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All the big Fantasy Premier League talking points and team news before gameweek 25 This week's deadline is 18: 30 GMT on Friday - not long to go! Send your questions in for FPL expert Gianni Buttice - click Get Involved on this page Gianni is an FPL expert and best-selling author of the book: "Fantasy Premier League: Unlocking the Secrets to a Top 1% Finish" He's only finished outside the top 100k three times in the past 14 seasons and has eight top-50k finishes Who to captain this week? Will Arsenal's defence keep Sunderland out? Can Wirtz continue his impressive form? Latest team news: Saka, Odegaard, Timber, Dowman & Merino | Silva & Dias | Kamada, Wharton & Sosa | Gordon, Guimaraes & Miley | Myklolenko & Branthwaite | Brooks | Krejci | Watkins | Lukic, Bobb, Tete | Furo & Reiss | Ward-Prowse Written by Ben Ramsdale, Craig Nelson, Adwaidh Rajan & Tyrese King. FPL Q&A with Gianni Buttice - Click 'Get Involved' to ask your questions Gianni Buttice FPL expert and eight-time top-50k finisher Jack: Afternoon Gianni, would you keep hold of Morgan Rogers and Evanilson? Cant help but feel there are better assets available. Thanks! Gianni: Rogers has been passing the eye test of late even if his FPL points have underwhelmed a tad. I transferred him in last week and see him as a fairly long-term hold. Ollie Watkins is back this weekend too which is good for Rogers who links so well with him. Likewise, I would hold Evanilson, given Bournemouth have a good run of fixtures. FPL Q&A with Gianni Buttice - Click 'Get Involved' to ask your questions Gianni Buttice FPL expert and eight-time top-50k finisher Sam: Which Arsenal midfielder should I get for the upcoming double gameweek? I already have Declan Rice. My plan was to get Saka but he’s injured. Gianni: Rice is the best midfield option for me as I worry about reduced minutes for all other midfielders or forwards other than Rice and Zubimendi over the three games of GW25/26.

I would consider buying an extra Arsenal defender if you can. Double or even triple Arsenal defence is worth it when we’re talking about the best back line in the league by some distance. They have three clean sheets in the last four league games. FPL Q&A with Gianni Buttice A reminder to get those questions in for our FPL expert Gianni this afternoon. Plenty have already been getting in touch, but there’s still time to fire over your questions. Gianni will be with us right until 17: 00 GMT, helping you tackle all those tricky decisions ahead of Gameweek 25. And remember, the deadline to pick your team is 18: 30 this evening. FPL Q&A with Gianni Buttice Gianni Buttice is an FPL expert and best-selling author of the book: "Fantasy Premier League: Unlocking the Secrets to a Top 1% Finish. " He has only finished outside the top 100k three times in the past 14 seasons and has eight top-50k finishes. Gianni runs an FPL You Tube channel, is a regular on the Official Fantasy Show, Sky Sports News FPL show and has appeared on the BBC's Fantasy 606 podcast. He has 55k followers on X, 37k on You Tube and more than 800k likes on Tik Tok. With Leeds and Nottingham Forest kicking off this week's Premier League fixtures tonight, the deadline for FPL is 18: 30 GMT. That is in less than three hours' time! All games kick-off at 15: 00 GMT unless stated Premier League Friday, 6 February Leeds v Nottingham Forest (20: 00 GMT) Saturday, 7 February Manchester United v Tottenham (12: 30 GMT) Bournemouth v Aston Villa Arsenal v Sunderland Burnley v West Ham Fulham v Everton Wolves v Chelsea Newcastle United versus Brentford (17: 30 GMT) Sunday, 8 February Brighton v Crystal Palace (14: 00 GMT) Liverpool v Manchester City (16: 30 GMT) FPL Q&A with Gianni Buttice Has the time arrived to drop Erling Haaland from your FPL team? And who to captain instead? Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes has averaged eight points a game since Ruben Amorim left Old Trafford and now playing back in his natural number 10 position, he's become a must have FPL asset once again. Attacking returns feel as likely as ever and with penalties, free kicks, corners, a 90-minute guarantee and a good chance of defensive contribution, he has more routes to points than virtually any other player in the game. Manchester City's Haaland has one league goal in seven and it's time for those that haven't already done so to start considering alternative choices. FPL Q&A with Gianni Buttice Thanks Craig. That might be all we have from this afternoon's Premier League news conferences, but between now and 17: 00 GMT, we will turns our focus to the Fantasy Premier League ahead of Gameweek 25. And today, we have our expert, Gianni Buttice, on hand to answer your questions regarding your FPL team. So click 'Get Involved' to submit your questions to Gianni now. Right, that's all from today's Premier League news conferences. Just scroll down through the pages to catch up on the latest news from the top flight, and remember you can access all of today's key pieces of team news by using the links in this page's summary. All that remains is to hand you over to my colleagues Adwaidh Rajan and Tyrese King for this week's FPL Q&A. Enjoy! Burnley v West Ham (Sat, 15: 00 GMT) Burnley Burnley manager Scott Parker on opponents West Ham, who are five points above them but also in the Premier League relegation places: “They have had a big improvement over the last

three or four weeks. They have brought some players in and I think you can see a

pick-up in their results. "It’s probably a different side to the one we faced at

the start of the season and it’s going to be a tough game. ” Burnley v West Ham (Sat, 15: 00 GMT) Burnley Last but not least, we head off to Burnley and some team news from manager Scott Parker: “No real fresh injuries really. The longer-term

boys are still the longer-term boys. James [Ward-Prowse] [loan player] can’t play this

