FIFA 21: Featuring the FUT 100

[Yevrah]

I can’t wait to see what shit EA come up with to stop people doing this next time.

[Danny]

Doing the PL icon swap.

Guy pauses for me at 1-0 and then at 2-0. I keep playing until halftime where I'm 5-0 and put my controller down.

We could have been done ages ago mate.

Don't pause for people.

Right. I would do the same.

Done the silver stars for the week. Managed to shoehorn 7 of them into a terrible team on not a lot of chem.

[Danny]

https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/kehauk/there_is_a_working_replacement_for_the_squad/

[thommo]

This community is just rotten to the core.

Politano is a little pricey but he looks a really good compliment to Immobile if you played 2 strikers. If I get some nice pulls in my rewards tomorrow I think I'll do him.

[Raoul Duke]

Got a cheeky Salif Sane (https://www.futbin.com/21/player/26867/salif-sané) out of a pack earlier - went straight into my BuLi team as we ploughed through their Objectives and he even scored the winner in the last game against some knobhead with a red ball. Instant club legend. Can't jump for some reason, despite being massive. Hwang was immense in this, scored almost every goal by just bombing past shitters with his 93 pace.

Just the Prem and La Liga to go, plus MLS/Champ in SB.

[Gray Fox]

Took the coin in the end. Hopped on today to get through more Swaps and now Ligue 1 and La Liga are done. Just Bundesliga to go for the online portion. That gave me a pack of 2 rare gold players to open and it got me a damn fine walkout:

https://i.gyazo.com/6a3157f6acc561519cfba8a3e4a51ae8.png

I originally flipped as I know how valuable he has been in previous games, even if he's untradeable. I feel like I have to get him into a team now somehow. Same with that untradeable Sterling I got yesterday.

Oh and Depay is indeed, terrible.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Weismann as my red pick :moop:

[Yevrah]

On Depay, I just don't understand him. He has stats that should have been ruining people early doors (which was when I packed him), but he never did for me.

[Yevrah]

And also, it'd be nice to get a value for money freeze SBC today, the majority of them have been shocking in that regard.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

On Depay, I just don't understand him. He has stats that should have been ruining people early doors (which was when I packed him), but he never did for me.

I thought he'd be quite fast for the early game too but he felt really sluggish.

[Yevrah]

Back on for the MLS Icon Swap token then the MLS League SBC and more grinding.

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

86 rated CB Jesus Navas for an 83 with a TOTW and an 85, pass.

[Yevrah]

That card has seriously pissed me off.

Pointless and expensive. Useless.

[Gray Fox]

Remember when we had FUTMAS and there was a card every day that you wanted to do?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just had a weird swaps game.

Went 2-0 up and the guy didn't quit. He then pulled one back and in the 18th minute he won a penalty, he missed and then quit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Also, Osimhen > Aubameyang.

I have Auba's base on loan and he's fucking terrible.

[Danny]

Remember when we had FUTMAS and there was a card every day that you wanted to do?

FUTMAS last year drained my club. I went looking the other day and we had these:

CM: Luka Modric (92) – Real Madrid
GK: De Gea (90) – Manchester United
ST: Edinson Cavani (89) – Paris Saint-Germain
CAM: Nabil Fekir (87) – Real Betis
CAM: Kai Havertz (87) – Bayer 04 Leverkusen
CDM: Axel Witsel (86) – Borussia Dortmund
LM: Douglas Costa (86) – Piemonte Calcio
CM: Santi Cazorla (86) – Villarreal CF
LW: Marcos Acuña (86) – Sporting CP
CM: Arturo Vidal (86) – FC Barcelona
ST: Marcus Rashford (85) – Manchester United
LM: Gonçalo Guedes (85) – Valencia CF
ST: Ante Rebic (85) – Milan
LB: Ferland Mendy (85) – Real Madrid
CB: Davinson Sánchez (85) – Tottenham Hotspur
RW: Farid Boulaya (85) – Football Club de Metz
LM: Moses Simon (84) – FC Nantes
CDM: Jean-Philippe Gbamin (84) – Everton
ST: Dodi Lukebakio (84) – Hertha BSC
RB: Kévin Malcuit (84) – Napoli
CDM: Thiago Mendes (84) – Olympique Lyonnais
CB: Jeison Murillo (84) – Sampdoria
ST: Iñaki Williams (84) – Athletic Club
RB: Youcef Atal (84) – OGC Nice
ST: Gabriel Jesus (84) – Manchester City
LB: Jérôme Roussillon (84) – VfL Wolfsburg
CM: Moussa Sissoko (84) – Tottenham Hotspur
CM: Renato Sanches (84) – LOSC Lille
RW: Hirving Lozano (84) – Napoli
RW: Xherdan Shaqiri (84) – Liverpool
CDM: Fabian Delph (81) – Everton

99% sure I did all the bold and maybe even a couple more. I havent done any this year.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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

I feel sorry for the guy.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Strangely Neuer won the best goalkeeper award but is beaten by Alisson for the team.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I did my Serie A wins in just 7 games with this tragic team:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpeOl7WXIAE9nVZ?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

Which is quicker than my Bundesliga team (basically my first 11) and Premiership team (much better players).

In game it was 3-5-2 with Romero, Kjaer and Danilo at the back, Tonali and Ramsey at CDM and Gosens & Hakimi as the wingers.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

3 games on the bounce with my Ligue 1 side that I scored first, my opponent didn't quit and I went on to lose :\

[Danny]

https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/kddcj1/two_beckhams_can_play_together/

:rosebud:

They fixed it. There goes my dream.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They fixed it almost as soon as you posted that link.

[Yevrah]

How's the pack haul going Mahow?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm at 136 packs now with the value at 2.96m.

I'll be doing a load of the 81+ double upgrades on Monday as well as MM.

[Yevrah]

If you're bronze packing, the MLS, Saudi and Sud are pretty good to fill out the silvers for the other leagues.

Presumably there are more coming when the Saudi and Ligue 1 expire too.

I'm also considering opening all my packs (about 100 of them) that only have the chance or guarantee of 1 rare gold from them (but keeping the rest) to keep the grind going efficiently.

[Danny]

They fixed it almost as soon as you posted that link.

Really? I didnt notice until watching the squad builder showdown (great series IMO) where Andy tried to do it.


I'm also considering opening all my packs (about 100 of them) that only have the chance or guarantee of 1 rare gold from them (but keeping the rest) to keep the grind going efficiently.

I would say thats worth it, restock the club with stuff that you can then turn into good packs. Though I did get Stoichkov from a basic gold pack last year.

