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[Gray Fox]

La Liga teams only tend to be much worth once you can afford Griezmann and up, for your forwards/wingers.

That's why it's a little dull, but I've stuck with the EPL. The next step would be Bundesliga for me.

[John]

I thought Griezmann was rubbish. Shattered after sixty minutes of every game. I use Iago Aspas in exactly the same way and he's always alright, despite having lower stamina and the same work rates, so fuck knows why Griezmann was such a fanny but he did my head in.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Been using this for the Fut champions (bar Marcelo who is a loan):

http://i.imgur.com/mQI5gyo.jpg

I love Aduriz, Godin, Oblak and Thiago (in my Bundesliga squad, here less so) but the rest I pretty much hate.

Going to sell them all as I just don't think I can make it work.


La Liga teams only tend to be much worth once you can afford Griezmann and up, for your forwards/wingers.

That's why it's a little dull, but I've stuck with the EPL. The next step would be Bundesliga for me.
That's what I was rolling with. I just couldn't get into it.

[John]

Castillejo must have been a colossal pain in the dick with those work rates. I'm using a Hunter IF Orellana there and he has the best feet of anyone I've used this year. Just glides around the pitch.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He also has only 65 stamina and is left footed with 2* weak foot. Plus his shit shooting stats as well meant cutting inside was a bit pointless.

He was so fucking annoying.

I ended up replacing him with Williams:

http://www.futhead.com/17/players/35535/williams/

He was such much better. The added strength (on top of everything else) was really nice as well.

[John]

Why did you buy him in the first place? There must be ten better options available.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I honestly can't remember.

There were, Williams for instance was so much better.

Although that Orellana does look tasty as fuck, he's making me think about building a team around him and the new Aduriz.

[John]

He's brilliant. He has very low strength and balance but somehow seems absolutely solid in possession. I doubt the game is complex enough to take something like centre of gravity into account, but it definitely feels like it has when he's on the ball.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

People who play on park the bus and just play cut backs when they get a chance are the biggest cunts ever.

How can someone actually enjoy playing like that?

[Gray Fox]

People who play on park the bus and just play cut backs when they get a chance are the biggest cunts ever.

How can someone actually enjoy playing like that?

50% of the people who play in the weekend league are like this. It's all out, play to win. Zero fucks given whether it's enjoyable or not.

It's turned the average player from wannabe Guardiola to knock-off Mourinho.

[The Merse]

Big time. Was especially so for me this weekend.

I was 3-3 on Friday night then headed out until Sunday, came back, hit form and got to 17-10 by 2am. Whilst that's on track for 25 wins and a best ever Gold 1, I needed to sleep so resolved to just win one more and take the bare minimum 18 wins for auto qualification for next week. Unfortunately, and I've had this before, the early hours of Monday morning in FuT champs are dominated by fuckers in elite kits, with Ronaldo, Messi and Suarez frontlines and still playing park the bus counter.

Coupled with my tiredness I was no match. Rage quit or lost 10 games before securing the final win at 2am with a game to spare. Never again.

[Gray Fox]

Big time. Was especially so for me this weekend.

I was 3-3 on Friday night then headed out until Sunday, came back, hit form and got to 17-10 by 2am. Whilst that's on track for 25 wins and a best ever Gold 1, I needed to sleep so resolved to just win one more and take the bare minimum 18 wins for auto qualification for next week. Unfortunately, and I've had this before, the early hours of Monday morning in FuT champs are dominated by fuckers in elite kits, with Ronaldo, Messi and Suarez frontlines and still playing park the bus counter.

Coupled with my tiredness I was no match. Rage quit or lost 10 games before securing the final win at 2am with a game to spare. Never again.

If I could play the 40 games at my own pace, I'd be much better at this. I've noticed I get a lot worse when trying to cram as many games into a short period of time as I can. Unfortunately like the one just gone, going from Lates to Earlies cuts out Sunday night. I ended up leaving 7 games on the table. I improved to 14-5 over Saturday night, but found myself on the back of a 4 game loss streak when I was at 16 wins, playing through the day on Sunday. Ended up 21-12. Disappointing after a good start, but it's 45k coins at least.

Having to play when tired is such a bastard with this.

Are you on PS4 Merse?

[Gray Fox]

I should also say I used this weekend as an experiment. I've long thought that people are starting to 'cherry pick' opponents. People seem to only want to play at home against players who have a club formed recently. You also get a few of those who 'flick' the kits. Essentially even though there is no kit clash, they'll quickly flick back and forth between their kits, until you do the same. They're trying to see if you have a gold/elite kit to avoid you.

Then comes what I was testing. I set the Red/Blue kit you got for finishing monthly Gold as my away kit, so it pops up straight away. The amount of people leaving the game upon seeing it come up is pathetic. I only managed to play 5 games with it because of people leaving, which is a shame because it's nice looking.


In other news, I'm thinking of making a start on that Lacazette SBC, unless I get something mega in my packs. I'd like to price it up before starting, but now is the best time to get a load of pack rewards. There's a crazy good TOTW alongside TOTGS cards, never mind the normal players that go for coins.
Someone on FUTHEAD did comment saying it cost him 600k though. He could be lying, he could be on PS4, but I can buy a Bale for that money.

[The Merse]

Gray Fox Xbone mate.


I should also say I used this weekend as an experiment. I've long thought that people are starting to 'cherry pick' opponents. People seem to only want to play at home against players who have a club formed recently. You also get a few of those who 'flick' the kits. Essentially even though there is no kit clash, they'll quickly flick back and forth between their kits, until you do the same. They're trying to see if you have a gold/elite kit to avoid you.

Then comes what I was testing. I set the Red/Blue kit you got for finishing monthly Gold as my away kit, so it pops up straight away. The amount of people leaving the game upon seeing it come up is pathetic. I only managed to play 5 games with it because of people leaving, which is a shame because it's nice looking.


It is indeed. Being within a couple of months of being a starter has long seen me get bale outs at the kit selection from 2014- players in Seasons for years, but it's ridiculous in FUT Champs, especially as it's not something I've ever done in any context so have no sympathy for.

The thing is, the levelling in FUT Champs should keep things straight, even if admittedly certain times of night are full of Elite and Gold monthly kits, so it must just 'make do' when there's not enough players around of your own skill level. When I play at peak times I'm generally on around 65-75% wins and that drops to 25-35% in the post-2am times (has done every weekend I've played).

[/quote]In other news, I'm thinking of making a start on that Lacazette SBC, unless I get something mega in my packs. I'd like to price it up before starting, but now is the best time to get a load of pack rewards. There's a crazy good TOTW alongside TOTGS cards, never mind the normal players that go for coins.
Someone on FUTHEAD did comment saying it cost him 600k though. He could be lying, he could be on PS4, but I can buy a Bale for that money.[/QUOTE]

If you've already got a decent number of the players, then 1million to do it quick or 600k to do it very slowly I reckon. Some clubs are costing me 50-60K alone to complete and I started with 3-4 players in every team. Them being Silvers is a real issue, there just aren't enough people opening them. I pray for clubs with a couple of bronzes as there are far more bronze pack method followers so the prices are lower, and of course the easiest are those with a good number of golds. I'm about 50 players short across the remaining ten teams and have priced those at around 250k. :(

Lacazette is a beast though and the passing on this SBC one will make him one hell of a false nine for me.

[Gray Fox]

If he truly is 600k+ I don't think I'll ever get him. It's all obviously dependent on what you get back in the packs.

I'm going to start pricing the teams up and see what's what. I've sold my Spaniards off as at the time of typing they were all worth more than what I bought them for, so a few thousand coins in profit there. Plus my 45k tomorrow I'll have 270k + packs to spend. I can get in some major upgrades to the team with that or spend on SBCs (Buffons new card seems a good upgrade but not worth the 80k he'd cost right now).

I am expecting an IF Vardy though, somewhere about 84/5 rated. If it's a massive upgrade I should have the coins for that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I now realise why I'm struggling so much.

I can't defend, I can't pass, I can't dribble, I can't retain possession, I can't gain possession, I can't deal with pressure, I can't deal with a lack of pressure, I can't cope on any defending/attacking mentality, I can't use skills and I can't finish.

I'm probably forgetting loads of things too.

Christ I hate this game, especially as I was pretty good in the late 90's and early 00's.

[John]

I am expecting an IF Vardy though, somewhere about 84/5 rated. If it's a massive upgrade I should have the coins for that.

Massive, massive upgrade. +6 shooting and dribbling, +3 physical, and +7 passing.

[Gray Fox]

https://gyazo.com/91feedd1460f13e986783c6c39996fc9.png

His IF card is better than Aubamayangs standard one. The first few went up and have gone for 500k. I'm hoping that cuts in half, but it seems they aren't letting too many out there, so around the price of Aguero seems about right.

[Gray Fox]

As I feared those Vardy cards seem to be in short supply. I was disappointed but noticed this little gem on the subs bench for the TOTW:

https://gyazo.com/c916d35a3ff91427ed2afc71c15da3c1.png

His only downside is his Stamina in the 70's. But whack a Hawk/Hunter card on him and check his stats out.

[The Merse]

Just priced up Buffon SBC. 60k is reasonable enough but I don't ever play with Serie A players. May look at it for one of my Hybrids with Chiellini as a perfect link.

[John]

His only downside is his Stamina in the 70's. But whack a Hawk/Hunter card on him and check his stats out.

Aspas has 70 stamina and gets on fine for me. As I've mentioned before though Griezmann has higher stamina and more favourable work rates but was shattered after sixty minutes, so I think there's something else going on with player fitness.

[Gray Fox]

I got Eriksen and Hamsik as my reward pack pulls. Not fantastic, but the latter selling could put 18k towards that Buffon SBC.

I sold Ramos, Alba and Koke for about 170k so have those 3 positions to fill. If you put Chiellini, Sandro and say Pjanic for 75k, that leaves me with about the same amount of quality, with coins over.

I'm really 50/50 on whether to do the SBC or not. On the one hand, he'll be gone in a day and it's bloody Buffon. On the other, it's 70k on a goalkeeper I can never trade. The only 2 non-legend keepers with comparable card stats are really De Gea and Neuer both or whom easily fetch over 120k. I really don't know.


Also to you who do SBCs a lot. FUTBIN now has a dedicated SBC section with prices that live update available. It's really really useful.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I won two games in a row earlier today.

I changed my custom tactics so it might be that, or by playing on defensive or it's more than likely just luck and I'll lose the next 10 when I load the game up tonight.

[Gray Fox]

The Merse I've just priced up the Lacazette SBC and have had it come out at about 340k on XB1.

13 of the teams can be done for less than 10k.

You'll get back 35,750 just in coins, 2 x Premium Silver Player Pack, 1 x Gold Pack, 7 x Premium Gold Pack, 5 x Gold Players Pack, 3 x Jumbo Premium Gold Pack, 1 x Prime Gold Players Pack and 1 x Premium Gold Players Pack.

So you're looking at a tad over 300k with the potential of about anything in the packs. A decent pull cuts the cost in half, but I'd never expect one.

[The Merse]

How?!

Am I missing something major when it comes to trading and getting players on the cheap???

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The win streak is snapped at 3 with a 1-1 draw.

There was so much lag throughout the game that finishing was almost impossible which was a shame as I know I would have won that easily with little lag.

Still, playing a lot more conservative has seen me do a lot better today. I hope it will continue.

[Gray Fox]

How?!

Am I missing something major when it comes to trading and getting players on the cheap???

https://www.futbin.com/squad-building-challenges/ALL/50

Click through the 'completed challenges' lists. Those prices are updating about hourly too. It's been out for so long now though, that price fixing will see it not budge much.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They need to add more Hunter cards into the game.

It's tough trying to fucking buy one.

[John]

Hawk cards are miles better.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://i.imgur.com/XC0mSOV.jpg

Made that although I'll be looking to bring IF Godin in for Inigo when I've got the coins.

That looks a lot more enjoyable than my previous attempt at a La Liga side.

[John]

I'd be replacing Garay rather than Inigo. I've got Inigo and he's comfortably the best La Liga defender I've used.

Isco is shit hot technically but seriously ligtweight. If you find him too much so Koke makes an able replacement, and Kovacic with an Engine card is pretty much the best midfielder in the league.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Seriously, that's a bold claim? I guess Garay will make way then when I have the coins.

I also didn't even look at Kovacic but he looks quite tasty. I think if I have a problem with anyone I'll pick him up.

[Gray Fox]

It's a shame the Hazard SBC obliterated the IF Carrasco. He was only 60k before it, but now you'll be lucky if you can get him for less than triple that.

[John]

It's a shame the Hazard SBC obliterated the IF Carrasco. He was only 60k before it, but now you'll be lucky if you can get him for less than triple that.

I bought him for 180ish earlier, in the hope that he gets a Winter Upgrade and they do the same thing they did last year with the IFs.

Stick an Anchor card on him and you'll see the light, Mahow. He's unfeasibly good.

[Gray Fox]

Speaking of SBCs EA have dropped 2 tempters and a pointless one. 86 CDM De Rossi and an 84 CM Parolo. The former looks a quality CDM while the latter will be in the '80 club' with anything which ups his pace. If I had to choose it'd Parolo. However the former is 75k and the latter is close to 70. I have nothing to take down the price so I'm going to have to pass on this one. My IF Benaglio which I kept, is now worth 20k, but 50k for an untradeable card isn't really open to me unless he's going to be mega.

I'd be a lot more interested had I not done the Buffon SBC. But I think making a start on the cheaper Lacazette ones would be better for my team. Vardy is great on the counter but clunky when it comes to a little bit of craft. Plus there's always a chance of something in the packs.

The useless one is a Ruffier card, which is the same rating as his IF card which came out only this week. It's pretty much the same stats too and costs about the same as the IF card but you can't sell it on.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've not done any SBC's yet.

Can you use loan players and other untradeables?

I might be able to knock out a few if so.

[Gray Fox]

You can't use loan players, but you can use untradeables.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've turned back into a dribbling mess.

Christ, my defending is atrocious. It feels like my defenders are actively trying to run away from the ball at times.

[Gray Fox]

I've turned back into a dribbling mess.

Christ, my defending is atrocious. It feels like my defenders are actively trying to run away from the ball at times.

It's people who are good at face up dribbling that get me. Every damn time.

In other news, in trying to make some quick profit I just screwed myself out of 40k. Bought Lahm in bulk just as new SBC dropped, but they glitched out of my club for a while. By the time they re appeared the prices had stabilized. Gutted.

[Gray Fox]

I managed to recover my losses to about 30k. Disappointing as if I have a standard 18-20 win weekend I'll essentially have done it for nothing, but still, I've learned.

Ended up caving in and picking up that SBC Parolo for about 40k. He's one of those that had he been in the EPL, he'd have cost double or triple.

[The Merse]

Hoping they drop some more when these expire this afternoon.

Gray Fox are you on PS4? Checked out those prices on the SBC Lacazette and it's woefully innacurate. Spunked 50k on another 9 Ligue 1 players early morning during the price lul. Still price fixed to fuck. There's just not enough gold and bronze in that league. Still I'm down to 9 teams left with about 25 silvers, 5 bronzes and 10 golds to go.

[Gray Fox]

Hoping they drop some more when these expire this afternoon.

Gray Fox are you on PS4? Checked out those prices on the SBC Lacazette and it's woefully innacurate. Spunked 50k on another 9 Ligue 1 players early morning during the price lul. Still price fixed to fuck. There's just not enough gold and bronze in that league. Still I'm down to 9 teams left with about 25 silvers, 5 bronzes and 10 golds to go.

Xbox One.

Is it that far off? I've always used FUTBIN and I've found them on point so far. The problematic one seems to be when you get to teams like Toulouse. They have only 1 right back at the club and as such he insta-sells at 10k every time someone puts him up.

I'll be disappointed if it's a lot more expensive though.

[Gray Fox]

The Merse I've figured out the issue. If a player isn't on the market he displays as 0 cost, making it appear cheaper. The ones where you have only one player at a club in that position are going to be problematic.

