Happy New Year, managers — and welcome to Gameweek 20. A fresh calendar brings a rare luxury in FPL: a clean slate. All chips are reset, yellow card counts are wiped, and for the first time in weeks you don’t need to hover over a player’s discipline tab wondering if one more mistimed tackle will ruin your plans. It’s a psychological reset as much as a tactical one — the chance to realign strategy, undo December damage, and convince yourself (once again) that this is where the climb begins.
But while the admin headaches fade, the emotional constants of FPL remain stubbornly unchanged. The carefully planned transfer that looks perfect on paper, the last-minute doubt that creeps in five minutes before deadline, the resigned acceptance — or explosive joy — when the whistle finally blows. What has changed, though, is the landscape. Fixture tides are turning. Liverpool’s golden run is firmly in the rear-view mirror, while momentum builds elsewhere: Newcastle are purring, West Ham are suddenly relevant again, and Manchester United are quietly stitching together a purple patch. As we step into GW20, this is where adaptability matters — and where Buy, Hold, and Sell calls can define the next phase of your season.
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FPL GW20 Transfer Tips: Two Players to BUY
PS – I am assuming everyone has Haaland in their teams. If not, he is your priority buy
Gabriel (£6.4m) – DEF, Arsenal – 17.0% TSB
Between GWs 1 and 11, Gabriel was the highest-scoring defender in the game. After a brief injury layoff, he returned to the starting XI in GW19 — and immediately reminded us why he’s elite, finishing as the highest-scoring defender of the Gameweek.
This isn’t a fluke. Gabriel ranks top three among defenders for xGI, combining aerial threat, set-piece dominance, and bonus point magnetism. More importantly, he plays in an Arsenal defence that currently ranks 1st across virtually every defensive metric — shots conceded, xGC, big chances conceded — and by a significant margin.
Think of Gabriel as the defender equivalent of Haaland: expensive, obvious, and boring — until you don’t own him and watch the damage unfold. If you’re still debating this move, you’re probably already late.
Fun Fact: Arsenal have scored the joint-most goals(13) from set pieces so far this season. Their set play xG of 9.48 is also the highest in the league.
Jarrod Bowen (£7.6m) – FWD, West Ham – 7.5% TSB
Bowen faces Wolves in GW20 — and there may not be a better fixture in the league right now. Wolves have completed the first half of the season without a single win or clean sheet, while conceding more goals than any other side.
They rank in the bottom five for every key defensive metric:
- Shots conceded
- Shots in the box conceded
- Shots on target conceded
- Big chances conceded
- NPxGC
- xGC
- xCS
Bowen thrives in chaos. He’s West Ham’s primary goal threat, penalty-box runner, and big-game performer rolled into one. Against a defence this porous, you’re not buying hope — you’re buying probability. Low ownership only sweetens the deal.
Beyond the Wolves fixture, Bowen and West Ham have a good run of games as well. The hammers are also close to bringing in two new forwards(Pablo from Gil Vicente & Taty Castellanos from Lazio), which is good news as they have been playing most games without a striker.
FPL GW20 Transfer Tips: Two Players to HOLD
Jan Paul van Hecke (£4.5m) – DEF, Brighton – 4.3% TSB
Four consecutive blanks have tested managers’ patience, but context matters. That run came against Arsenal (league leaders), Liverpool (current champions), with a missed fixture against Sunderland in between. This week is different.
Brighton face Burnley — a team ranked bottom two for almost every defensive metric:
- Shots conceded
- Shots in the box conceded
- Shots on target conceded
- Big chances conceded
- NPxGC
- xGC
- xCS
What’s often overlooked is that Burnley are also bottom three for attacking output:
- Shots
- Shots on target
- Shots in the box
- xG, NPxG
- Goals scored
No defender has scored more goals than Van Hecke this season. Against Burnley, he offers genuine clean-sheet + goal threat upside. Selling now feels like rage-quitting just before the reward.
Phil Foden (£9.0m) – MID, Man City – 40.3% TSB
Foden delivered 55 points in four Gameweeks, triggering a mass migration that pushed his price up by £1.0m. Three blanks later, he’s suddenly the most transferred-out unflagged midfielder. Classic FPL behaviour.
Foden’s numbers in the last three games aren’t very bad, either:
- Shots: 10
- xG: 0.74
- Chances created: 6
- Big chances created: 3
Man City face Chelsea in GW20, with the Blues enduring a chaotic start to 2026 after parting ways with Enzo Maresca. Under-21 manager Calum McFarlane is set to take charge for the trip to Manchester.
Foden and City will be looking to bounce back from their draw against Sunderland, and Chelsea could be on the receiving end.
Selling a premium asset with form, fixtures, and motivation in place is how managers lose ground. Hold your nerve.
FPL GW20 Transfer Tips: Two Players to SELL
Antoine Semenyo (£7.7m) – MID, Bournemouth – 46.5% TSB
Selling the second-highest scorer in FPL sounds absurd — until you look ahead. Arsenal, Spurs, and Liverpool all feature in Bournemouth’s next four Gameweeks. The fixtures alone are reason enough to reassess.
Then there’s the transfer noise. Semenyo is heavily linked with a January move, with Manchester City reportedly leading the race as his £65m release clause activates. From being Bournemouth’s talisman, he could quickly become a rotation risk — or worse, a bench option.
If that move materialises, owners with three City players will be forced into a transfer. Selling now isn’t panic — it’s proactive squad management.
Marc Guéhi (£5.3m) – DEF, Crystal Palace – 41.7% TSB
The most-owned defender in the game has returned four blanks in the last four GWs, with Palace conceding nine goals between GW16–19. Only Bournemouth have been worse defensively in that period.
The upcoming fixtures only add to the concern: Newcastle, against whom Palace conceded five goals the last time these sides met in the Premier League, followed by high-flying Aston Villa, surprise package of the season Sunderland, and the reigning FIFA Club World Cup champions Chelsea. With defensive confidence already fragile, with Muñoz and Richards sidelined, this is a brutal run for a team struggling to keep goals out.
Add to that Guéhi’s contract situation — eligible to negotiate pre-contracts from January — and it’s fair to question whether focus and security remain intact. High ownership, declining returns, brutal fixtures. This is the textbook moment to cash out.
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