Jacob Murphy

PitchKeep Take · The Premier

Jacob Murphy is a midfielder for Newcastle, age 31, £6.0m. The Premier ranks him 184th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#201, 69.8 points) with the consensus of 2 other boards (197.0). Production and the industry almost agree, which is rarer than it looks on a 24-source mix. When both sides land in the same band, The Premier stops arguing and prints the number.

The 2025/26 Premier League line is 19 starts and 1606 minutes, 3 goals and 2 assists, 16 tackles and 27 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 82 points (2.5 per match) with 5 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 69.8. 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: 3.07 xG, 2.66 xA, 5.73 xGI. Set pieces: corners order #2 for Newcastle. Role at Newcastle is the 2026/27 question sitting under the 2025/26 number. 19 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 FPL xGI at 82; the coldest is RotoWire FPL 400 at 219.

Market: £6.0m, 8 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 2.1. ICT 106.0.

Instruction: he is on the 400, which is already a statement, and he is not a star. Stash in Sleeper if the minutes are real. Do not let a Pitch screenshot make you start him over a Premier top-80. Nearby on The Premier: Conor Gallagher, Kenny Tete, Hugo Ekitiké. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #201), the hybrid moves him up to #184. That move is the third list doing its job.

He is 31, which on this board is neither a dart nor a warning label. Prime-age midfielders get ranked on what they just did and whether Newcastle still gives them the ball. 1606 minutes says yes. The 2026/27 FPL price (£6.0m) 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 #201 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.