The transfer window is three weeks from done, but the 2026/27 FPL board has already been redrawn twice over. Since our first look on 5 August, Mohamed Salah has signed for Trabzonspor, Bruno Guimarães has swapped black-and-white for red-and-white, and Manchester City have started pricing in the exit of Rodri. Squads are still settling — the window doesn’t close until 23:00 BST on 1 September, after Gameweek 2 — but the direction of travel is clear.

This is the full club-by-club breakdown: every confirmed move that matters, the potential moves still live, and — the part most FPL managers skip — what the churn does to the players who didn’t go anywhere. Transfers don’t just add assets to the game; they quietly raise or lower the ceiling of the players left behind. That’s the angle that wins leagues.

Prices and ownership are live FPL values (snapshot 13 August). Fees are as reported by the clubs and the major wires. Last season’s points and xGI draw on the FPL Core Insights dataset.

The window at a glance

The moves that move the needle — biggest deals of the summer so far, with last season’s FPL points for context:

Player From → To Fee (reported) FPL price Own % 25/26 pts
Elliot Anderson Nott’m Forest → Man City ~£115m (British record) £6.5m MID 11.3% 166
Morgan Rogers Aston Villa → Chelsea ~£117m £7.5m MID 26.8% 169
Sandro Tonali Newcastle → Tottenham ~£92.5m £5.5m MID 4.2% 81
Mateus Fernandes West Ham → Tottenham ~£85m £6.0m MID 2.9% 135
Bruno Guimarães Newcastle → Arsenal £75m £7.0m MID 10.3% 149
Anthony Gordon Newcastle → Barcelona ~£60.5m — (left PL) — —
Maxence Lacroix Crystal Palace → Chelsea ~£52m £6.0m DEF 11.4% —
Jan Paul van Hecke Brighton → Tottenham ~£52m £5.0m DEF 8.5% 147
Andrey Santos Chelsea → Man Utd £48m £5.0m MID 1.3% —
Youri Tielemans Aston Villa → Man Utd £35m £6.0m MID 1.5% 68

And the two exits that aren’t on the board at all: Mohamed Salah (Liverpool → Trabzonspor, free, signed 6 August) and Rodri (Manchester City → Barcelona/Real Madrid, deal pending), whose departures reshape two title-winning midfields.

Club by club

Arsenal — champions reload the midfield

In: Bruno Guimarães (£75m, Newcastle), Christos Tzolis (£34m, Club Brugge), Piero Hincapié (~£42m, Leverkusen), Illan Meslier (free, Leeds). Out: Leandro Trossard (Besiktas), Jakub Kiwior (Porto), Christian Nørgaard (Everton), Karl Hein (Werder Bremen).

Potential: The Vinícius Júnior saga is dead — he extended at Real Madrid to 2032. Myles Lewis-Skelly has been offered to Manchester United as a left-back solution, though a deal looks unlikely this month.

Stayers watch: Bruno G. (£7.0m, 149 pts last season) plugs straight into the double-pivot next to Declan Rice (£7.5m, 179 pts) — that’s a genuine upgrade on the engine room, and it should let Rice push higher. Saka (£9.5m) posted just 147 pts in an injury-shortened season (7.37 xG / 6.87 xA); a full campaign with this midfield behind him has him underpriced. The flag is Saliba (£6.0m, injured) — out for an extended period, so Arsenal’s premium defensive points may need a rethink.

Aston Villa — the cost of the Chelsea raid

In: Alejandro Garnacho (loan, Chelsea), João Gomes (~£40m, Wolves), Johan Manzambi (~£50m, Freiburg), Modou Keba Cissé (LASK). Out: Morgan Rogers (Chelsea, ~£117m), Youri Tielemans (Man Utd), Lucas Digne (PSG), Donyell Malen (Roma), Enzo Barrenechea (Benfica).

Potential: Endrick is linked with a loan from Real Madrid; nothing close yet.