[The Merse]

The Merse I've figured out the issue. If a player isn't on the market he displays as 0 cost, making it appear cheaper. The ones where you have only one player at a club in that position are going to be problematic.

Even those with two or three cost 6-7k. I'm sticking GK's in outfield positions to mitigate a little. It's ridiculous.

I've had real trouble this weekend I was at 4-8 and wondering what the fuck was happening. Fortunately, I worked it out and am now 7-8 on the road to recovery. I was playing with my formations the other night in preparation and my custom tactics were reset so I was playing offside trap and organised attacking. :(

On the plus side, I also discovered via several hours of local multiplier with a mate that the custom tactics have a description when setting them playing offline/local games, and it's helped me set my team up perfectly - it was this discovery that prompted finding that my custom tactics were reset. It also backed up my belief that most of the youtubers are all over the fucking place when describing each setting. If you want to set your tactics for your style, go to kick off, set custom tactics and use the sliders to see the difference it makes. Some are literally the opposite of the descriptions offered by the pro in the vid's that Mahow posted before.

Oh and Gray Fox and anyone else on Xbox, feel free to add me - Prawn of War. Would be good to benchmark and maybe get a friendly or two in ;)

[Gray Fox]

I started 5-5 on Friday. I was doing okay and all, but there were 3 games I threw away. 2 in which I pulled back from 2 goals down, only to concede again almost straight after making it level. Then one on penalties after conceding in the 90th and then 120th minute.

I've recovered tonight to 14-7. The key for me is I took Vardy and Deulefeu out before playing tonight. I replaced them with Movember Lacazette and Fekir. The difference has been night and day. Having 3 forwards who can all dribble and all have 4* skills is so much better. I've only used him for 11 games but he has 9 goals and 8 assists. While Fekir has 11 goals in the 11 games. Fekir is the best feeling player I've used on the game thus far. Just so silky on the ball.

The goal is to actually play 19 games tomorrow and get 11 wins. That's only 2 game win streak then win one/lose one. Hopefully I can do it. It's important for both this week and monthly. I need 59 wins now with the 19 games left this week plus the next 2 weeks. Essentially I'll need 11 wins, then 24 wins each weekend after to make Elite for the month. Obviously any further I can dig into that by going past 25 on a given weekend will be very helpful. I think 22-24 wins is about my level though.

The Merse I'm Sniper Wolf TP4

[bruhnaldo]

i'm "powpowpowpowYUP"

tho i'm not sure how the connections are when it comes to across the pond stuff

[bruhnaldo]

i've just had one of the greatest glories of my life

so i give up a penlty right... on the first one i tapped whatever the corresponding taunt is where he points to the right and basically begs the guy to shoot that way

so i do this and i figure okay fine i'll dive that way anyways because reasons.

of course, he shoots to the right, i block the shot, and retain possession.

then i give away ANOTHER penalty lol... no red cards though, mind.. anyways.

do the same thing because aha i've got into his head now, right?

boom! same thing, except this time he taps home the rebound.

i tie the match in the 55' but he takes back the lead in the '58.

in come Marco Parolo, 2:2 in the 84'. Now I'm dying for the winner, right...

HE gives up a penalty in extra time!

SO YOU KNOW IM THINKING. Fuck. Do I shoot to the right? After stopping the first two while taunting him? Surely he'll dive to the right?

Or do I shoot to the left cause he's going to think I'm going to shoot to the right?!

So I Think you know what fuck it man I'm going to do the macho thing and smash it into the right corner as hard as i possibly can and hope for the best.

He goes left. Boom. 3:2. 93'. Whistle blows.

I've never felt this macho since I lost my virginity. Ya, you bitch, I'm going right at you. Literally.

I'm drunk sorry.

[Samadini]

As I feared those Vardy cards seem to be in short supply. I was disappointed but noticed this little gem on the subs bench for the TOTW:

https://gyazo.com/c916d35a3ff91427ed2afc71c15da3c1.png

His only downside is his Stamina in the 70's. But whack a Hawk/Hunter card on him and check his stats out.

:drool:

Did you get him? If so, any good? I sold all my coins, but haven't sold the disc yet, just in case I get tempted back in. This could help. Shame Mitrovic has now doubled in price and won't get another IF this season.

[mrland456]

sounds shit :violin:

[Gray Fox]

:drool:

Did you get him? If so, any good? I sold all my coins, but haven't sold the disc yet, just in case I get tempted back in. This could help. Shame Mitrovic has now doubled in price and won't get another IF this season.

Didn't end up with him as my forward needs to be French. He's 28k now though so quite cheap. Might want to pick him up soon too. I'm expecting a Lallana SBC on the 20th and English players/TOTW cards should end up being involved somewhere.

EDIT: After Lacazettes exploits I've sold Vardy on. 21k for 49 goals in 88 games and I've just got rid for 28k. Not bad at all.

[The Merse]

After the horrendous 4-8 start with my custom tactics balls up, I've gone on a 7 game winning streak and recovered to 11-8 :drool:

If only I'd had the custom tactics from the start. Still, looking good to make Gold before bed and may have a decision to make regarding substituting sleep for further reward later on tonight.

Lacazette and Remy are lethal with the right tactics. Martial has neither scored nor assisted a single weekend league goal but his overall play warrants a place. He tends to be the 'second assister', receiving the ball early in attacks and opening things up with his running before moving the ball on to the CM's or ST's to do the damage down the middle.

Getting Cech in goal for Hybrid 3 was a good decision and Walker is a massive upgrade on Brozinski. Shaqiri is a little better than Sane, though I'm tempted to pick up OTW Sane after his performance today.

http://oi68.tinypic.com/2v2b6ew.jpg

[The Merse]

Bowing out at Gold 3, despite being in line for Gold 2. I've battled lag a few times today and then the usual Sunday night issue of post 11pm being full of Elite monthly players with teams full of red cards and it's bloody late. I do think I've got a Gold 1 in me at some point, it's just so hard to find a weekend where I can play all my games in the Saturday afternoon-Sunday evening sweetspot, what with having some semblance of a life to attend to.

http://oi66.tinypic.com/2u6o3ld.jpg

[Gray Fox]

Yeah the standard of players went up massively last night, much to my dismay. My 14-7 start was quickly wiped out as I only won 1 of my first 6 games. At 15-12 I took a quick break and when I came back won via rage quit inside 30 minutes. Unfortunately 2 straight losses followed. I then managed to sneak a 90th minute winner in a game I had no right still being in(thanks SBC Buffon!), cue rage message afterwards :D

I managed to pick up another tough win straight after for my 18th win. It was as if a switch flicked in my mind after that and I completely relaxed. I played well but got superkeepered and lost in the 89th minute in the next game. Leaving me 18-15. I have no idea how but from there I managed to win out and I've finished on 25-15. Gold 1.

Great for the weekly(though no consumables is going to hurt) but more importantly it's vital for any hopes of Elite 3 for the month.

[The Merse]

Nice work Gray Fox

What's your team looking like with SBC Buffon now?

Just did the Kurzawa one:

http://oi67.tinypic.com/8wjle0.jpg

His top speed is still a bit naff vs the incumbent in my Hybrid 4 team, Luke Shaw; but his acceleration (99 with SHA), passing, defending, physical and shooting (ok, he's a defender but Alaba has charged upfield for a couple of vital goals with his midfield-standard shooting, so maybe this lad can do the same) are ridiculous. Had the top speed had another +5 at base level, I'd have gone with Anchor to boost the physical further, or maybe even Engine to make him a real attacking threat.

[Gray Fox]

FUTBIN has updated its SBC page again and now it shows the total estimated cost of each SBC without having to go through each sub-challenge. It's great unless there's an extinct card, which gets displayed as if it costs nothing, but those are almost rare outside of Ligue 1.

It reckons the two full-backs in todays challenges are 30k each. The Kurzawa card makes him the best French left back too. These SBCs in the main have been disappointing, but hopefully this is the start of seeing sense.

The Merse just sniped me about Kurzawa there.

The team I'm using can be seen here. (https://www.easports.com/uk/fifa/ultimate-team/web-app/show-off?showoffId=rMTjmshQmF7:FFA17XBO) It's gotten into a bit of a mess to be fair and I've no idea where to take it.

[The Merse]

FUTBIN has updated its SBC page again and now it shows the total estimated cost of each SBC without having to go through each sub-challenge. It's great unless there's an extinct card, which gets displayed as if it costs nothing, but those are almost rare outside of Ligue 1.

It reckons the two full-backs in todays challenges are 30k each. The Kurzawa card makes him the best French left back too. These SBCs in the main have been disappointing, but hopefully this is the start of seeing sense.

The Merse just sniped me about Kurzawa there.

The team I'm using can be seen here. (https://www.easports.com/uk/fifa/ultimate-team/web-app/show-off?showoffId=rMTjmshQmF7:FFA17XBO) It's gotten into a bit of a mess to be fair and I've no idea where to take it.

Oh god yeah, he's streaks ahead of the other French LB's, aside from maybe TOTGS Sidibe, but the club of the latter means less possible top class links are available plus his price is ridiculous.

Hmmm... Nice team, but yeah, I get what you mean. Difficult to see where to go with the way those links are.

[Gray Fox]

Oh god yeah, he's streaks ahead of the other French LB's, aside from maybe Sidibe, but his club means less possible links are available so...

Hmmm... Nice team, but yeah, I get what you mean. Difficult to see where to go with the way those links are.

See the way it is now I should really invest into making 2 separate teams. Having to buy fitness cards is a real killer. But I don't really have the coins to break it up and keep it competitive for the weekends.

The 2 SBC cards are top notch. Parolo is just great at everything, but his cannon of a right foot seems magnetized to the post/bar. Having a 6ft guy in there is a refreshing change too. Buffon is just so consistent, which is really underrated. No BS going through him and he pulls out the occasional jaw dropping save. I have his 1 mistake from his first 40 games clear in my mind. I dived the right way for a penalty in a shoot-out and it hit his belly but popped up into the net. That's literally been it.

The league I have the most players in is Serie A, so I suppose I could move to a team there, but the forward options are more limited.

[The Merse]

See the way it is now I should really invest into making 2 separate teams. Having to buy fitness cards is a real killer. But I don't really have the coins to break it up and keep it competitive for the weekends.

This. I make a grand instaselling my squad fitness cards from SBC's, the 'free' weekly packs and FUT Champs rewards for probably about 15k a week. Then there's the all injuries cards, which are the same - a grand instantly and not needed if you can just rotate your squads on the occasions when you don't have a specific healing card for an injury to someone key. Plus, more flexibility for Weekend Leagues too.


The 2 SBC cards are top notch. Parolo is just great at everything, but his cannon of a right foot seems magnetized to the post/bar. Having a 6ft guy in there is a refreshing change too. Buffon is just so consistent, which is really underrated. No BS going through him and he pulls out the occasional jaw dropping save. I have his 1 mistake from his first 40 games clear in my mind. I dived the right way for a penalty in a shoot-out and it hit his belly but popped up into the net. That's literally been it.

The league I have the most players in is Serie A, so I suppose I could move to a team there, but the forward options are more limited.

In draft I've used Dybala, Insigne and Mertens and they're all fucking ridiculous. Actually fancy making an Italian based 433 with the three of them at some point.

[Gray Fox]

My problem right now is that I need a big injection of coins to make 2 squads competitive. I could make a pretty damn good Serie A team(minus Dybala), likewise I can make big BPL upgrades, but wouldn't be able to do both.

It's going to be rough this week as I'm 'only' getting the 100k player packs. No consumables. I pray for someone 85 rated or more because they are all selling due to the SBC requirements.

[John]

Did the Juanfran SBC last night. Could do it just using players already in my club at a cost of about 60k. I could have got him for a bit less by selling a few players and buying others but I couldn't be arsed with the hassle. Kroos was the highest rated player to go and he's much too slow to be of any use so good riddance.

Be sure to look at SIF Brozovic if you're going down the Serie A path, Fox. He's had a +17 shooting upgrade over his standard card and looks thoroughly daft with an Anchor card. He'll be like getting IF Nainggolan on the cheap. 97 long shots and shot power. :drool:

https://i.gyazo.com/d2a36ead2f000e8b457a7f1033bb202f.png

[Gray Fox]

Did the Juanfran SBC last night. Could do it just using players already in my club at a cost of about 60k. I could have got him for a bit less by selling a few players and buying others but I couldn't be arsed with the hassle. Kroos was the highest rated player to go and he's much too slow to be of any use so good riddance.

Be sure to look at SIF Brozovic if you're going down the Serie A path, Fox. He's had a +17 shooting upgrade over his standard card and looks thoroughly daft with an Anchor card. He'll be like getting IF Nainggolan on the cheap. 97 long shots and shot power. :drool:

https://i.gyazo.com/d2a36ead2f000e8b457a7f1033bb202f.png

Don't you worry, he's on my radar. He looks bloody silly, I'm hoping for a big SBC tonight so people smash the packs and bring his price down.

[John]

Don't you worry, he's on my radar. He looks bloody silly, I'm hoping for a big SBC tonight so people smash the packs and bring his price down.

Dybala, Toprak, and Gameiro are the new SBCs.

In case you haven't noticed, by the way, the players for SBC are being decided on their squad numbers, so today's are all 21, tomorrow's will be 22, etc. Have a look around a list of squad numbers if you want to try to get ahead of the game.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Toprak looks tasty.

[John]

Gameiro is an odd one. The SBC will cost about double what his SIF would, but is the same rating and probably a functionally worse player. Lower shooting and physical, but passing increased by one.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

There's also a Rashford, he looks pretty good but 3 IF's with an 86 rated team? lol.

[John]

I'm not seeing Rashford on the console, and his number doesn't fit the established pattern. Is he in celebration of something else?

EDIT- Not seeing it because it's expired. You hopeless mook.

[Gray Fox]

Them being a one day only thing is making people go nuts for them. I was all set for a Lallana on the 20th, but Delle fucking Alli instead. The only one I've done so far is Parolo and only because he's unlikely to get a blue 'team of the x' card and he was a massive upgrade on his only other card. These ones that are the same as IF cards the players have make no sense to me.

[The Merse]

Dybala, Toprak, and Gameiro are the new SBCs.

In case you haven't noticed, by the way, the players for SBC are being decided on their squad numbers, so today's are all 21, tomorrow's will be 22, etc. Have a look around a list of squad numbers if you want to try to get ahead of the game.

I'm torn. Toprak does indeed look tasty, and I have a lot of Bundesliga players and rate his standard card pretty highly. I can do it on what's in my reserves, but looking at tomorrow... Well...

Notable 22's I've found - Mkhitaryan, Shaquiri, Will.I.An, Isco,

23's - Arturo Vidal, Kagawa, Shaw, Coleman.

Would be keen on the bolded ones, but Isco and Vidal would likely stretch me a little too far. Willian too actually, so hoping for a Shaquiri or Coleman with similar requirements to Toprak.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I ventured on Futbin to see Toprak and I also saw Rashford, I had no idea it was expired. I was merely getting the requirements from the mentalists on Futhead going crazy in the comments.

[The Merse]

Them being a one day only thing is making people go nuts for them. I was all set for a Lallana on the 20th, but Delle fucking Alli instead. The only one I've done so far is Parolo and only because he's unlikely to get a blue 'team of the x' card and he was a massive upgrade on his only other card. These ones that are the same as IF cards the players have make no sense to me.

Nice way to get rid of golds in reserve. Especially the likes of Azpilicueta and Ramsey that I've packed about 10 times between them.

[John]

Mkhitaryan is a bit flavour of the moment and that SBC will come a few hours after his current IF exits packs, so he's nailed on.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Went to do Toprak's SBC, used squad builder and then made some tweaks.

Almost all of the squad was made of loan players. Why the fuck did it put them in if I can't fucking use them? Seething doesn't begin to cover it as I thought I had done it with my only expenditure being 450 on a Capoue card.

[John]

Went to do Toprak's SBC, used squad builder and then made some tweaks.

