re: FIFA 16 Official Thread

Who is y'all's favorite player in MM? Any guys that just seem to flat out dominate regardless of rating?

Angel Correa and Paulo Dybala. Dybala is such a slick dribbler and his left foot is magical. Correa is a slick dribbler (not Dybala slick in game) and he can bury it from 40 yards. After a few years his finishing, shot power, and long shots are insane. Dybala is an 83 for me right now but playing with him feels just like controlling Ronaldo. Correa is like a Sergio Aguero/Fredy Guarin hybrid. He can create his own shot, and he hits the ball 3 feet high and rising, there's no bouncing it into the net..its screaming into the top corner. Those are my two favorite forwards to play with. Youri Tielemans is probably my favorite midfielder. Really good defender, good passer, and ridiculous shot power and long shots. Those are my three favorite young guys on the game. Dybala stopped progressing for me rating wise, but he plays much better than his rating.

These guys all come at a cost, you aren't going to have the funds to buy them with a small club.

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Ball at feet, but I've tried flicking too and haven't had much success. What do y'all use?

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I use flicking circumstantially. If I'm getting chased from behind or the side (ie. defender doesn't have the angle), I use it. Lets faster players win the race.

Typically the best players will have an average team. If you're playing squads that good in division 4, they're still in division 4 for a reason. I don't run into many 87-88 ovr squads. My squad is 86 ovr but the starting 11 is stacked. I haven't played a better squad than mine yet, 82-84 is most common opponent for me.

I've seen some Bundesliga squads 88 ovr that could be had for relatively cheap.

Here's my squad, 100 chemistry with Wenger at manager with his league changed to ESP1. I bounce between division 2 and 3

Update: It's over.

The 2020-21 Bundesliga title belongs to 1. FC Kaiserslautern, ending Bayern Munich's run of consecutive championships at nine.

The Red Devils opened the season on a tear, going undefeated with 13 wins and only four draws in the first half of the campaign. A lengthy Champions League campaign cut into some of that form in the second half, but they still finished with 24 wins, eight draws and two losses — 80 points.

Thanks to the addition of do-it-all forward Romelu Lukaku (the league's fourth-leading scorer) and Bastian Schweinsteiger in the heart of the midfield, Kaiserslautern held off Bayern in the final months to secure the title on the final day in a 4-0 home win over VfB Stuttgart. Julian Green led the league in assists, and Adam Delgado had more clean sheets than any other goalkeeper.

The only roster change in the winter window came when an unsettled Emerson Hyndman forced a move out. He was sold to Swansea City. The added money from the Champions League run went to re-signing a wide variety of players.

Kaiserslautern also captured the Pokal — their second in four seasons — and made it all the way to the Champions League semifinals before getting knocked out by FC Barcelona 3-3 on away goals.

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I don't know if I'm going to keep playing this save or not (I'm definitely going to keep it on my PS4 in case I ever want to crack some more skulls with the Lukaku-Johannsson-Green front three), but here's the tally after six seasons...

2015-16: 1st in 2. Bundesliga (Pokal Round of 16)
- Top purchase: CB Birama Ndoye for $2.5 million
- Top sale: ST Kacper Przbylko for $1.5 million

2016-17: 8th in 1. Bundesliga (Pokal quarterfinals)
- Top purchase: ST Moses Simon for $3 million
- Top sale: GK Marius Muller for $1.8 million

2017-18: 6th in 1. Bundesliga (Pokal champions)
- Top purchase: RM Julian Green for $4 million
- Top sale: CM Alexander Ring for $5 million

2018-19: 4th in 1. Bundesliga (Europa League quarterfinals, Pokal semifinals)
- Top purchase: RM Leroy Sane for $22 million
- Top sale: ST Moses Simon for $25 million

2019-20: 2nd in 1. Bundesliga (Champions League Round of 16, Pokal semifinals)
- Top purchase: CM Pajtim Kasami for $30 million
- Top sale: LM Sinan Gümüs for $5 million

2020-21: 1st in 1. Bundesliga (Champions League semifinals, Pokal champions)
- Top purchase: ST Romelu Lukaku for $40 million
- Top sale: CM Emerson Hyndman for $6 million

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Evolution of a club...

This is what I started with:



This is what I finished with:



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Now I have to figure out what team I'm going to do next. I really like the Bundesliga in-match presentation, and I'm a sucker for teams with real stadiums. Going to do something different than the "build up a low-rated team into a champion over time," but not necessarily starting with a powerhouse.

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've built a very good german team but my most expensive player is costa (i'm selling him and i bought lahm this morning to replace busquets).

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My advice? Get a good but not great possession based team and play a 4-1-2-1-2. People have always and will always coin buy. Some people get lucky in packs (packing TIF Hazard in FIFA 14 actually made me go apeshit), but it's mostly just good market play or coin buying.

The issue is that chemistry is KING. You need solid pacey defenders, a solid CDM, and strikers who can finish. I had the 87th ranked squad on PC where everyone's cheating and couldn't get past Div 5. Built a possession based Serie A 81 rated team? Went from Div 4 to Div 1 in a day with all titles and two losses.

People play over the top and smash the Y button so much that when you slow it down and pass them to death to get them pressing to high up the pitch, you carve them apart. After 2500+ hours of FUT on FIFA 14, I literally refuse to even try to build teams with those types of stars considering that I sold an extra Yaya Toure and built my best team all season. That is, outside of my Xbox BPL team that was filled with TOTS players and sick in-forms and only stayed in Div 1 for one season. I still miss that Serie A squad a whole lot. I had something like 50 goals with Guarin from over 30 yards just from perfecting his curve. So fun.

