd H
Sat 31 Oct, 12:30 · defence 10th of 20
4
GW10
Sunderland A
Sun 8 Nov, 14:00 · defence 16th of 20
3
GW11
Leeds H
Sat 21 Nov, 15:00 · defence 1st of 20
3
GW12
Nott'm Forest A
Fri 27 Nov, 20:00 · defence 9th of 20
3
GW13
Crystal Palace H
Wed 2 Dec, 20:00 · defence 19th of 20
2

Average difficulty over the next five: 3. 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 premium35th of 298 midfielders by PAR

Per gameweek: 3.6; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.5; best cheap midfielders
PAR: -0.8; over the replacement
Per £m: -0.20; 4.2m above the floor

+0.3 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	48.7%	49.0%
Top 100k	53.3%	55.0%

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 (2 so far).

This gameweek

no change

price so far

Transfers in

50K

177K out

Ownership, 7 days

-0.2

percentage points

Towards a change

16%

falling

Tonight

16%

FPL's projection, falling

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

Penalties1st choice
Club order: Palmer, Estêvão
Corners and indirect free kicksnot a taker
Club order: James, Neto, Henderson
Direct free kicks2nd choice
Club order: James, Palmer, Rogers

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