Almost all of the squad was made of loan players. Why the fuck did it put them in if I can't fucking use them? Seething doesn't begin to cover it as I thought I had done it with my only expenditure being 450 on a Capoue card.

Because it's the same squad builder code it uses when you're not on an SBC. How fucking daft would they have to be to allow loan players in, and how fucking daft do you have to be to think they would?

[The Merse]

For the 84-rated squads, this is handy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/5jfgjw/formula_for_a_84_squad_using_bronzesilver_players/

[Gray Fox]

I reckon Shaw and Vidal are nailed on for 23rd. Neither are likely to see an IF card due to the former being injured most of the time and the latter not being a big goalscorer and too high rated in game to get an IF card otherwise.

I'm not doing any of todays as 2 don't really fit my teams. The one that would is going to cost all the coins I have if I sold my team, so I'll pass. I'm keeping everything bar Movember Lacazette until I see my pack rewards. 2 x 24 all rare gold players. If we assume they're all wank and discard at 650 coins, then that's 30k on top of my 50k coin reward. So I'll be looking at close to 200k to spend. That could well buy me a standard Hazard.
If I get anything properly good, then I'll look into a Serie A squad. Not really worth doing unless I can get at the least Higuain in there though.

[John]

During my time in Serie A Hawk Bacca was comfortably the best striker I used. In fact, Higuain not being anywhere near as effective as he was for me last year was the catalyst for me leaving the league. Since I left it the SIF Immobile and IF Belotti that have been released look like they could be seriously good.

[The Merse]

Took Toprak to pair with Boateng whenever there's a league or nation requirement in FUT Champs as he looks pretty much as good as that IF Sokratis but costs me 0 coins with a squad I'd make no more than 15K on due to 3 of them being untradeable with the exception of one of the worst IF Golds in the game (Spanish CDM worth 25k in current conditions, discard outside of it). So basically, no cost, probably 40k's worth of 'stock', which even then would be at an inflated price due to the market for IF's right now.

Good deal for an 86-rated CB from the Bundesliga with impeccable stats.

[John]

https://i.gyazo.com/5b8a944de802ef39ee40155aa1393698.png

Belotti looks like a particular bargain at 25k, actually. He started off at 77 rating this year, but has scored 12 in 15 for Torino, made his Italy debut and scored 3 in 5 internationals. Almost nailed on for a Winter Upgrade, which should mean his IF gets a bump too. Profit.

[Gray Fox]

He does look good, but he looks as if he'll suffer from the one criticism I have of the Lacazette card. The high defensive workrate sometimes puts him closer to my midfield than my outside forwards. For that reason I'd probably end up leaning towards that Immobile. He's definitely worth me looking at him though.

All obviously depending on rewards. The IF Insigne looks more vital to a Serie A team right now.

[John]

Insigne does look great. Mertens popped four past Joe Hart at the weekend though, one of which was a lovely chip, so I'd be expecting another upgrade for him. Usefulness depends entirely on the position though.

Lemina was the big find of my time in Serie A. Cost buttons but with an Engine card on he looks and plays more like an 84/85 midfielder.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Finally completed the Toprak card.

Ter Stegen, Monreal, IF Roger (only one I had in my squad), Musacchio, Juanfran, Xhaka, Pedro, Mata, Ramsey, Bruno, Slimani.

[Gray Fox]

Insigne does look great. Mertens popped four past Joe Hart at the weekend though, one of which was a lovely chip, so I'd be expecting another upgrade for him. Usefulness depends entirely on the position though.

Lemina was the big find of my time in Serie A. Cost buttons but with an Engine card on he looks and plays more like an 84/85 midfielder.

I was on about players I can afford. There's going to be so many Mertens cards by the end of the year it'll be silly. Hopefully one of them drops cheap enough.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That new IF Mertens looks mental.

Also, Ousmane Dembele :cool:

[John]

Did you get the OTW Dembele? That's a monster first upgrade.

I'll be all over that Vietto. Slightly slower off the mark than Aspas, but better dribbling and shooting and the work rates mean he'll start higher up the pitch anyway. Lovely.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yeah, I picked it up last month.

I was slightly annoyed when he got a TOTGS card the other week but his OTW didn't upgrade but thought that it might make for a tasty upgrade when he did get an actual IF.

Can't wait to try him later on tonight.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Not too keen on any of the SBC today.

[Gray Fox]

I want the Lallana card and the Dembele one looks insane. He's down to 110k already too.

Best reward pull was Rakitic. The rest are 84 rated and below but gained me about 100k with the coin rewards included after selling everything but Rakitic(Willian SBC should see his price rise). Lacazette selling would take me up to 200k coins in total. No idea what to do with it mind you.

[The Merse]

Not too keen on any of the SBC today.

I think I'll take Isco for his perfect link to Ramos as he's a freebie for me with plenty of 84/83's in the reserves, was hoping for him and Willian yesterday but Willian's requirements are just a tad too high. I may take Chadli as an interesting card too.


I want the Lallana card and the Dembele one looks insane. He's down to 110k already too.

Best reward pull was Rakitic. The rest are 84 rated and below but gained me about 100k with the coin rewards included after selling everything but Rakitic(Willian SBC should see his price rise). Lacazette selling would take me up to 200k coins in total. No idea what to do with it mind you.

Got another walkout :drool:

Unfortunately it was just Mkhitaryan, but hey, it's alright. Also picked up Thiago and Ramsey in the same pack, both of whom I'd used in the Toprak SBC, so they replenished my stocks for today.

[Gray Fox]

I think I'll take Isco for his perfect link to Ramos as he's a freebie for me with plenty of 84/83's in the reserves, was hoping for him and Willian yesterday but Willian's requirements are just a tad too high. I may take Chadli as an interesting card too.



Got another walkout :drool:

Unfortunately it was just Mkhitaryan, but hey, it's alright. Also picked up Thiago and Ramsey in the same pack, both of whom I'd used in the Toprak SBC, so they replenished my stocks for today.

I'm just destined to get middle of the road packs I guess. Lacazette just sold so I have the 200k. I can buy a Hazard or a few very good cards for that and it's tempting. But I know I need 2 squads to make more coin in the long run.

This is exactly the situation I was on about where I have enough coins to do something, but not enough to finish the job off well, no matter which way I go about it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

11 Bundesliga players
1 TOTW Player
10 rare
1 Chile player
87 rating
100 chemistry.

Not sure if the SBC Vidal is worth all that.

[Gray Fox]

Emre Can? Him and Lallana in the same week? My poor coins.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94JJz1FPBkg

When I actually manage to pick out Bogbrush on corners :drool:

My plan to use him with a shadow card as my main defensive midfielder has been a bit of a revelation really. He's constantly running around breaking up attacks then just lays it off to Kante or Eriksen who can try and make things happen.

[Gray Fox]

If I can be bothered linking it up tonight, I'll share my best goal I've scored and my 'best' goal from the weekend leagues.

I've bought Lallana for 70k and sold Rooney on for 18, so he was essentially 52k. I've 180 left, so I'm pondering which way to go next.

[Gray Fox]

Below you'll find why I always have Memphis on the bench. I was 3-0 down in this one with 15 mins to go. Went all out attack and had it back to 3-3 to go into extra time. We exchanged goals from kick off in ET and then he got another. After that he kept the ball and took it to the corner. Finally got a goal kick back from it and it lead to this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ0yeHWlIhU

I won on pens. He was not happy at all.


This is the 'best' goal I've scored. 3-2 with him putting massive pressure on. Got the ball and hoofed it clear.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id7MBMPkkN0



The Emre Can SBC is about 80k in cost now. As a Liverpool fan, I want him. But that's about half of my coins. If I do move ahead with the 2 teams idea, buying him would put pay to that for another week. Not including a possible Origi on the 27th.

It wouldn't be so bad, but the requirements for the 3 today all being high, means 84 rated cards are pushing 7k+ each and 85 rateds are going for their max price instantly. I'll check back again tomorrow but I doubt things will have improved.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yeah Memphis has an amazing shot on him.

Dabbing though :face:

[Gray Fox]

He dabbed an made me watch all the replays when 3-0 up. I have no regrets!

[Gray Fox]

The quest for 2 teams has me looking like so:

Team 1: https://gyazo.com/8e87af4c64b7cfe3c6d8c127e8bfce45.png

This team was made using mostly players I had in my club, plus the recently bought Lallana. It needs a striker and CM along with a better CB, but it's already a pretty good start.

Team 2: https://gyazo.com/a6bc5e2a5beccc1bdfe6cc6e9c4c7b79.png

Obviously has more holes to fill, but I have 170k to spend across both. So the majority needs to go into the 2nd team. There isn't really an option at LF beyond IF Insigne, so that's 60k gone, but that prices me out of Dybala, who is the only striker with out and out pace. The other option is someone like Higuain or Belotti and have him drop deep instead of going in behind.

As for Emre Can, I'm going to have to sell Lallana to buy him I think. But I'll raid the club for any pennies I can get my hands on before doing that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've sold my Silver Ligue 1 squad as I can't be doing with 4 squads.

I'm going to miss them, especially Doumbia.

[Gray Fox]

That must have gotten you a pretty penny. The right Ligue 1 silvers go for 8-10k a pop.

I found about 25k worth of discard value cards in my club. I went to sell Lallana back on, but in the space of a few hours he's dropped 10k in price. If he drops down to about 50k I'll buy back again and will be just as well off as before.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

160k or so IIRC after tax which isn't too bad.

I had IF Cyprien, Ninga and Lafont which are the most expensive silvers in the league. Doumbia going for 20k (max buyout) as a 72 rated silver was nice.

I think I made a touch of a profit.

I might make that SBC Bellerin or I might hold off and hope that Sokratis and/or Muller get one tomorrow.

[Danny]

There is a tax these days? :cab:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

There's been a tax since 12 or 13.

It's 5% on FIFA but on Madden the dicks take 10% tax.

[Gray Fox]

160k or so IIRC after tax which isn't too bad.

I had IF Cyprien, Ninga and Lafont which are the most expensive silvers in the league. Doumbia going for 20k (max buyout) as a 72 rated silver was nice.

I think I made a touch of a profit.

I might make that SBC Bellerin or I might hold off and hope that Sokratis and/or Muller get one tomorrow.

The in form Walker is 50k or so more expensive, but looks a much better card and there's potential for resale. I wouldn't touch that Bellerin.

The Insigne one is interesting. If what I'm seeing is to be believed, it's 40k cheaper than his IF card. The IF card has 1 more dribbling, but 1 less physical and 2 less passing. It looks like I should take the SBC card. Extra costs would be a hunter card and a LW > LF but it's still 30k cheaper.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yeah, I think I was blinded when I saw his pace.

I'm holding out for tomorrow.

I've got 300k waiting in hope of Muller.

[Gray Fox]

If there is a Muller, buy some of his standard card now. He's already 87 rated, so an SBC will be at least 88 and need an 87/88 rated squad. So you'll need him to use in it. When the SBC hits he will temporarily go to the top end of his price. Make sure you're there to be on top of that jump.


Insigne was a little more expensive that advertised. But that's due to people spamming the cheapest method and as such increasing its price. Still around 40k as apposed to his 68k in form card.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Good tip, cheers.

I've bought 3.

[Gray Fox]

Got the urge to open some packs last night, which is very rare for me.

IF Bruma(22k), IF Azpilacueta(90k), a bunch of 83s that might sell and some French silvers. One that sells for 5k and Akpa Akpro, who is one of the extinct Tolouse players. There's only 1 up right now and it's at his max price of 18k. I've not sold anything bar Azpi, but went back out and bought IF Lallana.

170k in the pocket and the stuff above to sell has me essentially back where I started. I probably need a Salah and Dybala in my Serie A team, but beyond that it can't get much better. The Prem team needs a CB and a RF/Striker. This reminds me of why I had Fekir/Lacazette. There's only IF Walcott that seems worth a thing at RF, but there isn't much to pair up front with him. Vardy is great for a certain style of play, but I struggle to break teams down with him. May well need to plug in another leagues RF and ST again.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm using OTW Mane (he needs an IF soon) and Scream Lukaku.

I'm not overly keen on either tbh, they both get absolutely outshone by Memphis.

[Gray Fox]

I really can't get to grips with Mane either. He's lethal against me but I just can't get much from him.

[John]

I've rather enjoyed using OTW Sane on the odd occasion I've played using my mate's team, but he has him as a right midfielder so I'm not sure how he'd perform at the sharp end of moves. I managed to talk him into picking up Batshuayi too, who's excellent.

Very little in my side will change from now until whenever the next midprice but excellent IF appears. Every penny saved from now until I can afford Suarez or Bale.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Muller is only a touch better than his Scream card which is a shame but it seems that it's about half the price to make him so I'll sell off Scream Muller.

[John]

There is a Muller SBC, but the requirements are an 85 squad with 90 chemistry so incredibly cheap for a player of that rating. You're out of luck with that Muller investment, Mahow.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yep, I'll make it up with the sale of the scream Muller though.

Miranda looks quite tasty.

[Gray Fox]

FUTBIN sez that Miranda will set you back in the region of 150k. Not sure I can afford to sink that much into another SBC card right now.

[John]

FUTBIN sez that Miranda will set you back in the region of 150k. Not sure I can afford to sink that much into another SBC card right now.

Doesn't look remotely worth it either when 'Movember' Barzagli exists. The best Serie A centre back by miles is Koulibaly, but even taking all other centre backs out of the equation that's still at least six times what Miranda's normal card is worth, and he doesn't look six times the player. The upgrade isn't even on par with a fairly weak IF. Anchor Koulibaly and Shadow Barzagli was my partnership when I was in Serie A and they were rock solid, which I imagine would go for double with tached Barzagli in there.

[Gray Fox]

Looks like that's the end of the SBCs for now. So no Origi tomorrow for me.

The weekend league was a frustrating experience though. They really could have extended it a day for once.

After Friday I was 8-2.
After Saturday 14-7.
Finished 23-17.

Essentially going 9-10 on Sunday night killed it. It took me 7 bloody games to go from 16 to 18 wins. The quality of player was definitely improved once again, but 2 games stick in my mind. The first I was completely dominant, it was the first game I bought Dybala. He hit the post 3 times and saw 2 more relatively easy finishes flash by the wrong side of the post. I lost it to 2 counter attacks.
The 2nd game of note the guy had 5 at the back and went park the bus from kick off. Played for penalties. I made sure not to Liverpool it, but lost the shootout. Infuriating.

I was 14-7 going into the Sunday night last week too, so this is obviously about my level. What this does mean though is that only 25 wins will do next weekend in order to get Elite for the month. I'll be gutted if I only end up with 24.

Of both teams I can say that the Serie A team has shite wingers/forwards. Neither Insigne or Mertens seemed up to much as a LF, same for Cuadrado the other side. The rest of the squad seems good though. A switch to a narrow formation may be needed. Dybala seemed great.
The premier league team needs a top striker. Martial feels sluggish for some reason unless played on his full chemistry as opposed to a 7 chem striker. Lallana also is a little wasted at CM. He needs to be higher up the field.

This is also the first weekend I've made coins through the 40 games. I was on 179k before I bought Dybala and Mertens for 136k. I'm on 63k now, so about 20k coins just from matches. I'll have 110k plus packs goodies to spend this week. Not too sure which team needs it more right now.

[bruhnaldo]

Just broke my brain doing the stupid FUTMAS pack and the best card I got was a fucking 79 rated CDM from the fucking MLS

I'm fuming

[Gray Fox]

Just broke my brain doing the stupid FUTMAS pack and the best card I got was a fucking 79 rated CDM from the fucking MLS

I'm fuming

It's not all too surprising. I got Schurrle from doing it. Odds of getting anything great in packs are low unless you open those all player packs or the ones where all items are rare golds.

Speaking of packs. They are going to get rinsed this week.

In the TOTW we have 91 ST Hazard, 86 Lacazette that bridges the gap to his SBC card, 90 Thiago Silva, 86 Thiago, 87 Icardi and last but not least a 90 rated Pogba card that's going to cost eleventy billion dollars.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I quite like the look of Thiago.

