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[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What a waster he is.

Finished the game with just those 2 assists.

[Lemmo]

Gutted the WL was cancelled this weekend as it's the first one I could of played since well before Christmas. Sorted my squads for the next one, sacked off the La Liga and Bundesliga attempts as the players just aren't as good (Unless you can afford the higher bracket players).

Team 1:

https://www.easports.com/fifa/ultimate-team/web-app/show-off?showoffId=hooZoOygnMsXS:FFA17PS4

Team 2:

https://www.easports.com/fifa/ultimate-team/web-app/show-off?showoffId=iJA6oo72nMsXQ:FFA17PS4

Won Division 1 twice this weekend so was good to get some games in with them to get used to the players. Andre Gray is an absolute tank up front, very rare centre backs push him off the ball.

The first teams done and don't think any position needs an improvement, would like a new RF long term but there really is a lack of them in the BPL.

Thinking of Yaya Toure to replace Fernandinho and Koscielny or IF Reid to replace Mustafi in the second team. Maybe Kyle Walker too but Valencia really is very solid.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

IF Reid is a monster.

[Gray Fox]

I have the red version of that Reid. I actually like him better than Smalling now. I'd include him in any and all hybrids I do, but his nationality stops strong links to anyone.

[bruhnaldo]

Of course the restriction free weekend is when I'll be sat at the 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race.

Fuck off EA.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Christ that sounds awful.

[Shindig]

Even as a mainstay of the American sporting calendar, why on earth would you be up for a whole day of that?

[The Merse]

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.

Fucks sake. Well at least I have two quads for when they are and maybe even with upgrades to first IF's for Florenzi/Salah at some point.

150k got me 87 rated Icardi (so actually that's TIF, not SIF right), Naingolan, Florenzi, Salah, Chem styles and position changes plus the Petit SBC loan player I needed to get the other squad to work when swapping out IF Dembele for SIF Bernardo Silva.

Regardless of the requirements this weekend, it all builds up the club as a whole in tune with my ethos and gives me two more available squads, and giving me four186 squads and two 187 squads using my core set of around 35 top players. I can go single League, restricted nations, restricted leagues, minimum number leagues, min number nations, clubs etc etc. Basically, a load of teams all playing similarly and with great strength.

[Gray Fox]

Fucks sake. Well at least I have two quads for when they are and maybe even with upgrades to first IF's for Florenzi/Salah at some point.

150k got me 87 rated Icardi (so actually that's TIF, not SIF right), Naingolan, Florenzi, Salah, Chem styles and position changes plus the Petit SBC loan player I needed to get the other squad to work when swapping out IF Dembele for SIF Bernardo Silva.

Regardless of the requirements this weekend, it all builds up the club as a whole in tune with my ethos and gives me two more available squads, and giving me four186 squads and two 187 squads using my core set of around 35 top players. I can go single League, restricted nations, restricted leagues, minimum number leagues, min number nations, clubs etc etc. Basically, a load of teams all playing similarly and with great strength.

I must have misread. I had it in my head that you'd paid 150k just for Icardi.

You're going to enjoy Naingolan and Salah a lot. I've never used Florenzi though. Where are you finding the upgrades talk?

[John]

SIF Iborra. :|

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He's an animal even without a chemistry style.

I'll be picking up that SIF Coleman, I really liked his IF a lot.

[Gray Fox]

That's one hell of a TOTW. I'd be delighted with all of those in the starting 11, minus maybe Germain.

Dybala being a LM was going to be the dream as he would take the LF spot in my 4-3-2-1, but they've just updated him to be a CAM so he'll cost about a million coins now. They also ruined Calhanoglu. He'd be a fantastic CM or even CAM, but well wasted at LM. I'd have to turn into one of those insta-pausers in order to get him in the team. He will at least be cheap though.

The biggest want is obviously that Rooney card. No rewards this week means these players will be in much less packs than usual, so I'm guessing he'll be between 200k-300k.

[John]

https://i.gyazo.com/41351f015df360c34d1220a5de30954a.png

Lol.

[Gray Fox]

He's 6 foot 4 too. All kinds of lol.

[John]

The provisional upgrades list has three of my players on it. all of whom I have as IF or SIF. Aspas, Carrasco, and N'Zonzi. Lovely.

[John]

Just had an 87 Salah in a pack. About half a million into the pot. :drool:

[Gray Fox]

Damn. I'd have loved to have taken that off your hands. Even if that card existing is annoying to my potential profits. I bought his 86 version for 180k during the rush to sell up in time for TOTY. He was worth 310k+ right up to the day that new card hit. He's now 260k. I don't think I'd swap to his 87 though. He's almost double the price and all you are gaining is +2 on the obvious stats.

In other news the weekend league is back and I don't know why. The patch released yesterday stopped the glitch allowing you to get a free game back, however the force DC glitch still works. I'm not even sure if there's anything you can do to counter act it either.
This could get messy.

[John]

I'm on PS4.

I reckon the coins will go on Bale, but I'll be waiting to see what the Winter Upgrades bring first. Carrasco is already worth eighty thousand more than I paid, presumably in anticipation of said upgrades.

[Gray Fox]

Fair enough. For some reason I thought you were on Xbox.

EA have released a simple lunar SBC, which has a decent kit and costs next to nothing. The more interesting thing they have done is given out a free red kit to everyone along with a free pack. The difference being that you get a differing value of pack for the amount of days you have logged into FIFA17. Either through the web app, mobile or the console, any log in counted. There are 5 tiers.

1-6 days = Just the red kit.
7-30 days = Kit + Jumbo Premium Gold pack(15k)
31-70 days = Kit + Mega pack(35k)
71-110 days = Kit + Rare mega pack(55k)
111+ days = Kit + Ultimate pack(125k)

Your items received are untradeable and from what I saw most people are getting at least 1 decent card, so this may be as kind of a sorry for the glitches. I fell into tier 4 and so I opened my pack and got the delay we all crave:

http://images-eds.xboxlive.com/image?url=MSVnmBUo_fHjbLYMjAEUQ0kJDVkmZx_70LaGGhu4 0ZcCCraaEZtPR.LkCsJ5cM7xY24E04h_ekmj9BmfFZwv4uEdZw HuJw9ylfl7a070xprCa928El8wjUKx9mv1g1QpjWoIkDw9CNnA O9HZ7cEIAuEMy.n0vv8MlqwSISntlzV5NhDwNIvSMtxaUC4FIk C6wnGjAv29zZcDVTwg1CY4a9TjEt0mf6hYyzRR.QwrQU_wgvIm 7howhENTP0iotdaG99ktNGJdNFykLT5YNLLG9epQIit95pacVV aBzHgYIwE-&format=png&h=640&w=1138

It was a massive flare so I was excited, but then I saw the TOTW card and lost it. I thought only Lewandowski or Ramos was a walkout in this weeks team.

It provides me with a small problem now though. That card looks fantastic and is untradeable, so it makes sense to make some use of it. It's almost wrong to not want to use a free 89 rated in form. But he's very difficult to work into a team.
Because of nationality he can only really hybrid out to Suarez. So that only really leaves a Ligue 1 team and I'm not all too sure on the defence for that league.

Still, I got an 89 rated in form for free. That's never to be sniffed at and it's good on them for giving more free stuff out.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I got a rare mega, my best was Phil fucking Jagielka.

[John]

That Cavani is bonkers. Whack a Catalyst on him and put together a middling Ligue 1 side to make use of him. Thiago Silva and Anchor IF Marquinhos would make a fucking solid centre back partnership though so if that's your only hesitation on that league you could go all in. There's plenty of quality to be had.

[Gray Fox]

That Cavani is bonkers. Whack a Catalyst on him and put together a middling Ligue 1 side to make use of him. Thiago Silva and Anchor IF Marquinhos would make a fucking solid centre back partnership though so if that's your only hesitation on that league you could go all in. There's plenty of quality to be had.

My problem is the lack of a left back and I'm also not sure on the goalkeeper. A 4-1-2-1-2, or 4-3-2-1 is my preferred way about it. The Brazilian pair at the back is a lock in, it would just depend on whether or not I wanted a LF/RF combo or a CDM/CAM.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Keeper, you go IF Enyemea the former FM beast :drool:

[John]

Kurzawa with a Shadow on him should do the job.

[Gray Fox]

Keeper, you go IF Enyemea the former FM beast :drool:

If he wasn't a midget I would! Used to sign him all the time.

There is however a former FM wonderkid I've looked at in a Ligue 1 side.

https://gyazo.com/d101a5aa186be218cdcabffa1810cca4.png

[Gray Fox]

These lightning rounds are pushing the expensive players prices down.

I've bought myself a Boateng and Alaba to sure up the left side of the EPL team(Sanches will create the link triangle). If I like them I'll add in more of their Bundesliga counterparts. I got Boateng for 158k and Alaba for 79k. That's the cheapest I've ever seen the former, while the latter will re-sell for about the same, so I could end up selling them back for no loss. I'll put Rashford in at striker and bring Cavani on for him. Hopefully my connection allows me to get up near 25 wins and I should then have the coin to work Cavani in properly.

[The Merse]

That glitch is still active.

Bastard knocked me off the servers causing me a loss when he was losing 1-0 with minutes to go. What a cunt.

[Lemmo]

I managed to complete FUT Champs this weekend without 1 DC glitch being used, doesn't seem to be majorly widespread.

I was expecting it to be a lot worse unless I've got ridiculously lucky.

[Baz]

What's the disconnect glitch? :eyemouth:

[The Merse]

What's the disconnect glitch? :eyemouth:

Some pause and do some shit forced disconnect glitch. They fixed one that resulted in no losses for each party and kept the one that gives the other party a loss regardless of how the scoreline looks. Telltale sign is your connection is fine, they pause or wait till half time, spend 15-20 secs doing stuff and then you're disconnected but are immediately able to get back into FUT.

I only saw one too. But then I only played about half my games as only needed 12 wins to seal Gold monthly rewards and have decided to have a couple of months off from making FUT Champs a priority so didn't need automatic qualification for next weekend. I may return during Feb, but have a lot of weekends across the next 6 weeks due to 6 nations commitments and some whole weekends away with weddings in April, so can't see myself properly competing again until May and the build up to TOTS.

[Gray Fox]

I think I may be done with FUT Champs. 40 games is just too much. This was even my longer weekend for playing and I only found time for 10 games Saturday night. I went 7-3 through those but in all honesty should have been 9-1. I couldn't play through the day on Sunday so that left another monster session. Only this time, people just wouldn't quit when 2 goals down(usual guarantee in the early hours of Monday). I needed 23 wins for Gold monthly but finished on 21-15 having run out of time. I seem to consistently have trouble with wins 17 and 18.
At 16 wins I was 16-6 and cursing myself at not finding time to have a proper crack at Elite, then came a 4 loss streak a win and then another 2 back to back losses at win 17. The run after that was what cost me ultimately. There wasn't long left til 7am but I had 4 games where I was held up. I won 2 of these convincingly, however the opponent just wouldn't quit out, despite me being 5-0 up in one and 3-0 inside 20 minutes of the other.
The 2 that really killed me though were almost clones of each other. Both games I was up 3-0 and in both, I conceded a goal right on half-time. I lost both 7-3. I can't explain what happened either. What was working in the 1st half just stopped doing in the 2nd.

This was the first weekend I was seeing the games as more of a burden than a challenge and I think it showed. It seems a shame to come this far and stop, but the 2 weekends off the weekend league may have killed it for me.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Futhead are predicting an IF Kovacic after a goal and an assist.

Might get me back in the room with La Liga.

[Gray Fox]

I went back to check my stats today to see why I might have struggled and it became obvious. Mertens, who, like Salah I've mentioned previously was playing at a goal per game, now sits at 20 goals in 30 games. Salah still has 49 in 50, so evidently he's doing fine. I was noticing it in my games but I was too tired and tilted to bother trying to fix the issue.

Mertens is in this team. (https://www.easports.com/uk/fifa/ultimate-team/web-app/show-off?showoffId=ha8ycckvnRX:FFA17XBO) Now all 3 of the forward are set to 'get in behind' which has been working well for the other 2, but not Mertens. The 2 options I have is to either 1) Switch to a 4-1-2-1-2 in game and put Mertens as my CAM. Working Dybala back into the team here would also be a good option. 2) I switch him to be a False 9 and take advantage of his passing instead.