[Yevrah]

I'm gonna wait for EA to add the next batch of league SBC's, chuck everything I have into league SBC's/upgrade packs and then open them. In the meantime it's objectives and a fuckton of BPM.

[Gray Fox]

https://i.gyazo.com/ecbcaf99811b570fe3a9456fcea7cc22.jpg

Knocked this together for now. I've bought it all up minus Dybala, but this has me thinking. To get Chucky in I need to go the Napoli route as Mexican is much more difficult. The Freeze Politano now has me interested.

Both he and Mertens have the same height, WF and SM, though Mertens is H/L. Other than that Politano looks much the better card. The problem here is the price. I've almost nothing left after building the above, though I do have a Piatek TOTW and untradeable Insigne in the club which would help.

[Yevrah]

You'll be fine with Mertens, no? And once you're on the Elite WL grind you'll be getting much better players than that Politano too?

[Gray Fox]

I wish I had your optimism on where I'll finish!

I'll play this WL with Mertens and go from there.

[Yevrah]

Will you be streaming any of it? Would love to have a looksie.

[Gray Fox]

If I do it'll likely be late tonight or some time tomorrow.

There's also temptation to open my 83 x 25 pack now rather than wait for the tiny chance at a TOTY card.

[Gray Fox]

I did open it...

TOTW Ginter and then Sancho as the best cards. I managed to avoid all of the meta 85s and 83s too so not great, but still a good 50k worth of players for effectively free.

[Gray Fox]

First game of WL and if it's all like this it will be a long one.

Guy had a reasonable team, mostly Serie A. He was the type of player I've mentioned before I hate facing. Any time I get to the player to steal the ball away, he does a turn and suddenly is past and on to the next one.

I was even 5-3 up and he came back. Multiple goals scored from my players not getting to a ball they should have. For example a cross will be in to the back post with one of each of our players getting there at the same time. Even though my guy was before the ball, he still scored. I was carving him open all game and then when I needed to come back from 6-5, somehow can't put 2 passes together. 0-1.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

POTM Haaland for an 84 with a TOTW, and 85 and an 85 with an IF.

Yes please.

90 pace, 94 shooting, 85 dribbling and 91 physical :drool:

I'll do him when I'm opening packs in a couple of weeks.

[Raoul Duke]

I find it tough to get on with Dybala - he should be great but never seems to do much for me. Much prefer someone like Gomez or Martinez.

[Raoul Duke]

POTM Haaland for an 84 with a TOTW, and 85 and an 85 with an IF.

Yes please.

90 pace, 94 shooting, 85 dribbling and 91 physical :drool:

I'll do him when I'm opening packs in a couple of weeks.

Looks a load cheaper than his equivalent card(s) last year which were like a million coins. Shame there's not a loan as I'd love to try him out for a few games.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

First Rivals game of the weekend for me.

I went 2-0 up through Lewandowski and Bebou but my defenders turned to crap and by the 60th minute it was 2-2.

Thankfully Lewandowski scored a lovely chip shot to make it 3 and then powered in a header from a corner to get a rage quit at 4-2.

From an 0-6 start last Friday to 1-0 this Friday.

Edit: 2-0 \0/.

[Yevrah]

That Haaland is definitely getting done. What a card (which will be clunky, but fuck it, what a card).

[Yevrah]

What setting do you need to change to get the power bar (for passing and shooting) above a player's head?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just played someone who was a complete cunt.

He was great at attacking and could have absolutely wiped the floor with me but he was a prick who kept time wasting, playing 1 depth etc etc.

He was 4-1 up and was just passing around his defence, stopping in midfield and just keeping the ball away from me.

Managed to grab 3 goals in the last 10 minutes (started by a long range Zola finesse as he dropped too deep) to send it to extra time.

He got a bullshit corner goal early where my Klostermann was in a better position but his Van Dijk managed to somehow get his head on it. What followed was more bullshit possession boring football before he sealed it with a counter attacking goal.

2-1.

[Yevrah]

There's definitely skill based match making in WL for at least the first 5 games now.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Followed that up by being smashed against someone much better than me 5-1 and then smashed someone much inferior 4-0 before he quit.

3-3.

I'm convinced I'm struggled so much last week due to a mixture of nerves, not being prepared for bullshit WL tactics and the PS5 matchmaking.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've just seen a CB Volland in the objectives, lol.

https://www.futbin.com/21/player/26960/kevin-volland

Looks pretty tasty with a shadow tbh. Although awful workrates.

[Raoul Duke]

Diego loan Icon is pretty useful. Gnabry looks tidy as well

[Gray Fox]

I’m tempted to dump everything into that Haaland. 6”4 and surprisingly agile, but has near perfect shooting and strength too.

Shows what EA think of the meta though. If he had 4*/4* I guarantee you could double that price.
My only issue would be fitting him into a team.

That Gnabry somehow linking in too would be amazing but I just don’t have the resources.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Decided to try the broken kick off chip shot goal thing as I was 5-0 down:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScO_Gc4GnXE

It's so stupid.

[Gray Fox]

0-1 to 3-2 now. I'm having a horrible connection in every game and the icon at the top of the screen wont fuck off. I'm wired too which is more concerning. I'll try some port forwarding.

I reckon I could be 4-1, but 3-2 is probably justified. The goal for this weekend is to get the connection business sorted and try to get to 11 wins. Time is my enemy as I'm in for an early shift tomorrow and Monday.

The last guy was an ultimate drop back and play on the counter bastard. But he had Haaland and Rashford up front so I couldn't counter it too well in the trudgy connection.

[Yevrah]

I've redeemed and will be back in the race this afternoon.

[Gray Fox]

I'll be on after the Liverpool game.

That Gnabry looks more and more tempting each game. I'm not sure in WL competition, Hazard is much of much and that kills my only link to Mendy.

[Yevrah]

Just sorting out contracts on the web app and then we're on.

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

[Yevrah]

1-0 with a 5-3 win, but it seriously felt like my players were wading through treacle.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just won 5-1 with 3 of those coming from corners to move to 5-4.

I've never seen someone so bad at defending corners.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

So many of my passes seem to either go to someone I didn't target or are so underpowered.

It's infuriating.

[Yevrah]

4-2 after 6 games.

The last two games have had micro-pauses all over the shop. No idea how I won the last one as a result.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

And I'm done at 11-8.

Had a nervy last game where I went 4-0 up and I was absolutely dominating the game but he pulled one back and momentum shifted firmly into his favour. At 4-3 I decided to switch from my ultra-defensive tactic (4-2-3-1) to my defensive (3-5-2) and I was able to counter, made it 5-3 and really should have had another couple.

