Granit Xhaka

PitchKeep Take · The Premier

Granit Xhaka is a midfielder for Sunderland, age 33, £5.5m. The Premier ranks him 65th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#71, 141.6 points) with the consensus of 5 other boards (61.2). The industry still has him 10 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 Sunderland still builds around.

The 2025/26 Premier League line is 32 starts and 2901 minutes, 1 goals and 6 assists, 50 tackles and 134 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 124 points (3.6 per match) with 8 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 141.6. 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: 1.01 xG, 3.73 xA, 4.74 xGI and 2.3 above expected assists. Set pieces: corners order #2, first-choice direct free-kicks for Sunderland. Role at Sunderland is the 2026/27 question sitting under the 2025/26 number. 32 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 The Athletic PL 50 at 26; the coldest is FPL EP Next at 229.

Market: £5.5m, 12 boards on the file. That is leftover money for a Premier-ranked name. If the minutes hold, this board already voted. FPL's own EP-next is 2.0. ICT 138.1.

Instruction: deep-league starter, shallow-league watchlist. The 2025/26 line got him onto the 400. A role change gets him off it. Watch minutes, not vibes. Nearby on The Premier: Brian Brobbey, Vitalii Mykolenko, Alex Scott. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #71), the hybrid moves him up to #65. That move is the third list doing its job.

Age 33 is not a moral failing and it is not invisible. Youth-lean boards (The Athletic-style remap on this board) push him down; veteran-rating boards (WhoScored, SofaScore) keep him up. The Premier averages those instincts instead of pretending a 33-year-old midfielder is 24. If you need a three-year window, look younger. If you need 2026/27, he just played 2901 minutes and that still counts.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #71 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. 8 yellows are a real Sleeper tax.