Stayers watch: This is the window’s clearest supply-line story. Ollie Watkins (£8.0m, 154 pts, 14 goals) just lost his two best creators in one window — Rogers (10 goals, 8 assists) and Tielemans — and Garnacho is a winger who finishes rather than feeds. Watkins’ 14 goals came on 14.16 xG; a thinner supply line makes repeating that harder. Treat Villa’s attack as wait-and-see until the new shape is legible.

Bournemouth — a new voice, a new back line

In: Antonio Silva (~£21m, Benfica), Álvaro Rodríguez (~£25m, Elche), Juanlu Sánchez (£11m, Sevilla), Alex Jiménez (£19m, Milan). Out: Marcos Senesi (free, Tottenham), Hamed Traoré (Marseille), Luis Sinisterra (Cruzeiro).

Potential: Quiet on the outgoing front; the squad is largely set under new manager Marco Rose.

Stayers watch: Evanilson (£6.0m, 113 pts) remains the attacking spearhead, but the story is Senesi’s exit — his 6.22 xGI from centre-back walked to Tottenham for nothing, removing a quiet source of attacking returns. Rose’s arrival makes the whole defence a “see the system first” call.

Brentford — reloading without their talisman

In: Mamadou Sangaré (~£40m, Lens), Callum Wilson (free, West Ham), Jaidon Anthony (~£18m, Burnley), Jannik Schuster (£18m, Salzburg). Out: Jordan Henderson (free, Chelsea), Frank Onyeka (Coventry).

Stayers watch: Mbeumo left last summer; the scoring mantle now sits with the forwards. Damsgaard (£5.5m, 113 pts) is the value pick of a side that still creates chances at a top-half rate. Callum Wilson (75 pts in an injury-hit year) is a low-ownership differential if he stays fit.

Brighton — a rebuild disguised as a clearout

In: Luka Vuskovic (£50m, Tottenham), Pascal Struijk (~£23m, Leeds), Zadok Yohanna (~£28m, AIK), Costinha, Michael Svoboda, Rodrigo Rego. Out: Jan Paul van Hecke (Tottenham), Danny Welbeck (Chelsea), Carl Rushworth (Coventry), Facundo Buonanotte (loan), Diego Coppola, Joel Veltman (West Ham), James Milner (retired), Solly March, Adam Webster.

Stayers watch: João Pedro left in January and Welbeck followed this summer — the attack is now Mitoma (£6.0m) and Minteh (£6.0m, 113 pts) and nobody else’s. That’s concentrated responsibility and, if Mitoma recovers from injury, concentrated points. Brighton’s defence was built on van Hecke’s ball-playing; Vuskovic arrives as the replacement, so the clean-sheet baseline shouldn’t collapse.

Chelsea — the Xabi Alonso reload, £400m edition

In: Morgan Rogers (£117m, Villa), Geovany Quenda (~£50m, Sporting), Marco Palestra (~£49m, Atalanta), Maxence Lacroix (£52m, Palace), Valentin Barco (~£34m, Strasbourg), Emmanuel Emegha (~£25m, Strasbourg), Danny Welbeck (~£5m, Brighton), Jordan Henderson (free, Brentford), Pep Chavarría (~£19m, Rayo), Denner, Dastan Satpaev. Out: Marc Cucurella (Real Madrid), Andrey Santos (Man Utd), Trevoh Chalobah (Como), Tyrique George (Everton), Alejandro Garnacho (loan, Villa), Filip Jörgensen (loan).

Stayers watch: The attack now runs through Rogers (£7.5m, 26.8% owned) — the summer’s most-bought new signing after 25 goal involvements for Villa. Cole Palmer (£9.5m) dropped to 104 pts last season (10.14 xG / 2.38 xA) as Chelsea laboured to tenth; a functioning creator beside him under Alonso is the single biggest reason to buy the Palmer bounce-back. João Pedro (£7.5m, 55.8% owned, 176 pts) is the most-owned striker in the game — but with Welbeck, Emegha and N.Jackson around, the centre-forward minutes are a three-way share. Wait on the Alonso XI before doubling up.