weekend due to playing against West Ham [his parent club] but everyone else is pretty good. ” Newcastle v Brentford (Sat, 17: 30 GMT) Brentford Some more team news to bring you, this time at Brentford, who travel to Newcastle for Saturday's late kick-off. Manager Keith Andrews has confirmed that January signing Kaye Furo will be available for selection, while Reiss Nelson is back in contention after missing the victory at Aston Villa with a knock. Kevin Schade will miss the match through suspension following his straight red card against Villa. Andrews said: “We’re disappointed not to have Kevin. We’ll miss him for the next two league games and the cup game against Macclesfield. “Everyone else has come through a difficult game, for obvious reasons, having gone down to 10 men so early. It’s testament to the place we’re in - physically as a team. We’re pretty much as we were. " Fulham v Everton (Sat, 15: 00 GMT) Fulham Fulham boss Marco Silva is getting closer to having a fully-fit squad available and spoke about the benefits of increased competition for places: "The environment is good. The feelings are very good. You can feel it during the week, how competitive it will be in the future. "That competition, the sound, everything is different. That is nice to see with all of them around and all of them competing for the position. "Of course, there is going to be tougher, more competitive sessions, things that you can work in many different ways as well. It is a very good feeling for me, for my staff and even the players they feel it, that is going to be good. "If you have normal solutions, you can start the game the way you want to start and to make changes if we have to throughout the game. It is always very good if you look around yourself and you see solutions there to have an impact. " Kenny Tete is in contention to start against Everton and new signing Oscar Bobb is available, but Sasa Lukic is out. Bournemouth v Aston Villa (Sat, 15: 00 GMT) Aston Villa Aston Villa manager Unai Emery on rebuilding the centre of his midfield: "We have three players in the middle like [Boubacar] Kamara, Youri [Tielemans] and [John] Mc Ginn out. We have a key structure in place with those players. Now, with Amadou Onana [returning] he was not 100% last week. Lamare Bogarde is doing his task and helping us a lot, but he needs to continue to get better. "Ross Barkley coming back is very, very important. He knows us and he has the skill needed to play as a number 8 or 10. "In two months we have changed a lot in the middle. We must build again a strong structure in that key position. We have enough players and we must do it. And we need everybody's help to get it. " Bournemouth v Aston Villa (Sat, 15: 00 GMT) Aston Villa Aston Villa manager Unai Emery on using a clear midweek to get returning players and new signings up to speed: "I prefer to play a lot matches, but when we can have some weeks free to work or to recover some players after they have been injured, the circumstance makes sense if we want some space to work and be free for matches. "We are trying to set our new players. Of course, with Leon Bailey and Douglas Luiz [who are returning to the club] it's easier but they need again to adapt quick in the demands we have. "Tammy Abraham, he needs to adapt again quick here about how we are setting our standards. "Alysson, too, is coming back progressively. " Bournemouth v Aston Villa (Sat, 15: 00 GMT) Aston Villa Aston Villa manager Unai Emery on whether Ollie Watkins will be fit to play: "Yes, he rested last week because he had a small injury and he was not ready to play, but this week progressively he was joining us, training normally and today he trained normally. " Watkins pulled up with a hamstring injury in the first half of Villa's Europa League victory over RB Salzburg on 29 January and missed last weekend's Premier League defeat at home to Brentfiord. Craig Nelson BBC Sport reporter It looks like we just have lines from four news conferences to bring you now, before we switch focus to FPL. Let's start with Aston Villa and some good news for supporters on Ollie Watkins' hamstring injury. .. Click 'Get Involved' to have your say T-minus 30 minutes until this page turns into a Fantasy Premier League Q&A and you can beat the traffic by sending in your questions now. Today's expert ready to answer everything and anything you need a nudge with is Gianni Buttice. All you've got to do is click that 'Get Involved' button and send in your questions now! Brighton v Crystal Palace (Sun, 14: 00 GMT) Crystal Palace Finally, Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner gave an update on his squad's fitness: "Daichi Kamada is back and trained the full week – he will be available for the Brighton game – and really, it feels like a new team, with three new players coming in, and now it's really to start. " "Borna Sosa is back, as I mentioned Daichi is back [both from injury], and Adam Wharton is back [from a one-match suspension after his red card against Chelsea]. “Justin Devenny is close – maybe Sunday’s too early, but the Burnley game on Wednesday, he should be fine. “The only ones are Cheick Doucouré – there’s still a long way to go for him – and Eddie Nketiah is not ready, but all others are back and available. ” And on the availability of his new signings: “We have Evann Guessand in, first week of training with us, Brennan [Johnson] arrived a few weeks ago – now, for us, it's pressing the reset button. " Glasner also confirmed that Jean-Philippe Mateta will not feature against Brighton or Burnley after his potential move to AC Milan collapsed on deadline day. Brighton v Crystal Palace Crystal Palace Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner on new signing Jorgen Strand Larsen: "He has a similar profile to JP. We wanted a tall and physical number number nine and Jorgen has a great mentality and a great character. "He has shown it this week in training that he has this feeling inside the box. "We trust in him. We’re always looking at the profiles and the character of the player, and Jorgen shows both – that’s why we had a huge effort to get him into the building. He's shown it this week in training. "He’s hungry to score goals, and of course he needs to get the ball in the right areas, but he has this feeling where to move in the box – he’s scored a few nice goals. " Last Updated 4th February 2026 at 21: 55 Please Note: All times UK. Tables are subject to change. The BBC is not responsible for any changes that may be made. Copyright © 2026 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.