Junior Kroupi

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Junior Kroupi is a midfielder for Bournemouth, age 20, £7.5m. The Premier ranks him 117th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#68, 142.8 points) with the consensus of 2 other boards (108.0). Last year's Sleeper line ran 40 spots ahead of the expert/FPL mix. The third list keeps some of that production bump and refuses to throw the other boards out. That is the whole point of not just republishing The Pitch.

The 2025/26 Premier League line is 21 starts and 1663 minutes, 13 goals and 0 assists, 9 tackles and 42 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 113 points (3.4 per match) with 13 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 142.8. 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: 8.31 xG, 1.51 xA, 9.82 xGI. He finished 4.7 above expected goals and -1.5 above expected assists. Set pieces: first-choice penalties for Bournemouth. Role at Bournemouth is the 2026/27 question sitting under the 2025/26 number. 21 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 Price Board at 16; the coldest is FPL Ownership at 188.

Market: £7.5m, 9 boards on the file. Price is the FPL tax, not the rank. The Premier is who produced and who the boards still believe. ICT 139.9.

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. FPL flag: injured; Foot injury - Unknown return date. Nearby on The Premier: Joachim Andersen, Mitoma Kaoru, Joe Rodon. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #68), the hybrid moves him down to #117. That move is the third list doing its job.

Age 20 is the other half of a hybrid. The 2025/26 counting line is one season. The Athletic-style youth lean on this board exists specifically so a Bournemouth kid does not get stuck behind a 32-year-old who had a nice bonus year. Sleeper still has to see the minutes. 21 starts is the beginning of a case, not the end of one.

Attacking midfielders with 13 goal involvements are how Sleeper and FPL finally speak the same language. The remaining argument is defensive events (9 tackles, 42 CBI) and whether Bournemouth 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 #68 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.