{"id":21756,"date":"2026-10-14T13:26:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2026\/10\/14\/gw7-wildcard-budget-for-palmer-rogers-and-joao-pedro\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T13:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:26:29","slug":"gw7-wildcard-budget-for-palmer-rogers-and-joao-pedro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2026\/10\/14\/gw7-wildcard-budget-for-palmer-rogers-and-joao-pedro\/","title":{"rendered":"GW7 Wildcard: budget for Palmer, Rogers and Jo\u00e3o Pedro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Palmer, Rogers and Jo\u00e3o Pedro cost \u00a325.4m between them. A GW7 Wildcard can accommodate all three Chelsea attackers, but you need enough money left for the rest of your starting XI and a bench you can use.<\/p>\n<p>Our preference is to build the squad across Chelsea\u2019s GW7\u201313 fixtures, then decide whether the third attacker earns his place. Pick two if buying all three forces you to accept weak cover or a starter you would otherwise replace.<\/p>\n<h2>Give the Chelsea picks seven fixtures<\/h2>\n<p>Chelsea visit Everton in GW7, then host Spurs and Manchester United. They follow that with Sunderland away, Leeds at home, Nottingham Forest away and Crystal Palace at home.<\/p>\n<p>That gives you four home matches across seven Gameweeks. You can hold the attackers through several fixtures instead of expecting the Everton match to justify the whole investment. You still need to accept the away games and check each player\u2019s fitness and starting outlook before the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Plan a review around GW14, when Chelsea host Liverpool, followed by Manchester City away in GW15. Those matches give you a reason to reassess the triple rather than commit three club slots without a later checkpoint.<\/p>\n<h2>Compare the price with the attacking evidence<\/h2>\n<p>Palmer and Rogers are FPL midfielders; Jo\u00e3o Pedro is a forward. Buying all three uses two midfield places, one forward place and your three Chelsea slots.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Palmer: \u00a39.7m.<\/strong> He averages 88.2 min\/match, with 0.37 xGI\/90.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rogers: \u00a37.9m.<\/strong> He averages 86.7 min\/match, with 0.55 xGI\/90.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jo\u00e3o Pedro: \u00a37.8m.<\/strong> He averages 86.2 min\/match, with 0.64 xGI\/90.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here, xGI\/90 means expected goal involvements per 90 minutes. These are season-to-date performance rates, not predictions for the next fixture. Read them alongside average minutes per match; a player still needs time on the pitch to turn his attacking involvement into FPL returns.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer costs \u00a31.8m more than Rogers despite the lower attacking rate so far. That gap deserves scrutiny when you build the Wildcard. You can prefer Palmer, but paying the extra needs to fit the squad you want rather than follow his price tag.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers and Jo\u00e3o Pedro offer the cheaper route into two Chelsea attacking slots. Their playing-time records support consideration, although past appearances cannot guarantee the next start. Check current team news before locking either into your XI.<\/p>\n<h2>Put two-player drafts beside the triple<\/h2>\n<p>Rogers and Jo\u00e3o Pedro cost \u00a315.7m together. Palmer and Jo\u00e3o Pedro cost \u00a317.5m, while Palmer and Rogers cost \u00a317.6m.<\/p>\n<p>Build the \u00a325.4m triple beside the pair you would otherwise choose. Then inspect the players you can afford in the remaining positions. If the triple forces an avoidable weakness in defence or leaves you without a usable substitute, keep the pair and spend elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/weplayfpl.com\">test future squad drafts in We Play FPL<\/a> to map transfers and line-ups across the Chelsea holding period. Put your preferred pair and the triple into separate drafts, then check who starts when you need cover. A bench player has more value when you can identify the Gameweeks in which you will use him.<\/p>\n<p>Three Chelsea attackers also leave you no Chelsea slot for a goalkeeper or defender. Include that restriction in the comparison if you had planned to use a defensive pick from the same club.<\/p>\n<h2>Buy the third attacker when the squad can support him<\/h2>\n<p>Choose the triple if you want to hold all three through GW7\u201313 and can retain a starting XI and bench you trust. Choose two when the third player takes money from a more useful squad improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Before the GW7 deadline on 17 October at 10:00 UTC, check availability and expected starts, then review the whole draft. The Chelsea fixture run gives you a reason to invest; your budget decides how many attackers to buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea\u2019s attacking triple costs \u00a325.4m. Compare it with a two-player draft across GW7\u201313, using attacking rates, average minutes and the bench you can afford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1976,1978,173,1977],"tags":[1987],"class_list":["post-21756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chip-strategy","category-fixtures","category-fpl","category-player-analysis","tag-gameweek-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}