Coventry City — Lampard’s promoted gamblers

In: Caleb Yirenkyi (club-record ~£23m, Nordsjælland), Carl Rushworth (~£26m, Brighton), Loum Tchaouna (~£23m, Burnley), Aurèle Amenda (~£18m, Frankfurt), Gustavo Hamer (~£7m, Sheffield United), Frank Onyeka (£7m, Brentford). Out: Jamie Allen, Brad Collins, Norman Bassette (loan).

Stayers watch: A genuinely ambitious promoted side — Rushworth was a key piece of last season’s promotion side and returns as first-choice. Tchaouna (£5.5m) is the one with prior PL pedigree. Most of the squad is new, so the FPL plays (a £4.5m/£5.0m enabler or two) are about finding the guaranteed starters.

Crystal Palace — the Eze-shaped hole gets filled

In: Dwight McNeil (~£26m, Everton), Takehiro Tomiyasu (free, Ajax), Óscar Mingueza (free, Celta). Out: Brennan Johnson (Everton, swap), Maxence Lacroix (Chelsea), Danny Imray, Nathaniel Clyne.

Stayers watch: Eze left in January; Jean-Philippe Mateta (£6.5m, 107 pts, 11 goals) is now the focal point, and McNeil’s delivery arrives to help supply him. Dean Henderson (£5.0m, 124 pts) remains a solid budget keeper. Palace are quietly fine — the ceiling is just lower without Eze’s 5+ xG seasons.

Everton — the biggest quiet rebuild

In: Brennan Johnson (~£26m, Palace), Christian Nørgaard (£8m, Arsenal), Tyrique George (~£21m, Chelsea), Hayden Hackney (~£19m, Middlesbrough), Merlin Röhl (~£25m, Freiburg). Out: Dwight McNeil (Palace, swap), Idrissa Gueye, Séamus Coleman.

Stayers watch: Iliman Ndiaye (£6.0m, 128 pts) is still the budget-midfield pick of the division, and the arrivals — Johnson’s pace, Röhl’s craft, Nørgaard’s steel — are there to feed him, not bench him. Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (£6.5m, 151 pts, 8G 7A) is the under-owned name to know. Everton’s midfield was rebuilt around the players who already score the points.

Fulham — two Real Madrid kids arrive

In: Shea Charles (~£30m, Southampton), Gonzalo García (~£34m, Real Madrid), César Palacios (~£10m, Real Madrid), Jonah Kusi-Asare (Bayern). Out: Saša Lukić (Ipswich), Issa Diop (Ipswich), Harry Wilson (Leeds), Raúl Jiménez (Wolves).

Stayers watch: Harry Wilson’s exit (163 pts, 10G 8A) quietly removes Fulham’s most productive midfielder. Iwobi (£5.5m, 103 pts) picks up the creative slack by default. Gonzalo García is the intriguing one — a genuine striker signing, though priced as a wait-and-see. The budget plays are Robinson (£4.5m) and Henderson’s deputy.

Hull City — a promoted side spending like it means to stay

In: Nobel Mendy (club-record ~£23m, Rayo), Konstantinos Tzolakis (~£23m, Olympiacos), Lucas Herrington (~£15m, Colorado Rapids), Jens Hjertø-Dahl, Hidemasa Morita (free, Sporting), Matt Targett (free, Newcastle), Jack Butland (~£3.5m, Rangers), Elliot Stroud, Oscar Zambrano.

Stayers watch: Promoted sides usually raid the free market; Hull are breaking their own record weekly. The FPL relevance is thin — a £4.0m/£4.5m defender or two (Targett, Butland) is the realistic play until the goalscorer emerges.

Ipswich Town — Gary O’Neil builds a bench

In: Abdul Fatawu (~£23m, Leicester), Florentino (~£19m, Burnley), Emersonn (~£28m, Toulouse), Chuba Akpom (~£9m, Ajax), Daizen Maeda (~£10m, Celtic), Saša Lukić (~£9m, Fulham), Issa Diop (£8.5m, Fulham), Kjell Scherpen, Kayne van Oevelen, Cédric Kipré.

Stayers watch: Diop (£4.0m DEF, 18.6% owned) is this season’s bench-fodder king — a guaranteed starter at the minimum price. Maeda (£5.5m, 79 goals in 212 Celtic games) is the cheap differential if O’Neil’s shape suits him. A huge influx of names, but no premium asset to anchor on.