My other team (https://www.easports.com/uk/fifa/ultimate-team/web-app/show-off?showoffId=iF19mK1NnRZ:FFA17XBO) feels good in general. Willian is great and I'm annoyed for not picking him up sooner. He has 16 in 19. The dream was to have Pogba in that RCM spot and fill the rest with a Bundesliga team, barring the right side of defence, although buying Hazard and Aguero costs just as much combined, so I'm questioning which way to go.

Having dug a little deeper I've found that my 6 starting midfielders, across both teams have a combined 55 goals. Considering my EPL team has played 70ish games just since Emre Can came in and my Serie A side has 132 games on it, that seems pretty awful. Either my midfielders aren't getting far enough forward or I'm not taking enough shots with them. My formation probably doesn't help with that, but it's interesting to me to break it down like that.

I'd love to be able to get up to that 29 wins mark and start making big coins. It's getting annoying not being able to progress on past 25 and I'm looking for any little way to try and get better.

[Lemmo]

40 games is really too much to do in effectively 2 and a half days, if you can't do 1 day/night you have to play a ridiculous amount in a row. This weekend I was 20-2 but then went on a 6 game loss streak as I'd completely lost my head and had no choice but to keep playing if I wanted to get the games in.

They should change it to 25 games like it is on PC, seems a lot more manageable.

[Gray Fox]

I'd love it to be either 25 or 30. You could do 30 in 3 stints of 10 games. 2-3 hour sessions on Friday, Saturday and Sunday are manageable by most people. It'd make each game matter more, you'd get less rage quits and a more relaxed fan base.

[John]

They'll drop it a bit for next year no doubt. Even twenty five games on PC probably works a bit like a league, with everyone who owns a copy of the game on that platform playing eachother, so it's no surprise they haven't gone bigger there.

[Gray Fox]

Team of the week is here and EA have sprung a surprise along with it. The actual TOTW is a little lacking. A few bargain looking players but nothing else.

826807388770619393

Here is the surprise...

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While that Toure looks like he'll be special the two obscene cards are Walcott and perhaps more importantly Son. His card looks special enough, but when you take into account his 5* weak foot, he's surely a top 3 striker in the EPL. I'd love to have him, but right now he will sell instantly if you list him at his max of 300k. I would probably even look to bring him in before I would Aguero.

[John]

Stick a Shadow on Toure then we can discuss whether he's obscene or not.

Son does look bonkers though, particularly for an 85 rating.

[Gray Fox]

I'd agree on Toure, but his workrates ruin him. I've come up against him a fair few times as a CDM and the key is to go around. He doesn't bother tracking back so there's usually space in behind him.

[The Merse]

That Son is interesting. The SBC one was great and he'd probably be a nice upgrade on Gray for one of my teams. As for Walcott. Fuck. That's special.

[Gray Fox]

A little bird tells me on Friday they are releasing all OTW cards again, plus some brand new ones. Along with some SBCs which have a random OTW card as reward.

That Son card might start popping up some more.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.futhead.com/17/totw/otw-winter-edition/

Jesus and Schneiderlin interest me.

Niang too actually.

Edit: Jesus going for 300k, lol.

[Gray Fox]

So I forgot to sell up my valuable things and now regret it. I could have made 30k on my Boateng, then bought him back later, but the biggest loss is my 86 Salah. At any point in the past week I could have sold him for 260k. He's now 180k and falling with that 87 card being out for a week, I imagine he'll go even lower.

That's fully scuppered my plans this weekend. I was planning to move over to one team, with some big name players. Now I'm going to sell Salah at almost a loss to try to cash in on OTW Dembele being so cheap.

[John]

When are the Winter Upgrades due? I've kept hold of my old Aspas and N'Zonzi cards so I should be due a fairly substantial windfall whenever they're released.

[Gray Fox]

I had 240k, sold Salah for 185k and Willian for 38k.

I've bought a Griezmann for 140k and OTW Dembele for 168k. I still have 155k left. There's still 90k of sellable assets in my team too. I need 3 players to do what I want(Dembele lets me have a team in the meantime) and they are Neymar, Bale and IF Casemeiro. Maybe De Gea and HAMES too, but they are optional.

Something like this. (https://gyazo.com/1f6f99146d8b93e1bc752364a67ecb24)

Plan is to use my red Mertens, Dembele and someone defensive as super subs(N'Zonzi?). This will allow me to use the linked squad in almost any formation once in game. Obviously I can't afford this all in one go, But this will give me essentially the only team I'll need for the rest of the game. Right now I can still switch it up to go to a Bundesliga team too.

John they are due any time, but EA wont announce it too far in advance to stop people making easy money,

[John]

86 N'Zonzi is obscene. A genuine colossus in front of the defence and if you find him within thirty yards of the opposition goal he can unleash a missile into the top corner like no other.

I've just done that 81+ challenge where you exchange a squad of shit for a pack with two guaranteed 81+ players. I used a load of untradeable nonsense from the club and got Modric as my reward. :drool: He's untradeable, but I bought the one I've been using so that's another 75k or so into the pot.

That gives me close to 700k which puts me over the threshold to start thinking about the super players in La Liga. Architect Bale is my plan at the moment. I've been coveting Suarez since the game came out but Ben Yedder is so good that I don't think I need him.

https://i.gyazo.com/b5414978be345cfe02738f66c4953437.png

:drool:

[Gray Fox]

Bale is the reason I'm making the switch. I've come up against almost everyone in the weekend league and he especially, along with Griezmann are the ones that give me the most trouble. Him being fantastic at free kicks is also a pain.

[John]

I couldn't get along with Griezmann at all, as I'm sure I've mentioned before. He seemed to tire stupidly quickly for no real reason. Aspas has the same work rates and lower stamina and he doesn't have the same problem, so presumably I was doing something wrong. He's a guaranteed goal anywhere within twenty yards though so if you can keep hit stamina up he'll murder people for you.

I'd recommend Modric in place of James in that hybrid by the way. They'll cost about the same but Modric is vastly superior as a central midfielder.

Having a look at IF Alvaro from the current TOTW as my third choice centre back. An Anchor card on him gives him dynamite stats but he's almost too similar to Inigo Martinez. They're both tiny but solid and with maximum jumping.

Those OTW SBC look interesting.

[Gray Fox]

I couldn't get along with Griezmann at all, as I'm sure I've mentioned before. He seemed to tire stupidly quickly for no real reason. Aspas has the same work rates and lower stamina and he doesn't have the same problem, so presumably I was doing something wrong. He's a guaranteed goal anywhere within twenty yards though so if you can keep hit stamina up he'll murder people for you.

I'd recommend Modric in place of James in that hybrid by the way. They'll cost about the same but Modric is vastly superior as a central midfielder.

Having a look at IF Alvaro from the current TOTW as my third choice centre back. An Anchor card on him gives him dynamite stats but he's almost too similar to Inigo Martinez. They're both tiny but solid and with maximum jumping.

Those OTW SBC look interesting.

This is why I would have someone like my 87 Mertens or Dembele on the bench. Can you imagine them up against tired defenders?

Somehow Modric slipped my mind when making that one. That won't happen again!

You might as well take a punt on Alvaro. He's going at 10k, which you'll make back just by discarding him. He's worth a shot, though I wouldn't have him partnered with Martinez. They might both be good on the floor, but if your opponent sees how short they are you'll see a barrage of crosses/over-the-top through balls.

[John]

I occasionally bring on Bakambu when the opposition are shattered and even he takes the piss. That Mertens would get the entire defence sent off.

Martinez is tiny but he's brilliant in the air. He has 99 jumping and Alvaro is the same. They're almost the same player though so I wouldn't have them partnered. I'd have Alvaro playing the same role for Martinez as Mangala does for Pepe now, that is a backup who has the same qualities turned down slightly. I think I'll give him a try.

I'm also thinking about just buying Bale now rather than waiting for the upgrades as I'd planned. Assuming the upgrades go as I think they will I'll be looking at about 150k from selling both IFs of Aspas and IF N'Zonzi, and another huge number from selling IF Carrasco (I'd already make about 50k profit if I sold him now). I still have a full squad of players for every side in La Liga sitting there waiting for the SBC that I'm not convinced is coming. So much squad bullshit. There's a good chance I'll get somewhere close to Neymar from selling that lot.

[Gray Fox]

I occasionally bring on Bakambu when the opposition are shattered and even he takes the piss. That Mertens would get the entire defence sent off.

Martinez is tiny but he's brilliant in the air. He has 99 jumping and Alvaro is the same. They're almost the same player though so I wouldn't have them partnered. I'd have Alvaro playing the same role for Martinez as Mangala does for Pepe now, that is a backup who has the same qualities turned down slightly. I think I'll give him a try.

I'm also thinking about just buying Bale now rather than waiting for the upgrades as I'd planned. Assuming the upgrades go as I think they will I'll be looking at about 150k from selling both IFs of Aspas and IF N'Zonzi, and another huge number from selling IF Carrasco (I'd already make about 50k profit if I sold him now). I still have a full squad of players for every side in La Liga sitting there waiting for the SBC that I'm not convinced is coming. So much squad bullshit. There's a good chance I'll get somewhere close to Neymar from selling that lot.

If you have spare coin I'd suggest doing the following:

Buy any OTW player, preferably the cheapest. Then do the untradeable OTW SBC. If you get someone undesirable, place him back into the SBC and you can do it again, for a cost of about 10-15k a pop. Rinse and repeat until you get one of the cards you want. If you can score big with a Pogba or Kante then great, but it's a good way to go about it if you have lots of coins spare.

I'd also definitely buy now. Lightning rounds are pushing players prices through the floor. On PS4 for example you have Aubameyang at 200k now, when he was 250k a week ago. You'll probably see a recovery in the market soon once people run out of coins or patience with these SBCs and packs.

[John]

I'd have to do the tradeable one to get any value out of it. There are three La Liga OTW cards and none of them would get close to my side.

Bale seems to go against that. He's going for thirty thousand more than he was a month ago. That's a pittance compared to the value of the player though so it's a hit I'm willing to take.

Ben Yedder has just scored another hat trick to push him onto fifty goals in forty four games and he's set up another ten. Absolutely bonkers for the fifty odd thousand I paid for him.

[John]

Just clocked this headcase in with the African TOTT.

https://i.gyazo.com/551a7f9edaccd8a572085e69dad8688a.png

74. You fucking wot.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:cab:

Mental.

[John]

He seems to be going fairly cheap too. About 85k on PS4.

[Gray Fox]

Check out the TOTT Koulibaly.

https://gyazo.com/7f3791375e65d2601785f102ddb4922f.png

They don't have his stats on there either, so you'll just have to imagine an anchor card on that. 50k as well. Madness.


In other news I've missed out on serious coin this weekend. Looks like I jumped on Griezmann too soon and sold Salah a little too soon, maybe another 30k lost in total here. I'm unsure if to hold fire now, or try to double down and list stuff up in the hope it sells before the expected Sunday firesale. If there is one that is...

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

New IF Lukaku coming :nodd:

[Gray Fox]

4 goals was it? He'll be 88 or 89 rated. He'll also be unstoppable.

I've got an eye of the Dortmund game. My OTW Dembele was bought for 165k and as he's bagged an assist he's up to 185. A goal for him and I make a killing.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

If he gets an IF :drool:

His OTW/IF is already brilliant.

[Gray Fox]

I mean, Pogba got an IF for an assist so you never know. The decision comes if he scores. Sell on hype or hold and wait until TOTW?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Hold and wait.

People sold the last time for hype and lost out on 100k easily.

[Gray Fox]

He's just come off with a twinge to his hamstring. A big shame there.

[Lemmo]

Another Mertens and Hamsik IF incoming as well, they've just absolutely spanked Bologna 7-1.

[John]

Three goals and an assist for Mertens, his next IF will be mental. I'd fancy him to get an upgrade now too, there's surely no chance someone gets three IFs and a special card and doesn't wind up boosted.

I was thinking it might be worth grabbing his first IF for a bit of quick profit, but he's selling close to 400k which is a bit too much risk.

[Gray Fox]

I'm not sure he will get another card. Hamsik is nailed on, but considering Mertens had to score 4 to get his 87, I don't know. A lot does depend on who else will get into the team. They want to sell packs so a big name is always in there somewhere.

I hope he does get an upgrade though. I'm hopeful that the red version I have of him will increase to match.

