Mitoma Kaoru

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Mitoma Kaoru is a midfielder for Brighton, age 29, £6.0m. The Premier ranks him 116th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#229, 56.8 points) with the consensus of 2 other boards (107.0). The industry still has him 122 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 Brighton still builds around.

The 2025/26 Premier League line is 19 starts and 1714 minutes, 3 goals and 1 assists, 18 tackles and 27 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 62 points (2.5 per match) with 2 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 56.8. 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: 4.04 xG, 2.74 xA, 6.78 xGI and -1.7 above expected assists. Role at Brighton 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 65; the coldest is Sleeper BPL 2025 at 229.

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. ICT 112.3.

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. FPL flag: injured; Hamstring injury - Unknown return date. Nearby on The Premier: Luke Shaw, Joachim Andersen, Junior Kroupi. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #229), the hybrid moves him up to #116. That move is the third list doing its job.

He is 29, which on this board is neither a dart nor a warning label. Prime-age midfielders get ranked on what they just did and whether Brighton still gives them the ball. 1714 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 #229 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.