Bruno Fernandes

PitchKeep Take · The Premier

Bruno Fernandes is the midfielder every board still refuses to fade. Fantasy Football Fix, Yahoo's cheat sheet, ESPN, WhoScored, and the ICT index all had him first. Sleeper BPL 2025 had him second, 293.8, because 24 assists at 6 points each is how a creator outranks almost every goalscorer who is not Haaland. The Premier averages that into #2. Consensus 3.48 versus Haaland's 3.87 - the industry actually likes Bruno more. Production likes Haaland more. We split it and keep the Norwegian first by a hair.

The 2025/26 line is 9 goals, 24 assists, 35 starts, 3,065 minutes, 10.79 xG, 12.28 xA. He slightly under-finished the shot map and still ended as FPL's second-highest scorer (235). First-choice penalties, first-choice corners, first-choice direct free-kicks. Fifty-three tackles and 67 CBI are the part of the profile FPL undervalues and Sleeper does not. That is why his Sleeper rank (2) beats several of the 'he's just a creator' boards.

United are not a clean-sheet machine (7 CS, 46 goals against while he was on). Sleeper pays midfielders 1 for a clean sheet, so the defensive mess is a rounding error, not a ranking event. The real minus is age. He is 31. The Athletic sliding him to 12 is the 'how many more 90s?' question. We hear it. We are not moving him out of the first two for it.

Price is £12.0m. That is the second-most expensive shirt on the app for a reason. Scout's 14 is the value lean talking. Ignore value leans when the player takes every set piece and 24 chances. The Premier is not an FPL budget tool. It is a ranking of who actually produced and who the industry still believes.

Nearby on this list is Semenyo at 3, then Gabriel. If you need to move Bruno, the package starts with a top-five name, not a pair of mid-premiums. Draft-league managers who still think 'United midfielder' means a tax can be the other side of that trade. Take Bruno. Stop talking.