I'm off to try my hand at this weekend though. Limited play time again doesn't make for me playing well.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

600k for Jesus now.

He's going to be mega.

[Gray Fox]

Unless I'm mistaken, you're making the same mistake as everyone else. He can't get in IF card this week as his OTW one is in packs til the 10th. All this hype business is premature.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

If true that's amazing, the people selling are making a killing then.

[Gray Fox]

As I understand it you can only have 1 special card at a time. Because then how would the game know which one to give you? If you pack say Walcott right now, it can only be his orange MOTM card, as a special card means his normal one is not in packs. If he got an in-form against Chelsea then you'd have to take the orange version back out again.

I'm playing the OTW game with Bailly this time. He's starting for United, who have been decent defensively. I have 2 of his cards, with me being able to make a few thousand profit already. Should he score I could make upwards of 100k.

[John]

I've opened five of those 81+ packs that threw up Modric the other day and I'm regretting it in quite a big way. Not because they've thrown up shit, but because four haven't and the bastards are untradeable. Iniesta, which is fine because he can fit into my side as a backup, TOTT Traore, who goes for buttons anyway but looks quite good, TOTT Koulibaly, who'd have been perfect a couple of months ago when I was in Serie A but who'll now sit in the club doing fuck all, and fucking MOTM Son, who is making me give serious consideration to switching to a Premiership side so I can get some use out of the cunt. Having a 250k player sitting in the club unable to be played or sold is a huge kick in the dick.

[Gray Fox]

Parolo just scored 4 for Lazio in a 6-2 win. That's another IF. I wish I wasn't doing so shit this weekend, but I keep being matched up against good players. 6-5 as it stands.

[Gray Fox]

I've opened five of those 81+ packs that threw up Modric the other day and I'm regretting it in quite a big way. Not because they've thrown up shit, but because four haven't and the bastards are untradeable. Iniesta, which is fine because he can fit into my side as a backup, TOTT Traore, who goes for buttons anyway but looks quite good, TOTT Koulibaly, who'd have been perfect a couple of months ago when I was in Serie A but who'll now sit in the club doing fuck all, and fucking MOTM Son, who is making me give serious consideration to switching to a Premiership side so I can get some use out of the cunt. Having a 250k player sitting in the club unable to be played or sold is a huge kick in the dick.

I must have missed this. Use that Son. Either in your team or on the bench. I've played him once already and he wrecked me.

[Gray Fox]

I've had a look at that summer OTW SBC. There's an initial outlay of 60k on the untradeable one. 90k on the tradeable version.

Should you get someone back you don't want it will cost another 10k for a 're-roll' for the untradeable. However the other one you can sell your card back with the least you'll get back being 50k. Essentially you'll lose 40k per attempt on that one too.

The summer OTW players can be easily split into 2 brackets of keep/sell or re-cycle.

Higuain
Pogba
Hummels
Pjanic
Kante
Dembele
Mane

Those are the cards in the keep/sell list. 23 cards in total, slightly less than a 1/3 chance of one of them, but they will all get you some profit, Hummels you're looking at very slim profit though.

I'm more looking at them to use myself. So essentially everyone above Mane there would be great, with the Frenchies being the best. Another Dembele would allow me to sell my current one. Hummels would allow me to sell Boateng for a while, etc.

Knowing all of this and having seen the many people trying on Reddit, I'm unsure whether or not to give it a go. The consensus seems to be it's more like 1 in every 5 will give you a player on that list.

[John]

Picked up Bale for 540k, which is about as low as he's been since November. Architect card gives him 95 strength. :drool:

[John]

Did a couple more 81+ things and got TOTT Fajr, the Deportivo central midfielder, and the wonderfully named Thomas Partey, also TOTT. Those packs have been good to me.

[Gray Fox]

Seems I was onto something this weekend. I've finished 26-14 with 2 of those losses being from the disconnect glitch. I was winning in both of them too. I know I lost a few from playing tired, so maybe I can push on next week.

Still, the 26 is good for my monthly quest for elite. I tried to use my first squad more than my fitness team and ended up playing 31 of the 40 with it. Griezmann scored 32 in 31, with Dembele getting 18, though he made up for it with about the same number in assists. Both players suffer from not being that little bit faster, but Griezmanns left foot is lethal.

Next additions to the team depend on what kind of rewards I get,

[The Merse]

Played on game, got lag, quit.

Was a nice weekend.

[Gray Fox]

Positively I seemed to play very well when I was awake and my play style changed for the better. There were much more big wins and good amount of goals scored. I lost some games I just don't understand how I lost also, so hope goes on I can push towards 30.

I now have 155k, the minimum discard value of my 100k packs is 14,400 each. So the minimum I'll pick up from this is 79k. Given the SBCs and MOTM/TOTT/OTW cards being in play, I'll be disappointed if my amount isn't closer to 100k. Once I get there I may well try to raise the extra funds for a Neymar or a Bale. The weekend starting on the 17th however requires 16 EPL players, so I may have to pick some up for that instead.

[John]

Having assumed for a while now that Neymar was much more expensive than he is, I've just realised that as soon as the upgrades are released I'll be able to afford him no problem. :drool: Neymar and Bale either side of Ben Yedder will be beautiful.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I should have taken Niang's OTW when he was 64k.

Hopefully you're right, Fox, that winter OTW's can't get upgrades this Wednesday.

Should bring him back down before the weekend games.

[Gray Fox]

Like I say, as far as I think I understand FIFA they physically can't give an IF without removing that OTW card.

The thing to watch out for now is winter upgrades. Players like Mane, Alli, Salah, Icardi, N'Zonzi and Dembele are prime candidates for it. All of those have IF cards or OTW cards that will be very interested in the size of the upgrade.

[John]

They could just upgrade the OTW cards as though they'd had an IF and keep them in packs an extra few days until the next TOTW is out. I think they're more likely to do it that way than to just ignore it and miss out on the pack frenzy that will come from having a heavily hyped striker worth stupid money available.

[Gray Fox]

I can more likely see them give Jesus a MOTM card after Friday.

Weekly rewards have now been given an official time for delivery of Thursdays at 6pm UTC. Meaning anyone wanting to recycle those OTWs should wait til then. It will also protect the prices of IF cards for a little while longer.

[John]

Set aside 60k to spend on packs once I'd worked out roughly what I needed to bring in from the upgrades. First pack I've just had a MOTM Toure. The UT Gods have been smiling lately after a long barren spell and several dry harvests. :drool:

EDIT - Chanced my arm and spent the rest of that pack money on a OTW to put into the tradeable summer OTW SBC and got a fucking Higuain. Jesus. :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Oh fuck off.

[Gray Fox]

So for PS4 that's 450k on Toure and a further 440k on Higuain if you decide to sell both. Netted yourself best part of a million coins after tax. Not bad at all. You could afford a Messi or be halfway to a Ronaldo.

After doing some checking I was right to offload on Salah when I did. The 86 card I sold for 190 is down to 150k. How I wish I'd sold when he was 300. In fact his TOTT 87 version is now nearly down to 200k. I may well pick that up at some point. Switch to the diamond and play him and Dybala up top and move my red Mertens back to CAM.

I've also seen that OTW Dembele is rising to about 200k now. Obviously the market is onto something I don't know about. I find him great and I only use him on 7 chem. If he gets any kind of upgrade :p

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Probably thinking that upgrades are coming?

He can't be getting an IF for an assist unless he was dominating before he came off.

[John]

I sold Toure for a shade under 500k, but I'll be keeping Higuain until he gets another IF for maximum value. Messi and Ronaldo really don't interest me, so I'll get Neymar then start scouting out a second team. It's likely to be Serie A so there's a good chance I'll wind up keeping and using Higuain. If not it'll be a Premiership side to get use out of Son.

[Gray Fox]

FUTHEADs projected TOTW:

https://gyazo.com/09ce275f1a1dcb68e3e88e493b0fb360.png

I want Elite monthly just incase that Mertens comes true.

[John]

That Lukaku would be unstoppable. His standard card is a handful as it is, never mind a TIF.

[Lemmo]

91 physical :lol: It's game over for anyone coming up against that.

[Gray Fox]

I assume you've all seen, but 94 Suarez SBC.

Get the cheaper teams done asap.

https://gyazo.com/6f14ab19663ac5725dcc480a4a063d8d.png

[Yevrah]

I might have to get back into this for FIFA18, it looks as though EA have actually managed to mix it up quite nicely from the stagnant mess it was becoming.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They're also predicting OTW upgrades for Niang and Jesus :(

[John]

Had the players in my squad to get almost all the way to that Suarez. I need a few Atletico players and a couple of crap players for the lower sides. Seventeen of the twenty were done from squad players, including Real and Barcelona. :drool: It should cost me about 160k all told.

EDIT - Managed it without having to buy Griezmann or IF Gameiro to hit the 85 mark with Atletico so it wound up costing me about 75k. That'll do nicely.

[The Merse]

I'm about 75% there but may just sell them all as I'm not sold on that Suarez due to his top pace and have no designs on Neymar, Messi, Ronaldo et al, despite picking up 4 La Liga If's recently (Vasquez, Alvaro, Thomas, Reyes).

Definitely finishing off my provisional bundesliga and prem squads in anticipation of them going live sometime so I can do them for free.

[Gray Fox]

Turns out I was wrong twice. 88 Mertens and a Jesus TOTW card.

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That looks a damn good TOTW to me.

[John]

Stick a Catalyst on him and he has 88 sprint speed, which is more than enough when combined with his other qualities. I played one game with him last night after completing the SBC. Division two and up against Neuer he scored four and got an assist.

[Gray Fox]

I still have no idea how that TOTW Jesus will work by the side of his OTW, but all I know is with everything currently in packs I am really tempted to put money into the game to try and pull some of them. First time I've been tempted in a long while.

[John]

It's as I said before. The IF won't be in packs intially, but the OTW will be upgraded to match it. When the OTW cards come out of packs on Friday, his will be replaced by the IF until Wednesday. Never underestimate how sneaky EA will be when there's money to be made.

[Gray Fox]

He already looks one of the best EPL strikers there is. Damn sneaky EA moving my rewards to Thursday.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Hazard looks pretty bonkers.

I'm glad Niang didn't get an IF. He started today at 90k+, currently hovering around 38k so I'll snap him up.

Edit: 37k \0/.

[Raoul Duke]

What is this OWT business?

I haven't bothered with FUT this year.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just played a game for the first time in ages. Is it just me or is it easier to finish on this patch or has an extended period of absence turned me into someone who can actually put away chances?

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

http://i.imgur.com/o5XKD8F.jpg

11 shots on target and 7 goals. Usually I'm lucky to score 2 from that amount of shots but at times it seemed that everything was going in.

Here's the own goal that was scored which is pretty lol:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDN-3j7SoYk

He was passing it around his defence (to create openings) at 1-0 and then 2-0 so I thought I was done. Then Demble started to get involved, him SBC Muller and scream Costa are such a good trio.

[John]

What is this OWT business?

I haven't bothered with FUT this year.

One To Watch.

They picked out a number of players who'd just moved club at the start of the season and issued special black versions that would update any time the player got an IF to match the newest version. They go for a shitload more than the standard or IF cards because they're dynamic and a couple of good weeks for the player could mean your 84 card is suddenly an 88.

They brought out a new batch the other day with players who'd moved in January, but there's only really Gabriel Jesus and Julian Draxler who are of any interest in that lot.

The first load of Winter Upgrades are due out on Friday apparently. Fingers crossed a couple of my Spanish lads make it into the first wave.

[Raoul Duke]

That sounds mental. They must cost a fuckton.

Good way to fleece money out of people shooting their load trying to pull one.

[Reg]

The amount they make from UT in general must be insane.

[Gray Fox]

The major players on YouTube and on Twitch were sinking several thousand into the game, just on the week TOTY came out.

12,000 FIFA points is about £70. I know of at least 4 or 5 that opened over 500,000 FIFA points worth of packs. It's mental.

[John]

That lot make their money through FIFA though, so for them that sort of expenditure is a sort of speculate to accumulate deal.

