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padr81 said:
Maybe change up the back 4 and midfield to something like.


Had a little play about and came up with this for 720k on X Box.


Modric is probably interchangeable with a few other La Liga CM if you prefer someone more physical
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Yeah that looks really interesting. I'd probably have Casemiro in the middle and someone more physical at RCM. I was looking at SIF Luiz Gustavo, could put him there and have for instance TOTGS Dani Alves and Thiago Silva in the defense. The only problem is that I don't really like Griezmann. I really like Muriel, but I'd love to have Suarez there. He's a bit too expensive for me right now.

Not sure if I have the balls to switch team right now. My team is working perfectly well and I haven't even tried it for one weekend league since I went home for xmas and the internet was shit. I think I'll play with what I have in the upcoming weekend league and probably sell the team after that.
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I'd suggest trying out new formations if you want to freshen it up a bit. Changing teams can only keep it interesting for so much, because you're still probably playing the same style (and built around Ronaldo). Change kits, stadium, formation and play with 2 teams maybe. Not sure if you did any of the Futmas sbc's past Muriel, but Futmas Lingard is probably the most fun to use card I've used on Fifa in ages. Using him behind Martial and Rashford (and sometimes Futmas Ibra) in a 4-3-1-2, just loads of fun.
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I've already tried most formations, and I perform far better with the 4-3-2-1 than any other formation. I play very direct and with super high pressure, and there are no formations that suits me better than 4-3-2-1.

I might make a 2nd team just for fun. I've got 70k right now, could get a pretty good team for that money.
 

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I’ve just bought 3 players but when I go to put them in my SBC it’s saying item not found. Any ideas?
 

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Carlsen19 said:
I’ve just bought 3 players but when I go to put them in my SBC it’s saying item not found. Any ideas?
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Have you assigned them? They don’t come up in player search until you “sent to club” or “send to active squad”. Can sometimes happen especially when doing multiple bids/buy nows
 

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Mr Anderson said:
Have you assigned them? They don’t come up in player search until you “sent to club” or “send to active squad”. Can sometimes happen especially when doing multiple bids/buy nows
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Yep. It’s weird cause I don’t know where the packs came from. I had 2 gold packs waiting to open but I opened my pre-order ones yesterday (and they’re different packs to these ones). It’s my birthday, do EA give out free packs for that?!
 

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Macern said:
Just beat a guy who had the best versions possible of Henry, Matthäus, Gullit, Ferdinand, Rijkaard, Carlos, CR7 and a few more. I beat him 4-1. I googled his username and his username isn't registered at futhead so he's never made top 100. He played with the elite kits so at least he has made elite monthly. He was okay but definitely not pro level.

I just can't believe someone who isn't a pro has a team like that. He must have spent like £5000.
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Some of the footballers have insane teams - David Meyler for instance plays fut champs most weekends.
 

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Macern said:
Just beat a guy who had the best versions possible of Henry, Matthäus, Gullit, Ferdinand, Rijkaard, Carlos, CR7 and a few more. I beat him 4-1. I googled his username and his username isn't registered at futhead so he's never made top 100. He played with the elite kits so at least he has made elite monthly. He was okay but definitely not pro level.

I just can't believe someone who isn't a pro has a team like that. He must have spent like £5000.
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Did he have the best versions of those icons that are currently out or the prime cards that haven’t been released yet?

There was a Norwegian league player who had his 95 rated player card up front with the 96 Brazilian Ronaldo, I think it was posted on the fifa subreddit a few months ago. If it was the prime versions you played it might have been an actual football player.
 

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Did he have the best versions of those icons that are currently out or the prime cards that haven’t been released yet?

There was a Norwegian league player who had his 95 rated player card up front with the 96 Brazilian Ronaldo, I think it was posted on the fifa subreddit a few months ago. If it was the prime versions you played it might have been an actual football player.
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The former. There was no pro player card and there was nothing to suggest from googling his username that he’s a footballer. His team name was Israel so maybe he’s the nephew of the prince of Israel or something lol
 

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So much aids last night. Lost 4-1 (rage quit) to a guy who had 2 shots on target to my 16. Everything he hit went in, all 4 were long shots where Perin appeared to not even fully extend his arm. Then all Mertens could do up the other end was drag shots wide, straight at Begovic or hit the bar. Or I'd get him in on goal and his touch would let him down. It can't just be coincidence or poor finishing, he was on fire before.

Sometimes your players feel like you're driving a nippy, agile car around town, others it feels like you're trying to steer a 44 tonne truck around a bend.
 

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Does the Hamsik SBC ever expire? I started it last night and had nearly 30k in the bank but I'm now broke after only completing Atalanta and Benevento. That's despite the fact that I packed inform Lovren in my rewards for Atalanta. I'm afraid after pumping a decent amount of coins into it it will expire before I complete it. I anticipate it will take me a while to complete at this rate.
 