I haven't built a German team this year because, while they've got a lot of talent, most of the players aren't from an easy country for chem. I think that's why Serie A and England are my go-to leagues for my builds. Outside of finding good midfielders who aren't stupid expensive, England tends to have some cheaper talent with huge skills for FUT (like Fer for QPR being a long shot god), and Italy is stacked to the gills with young talent. Dybala is an animal.

Don't even go for those big players. That TIF Hazard was like a 92 or 93, but it didn't matter when he would suddenly have bricks for feet for 7 matches in a row and get run down by CBs who apparently have 90+ pace as well. Just find your best play style and build an 80-82 team around that.

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Here's my squad, 100 chemistry with Wenger at manager with his league changed to ESP1. I bounce between division 2 and 3

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Mother of God. I started this season with Lacazette and Griezmann linking up, and it was absurd. Seeing Lacazette in the mid with Modric and Griezmann BEHIND that front 3 is almost making me sick. So. Much. Pace. I bet the set ups are disgusting. When I had Hazard, Aguero, and TOTS Nasri bombing down the pitch with Rooney, TOTS Ramsey, Yaya, and Ozil behind them, I had so many goals saved that were just watching people struggling to cope with the fact that there was no salvation. If you park the bus, I'm going to just start smashing them from downtown.

Here I was to talk about my QPR super career I started not long ago, and now, I'm looking at Fathead to build a new squad. FUT was an addiction two years ago, and I'm about to hit that crackpipe again. I doubt I can just spend all day flipping Gio Dos Santos for a quick 200,000 coins in FIFA 16, right?

Anyone on Xbox One and want to run some FUT Friendlies while I test out squads? Hit me up. Gamertag: Pizza Roll Zac.

I switched to an Italian team, they've got the best all around midfielders. I can put Pogba, Naiingolan, and Guarin in the midfield and have 3 guys that can score from anywhere and defend like crazy. Fast wingers with insigne and cuadrado too.

Italian players are typically cheaper than la Liga and BPL players too. Pogba is pricey but Pjanic is another midfielder that can play on both ends.

So I decided to roll with my Ajax idea, which was partly inspired by me watching and reading a lot of Johan Cruyff (RIP) stuff today.

My goal: Build a legitimate Champions League contender at Ajax using the funds from mega sales of high-potential players.

My transfer policy: I'm only going to sell to big-time clubs who could use these players on the first team and not just stash them for the future like I see Real and Barca do a lot of times on this game. I'm only going to buy younger players from smaller/comparable leagues to the Eredivisie or Dutch players in other countries who aren't getting Champions League action (with a preference for players who have played at Ajax in the past, too).

I knocked out a couple of matches, simmed a couple, and got to the end of the summer transfer window. Here's the damage.

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- RW Quincy Promes (81 OVR) from Spartak Moscow for $30 million: He's not playing in Europe with Spartak and he was a former Ajax player in his youth days, but he didn't stick with the first team. I wanted to make one big splash signing because of the big sale I made, which I'll get to in a second.

- LB Urby Emanuelson (75 OVR) from Hellas Verona for $4.5 million: Former Ajax player who has bounced around in Italy after fizzling at Milan. I sold my backup LB and am still trying to figure out if I like Mitchell Dijks more at CB or LB, so I pulled the trigger on him.

- ST Munas Dabbur (74 OVR) from Grasshopper for $8 million: Only had one quality striker in Arkadiusz Milik, and Richairo Zivkovic's potential has plummeted. One of my scouts found Dabbur, and he's great all-around with an 82 in potential.

- GK Yvon Mvogo (72 OVR) from BSC Young Boys for $5 million: Needed a quality goalkeeper, and he's got really good potential for the future. He's already progressing quite well in training.

- CB Jeremiah St. Juste (70 OVR) from Heerenveen for $2.5 million: Depth, high-potential Dutch player for the future at 18 years old.

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- GK Jasper Cillessen (81 OVR) to Milan for $35 million: Southampton came first, and I doubled his value in my counter offer, and they balked after a little while. Milan came in, I did the same thing, and they had no problem with it. Huge club, great goalkeeper, only a little more room for growth. This deal made sense, and it gave me the money to justify buying Promes.

- RW Lasse Schøne (75 OVR) to Werder Bremen for $8 million: I thought about listing him, but he was pretty fun to play with in the game for a 29-year-old on a team with a bunch of kids. But when Bremen was willing to pay nearly twice his value, I pulled the trigger. He would've been taking PT from Dutch players with higher potential.

- LB Nicolai Boilesen (72 OVR) to Toulouse for $4 million: Trash. No idea how I was able to get this much for him, honestly.

- CB Nick Viergever (72 OVR) to Queens Park Rangers for $4 million: Not that much more in potential, and his sale opened up a spot on my "two-deep," so to speak, for St. Juste.

- GK Diederik Boer (70 OVR) to PEC Zwolle for $1 milion: Old. Dead weight.

- I tried to loan almost everyone who wasn't on the "two deep" out. I was able to get most of the players below a 70 out of there.

So this is the team we're rolling with at the moment. (Went with the SoFIFA layout because the stats haven't changed that much from the stock rosters.)