In the Suspension Tightrope we look at the players who are close to a suspension, have already been suspended or are returning from the naughty step in Gameweek 17.
HOW MANY BOOKINGS RESULT IN A BAN – AND WHEN ARE THE EXCLUSION POINTS?
We have taken the table above from the Football Association website. It describes the limits for the different yellow card thresholds.
What we are concerned about now is the five warning sign. This is an unwanted target that Premier League players will have to avoid that of their team first 19 league matches.
Penalties for collecting yellow cards are competition specific, while dismissal suspensions apply to all competitive matches.
ON FOUR YELLOW CARDS
There are seven new additions to the 25-member list. These include Antoine Semenyo (£7.5 million), Bruno Guimaraes (£7.0 million), Pedro Porro (£5.3 million) and Matty Cash (£4.9m) – all players with double-digit properties.
Boubacar camera (£4.9 million), Reinildo (£3.9 million) and Matt Doherty (£4.4m) also joined the table above. However, Reinildo will not get the chance of a fifth booking before Gameweek 20 as he is away at the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON).
On a similar theme, Daniel Munoz (£5.9m), on four bookings since Gameweek 12, will be injured well after the Gameweek 19 cut-off.
Time will tell if Dominik Szoboszlai (£6.7m) is fit enough to appear before then.
ON THREE YELLOW CARDS
There are 47 others who have a little more breathing space on three yellow cards.
They would have to be booked in two of the next three Gameweeks to receive a suspension.
Micky van de Ven (£4.6 million), Marc Cucurella (£6.2 million), Virgil van Dijk (£5.9 million), Igor Thiago (£7.2 million) and Phil Foden (£8.8m) are among the household names here.
SUSPENDED IN GAMEWEEK 17
Four players received their fifth yellow card of 2025/26 in Gameweek 16.
They were Casemiro (£5.5 million), Yerson Mosquera (£4.3m), and the Brighton and Hove Albion pair Lewis Dunk (£4.5 million) and Diego Gomes (£4.9 million).
Luke O’nen (£4.0m), meanwhile, has two games remaining after a three-match ban.
And Hannibal Mejbri (£4.8m) is just two games back from a four-match ban for misconduct – but now that he is off to AFCON he will serve the remainder of his ban while in Morocco.
Mychailo Mudryk (£4.9m) remains suspended indefinitely by the FA.
BACK FROM A BAN IN GAMEWEEK 17
Riccardo Calafiori (£5.7 million), Conor Bradley (£5.0 million), Kyle Walker (£4.4 million), Kevin Damage (£7.0 million) and Lucas Pires (£3.8m) all return after serving one-match bans in Gameweek 17.
And Lewis Cook (£4.9 million) and Moses Caicedo (£5.7m) is back from a three-match suspension.
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