John McGinn

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John McGinn is a midfielder for Aston Villa, age 31, £5.5m. The Premier ranks him 78th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#117, 108.8 points) with the consensus of 3 other boards (72.0). 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 Aston Villa still builds around.

The 2025/26 Premier League line is 28 starts and 2136 minutes, 5 goals and 4 assists, 29 tackles and 32 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 103 points (3.4 per match) with 6 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 108.8. 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: 3.0 xG, 4.11 xA, 7.11 xGI. He finished 2.0 above expected goals. Set pieces: corners order #2 for Aston Villa. Role at Aston Villa is the 2026/27 question sitting under the 2025/26 number. 28 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 RotoWire FPL 400 at 41; the coldest is FPL EP Next at 163.

Market: £5.5m, 11 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 137.3.

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: Daniel Ballard, Cristhian Mosquera, Gianluigi Donnarumma. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #117), the hybrid moves him up to #78. 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 Aston Villa still gives them the ball. 2136 minutes says yes. The 2026/27 FPL price (£5.5m) 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 #117 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.