Leeds — the record-breaking goalkeeper

In: James Trafford (~£40m, Man City — most expensive British keeper), Tarik Muharemović (~£37m, Sassuolo), Harry Wilson (free, Fulham). Out: Illan Meslier (Arsenal), Pascal Struijk (Brighton), Karl Darlow (Man Utd), Jack Harrison, Max Wöber.

Stayers watch: Harry Wilson (£6.5m, 163 pts, 10G 8A) is the headline — he was Fulham’s best midfielder and walks into Leeds as the primary creator. Trafford (£5.0m) is a clean-sheet-and-save keeper behind a side that will be organized. Leeds are quietly a mid-tier FPL source now.

Liverpool — life after Salah, and a new goalkeeper’s era

In: Ronald Araújo (loan, Barcelona — ~£47m option), Jeremy Jacquet (~£64m, Rennes), Victor Muñoz (~£40m, Osasuna). Out: Mohamed Salah (free, Trabzonspor), Andy Robertson (free, Tottenham), Ibrahima Konaté (free, Real Madrid).

Potential: Liverpool are tracking PSG’s Bradley Barcola, though that’s a premium-asking-price deal that may wait until deadline day.

Stayers watch: This is the window’s biggest “who fills the void” question. Salah’s 25+ goal involvements a season and his penalties have to come from somewhere, and the market has already voted: Szoboszlai (£7.0m, 43.6% owned, 160 pts) is the de facto Salah replacement at £7.0m. Isak (£9.0m) and Wirtz (£7.5m, 123 pts) are the premium options under the new manager, while Ekitiké (£7.5m) is listed injured — wait on him. The new manager’s front line is the single most important thing to monitor before GW1.

Manchester City — the Anderson era begins as Rodri’s ends

In: Elliot Anderson (~£115m, Forest — British-record fee), Mathys Detourbet (~£25m, Troyes), Gerónimo Rulli (~£1.7m, Marseille), Jeremy Monga, Pierce Charles. Out: Bernardo Silva (Real Madrid), John Stones (Inter), Manuel Akanji (Inter), James Trafford (Leeds), Sverre Nypan (loan), Nathan Aké (Fenerbahçe). Winter in: Antoine Semenyo (£72m), Marc Guéhi (£23m).

Potential: Rodri is Barcelona-bound (with Real Madrid the earlier front-runner), pending a fee — and he’s already listed injured after back surgery. City are closing on Lille’s Ayyoub Bouaddi (~£85m) as the replacement. Frenkie de Jong has been floated in the Rodri negotiations.

Stayers watch: Haaland (£15.5m, 73.6% owned, 239 pts) is as fixture-proof as ever — Bournemouth home, Palace away, Coventry home to open. The real stories are Semenyo (£8.5m, 26.6%, 195 pts) — now a City midfielder at £8.5m after 16 goals last season — and the Rodri-shaped hole in midfield, which Anderson (£6.5m, 166 pts) arrives to fill. Foden (£7.0m, 131 pts) is the intriguing bounce-back candidate in a side that just added two elite passers and lost none of its forwards.

Manchester United — Carrick’s midfield finally gets legs

In: Youri Tielemans (£35m, Villa), Andrey Santos (£48m, Chelsea), Tynan Thompson (£8m, Tottenham), Karl Darlow (free, Leeds). Out: Rasmus Højlund (Napoli), Casemiro (Inter Miami), Jadon Sancho (released), Tyrell Malacia (released), André Onana (loan), Altay Bayındır (loan).

Potential: United are in the market for a left-back — Arsenal’s Myles Lewis-Skelly has been offered, and Newcastle’s Lewis Hall is the preferred target. A striker is also on the wishlist.