Bebou is a hero. He doesn't get that many goals and assists (14 goals and 35 assists in 63 games) but he's electric and causes so many problems, especially on the counter.

Hoffenheim have Molde in the knockout phase so could well get another upgrade too.

[Yevrah]

A slightly bizarre Adama LB for tonight's SBC. Usual rip off as well.

[Danny]

Such a weird card. If they made him left footed or changed his work rates to high/med or high/high then he would be perfect for that RM LM spot in the 3-5-2.

As it is he is just odd.

Edit someone on reddit reporting HH and left footed....maybe.

[Gray Fox]

7-8 through 15 games. I was 5-2 at one point but I'm doing the best I can with the connection issues. It's as if I'm playing on a delay. As a result, I can only really beat people I'm significantly better than.

If it's down to my ISP then I'll likely sod WL off for the most part.

[Danny]

https://i.redd.it/d8gdjajkt6661.jpg

Yep, that actually makes me interested in him.

[Shindig]

I've downloaded a new option file and upped the difficulty in PES. I'm on Superstar now after starting a league with Bayern Munich. I smashed Sevilla 6-1 in the Super Cup and then decided it was time to step it up a notch. 3 wins, 1 draw so far but we're reliant on Lewandowski's goals and Neuer between the sticks.

Things the AI do differently: The chase and intercept passes more and make space difficult to come by in the box. I've just smashed Dinamo Zagreb 6-0 so maybe I've got the hang of this already. Sometimes the game just does that, though. I'm liking the fact I've got kits now for the Championship sides and all the national teams and some updated European odds and sods.

[Yevrah]

5-5 after 10 having been 5-3. Almost everyone I've played today has either dropped back or been good at defending, which makes for a right slog.

[Yevrah]

8-7 and done until tomorrow. Hard work today that was.

[Gray Fox]

The LB Adama caught the content creators out. They did originally release him with the same WR and WF as his base card.

Sad thing is he’s now probably the best LB in the game.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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A Bruno penalty ending that pro kid's perfect record and inducing tears :drool:

Wasn't even in champs, just a tournament or something which makes the reaction sweeter.

[Yevrah]

He's 14. The hate he's getting really isn't cool.

[Yevrah]

Back on to finish weekend league from 8-7 currently.

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

Beckham, while fun to use is going to have to make way for the final 15 games. He's viable when playing someone you should beat, but anything beyond that he's sadly out of his depth.

[thommo]

As I’ve alluded to, I’ve already returned home (rightly or wrongly, up to you) but I managed to find space for the Xbox and still redeemed the WL entry. It’s made me realise that the lag and delay I’ve frequently experience may just be down to the connection/internet I regularly play on at home, as I had 4 games of silky smooth gameplay yesterday and won them all so far.

Of course, this could all change tonight but we’ll see how it goes.

I might stream a little too if it all holds up well.

[Yevrah]

Horrendous start to the day with 1-4 after 5.

Hammered in the first, lost a close one in the second, easy-ish game in the third and drop back cunted in the last two.

9-11.

[Yevrah]

4 wins from the next 5 and we're 13-12.

Not sure where that came from.

[Yevrah]

14-12 and done.

[Gray Fox]

Errr Lads...

[Yevrah]

I'm gonna go Varane.

[Gray Fox]

Go bigger.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpsY3wOW4AEipl7?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

Untradeable but not one complaint from me.

[Raoul Duke]

Fuck a duck. Excellent pull. How are you planning to fit him in?

[Yevrah]

Cracking stuff.

[Gray Fox]

I have no idea how to fit him in, but for now Dybala is sold and he takes the place of striker. I had planned to do the Haaland/Gnabry SBCs over the next 2 weeks, but this scuppers those plans a little. I must surely build a team around him.

Unfortunately outside of him in Serie A there really isn't much. That kind of leaves having to keep him at the top of the 4-5-1 with 2 Portugal links into him. Bruno is one option there but it also opens up the possibility of completing POTM Felix.

[Raoul Duke]

I have Felix and he is mint. Really great all-rounder.

[Danny]

Fox :drool:

Felix and Bruno box him in. Free Beckham goes RM. That’s the start of something solid.

[Raoul Duke]

That Kenny Lala is 100% getting done. Switch with Florenzi/Atal in game - actually maybe not. His defending is terrible :D

86+ repeatable upgrade SBC too. Time to launch the fodder

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That Kenny Lala is 100% getting done. Switch with Florenzi/Atal in game - actually maybe not. His defending is terrible :D

86+ repeatable upgrade SBC too. Time to launch the fodder

He can't defend though.

[Gray Fox]

So from 7-8 I finish this week on 14-9. Not quite 7 on the bounce, but good enough. Connection felt much smoother today so I could actually defend with some dignity.

I made the quick change of Ronny in and selling Dybala. The latter was doing fairly well for me, 18 goals and 5 assists in his 15 games, however in came CR7. 15 goals and 8 assists in 8 games. I think that speaks for itself. The actual difference in-game is not really quantifiable.

Not sure what the plan is with the coins coming in. I have a fair amount of fodder to do a reasonably sized SBC. I'm not sure how much I can knock off Felix though for example. His price is climbing way towards 500k now.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I wont be doing Champs next weekend but I think I'll be aiming for 14 the week after.

[Yevrah]

Alisson and Koke from one of my pre-order packs.

Is nice.

[Danny]

Sancho for me.

Ended up doing Traore with stuff in the club too.

[Yevrah]

I'm thinking of doing Joao Felix and maybe Adama, but if I do the latter I'll need a Spanish CB to get him on 10 chem, which will necessitate doing Navas. :eyemouth:

[Raoul Duke]

UEL Rebic (https://www.futbin.com/21/player/26951/ante-rebic) was the best thing from my packs. Looks great now and is going for about 130k at the moment, but not sure whether to sell? If I hold onto him for at least another round (Milan have Red Star Belgrade who I'd expect them to get past) he could be a very tasty card if they progress, but at the same time apparently they won't get upgraded until February, which is probably too long to wait relative to the power curve.

[Yevrah]

A Laimer RB that's too expensive, again.

No league SBC's and no Icons. I wonder if they're purposefully withholding the latter as they don't want people sat on packs for TOTY to be able to do them easily.

Either way, uber lame.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Laimer looks great but yeah, far too expensive.

[Raoul Duke]

Bad value, especially compared to Mukilele.

Who's winning the Milan vs. Ajax thing (on PS4)?

Also - anyone one PS4 want to do the Bronze objective Friendly goals thing? Score 3 each and then play the rest of the match?