Having already nabbed Neymar from the Toure profits I've set my sights on TOTY Iniesta and TOTGS Varane to complete my side. I've got IF Carrasco, IF Aspas, SIF Aspas, and IF N'Zonzi to sell once the upgrades are released and 250k in the bank already so barring a massive market collapse on everyone but Iniesta I'll be able to get him soon. I had to use Pepe and Modric in the Suarez SBC so my side at the moment is;

https://i.gyazo.com/e8e90d0ea8d283f5906470963bdf03d8.jpg

Iniesta will replace Reyes and Varane will replace Alvaro. Lovely.

[Gray Fox]

Opened my rewards to an awful first pack. 2nd pack I got the walkout animation. French flag popped up to get me excited. I got Ribery. This would have been great in October, but now he's only worth the 9k.

I also took the liberty of selling my Serie A players. I've no use for them next week and I'd like to try out the 1 team approach this time around as I found myself able to get on a run this time.

This is my current team. (https://www.easports.com/uk/fifa/ultimate-team/web-app/show-off?showoffId=e0Fas38on45:FFA17XBO)

To spend I have 350k, but on top of that I could and probably should sell Boateng and Alaba. There isn't a massive difference between Boateng and IF Reid. However Shaw is definitely a downgrade on Alaba, but those 70k coins could be useful. Alternatively the OTW Dembele could be sold on. Once I can bring in Bale he'll be a bench option anyway and I have a few decent ones in Mertens, Cavani and I picked up 85 Calhanoglu to use. The only problem is to link in Neymar and Bale I'd need both along with IF Casemeiro to tie it up. I'm still a little way off that, so I'm not sure where to go with my coins.

[Gray Fox]

That lot make their money through FIFA though, so for them that sort of expenditure is a sort of speculate to accumulate deal.

Having already nabbed Neymar from the Toure profits I've set my sights on TOTY Iniesta and TOTGS Varane to complete my side. I've got IF Carrasco, IF Aspas, SIF Aspas, and IF N'Zonzi to sell once the upgrades are released and 250k in the bank already so barring a massive market collapse on everyone but Iniesta I'll be able to get him soon. I had to use Pepe and Modric in the Suarez SBC so my side at the moment is;

https://i.gyazo.com/e8e90d0ea8d283f5906470963bdf03d8.jpg

Iniesta will replace Reyes and Varane will replace Alvaro. Lovely.

That thing looks mental. Well played! Let me know how that Varane is.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Played OTW Jesus today, in a largely Man City squad (Aguero was there too, as was De Bruyne) and I got fisted.

Had a great ding-dong game later though, 5-5. It was 4-4 after 90, then Ath-Pilly-Kweta scored a last minute equaliser.

Sadly, in my extended break I lost my penalty mojo and got smashed.

I seem to have gotten better at finishing (I think it's the patch) and slightly better at defending, except when someone starts running at my defence and I turn full mental.

[John]

That thing looks mental. Well played! Let me know how that Varane is.

I'll post a review when I get him but I don't expect him to be anything less than outstanding. With an Anchor card he looks thoroughly bonkers.

https://i.gyazo.com/5070840d86561732ceb04daba884d798.png

If you're going to get IF Casemiro I'd recommend getting him soon, preferably tonight. He's already been upgraded in career mode and the standard squad update so it's likely he'll get a UT upgrade at some point. You'll be fuming if he gets upgraded tomorrow and you've missed out.

Just opened the packs I got for completing the Suarez SBC and pulled OTW Kolodziejczak, OTW Luiz Adriano, and Griezmann. The profits from that little lot along with the upgrades should get me Iniesta and Varane with Higuain still to sell whenever he gets another IF, so I might have a look at the TOTY Kroos as well. This is easily both the best luck I've ever had with packs, and the best team I've ever had on Ultimate Team. Previously the best side I'd ever put together was a Bundesliga mob with TOTS Huntelaar and MOTM Mario Gomez up front in 2012.

Suarez is fucking obscene. 17 goals in 8 games, with two of those being games where he scored one early on and the person quit. So really it's 15 in 6, he's a hat trick machine.


Played OTW Jesus today, in a largely Man City squad (Aguero was there too, as was De Bruyne) and I got fisted.

I played against him and he scored with a mad run after about ten minutes but I had the guy sussed after that and wound up tonking him. Key to negating him seems to be holding L2 any time he's in possession and just waiting for your moment to stick a foot in. Dive in and he'll murder you every time.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've also just scooped up OTW Sane for 37,500.

Past few weeks he's shot up to 75,000 as soon as he's mentioned in the starting 11.

He's done quite well recently for City so should be close to an IF.

[Lemmo]

Cleared my club out of all 84, 83 and 82s along with players needed for the Suarez SBC and managed to raise about 350k.

Thinking of going for either MOTM Son or MOTM Walcott. Leaning more to Walcott as IF Gray is a bit of a beast and probably doesn't need an upgrade, whereas I currently have Oxlade-Chamberlain in the RF slot.

[John]

Unless you do a lot of intricate dribbling with your striker Andre Gray looks about as good as it gets. Pace, strength, and finishing are all you need for a pure striker. If you're playing Oxlade-Chamberlain then the choice should be clear. Walcott looks bonkers.

[Gray Fox]

John I picked up an IF Casemeiro. 20k seems a relative bargain, when you consider he looks like so:

https://gyazo.com/785bc8ca6ca14212a97f84fc9020a8aa.png

Unfortunately it pushes me down to 325k. That's just below both the big hitters I wanted from La Liga. I can either sell one of the aforementioned valuables, I can save, or I can start on some SBCs. Apparently you can do 17/20 of the Suarez SBC for a smidge over 200k, or I could go all in on Lacazette and have that done for 220k. You get 35k back in coins and the 20 packs for doing the latter, leaving 185k. I could sell Griezmann for now and basically end up having it done for 50k as Lacazette fits my current team just as well.

Then it's a matter of finding anything in the packs to make some coins back.

[The Merse]

Submitted 3 full La Liga teams without buying and got Ozil, IF Torres and a clutch of decent players, so went on to sell Torres along with the other La Liga IF's I had and a bunch of La Liga and SPL players (leaving 3 per club for MM's) and used the money to pick up IF Azpilicueta and De Gea for the next weekend league I'll be playing in (week tomorrow) which will require all but two of the squad to be BPL. They'll also replace Varane and Navas in my non-restricted 3 league hybrid.

[John]

John I picked up an IF Casemeiro. 20k seems a relative bargain, when you consider he looks like so:

https://gyazo.com/785bc8ca6ca14212a97f84fc9020a8aa.png

Unfortunately it pushes me down to 325k. That's just below both the big hitters I wanted from La Liga. I can either sell one of the aforementioned valuables, I can save, or I can start on some SBCs. Apparently you can do 17/20 of the Suarez SBC for a smidge over 200k, or I could go all in on Lacazette and have that done for 220k. You get 35k back in coins and the 20 packs for doing the latter, leaving 185k. I could sell Griezmann for now and basically end up having it done for 50k as Lacazette fits my current team just as well.

Then it's a matter of finding anything in the packs to make some coins back.

You can probably expect plus one or two on those stats if he gets the expected upgrade too. He'll be a cracking player.

Sell Griezmann and get IF Ben Yedder. I reckon he's a much better player and should cost about a quarter of the coins, which puts you back on track for the 'big hitters' you want, and he'll fit all the same hybrids or whatever else you were doing with Griezmann.

There are a couple of the smaller sides who only have one player in a position good enough to make the minimum rating barrier so you'll be paying well over the odds for those, but you should be able to do the vast majority of it on the relative cheap. I worked out a way to do Atletico fairly cheaply too, although it relies on having the SBC Juanfran to trade so you'd have to figure a way around that assuming you don't have an IF Gameiro from your Champs rewards you could plug in. My side was as follows.

GK - Oblak
DR - SBC Juanfran
DL - Filipe Luis
DC - Gimenez
DC - Godin
MR - Tiago
ML - Gaitan
MC - Koke
MC - Savic
ST - Gameiro
ST - Gabi (position changed to CF for chemistry)

If you don't have the SBC Juanfran to swap you could pop Carrasco in on the right to make up one of the two rating points you're losing, but I don't have the game on right now to check where else you could make up points. There's an IF Torres out this week isn't there? I doubt he'll cost as much as IF Gameiro or Griezmann.

[Lemmo]

POTM Dele Alli looks very solid.

Will look to complete him in a couple of days when the market settles a bit. I was able to do 2 of the teams with players from the club but others look like you need quite a few 83/84 PL players.

[Gray Fox]

Next weekend = 16 EPL players
Weekend after = 18 from La Liga and Bundesliga only.

Great.

This Delle Alli business has pushed prices down on other SBCs. Lacazette now 190k and Suarez is below 600k. Given Griezmann accounts for 130k of that, I could do it if I get half decent packs.

I was going to sell Boateng and Alaba to bring in Pogba, but I don't know now.

[Lemmo]

Next weekend = 16 EPL players
Weekend after = 18 from La Liga and Bundesliga only.

Great.

This Delle Alli business has pushed prices down on other SBCs. Lacazette now 190k and Suarez is below 600k. Given Griezmann accounts for 130k of that, I could do it if I get half decent packs.

I was going to sell Boateng and Alaba to bring in Pogba, but I don't know now.

That's absolutely brutal for me.

I'll be doing that weekend on an absolute budget side I imagine.

[Gray Fox]

I know they're trying to keep the market going, but it's really irritating to me that they're doing this.

[John]

Next weekend = 16 EPL players
Weekend after = 18 from La Liga and Bundesliga only.

Great.

This Delle Alli business has pushed prices down on other SBCs. Lacazette now 190k and Suarez is below 600k. Given Griezmann accounts for 130k of that, I could do it if I get half decent packs.

I was going to sell Boateng and Alaba to bring in Pogba, but I don't know now.

Sell or keep Griezmann and use the side I've laid out above for Atletico. It's the cheapest possible way to get there.

[The Merse]

Next weekend = 16 EPL players
Weekend after = 18 from La Liga and Bundesliga only.

Great.

This Delle Alli business has pushed prices down on other SBCs. Lacazette now 190k and Suarez is below 600k. Given Griezmann accounts for 130k of that, I could do it if I get half decent packs.

I was going to sell Boateng and Alaba to bring in Pogba, but I don't know now.

Works well for me for those two weekends, likely the only ones I'll play this month if I can be arsed to. I can knock up a lovely Bundesliga/La Liga hybrid and have BPL players coming out of my arse.

Will pick up Alli tomorrow night when home. Build the teams from reserves using the web app but get errors submitting. Pretty common when an SBC gets major action on the app unfortunately.

God knows what I'm going to do with the midfield next week. I'll have Ozil, De Bruyne, Kante, Eriksen, Cazorla, Ramsey and POTM Alli from the BPL alone so may move to a 3 man central midfield via the 433(4) rather than persisting with 442.

[Gray Fox]

How have you been using that Suarez? Pure ST or have you dropped him back at all?

I just checked up on his stats. Even without a chemistry style all of his shooting stats are 90 and up. His dribbling is all above 89. 94 stamina and 80 strength. He has literally no weaknesses.

I'd be tempted to put an Anchor card on him. Anything shooting or dribbling wise would be a waste, while anchor gives him a boost to his pace, his physicals and also a good bump to his heading.

[John]

I've put a Catalyst on him. I'm playing him as a pure striker, as the next stop backwards in my formation is CM and while he'd be shit hot there he's better up top. His finishing is bananas, just wallops it in the top corner from wherever he is.

[Gray Fox]

So I think my current plan is to sell Boateng and Alaba to fund Pogba. I've been told he's a game changer by the guy who seems to pack Ronaldo every year. Keep him for 2 weeks and see how he goes. Use spare coin in the meantime to tick off parts of the Suarez SBC.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

If Martial gets an IF :drool:

Wont be able to get it though, I've got fuck all coins right now.

Still want to upgrade SIF Eriksen to TIF and IF Sokratis to SIF.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Woof, Sadio Mane's OTW will get a damn nice upgrade in the next week or so.

A Winter upgrade probably and an IF which will have to be better than his TOTT card.

[Gray Fox]

So that's an 85 Mane, probably an 84 Martial, both of which will be terrifying considering the upcoming weekend.

[Lemmo]

Unless you do a lot of intricate dribbling with your striker Andre Gray looks about as good as it gets. Pace, strength, and finishing are all you need for a pure striker. If you're playing Oxlade-Chamberlain then the choice should be clear. Walcott looks bonkers.

Yep that was the logic I used, MOTM Walcott is an absolute monster.