74 pace, 91 dribbling, 81 shooting, 86 passing.

He's come out at just over 80k too so he'll be very affordable.

[The Merse]

I had to settle for Silver 2 last weekend due to Xmas commitments confining me to just Friday for games.

Qualifying again is proving tough. I had two attempts ruined by awful lag, then on my third un-laggy run made it to the semi's, missing a gilt-edged chance in the 89th and succumbing to a counter attack directly after it to go down 1-0. I've got 5 attempts to go tomorrow to make it. I only need 8 wins to seal Gold monthly rewards, my bare minimum aim for December, so I'm desperate to qualify.

Also.... Finally got SBC Lacazette after selling the standard one for 49k and then spunking it all on three Toulouse players and then having to Loyalty Glitch to get to the 95 Chem. Seriously, Toulouse defenders are fucking extinct.

Reckon in total, with rewards etc, a net loss of around 300k. But it was fun and Lacazette SBC is bloody ridiculous. His dribbling, passing and physical attributes make him an ideal False 9.

[The Merse]

There is a Muller SBC, but the requirements are an 85 squad with 90 chemistry so incredibly cheap for a player of that rating. You're out of luck with that Muller investment, Mahow.

Fuck being away from my console for this one. Considered doing it from the web app as he'd have been an ideal CAM for me when switching to a 433 or as a sub, but it's just shit if you need to really move around a lot of players.

[The Merse]

Qualified at first attempt tonight with no lag. 7-0, 3-0, 4-1 and a 3-2 where I missed a couple of gilt-edge chances and had 72% possession and 9 shots to 2. The cunt scoring both of his chances was a bit shit but I was happy with how I basically donned all before me. It seems qualifying is tougher late night/early morning, just as with the Weekend League itself. I guess only the hardcore stick around after 10pm.

SBC Lacazette is fucking epic.

Oh well, time to play some draft; I got IF Striker Hazard and Sanchez in a single draft. Fucking beautiful.

Got 64k in the bank and struggling to find my next target. May just save for a proper megastar.

[Gray Fox]

I had to settle for Silver 2 last weekend due to Xmas commitments confining me to just Friday for games.

Qualifying again is proving tough. I had two attempts ruined by awful lag, then on my third un-laggy run made it to the semi's, missing a gilt-edged chance in the 89th and succumbing to a counter attack directly after it to go down 1-0. I've got 5 attempts to go tomorrow to make it. I only need 8 wins to seal Gold monthly rewards, my bare minimum aim for December, so I'm desperate to qualify.

Also.... Finally got SBC Lacazette after selling the standard one for 49k and then spunking it all on three Toulouse players and then having to Loyalty Glitch to get to the 95 Chem. Seriously, Toulouse defenders are fucking extinct.

Reckon in total, with rewards etc, a net loss of around 300k. But it was fun and Lacazette SBC is bloody ridiculous. His dribbling, passing and physical attributes make him an ideal False 9.

How much did he cost before rewards?

See now he has that in-form I'm not so sure on doing the SBC. There's a slight increase in the 3 main stats, with a good boost to his passing and physical, however in my mind he's costing nearly double his IF card is currently going for and I could sell on said IF card.

I imagine you've found as I did, that the qualifying itself is solid, but the weekends themselves are somewhat easier.

My rewards gave me precious little. I got a fair few 83 rated cards and fitness ones. However the current TOTW SBC challenges mean that they hold some value(maybe 3-4k each). I can either sell them or fit them in to one of the challenges to see what I get.

For my teams I'm tempted to switch to 4-3-1-2. My Serie A one has me just about able to afford TIF Icardi and standard Higuain. The idea being they all fit in like so:

https://gyazo.com/607ad649c47f302b327ad9631960c720.png

It would however leave nothing to put into my EPL team, so I'm not sure if that's a good idea or not.

[bruhnaldo]

I'm jealous at how advanced you guys are at this.

I "saved up" to 50k and blew it on jumbo packs trying to pack something good and came out with fuck all.

Then I thought well let me flip these shit gold players in that rare SBC and still got fuck all.

So now I have 15k and shit to show for it.

[The Merse]

How much did he cost before rewards?

See now he has that in-form I'm not so sure on doing the SBC. There's a slight increase in the 3 main stats, with a good boost to his passing and physical, however in my mind he's costing nearly double his IF card is currently going for and I could sell on said IF card.


Ooof. Fuck knows. It took weeks and weeks. I packed a lot of silvers needed too. I still reckon it's £600k and even then, only when you have time to dip in and out of bidding and not just BIN everything. Toulouse are a right cunt - almost every player is 12k+ with the defenders appearing for around 18k for a few spells of 5 minutes a day.


I imagine you've found as I did, that the qualifying itself is solid, but the weekends themselves are somewhat easier.


Yesterday, yes - and last time I had to qualify back in November, but today was a piece of piss, like the first time I qualified in October. As I say, I've always thought time of the night matters. A lot. Div 1 in FUTs 14-16 were always the same too. Playing past midnight often meant getting relegated to Div 3 as only the hardcore were around.


My rewards gave me precious little. I got a fair few 83 rated cards and fitness ones. However the current TOTW SBC challenges mean that they hold some value(maybe 3-4k each). I can either sell them or fit them in to one of the challenges to see what I get.

For my teams I'm tempted to switch to 4-3-1-2. My Serie A one has me just about able to afford TIF Icardi and standard Higuain. The idea being they all fit in like so:

It would however leave nothing to put into my EPL team, so I'm not sure if that's a good idea or not.

Nice. Very nice.

Koulibaly and Peres were total beasts in my early team and I fucking hate playing Naingolan.

Definitely worth aiming for. Can you not do something of a compromise this weekend and go for it balls deep in Jan?

[Gray Fox]

I'm jealous at how advanced you guys are at this.

I "saved up" to 50k and blew it on jumbo packs trying to pack something good and came out with fuck all.

Then I thought well let me flip these shit gold players in that rare SBC and still got fuck all.

So now I have 15k and shit to show for it.

You're starting to learn what didn't take me long at all. Don't buy packs unless you have a team set. Assuming you had an EPL team on XB1, you could have put that 50k towards say Smalling, Walker and Martial. You'd be a little short of all 3, but they are some of the best players in the game in their positions.

Me and The Merse have gone very different ways about it though. He got a massive pack pull(I think Ronaldo) early which essentially paid for his teams for a long while, with him adding pieces over time.

I've almost exclusively built the above through just playing the weekend league. I average 21 or so wins a week, which nets me 45k coins and 3 packs which can contain valuable items every Wednesday. It's been a slog but I can comfortably say this is the best set of players I've had in any FIFA game. That 45k buys me maybe a player or two a week. Buying packs would be great if I were able to pull something worthwhile.


Ooof. Fuck knows. It took weeks and weeks. I packed a lot of silvers needed too. I still reckon it's £600k and even then, only when you have time to dip in and out of bidding and not just BIN everything. Toulouse are a right cunt - almost every player is 12k+ with the defenders appearing for around 18k for a few spells of 5 minutes a day.

Koulibaly and Peres were total beasts in my early team and I fucking hate playing Naingolan.

Definitely worth aiming for. Can you not do something of a compromise this weekend and go for it balls deep in Jan?

I'm tempted to play Naingolan as the centre of the 3 and bring in what will eventually be SIF Brozovic to go at CAM and Pjanic or Marchisio at RCM.

I need 25 wins this weekend for Elite, so I'm looking at the best way to do that.

[Gray Fox]

I've looked further into that 87 Icardi. (http://www.futhead.com/17/players/51511/mauro-icardi/) Before you even put a style on him he has 99 heading, 99 jumping, 97 finishing, 96 positioning, 93 reactions and 88 strength. Any kind of card to boost his shooting seems a waste, so I'm not sure where to go there.

I've got 28k worth of those 83 cards on my transfer list according to FUTBIN. Leaves me with 165k or so to spend. Icardi himself is about 65k and I'd only need a CAM beyond that for that team(Banega/Hamsik/Pjanic).

For my other team the new IF Reid looks too good not to try out. That'd have me down to about 60k needing a striker and either a CAM if I keep Lallana as is, or a CM if I move Lallana up. I'm thinking of just a Rashford for striker, so he shouldn't cost much more than a few thousand. It'd probably have to stay that way until I could afford the Hazards/IF Walcotts of the world.

[John]

87 short passing probably renders a Catalyst a bit of a waste too, but he could definitely use a pace boost so that's probably your least wasteful option.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyxxcaxbJ6U

:drool:

That was easily my best game yet, in terms of my performance.

He scored a goal in the first 5 minutes or so as I wasn't great in my defensive pressure and managed to whip in a cross for Benteke who nodded it in. After that though it was all me, I broke down all his attacks and was constantly hammering him in a 5-1 win with OTW Dembele grabbing a nice hattrick.

That was the best goal though and I personally loved everything about it, everything went right.

[Gray Fox]

How are you finding Dembele? His IF/OTW card looks like I need to cram it into a team.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I think he's great.

I thought I'd miss OTW Embolo as he scored a lot for me but Dembele is so much better. He seems to always be near the ball and he just glides around the pitch.

I put him on Maestro and he does so well, he's a real handful for defenders.

He seems to work really well with Muller and Costa too, I'm really glad I bought him and it's likely that he'll get a January upgrade too so his OTW will be even better.

[Gray Fox]

Don't they improve the IF cards if that happens? My Lallana is suddenly interested.

Also, what's going on with the SBCs? FUTBIN usually has Lacazettes SBC at ~400k but it currently lists it around 250k. Most of the others at ~110k too.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I don't remember, I skipped a FIFA and I've forgotten loads.

[The Merse]

Don't they improve the IF cards if that happens? My Lallana is suddenly interested.

Also, what's going on with the SBCs? FUTBIN usually has Lacazettes SBC at ~400k but it currently lists it around 250k. Most of the others at ~110k too.

Silver player pack rewards for the Marquees this week and some promo prime players packs so plenty of 83,84,85s and Ligue 1 silvers about.

Hope everyone is signing into be web app each day by the way? I've just got my third gift of 1k of the week. Also got a Ligue 1 player I needed for Lacazette the other week in a bronze gift pack. Little bits and bobs but worth the 20 seconds of effort each day.

[Gray Fox]

Yeah the best thing I've got is 2.5k coins so far. A fair few bronze/silver gift packs but nothing on value unfortunately.

I think I've fucked it in regards to Elite. Started 3-0 last night but that turned into 4-5. I really don't think I'm liking playing the narrow formation. Combined with losing every close game so far has me burnt out. As it stands I'm unsure if I'll make the 18 wins. It's going to take a big effort to even get near the 25 wins needed right now.

[The Merse]

I'm sitting at 15-12 right now, not great, but on track for the Gold 2 target with a push towards Gold 1 if I'm lucky.

Thinking of giving 433(4) a go in seasons for a couple of days to experiment with movement. Were I to sell Ramos, Cazorla and Mahrez, the below would be an option for me by bringing Silva back along with Matuidi, Lloris might need to be omitted in favour of Ruffier - but I'd also hopefully have plenty to improve the Bundesliga side too. Lacazette with a catalyst would be an amazing CAM:

http://oi64.tinypic.com/6t33b7.jpg

[Gray Fox]

I have a lot of jealousy at seeing that team. I'm also kind of wanting to switch back to the one team. Since I introduced Icardi and Dybala together it's not been great. Dybala was a goal a game player but now it's one every other. I could sell the valuable stuff from the Serie A team. But as it stands, people are trying to sell off their weekend league teams. Prices are at a low, so I wouldn't get much value. I'd bring back in just under 340k.

That'd afford me about 1 Aguero, who I certainly need. But that's not a great return for not having a 2nd team, so this ideas like this will wait while I try to play my remaining 31 games. I'm really not feeling it now.

Do you not find Walker better than Bellerin?

[The Merse]

I have a lot of jealousy at seeing that team. I'm also kind of wanting to switch back to the one team. Since I introduced Icardi and Dybala together it's not been great. Dybala was a goal a game player but now it's one every other. I could sell the valuable stuff from the Serie A team. But as it stands, people are trying to sell off their weekend league teams. Prices are at a low, so I wouldn't get much value. I'd bring back in just under 340k.

That'd afford me about 1 Aguero, who I certainly need. But that's not a great return for not having a 2nd team, so this ideas like this will wait while I try to play my remaining 31 games. I'm really not feeling it now.

Do you not find Walker better than Bellerin?

Walker is in my BPL-Bundesliga hybrid, he currently starts alongside Koscielny in that team, with Bellerin next to Ramos in my France-BPL-La Liga hybrid. I started out with Ruffier in goal when doing that squad up there, so I had Bellerin as a strong link to Koscielny. Also just realised I'd use the Cech I already own in goal rather than Lloris, so I'm only Silva and Matuidi away from having that side and as Matuidi would work in my current 442 as well, I may just take the plunge and grab him straight up tomorrow when his price hits rock bottom.

This year I've built a club rather than squads per se. I buy when low, and sell when high, whilst keeping particular sets of players for SBC's either to use on them or to sell when they're needed in it for a healthy profit. Ronaldo netted me 1.4m but I've made twice that otherwise buy trading and picking the right SBCs. Added to over 1m in seasons, weekend league and match coins and the various walkouts from Weekend league packs, and I find myself with a club with 1,200-odd gold players inc full XI's for all BPL and Bundesliga teams and most of La Liga, ready for potential league SBC's. Club value is sitting at 134m right now :drool:

[Gray Fox]

I went the other way of selling everything of value I got, as soon as I got it.

This is by far the most coins I've had in any FIFA. Hell the Serie A squad comes to near half a million if you include the SBC players. I've had some okay pack pulls but in general I've had no help at all from the weekend league packs.

I'm considering doing some Lacazette SBC tomorrow though. Considering all 83+ players are currently valuable, the packs you get back out of them can lead to better payback than usual. Looking at your team above he's essentially as good as Aguero too.

Have you considered the IF Silva? He's about 120k more(I don't know if you have the coin left) but looks a pretty good upgrade on his standard card.

[The Merse]

I went the other way of selling everything of value I got, as soon as I got it.

This is by far the most coins I've had in any FIFA. Hell the Serie A squad comes to near half a million if you include the SBC players. I've had some okay pack pulls but in general I've had no help at all from the weekend league packs.

I'm considering doing some Lacazette SBC tomorrow though. Considering all 83+ players are currently valuable, the packs you get back out of them can lead to better payback than usual. Looking at your team above he's essentially as good as Aguero too.

Have you considered the IF Silva? He's about 120k more(I don't know if you have the coin left) but looks a pretty good upgrade on his standard card.

If it works out well, I may give it a go but it's a bit expensive to experiment with. I could take the standard Matuidi and Silva just with the coins I have plus the weekend league bonus. If it works, I'd look to add Movember Matuidi and IF Silva. It's a big IF though - it really needs to excel to convince me to go back to the 433(4). The problem with experimenting is that I know the two 442s work for me to my minimum standard of coming in Gold 2 each weekend, and fits the players I want to use. I fancy trying other things to see if I get even more out of them, but need weekday games to do so as I don't want to fuck it up in Champs like I did trying the 4321 a couple of weeks ago. I then have limitations on the number of days to actually do that though as I spend most weekdays away.

[Lemmo]

Didn't have time for FUT champs through December so took a few weeks off.

I've been hammering the draft this weekend for a change of scenery. The standard is ridiculously low compared to FUT champs, I went on an absolute tear and won 8 drafts in a row.

It does however also confirm that packs are absolutely useless, I've opened loads of 25k/50k packs as rewards and the best I've had is Eric Bailly (Around 15k). It'd be easy to make profit in only the draft if I pull someone massive, so I may keep at it as I really enjoy using all the different players/formations.

The other positive is that I now have around 800 players in my club from the packs, which I'll keep for future SBCs.

[The Merse]

Draft was one of the ways I accumulated early on too. Always a fun method.

