Cole Palmer

PitchKeep Take · The Premier

Cole Palmer is a midfielder for Chelsea, age 24, £9.5m. The Premier ranks him 6th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#90, 126.8 points) with the consensus of 12 other boards (8.5). The industry still has him 82 spots ahead of the 2025/26 Sleeper count. The Premier pays that reputation something, not everything. Brand does not outrun a down year, and a down year does not erase a player Chelsea still builds around.

The 2025/26 Premier League line is 24 starts and 1954 minutes, 10 goals and 2 assists, 25 tackles and 27 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 114 points (4.4 per match) with 11 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 126.8. Midfielders get 9 a goal, 6 an assist, and 1 a clean sheet, plus a full tackle/CBI stream. That is why a six who plays every week can outrank a ten-goal winger who sits.

Underlying: 10.55 xG, 2.49 xA, 13.04 xGI. Set pieces: first-choice penalties, direct free-kick order #3 for Chelsea. Role at Chelsea is the 2026/27 question sitting under the 2025/26 number. 24 starts is a starter. Anything under 25 starts is a rotation warning we already priced. Minutes are the skill that survives a finishing regression. The friendliest board is Premier League Scout Key Prices at 2; the coldest is FPL Form at 160.

Market: £9.5m, 20 boards on the file. Price is the FPL tax, not the rank. The Premier is who produced and who the boards still believe. FPL's own EP-next is 3.2. ICT 147.7.

Instruction: this is a first-round PitchKeep name. Do not trade Palmer for a pair of 'pretty good' mids unless the calculator is screaming and even then, reread the screaming. Nearby on The Premier: Gabriel Magalhães, Antoine Semenyo, Dominik Szoboszlai. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #90), the hybrid moves him up to #6. That move is the third list doing its job.

He is 24, which on this board is neither a dart nor a warning label. Prime-age midfielders get ranked on what they just did and whether Chelsea still gives them the ball. 1954 minutes says yes. The 2026/27 FPL price (£9.5m) is the app's guess at whether that continues. The Premier is the blend of that guess and the box score.

Attacking midfielders with 12 goal involvements are how Sleeper and FPL finally speak the same language. The remaining argument is defensive events (25 tackles, 27 CBI) and whether Chelsea keeps him on set pieces. If both hold, this ranking is a floor. If either dies, he slides toward the pure-creator band and the tackle-heavy sixes climb over him. Watch the first six gameweeks of 2026/27 for the tell.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #90 there). The Premier is the 50/50 with every other board we track. Attack, Midfield, Defence, and Keepers re-rank the same Sleeper table by position. BK Value on this page follows The Premier when you are on the hybrid calculator and The Pitch when you are on the Sleeper calculator. Same curve either way - 12,000 at 1.01.