That Dembele is 100% joining the club. Lanzini looks fantastic too, for a freebie. Could potentially link the two up with Messi
Why they've left half the good players out of Ultimate TOTS, I do not know...
That Dembele is 100% joining the club. Lanzini looks fantastic too, for a freebie. Could potentially link the two up with Messi
Why they've left half the good players out of Ultimate TOTS, I do not know...
Yev came back (and left) a couple of weeks too early. That Demeble would be the one to get him back in!
700k at this stage of the game is not cheap. But he is the magical double 5*.
I’m torn. I didn’t originally want to do him, but I do already have Coutinho and Messi in the club.
What doesn’t help is there’s no loans for these players any more. Can’t even try before you buy.
Dropping loans and the dropping of no expiration SBCs have been disappointments this year.
He's pretty much my favourite player in FIFA - just has that mix of body type/stats that slips around defenders, plus the magical 5/5. There aren't that many mega RW in this either - someone like Sancho is only 5/4, worse body type and is...2.5m on the market - this seems relatively cheap by comparison.
Also, I missed his CAM card last year for Summer Heat who looked bonkers. This one seems better, aside from not being central.
See he looks good, but I don't think he's worth the price.
He's double the price of Atal for example and unless you need him for linking purposes I don't really think he's that much better. That being said, the chemistry requirements seem quite kind. You can dump objective cards here. If we get any decent kind of upgrades, even better.
That Javi Martinez looks very good, though he does have quite strange work rates in low/medium.
He looks very good but the workrates worry me and I am not sure how I would juggle TOTS Kimmich, Bellingham, Amiri and Martinez.
Agree with that, but I want Dembele. Not tried that Atal but I'm sure he's ace. Dembele so far has been lovely. Just glides around
My team will soon look like this: https://www.futbin.com/21/squad/8694982 - although I won't have Puskas until the next bit of Icon Swaps. At the moment I have some French L1 goat herder up there who I sub on Rooney or Lewandowski for. Am completely skint now though and down to my last 100k. Once I have Puskas it means I can swap in anyone into the CM position, which is neat.
Also did my 84x20 pack but nothing of note really in there. Three shit TOTS and some other fodder but nothing that's gonna bother the first team.
In my infinite wisdom I decided to start my WL at 7:30pm on Sunday... I thought fuck it. This is likely my last hurrah with it as I can't see the value in WL after TOTS is over.
I looked at my team and while I was doing well with it. It wasn't the one I had the most fun with. So I sold up what was sellable and finally bought myself a TOTS Kimmich. I also completed Javi Martinez out of fodder in the club. Not a penny spent there.
Here's how it looked:
Almost exclusively played 4-4-2 with the exception of a few times I went to 4-2-2-2 to counter the 5 at the back nonsense. The weekend started badly with a loss in the very first game. Something that rarely happens to me. However I won the next 8 on the bounce to come to life. A tough loss in game 10 and then again there were 8 wins on the bounce. Got to 16-2 but then the matchmaking really kicked in. I lost 4-0 to a guy with PIM Vieira, TOTS De Jong, Messi, Ben Yedder, AWB et al. Just could not break him down.
A similar team awaited me next and after being 2-0 down in 10 mins I thought fuck it and quit. A spritely win in the last gave me a 17-4 finish. I think it either is, or ties my best weekend to date.
Had I started earlier in the weekend the slim chance of Elite may have tempted me to play on, but as it is, no thanks.
Kimmich was a revelation. Solely as a CM he gave me 15 goals and 7 assists from those 21 games. I don't have any instructions on him either, so it was all him popping up at the right time.
By the time Thursday hits I'll have 700k in the kitty still but I've no idea what I can do with it now. An improvement on Zambrotta or Mbabu perhaps the only options. I could get Messi to 10 chemistry doing that Dembele, but Di Maria was good for me. As a pure LM in a 4-4-2 he got 10 goals and 10 assists. Reus is the one I'd want to change the most, but thanks to chemistry, he's near impossible to get shut of.
There was a small sense of closure with the last game finishing. Like this may well be it. I'm not even sure the 94 Puskas can get into the team as it is now.
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I might be able to do both, given the amount of fodder I had right now. Can't wait for double Ederson
EDIT: gonna hold fire and see if the pack weight is horrible or not. Will there be a guaranteed Ultimate TOTS?
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Leon fucking Bailey from the 90+
Ivan Toney from the 88+ who is dirt cheap but he actually looks fairly decent bar the 3*/3*.
I reckon so, though its likely to cost an 88 or 89 rated squad by the looks of the pricing of that 2nd pack.