Finished Gold 2 again. That'll do I guess, though I'm keen to move into Gold 1 for at least one weekend next month as Gold 1 x 1 & Gold 2 x 3 should be enough to guarantee an elite month. Otherwise, just an extra win or two in each and every weekend of the month would do too. I'd have had a good chance this month had I had as little to do as I will do next month. February is looking a little busy over a few weekends and March onwards will be a complete write-off so I'm looking at January as my last real effort to get an Elite month.

Also just decided to finally treat myself to 2 of the new Xmas promo packs (I don't put much real money in, but cave about once every 2 months) and packed this bad boy:

http://oi64.tinypic.com/2vc9dmv.jpg

Looks nice, and could fit in very easily to my Bundesliga-BPL hybrid, but just cannot offer the physicality of Sanches and can't take de Bruyne's place on the other side of the midfield as I need a strong link to Aguero. Tempted still to keep him though.

[Gray Fox]

So somehow I've ended up playing 30 games of FIFA last night. I started off 4-5, just wanting to get to 18 wins and get qualified. I thought even that was a stretch. Switching back to 4-3-2-1 was a great move as it felt much better. My first 5 games were all wins, none of which went to extra time too.
It was if I was playing all calm and collected whilst my opponents needed this as their last win or something. Everything just came to me easier. I got my 18th win just before 4am. It began to get easier to force the quit too and I discovered a new technique called offering the pause. In which just as the ball crosses the line for you to go 2/3 goals clear, you pause it yourself. This is essentially telling the other person to please just quit. It mostly will make people go if they're being outplayed but it can have the opposite effect if they think they've been unlucky or if it's their last game.
The closer you get to 7am the easier it gets to make them quit. At 6am I was sitting on 22 wins cursing myself for not starting sooner as it looked like I'd run out of games. I had about 8 games left too, but from here it was essentially whoever conceded first quit out. No time left to fight back in games. This got me 2 quick wins and a few very quick losses to have me on 24 wins with 3 games left by 6:30. I went into my first and the player was at least as good as me so I ended up conceding and leaving there.

My next shot came at 6:40am ish, 2 games left. This opponent has a better team but I was comfortably the better player, he did take the lead though, but I had the time. I played hard and was back up 3-1 by the half. I offered him the pause and again at 4-1 but he didn't take it so I can only guess it was his last game. A lot of passing the ball about the defence later and I had my 25th win. Gold 1 for the week and Elite 3 for the month secure. By the skin of my teeth no less.

[The Merse]

Nice turnaround. Fuck playing until 7am though!

I made a start to that Russian SBC. Ten teams through at a net cost of about 25k and with a whole bunch of extra silvers and golds in my club. Could probably be done at a profit with the right packs and not hoarding so much as I've done, given the 20k bonus for finishing it. Gyazov's card looks like a great supersub - the SBC cards are so rounded that he could play up front, wing or CAM quite easily.

[Gray Fox]

Are you using FUTBIN to price it up or doing it yourself? I want to make a start on one tonight. Reason I ask is I watched a Youtuber do the Russian one and repeatedly say it wont cost much more than 50k, whereas FUTBIN reckons it's closer to 180k. He looks a solid player too.

I wasn't going to do it, but I thought that's essentially the months worth of effort gone because I said fuck it on the last night. It was rough, but I only lost consecutive games twice I believe. That I got a big sleep on Saturday night helped massively. There were many points I thought I wouldn't have the time, but I must have won 7-10 of those games inside the first half. A few of the were quickfire too. Going from 13 wins to 18 was a breeze this week. Pretty happy going 21-9 for the night too.

Hopefully at least one of those 11 red cards is kind to me. I don't want a repeat of Howard. Here is the list of players available. (http://www.futhead.com/champions/rewards/) If I could pull anything of that first page I'd be delighted. Though I reckon realistically I'm looking at 1 86/85 rated and the rest 83 and below. Hoping for some nice kits too.

Speaking of kits, I've got to have a little rant now. It's been my bug bear for a while, but now the cherry picking is too much. Specifically people quitting on the kit select screen. I could understand if I'm using a top 100 kit, you might not want to play me. But I was having people back out from me using the FUTMAS kits, which everyone was given for free for fucks sake. It's got to the point I can no longer use any of the EA made kits. It's really annoying because some of those kits are nice.

[The Merse]

Are you using FUTBIN to price it up or doing it yourself? I want to make a start on one tonight. Reason I ask is I watched a Youtuber do the Russian one and repeatedly say it wont cost much more than 50k, whereas FUTBIN reckons it's closer to 180k. He looks a solid player too.


Just myself. As I say, I started with 30k after buying Lloris last night, and I now have ten teams completed, another 2 or 3 players in each of the remaining 6 teams already in place and if you're smart - i.e. get them on open bid, take your time and exploit the chem glitch and fitting cheaper options in (including using position changers, e.g. I used a striker as a CAM and changed them to CF's a couple of times to get them on 9 chem), I see no reason why it can't be done very cheaply or at profit. I see myself in profit now, as whilst the net cost is real, I've picked up about 120 odd players and consumables that I need, selling only those already high in value (such as the Toulouse GK I picked up in a silver players pack).


I wasn't going to do it, but I thought that's essentially the months worth of effort gone because I said fuck it on the last night. It was rough, but I only lost consecutive games twice I believe. That I got a big sleep on Saturday night helped massively. There were many points I thought I wouldn't have the time, but I must have won 7-10 of those games inside the first half. A few of the were quickfire too. Going from 13 wins to 18 was a breeze this week. Pretty happy going 21-9 for the night too.

Hopefully at least one of those 11 red cards is kind to me. I don't want a repeat of Howard. Here is the list of players available. (http://www.futhead.com/champions/rewards/) If I could pull anything of that first page I'd be delighted. Though I reckon realistically I'm looking at 1 86/85 rated and the rest 83 and below. Hoping for some nice kits too.

Speaking of kits, I've got to have a little rant now. It's been my bug bear for a while, but now the cherry picking is too much. Specifically people quitting on the kit select screen. I could understand if I'm using a top 100 kit, you might not want to play me. But I was having people back out from me using the FUTMAS kits, which everyone was given for free for fucks sake. It's got to the point I can no longer use any of the EA made kits. It's really annoying because some of those kits are nice.

Yeah, I've noticed this, but even with normal club kits. Very annoying. I think it's sometimes them seeing the player wearing it as they seem to quit a lot when Aubameyang or Aguero is my player on kit selection. Also, qutting out on the match up screen. I'm a close to being a founder, 2011 I think, so that puts a lot off for some bizarre reason.

My bugbear re:kits is ref clashes. They still fucking happen far too often.

[Gray Fox]

They apparently fixed that in a patch in November but I still run into the referee accidentally all the time. Same with the kit switching in menu. I had a great one last night were I was in the Dortmund home kit, my opponent in the Arsenal away kit and the ref still in yellow and black(He had a different kit in the menu that delay switched out after we both confirmed).

I've done some looking into the monthly rewards and it's apparently 12 cards for Elite, not 11. There are people speculating there'll be a couple more cards due to December being a 5 weekend month. but I doubt it. From peoples 12 player November packs I saw you generally get 1 high rated (86+), 1 or 2 in the 83/4 range and the rest 81's. If I could get either that Ousmane Dembele or Vardy card, I'd be ecstatic. Both are 84 rated so it could happen. Anything higher is only a bonus.

Do you still keep spreadsheet stats on how your players are performing The Merse? I might start as I had in my mind that Rashford had been great for me, but when I checked he had 9 goals in 17 games. Mane(who, now I'm getting to grips with I'm starting to enjoy more) is 14 goals in 30 games, while Martial has 156 goals in 249 games. So 1 in 2 is about right, except for Martial who is quite above that. That could be just chance, or that Martial is a better player.

I leave you with the best goal I scored this weekend. Not purely in terms of quality, but this took me to 24 wins as he quit straight after:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeVv5bsERww

[Gray Fox]

The guys at FUTHEAD reckon there's going to be some annoyed SBC card owners this TOTW.

Defoe, Dele Alli and Willian all had those FUTMAS SBCs and I believe the latter 2 both cost in excess of 100k, with Willian over 200k. All 3 players scored a brace for their teams and are almost guaranteed. However by far the most interesting additions will come from both sides of Manchester.
Both Martial and Clichy scored and given every other meaningful league is on a winter break, that could well be enough. Only Baines could really stop Clichy getting one, while I'm 50/50 on them giving Martial one. Should they however, both will essentially be staples of your EPL teams. Clichy would become the default best left back in the league, especially as he doesn't have a high attacking workrate.
Martial would be expensive though. I bought his standard card in October for 25k and he's still, 250 games and 2 months later, going for 22k. I'd they made him a striker I'd have to have him, but LW/ST I think you're looking easily 150k+ if he does get one.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'd love a Martial IF.

Especially if they made him a striker.

I've got 421k for a Premiership striker.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Blah.

SIF Kane, SIF Lukaku (although I didn't like his scream card), IF Sanchez (would need a bit more), SIF Costa, SIF Benteke or IF Vardy seem to be my options.

Might pick up that IF Schmeichel and Baines if they're not too overpriced.

[Gray Fox]

That's an awful TOTW. There's 3 players I'd want out of it really for my EPL team. That Lukaku might have enough pace to be viable now.
Sir Andy Mahowry I'd try SIF Benteke. He's bullied my defence all over the place whenever I've faced him and you can't beat him in the air.

[Gray Fox]

Opened my 2, 100k reward packs and got the best pack I've ever got on FIFA. A walkout too. 88 Chiellini(already own one) and the IF Dele Alli card(who sold for 66k) in the same pack. It's not going to break the bank, but including my 50k reward coins, thats about 150k I've gained there. Not too shabby.

Now where to spend it...

[The Merse]

Got some great weekend rewards. TOTW Alli, Dybala and 3 84-rated's from the 3 Rare Mega Packs. :drool:
Gray Fox - I lost the spreadsheet last weekend unfortunately. Hadn't saved it in 2 weeks and then left it off charge for too long and lost it to the battery dying.

I was expecting Monthly Rewards too, when are they?

[The Merse]

I'd love a Martial IF.

Especially if they made him a striker.

I've got 421k for a Premiership striker.

Aguero is incredible. Simple as that.

[Gray Fox]

Got some great weekend rewards. TOTW Alli, Dybala and 3 84-rated's from the 3 Rare Mega Packs. :drool:
Gray Fox - I lost the spreadsheet last weekend unfortunately. Hadn't saved it in 2 weeks and then left it off charge for too long and lost it to the battery dying.

I was expecting Monthly Rewards too, when are they?

Monthly don't tend to come out with the weekly. Last month it was a Thursday and I believe it was the Thursday after the 1st week of December rewards(I want to say the 8th). So they could well be tomorrow, but I think more likely is next Thursday. You're due the 3 golds aren't you?

I'm sitting on 2 IF cards I'm not using. Lallana and 87 Icardi. I bought for 50k and 57k respectively and after a little fretting when they dropped further, they're rising now they've gone out of packs. They're now at 53k and 60k respectively so I could sell for no loss but I'm keeping for what may be coming next.

POTM is announced I believe on Friday and is usually sharply followed by the SBC. It's essentially between a 92 Zlatan, 92 Alexis, 88+ Eriksen and an 85+ Lallana. On stats alone I believe it will be Zlatan, but his IF card is already 750k so it's going to cost you a million easy. They've shown they like to do blast from the past squads in these SBCs and Inter Milan would surely feature, as would a high rated squad with an IF card or 2 needed. Icardi ticks all of those boxes, with the other IF option here being Handanovic.
It's speculative but makes sense in my mind. Maybe buying one or two more for Friday just in case might be a good idea.

The Lallana is just because I'm a Liverpool fan and there's a glimmer of hope he gets POTM.


EDIT: Also anyone reading this, go and pick up Winston Reids TOTW card. He was just as good as Smalling for me. I picked him up for 33k and he's already over 40 and rising. Get him and try him while he's relatively cheap.

[The Merse]

Monthly don't tend to come out with the weekly. Last month it was a Thursday and I believe it was the Thursday after the 1st week of December rewards(I want to say the 8th). So they could well be tomorrow, but I think more likely is next Thursday. You're due the 3 golds aren't you?

I'm sitting on 2 IF cards I'm not using. Lallana and 87 Icardi. I bought for 50k and 57k respectively and after a little fretting when they dropped further, they're rising now they've gone out of packs. They're now at 53k and 60k respectively so I could sell for no loss but I'm keeping for what may be coming next.

POTM is announced I believe on Friday and is usually sharply followed by the SBC. It's essentially between a 92 Zlatan, 92 Alexis, 88+ Eriksen and an 85+ Lallana. On stats alone I believe it will be Zlatan, but his IF card is already 750k so it's going to cost you a million easy. They've shown they like to do blast from the past squads in these SBCs and Inter Milan would surely feature, as would a high rated squad with an IF card or 2 needed. Icardi ticks all of those boxes, with the other IF option here being Handanovic.
It's speculative but makes sense in my mind. Maybe buying one or two more for Friday just in case might be a good idea.

The Lallana is just because I'm a Liverpool fan and there's a glimmer of hope he gets POTM.


EDIT: Also anyone reading this, go and pick up Winston Reids TOTW card. He was just as good as Smalling for me. I picked him up for 33k and he's already over 40 and rising. Get him and try him while he's relatively cheap.

Yup, 3 gold IF's so looking forward to it. Even if admittedly the odds of getting someone usable are limited, it'll be nice to get a half decent red card.

I'm also keeping a hold of my 4 IF's (Thiago, Alli and a couple of random 84 and 81's I don't remember the name of). Participation in POTM will depend on who it is. I have no interest in Zlatan or Lallana, both of whom are likely. Eriksen may tempt me with the right card, whilst Alexis is a no-brainer but likely to be scarily priced out quite quickly. Nonetheless, Cech, Dybala, and a host of 85s and 84s are in my reserves to meet requirements and coins to complete it.

[The Merse]

i'm "powpowpowpowYUP"






The Merse I'm Sniper Wolf TP4

Finally got around to invites - I'm Prawn of War

3 wins out of 3 to start the weekend league, and I'm playing pissed. Probably should do this more.

Got IF Scott Sinclair in the Marquee Matchups on the train back from London, along with two 83's and 84 Rui Patricio. So that was nice given that I only gave up a load of commons and not-really-that-rare players.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bought De Gea, IF Baines and SIF Benteke today.

My team feels so much better, mainly because Benteke is brilliant at holding up the ball. Only played one match today with them but that one match was better than all the games I played with Scream Lukaku.

[Gray Fox]

Bought De Gea, IF Baines and SIF Benteke today.

My team feels so much better, mainly because Benteke is brilliant at holding up the ball. Only played one match today with them but that one match was better than all the games I played with Scream Lukaku.

Is that Benteke worth all those coins?

I've got myself 200k ish to spend and probably am going to sell on my 2 IF cards as today is only the start of POTM voting, not the actual award. I took a look at my 2 teams to see where I'd like to upgrade too and some possible options.

EPL team: Is completely fine apart from ST and RF. I'd like a Pogba in there but Dembele/Kante/SBC Emre Can hold the fort down well until I can afford him. Upgrading Butland is also on the list, but not as urgent.

Options for ST - SIF Benteke, IF Firmino. Aguero and IF Vardy are on the edge of possible, but only if they were the only player I bought across both teams.
Options for RF - IF Mane, IF Walcott(I've heard great things), IF Shaqiri, Willian and TOTGS Mahrez. Maybe Buy Hazard and play at 7 chem.
Options for GK - Lloris or do nothing and save for De Gea

Moving over to the Serie A team it's a little different. The areas I'm unhappy with are the LCM, the LF, RCB and GK. The CB sheerly due to Koulibaly having bad workrates. He's great otherwise. That SBC Buffon just isn't noticeable any more. Options in these positions are more limited in this league though.