I sold Rebic for 138k or something. Gonna hold the coins for now and see what comes out soon. Only real upgrades I would want to make are either Messi, Varane for my La Liga team or Rashford/Mane for Prem but no point investing heavily for now as there'll likely be a crash soon.

[Gray Fox]

https://i.gyazo.com/5c8a08c8f29e162d75c95ca3ae0c4011.jpg

Knocked this together as a way to potentially fit CR7 in. I'd need 165k to make that work, although that is only with standard Felix. The POTM looks very good indeed, but that 3rd part of his SBC is the stumbling block. I may just have enough in the club for the first 2, but the 3rd is 250k by itself.

Assuming there is no pack luck this week, I'll likely be sat on 100-150k towards the cause.

[Yevrah]

thommo

Fancy doing the Beckham free kicks and the glitched bronze friendly objective?

[Yevrah]

And nice team there Fox. You'll do some damage with that.

[Gray Fox]

I really don't want to use Laporte, but my coins wont stretch to everything.

I'm 50/50 on starting the Felix SBCs smaller sections now. I don't want to sink stuff into that and have myself unable to complete it in the end.

[Danny]

Who's winning the Milan vs. Ajax thing (on PS4)?

Also - anyone one PS4 want to do the Bronze objective Friendly goals thing? Score 3 each and then play the rest of the match?

Milan are winning. I picked Ajax. I figured the Ajax love in would still be going.

I was also able to get that objective while working on Volland. I think its fixed.

[Yevrah]

Mendy, Gomez and Laporte should help him out.

There's what, 11 days left on Felix? You should be fine, but something better may come along in that time. Albeit unlikely to get the Ronaldo links.

[Yevrah]

Bit of Silver Stars and better make a start on Bolasie.

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

[Danny]

One win and three German goals left to get Volland. Been relatively straight forward.

[Danny]

https://i.imgur.com/t9a8jJB.jpg

Been rocking this set of heroes in SB's to start the silver challenges.

[Raoul Duke]

I really don't want to use Laporte, but my coins wont stretch to everything.

I'm 50/50 on starting the Felix SBCs smaller sections now. I don't want to sink stuff into that and have myself unable to complete it in the end.

Could you do something like this? https://www.futbin.com/21/squad/4458541 - seems a decent team and quite cheap.

I've made a start on the Eredivisie league objectives. Quite a fun team I've got together there now.

[Yevrah]

Trying to score longshots for this Bolasie is horrific.

[Yevrah]

And then I go and get three in the next game. :D

[Danny]

It really was a pain when I was doing it.

[Danny]

https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/khw100/new_freeze_cards_in_packs_16_hours_too_early/

Disgusting. Dembele and ASM

[Yevrah]

That might be time to sell the fodder...

[Gray Fox]

I hear rumours of Renato Sanches to Liverpool. This needs to happen for FIFA reasons so so much.

Raoul Duke that looks good but may also be out of the price range. It’s likely to take everything I have to get Felix done unless there’s a reasonably large pull on Thursday. Unless I get lucky in the packs with him then affording the rest will be tricky.

[Raoul Duke]

https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comments/khw100/new_freeze_cards_in_packs_16_hours_too_early/

Disgusting. Dembele and ASM

Holy shit, those French strikers will be amazing. Dembele is straight to the top of my wanted list, assuming they've not messed with him too much. Looks like he's got a little boost but the distribution of his stats are the same.

[Gray Fox]

Striker Aouar for what looks like an 85 squad. Not too bad there.

[Danny]

I think I will do that card. I had set my Ligue Un squad up last night to start 5221 and then Gold Marquinhos and Denayer at CB with Volland moving up into CDM. He was going to be alongside gold Renato with them Behind Mollet

This card probably changes that.

Objective Capa looks nice too.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, that Capa goes straight into my team and allows for Adama at LB.

[Gray Fox]

ASM extinct at 1.3m and Dembele is 1.6m. What is going on?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Meta players and I'd imagine the pull rate is silly.

[Gray Fox]

I chucked the entire contents of my 83+ x 25 pack into the most expensive part of Felix to check and it comes up just short. I'd still need to buy a 90 rated card to make it work and it'd wipe out my bench of the untradeable Sterling and Insinge.

I could go the other way with it and chuck the stuff into the cheaper 2 parts, though then the chemistry side of it comes into play. I've 10 days to do it which would mean this and the next set of Champs/Rivals rewards would be going towards it, even then some luck would be required.

Doing the 3 SB Icon swaps would turn into another 5 x 85+ cards. That'd likely give me no big pulls but SBC fodder. Though does anyone have any tips for beating AI on world class with a relatively shit team?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Did my Silver stars in 3 games.

Had two rage quits as I scored within 3 minutes in the first two. In the third I went 2-0 down and managed to turn it around and win 6-2.

The guy was even passing it around his defenders at 5-2 to try and stop me from scoring a sixth :drool:

[Danny]

I chucked the entire contents of my 83+ x 25 pack into the most expensive part of Felix to check and it comes up just short. I'd still need to buy a 90 rated card to make it work and it'd wipe out my bench of the untradeable Sterling and Insinge.

I could go the other way with it and chuck the stuff into the cheaper 2 parts, though then the chemistry side of it comes into play. I've 10 days to do it which would mean this and the next set of Champs/Rivals rewards would be going towards it, even then some luck would be required.

Doing the 3 SB Icon swaps would turn into another 5 x 85+ cards. That'd likely give me no big pulls but SBC fodder. Though does anyone have any tips for beating AI on world class with a relatively shit team?

Just sub on better players. The crap teams are terrible and you can get away with only a few good players.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Whilst doing the Icon Swaps I bring on Blanc, Lewandowski and I seem to rotate the third spot. I'm doing MLS and I've given the 3rd sub slot to Sabitzer, during the Eredivisie it was Martial and for the Championship I used the free Beckham card.

[Raoul Duke]

You can just "Update Opponents" and play shitters if you're not bothered about Squad Battles. Even on WC the lower chem teams are terrible.

Looks like I won't be picking up Dembele for a while. Have to wait for a serious price drop :moop:

I finished the Eredivisie objectives earlier - Gravenberch is fantastic, well worth getting him if you can. Like a Sissoko/Wijnaldun hybrid.

[thommo]

Took my winning streak to start WL to 7-0, and ended up 11-4 late on Sunday night, one of my best weekends this year so far. Haven't updated my first team in over a month, and POTM 90 Haaland may be the route I take to improve the striker position.

Got a shedload of games to play for Bolasie, Volland and Icon Swaps, but what with Christmas around the corner, time on the game is fairly limited.


thommo

Fancy doing the Beckham free kicks and the glitched bronze friendly objective?

