Players/Chelsea/Midfielder

Cole Palmer

MIDChelsea24 years oldat the club since 2023

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Team of the week once

Next: Brentford away, Fri 18 Sept, 20:003

2026/27 season. Owned by 26.8% of managers (2,889,356). Transfers this gameweek: +3707.

Top 10k: 66.7% · Top 100k: 59.0% GW4 estimates

Compare

Price: £9.7m; +0.2m since season start
Points: 26; 6.5 per game
Form: 6.5; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 352; 4 starts
xGI: 1.79; 0.46 per 90
Bonus: 3; 127 BPS
xMins next: 79; 90% to start, 88% for 60+
xPoints next: 6.5; FPL's official expected points, GW5

Availability

FPL updated 24 Aug

AvailableFPL updated 24 Aug

No news. Fit and available.

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
886.65
xGI per 90
830.46
xG per 90
830.30
xA per 90
710.16
Defensive contributions per 90
245.9
Creativity per 90
7221.1
Threat per 90
9628.6
Bonus per 90
840.77
Start rate
61100%

Percentile among 108 midfielders with at least 135 minutes this season. 100 is the best.

2026/27 gameweek by gameweek

4 appearances, 26 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
Season			352	26	2	2	3	127	1.18	0.61	1.79

Where the points came from

26 points

Appearances30%+8
Goals37%+10
Assists22%+6
Bonus11%+3
Cards-1

The categories add up to FPL's total of 26.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 5Nailed

xMins: 79; one fixture
Starts: 90%; 87 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 88%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 94%; fit, as far as FPL knows

GW1

GW2

GW3

Palmer started 3 of the last 3 gameweeks (90, 90, 82 minutes most recently). Recent weeks count most; a solid bar is a start, a pale one is minutes from the bench.

Last 5 average

6.5

season 6.5, 0.0

Returns

75%

3 of 4 games with 5+

Hauls

25%

1 with 10+

Blanks

25%

1 with 2 or fewer

Last five

FUL A

BHA H

ARS A

HUL H

Fixture-adjusted form, last 4 gameweeksFaced average opponents

Adjusted: 6.1; points per gameweek
Raw: 6.5; -0.4 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 1.06x; their defence, 1.00 is average

GW1FUL A · defence 15th13 ×0.90 11.9
GW2BHA H · defence 11th7 ×0.93 6.7
GW3ARS A · defence 1st1 ×1.39 0.6
GW4HUL H · defence 2nd5 ×1.02 5.1

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 4

100% start rate

Minutes per start

3 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

Away2 games

Points: 14
Per game: 7.0
xGI per game: 0.31

Momentum: stableRotation: nailed

Expected against actual

Running hotAnalytics feed: expected

Stat	Actual	Expected	Difference
Goals	2	1.18	+0.82
Assists	2	0.61	+1.39
Goal involvements	4	1.79	+2.21

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 (GW5): 6.5 expected points, FPL's official expected points, GW5.

GW	Projected	Actual	Difference
1	3.2	13	+9.8
2	3.2	7	+3.8
3	10.0	1	-9.0

Average miss 7.53 points over 3 graded gameweeks, under-projected on average by 1.53. 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

GW5
Brentford A
Fri 18 Sept, 20:00 · defence 7th of 20
3
GW6
Bournemouth H
Sat 10 Oct, 15:00 · defence 14th of 20
3
GW7
Everton A
Sat 17 Oct, 12:30 · defence 5th of 20
3
GW8
Spurs H
Sat 24 Oct, 17:30 · defence 10th of 20
3
GW9
Man Utd H
Sat 31 Oct, 12:30 · defence 13th of 20
4
GW10
Sunderland A
Sat 7 Nov, 15:00 · defence 9th of 20
3
GW11
Leeds H
Sat 21 Nov, 15:00 · defence 4th of 20
2
GW12
Nott'm Forest A
Sat 28 Nov, 15:00 · defence 8th 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

Marginal for the money11th of 294 midfielders by PAR

Per gameweek: 5.5; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.1; best cheap midfielders
PAR: +1.4; over the replacement
Per £m: 0.32; 4.2m above the floor

+2.2 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	66.7%	128.7%
Top 100k	59.0%	115.0%

GW4 estimates · 300 managers per cohort · Updated 14 Sept, 06:06 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 GW4 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 is provisional and can change as FPL applies 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

62K

58K out

Ownership, 7 days

+5.4

percentage points

Towards a change

34%

rising

Ownership velocity: rising, tier popular.

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

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

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From the analytics feed

xG trend: overperforming
Form trajectory: accelerating fast
Bonus: average bps
Form: hot

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