Options for LF - TOTGS Mertens or play IF/SIF Salah, or Cuadrado at 7 chem.
Option for LCM - SIF Brozovic
Options for RCB - Manolas or his IF card, or Movember Barzagli
Options for GK - Handanovic or SIF Donnarumma


The Serie A team is a lot more clear cut, but it's how I decide to split the coins up here that's the question. Alternatively I just buy Aubamayang and Ousmele Dembeles 84 card and force them into my teams.

[The Merse]

Really should've finished at 7-3 as I initially felt I should have.

Lost 3 on the bounce - all of them when I had 65% or more possession and 10+ shots on target that just aren't going in (and giving away 1-0 leads in two of them).

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Is that Benteke worth all those coins?

I've got myself 200k ish to spend and probably am going to sell on my 2 IF cards as today is only the start of POTM voting, not the actual award. I took a look at my 2 teams to see where I'd like to upgrade too and some possible options.

EPL team: Is completely fine apart from ST and RF. I'd like a Pogba in there but Dembele/Kante/SBC Emre Can hold the fort down well until I can afford him. Upgrading Butland is also on the list, but not as urgent.

Options for ST - SIF Benteke, IF Firmino. Aguero and IF Vardy are on the edge of possible, but only if they were the only player I bought across both teams.
Options for RF - IF Mane, IF Walcott(I've heard great things), IF Shaqiri, Willian and TOTGS Mahrez. Maybe Buy Hazard and play at 7 chem.
Options for GK - Lloris or do nothing and save for De Gea

Moving over to the Serie A team it's a little different. The areas I'm unhappy with are the LCM, the LF, RCB and GK. The CB sheerly due to Koulibaly having bad workrates. He's great otherwise. That SBC Buffon just isn't noticeable any more. Options in these positions are more limited in this league though.

Options for LF - TOTGS Mertens or play IF/SIF Salah, or Cuadrado at 7 chem.
Option for LCM - SIF Brozovic
Options for RCB - Manolas or his IF card, or Movember Barzagli
Options for GK - Handanovic or SIF Donnarumma


The Serie A team is a lot more clear cut, but it's how I decide to split the coins up here that's the question. Alternatively I just buy Aubamayang and Ousmele Dembeles 84 card and force them into my teams.

Based on the one game I played yes, especially with a hunter card.

http://www.futhead.com/17/players/50418/christian-benteke/?chemType=hunter

[Gray Fox]

I didn't spend and am 5-5. Literally lost one then won one, since game 1. Half of the games went into extra time too.

I'm defending so badly and just don't know how I'm missing some of the shots I'm missing.

[John]

Based on the one game I played yes, especially with a hunter card.

http://www.futhead.com/17/players/50418/christian-benteke/?chemType=hunter

That's just the IF. SIF is fairly bonkers even without a card on him but with a Hunter he looks just about perfect. 96 ST rating in game according to the French Trancemeister in the comments.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Whoops.

That French Trance is everywhere, he probably does it for the likes because he's got nothing in real life :(

[bruhnaldo]

That Benteke looks like madness

Going to try and ply away at moving up divisions today since I never find time to qualify for the weekend league smh

After having made some huge mistakes with my coins (as previously noted) I guess I'm going to just try and play as many games as possible and restock my kitty.

This is me ATM. Any suggestions are appreciated. Not much of a common theme whatsoever. Def should try and hone in on something or get working on multiple squads :

http://i.imgur.com/Ir0Evuf.png

[John]

That should play quite nicely. I had Mertens with a Catalyst on him before and he was stupid quick. From there your best bet is probably to go to pure Serie A, but I'd recommend getting Carlos Bacca in up front, with a Hawk card if it's in budget. He was obscene in the early knockings of my Serie A side.

[Gray Fox]

I'd change the defence about as you're essentially wasting free performance there by reducing their chemistry.

Koulibaly is almost discard value and is fantastic with an anchor/shadow card especially. He does push on forward a little though. You can partner him with Rudiger or if you have some more coins Manolas. Put Hart in goal and then get either Peres or Florenzi for RB.

Someone like Borja Valero or Allan will fill in your midfield nicely.

Total cost to you is somewhere around 10k assuming you have it. The rest stacks up well.

[bruhnaldo]

Awesome I really appreciate it

Admittedly I got a bit drunk the other night and thought if I kept buying packs somehow I would get the Pogba TOTW card and have drained myself down to 6k but I'll be able to raise funds quickly today I'm sure.

Saturdays :drool:

But John you're absolutely right i really enjoy playing with the team but like Fox says I hate how much I'm wasting in CB chem regardless that I do love using the players in general

[Gray Fox]

I'm keeping an eye on prices here. There seems to be some kind of crash happening. I think what's going on is people selling up waiting for TOTY on Monday.

For example players like Dybala and Reus who have been solidly floating around 130k for a good couple of weeks/month now find themselves on the brink of hitting 100k. I didn't think IF cards outside of La Liga should be affected too much as most of the TOTY(probably except for a Neuer or Kante card) should be from there. Then I checked the 86 Salah. He was around 220k when I went to bed and is now up for around 185k.

I'm not too sure what is happening here or if I should be joining in the people selling up, but it's interesting seeing players like Lewandowski become affordable now.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It will be glorious if the TOTY does indeed have Kante in it, I would love for his IF to become affordable.

[Gray Fox]

He's probably the only outfield Premier League player to deserve one. The likes of Hazard and Sanchez have only been doing it for half of the year. De Gea should definitely be in it ahead of Neuer but you know he will never win that battle.

But if he doesn't get in his IF card becomes interesting. If he's not given a winter upgrade then it's all kinds of a travesty, but you'd assume he'd be up to at least an 84, which would mean they'd have to improve his IF card to match.

[Gray Fox]

86 Salah dropped to 180k so I bought one to use tonight. He's now back to 215k being his minimum on the market. I could cash out for a quick 20k profit, but I think I'll try and use him tonight. His card is insane but due to not wanting to play Insigne, he'll be a 7 chem LF.

The only other option at that position is the following monstrosity for 240k:

https://gyazo.com/8b92e1239515e1f813bed019073cb5bf.png

[The Merse]

Fucking people making me socialise. I came out of yesterday 9-6, went 10-6, lost one on pens and then people made me fucking socialise.

Came back tonight, lost 6 on the fucking bounce almost exclusively to sweaty BPL teams playing park the bus. I don't understand how these guys enjoy playing a game when they have less than 30% possession... It's this shit anti-football stuff that is the only drawback in this years game. It's a fucking video game, it's there to be fun.

Commitments tomorrow mean I need to get more games in tonight and tomorrow morning. Seriously worried I'm not even making Gold 3, which would be a disaster.

[John]

You've been running a spreadsheet to track performance and appear to throw toys all over the floor if you don't get the ranking you wanted out of the weekend's play, Merse. Wailing about other people doing what they feel they have to to make their ranking at the expense of fun rings a little hollow with that as background, even if it's park the bus and nothing but cut backs from one yard outside the near post all night.

I haven't bothered with the weekend league so far because most weekends I couldn't bring myself to grind forty games into the allotted time, but I've two months of weekends with no claimed time coming up so I think I'll get involved. Any tips from the few who've been doing well in it? Is it best to have more than one squad, or is that just a tactic to avoid having to use a load of fitness cards? I have a hundred odd squad fitness and four hundred individuals, so if it's the latter I'll not bother. My current side is as follows;

GK - IF Carlos Kameni
DR - SBC Juanfran
DL - Jordi Alba
DC - IF Inigo Martinez
DC - Pepe
DMC - IF Steven N'Zonzi
MC - Luka Modric
MC - Koke/IF Mario Suarez/IF Isco/Andres Iniesta/Toni Kroos
RW - IF Orellana
LW - IF Ferreira Carrasco
ST - IF Iago Aspas

The second MC slot has so many entries because I haven't settled on a partner for Modric yet. They all have their uses, but none come close to Modric so I'm still figuring it out. N'Zonzi was an absolute bargain, bought him during the night for 15.5k and the last time I checked the lowest BIN was 35k, which will presumably rocket if he winds up signing for Man City.

I have the coins and the squad guff to put about 400k into a second side if it's necessary. What's the verdict, chaps?

[The Merse]

You've been running a spreadsheet to track performance and appear to throw toys all over the floor if you don't get the ranking you wanted out of the weekend's play, Merse. Wailing about other people doing what they feel they have to to make their ranking at the expense of fun rings a little hollow with that as background, even if it's park the bus and nothing but cut backs from one yard outside the near post all night.

Yeah, when sober and stoic I just get with on with it whilst acknowledging that I've yet to find a tried and tested method to beat it. I find it difficult to get out of the pass and move style, but know that I do best against PTB when I'm banging in some long rangers and spreading play wide with the occasional cross. Hard to get into when you normally cross once in every four or five games and rarely tried shots from outside of the area. I'm too much of a purist and that is what's really hurting me rather than the opponent being invincible.

I've played with a drink inside me too much this weekend and got over-frustrated as a result. It's still shit when sober, mind - the chap I just played who went park the bus on 451 and conceded 73% possession only to score from a corner (when he had only 4 players up due to PTB) was an awful game, but it is what it is. I have 13 games left to grind 6 wins to hit my gold minimum standard, but it's particularly important as I won't be home to qualify at all during the week.


I haven't bothered with the weekend league so far because most weekends I couldn't bring myself to grind forty games into the allotted time, but I've two months of weekends with no claimed time coming up so I think I'll get involved. Any tips from the few who've been doing well in it? Is it best to have more than one squad, or is that just a tactic to avoid having to use a load of fitness cards? I have a hundred odd squad fitness and four hundred individuals, so if it's the latter I'll not bother. My current side is as follows;


If you do go with two then ensure they have the same characteristics, tactics etc so you're consistently playing in a similar manner. Saves on injury and fitness cards which are 1k a pop during the weekend (and you normally get a good 10k from selling those alone from rewards.


GK - IF Carlos Kameni
DR - SBC Juanfran
DL - Jordi Alba
DC - IF Inigo Martinez
DC - Pepe
DMC - IF Steven N'Zonzi
MC - Luka Modric
MC - Koke/IF Mario Suarez/IF Isco/Andres Iniesta/Toni Kroos
RW - IF Orellana
LW - IF Ferreira Carrasco
ST - IF Iago Aspas

The second MC slot has so many entries because I haven't settled on a partner for Modric yet. They all have their uses, but none come close to Modric so I'm still figuring it out. N'Zonzi was an absolute bargain, bought him during the night for 15.5k and the last time I checked the lowest BIN was 35k, which will presumably rocket if he winds up signing for Man City.

I have the coins and the squad guff to put about 400k into a second side if it's necessary. What's the verdict, chaps?

With prices low now and due to plummet further in a week due to TOTY, I'd go for it.

[Gray Fox]

The Merse I did what you did the other day. I was 16-8 and really felt like I should have stopped. Next thing I know I've lost 4 close games and sit 16-12. Anything going into the early 20's will count as a good recovery from me.

John The reason we've gone 2 squads is because even the bronze fitness cards sell almost instantly for 1k coins. As you earn 500-700 per game, should you only have the one squad, you'll be having to use one every other game at the least. If you pick up your fair share of injuries you'll be playing at a loss as there's a premium on them too.

If you were to use a 2nd team I'd recommend either Ligue 1 or the Premier League. The team I'd most like for a 2nd team is the Bundesliga, but it's mean using up all of my coins so I'd say that's out for now.

When it comes to rewards you'll be wanting to hit 18 wins per week minimum. It will get you into next weeks league. No having to qualify through the week. Then start looking at rewards:

18 wins = 30k + 2 x 35k packs, 1 x 50k pack
21 wins = 45k + 1 x 25k pack, 2 x 55k packs
25 wins = 50k + 2 x 100k packs
29 wins = 70k + 1 x 100k pack, 1 x Guaranteed TOTW pack

Using 2 squads you can pick up near to 20k coins just through playing the 40 games(you'll get less due to rage quits). Then your rewards on top should see the money rolling in weekly. I've only put the 4 bands above because that's what most people who play this every week finish in, or else they wouldn't play. The biggest jump in this is between 21 and 25. Obviously 21 is just ever so slightly better than win one/lose one, but if you can get up to 25 then you're at least good at the game. If you're good enough to get to 30 wins or beyond, then you'll hit the jackpot and probably be bringing in 200k worth of stuff weekly.

The whole thing is like a test. If you like challenges you'll love this. You'll be coming up against the Ric Flair of FIFA in almost every game. It's all-out play-to-win as even 1 loss can have you miss out on something big. So expect a lot of 5 at the back teams who go on park the bus from minute 1. You'll also see a lot of Eric Bailly and Chris Smalling.

If you're going to play the full months then try not to leave games on the table. There are monthly rewards too. They have tiers like weekly does, but they make less sense. There's a gold 3/2/1 and there's no difference in the rewards from 3 to 1, despite you being able to pick up 29 more wins than someone in Gold 3. You'd still get the same reward.

In a 4 week month you can get:

Gold: 67-96 wins(17 per weekend). 1 x Gold Champions Pack, 1 x Gold Champions Kit
Elite : 97 wins + (24-25 per weekend) 1 x Premium Champions Pack, 1 x Gold Champions Kit, 1 x Elite Champions Kit

The packs for these give you randomized TOTW cards from the month you played, but they'll be red and untradeable. For Gold you get 3 of these cards and Elite gets you 11. Last month I hit Gold and got Tim Howard, Memphis Depay and Kevin Vogt. Depay would cost 105k so I can't really complain.

[The Merse]

Definitely plenty to be said for quitting whilst you're ahead. Todays session has gone 5-1. Leaves me on 15 wins with 10 to play tonight. It'll be during the horribly hardcore hours of Sunday night, but I'm confident I'll take my 3 wins to hit Gold 3 and ought really be confident of hitting Gold 2 as usual. Had I not overstretched last night, I should really have been looking at Gold 1.
John - that's a big tip actually... Don't play after 11pm unless you fancy being amongst the real hardcore PTB guys. Daytime is far easier to get on with in FUT Champs.

[Gray Fox]

I put my Gold reward kit back on yesterday as a test. I was seemingly getting into games with people a lot better or a lot worse than me. Could just be coincidence.

In other news 86 Salah is like a cheaper Messi he's so, so good on the ball. He's scored 12 goals in the 12 games I've used him. I also counted 4 own goals he forced through people trying to block him too. This is his first goal for me. Even though it's a wonderful assist by Cuadrado, can anyone tell me why he isn't offside?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss7_8V3HIXY

[The Merse]

Gray Fox guessing it's because he was off the pitch behind the goal line when the last deflection occurred? But yeah. Bit of a bullshit goal that in truth we're it not already clearly rolling in. So in fact, given that it would have been more bullshit had it scratched it out as offside.

Social engagements ran a good hour over the expected time tonight so I'll get on in the next ten mins for maybe two hours at most and go all out for the three wins, rage quitting as appropriate - which is dodgy for me given how many games I come from behind to win in. Still needs must and I'll need at least 4 hours kip for the day ahead. Gutted I didn't schedule working from home like I normally would on a Monday, but I need to head in to ask a former boss to endorse a promotion opportunity so fuck it... 4 hours will do.

[Gray Fox]

Ended up playing through the rest of my games tonight. I regret staying those extra 4 games last night. I improved from 16-12 to finish 26-14. If I'd gone to bed when I originally thought to, I'd have 4 games now to get to 26 and hit elite. As it is that's my best ever finish. I do wonder how good it could have been had I not taken 5 games to get win 17. There was no chance of me getting Elite after clearing 25. I only had 2 games left, but carried on for the monthly rewards.

Quick mention to 86 Salah. Finished with 20 goals in 20 games. He's mental.

This coming week should be mad. TOTY on Monday, normal rewards Wednesday and then probably last months on Thursday. The latter being my main hope. There are some seriously tasty options for Decembers IF cards in there. I'd love a 89+ rated pull, but realistically that's not happening.
87 Mertens is my hope. But we'll wait and see.

One last mention is that I currently hate my EPL team. Dybala/Cuadrado/Salah are miles ahead of the forwards in my other team. And bouncing back and forth between the two is a bit annoying.