I may be on to do this, but I can't guarantee anything unfortunately. How is the bronze objective glitched?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Whatever it was they fixed it as it counted when I was doing sliver stars and icon swaps today.

[Danny]

You could only do it playing against a friend but they sorted it. Apparently one of the Ajax objectives is bugged too :face: s

[Yevrah]

Bit of Capa objectives and some 80+ picks I think.

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

[Danny]

Rattled through Capa. Only a couple of rage quits but got the wins in 8 games.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Not sure who I'd want from my red pick. Kimpembe perhaps as my Ligue 1 side is horrid at the back or Hernandez.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Shapeshifter RB Damm for Silver Stars.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

84 rated ST Joao Victor in SBCs for an 82 with 1 IF and an 85 with 1 IF...

[Gray Fox]

They picked Hendo over Bobby and I'm FURIOUS.

[Danny]

Hard pass on Victor. Off chem Damm (why isn’t he using his German passport ffs) soft linking Mukhtar on the left and I’ll be buying McSauce :cool:

[Raoul Duke]

If that Victor was cheaper he'd be pretty good, but you can buy Lewandowski for cheaper than that :cab:

Damm is good and completes the MLS back four from Objectives. Hope we get a good Eredivisie player soon. Need a striker/CB or even a CM.

[Yevrah]

Yep, yet another rip off SBC from EA.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just played a huge cunt in One League.

He would not skip the pre-match shit and then instantly paused to let the time run down. He then queued up a pause as soon as we kicked off and he managed to score in that. He did a long celebration and watched the full replay before it went to the pause menu and he waited for the full 30 seconds.

I then made it 1-1 and ran about it a bit. After a minute or so he paused and let the clock run down again.

He was pretty quick at pulling the plug on his internet connection as soon as I made it 2-1 after 35 minutes though.

[Danny]

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One of the better promos from last year coming back.

[Yevrah]

91 Benzema from one of my picks. Finally a 100k+ card.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Koopmeiners as my red.

[Yevrah]

Got him in my other one.

[Gray Fox]

Andre Silva and Benzema for me.

The latter would help quite a lot for making Felix easier. He just does not seem like a usable card. Not much from the packs tbf. About 120k to hand now and entrance to WL confirmed.

[Yevrah]

The price of that Firmino might be the most ridiculous one ever.

[thommo]

Obscenely expensive.

Got Yerry bloody Mina as my red pick, and need to play 10 more games (and win 4) to get Bolasie done tonight. Doubtful that I’ll get time for WL so may give that a miss over this weekend.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'll be doing Firmino's loan to use him in online icon swap friendlies.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Also, can they please release more league SBCs? I have fuck all transfer list room.

[Yevrah]

Also, can they please release more league SBCs? I have fuck all transfer list room.

The Youtubers don't seem to have twigged this yet, but I'm convinced they're deliberately holding these and more icon SBC's back until after TOTY.

[Danny]

Firmino getting his scream card two years in a row is a bit of a joke.

[Gray Fox]

I said to the lads on Discord I'd heard a Liverpool player was tonight. I was holding out hope, but fuck me that's mad. I don't know who that card is aimed at... maybe besides Liverpool fans with too many coins.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Aimed at that knob Bateson.

[Yevrah]

I said to the lads on Discord I'd heard a Liverpool player was tonight. I was holding out hope, but fuck me that's mad. I don't know who that card is aimed at... maybe besides Liverpool fans with too many coins.

I might have to whisper this, but I don't even think the card is that good. I wouldn't do the SBC even if it was half the price.

And talking of SBC's, just finished off Adama's second segment with 10 untradeables. Most of which I didn't think I'd ever get rid of. A moment if you will for the following:

Jordi Alba - 351 games, 1 goal & 19 assists
Eden Hazard - 285 games, 151 goals & 142 assists
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang - 115 games, 143 goals & 79 assists
Kieran Trippier - 111 games, 0 goals, 9 assists and a shadow.

RIP.

[Gray Fox]

It's crazy. If you want a good CM card the RTTF Sanches has been updated now and is nearly the same price and that card looks double the Firmino one.

Look at Aouar too. He's sitting at just over 100k.

[Danny]

Did Aouar today as I packed a duplicate Costa from the freeze challenge. Threw Marquinos gold in there so Volland will be staying at the back.

Also did Damm in the games 4-0 RQ, 1-0 RQ (same guy) and 10-2 :cab:

I want to do that Delort card incase they bring it out of friendlies but will decide on that later on. He will be the one I keep in mind for the next duplicate.

[Gray Fox]

Showdown cards/SBCs in the code, with something expected to hit tonight. With it also being Christmas I expect something big/nice tonight to pull in the traffic.

I haven't touched the Felix SBC yet. Obviously he's quite a meta card, but he's double the price of Freeze Gnabry, who looks a very similar and as Thommo said to me that is a lot of coin to put into a static untradeable card.

Getting CR7 starting is a must do(obviously) but looking at community squads for ideas on FUTBIN is tricky as most people build with the idea that if you can afford him you can afford the team that goes with him.

[Yevrah]

The great sell off has started, with my clean RTTF Quincy going for 260k overnight. Nearly 100k more than the cost of a used one and 20k more than I actually paid for him. Up to 5.3m now, with a crap load more to go through. Varane gone too, although I lost a few coins on him.

[Gray Fox]

I caved and did Felix.

I only had to buy an 86 Sommer and 84 Saul to do it. I did lose some high sentimental value cards, Bellerin, Beckham, Sterling and the 2IF Lozano, but in truth, if my team even progresses slightly they'd have been out anyway. And I've now got Deulofeu to come in as super sub. One of my reward packs also gave me 85 Eriksen who negated a lot of the cost of Sommer.

The club has been wiped pretty much, but a fair amount of sellable golds and a few nice Silvers mean that the ~25k I spent was made back anyway plus more. I didn't quite realise I had that much. So I'm up to 170k though I need to bring in Bruno now.

Then the choice is whether or not to bring in Rashford. He'd start at RM off chem, but the alternative is go cheaper there and spend the resulting 100k or so on a keeper and Ake upgrade.

[Yevrah]

Nice. If I hadn't red picked Benzema I think I'd have done him too.

Are you WL ing it Fox?

[Raoul Duke]

This is pretty good: skill move combos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuHzthSvSok) - I need to use la croqueta more

[Gray Fox]

Nice. If I hadn't red picked Benzema I think I'd have done him too.

Are you WL ing it Fox?

I have redeemed. Not sure how many I'll play yet, but I'll see where the weekend goes.