Picked up POTM Alli and stuck an anchor card on him, he's also absolute filth. He offers something different to the rest of my midfield since he can actually shoot (Previously I was using Matic, Kante and Dembele).

Just finished for the night and currently 20-5 in the weekend league. Hopefully I've managed to turn the usual losing streak around, I started off 11-0 and lost 4 of the next 5.

I'm also going to be struggling to fit in 15 games tomorrow I think but depending how I start I may play late to get it done.

[John]

If Martial gets an IF :drool:

Wont be able to get it though, I've got fuck all coins right now.

Still want to upgrade SIF Eriksen to TIF and IF Sokratis to SIF.

Eriksen is a decent bet for an upgrade so hold out and the game will give you the TIF for free, albeit there will then be an even better version for you to covet.


Yep that was the logic I used, MOTM Walcott is an absolute monster.

My mate is using him as an RM and while he's excellent there I imagine he's even better further forward where you can make more use of those shooting stats. The only player who managed to stop him running riots from RM while I was using him was Luke Shaw, who must be the most overpowered player in the game.

[Gray Fox]

Yep that was the logic I used, MOTM Walcott is an absolute monster.

Picked up POTM Alli and stuck an anchor card on him, he's also absolute filth. He offers something different to the rest of my midfield since he can actually shoot (Previously I was using Matic, Kante and Dembele).

Just finished for the night and currently 20-5 in the weekend league. Hopefully I've managed to turn the usual losing streak around, I started off 11-0 and lost 4 of the next 5.

I'm also going to be struggling to fit in 15 games tomorrow I think but depending how I start I may play late to get it done.

Do you use custom tactics or anything? I'm assuming you're just better at the game than most, as 20-5 is fantastic, but I'm interested to know.

I'm like you with the midfield. I've always had the defensively solid players there, or at most a box-to-box player. I'm about to jump in using Pogba and will most likely get that Alli POTM card too. I've come to the conclusion that I can't defend so why not try attacking more.

[Lemmo]

Do you use custom tactics or anything? I'm assuming you're just better at the game than most, as 20-5 is fantastic, but I'm interested to know.

I'm like you with the midfield. I've always had the defensively solid players there, or at most a box-to-box player. I'm about to jump in using Pogba and will most likely get that Alli POTM card too. I've come to the conclusion that I can't defend so why not try attacking more.

I play 4-3-2-1 with player instructions set and a couple of adjustments to custom tactics.

Custom Tactics I change the defence to "Cover" and reduce the pressure to around 30 (Don't think this makes that much difference as they still seem to charge out randomly - probably more linked to workrates of the players).

The only other change I make to the custom tactics is increase the speed of the build up play to around 70, again don't know if this makes a major difference it's just been set there for ages now.

Player Instructions I change to the following:

LB - Shaw/Clichy: Stay Back While Attacking.
RB - Walker: Stay Back While Attacking.
CB - Smalling: Stay Back While Attacking, Conservative Interceptions.
CB - IF Reid/Bailly: Stay Back While Attacking, Conservative Interceptions.
LCM - Kante/Fernandinho: Stay Back While Attacking
CM - Matic/Dembele: Stay Back While Attacking
RCM - POTM Alli: Get Forward
LF - Martial - Cut Inside, Get in Behind, Press Backline.
ST - IF Alli - Stay Central, Get in Behind, Press Backline.
RF - MOTM Walcott - Cut Inside, Get in Behind, Press Backline.

[Gray Fox]

I play 4-3-2-1 with player instructions set and a couple of adjustments to custom tactics.

Custom Tactics I change the defence to "Cover" and reduce the pressure to around 30 (Don't think this makes that much difference as they still seem to charge out randomly - probably more linked to workrates of the players).

The only other change I make to the custom tactics is increase the speed of the build up play to around 70, again don't know if this makes a major difference it's just been set there for ages now.

Player Instructions I change to the following:

LB - Shaw/Clichy: Stay Back While Attacking.
RB - Walker: Stay Back While Attacking.
CB - Smalling: Stay Back While Attacking, Conservative Interceptions.
CB - IF Reid/Bailly: Stay Back While Attacking, Conservative Interceptions.
LCM - Kante/Fernandinho: Stay Back While Attacking
CM - Matic/Dembele: Stay Back While Attacking
RCM - POTM Alli: Get Forward
LF - Martial - Cut Inside, Get in Behind, Press Backline.
ST - IF Alli - Stay Central, Get in Behind, Press Backline.
RF - MOTM Walcott - Cut Inside, Get in Behind, Press Backline.

I'm assuming you mean IF Gray at striker? Unless you've snuck Delle in twice :D

I've got to say I'm not so sure what all the fuss on Pogba is about so far. 10 games in he has 2 goals and 1 assist. He seems like a luxury player right now. Alternatively can I take a moment to say just how good Griezmanns left foot is? If you have it set on his left inside the area, hit a medium power, low driven shot. 90% of the time it's hitting the target and you'll at least get a corner out of it. His goal tally for me is now 53 goals in 41 games.

Only managed the 10 games so far, and I'm 8-2. Of those 10 I've deserved to win 9 of them, I did actually win the one I didn't deserve and got a rage message to boot. The 2 losses were in my first 3 games. All of my chances fell to Ousmane Dembele who is not nearly as reliable in on goal as Griezmann is.

The sooner I have all 3 forward spots as reliable finishers, the better. I'm more than willing to swap Pogba out for POTM Alli and have a spare 400k. But for now I wont break what doesn't need fixing. 8-2 represents my 2nd best start, but the collapse usually comes between wins 14-18. But if I can have a 3 game win streak somewhere and then go win 1/lose 1, I'll make Elite. I'll probably choke it somewhere in the early 20's but I'm going to give it a go.

[The Merse]

Got that 86 rated RW Aspas in my FUT Champs rewards. Looks fun.

[Gray Fox]

I've also made a start on some of the Lacazette SBC. For now I'm looking out for the ones with a Gold Player Pack as a reward, that you can do for less than 6-7k. If there's nothing sellable in there you have a minimum discard value of about 3.5k So they can be done mostly for little loss.
He'll be useful as if Griezmann picks up a knock I can only replace him with a French striker. The SBC version is better than Griezmann in almost all stats too.

[Lemmo]

I've also made a start on some of the Lacazette SBC. For now I'm looking out for the ones with a Gold Player Pack as a reward, that you can do for less than 6-7k. If there's nothing sellable in there you have a minimum discard value of about 3.5k So they can be done mostly for little loss.
He'll be useful as if Griezmann picks up a knock I can only replace him with a French striker. The SBC version is better than Griezmann in almost all stats too.

That card gives me serious issues every time I come up against him.

Just secured Elite 3 and got it in glorious circumstances. Went 3-0 down and the guy kept pausing it suggesting I should rage quit, I came back and won 5-3 in extra time and then he rage quit.

I've got 4 games left and may try and get Elite 2 later on after I've played football but to be honest, for an extra 30k coins (If I even manage to win 3/4) not sure it's worth the late night.

[Gray Fox]

That card gives me serious issues every time I come up against him.

Just secured Elite 3 and got it in glorious circumstances. Went 3-0 down and the guy kept pausing it suggesting I should rage quit, I came back and won 5-3 in extra time and then he rage quit.

I've got 4 games left and may try and get Elite 2 later on after I've played football but to be honest, for an extra 30k coins (If I even manage to win 3/4) not sure it's worth the late night.

There are 10 of his SBCs that can be done for less than 10k. So far I've done 4 and have lost maybe 3k coins. Any non-rare golds seem to sell if they're in one of the SBC leagues. Some of them have crap rewards though.

I'd finish those games if I were you. Coins are coins and those extra wins will really help you if you fancy monthly rewards.

[The Merse]

Gray Fox

Get the ones with silver players packs first - they'll yield plenty of L1 players that you can use or sell for mental prices.

[John]

Got that 86 rated RW Aspas in my FUT Champs rewards. Looks fun.

He's great fun, and assuming the reward players work like normal IF cards he'll be going up to an 88 in a fortnight.

[Gray Fox]

Gray Fox

Get the ones with silver players packs first - they'll yield plenty of L1 players that you can use or sell for mental prices.

I've done 6/20 now. Net loss of about 6k.

I'm doing the cheaper ones first as I only have 31k until I sell Pogba back(which I'll do after this weekend league)

[The Merse]

He's great fun, and assuming the reward players work like normal IF cards he'll be going up to an 88 in a fortnight.

Confirmed upgrade?

[John]

Confirmed upgrade?

He's an 81 player who's had two IFs and is outscoring the entire league aside from Suarez, Messi, and Ronaldo. He's nailed on. He's already been upgraded in career mode and online matches too so that's a good indication I reckon.

[Gray Fox]

Possibly the most irritating weekend from me thus far. I know this is partly my own doing but in any case here goes:

Resumed 8-2 having been unfortunate to not be even better than that. My first 3 games were relatively easy and I moved to 11-2. At this point, Elite is a real possibility if I can just do a little better than win one/lose one. That is kind of what happened after that, with me moving to 15-3. I picked up another loss but responded with 3 on the bounce. Getting me to Gold 3 at 18-4, with 17 games remaining.
That's by far the earliest I've ever hit Gold and my usual struggle between wins 16-18 didn't happen. At this point I was 2 hours or so into the stint so I decided to take a break. Grabbed some food etc.

I came back and it was like playing a different game. I was playing much better players and lost 9, yes nine, games on the run. Nothing I was doing before was working, my team felt horrible and I wasn't getting any rub of the green. In this time I've seen my possible Elite weekly finish evapourate, condense in the form of monthly Elite rewards and I'm looking at them boiling up too.

I ended up struggling my way to 23 wins with 2 games remaining. So in essence I went from 18-4 to 23-15. The last 2 victories came in the final 15 minutes of the alloted time too. Both times I scored first to an insta-quit by my opponent. If not for those 2 wins I'd likely be done with the game for a bit, but those 23 added to my 26 last week, leaves me with 48 wins to get over 2 weekends.

It has knocked me though. I was playing well at the end of the previous week and started like a house on fire this, but as a Liverpool fan I should probably be used to a bottlejob by now, so yeah. I rage sold Pogba as he did little for me that Emre Can wasn't doing. Ousmane Dembele is on thin ice too.

I now have 515k, with that rising to 550 on Thursday. I could do some SBCs, considering my team is already set for this weekend, or I can pick up players for the weekend after for cheap now, while no one wants them.

[John]

Possibly the most irritating weekend from me thus far. I know this is partly my own doing but in any case here goes:

Resumed 8-2 having been unfortunate to not be even better than that. My first 3 games were relatively easy and I moved to 11-2. At this point, Elite is a real possibility if I can just do a little better than win one/lose one. That is kind of what happened after that, with me moving to 15-3. I picked up another loss but responded with 3 on the bounce. Getting me to Gold 3 at 18-4, with 17 games remaining.
That's by far the earliest I've ever hit Gold and my usual struggle between wins 16-18 didn't happen. At this point I was 2 hours or so into the stint so I decided to take a break. Grabbed some food etc.

I came back and it was like playing a different game. I was playing much better players and lost 9, yes nine, games on the run. Nothing I was doing before was working, my team felt horrible and I wasn't getting any rub of the green. In this time I've seen my possible Elite weekly finish evapourate, condense in the form of monthly Elite rewards and I'm looking at them boiling up too.

I ended up struggling my way to 23 wins with 2 games remaining. So in essence I went from 18-4 to 23-15. The last 2 victories came in the final 15 minutes of the alloted time too. Both times I scored first to an insta-quit by my opponent. If not for those 2 wins I'd likely be done with the game for a bit, but those 23 added to my 26 last week, leaves me with 48 wins to get over 2 weekends.

It has knocked me though. I was playing well at the end of the previous week and started like a house on fire this, but as a Liverpool fan I should probably be used to a bottlejob by now, so yeah. I rage sold Pogba as he did little for me that Emre Can wasn't doing. Ousmane Dembele is on thin ice too.

I now have 515k, with that rising to 550 on Thursday. I could do some SBCs, considering my team is already set for this weekend, or I can pick up players for the weekend after for cheap now, while no one wants them.

How much do you suppose the Lacezette SBC is going to cost? You should probably consider IF Ben Yedder with a Hunter card as a serious alternative. He buries everything off either foot the way you were talking earlier in the thread about Griezmann and will cost less than I imagine an SBC will, and even if you don't like him it's zero risk since you can bin him and continue your SBC.