[The Merse]

Got to Gold 3 with 5 games to spare after a 3-2 session, the 2 losses being rage quits at 1-0 down just to get on with things. Not bad considering I've played pretty much all of my games in the small hours after drinks. If I actually get a nice weekend with games across a few daytime sessions I'm still confident in hitting Gold 1 at some stage. For now, gold monthly and not having to try and qualify in the few hours I have on a Monday will do.

[Gray Fox]

Nice one Merse. You only need 17 wins a week for Gold this month, so getting to Gold 3 every weekend will see you well into that too. Elite is a fair bit harder this month though. You needed an average of 22.4 wins per week to hit it in December. Now we're back to 4 week months you need 24.25 per week.

TOTY has just been announced to some surprise...

Neuer
Dani Alves, Ramos, Pique, Marcelo
Kroos, Modric, Iniesta
Messi, Ronaldo, Suarez

What in the piss is Pique doing in there? No Kante, no Pepe and no Juve defenders? I'm offended for them to be honest.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Such a hard on for La Liga.

[Gray Fox]

They've released the attackers first.

Available until Wednesday. Smart move to stop them short of the weekend league rewards. All players prices are plummeting now. Aubameyang down to 150k, Hazard now below 150k etc. Man I wish I had a load of coins about now.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAphM3zKcW8

:face:

Did manage to get a 3rd as Ath-Pilly-Kweta snuck in before Benteke (3 in 2 matches now, he's awesome) to head in a Mane cross and then I won 5-4 on penalties.

All bar his last penalty went GK's right ever so slightly.

Oh and that sucks about the market, I was about sell my La Liga team for a Serie A side as I just don't like them. Not sure when I should do that now.

[Gray Fox]

To be honest, selling up now is only worth it if the team you have now is more expensive than that you wish to buy. Otherwise you're just losing so many coins it wouldn't be worth it. This week is going to be the biggest hit to the market of the year as by TOTS everyone will have money and top players will be easy to come by.

Just had a message from the other guy at work who plays the weekend league. He just packed TOTY Messi and sold it for 5 million coins. He's hardly touched the game for a bloody month and he gets that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.futbin.com/17/squad/1089897

That's my squad now so 500k or less.

Having looked at Serie A I'm not so sure, unless I just buy Dybala and IF Mertens and just fill in with shit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.futbin.com/17/squad/1090328

Maybe.

[Raoul Duke]

I'm playing career mode still as FUT is balls.

I'm in my 4th season now I think, playing as Dortmund. Pretty much all-conquering with a nice mix of original players, newgens and some regens starting to get picked up: got Gerrard/Lampard and just signed Ibrahimovic and Barzagli. Possibly getting Tevez in too :drool:

[Gray Fox]

So the TOTY midfielders were released until 6pm tomorrow. The absolute state of that Modric.

819242563781750784

[Gray Fox]

Opened my rewards in the hope of one of the above. They gave me a walkout and I got hopeful. Ended up with Courtois. I'm a little annoyed that from the other 47 players not one of them was really of any use to me. All of those 82 and below cards are horrible.

I can either take Courtois and use him as my GK upgrade I've been on about(I really want De Gea but he's 110k) or sell him on for 40k.

47 x 610 coins discard value = 28.5k and I think I have a similar amount of discard value players in the club already. I'll sell Lallana and Icardi when they eventually get around to naming Zlatan the POTM. There's 100k there. So in total about 230k with the coins I already have, to spend. My decision now is whether or not to sell my 83's I've stored for the 2-3k each they're going, or use them to try one of the TOTW packs.

The monthly rewards came out the equivalent to tomorrow, last month, so I'd expect the same again. I really need a solid pull from them to give me some motivation to go on with this weekend league business. I'm getting to the point where I want to see a step forward. Getting at least close to Elite would be great for me. If I could get in I'd be over the moon.

Oh and in before The Merse pulls a better player in his Gold 3 and monthly rewards.

[The Merse]

Gray Fox

Shit pulls. Wish I'd played a bit more and hit Gold 2 last weekend.

Oh, but I did sell Dybala and a couple of other unwanted cards and brought in Hazard, Alba and Matuidi to fit IF Gray and IF Thiago into a couple of new Hybrids. Gray looks really fucking special with a Hawk on him -
Acceleration 99 +6
Sprint Speed 98 +5
Positioning 99 +10
Finishing 92 +5
Shot Power 99 +9
Long Shots 82 +10
Agility 82
Balance 86
Reactions 80
Ball Control 78
Dribbling 80
Jumping 85 +10
Stamina 85
Strength 90 +5
Aggression 75 +10
Workrates High / Medium

[John]

He looks like a proper battering ram forward. I'll be going all in on the IF Ben Yedder next time I play. He looks bonkers, and I might nab the RW Aspas to replace Orellana.

[Gray Fox]

Defenders/GK out now.

819604905677598720

I'm hoping to see the monthly rewards tonight, but I feel with TOTY they may leave us hanging another week. In the meantime I want the Perisic card to plummet in price. He looks quality. 4* skills, 5* weak foot. 6ft 1 and is strong.

[John]

As has been the case for about the last three of these, Dani Alves. :D

That Neuer is stupid. The stats are basically perfect, so he should be literally unbeatable, but you know he'll still flap at a corner or let one in the near post because he inexplicably doesn't raise his hands. All they're doing with that card is hanging a lantern on the holes in their game engine.

[Gray Fox]

If I see that in a game I'm going all out pass it round him mode.

Both Pique and Alves have no business being there, even Neuer can be argued, but coming up against any one of these or the forwards is going to be excruciatingly painful. Especially in the hands of good players.

[John]

The in game ratings thing for TOTY Suarez is mental.

- LW: 99
- LF: 99
- ST: 99
- CF: 99
- RF: 99
- RW: 99
- LM: 99
- CAM: 99
- CM: 95
- RM: 99

[Gray Fox]

If I play every FUT Champions weekend and finish Gold 1 in them all from now til FIFA 18, whilst not spending a penny and selling on all the players I get, I might just get halfway to being able to afford him.

[Gray Fox]

Okay so The Merse your monthly rewards will be available in the next few hours.

I know this because EA adds the cards in the background, before releasing them and the red ones show up as duplicates in concept squads. For example:

https://gyazo.com/9dacbf530dbb2db641ab65bf84c219fb.png

Aguero obviously just had the one TOTW card and had no SBCs so there should only be 2 cards there.

[bruhnaldo]

Good God at some of those cards.

[The Merse]

Sweet.

I'll enjoy them when back home tomorrow.

Just one 85+ would be lovely.

[Gray Fox]

The internet can't decide if I'm due 11 or 12. Obviously still should be a decent difference between that and the 3 I got last month.

Image below will show you who the top end is:

https://gyazo.com/06cb80b2f8509de60b27b220b39f0364.png

I'd be delighted with anyone in that picture. I believe anyone Hummels and before is a walkout so I'll know if I'm scoring big before I see the full pack reveal.
There's some quality 84's in there too. Vardy, Ousmane Dembele, Reid, Lallana and Marquinhos are a good half a million coins between and if I'm honest, I'll be more around this range.

Biggest wants = Any of the EPL star strikers or striker Mertens.

More realistic wants = Brozovic, Vardy or Dembele if not both. Zaha and Gayle.

I'll even take 1 star and 10 cards of 81 rated shit. I just don't want to get shit on.

[Gray Fox]

My Rewards:

http://images-eds.xboxlive.com/image?url=MSVnmBUo_fHjbLYMjAEUQw9_i0LZ.jOZRVQLvoCT 8Yt_6geE9Lv3hyYKcC4WomgfFnvSJ9ACfMfsakFeb7wKnlNmwf BVS4eqQKwM0rFgmI6NppvTo0h9K7nlWNpKe5SgMWNFk8KtNe.0 kBjR9LJtTRB9AoLjiOYIWIIumcdP_O63IjN7NY2menS0x8K3yj E3DP6TvJm8j63hWgULek7qimy2IpU3LIKyfTij4MSKCODxLxZa qU.SLmXFjswZJEmfEPqMkicaTZeUz_fPyXQJsCENz4JU4RmyaO E9g49DCLg-&format=png&h=640&w=1138

I'm not going to lie I was really disappointed to not see a walkout, but that Mertens(who is 570k by the way) is a quality pull. I own the Reid and Lallana, so that frees up some coins. I may push the Gylfi all the way back to CM and use him also. This also brings up the possibility of selling Dybala.

I really wish I had a way to link Silva or Sneijder in to a team as their cards look bloody good too.

[bruhnaldo]

I know my lower level shit is hardly interesting but

Finally getting around to revamping the defense. Literally just got a regular Bonucci at 15k which I thought was pretty decent.

Only have about 4K left, gonna troll the transfer list and see if I can snag a cheap Barzagli to pair with him.

Think I might fuck off all my extra players for coin. I'm sitting on a bunch of random players who I keep saying "oh I'll make a nice EPL team" or something at some point but I seriously doubt it.

My hope, again, is to bump into a Pogba card someday but I don't see the purpose of holding onto all these players and never using them.

Anyways

[bruhnaldo]

Ended up with Manolas for 3k

His shooting being 19 is glorious.

[bruhnaldo]

So instead of being impatient I painstakingly put 22 of my unused players on the transfer list and so far to decent results.

4 players sold for about 8k more than I would've received standard 660 or whatever price

I'll take it

[bruhnaldo]

Holy shit

Now I'm up to 27k. I feel dumb for ever quick selling a player.

[Gray Fox]

bruhnaldo it's always worth listing any player up once as you never know. People can get into a bidding war and lose track of the actual value they should be paying.

It looks like Reid was a popular reward player. I sold mine last night for 38k and he's 10k less today. Kept Icardi and Lallana in the hope of SBC needs for this guy:

https://gyazo.com/25741ba8a1dbe60f0d2e3e07dc0baeec.png

I really want that card, but unfortunately you've got 3 easy to fill challenges with the 4th being to hand over Zlatans normal card. As such his normal card is going up in price and no way can I afford to do it.

That Mertens pull means I have to chose to sell either Dybala or 86 Salah(He's now 250k minimum after buying for 180k last week) to fit him in. And he's too good of a card to not put in there. Selling my IF Lallana, Icardi and Dybala would raise 314k when added to my current coins. I've also about 40-50k worth of players in the club to quick sell/list.

Save or make a shopping list?

[bruhnaldo]

Sorry for the string of posts last night, had a bit to drink ;)

Also, seeing as I had a bit to drink, I dropped $40 on fifa points and have managed to flip my way to about 120k somehow.

Finally had my first walkout. It was a Ryan Shawcross TOTW card. Gonna blow my brains out I reckon.

We also bid farewell to our former backline partnership of Sokratis Papastathopoulos and Omer Toprak. Both made 57 appearances for the club. Salute!

I also pulled Courtois and Benzema regular cards which I threw on the transfer list before bed. Now that I'm checking I'm apparently p to 220k. Courtois went for 39k and Benzema 34k. Gundogan netted me 18k. Well then.

Gonna grab a screenshot of the current squad:

http://i.imgur.com/nf3Itqg.png

[John]

That reward Mertens is mental. He'll be lovely to play with.

I've brought in IF Ben Yedder and IF Franco Vazquez. If Ben Yedder does the business I'll bin IF Aspas and bring in his SIF to replace IF Orellana, a transaction which will leave me in profit since SIF Aspas seems to be selling for the same as or slightly less than the IF, presumably due to the position change.

[Gray Fox]

Mertens is like a flea. Properly mental. Won 4-2 with him and he didn't even score. He just laughed past defenders and squared it to Salah.

I've already received 2 disconnects after attempting to play 4 games. Before the games even started too. So I'll now be 1-3. Any dreams of making a push on Elite are basically out the window already. I'd have to go 29-8 from here...
It is likely my end but I've sent a hopeful message to EA as you never know. If I can recover to Gold 2 I'll be happy. All I'm aiming for is Elite monthly from here on out.

I do however know already that my Serie A team is far, far superior to my EPL team. I hate using the latter now and am considering switching leagues. This could just be down to me now having 2 outstanding forwards in my other team, but not so much in this one. Or it's all in my head.
I have 350k after all sold, with supposedly 70k worth of discard value players in the club. The EPL team could raise another 100k in funds too. I've no idea where to spend these funds though. There's a few IF cards that can make my Serie A team stupidly good. Or that could buy me someone like Aguero. Or maybe even switch to another league.

[The Merse]

Introducing my 2 new squads being used this weekend (with both the older hybrids still there in reserve) -
http://oi67.tinypic.com/2dsgs8y.jpg

This one is lovely. My first game with it saw me go 3-0 up inside 20 mins and cause a rage quit against a 187 Bundesliga side with a gold kit. Thiago scored one and assisted another, Matuidi grabbed two assists.

http://oi66.tinypic.com/316vo1i.jpg

Can't wait to use that left flank to full effect. :drool:

[Gray Fox]

John that Ben Yedder looks like a stupidly good CAM/CF. How is he?

That POTM Sterling is the one player I wish I could have afforded. Even now he's still the best RW in the EPL. Those hybrids are giving me an idea.

[John]

I haven't used him yet but he'll be playing up front for me. IF Franco Vazquez with an Engine card on him is my new creative midfield type, and he looks obscenely good for the eight pence he cost.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Unsure if I should make a third squad (I sold my La Liga one) or just buy OTW Kante.

[Gray Fox]

I wouldn't say there's a great deal of point in a 3rd team. Unless it's one you really want to try out. Also not sure on OTW Kante. He'll almost certainly get himself a winter upgrade, but will he really get another IF card? Even though he is probably the best player on the planet at doing what he does, he doesn't score goals, which is what you need for TOTW cards(Unless you're Pogba). Should he get upped to at least an 84, both his IF and OTW card will go up to 85. That'll probably be it until TOTS cards come. I'd just go for the IF card with it being 130k or so cheaper. Unless you think 130k more is worth the insurance incase he gets one.

I've knocked up this as a potential replacement 2nd team:

https://gyazo.com/7cd695aff02624b7b659cdadfcda79e3.png

The only thing I don't like is Castro being there. But he is necessary as I don't have Pogba to keep Dembele happy. OTW Embolo there as he's only 50k as compared to triple that for his striker card, or the other 2 obvious options. Werner is another alternate.

Saving dumping the entire team off I could take the plunge on Aguero, but he still wouldn't solve the problem RF position. I might have to try Willian out to see as he's the last resort there.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://i.imgur.com/HDSDjj3.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/mnAgWHL.jpg

Those are my teams now.

I was thinking that only the OTW would improve after winter upgrades for some stupid reason, that was the only reason why I was thinking of buying him.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Oh and I'm going to miss Scream Fellaini.

The geezer was a fucking don, he would break all attacks up and be lethal at corners.

Shame he's nothing like that in real life.

[Gray Fox]

Replace Kompany with IF Winston Reid. Thank me later.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He does look pretty tasty indeed.

I'm still hoping that Bailly gets an IF soonish, I've got his OTW stashed.

He'll be incredible when he gets an upgrade.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just had the worst game ever.

The guy passed it around his defence from the 1st minute for the entire first half. I got two half chances in said half and, naturally fluffed them both.

He started doing it again in the second half (I had the kick off but he launched into my player to give away a free kick so I couldn't run at his defence) and luckily I got a huge chance as his keeper fluffed it and Mane had an open goal. This was in the 54th minute, he went past the half way line twice before that and quickly went straight back into his half.

I think this lulled me into a false sense of security though because I defended so casually after I scored and he punished me almost instantly as I let him get in a free cross and Dele Alli against Baines was a mismatch.

He then started passing it around his defence again but I managed to get the ball, slip in Mane and he ended it in the 86th minute.

In division fucking 7 too, not a weekend league or qualifying. Shambles.

I also lost 3-1 with my Bundesliga team just before. I had 20 odd shots, he had 4 total. The third was such a bitch too. I had a corner in injury time, he cleared it off the line and the header off the line went to his player who was able to run it into an open net.

