Ismaïla Sarr

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Ismaïla Sarr is a midfielder for Crystal Palace, age 28, £6.5m. The Premier ranks him 36th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#84, 132.0 points) with the consensus of 5 other boards (38.8). The industry still has him 45 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 Crystal Palace still builds around.

The 2025/26 Premier League line is 24 starts and 2173 minutes, 9 goals and 2 assists, 18 tackles and 40 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 117 points (4.2 per match) with 9 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 132.0. 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: 10.93 xG, 1.17 xA, 12.09 xGI. He finished -1.9 above expected goals. Set pieces: penalty order #2 for Crystal Palace. Role at Crystal Palace 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 The Independent Watchlist at 18; the coldest is Sleeper BPL 2025 at 84.

Market: £6.5m, 12 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 2.3. ICT 135.1.

Instruction: he is a starter in deep Sleeper and a squad/rotation piece in 10-team FPL. Pay Premier #36 money, not a leftover 2024 reputation, not waiver dust. Nearby on The Premier: Elliot Anderson, Ryan Gravenberch, Mac Allister. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #84), the hybrid moves him up to #36. That move is the third list doing its job.

He is 28, which on this board is neither a dart nor a warning label. Prime-age midfielders get ranked on what they just did and whether Crystal Palace still gives them the ball. 2173 minutes says yes. The 2026/27 FPL price (£6.5m) is the app's guess at whether that continues. The Premier is the blend of that guess and the box score.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #84 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.