This is pretty good: skill move combos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuHzthSvSok) - I need to use la croqueta more

The fake shot stop, slight pause then croqueta is a killer. You essentially make your opponent guess left or right. If it's in the box and then guess wrong, it's usually a goal.

[Shindig]

I'm literally just playing MyClub to collect the freebies now. Fuck actually playing a limited PES experience. I've got Gazza and Messi. That'll do.

[Gray Fox]

I wish FIFA would fuck chemistry off so you could so something similar. I've seen PES' version in the past and if I remember right you can put in whoever you want.


Bruno is now in the club. Leaves me with 105k. I can just afford a Rashford to play at RM and leave Pope and Ake in one more week, Or I can bring in a 'keeper and plug a CB in. Maybe Walker off chem or Laporte.

[Shindig]

Yeah, PES is a lot more forgiving, at least in Master League.

- Players have a formation and set of instructions they're familiar with which indicates what their teamwork is.
- However, you can play them in whatever formation and that familiarity will come with time.

How it should be, really.

[Yevrah]

5-5 after 10 WL games. Which given the hangover I have is a right result.

[Gray Fox]

2-2 myself. Connection is as expected given this is likely their busiest day of the year.

I’m using Rashford for now who seems great. Hopefully I’ll do my 11 wins and then sell him back before Aouar expires. Then I’ll re-buy him Thursday.

[Danny]

Beckham down at 1.2xm for the Prime. Glad I didn’t instabuy at 2m like I was tempted to. At ~1m I’ll get him in and eat whatever I lose from there.

[Danny]

Showdown SBC out. 86 Acuna vs 85 Coquelin. Those are some huge boosts but they look pricey.
Winner gets a +2.

Party bag out for a 84 squad. Don’t touch it Imo. Too many shitty OTW

[Yevrah]

I'll have to open that Party Bag on the web app, so given what's gone before doing that, count me in.

Icon SBC's gone. Not to be seen again until after TOTY.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Did the Party Bag.

Europa TOTGS Yazici :(

[Danny]

Atleast it wasn’t David, pretty sure a bunch of people are getting him

[Raoul Duke]

Did the Party Bag and got my third Icardi :moop:

[Yevrah]

Remaining 5 games for today of WL, the Party Bag and a few other things.

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

[Danny]

That Acuna is tempting. His 86 already looks like it can play anywhere but ST

[Yevrah]

Morata from my Party Bag. No party to be had with that.

6-6 in WL now.

[Danny]

I did 6 of the player pick packs (all top 5 leagues and one random players). Set myself the challenge of one 85+ and I do it the party bag. Bonucci in the 5th one meant it had to be done.

88 Record Breaker Vardy is a massive win and he walks straight into my Prem team.

[Danny]

https://i.imgur.com/VaDK5U1.png

Only 4m.

7m if you go primes across the board.

[Yevrah]

Finished yesterday at 8-7 in weekend league. 14 the target once again:

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

[Gray Fox]

Ended on 14-10 myself. The record says it was worse, but I played better, there were just several matches that could have gone either way. I could easily have been 17-7.

One match in particular saw Murphys Law in effect. I was 5-0 down at half time. I fought it back and got it to 5-5. I won a corner in the 89th minute, which I don't even know how but Alisson saved it onto the bar at point blank range. Opponent counters and then win his own corner which he duly scored from.

I was at 13-6 at one point and should have gone to bed, but I wanted it done before I woke today.

I may try for 17 later, But I'm not too fussed either way.

I think the plan is now to sell Rashford(He's down below 100k atm!) and complete the Aouar SBC before he leaves tonight. The future potential links and also use of him off the bench in the meantime look too good to pass up for the 110k he costs.

[Yevrah]

Know what you mean about wanting to get it done. The days where I've finished by Saturday night I've had a much more enjoyable Sunday.

I'm tempted to try Gold Pack Method today.

[Raoul Duke]

I've only used Aouar for a couple of games but he's silky. Really nice card. Definitely feels like much more a CAM than a ST for me though (Clive).

I've been getting a decent return on the 80+ Player Picks over the last few days - solid amount of 84+ cards and a smattering of IFs too.

[Yevrah]

Just did GPM going until I filled a clean trade pile. Stored all the cards needed for league SBC's and have listed everything else. I need to make 8k from 87 items that are still listed to break even, which I'll smash.

This looks absolutely viable when common golds go for about a grand.

[Gray Fox]

And so ends the most frustrating WL I've ever had. I finish on 16-14 despite being 16-10. In all 4 games I had leads late on. I even replaced Bruno and Rashford with Sanches and Martins at one point as I felt I needed more defensive support in the middle, which helped, but it didn't matter in the end.

Perhaps I need to manage the game better, but I definitely need to improve the defence. Ake just doesnt cut it any which way.

I wish I could see more detailed stats of when my goals and my opponents goals come, but I feel like I almost never score the late winner. I also feel like I wilt the more the game goes on. Perhaps I need to make changes beyond bringing on an attacker.

I miss the days of '19 when I could competently see out a game.

[Raoul Duke]

Unlucky GF - Sanches and Martins are beasts.

Have you been making use of the freebie Objective players? There are some crackers in there (Aidoo, Gravenberch, Capa etc.). If they're not 1st Team-worthy then they'd certainly help out from the bench.

[Yevrah]

10-9 now.

Nice to have no work tomorrow and be able to take this at a leisurely pace as a result.

Need to get 3/4 Squad Battles games in too to get Elite 2.

[Yevrah]

Dreadful SBC's from EA tonight.

[Gray Fox]

Unlucky GF - Sanches and Martins are beasts.

Have you been making use of the freebie Objective players? There are some crackers in there (Aidoo, Gravenberch, Capa etc.). If they're not 1st Team-worthy then they'd certainly help out from the bench.

I often bring on Deulofeu and Van Bergwen who I like a lot, though I have avoided changing the CMs much. The Addition of Aouar gives a CM/CAM type. I've not touched them because I'm still scarred.
I brought Tello on for Bruno the once and he ended up with a clear shot in the box to win it late. He pulled it wide and I went on to concede straight after.

EDIT: You've reminded me I need to do Capa and Volland. Left it tight for both though I think.

[Yevrah]

14-10 and done. Should give me enough headroom to get rank 1 in Rivals too.

[Yevrah]

Did 10 of the player picks and got IF Theo Hernandez.

[Danny]

Very nice! I feel like they are pretty decent for the cost.

[Danny]

Harry Kane from SB rewards. Pre order packs finished.

[Raoul Duke]

Sancho from SB rewards.