I'm not sure how I keep getting superkeepered (maybe I'm just that shit at finishing but I almost always aim for the far post and go low) whilst my keepers let everything in.

[Gray Fox]

Yeah the weekend league has conditioned people to play a certain way now. The FIFA equivalent of teams turning up at United away and parking the team bus hoping to nab something on the break. It's transferred to almost every mode now.

Apparently my internet issue is with my ISP and has been going on for days, so my weekend league is in tatters. My only hope is to properly smash it Sunday through the day, with another session in the night. Assuming they fix it that is. I believe my session the other week on the Monday was 30 games? Hopefully I can knock 10-20 off my remaining 36 through the day and give myself a shorter night stint.

I honestly don't know if I'll bother with the qualy tournament should I fail to get my 18 wins. It's annoyed me a lot because I had my best ever weekend last week and another performance like that would have almost guaranteed monthly Elite. If I can recover to 20 wins or more it's back on.

[John]

Ben Yedder has 24 goals in 20 games. He's bonkers.

[bruhnaldo]

Small update..

Spent a good deal of that 200k I had and revamped the team

http://i.imgur.com/b30rJpm.png

Ironically I've now dropped 4 of my last 5 since "upgrading".

Bonaventura had a hattrick for me in 8 minutes the other day though so that was wild and exciting.

Icardi finally scored his first goal for me after 5 matches but to be honest I'm not happy with how I've been playing since getting the new players. Not sure why, maybe just getting tougher opponents.

Oh well. Suggestions always welcome.

[Gray Fox]

What team have you been using him in John?
bruhnaldo get rid of Dani Alves and replace him with someone who bothers defending.

I can't even connect back to EA servers now to play. So the dream is dead. I'll not be getting elite monthly. Worse still the only chances to qualify through the week are tournaments with bad requirements for me. 1st needs a Silver team and second needs a team with 6 max players from the same league in your full squad.
The second might be possible with some random Bronze benching, but that's a tough Hybrid to try and make. My only other option is to take this month as a total loss and work my way up the divisions. I believe I'm in Division 8. So it'll take me 60 games assuming I go up every season. That's a 2 week job easily.

I can honestly see it being my luck to never be able to requalify.

[Gray Fox]

There's a patch coming today apparently. They claim again the kit glitch is fixed. Random auto passes you never actually made are supposed to have been fixed. They claim to have also changed the way 'low pressure defence' works.

Lastly when playing a FUT Champions game you will be given the following info about your opponent:

https://gyazo.com/2703ddd92634573a1b38def69572bcd4.png

Pretty much only the kits will be the issue now.

I wonder how many people will mysteriously start failing to finish top 100 now...

It reads to me as if they've fixed the Park The Bus/backing out problem.

[The Merse]

What team have you been using him in John?
bruhnaldo get rid of Dani Alves and replace him with someone who bothers defending.

I can't even connect back to EA servers now to play. So the dream is dead. I'll not be getting elite monthly. Worse still the only chances to qualify through the week are tournaments with bad requirements for me. 1st needs a Silver team and second needs a team with 6 max players from the same league in your full squad.
The second might be possible with some random Bronze benching, but that's a tough Hybrid to try and make. My only other option is to take this month as a total loss and work my way up the divisions. I believe I'm in Division 8. So it'll take me 60 games assuming I go up every season. That's a 2 week job easily.

I can honestly see it being my luck to never be able to requalify.

The second also ties into the weekend league after next - max 5 from the same league in the starting XI + subs. So probably not a bad thing to build up the right squad for that. It's one of the main reasons I've tried to go with three-league hybrids whenever I can.

One of my new sides is OK - I could bring SIF Bernardo Silva in place of Dembele and make it 3 x Ligue 1, 3 x BPL, 5 x Bundesliga

The other is more of a shitter. It stands at 4 x La Liga, 7 x EPL. Will need some work...

I could just revert to the same teams I had before, which were both 3 league hybrids with one split 5/5/1 and the other 3/6/2, with the only amendment to the latter being to bring in the left-sided Dembele in place of Anthony Martial to get me down from 6 BPLers.

Anyone know if it is ok to have both TOTW and TOTGS versions in the club at the same time? I could just plonk the TOTW on the transfer pile unlisted whilst playing the other I guess...

[The Merse]

There's a patch coming today apparently. They claim again the kit glitch is fixed. Random auto passes you never actually made are supposed to have been fixed. They claim to have also changed the way 'low pressure defence' works.

Lastly when playing a FUT Champions game you will be given the following info about your opponent:

https://gyazo.com/2703ddd92634573a1b38def69572bcd4.png

Pretty much only the kits will be the issue now.

I wonder how many people will mysteriously start failing to finish top 100 now...

It reads to me as if they've fixed the Park The Bus/backing out problem.

Fair play, considering about ten blokes work full time on FUT, they've been excellent this year in taking on feedback, raising the right requests through to Dev and putting the right incentives in place.

I lost maybe 50-odd matchups to back outs this weekend. I like the est. April 2010, and knowing I'm almost a founder, but it's fucking annoying.

Finished 20-20. Started well with two wins, had dinner and a couple of drinks and ended up 2-7 for day 1 on Friday, before recovering to get to 18-17 by the early hours of Monday. The last 5 were a slog with myself and opponent tired to fuck (was up until 4.30am to complete), and the three I lost saw 2 on pens and the other in extra time. I really, really need to nail this playing during Saturday and Sunday daytime only. My record for games between 1pm and 10pm this weekend was around 75%.

Annoying given it was one win from the minimum target, but ok considering a big shake up in my teams that took some getting used to, and a LOT of catch up needed after the initial spell.

Thoughts on the new players by the way -
IF Dembele - Up there with POTM Sterling. Has a lovely gliding feel to his running and finishes far better than Martial ever did, who he replaces as the token French winger, albeit on the other flank. I've only got him on 8 chem, but he's great with a catalyst. Thinking of perhaps changing for a hunter to boost his attacking positioning.

Hazard - Obviously, he's fucking great. Like all wingers, suffers from being in a 442, but genuinely added to the team and convinced me the shake up that was largely executed purely to get him in was worthwhile.

Matuidi - Not entirely sure how I feel about this. His part in the shake up sees he and Kante as my holding midfielders in the their squads and so Sanches is now on the bench. I honestly don't find him better than Sanches at all, maybe a little in his control, but he lacks the driving power of Sanches. Hopefully I get his movember card soon. I had a loan version and enjoyed it immensely. Somehow that +5 strength makes a big difference.

IF Gray - not as prolific as Remy, who outscored Aubameyang and Aguero, so I'm still thinking of seamless bringing the former back in, but scored some absolute belters. He's certainly a top, top finisher. Just not sure he's better than Remy, who is the most OP striker I've come across.

Alba - gave me a lot more Ooomph coming forward from left back than Kurzawa in terms of dribbling, and started some great moves. His recovery pace is also immensely useful. Kurzawa scored more goals and got more assists though, and his centre back-standard strength and jumping was obviously great in defence, hence he's proved a useful supersub as a defensively minded CM.

SIF Bernardo Silva - This guy is great. Very similar to Mahrez and played the role of supersub for my attack minded CM's very well. May make his way into my squad for week 17 when I'll need more leagues involved, as a link to Lacazette and Matuidi. Not sure I like his pace out wide, but it should be enough if I stick a hunter/catalyst on him.

[John]

What team have you been using him in John?

86 Aspas and IF Carrasco either side of him with Modric and IF Vazquez as CMs in a 433.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Here's the guy from my worst match ever:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sABGMeGbZM

Filthy bastard, I've never celebrated a goal more.

I just had a quick 3 games and it was pretty good for once. I smashed someone 3-0 with my Bundesliga side including this beauty from Opare:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtNgHDiuo30

Glad that he decided not to stay back and it finally gave me that trophy for an outside the box goal by a defender.

I then made some guy rage quit after getting 2 quick goals with my Premiership side but the prick did manage to injure Fabregas and Memphis for 2 games.

Then played this guy:

http://i.imgur.com/IaAHAdU.jpg

Who was on ultra defensive until he scored 2 lucky goals, then took off Brozovic and Dembele for another 2 defenders and stuck it on park the bus. I actually managed to create some chances (all outside the box though) so I wasn't too pissed off.

[Gray Fox]

A team for the tough requirements coming up(max 5 players from 1 league):

https://gyazo.com/1e1d390ef64e0258296f835498ecd3d1.png

I believe that's 3 x EPL, 1 Bundesliga, 3 x Ligue 1, 4 x La Liga.

Only 2 things annoy me about this team. Firstly I'm not sure I like Laporte and secondly, I kick myself for not picking up Dembele when he was closer to 120k. He's 170k now and that puts me off as I could lose a big chunk of coins there.

This is all hypothetical of course, if my internet isn't fixed by Wednesday.

[John]

N'Zonzi is heroically good but he's fairly sluggish in possession so I'm not sure how well he'll work as one of the wider men in the midfield. In that formation he'd be where Kante is ideally, though obviously that isn't feasible with the rest of the side as it is.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Could change it at the start of a match I guess.

[John]

FUTHead reckons N'Zonzi is on for a SIF tomorrow so I'd hold off for now.

[Gray Fox]

FUTHead reckons N'Zonzi is on for a SIF tomorrow so I'd hold off for now.

I eagerly await this. His IF card is just a flat out bully.

[Gray Fox]

I bought Aubameyang and Reus with the intention of using them if my internet stabalised(and to start the slow German league transition), but I've been unable to sell them back. If I could work them into a hybrid I'd be great.

I could sell both now for a slight profit and have 290k + my 70k in the club already. I've hypothetically knocked up this:

https://gyazo.com/0babcae75f462e4c411561eaebc238bd.png

I'm not sure how it compared to the other one I posted, but it's way cheaper with me owning the Roma lads, Mertens, Kante and Dembele already. Just on 200k with most of the outlay being Hazard(Ousmane Dembele costs most of that by himself).

I'm not sure on the LB, CB and GK partnership though. If anyone can fill those gaps I'd be great. Alternatively I may raid Merses hybrid ideas.

[John]

SIF N'Zonzi, with 91 physical and 87 defending. :drool: 83 dribbling should mean he isn't so sluggish in possession too so that's an all round cracker of a card.

Obviously overshadowed by Nainggolan, who looks like a TOTS card already.

https://i.gyazo.com/cfca7738140ef104148d2cb019037ee9.png

Stick an Engine card on there and you're not far off 90+ in all stats.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Christ he looks mega.

He might still need another IF or two to make his original IF affordable though.

[Gray Fox]

I'm now quite grumpy about missing out on Elite for the month.

That Lacazette is a bit of a slap to those who have done the SBC.

[Gray Fox]

After a lot of stress and some disconnects, I'm back in this weekend.

I kept hitting the 2nd round and facing worse teams, but I'd somehow manage to lose. Including one time I was superkeepered by Valdes of all people and another where I was 4-2 up with 10 minutes left but went park the bus. Invited him onto me and I couldn't get out. Of course he scored twice and then again straight away in extra time.
From there I went on a 4 and out run. It was strange too. First game was normal, though I can tell people are having a hard time with ideas for this 5 max nations thing. Then came the 2nd guy. A bunch of red/SBC cards all mushed together with not much chemistry. I could tell he was a good player too so no idea what happened there. I only just got through that one.
Semi-final took the biscuit though. He had 37 chemistry with mostly non-rare golds and loan Dybala and loan Aubameyang up top. At 5-0 up I tried to stop playing but he insisted so I won 10-0 overall.

Then came the final. And I had two of those moments where no matter where you put the ball it keeps coming back, when you know you're going to concede. Managed to nab 1 back in injury time and then the 2nd half was all me with him grabbing a goal with the last kick. Me winning 4-3. Proper heart in mouth time and I should really play seasons to not have to do that again.

EDIT: Used this team. Not really a fan of Kante on the left or the left side of that defence. Lloris has made some mega saves though.
https://gyazo.com/b943f83fede3be6c60226667eeadea81.png

[The Merse]

I'm now quite grumpy about missing out on Elite for the month.

That Lacazette is a bit of a slap to those who have done the SBC.

It was anticipated though, given he was on SIF and on fire, but I don't care - I had fun, it gave a purpose to packs, coins etc and the card itself looks lovely and lays like a beast.

[The Merse]

HOLY SHIT they just cancelled the Weekend League...

Sincerely hope this doesn't affect rewards scheduled for this evening, and that the overall win %'s needed for the monthly rewards are the same, so the actual wins required for each level are adjusted.

If so, bargain. Needed a weekend off as am out tomorrow night and am off to Nottingham for the Saturday night so was going to struggle to get my games in.

Edit - they have adjusted it. :drool: Not great for guys that didn't get full games in in other weekends as they had two weekends to get the remaining wins in and now only have one, but great for me.

[John]

Why have they done that?

[The Merse]

Why have they done that?

The 'no loss' and forced disconnect glitches that appeared last week. The latter causes both players to lose.

[Gray Fox]

As Merse said. The latest patch brought 2 game breaking glitches.

1 was the no loss, in which you could escape without a loss if losing or drawing, but do it when winning and you get the win. This didn't affect your opponent, they simply got the game back again.

2nd and perhaps the biggest reason for the cancellation, you could force your opponent to disconnect as well as you. Both players are awarded losses, but say you were losing to a better player etc. You could force a loss on them.

In effect regardless of skill every single player could have gone 40-0 or 0-40 dependent on which glitch they used.

[Gray Fox]

It seems said glitches apply to all game modes. So that essentially makes FIFA just a trading game for the next week or so. Unless you play friends obviously.

I was looking forward to trying out my front 3 in the upcoming league. They felt really nice so far. The stats say that Mertens has 14 goals in 12 games, while Salah has 34 in 32, but both have an extra 4 games that were all disconnects from the WL and qualifying. That almost puts Mertens at 2 goals per game so far.
Hazard feels the worst of the 3(5 goals in 4, even so), but the other 2 are mega cards. Mertens is now a 700k card, while Salah has risen to 300k(I got him at 180k so that's a steal). Both have electric pace and obscene shooting. Hazard does feel a little more inconsistent in front of goal, so he may be worth that little extra boost of a Hunter card over his current Hawk one, but again that could be due to me being spoilt by my mega cards.

I was also going to attempt to stay in Gold 2 this weekend too, in order to build up some fitness/contracts as I haven't earned any in a good 4 weeks or so. Now I'm going to have to shell out a good 20k or so on fitness cards and spend through the weekend on injuries. Nightmare.

[The Merse]

Just in case of not having time in a given weekend to get gold and stay in the league automatically, I've left seasons with me already having promotion to D1 but with a final game that could win it for me. That'll mean qualifying with only game to play if I need to any point.

Expecting a Buffon-style record breaker Rooney SBC which might be interesting so need to pick up an English IF or two in case it's needed.

Bit of a bitch of timing if it does happen, what with a break in weekend league rewards and having spent about 150k on SIF Icardi (who I'll swap out for Dybala if he doesn't suit), Naingolan and a few others to get myself ready for the restrictions in next weekends FUT Champs.

[Gray Fox]

Just in case of not having time in a given weekend to get gold and stay in the league automatically, I've left seasons with me already having promotion to D1 but with a final game that could win it for me. That'll mean qualifying with only game to play if I need to any point.

Expecting a Buffon-style record breaker Rooney SBC which might be interesting so need to pick up an English IF or two in case it's needed.

Bit of a bitch of timing if it does happen, what with a break in weekend league rewards and having spent about 150k on SIF Icardi (who I'll swap out for Dybala if he doesn't suit), Naingolan and a few others to get myself ready for the restrictions in next weekends FUT Champs.

About those restrictions.... they aren't there any more. Restriction free weekend is now the 27th-29th. I also hope that 150k is a typo.

I've sold my players I bought back accordingly, though I've kept Lloris over Courtois as I think he's better.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Dries got 2 assists in the first 10 minutes, he's after another IF.

35 minutes done total in the match.

[Gray Fox]

He had to get 4 in a game to get his 87 card. What he needs is a winter upgrade ;)