Can clubs stop team news leaking out through FPL picks?

Chelsea striker Joao Pedro's injury was leaked through the Fantasy Premier League game, but is there anything clubs can do? Joao Pedro had been pictured in training before his shock absence from Chelsea's line-up last weekend Chelsea head coach Xabi Alonso was caught off guard after Saturday's loss to Tottenham when asked whether he was aware that Joao Pedro's injury had been leaked through the popular Fantasy Premier League game. His response was: "I am not into the fantasy team thing, so I didn't know that." Accounts believed by FPL trackers to belong to Chelsea staff, a player and a relative of a player appeared to transfer out or bench Joao Pedro before the deadline.

One Fantasy Premier League manager, known online as FPL Karim, was among those who believed they had identified information by tracking selections made by a relative of Chelsea forward Morgan Rogers. He said: "There were rumours that a player was missing from Chelsea's attack. I went to check Rogers' team, but he'd sold Joao Pedro two or three gameweeks earlier when he was injured. He never bought him back. "Then I checked his brother's FPL team and saw that he'd sold Joao Pedro that gameweek and brought in Nicolas Jackson. I thought it was a bit weird. Why would you sell him when he's one