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PitchKeep Take · The Premier

Ryan Christie is a midfielder for Bournemouth, age 31, £5.0m. The Premier ranks him 242nd overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#236, 54.6 points) with the consensus of 6 other boards (203.5). The industry still has him 32 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 Bournemouth still builds around.

The 2025/26 Premier League line is 9 starts and 978 minutes, 2 goals and 1 assists, 27 tackles and 34 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 47 points (1.8 per match) with 2 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 54.6. 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: 1.81 xG, 0.79 xA, 2.6 xGI. Set pieces: corners order #6 for Bournemouth. Role at Bournemouth is the 2026/27 question sitting under the 2025/26 number. 9 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 Form at 77; the coldest is FPL Draft at 248.

Market: £5.0m, 0.0% owned into the 2026/27 FPL start, 7 boards on the file. Mid-range ownership means the name is known and not fully paid. That is usually where this desk lives — not the 70% tax, not the 0.2% dart. ICT 64.7.

Instruction: he is on the 400, which is already a statement, and he is not a star. Stash in Sleeper if the minutes are real. Do not let a Pitch screenshot make you start him over a Premier top-80. FPL flag: suspended; Suspended until 29 Aug. Nearby on The Premier: Kevin Macedo, Dwight McNeil, Gabriel Gudmundsson. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #236), the hybrid moves him down to #242. That move is the third list doing its job.

He is 31, which on this desk is neither a dart nor a warning label. Prime-age midfielders get ranked on what they just did and whether Bournemouth still gives them the ball. 978 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.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #236 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. Unranked sources are skipped, never treated as 999, which is why a player missing from Yahoo's XI is not secretly ranked 400th.