Michael Kayode

PitchKeep Take · The Premier

Michael Kayode is a defender for Brentford, age 22, £4.5m. The Premier ranks him 99th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#143, 93.4 points) with the consensus of 3 other boards (89.33). The industry still has him 54 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 Brentford still builds around.

The 2025/26 Premier League line is 37 starts and 3258 minutes, 1 goals and 2 assists, 10 clean sheets, 49 goals against, 68 tackles and 151 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 113 points (3.1 per match) with 9 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 93.4. 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: 1.28 xG, 2.89 xA, 4.17 xGI. The defensive events are the floor: 68 tackles, 151 clearances/blocks/interceptions, 10 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 RotoWire Fantrax / Sleeper 400 at 48; the coldest is RotoWire GW1 at 171.

Market: £4.5m, 9 boards on the file. Price is the FPL tax, not the rank. The Premier is who produced and who the boards still believe. FPL's own EP-next is 1.7. ICT 121.7.

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: Jean-Philippe Mateta, William Saliba, Sandro Tonali. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #143), the hybrid moves him up to #99. That move is the third list doing its job.

Age 22 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 Brentford kid does not get stuck behind a 32-year-old who had a nice bonus year. Sleeper still has to see the minutes. 37 starts is the beginning of a case, not the end of one.

Full-backs and centre-backs separate on this board by attacking events. 1 goals and 2 assists are how a defender outruns his GA column. Without those, you are betting 10 clean sheets and the CBI stream (151) against 49 goals against at −2 a piece. Brentford's 2026/27 defensive shape is therefore half of this player's rank. The other half already happened, across 37 starts.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #143 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. 8 yellows are a real Sleeper tax.