Stayers watch: A clarification first: Mbeumo, Cunha and Šeško were last summer’s signings — this window United added midfield (Tielemans, Andrey Santos) rather than firepower. That’s the point: Bruno Fernandes (£12.0m, 48.2% owned, 212 pts, 21 assists) spent last season doing two jobs, and Michael Carrick’s side now gives him legs behind him. Mbeumo (£8.0m, 132 pts) and Cunha (£8.0m, 134 pts) are the wing options, Šeško (£7.0m, 111 pts) the striker (currently doubtful). The friendly GW1-3 run (Hull A, Ipswich H, Everton A) is the best of any big club, and it’s priced nowhere near it.

Newcastle — the great exodus

In: Bazoumana Touré (£42m, Hoffenheim), Aladji Bamba (~£36m, Monaco), Sean Steur (~£23m, Ajax), Lukáš Horníček (~£26m, Braga), Ewen Jaouen (~£18.5m, Reims). Out: Bruno Guimarães (Arsenal, £75m), Sandro Tonali (Tottenham, ~£92.5m), Anthony Gordon (Barcelona, ~£60.5m), Matt Targett (Hull), Kieran Trippier (Wolves).

Potential: Aaron Ramsdale has completed a medical ahead of a loan-to-buy from Southampton. Lewis Hall is a Manchester United target.

Stayers watch: This is the cautionary tale of the window. Newcastle have now sold Gordon, Bruno G., Tonali (and Isak to Liverpool earlier) in about eight months — that’s the entire attacking and creative spine gone. Who’s left to score? Barnes (£6.0m, 100 pts) and Joelinton (£5.5m) pick up the mantle by default, but the replacements are wide players (Touré, Bamba) who need time. Newcastle’s FPL assets are now downgrades-until-proven — the opposite of their status a year ago.

Nottingham Forest — one big sale, one big signing

In: Ousmane Diomande (~£34m, Sporting), Xaver Schlager (free, Leipzig), Gustavo Sá (~£20m, Famalicão). Out: Elliot Anderson (Man City, ~£115m), David Carmo, Angus Gunn, Willy Boly.

Stayers watch: Anderson’s £115m exit removes a player who did everything, which hands yet more to Morgan Gibbs-White (£8.0m, 172 pts, 13 goals) — already the club’s talisman, now the undisputed everything. Gibbs-White at £8.0m with no new competition is one of the quieter strong buys of the summer. Diomande replaces the sold centre-back depth.

Sunderland — surviving the exodus

In: Thomas Meunier (free, Lille). Out: Anthony Patterson (Wrexham), Eliezer Mayenda (~£22m, Rennes), Dennis Cirkin (QPR), Dan Neil (Rangers), plus a long list of frees and loans.

Stayers watch: A promoted side losing its goalkeeper, left-back and captain is a red flag for clean sheets. The FPL play is finding the surviving starters at £4.0m/£4.5m — and being ready to move on quickly.

Tottenham — the £260m De Zerbi spine

In: Sandro Tonali (~£92.5m, Newcastle), Mateus Fernandes (~£85m, West Ham), Jan Paul van Hecke (~£52m, Brighton), Marcos Senesi (free, Bournemouth), Andy Robertson (free, Liverpool), Martin Dúbravka (free, Burnley). Out: Manor Solomon (West Ham), Luka Vuskovic (Brighton), Yves Bissouma (released), Will Lankshear, Alejo Véliz, Radu Drăgușin (loan).

Stayers watch: No club reshaped its identity harder. Tonali (£5.5m) is the engine, Mateus Fernandes (£6.0m) the creator, and Senesi (£6.0m, 169 pts, 6 assists) arrives with the quiet set-piece monster profile — his 6.22 xGI from centre-back is a bonus-points cheat code under Roberto De Zerbi. Kinsky (£4.5m) stays the budget-keeper play despite Dúbravka’s arrival, and Solanke (£6.0m, just 40 pts in an injury-hit year) is the forgotten differential if he’s fit. Every Spurs signing is priced below where a De Zerbi-side premium normally lands — that’s the arbitrage.

The players who stayed: what actually changes

Confirmed moves are the headline; the second-order effects on stayers are the edge. Five patterns decide whose 2025/26 points are repeatable and whose aren’t.