I've now replaced him with Suarez, but he finished with a goalscoring record of not far off 1.5 a game over the course of sixty odd games.

[Gray Fox]

FUTBIN lists it about 230k all in for Lacazette, however that's not taking into account what you get back in your packs, or the 30k at the end. These SBCs go way cheaper when there's a sudden event too. For example when the Dele Alli POTM came out, the Lacazette SBC dropped to 185k. It can only go so far though due to price fixers.

Although so far I've done 6/20 and even though it should have cost me somewhere in the 40-45k region, it's actually been more like 6. The gold player packs are money, considering most non-rare golds now are in an SBC somewhere you'll be unlucky not to make coins back. The ones that cost are the premium gold pack rewarded ones. You can end up putting 15k in and getting a complete discard pack in return.

I did see someone rather irritatingly get Neymar out of a pack he got for the Suarez SBC. I know my luck isn't like that though, so I expect the discard packs all the time.

The concern I had for Ben Yedder is the same as I had for Griezmann. I thought his pace would set him back, but he has 71 in 70, all in WL gameplay so I will give him a try. I can practically afford Neymar and Bale now too, so he could help pay for those 2.

In fact I've just realised. If I have Neymar, Bale and Ben Yedder, I don't need Griezmann or OTW Dembele. There's another 300k sat there. I could take a big step in getting towards the dream team. (https://gyazo.com/975eafd92fbb2b84ef0dadf7e507493f) Obviously the 3 Roma lads would be the standard versions until I got more coin behind me, but I could buy most of that now. Alternatively I could throw money at Messi and hope he saves me.

[John]

Anyone who paid 600k or whatever it was for that Gabriel Jesus will be fuming. He's out for three months and the card is now selling for 250k. :harold:

[The Merse]

He's an 81 player who's had two IFs and is outscoring the entire league aside from Suarez, Messi, and Ronaldo. He's nailed on. He's already been upgraded in career mode and online matches too so that's a good indication I reckon.

Read up a bit on this. Seems he won't be affected as he's likely to get an 82, which obviously falls short of the original 84 IF.



If an upgraded player’s new OVR rating is equal to or surpasses his existing first in-form’s rating, his IF cards will be upgraded accordingly.
If an upgraded player’s new OVR rating does not equal or surpass his existing in-form’s rating, his IFs will not receive upgrades. (Ex: Bolasie has been upgraded from 76 to 79 OVR, therefore his 80 OVR IF will not receive an upgrade)

Same should apply to Ousmane Dembele, another I have in the squad, Werner (a target for the Bundesliga/La Liga weekend if I play), Son (have the POTM), and likely Lallana (another half decent weekend league reward card I've never used).

[Lemmo]

Possibly the most irritating weekend from me thus far. I know this is partly my own doing but in any case here goes:

Resumed 8-2 having been unfortunate to not be even better than that. My first 3 games were relatively easy and I moved to 11-2. At this point, Elite is a real possibility if I can just do a little better than win one/lose one. That is kind of what happened after that, with me moving to 15-3. I picked up another loss but responded with 3 on the bounce. Getting me to Gold 3 at 18-4, with 17 games remaining.
That's by far the earliest I've ever hit Gold and my usual struggle between wins 16-18 didn't happen. At this point I was 2 hours or so into the stint so I decided to take a break. Grabbed some food etc.

I came back and it was like playing a different game. I was playing much better players and lost 9, yes nine, games on the run. Nothing I was doing before was working, my team felt horrible and I wasn't getting any rub of the green. In this time I've seen my possible Elite weekly finish evapourate, condense in the form of monthly Elite rewards and I'm looking at them boiling up too.

I ended up struggling my way to 23 wins with 2 games remaining. So in essence I went from 18-4 to 23-15. The last 2 victories came in the final 15 minutes of the alloted time too. Both times I scored first to an insta-quit by my opponent. If not for those 2 wins I'd likely be done with the game for a bit, but those 23 added to my 26 last week, leaves me with 48 wins to get over 2 weekends.

It has knocked me though. I was playing well at the end of the previous week and started like a house on fire this, but as a Liverpool fan I should probably be used to a bottlejob by now, so yeah. I rage sold Pogba as he did little for me that Emre Can wasn't doing. Ousmane Dembele is on thin ice too.

I now have 515k, with that rising to 550 on Thursday. I could do some SBCs, considering my team is already set for this weekend, or I can pick up players for the weekend after for cheap now, while no one wants them.

I suspect that 9 game losing run was similar to how I put losing streaks together. It's more a mental thing I think, you think the games against you, everything's Fifa bullshit and as a result you start making poor decisions, forcing stuff that you'd of never done previously.

The people who are going 37 wins + in FUT Champs genuinely just have one mindset and are programmed to play in a certain way no matter what happens against them. I'm trying to get more into that mindset but it's really hard and the red mist takes over until I decide to step away for an hour.

I made Elite 2 in the end, depending on the rewards I'll be looking to put that La Liga/Bundesliga budget team together before this weekend to try and avoid most of the price hikes next week.

Does anyone have any overpowered budget players from those leagues they'd recommend? I believe I've already got N'Zonzi, Renato Sanches, Varane, De Marcos and Jose Gaya in my club who will act as the base.

[John]

Read up a bit on this. Seems he won't be affected as he's likely to get an 82, which obviously falls short of the original 84 IF.

Same should apply to Ousmane Dembele, another I have in the squad, Werner (a target for the Bundesliga/La Liga weekend if I play), Son (have the POTM), and likely Lallana (another half decent weekend league reward card I've never used).

They didn't do it that way in previous years. The first time they upgraded IF players was two years ago I'm sure and they just upgraded them across the board. It'll be a bit of a pisser if they've changed that.


Does anyone have any overpowered budget players from those leagues they'd recommend? I believe I've already got N'Zonzi, Renato Sanches, Varane, De Marcos and Jose Gaya in my club who will act as the base.

Kovacic for La Liga, definitely. Get him for under a thousand coins with an Engine card on him and you're basically getting Modric but quicker.

[Gray Fox]

I suspect that 9 game losing run was similar to how I put losing streaks together. It's more a mental thing I think, you think the games against you, everything's Fifa bullshit and as a result you start making poor decisions, forcing stuff that you'd of never done previously.

The people who are going 37 wins + in FUT Champs genuinely just have one mindset and are programmed to play in a certain way no matter what happens against them. I'm trying to get more into that mindset but it's really hard and the red mist takes over until I decide to step away for an hour.

I made Elite 2 in the end, depending on the rewards I'll be looking to put that La Liga/Bundesliga budget team together before this weekend to try and avoid most of the price hikes next week.

Does anyone have any overpowered budget players from those leagues they'd recommend? I believe I've already got N'Zonzi, Renato Sanches, Varane, De Marcos and Jose Gaya in my club who will act as the base.

I'm assuming what you count as 'budget' is subject to whatever comes in your rewards. After doing some checking up on IF Ben Yedders' in game stats(thanks to John for the recommendation) he is essentially as good as, if not better than Griezmann and he costs 90k less. I just got him for 38k on XB1.
For filling out the squad though you have players like Koke, Andre Gomes or Turan. Umtiti is a good defender, as is Mathieu. From the Bundesliga you have Sokratis, Draxler, Douglas Costa, Fahrmann(I can't recommend him enough. He's the German answer to Butland but I find him much more reliable). Bellerabi is a cracking RW too. Almost all of those I've just listed cost less than 5k. Biggest OP player of the lot however is Kingsley Coman. Even as a super sub he's won me games single handedly.

[John]

I've added TOTY Iniesta to my side now too, and he's just lovely. Every pass is perfect and he has a lovely line in chipped through balls that go a little flatter than normal, just high enough to clear the defence.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://i.imgur.com/YBBijC1.jpg

I need that Martial (I wont get it though) but that Mane, Christ.

98 base pace.

[John]

I like the look of Gabbiadini too.

That's bumped my OTW Higuain up to a 92 but for some reason he's selling for less than half what the IF is. People are thick.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Hummels's OTW is going 20k cheaper than his IF.

Also, Mane with a Maestro card is nuts.

http://www.futhead.com/17/players/56987/sadio-mane/?chemType=maestro

Oh and his OTW is 86k cheaper.

[Gray Fox]

After getting home and seeing that Mane card I was expecting to see him closer to what Martial is going for. I've also seen for some unknown reason his IF is more expensive that his OTW. I've picked up the OTW for 285k. I've no idea if this is wise or not, but I want to try him this weekend.
I last used his 79 card, so this could be a shock.

That SIF Suarez is 1.5m too. It's almost identical to his SBC card, showing how good a value that thing actually is.

[Lemmo]

Missed all the big hitters in my premium TOTW pack.

Got IF Carrasco, IF Bentaleb and IF Muller (the crap one) so may just keep them until after next weekends league and use them in something.

Bentaleb actually looks a half decent card for a centre mid.

Edit: Carrasco is going for about 160k so not too bad actually.

[Gray Fox]

After thinking about it, I don't know why I bought that Mane. Yes his card is awesome, but that's not where I was taking the team. So I sold him back for a slight loss.

I also saw 86 N'Zonzi at the lowest price I've seen him yet. Nabbed one for 56k with a Shadow card on as it seemed a steal. He's already back up to 75k so I think I made the right call.

I got my WL rewards and yet again I'm disappointed. I got Smalling and no other players over 81 rating. Added to the 45k coins, all it's done is covered my purchase of N'Zonzi. I'm back up to 470k. I can sell Griezmann now for 130 and I could afford the following 4 options:

1) Suarez SBC - Would take all of my coins and I'd be reliant on a pack pull to make anything back.
2) Buy one of Bale/Neymar and buy players like TOTGS Varane, Alba, Modric to fill out the team.
3) Realise I'm not that far off affording Messi for the first time in any FUT game and sell OTW Dembele to bring him in.
4) Do nothing. Save the coins up.

They probably make less sense as they go, but using a similar method as I did with the Lacazette SBC, on Suarez, could see me check off a few of those clubs for free.

[Gray Fox]

BPL upgrades are here.

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Congrats to anyone who owns an in-form of any of those cards. Mané looks sickening as an 87...

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Mane's OTW :drool:

http://www.futhead.com/17/players/50259/sadio-mane/?chemType=maestro

I have that at RF.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Oh and here is the first free kick I've scored on the game:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rUkDfku8Z0

Not a bad one too.

[Gray Fox]

Round of applause to me for selling Mané last night/this morning.

[Lemmo]

That Gueye is basically Kante.

[Gray Fox]

And because there's never enough cards...

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[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I need that Thiago.

[John]

That Mane is indecent.

I decided to have a go at the Weekend League this week, so of course it's the first one I've noticed where my La Liga squad won't fit even with some tweaking. So I've put together a Premiership side and won six of my first ten, two of those losses coming with Son in the side who despite his mental stats is shite. In comes IF Andre Gray to score fourteen goals in eight games.

[Gray Fox]

Of course anything on the top row there is great, but I've sold my IF Casemeiro on. I'm hoping, as that blue one will be in packs through the new TOTW and the WL rewards on Thursday, he comes down to nearer 50k.

I've also just completed POTM Alli. I've spent way more than I wanted, because I went back to front, leaving the League One part til last. Turns out that's a big mistake. By the time I'd got round to it all of the players you need to fill out the requirements are either extinct or nearly so. I had to pay 15k each on 3, 71 rated silver players. Had I been presented with that info first, I probably wouldn't have done it. But by then I'd done 3/4 challenges so was committed.

I've also knocked off 7/20 off Suarez and this has all left me down to 400k. I need to spend wisely.

[Gray Fox]

This game can be infuriating at times. I lost my first game, which I've noticed I tend to do quite a bit now. Then went on a 6 game win streak and found myself 3-1 up in the 8th game and thought all was going swimmingly. Despite this guy not being that good in his first 75 minutes suddenly he pulls one back. I do the usual trying to slow the game down, take the sting out of it, but it's no use. He can still charge at me full speed in the 80th minute. It's as if we swapped teams suddenly and he smashed a further 2 goals past me to take it 4-3 in normal time.
I honestly have no idea how I lost that game. The next 2 games both followed the same pattern. I take the lead but can't add it to it for a while, he scores and then suddenly I can't do anything. I've slipped back to 6-4. The last game took the piss. I was 2-0 up and had a good grasp of my opponent. He got a goal back somwhere in the 70's and I set about wasting time. He had the ball in the 88th minute and I was thinking all I needed to do was win one tackle and that's the game. My defence then parts like the red sea to allow the easy cut back. I went right up the other end and tried the same, only for Martial to put it wide, with an open goal from the corner of the 6 yard box. He brought on Pogba, Griezmann and MOTM Son in exra time and they tore through me.

