Best £ 4.0 million defenders for FPL 2025/26: All 79 are assessed!

That’s when the year when we explore through the price list of the Fantasy Premier League (FPL) – and now it’s £ 4.0 million.

Before 2023/24, we often play -play with one or two £ 4.0 million play FPL Defenders Most -Paling. Often, this budget gem – like John Lundstram And Tino Livramento -The only express themselves during pre-season.

But in the last two years, game makers make it easier to find the £ 4.0 million option with a strong initial chance.

Most of them came from three clubs that were promoted – and that was what happened this time.

Here, we look at All 79 (!) Defenders who are currently registered at a price of £ 4.0 million and choose potential gems.

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Defenders £ 4.0 million: Promoted team

More than a third (28, precisely) of 79 defenders played to promote Burnley, Leeds United or Sunderland.

Burnley

2024/25 League appearance for Burnley

Player	Starting (sub -application)	Target	Assist	Notes
Maxime	46	1	0	The starter is always in the middle in 2024/25.
Lucas Pires	32 (2)	0	2	Starting the season as a left back first choice before Humphreys (below) takes over, even though it is returned to XI when rival position has ended prematurely.
Bashir Humphreys	20 (5)	1	2	Enter and exit at first but quite a lot of establishing himself as the first choice of left back in November. Thigh injury limits the season in February.
Joe Worrall	3 (6)	0	1	The reserve at the Center-Half who started three matches in early 2024/25 before the broken leg made it absent. Only a substitute after returning in December.
Oliver Sonne	0 (2)	0	0	Right -back reserve was signed in January which never entered XI early.
Shurandy boat	0 (1)	0	0	Further down to the order of power at the right back even though it only signed last summer.
Jordan Beyer	0 (0)	0	0	Injured for the whole campaign but returned in training and had performed in pre-season.
Hannes Delcroix*	0 (0)	0	0	Middle things were injured in early 2024/25 but who could not enter the team even when fit. Sent by loan to Swansea.
Hjalmar Ekdal*	0 (0)	0	0	Middle things were injured in early 2024/25 but who could not enter the team even when fit. Sent by loan to Groningen.
Owen Dodgson*	0 (0)	0	0	Left back products and academies that never succeed from the bench. Sent by loan to Burton Albion.

*exit with loan status

Dodgson, we have Owen Dodgson (£ 4.0 million) here! See? No one cares.

From a dozen burnley defenders available at a price of £ 4.0 million, 10 are in last year’s book. Two others, Axel Tanzebe (£ 4.0 million) and Quilindschy Hartman (£ 4.0 million), has joined this summer.

Maxime (£ 4.0 million) is a prominent candidate, or the safest today. The starter that was always there last season, he was part of the defense that kept a record of 30 clean sheets.

While attacking the return may be less supply, he was outside the top 10 championships for permission (230) last season. Remember that outfielders get additional points at 2025/26 for permission, blocks, interception and tackles (CBIT).

He and the middle partner, who is now up CJ Egan-RileyHas a CBIT tariff for almost identical last year: 7.7 and 7.8 per game. That is the best in the Scott Parker squad.

And he will definitely have more to be completed in the Premier League as well, with Clarets coming under Cosh.

We need to judge more burnley in the pre-season before hearing others. Will Beyer return to the team after so long? Will Parker turned to three backs, with Bashir Humphreys (£ 4.0 million), Kyle Walker (£ 4.5 million) Beyer and/or Tuanzebe as centers around Esteve?

Hartman is a person who must be monitored: he has some potential assistance from left -back/wing -back and has been coveted by Chelsea.