Eight players who can change positions

Diogo Jota Proceed? Nico O’REILLY A defender? Matheus Cunha A midfielder?

In addition to prices starting to rise and fall, the launch of the Fantasy Premier League (FPL) for 2025/26 will almost certainly see the position of position for several Premier League players.

In this article, we will describe this case for – or to – changes in position for a number of fantasy assets.

We must emphasize that this is a suspicion that is purely educated on our side and is based on how FPL has classified the previous players.

As well as the area of ​​our members, we have requested transfermarkt assistance in this section.

How FPL Classifies Players

As a rough guide, FPL tends to classify players using the following criteria:

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Defenders	Central defender, full back, wing back (for example in 3-4-3/3-5-2)
Midfielder	Middle/defensive midfielder, number 10, wing/middle field, players on both sides
Forward	Lone Strikers, both strikers who play in two people attacks, the central striker on the front lines of three people

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So forget what you might think about the heatmaps, the number of shots and touch of the penalty box: the position of the traditional team in the team traditionally is almost everything that is important for the people in FPL Towers, whether you agree with it or not.

Only with the overhaul of the above criteria will we see people like Mohamed Salah Being forward, because most of their appearance in 2024/25 is as a ‘wing’ on paper.

Position classification is usually based on what every player has done in previously season.

Players who can change positions

Myles Lewis-Skelly (Arsenal): Defenders midfielder

• Point at 2024/25: 37
• Point Is he a defender: 55

We started with one of the more possible changes this summer because Lewis-Kekelly was quite much displayed exclusively at the left back in 2024/25.

This began as an experiment that was forced in mid -December. Arsenal without someone like Riccardo Calaforiori, Oleksandr Zinchenko And Ben White For the UEFA Champions League match against Monaco, leaving the Gunners Short in the full-back department.

Lewis-Kekelly excels in that role, however, maintaining his place for the gameweek 16 match with Everton a few days later.

The young man never looked back, starting the last 15 Gunners’ league matches. Don’t forget that there is domestic rotation around European equipment, also: He is a left back in all six Champions League Knockout Rounds.

Lewis-Skelly will get 20+ additional points through his clean sheets, bonuses and goals that are solitary if he becomes a defender in 2024/25. Four points will be chopped for a goal that conceded.

Even with reclassification, this England international is not attractive in a large amount of fantasy assets – depending on price, of course. He only managed one return in 2024/25, only registered three shots and nine opportunities made in more than 1,300 minutes of pitch time.

Keane Lewis-Potter (Brentford): Defenders midfielder

• Point at 2024/25: 94
• Point Is he a defender: 110

For players who never (as far as we can say) starting a senior match as an Orthodox left back before the beginning of 2024/25, Lewis-Potter did not half doing bad jobs for Brentford last season.

He was always present in the matchday squad, starting 36 from the match.

The left back has become the position of the problem in (almost) there is no season (almost) there is no season Rico Henry. Lewis-Potter is not even the first band: Ajer Kristofer, Vitaly Janelt And Sepp van the mountain If everything was tested there in 10 opening gameweks, not much success.

Lewis-Potter, especially the left winger by trade, then diverted to four backs in Gameweek 11. And that was quite a lot for the rest of the campaign.

The ‘midfielder’ £ 5.0 million gave six attacks attacking in 2024/25 – although three of them came in the first 10 gameweeks when he played further on the wing.

While Lewis-Potter will get 32 ​​additional points for a clean sheet, one goal and the bonus point as a defender, half of it will be deleted for a conceding goal.

Next season will be an interesting watch now because Henry is back again. Can we see Lewis-Potter as a left winger ‘outside the’ position ‘at several points, if he will be reclassified by FPL? Damage to Kevin will have something to say about it, of course.

Iliman Ndiaye (Everton): advanced to the midfielder

• Point at 2024/25: 114
• Point Is he a midfielder: 131

The Toffees have contrasting wealth under Sean Dyche and David Moyes but the two Everton bosses are united in one belief: that Ndiaye is not a middle attacker.

Senegal attackers play almost the entire season as a left winger. There is an occasional appearance in the role of ’10’ and the opposite side as well, but not at the top.

Then reclassification as an FPL midfielder gives a signal.

If he became a midfielder in 2024/25, he would benefit from 15 clean sheets and nine additional points for goals. He has lost seven bonus points – but it is still a net profit of 17 FPL points.

Just like besides, there are no players outside the Premier League who keep more clean sheets (15) than last season Ndiaye.

Matheus Cunha (Manchester United): advanced to the midfielder

• Point at 2024/25: 178
• Point Is he a midfielder: 190

We have written about Matheus Cunha on these pages in the last few days after moving to Manchester United.