I should be 7-3, maybe even 8-2. So frustrating.

[Lemmo]

Don't know what on earths wrong with me this weekend league.

I'm currently 0-4, drawing 3 games 0-0 and losing on penalties. I literally can't finish to safe my life for some reason.

[Gray Fox]

From what I've seen it's not just you. I think it's the EPL only league causing it.

On reflection I've been okay. I just need to learn how to hold a lead late in a game. I might have to start being that bellend who takes the ball to the corner flag.

[John]

First attempt at the Weekend League has finished with a 20-20 record, which I'm alright with when I factor in that I was using a completely new team and spent the first fifteen or twenty games tweaking it and replacing players before I found a good balance.

The surprise package of the team was MOTM Defour, who absolutely dominated the midfield any time I performed well in a game. He struck a lovely balance with Eriksen in the middle and both finished with twelve assists, almost all of which were in service of Andre Gray, who finished the weekend with thirty eight goals in thirty three games.

[Gray Fox]

You've done well to wade through all the bullshit the weekend league brings to light. That's good going for your first attempt. You should be in your element next week with your la liga side.

I need a plan for next week. I have 420k and need recruits. The sensible thing is to get cracking now and suffer through this week. But prices are rising by the hour. I can either go all out on defence or attack, not both. I've knocked up something like so up for if I spend it all on defence:

I own all of it bar the back 4, but that itself will take all of my coins.

ihttps://gyazo.com/f06de3e57046cc70d8f3942efd75aebc.png

I also have the issue of what to do with Dembele. He scored today and got a debateable assist in a 3-0 win. Annoyingly Piszczeck did the same so he'll be the IF candidate, but this week isn't normal due to there being no EPL games so Dembele could well get a bump too. There's also the possibility of him getting an upgrade.
As such his value is now 230k. Usually I'd advocate selling on the hype, but I missed out on Mane in similar circumstances.

[John]

That Varane is my most recent addition to the La Liga side, and while he is brilliant he isn't 150k brilliant if you're skimping elsewhere to afford him. You'd lose out slightly on the link to N'Zonzi but Inigo Martinez is a much cheaper option without much of a reduction in quality. As I mentioned when we were talking about him before, Martinez is short for a centre back but his jumping goes to 99 with an Anchor card so it's not an issue. According to FUTHead, Martinez with an Anchor card is a 90 CB in game, and Varane with the same is a 91.

For reference, this is my current side.

https://i.gyazo.com/f7750f5ed32f2987e947afaf45203817.jpg

Reyes is surprisingly great. With an Artist card he has everything you'd want in a creative midfielder so although he looks like the obvious weak link there, he isn't in danger of being replaced until I have the coins for TOTY Modric.

[Gray Fox]

Cheers John. Hearing the blue Varane isn't quite all that is a little disappointing. However I jumped on him when he was still 138k or so. He's already hitting 160k so I'll have made a little coin in the meantime.

I played 2 sessions tonight to reduce the Sunday workload. A 10 game session and a 6 game one. The earlier one saw me recover the form I started with last and this week. It ended 8-2 and could so easily have been 9-1. The second session ended 2-4 though. Of the 4 losses, 2 I was up by more than a goal with 60odd minutes gone. The 3rd was a game I dominated but just couldn't beat Courtois again and he took full advantage of a free kick my AI handed him at the death. I then lost on penalties.

This leaves me 16-10. If I go even win/loss from here I'll be happy as it still gives me an outside shot at Elite monthly. Obviously if I can add a few more wins than losses, then great.

I'm finally content now though. I'm starting to add 86+ rated players to my teams regularly. Even just today I've bought TOTGS Varane(Bought for 140, now 160) and Fahrmann(Bought for 69, now 90), Boateng and Alaba and I still have over 80k left. I'm going to hold off on Varane a little to see how his price is affected before selling him. I reckon there's profit to make yet. I would also not be adverse to downgrading to normal Fahrmann if it gave the coin to buy somone big up front.
I'm keeping Dembele til Wednesday at the very least.. I can't afford to miss out just in case he does get that upgrade or in-form.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Piszczek getting a deserved IF will be amazing.

There's finally going to a seriously good RB in the Bundesliga.

[Gray Fox]

If anyone wants to buy EPL players, now is the time. There's a firesale on. Pogba is less than 400k(usually 500k). Aguero below 200k, De Bruyne 80k, 88 Eriksen for 180k etc.

[John]

Your reward Mertens should have been upgraded, Fox. Jammy shit.

[Gray Fox]

As has my Insigne SBC card.

https://gyazo.com/cef10dd4503923bc9f52f706a8dbee31.png

The state of it. I've been suffering for not being able to use him from the bench this week.

I've been ticking off games through the day and the games are a lot more enjoyable. I also think I have the correct way to attack down now. I've improved from 16-10 to 23-11. I targeted 24 wins to get the necessary for a chance at monthly elite. By passing 18 I've secured Gold for the month. Given some of the utter filth on offer, I'd like Elite. As such anything more than winning 1 of my remaining 5 is a bonus.
This does highlight to me the need for consistency. I need to go from winning 2.5 of every 4, to 3 of every 4 to make Elite. I have the most outside of chances now, but I know I'm liable to chuck a game. The only one I've lost today I went 1-0 up in the 81st minute and lost.

[John]

Why haven't you been able to use him?

[Gray Fox]

16 EPL players of your 18. I have Ben Yedder and Ousmane Dembele as my 2 non-EPL players.

[John]

Ah, I assumed you were using a full Premiership side. I just stuck Neymar and Bale on the bench to bring on in the last twenty if I was struggling for a goal.

How are you getting on with Ben Yedder?

[Gray Fox]

I sold Greizmann after about 10 games with Ben Yedder.

He has 32 goals in 33 games plus I think about 20 assists. I've often been dragging him back to CAM too, so that's even better.

[John]

He has more goals than games for me but nothing close to that sort of assist rate. An absolute bargain of a player.

[Gray Fox]

Yep, I was worried about his pace stat, but the way I'm playing now doesn't require that much. It's more dribbling and shooting I'm looking for. Skipping by your man brings far more opportunities than pure pace does.

His assists being so high is a result of him being put into a CAM in a 4-1-2-1-2. I do that whenever I feel like the opponent is a bad defender or if I'm trying to sure up the game. His skill dribbling can make a fool of people.

[Lemmo]

Ended on 28 wins, little bit frustrating missing Elite by 1 but considering the start I can't really complain. I guess the TOTW this week might not be that good anyway with FA Cup games not counting.

Need 20 wins next week to secure Elite 1 for the month. Just looked at the monthly rewards....Elite 3, 2 and 1 are exactly the same, doesn't really make much sense.

[Gray Fox]

Ended on 28 wins, little bit frustrating missing Elite by 1 but considering the start I can't really complain. I guess the TOTW this week might not be that good anyway with FA Cup games not counting.

Need 20 wins next week to secure Elite 1 for the month. Just looked at the monthly rewards....Elite 3, 2 and 1 are exactly the same, doesn't really make much sense.

I honestly don't get that. You can sneak into Elite and get the same monthlys as the guy who finished in 101st place. That being said I saw someone get completely shafted in their monthlys and get twelve 81/82 rated cards. Then someone gets Pogba from their Gold rewards. It seems a little off.

I finished on 27-13. That's my best ever finish and I feel like I've clicked with something. Though I'm now a little bitter at some of those stupid losses I took on Saturday night. I need 21 wins for Elite 3 from next weekend, but I'm screwed in terms of not getting any consumables in my rewards. I need a reasonable pull on Thursday to subsidise fitness. I'll have to buy 25-30 fitness cards at 1k a pop otherwise.

[Lemmo]

I honestly don't get that. You can sneak into Elite and get the same monthlys as the guy who finished in 101st place. That being said I saw someone get completely shafted in their monthlys and get twelve 81/82 rated cards. Then someone gets Pogba from their Gold rewards. It seems a little off.

I finished on 27-13. That's my best ever finish and I feel like I've clicked with something. Though I'm now a little bitter at some of those stupid losses I took on Saturday night. I need 21 wins for Elite 3 from next weekend, but I'm screwed in terms of not getting any consumables in my rewards. I need a reasonable pull on Thursday to subsidise fitness. I'll have to buy 25-30 fitness cards at 1k a pop otherwise.

If I were you I wouldn't buy fitness cards at 1k a pop. I'd open 30k worth of bronze packs instead, you'll get a shit load of fitness and healing cards and also the players come in super useful for certain SBC's.

There was a marquee match up a few weeks ago which involved the A-League, I had a shit load in my club who were all bronzes. They were going at 3-4k a pop.

[Gray Fox]

If I were you I wouldn't buy fitness cards at 1k a pop. I'd open 30k worth of bronze packs instead, you'll get a shit load of fitness and healing cards and also the players come in super useful for certain SBC's.

There was a marquee match up a few weeks ago which involved the A-League, I had a shit load in my club who were all bronzes. They were going at 3-4k a pop.

The good old Bronze Pack Method. I'd never considered this.

Would it be better to open the 400 coin ones, or the 750 coin ones?

[Yevrah]

I haven't played this properly for a while, but when I did it was impossible not to make coinage (on average) through either of the bronze packs.

[Gray Fox]

After some digging it looks as if Ligue 1 is next for upgrades. It also looks as if Lacazette is going to be given the Lukaku treatment of not given an upgrade.

The only players I have of interest is my 89 Cavani, 84 Falcao and my 86 Bernardo Silva. The latter is pretty cut and dry. If he gets upped to 82 I get nothing, but if it's 83 then it should trigger upgrades all the way up. Cavani is a standard 85 and has cards all the way up to 89. Any kind of increase sees mine go up to a 90 rated card. I'm hoping for a boost to his pace. His everything else is already as good as it gets.

The one I'm most interested in overall is OTW Dembele. If he's made an 80 then he'll go up to an 85. There's also a possibility of a double whammy this week. He's got a 50/50 chance of a TOTW card, though I think it's not that likely.

Either way some free upgrades are always nice.

Yevrah would you get many of the rare squad fitness from the 750 packs? I'd be looking to keep those and injury cards for the weekends.

[Lemmo]

The good old Bronze Pack Method. I'd never considered this.

Would it be better to open the 400 coin ones, or the 750 coin ones?

I only ever do the 400 one's.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Think I'm going to do the Alli SBC to replace Fabregas.

Just tried unsuccessfully to buy some MK Dons players but no joy so I took to buying some silver jumbos and got 1 of them early.

Got a duplicate that I can use in the SBC so I have to wait 30 minutes for my transfer list to clear.

[Gray Fox]

The League One players are a bastard to get hold of. Ended up paying more in that challenge than about the other 3 combined.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, you'd get a lot of those Fox.

[Yevrah]

Are Squad Building Challenges difficult? What's to stop you padding out all the squads with 600 rated golds?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Not difficult but they can get pricey because of requirements.

To get the Dele Alli you need to do 4 squads:

MK Dons (2 from the MK Dons, all 11 from League One, squad rating of 67+ and 100 chemistry)
Spurs (4 from Spurs, no more than 6 from one league, squad rating of 83 and 95 chemistry)
'Dele's Goals' (2 from Watford, 2 from Chelsea, 1 from Man City, all 11 from the Premiership, 83 squad rating and 100 chemistry)
England (11 from England, 3 golds or more, 100 chemistry).

All the Dons players are being sold instantly right now for whatever their buyouts are (most at 10k or more).

[Gray Fox]

Are Squad Building Challenges difficult? What's to stop you padding out all the squads with 600 rated golds?

The problem with them is, certain challenges have requirements that rule out a lot of players. For example the last months player of the month was an upgraded Zlatan. But to get him you had to get his normal card. As such his price went from 400k to 800k. Others have minimum squad ratings and so any player rated say 84 or above becomes valuable.