Finishing up Capa today, but not sure I can be arsed with Volland. Doesn't look all that and I'm fine for L1 defenders with Koscielny and Freeze Golovin playing in there (usually swaps with Freeze Marquinos).

[Yevrah]

I'm doing Volland now and it's fucking horrible. Utterly fucking horrible.

[Yevrah]

8 games into this now and haven't scored a single cross or a header.

[Raoul Duke]

8 games into this now and haven't scored a single cross or a header.

Brutal. I've found using Player Lock useful for getting on the end of crosses - players make retarded runs otherwise, but if you're in behind you can get some decent positions if you manually do it

[Danny]

Prime Barnes, Prime Hierro and Mid Torres icons out.

Another party bag too.

[Yevrah]

Party Bag 2 and some Player Picks before they expire.

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

[Gray Fox]

Capa and Volland done. Most seemed to be struggling with the headers, but I got lucky and got 2 in my first match. It was the defender assists that killed me.

Still that's 2 very useful cards in. There's now potential to get Gosens in to link with said Volland and get Neuer/Ter Stegen in net. That'd be a big CB upgrade, but then it's getting a fullback on either side. Those leagues are not blessed with great options that I can afford(I wasn't in time to do Atal or A.Sandro).

My current thinking is I'd rather scrimp and save at the winger position for now as defending was the clear issue the weekend previous. Besides Mendy, my back line could all do with an upgrade. Gomez is good, but his low stamina and meh strength may be one of the things letting me down late on in games.

Plus if I can use objective cards over tradeable ones, it frees up coin for elsewhere.

[Yevrah]

Did the 8 Mega Packs in store with coins and got KDB in the last one, saving what otherwise would have been a huge loss.

[Danny]

Sevilla 2-0 up. Hold on you bastards :D

[Yevrah]

Decided to drop 12k FIFA Points on the Rares and Premiums before they expired:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DARe4AioJ2M&feature=youtu.be


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7hd1jc6110&feature=youtu.be

[Danny]

Very nice!

Keep/Sell?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Such a dick.

[Yevrah]

Think I'll sell both.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Did the party bag.

OTW Osimhen :(

tbf though I did like his base card when doing Icon Swaps and the card could obviously get some more upgrades.

[Danny]

Upgraded Acuna looking very nice

https://www.futbin.com/21/player/27122/marcos-acuna

[Yevrah]

Rookie mistake by me not to have done that.

[Yevrah]

A Finisher on him and you've got Bobby Carlos in his prime.

[Raoul Duke]

He looks amazing. Figured I had Mendy so didn't need him :moop:

[Danny]

I went for a Shadow because sweat but you can do anything you want with his card.

[Yevrah]

He also links to Kounde. FFS. I am such a moron.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I knew I'd regret doing him :moop:

[Yevrah]

Zola out for 515k, when Alaba sells I'll have over 8m on hand.

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

[Gray Fox]

He also links to Navas if you did him.

Best LB on the game now I think.

[Gray Fox]

Silver stars done. No other objectives to do really. There's the US left back maybe and the EFL stuff but at this point the reward isn't worth the effort.

I wont hit level 30 which is a little annoying. But the new season starts in a couple of days so hopefully that brings improved rewards.

[Yevrah]

An 86 with an inform for that Ben Arfa. :rofl:

[Yevrah]

And where are all the Flashback cards? We've had almost the square root of fuck all of them so far.

[Gray Fox]

Rashford or Carrasco are the big ones I want from this week.

Denayer, Lenglet, Cancelo or Martinez would be useful players to get too. I wish I hadn’t used up the good luck last week!

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

A Rasford IF the week I take a break from Champs :moop:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Base or mid icon SBC which should still be up for the start of TOTY.

[Yevrah]

Headliners on Friday so it'll be gone by TOTY.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

ffs Futbin had 20 days on it when I looked.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Even the base icon expires before I have TOTY dropping (18th for the start with a 12th man vote happening on the 11th) :moop:

[Yevrah]

Honestly, as things stand now it's going to be a disaster.

Haaland will still be there for the full team in packs, but that's about it and even then only for part of it. I suppose there's Hierro, Torres and Barnes, but I don't really want any of them.

[Yevrah]

How's the pack hoard looking Mahow?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

161 for 3.5m.

I've not done much this week on the game so it's slowed down.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, mine has slowed down a bit too now.

I think I'm still ahead of Nick 28t who does this shit every year, but not by much and he'll overtake me soon.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Transfer list is pretty much full of bronze and silver league SBC players (and Telles OTW's) which doesn't help.

[Raoul Duke]

I love OTW as a concept but it's shit as an actual promo. EA have no incentive to upgrade someone, whereas RTTF is much more straightforwards.

Next year I'm not spending on any high-value OTW cards. Have wasted coins on Rodrigo and Ziyech this year (sold the former for a 15k loss, the latter I actually like using still and has potential to recoup if he gets another IF). But, what I spent on them could have bought me half a Messi, FFS

[Danny]

An 86 with an inform for that Ben Arfa. :rofl:

Terrible. Literally the only reason would be the Hyperlink to Koscielny if you did him. Even then....

I will stick with Aouar and Mollet.

[Gray Fox]

Finishing all 30 Champs games has put me far enough into Rank 2 that I could hit 1 tonight. Should I do that, there's the potential for a shit load of untradeable packs to really stock the club up, though it's going to be hard to resist that 70k coin payout.

Not sure if to push or not.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I love OTW as a concept but it's shit as an actual promo. EA have no incentive to upgrade someone, whereas RTTF is much more straightforwards.

Next year I'm not spending on any high-value OTW cards. Have wasted coins on Rodrigo and Ziyech this year (sold the former for a 15k loss, the latter I actually like using still and has potential to recoup if he gets another IF). But, what I spent on them could have bought me half a Messi, FFS

I have 12 OTW Telles' sitting on my transfer list which I purchased for 1.24 million.

Selling them now at their current price of 55k I'd recoup 627k after tax :moop:

Genuinely thought he wouldn't dip under 90k and I thought when Shaw was injured he'd be nailed on for an IF or at least a performance that generated HYPE so I could sell. He got 1 assist in that time and there was no hype at all as there were 3/4 players that could have gotten an IF ahead of him and one of them (Pogba) did.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Finishing all 30 Champs games has put me far enough into Rank 2 that I could hit 1 tonight. Should I do that, there's the potential for a shit load of untradeable packs to really stock the club up, though it's going to be hard to resist that 70k coin payout.

Not sure if to push or not.

With no Champs and hardly playing this week I'm settling for rank 4. I can't be fucked winning 3 to push me just into rank 3.

[Yevrah]

Used my games left over from the weekend to push into Rank 1 Div 5 but didn't enjoy it.