In the moving target section, we discuss how he can effectively take the same role (left side) in United when he mainly operates under Vitor Pereira.

Even before the dismissal of Gary O’Neil, the Brazilian player had traded mostly in the attacking midfield position, rather than leading the line.

If FPL follows their criteria above, that’s should Enough for Cunha to be reclassified as a midfielder.

With our calculations, he will get 22 points as midfielder through a net goal/sheet in 2024/25. Ten, however, will disappear through a bonus.

It will still make him finish as the fifth highest score midfielder in the game:

Cody Gakpo (Liverpool): advanced to the midfielder
Diogo Jota (Liverpool): Future midfielder

Again

• Point at 2024/25: 127
• Point Is he a midfielder: 134

WHICH

• Point at 2024/25: 87
• Point Is he a attacker: 81

The exchange of FPL positions at Liverpool looks like it may be this summer.

Gakpo spends most of the seasons on the left side. In fact, there was no one of the Premier League who came as a middle striker.

Run-out services under the Slot Arne have come almost exclusively in front as well. Once again, no single league starts wide.

Every appearance in another position has come out of the bench or in other competitions.

As is the case in other places, life as a midfielder is more profitable, wise fantasy. Gakpo will be better with changes (+10 goals points, +5 clean sheet points, -8 bonus points), jota is not so (-6 goals points, -7 clean sheet points, +7 bonus points).

There is a possibility the third name to be thrown into the mixture at Anfield. Luis Diaz Used in front in the middle of the middle of the campaign, also ending the season in that position.

Transfermarkt has 28 leagues starting to be divided evenly between the left wing and the middle attacker. More replacement appearances also appear, so maybe it’s not enough for FPL to make the rubber change changes in position.

The three Liverpool attackers have been linked to the summer exit in the last few weeks (time will tell how true the rumors are), so there is a possibility that the FPL Tower may not even have the decision to make in every case.

Matheus Nunes (Manchester City): Defenders midfielder
Nico O’Reilly (Manchester City): Defenders midfielder

Nunes

• Point at 2024/25: 81
• Point Is he a defender: 106

O’REILLY

• Point at 2024/25: 31
• Point Is he a defender: 40

One of the Pep Guardiola line-up features in the second half of 2024/25 is the use of FPL midfielders O’reilly and Nunes in defense.

Sixth starting the Premier League O’reilly came at wing backs, as well as 14 Line-up Nunes performances. Portugal International has not appeared in midfield since December.

FPL may wait to see what the city is doing in the transfer market before making changes. Does the arrival of Rayan Ait-Nouri reduce the possibility, say, O’REILLY Reclassified?

Nunes would be better for – by our rough calculations – 25 points if he became an FPL defender in 2024/25.

Seven assists also in total that only one defender, Antone RobinsonIt could be better, although it’s good to show that three of Seven Nunes came when he played further on the field.

Tend to change position?

There must be a case to change Omar Marmoush To a midfielder: only five of his 16 appearances came as the middle attacker.

But we only need to return our minds 12 months to a similar question about Julian Alvarez.

Alvarez played in the role of Hybrid ‘8/10’ for a large piece of 2023/24, with less than one third of his 36 appearances of LIGE coming as a prominent striker in the line.

But Alvarez remained a striker before he moved to Atletico Madrid. Maybe the view of FPL Towers is that City will only be an Erling Haaland injury away from Alvarez who got the initial series as the league championship center striker. The same thing might apply to Marmoush this season.

It feels like Mikel Merino Operated as a striker longer than he did. In the end, however, he only made six initial leagues and one replacement performance as a central attacker.

We hope he remains as a midfielder, then, especially with Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz back from injury and further arrival is expected to be this summer.

Some of Marcus Rashford ‘The best job last season came as the central striker for Aston Villa but most of his run-out in 2024/25 (including those for Manchester United) still came as wing players, and he might not be a Premier League player in the upcoming campaign.

Stay with United, Amad Diallo indeed displaying a little at the wing back of the past season-but he still records more minutes as ’10’. If so, a little chance of change in the defender.

Ryan Sessegnon Is a much closer thing: he made three begins as a left back/wing -back, four as a winger. Given that he only recorded 574 minutes of field time, is there enough evidence for position reclassification?

Finally, an interesting question Jarrod Bowen. The 2024/25 league start is divided into almost the same between the wing/midfield players attacking (18) and striker (16). But under Graham Potter, they mostly come as part of the attack of two people in 3-5-2. Will consider reclassification for him and Kudus Mohammed The result?

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