With the League One SBC you are using silvers and bronzes which aren't in large supply. Cue the entire player base looking to get hold of them they soon get wiped out as people will just pay whatever in order to finish the challenge. There were literally none of 3 players I needed on the market, so I had to sit and constantly refresh until someone listed one and they'd instantly sell at their max price.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yeah it's such bollocks.

It's why I decided to stop refreshing and sink 50k in silver packs. Only 1 Dons player but I've got some 'desirables', although not as many as I would have liked.

Plus a load of fitness cards as well ofc. Probably came out on top just but I was hoping for more.

[Yevrah]

Ah, I see.

Started again, not realising I couldn't change the name of my club (at least until I get to level 20 of EASC), so FC Palermo it is. We start with a 13-0 win over the team of the week (I might have set the difficulty a bit too low) and 872 coins are ours.

Interestingly, my default squad has Mikel Forssell in it. Are there any other golden oldies still kicking about in this?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.futhead.com/17/players/47541/kohei-morita/

Not sure about golden but definitely old and quicker than Mertesacker.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Had some points so ripped some of those prime gold player packs and got a Boateng.

Not sure if I should sell and then go out and buy IF Martial or keep him.

Still like IF Sokratis (I will also get his SIF if I sell Boateng) and SBC Toprak.

[Gray Fox]

Sell him now unless you want to use him. On PS4 he's going for 215k whereas on Friday he was 175k. He's at a premium because of the requirements.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Cheers. Sold for 218k.

Also managed to finish Alli:

http://www.futhead.com/17/players/56777/dele-alli/?chemType=engine

:drool:

Fucked it a bit with some bad buys in the Dons squad (screw Alou Diarra and his Winter transfer card) but oh well.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.futhead.com/news/17/fifa-17-totw-predictions-week-23/

I'll be all over that Piszczek if they're right.

They've also killed that Forsberg by making it a LM.

[Yevrah]

Tested the bronze pack thing last night. Bought a 400 and 750 pack and listed it all overnight. Only sold 4 items so far, but made my money back already from Atletico's Moreno (1k), two consumables and a random League 2 English player (all 200 coins each).

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Decided not to buy Martial.

Bought SIF Sokratis, TIF Eriksen and SIF Arnautovic who looks like a budget beast:

http://www.futhead.com/17/players/53752/marko-arnautovic/?chemType=hunter

Stunning.

Oh and SIF Thiago.

[John]

I had the TOTS Arnautovic a couple of years ago. He has similar stats to those and was fucking terrible at LM. I hope you're using him as a winger.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I had the TOTS Arnautovic a couple of years ago. He has similar stats to those and was fucking terrible at LM. I hope you're using him as a winger.

LF.

[Gray Fox]

I only faced that Aurnautovic once this weekend gone, but my opponent was insistent on lumping it up to him instead of actually using his ability so I couldn't tell you how he was.

I will say the one card I faced that caused me the most grief and also the one I most want from my rewards this month, is 88 Lukaku. You absolutely cannot push him off the ball and if he has a chance on his left foot, you're done. Good dribbling and his 86 pace is deceptive. He actually has 90 for sprint speed so is plenty quick enough.
Him and Bolasie late in games were a nightmare. You just have to bring them down as tired defenders stand no chance.

[Gray Fox]

Oh and Cavani upgraded to 90. No such luck on Silva or Falcao.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I suck so much at finishing.

Just got relegated from division 5 for dropping a load of points due to my shoddy finishing.

[Yevrah]

Has anyone any tips for anyone playing online that's shit at the game (I'm shit) ? Formations, approach, anything filthy etc.

[Yevrah]

How the fuck does a bronze foot healing (+1) card go for over a grand? Madness.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Because ALL injuries in the game are foot.

[Gray Fox]

@Mahow most of my finishes are the low driven shot. The better players are especially good at these. Maybe worth a try?

Yevrah basically because you need to have them. Weekend League is the promised land this year and if you dont want to or can't in the case of this weekend, rotate your teams, you have to pay up. It's also why fitness cards cost a bomb.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

'Mon then EA, give Sane a boost.

I'll try that, Gray. I think I'll also practice a lot on skill games.

[Gray Fox]

Sane wont get a boost. He may get a MOTM card but it will not affect his OTW card.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Sane wont get a boost. He may get a MOTM card but it will not affect his OTW card.

I know :(

However, if he gets a MOTM card he'll get a big boost when he gets an actual IF.

[Adamski]

I've not played this for about 3 years and from the sounds of this it's gotten pretty fucking ridiculous.

[Yevrah]

I'm gonna need those tips chaps. Just played my first game online and lost 15-0. My opponent must have been amazed I didn't rage quit. Some observations:

The game matched my 4 star wank Premier League team (with a bronze keeper) against a team full of Legends. Isn't there supposed to be some balance to the match ups?
My opponent's team was established in February. How the fuck has he pulled that side together in under 3 weeks?
He was quicker to every ball and I could barely get out of my own half. Has he been fucking with the custom tactic settings?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm gonna need those tips chaps. Just played my first game online and lost 15-0. My opponent must have been amazed I didn't rage quit. Some observations:

The game matched my 4 star wank Premier League team (with a bronze keeper) against a team full of Legends. Isn't there supposed to be some balance to the match ups?
My opponent's team was established in February. How the fuck has he pulled that side together in under 3 weeks?
He was quicker to every ball and I could barely get out of my own half. Has he been fucking with the custom tactic settings?

http://s.mxmcdn.net/images-storage/albums4/5/6/6/3/0/1/34103665_350_350.jpg

More than likely he spent that money on buying coins rather than ripping packs.

Seasons match I'm guessing, right? If so he's also in division 10.

[Gray Fox]

I'm gonna need those tips chaps. Just played my first game online and lost 15-0. My opponent must have been amazed I didn't rage quit. Some observations:

The game matched my 4 star wank Premier League team (with a bronze keeper) against a team full of Legends. Isn't there supposed to be some balance to the match ups?
My opponent's team was established in February. How the fuck has he pulled that side together in under 3 weeks?
He was quicker to every ball and I could barely get out of my own half. Has he been fucking with the custom tactic settings?

1) There is a matchmaking system but it's much more likely to match you based on your connection/location than skill. I for example notice a lot of players with names of places around where I grew up being matched up with me.

2) Creation dates mean nothing any more. In the early days of the weekend league people would leave in the pre-match lobby if they saw a creation date they didn't like. As such people would create new accounts and use them instead. Now if you're a good player and get decent packs you can rack up millions in weekend league rewards, in a short period of time. Or he could have gone mad and spent real money on packs and got a great pull. More likely however is he's bought coins and used them.

3) That could have something to do with formation. I'm willing to bet he played 4-3-2-1 or 4-1-2-1-2(2). If you are on top with one of these formations, especially against a 4-3-3 variation, it can get ugly and very hard to break through. Him having a great team also works massively against you.
By now players like Kante, Martial, Smalling, Bailly, Walker etc are all relatively cheap (10k each or less) and there's a reason everyone uses them. This game is very much a case of if you can't beat them, join them. Custom tactics don't make a massive difference to you, but they may win you 1 game, maybe 2 of 10. They'll help in your style more than anything. If you can only play short passing tactics and work the ball up the pitch for example and find yourself against someone who perfectly stops that, you're screwed. But against someone who is weak to it, you'll win by more.
Lastly I'd suggest if you ever get twatted, go and look at what he had to do to score and try to put that in your game. If it works for you as well, you've learned and become a better player.

[Yevrah]

Cheers gents.

So if I wanted to pull together a team that should at least be competitive, for say 100,000 coins, who would you recommend I buy and what formation?

[Gray Fox]

Prices on the right as I wasn't sure on your console.

https://gyazo.com/e4fb8ee1f09f79cd3726e35cd2e1ac5e.png

That defence is all you need. Good front line too. In midfield you'll want Naingolan to replace whichever one of the 3 you dislike the most, but he costs about 2/3rds of the rest of the squad.

EDIT: That image isn't showing for me for some reason

[Yevrah]

Nor me. :(

And Jesus Christ. When did they introduce this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlNYJE7Z_2M

[Gray Fox]

I think I've fixed it in my post above. Total cost is 85k PS4, 56k XB1.

[Yevrah]

Cheers Fox. Might open some packs to get the funds for that.

[John]

There was a point early this month where there were four lots of special players out concurrently so with a bit of luck you could have put together a fairly bananas side without putting anything in. I didn't put a penny in during that spell and got about a million and a half coins out of packs.

For a top team on a budget you want to be looking at Serie A and using chemistry styles for stat boosts, Yev. For example, Lemina comes in at under a grand but with an Engine card on him he's in the mid to high eighties for pace, dribbling, and passing. There are budget options everywhere but Serie A has a good one in every position.


Nor me. :(

And Jesus Christ. When did they introduce this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlNYJE7Z_2M

That's a reward pack given out for doing well in the Weekend League.

[Yevrah]

Cheers John, who was the other serie A stat boosted player you were raving about a while back?

[Yevrah]

Kovacic, was it?

[John]

The one I posted a picture of was a La Liga guy, Mateo Kovacic.

Having seen the squad Fox posted I'll strongly disagree on one point, and that's Koulibaly in place of Manolas. Koulibaly is so overpowered it's faintly ridiculous, and if you stick an Anchor card on him you're basically getting what an In Form Rio Ferdinand card would have looked like when he was at his peak.

[Gray Fox]

That was just personal preference from me, Koulibaly is great too. His iMOTM card has been upped to 85, so if you can work your way to him you'll have a bully at the back.

[Samadini]

Haven't played FUT for months, but still have nightmares over Koulibaly.

[John]

A few examples of players you should be looking at and how you should assign the chemistry cards on them.

https://i.gyazo.com/008c673d601ed5823fd14d7580621b78.png

https://i.gyazo.com/e5a93ddc6f2670c6e92cc0b327c37ade.png

That physical doesn't look as great as it actually is, so here's a full stat list.

https://i.gyazo.com/8291a6ac59f7651dd672c88fa6d4426f.png

Dribbling aside, you're looking at a close to perfect striker there.

https://i.gyazo.com/5acfba7ba6722cf0baffcff98541f978.png

[Yevrah]

Obscene waste of money pack opening imminent.

[Yevrah]

Jesus, those boosts are unreal.

[John]

Apparently the boosts are exactly the same as they've been since chemistry styles were introduced but they've only released the information on them this year. Gareth Bale with an Architect card is just about the most stupid looking standard card available.

https://i.gyazo.com/9b3a325372d34b429cbbd9512a5e9074.png

https://i.gyazo.com/16e5a0915374178e947256d670db6b9a.png

[Yevrah]

20 Prime Gold Players Packs should hopefully get the ball rolling, albeit even with 120 rares the odds of pulling anyone genuinely decent are infinitesimal.

[Yevrah]

1 - A fucking Greek goalkeeper (Muslera) is my headline card. Falcao is in there, but not much point. Shit leagues ahoy is the theme of that one. 5,512 for the quicksell.
2 - IF Keane from Burnley. Pedro and Donsah for the Serie A lols. And that fucking Greek keeper again. You're shitting me. 14,795 for the quicksell.
3 - Lemar (sigh). Alonso and some wank. 4,761.
4 - Bojan and some more wank.
5 - Asenjo and some even more wank. Worst pack so far.

[Yevrah]

6 - Bojan again. FML.

[Yevrah]

More shit until the penultimate pack when I pulled a legend.


It was Landon Donovan. Still should be about 180k in coins.


How do legends Chemistry work?

[Yevrah]

And Courtois in the last pack.

Not bad overall.

It's gonna take me ages to sift through all this shit.

[John]

Quick selling should be off the table this year, Yev. SBCs are such that any complete wastrel could wind up selling for 6-7k.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Was playing with some friends the other day using random teams and scored this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eadPxTyEi4w

Especially sweet considering it was with this player, http://sofifa.com/player/207803

This is also such a great way to win a match and saw the guy rage quit straight away:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKZWaI4ABPM

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Thoughts on sticking an artist or engine card on SBC Muller, putting him at CM (in place of Renato Sanches) and getting in either Lewandowski or Aubameyang to lead the line?

[John]

I'd apply an Architect, but he looks more than good enough to play in central midfield.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Hadn't thought of an architect.

I'm doing it with a Hunter Lewandowski up top.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Also thinking of moving on from SIF Benteke, he started well for me but I struggle with him now.

Thinking of going for IF Andre Gray as he looks mental with a hawk card.