1. Supply lines opened and closed. Watkins lost Rogers and Tielemans; Ndiaye and Dewsbury-Hall gained Johnson, Röhl and Hackney; Mateta gained McNeil; Gibbs-White inherited Anderson’s workload. When a club’s top creator leaves, the incumbent scorer’s points don’t just stay flat — they regress toward the lower-quality chances that remain. Villa and Newcastle are the two clubs where the stayers carry genuine downgrade risk.

2. New competition, or new freedom. The flip side is Bruno Fernandes: Man Utd spent the window adding midfield depth behind him, not attackers ahead of him, so his 21-assist season has a better floor this year. Saka and Rice get the same treatment at Arsenal (Bruno G., Tzolis). Palmer gets a creator (Rogers) rather than a rival. Distinguish “depth that frees” from “depth that benches.”

3. Set-piece and bonus shakeups. Senesi and van Hecke both walked to Tottenham, taking their set-piece xGI with them — the BPS overhaul (clearances/blocks/interceptions now worth 1 per 3, GK in-box saves worth 3) already favours attackers over defensive-contribution magnets, and now the magnets themselves have moved. Watch who inherits the dead-ball duties at Bournemouth, Brighton and Liverpool.

4. Goalkeeper churn. Meslier (Leeds→Arsenal), Trafford (City→Leeds), Dúbravka (Burnley→Spurs), Rulli (Marseille→City), Patterson (Sunderland→Wrexham), Rushworth (Brighton→Coventry). Cheap starting keepers reshuffle the entire £4.5m-and-under band — the single most important price point for squad structure.

5. New managers, new ceilings. Xabi Alonso at Chelsea, Roberto De Zerbi at Spurs, Michael Carrick at Man Utd (in post since January), Marco Rose at Bournemouth, plus new bosses at Liverpool, Palace, Fulham, Ipswich and City. A system change can lift a stayer (Palmer under Alonso) or strand one (any Villa asset until the shape appears). The rule this window: buy the new system’s value (Tonali £5.5m, Senesi £6.0m, Rogers £7.5m), and treat the incumbents as unproven until GW1 lineups.

The course of action

  1. Lock the anchor spine. Haaland (£15.5m), Bruno Fernandes (£12.0m) and one of João Pedro / Saka / Gyökeres. The Salah era is over and these are the new non-negotiables — their combined ownership is the market’s verdict.
  2. Buy the new systems at value, not the old systems at par. Tonali, Senesi, van Hecke and Rogers are all priced below their expected ceiling. Watkins, Palmer and the Newcastle stayers are priced at last season’s level and should be bought only once the new shape is visible.
  3. Exploit the supply-line story. Gibbs-White (£8.0m, no new competition), Szoboszlai (£7.0m, 43.6% owned as the Salah replacement) and Dewsbury-Hall (£6.5m, rebuilt midfield behind him) are the stayers whose situation improved.
  4. Do not draft the injured. Rodri, Saliba, Ekitiké, and the doubtfuls (Šeško, Tielemans, Grealish, Mitoma) are traps until the flags clear.
  5. Keep £0.5m–1.0m in the bank for 1 September. The window closes after GW2 — Rodri’s destination, a possible Barcola move, and the late-loan market (Endrick to Villa, Ramsdale to Newcastle) can all reshuffle the board while your squad is live.

The window isn’t shut and the systems aren’t proven. But the direction is set: Salah gone, City rebuilding around Anderson, Spurs spending like contenders, and the points that mattered last season quietly migrating to the players who were smart enough to stay.

Methodology & credit: All prices, positions, ownership percentages and injury statuses are from the official FPL API bootstrap-static snapshot of 13 August 2026. Transfer fees and confirmed ins/outs are as reported by BBC Sport, Sky Sports, ESPN, The Guardian, Football365 and the clubs’ official announcements; figures marked “reported” may differ between sources. Prior-season points and expected-goal data draw on the FPL Core Insights dataset (github.com/olbauday/FPL-Core-Insights), which sources expected-stats from the official FPL API (Opta model). The transfer window closes 1 September 2026 at 23:00 BST; Gameweek 1 begins Friday 21 August 2026.