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Rayan Cherki

MIDMan City23 years oldat the club since 2025
Available
  • In the current team of the week
  • Team of the week once
  • Most transferred in for Gameweek 3

Next: Liverpool away, Sun 11 Oct, 16:304

2026/27 season. Owned by 28.4% of managers (3,127,493). Transfers this gameweek: +35873.

Top 10k: 15.0% · Top 100k: 10.3% GW5 estimates

Price
£7.8m
+0.3m since season start
Points
34
6.8 per game
Form
4.0
points per game, last 30 days
Minutes
302
4 starts
xGI
2.26
0.67 per 90
Bonus
5
150 BPS
xMins next
62
84% to start, 73% for 60+
xPoints next
4.0
FPL's official expected points, GW6

Availability

no news

Available

No news. Fit and available.

No availability changes recorded this season.

Profile against other midfielders

per 90 minutes, this season

  • Points per 90
    9910.13
  • xGI per 90
    940.67
  • xG per 90
    710.21
  • xA per 90
    990.46
  • Defensive contributions per 90
    43.6
  • Creativity per 90
    9959.3
  • Threat per 90
    9232.2
  • Bonus per 90
    971.49
  • 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, 34 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GWOpponentResultMinPtsGABonusBPSxGxAxGIPrice
1BOU HW 2-1278021280.000.500.507.5
2CRY AW 4-18114203600.350.550.907.5
3COV HW 1-0653000230.210.300.517.7
4MUN AW 1-045100040.030.060.097.8
5SUN HW 5-3848101350.130.130.267.8
Season302343251500.721.542.26

Where the points came from

34 points

  • Appearances23%+8
  • Goals43%+15
  • Assists17%+6
  • Clean sheets3%+1
  • Bonus14%+5
  • Cards-1

The categories add up to FPL's total of 34.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 6Likely starter
xMins
62
one fixture
Starts
84%
71 minutes when he does
Plays 60+
73%
the xPoints threshold
Appears
93%
fit, as far as FPL knows
27
GW1
81
GW2
65
GW3
45
GW4
84
GW5

Cherki started 4 of the last 5 gameweeks (84, 45, 65 minutes most recently). The chance of sixty minutes blends the site's own estimate (63%) with the xPoints model's (83%). Recent weeks count most; a solid bar is a start, a pale one is minutes from the bench.

Last 5 average
6.8
season 6.8, 0.0
Returns
60%
3 of 5 games with 5+
Hauls
20%
1 with 10+
Blanks
20%
1 with 2 or fewer

Last five

8
BOU H
14
CRY A
3
COV H
1
MUN A
8
SUN H
Fixture-adjusted form, last 5 gameweeksFaced average opponents
Adjusted
6.5
points per gameweek
Raw
6.8
-0.3 adjusted against raw
Opponents
0.98x
their defence, 1.00 is average
  • GW1BOU H · defence 11th8 ×1.06 8.4
  • GW2CRY A · defence 19th14 ×0.89 12.7
  • GW3COV H · defence 16th3 ×0.94 2.9
  • GW4MUN A · defence 10th1 ×1.08 1.0
  • GW5SUN H · defence 16th8 ×0.94 7.6

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
69
0 full games
60+ minutes
60%
of team games
From the bench
1
0 unused
Home3 games
Points
19
Per game
6.3
xGI per game
0.42
Away2 games
Points
15
Per game
7.5
xGI per game
0.50
Momentum: decliningRotation: rotation risk

Expected against actual

Running hotAnalytics feed: expected
StatActualExpectedDifference
Goals30.72+2.28
Assists21.54+0.46
Goal involvements52.26+2.74

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

GWProjectedActualDifference
12.68+5.4
22.614+11.4
311.03-8.0
48.31-7.3
56.58+1.5

Average miss 6.72 points over 5 graded gameweeks, under-projected on average by 0.60. How the feed is graded.

Similar players

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

Previous seasons

SeasonPtsPer 90MinGAxGIBonusPrice
2025/261356.86177241313.1166.5 to 6.5

FPL data as of 3 Oct. Pages refresh about every 15 minutes.