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Does the Hamsik SBC ever expire? I started it last night and had nearly 30k in the bank but I'm now broke after only completing Atalanta and Benevento. That's despite the fact that I packed inform Lovren in my rewards for Atalanta. I'm afraid after pumping a decent amount of coins into it it will expire before I complete it. I anticipate it will take me a while to complete at this rate.
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Won't expire. Also, it's better to do SBCs with better rewards (like Napoli, Roma) before you do the ones where reward price < price of solving SBC
 

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Carlsen19 said:
Yep. It’s weird cause I don’t know where the packs came from. I had 2 gold packs waiting to open but I opened my pre-order ones yesterday (and they’re different packs to these ones). It’s my birthday, do EA give out free packs for that?!
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Any packs opened on the 28th (when the last batcb of prime icons were released) have been reissued, as they hadnt actually put the icons in packs, only on sbcs. So if you opened packs then, you had zero chance of getting an icon and EA replaced the packs
 

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anant said:
Won't expire. Also, it's better to do SBCs with better rewards (like Napoli, Roma) before you do the ones where reward price < price of solving SBC
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Cheers. I'm nearly finished with Genoa and I'll move on to the bigger guns then when I can afford them.

On another note are servers acting up for anyone else today? I've been kicked out twice (once at full time) with a message along the lines of "cannot complete request at this time". Hadn't happened to me before and very frustrating.
 

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Montpellier players going for 8ish K due to marquee matchups, if anyone has any.
 

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Lost on penalties because that little arrow didn't show up which meant I ended up blasting all my penalties wide or down the middle.

feck my life.
 

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Lost on penalties because that little arrow didn't show up which meant I ended up blasting all my penalties wide or down the middle.

feck my life.
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What little arrow? the one to aim the pen, You can't use that in Weekend League or (Ithink) DKT but in Divisions etc... you have to press up on the d-pad to toggle between on and off.

You can't take pen's with it on in any of the Fut Champs modes. You have to learn to take them without it. 5 minutes practice on the skills game and you'll be banging them in easily.
 

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padr81 said:
What little arrow? the one to aim the pen, You can't use that in Weekend League or (Ithink) DKT but in Divisions etc... you have to press up on the d-pad to toggle between on and off.

You can't take pen's with it on in any of the Fut Champs modes. You have to learn to take them without it. 5 minutes practice on the skills game and you'll be banging them in easily.
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Didn't know that. Might have a go before this weekend then. How is it EA manage to make penalties worse every year? They got it spot on with 07 and it's gotten more and more shit ever since.
 

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pascell said:
That's an insane looking team, well played mate! Did you pack 88 Rio? I packed him and he's going for 720k ish on PS4, undecided whether to sell or not.
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Did not pack him. I don’t open packs if it’s not rewards or SBC packs. Only use points the first week to get some coins for trading.
 

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pascell said:
Done well to get that team together, did you do much trading?
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I actually have used more time trading than playing this year. Easy when using the Companion. Can’t be arsed keeping it up now though.
 

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Lemansky said:
I actually have used more time trading than playing this year. Easy when using the Companion. Can’t be arsed keeping it up now though.
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Any tips you could kindly share? I've got 180k and I want to make enough for Pogba. I get elite 3 each week in squad battles which is 20k a time. If I could make the same trading each week I'd be happy with that.
 

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pascell said:
Any tips you could kindly share? I've got 180k and I want to make enough for Pogba. I get elite 3 each week in squad battles which is 20k a time. If I could make the same trading each week I'd be happy with that.
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There is a lot of ways making coins. I have done some iconflipping, if trading, investments for sbcs and nif trading.

If I where you I would start with nif trading. Invest 100k in your TP and expand as you get sales. 83s and 84s also rise a lot when there are totw sbcs.
 

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There is a lot of ways making coins. I have done some iconflipping, if trading, investments for sbcs and nif trading.

If I where you I would start with nif trading. Invest 100k in your TP and expand as you get sales. 83s and 84s also rise a lot when there are totw sbcs.
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Thank you mate, I'll have a go at it.
 

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Lemansky said:


Going full Man Utd for the rest of the year. Current and former players.
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Sick, I love playing with United players, just makes it more fun imo, dying for a martial/Rashford IF.

FUTMAS Herrera is class, shame you didn’t get him, hard to see any decent IFs for any of our midfielders bar Pogba. Fellaini’s IF is grand.
 

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86 Arnautovich is class. Tried him as CM but the games passed him by a bit. Stuck him up front and he's so clinical. He's got 81 finishing but it honestly feels 10 higher.
 
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