Lottery content is really not my thing.
Edouard + Angelino
Ilicic and a crappy Turkish LB. L.
Played my first few games back last night with the new team. Haaland is shocking.
I put the one I packed into an SBC, he offers so little.
He's nowhere near as fast as his card suggests, his weak foot is horrific, his shooting is worse than it should be and he's not even great in the air.
Flashback Tevez for an 84 and 86. 94 rated. Looks mad.
Silas has also had his name updated after the news came out.
And the new loading screen
Nep reckons it's some sort of OTW but for the Euros (so if they score or win or something they get a +1). Not sure it'll be all that worth it as most people's teams are stacked now, but it'd be nice to have something to play for.
They should really do RTTF style cards. They're upgrade reasonably fast if the team goes on a run too.
Pretty sure that’s what they did for the WC. Cards that upgrade as a team progresses.
Also, if it’s anything like the WC and they release a WC mode then the prices will die massively and rebound in normal FUT. I made so many coins last time.
Granted there wasn’t a whole lot to spend them on but still.
https://www.futbin.com/18/player/99/jerome-boateng
June 1. 10k
July 15. 25k
Biglia and Neuer from todays copy and paste SBCs.
The latter is a dupe.
Clarke-Harris (who looks pretty nice although he's dirt cheap) and Andre Silva from my Major league, I was sure it was Bruno.
Although I forgot Ronaldo was a ST and I'd have still been hyped and gotten double fucked if I had.
Errr lads.
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Good effort
The correct response is "cunt".
The 5*/5* thing is a brilliant touch, too many wins are needed though, particularly if they're only going to count normal time in knockout games.
Someone on reddit said no team has won 6 in a single edition of the Euro's in normal time but there is an extra game this time around.
At least it's not EA in control of the upgrades. Card design looks swish too.
Mostly it'll come down to whether there's anything to play for or it's just packs and casino bullshit
This is how it looks after the madness of that Mbappe pick. I did go into it reasonably hoping for Bamba and he was there in the same pick as Mbappe, but sadly not the 2nd time around, so the other pick was Cancelo. I'm still stunned I didn't just get goalkeepered.
I did also tell myself I was going to do Dembele, but now I dont know. He fit nice and easy when Messi was there, but doing that will knock Mbappe down to 8 chem. Also I quite like Di Maria, minus his weak foot.
The current set up has Aouar as a RM/RAM. The weak link now would be Reus. Because of the chemistry I can only replace him with a German LM from the Bundesliga or a Bayern player. I'd actually love to bring in Bamba, but he doesn't quite fit in without losing Kimmich/Martinez.
There's likely a way to shift the formation about to make it work, but my brain isn't seeing it right now.
I've 720k for upgrades and Kimmich is the only asset for about 400k extra if needed.
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Coman seems the likely key to it, being Bayern/French. Whether he's any good or not, I dunno. Probably not much different to Reus. What are you doing for Swaps? Puskas or something else?
Dembele is great by the way. The 5/5 is immense on a player that slippery.
I've used Coman before and while he's good, his workates affect him. Oddly Messi who has the same med/low seems to work better, but perhaps because he plays through the middle for me. Coman as a LW doesn't seem to move that well off the ball.
The annoyance of Dembele is he finishes tonight, so I'd need to fully commit. Ideally I'd like to wait and see what the new promo offers, but that luxury isn't available.
I ended up doing Tevez last night. Did some upgrade packs and got Oblak. That makes either him or Courtious fodder along with the dupe untradeable Neuer I have sitting on the gulag.
Hopefully they give us something decent for this promo.
This is what's stopping me doing Dembele. There's surely something good coming at 6, right?
Dembele would require fodder and coins because some dick made it 5 sections. He's 850k at present ffs. I could maybe tack off the top 2 with fodder, but that's still 300k out of my pocket.
Tevez looks like I need to do him though.
91 Eriksen OBJ
93 FB Goetze SBC
90 Jota SBC
Llorente in Ninegollan Gang.
Acuna 2 shooting away.
I want so much.
Some tidy cards in this new lot. Acuna looks bananas without an upgrade. Weird that there's no online objective today though?
FOF Florenzi out and looks mad. Another PSG Italian central midfielder is, odd.
They have also added some milestones to score x amount of goals with players from certain nations.
Repeatable/grindable nation SBCs as well too - paging @Yevrah
He's into basketball now. You've lost him.
Untradeable FOF Foden out of one of the packs for doing the Asian milestones
99 agility and balance on a 5"7 card that good looks amazing. Even Messi doesn't have that.