Malick Thiaw

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Malick Thiaw is a defender for Newcastle, age 25, £5.0m. The Premier ranks him 46th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#134, 101.2 points) with the consensus of 4 other boards (46.25). The industry still has him 88 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 Newcastle still builds around.

The 2025/26 Premier League line is 33 starts and 2963 minutes, 4 goals and 0 assists, 5 clean sheets, 52 goals against, 44 tackles and 248 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 126 points (3.6 per match) with 12 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 101.2. Defenders get 10 a goal, 7 an assist, 6 a clean sheet, and −2 a goal against. CBI at 0.4 and tackles at 1 are how a centre-back cracks the overall 50.

Underlying: 4.8 xG, 0.96 xA, 5.76 xGI. The defensive events are the floor: 44 tackles, 248 clearances/blocks/interceptions, 5 shutouts. Sleeper is built to notice that. ICT and xGI boards are not, which is why a centre-back's spread on this board is usually ugly and still informative. The friendliest board is Premier League Scout Club Picks at 17; the coldest is FPL Ownership at 137.

Market: £5.0m, 10 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 2.2. ICT 138.9.

Instruction: he is a starter in deep Sleeper and a squad/rotation piece in 10-team FPL. Pay Premier #46 money, not a leftover 2024 reputation, not waiver dust. Nearby on The Premier: Jarrad Branthwaite, Youri Tielemans, Nathan Collins. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #134), the hybrid moves him up to #46. That move is the third list doing its job.

He is 25, which on this board is neither a dart nor a warning label. Prime-age defenders get ranked on what they just did and whether Newcastle still gives them the ball. 2963 minutes says yes. The 2026/27 FPL price (£5.0m) is the app's guess at whether that continues. The Premier is the blend of that guess and the box score.

Full-backs and centre-backs separate on this board by attacking events. 4 goals and 0 assists are how a defender outruns his GA column. Without those, you are betting 5 clean sheets and the CBI stream (248) against 52 goals against at −2 a piece. Newcastle's 2026/27 defensive shape is therefore half of this player's rank. The other half already happened, across 33 starts.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #134 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.