I've waited so long all I want now is TOTY and to open those fucking packs.

[Yevrah]

Serie A now ludicrously expensive on Xbox for a few teams. 6k or so for some of the players. I'll finish this run through but that may be the last before TOTY.

[Gray Fox]

Nothing above 82 in my reds which was annoying as fuck, but expected.

A few 84s and an 85 in the packs takes me over 210k.

A new goalkeeper and CB is top priority. If I can get Volland/Aouar/Capa in and save coin somewhere even better.

[Raoul Duke]

Played a few games of Rivals this week to finish up some of the objectives and took untradeable rewards this morning. Mostly shit until Donarumma in my penultimate pack and then Sadio Mane in the last one :drool:

Think that'll leave my first team looking potentially like this: https://www.futbin.com/21/squad/4762785 - only player I don't yet have is Kante. He's the long-term goal but Sissoko will be in there for the time being.

[Yevrah]

Denayer and Saka from my red picks. I'll take that. Got the right sided player Danny. :D

[Gray Fox]

I've gone down the rabbit hole now and I've a bit lost myself on how to upgrade without fucking the chemistry all over the show.

This is what I used last weekend:

https://i.gyazo.com/6820d665d1a95463c11cadded1bbce80.jpg

I have 220k to hand and I'd like Ake and Pope gone. Felix and Ronny are untradeable but everything else is fair game.

[Danny]

Full red XI. Let’s go!

[Raoul Duke]

I have 220k to hand and I'd like Ake and Pope gone. Felix and Ronny are untradeable but everything else is fair game.

Varane seems the obvious one, with maybe Lloris (or Areola as a cheap option) but it's basically Full Meta back line. IF Sanches is 230k, if you just want a direct upgrade on him.

How do you normally line up in-game?

[thommo]

More league SBCs released - Championship, UCL and Bundesliga. Surprised they’ve put them up before TOTY.

I’m on 94k XP for the season but I highly doubt I’m going to be able to play at all before the 6pm deadline tomorrow. Gutted as it means I will miss out on both 86 Romagnoli and 86 Deulofeu who would be great Serie A upgrades.

I’m also passing on Bellerin as I managed to get RTTF Joao Cancelo from the Party Bag. I’ve also only done 2 of the Icon Swaps tokens, but I understand there are 12 more to come? If so, I should have enough for Koeman anyway so not too worried.

First time in a while that I’ve had no real time available to grind and it’s going to mean I miss out on a fair bit though.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Not the 3 I'd have chosen but the Championship is alright.

Just realised that I forgot to do MM the past week too :\

[SincereTheRebel]

My Winning Division One team in Pro Clubs got a whatsapp group going to get the squad back together. Gassed for another Path to Greatness. Divison 10 to Division 1 Champions.

Turns out, Fifa isnt cross-platform so a few of us cant play because im on PS5s and they still have PS4s :cab:

Ive requested a refund from PS Store.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You can play the PS4 version on the PS5.

That's what I do as matchmaking is a bit crap on PS5.

[Danny]

Headliner hints are out

https://i.redd.it/tqa9n9chbk861.png


Reddit thinking Ben Yedder (of course), Felix (sorry Fox) and Fabinho.

[SincereTheRebel]

You can play the PS4 version on the PS5.

That's what I do as matchmaking is a bit crap on PS5.

I bought the Ps5 version. Im not even going to attempt to figure out a workaround. They had one chance to pull me back in, and they messed it up.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

If you bought the PS5 version then I don't think you can play the PS4 version.

[Shindig]

Not unless you bought an explicit bundle.

[Gray Fox]

Varane seems the obvious one, with maybe Lloris (or Areola as a cheap option) but it's basically Full Meta back line. IF Sanches is 230k, if you just want a direct upgrade on him.

How do you normally line up in-game?

4-2-3-1 is my main jam. Though a 4-4-2 is handy to switch too.

My only problem with Varane is he’s all of my budget and then he knocks Gini off chemistry.


Headliner hints are out

https://i.redd.it/tqa9n9chbk861.png


Reddit thinking Ben Yedder (of course), Felix (sorry Fox) and Fabinho.

I’m not too fussed if he gets one. I did his POTM for essentially free with cards I had no use for. I wouldn’t have had the coin to buy him outright.

[Raoul Duke]

Did the New Year and MMs this morning - out popped gold Ter Stegen, Benzema and a few other decent cards. Excellent stuff.

[Yevrah]

MM and New Year done, plus the Bundesliga (fair play to EA on the squad ratings required for that one - you can hammer bronzes into them) and that's 700 packs hit.

https://i.postimg.cc/G3TX37XW/Packs.jpg (https://postimg.cc/DmFrBgk6)

[Raoul Duke]

Fair play Yev - that is bananas. Your team by the end of this will be obscene (even more so with the Icons you already have) :D

I'm currently considering whether to liquidate most of my tradable players. According to my spreadsheet (:cool:) that would take me up to 1.3m coins which would mean I could pick up Mbappe and Kante, or Cantona. Gonna wait and see what comes out in the new content tonight but I figure I have a load of decent but not spectacular cards which I don't think I'd take too much of a hit on just switching out say Buffon for Szcesney and getting my first team really strong. I tend to spread my funds thinly across multiple teams, rather than just buying some uber beast.

[Gray Fox]

I figured with time running out people would not want to stick around if losing in Managerial Masterpiece, so I completed the MLS guys. My eyes are on using Lima and Long for this weekend to see how they get on. Lima especially doesn't look too shabby, even compared with Mendy.

Something like this is well within grasp:

https://i.gyazo.com/257e1923639b0b14ddc3feb663210784.jpg

I think giving up having Ronny on 10 chem is going to be best for building the rest of the squad out. But I'm not doing anything until 6pm. I want to see what the new season and headliners bring. Maybe an SBC or two or a new objective card that would fit in somewhere.

[Yevrah]

On the new season, I think I'm gonna forgo weekend league this time to concentrate on whatever comes and grinding league SBC's instead.

[Gray Fox]

I'm hoping there's some good stuff to go at.

Since I've played there's been decent cards but nothing I'd say exceptional. Some of the ones I've missed though, especially all the Frenchies would have massively helped my current situation.

I also feel properly stupid for not doing Acuna now.

[Yevrah]

Same on Acuna. I’m normally bang on with these things, but having convinced myself he wasn’t worth it I was so wrong.

That card will take anyone’s squad up to TOTS.

[Gray Fox]

I actually think he's that good he's wasted at LB. He needs to be played at CM I feel.

I remember doing the same with I think the TOTY Marcelo a few versions back.