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Done the 84x20 x3 last night. No promo cards in it at all but a nice little Neymar and some good fodder. With the fodder I done the campaign pack (got UCL Foden) and completed RVP SBC (purely because I had started it as he doesn't get into my team now!) Sold my PTG investments (Bruno G, Papou Gomez, Pulisic, Koulibaly) and upgraded my Tomori and bought Maldini. The game feels a bit flat already because a big part of the joy for me was working towards that better team but I don't feel I can improve my team that much already and it's not even Christmas yet...

Ljungberg from both hero SBCs this week Packed a few of the new cards but couldn't tell you what from as I was just hitting all the SBCs yesterday and today - Wijnaldum, Corona, Mitrovic, Suarez. Also did one of the icon SBCs tonight and got base Xavi. Think I've had my luck with the Eusebio so not sure I can complain

Yeah the vault edition is definitely a MW2 thing, not just Warzone battle pass. I know because I refuse to buy said vault edition and am raging that it's the only way to be able to play as Soap MacTavish in the online multiplayer.. I was also raging that I had to play DMZ in order to unlock a gun for MW2...

I actually only bought him as an investment as was inevitable those PTG usable cards would rise out of packs, put him in for a game due a red card on my untradeable WC Hero Carvalho, and just struggling to take him out tbh as he is the best I've used (which isn't too many as you can probably tell with my gold Tomori still in there). Think I will just keep Kouli though and once I've got a bit more coins I will splash out on Lucio to replace Tomori.

I was so confused as I opened it on my phone while still half asleep. Mbappe was in one of the player picks but it said "already owned" underneath it so I kind of thought maybe it was a loan or something, but it's definitely not so I have no idea why it said I already owned him when I didn't. Fwiw, 11 wins in weekend league is still going to be my ceiling no matter how good my team gets

Amazon prime gaming pack number 2... Have I completed FIFA?

He moves like Mbappe, just doesn't have the skills and has worse shooting.

Surely if you're not as good at the game you have a better chance of nicking a golden goal than you do winning over a full game?

Base icon SBC

Had saved up packs from weekly rivals as well as the season end etc. By 10 past 6 I had packed 2 WC Heroes (Carvalho and Papin both untradeable) and a normal base Hero (Kohler tradeable) Not the best ones by any means but it was still mental getting them all so close together. I've bought the WC Park Ji Sung to use and I've bought PTG Lukaku and PTG Gnabry as I thought they looked far too cheap for what they are. Bought the 2 discard ones as well just in case but I don't really expect anything to happen on these tbh but worst case is losing the tax. I usually cave early with swaps but I'm tempted to go the whole way for the Vieira in this one.

Ricardo Carvalho in the hero SBC for me. Tried him but he is too weak.

My team starting to look very different after having pretty much the same thing with gradual upgrades the first few weeks. I don't usually put money in but I put 1600 points in and bought that OOP essentials pack at 1500 - had Neymar in it. I then done playoffs and one of the packs had hero Tim Cahill and van Dijk in it. I've had Bennacer since he was available but never really used him but now I can't play without him. Should hopefully get a win tomorrow night and go to an 87 rated as well.

11 wins this weekend league for me, a first this year. That was my usual finish last year. Bellingham, Lautaro Martinez and Brahim red picks. A little French > ST troll in my totw pack - Griezman, and 2 shitters. Absolutely nothing in the normal packs. I just feel an ultimate pack should guarantee at least an 85 or something. Thomas Partey doesn't really cut it.

Yeah it's down to 20 games now and you get your rewards as soon as you've finished rather than waiting til the Thursday.

Fancy sharing your custom tactics/player instructions? I'm a 9 or 11 player at best. Had 5 attempts at the 11th win this weekend and bottled every single one. Red picks were so shit I can't remember who they were, and didn't get a single decent thing from packs. Even the totw pack was 3 absolute shitters.

It depends how much you play tbh and if you're picking up rivals and weekend league rewards each week, and completing any SBCs that give out packs.

I struggled big time in division 6 but when I eventually got past it, I sailed through div 5. Was weird.

Also, if anyone has Amazon prime then the first prime gaming pack became available to claim last night. I got Modric and Brozovic so good fodder if nothing else.

I got Nedved which I was very pleased with. Still no idea what I want to do with it though. I have totw Leao LM and otw Antony RM both tradeable. Dzeko loses a chem link if I replace Leao but I also don't really want to sell Antony and he would end up getting an upgrade the second I sell mine probably.

Another decent week of rewards for me - Correa and Martinelli red picks, but packed Valverde and in form Pedri from the jumbo rare players pack, but 3 shit totw from the premium totw pack so quicksold for the 30k. (9 wins). I've changed the team up this week. Sold Morientes (massive loss due to Heroes market taking a doing, thanks EA ) to replace him with Dzeko. Love the big man in real life so to actually have a usable Dzeko in game, I was never not getting him tbh. I've had to change the rest up a bit to get a few links for him but I can't bring myself to take RTTK Lemar out so he's still in with no chem links whatsoever. Really enjoying him as a secondary CDM in a 4231. He's on balanced so still jumps forward now and then. For some reason, my Antony and Leao are now generic bald guys in game though...

I've been pretty lucky this year. With only the 4600 FIFA points that came with the ultimate edition, and rewards etc I've managed to get this squad already, I'm still shite at the game right enough. Bought a couple of Haaland when he was mega cheap and then sold when the hype started to rise last weekend as everyone learned about the acceleRATE stuff so that alone gave me more than enough coins to buy OTW Antony. Kante and Cafu untradeable from week 1 rivals rewards. Donovan tradeable from this week's Champs rewards. Morientes and Antony both bought from coins I've made from playing and a little bit of trading. The rest of the team untradeable.

That was all very Gus McPherson-y... Pignatiello should never have been dropped as he's been one of our better players, Grimshaw was dire but probably hasn't played for a while. 2-0 down at half time and Dougie takes off an attacking player (I don't care how shit he may be) to bring on an extra defender... Even if he hadn't scored, Lewis McGrattan was by far our best player and he was only on for about 10 minutes... Not going to repeat myself every week about Blues and Muirhead... If we don't sign a striker we are 100% getting relegated.

Cameron Blues survives again... Pignatiello dropped (f**k knows why) to get Grimshaw in at RB.

Good but somewhat surprising signing. Pretty sure Dougie moved Pignatiello into midfield a few times during the preseason/league cup games, so I wonder if Carlo/Grimshaw will be used there to get Cameron Blues to f**k away from the team. I think Pignatiello has been pretty good for us so far. Now if we could get a couple signings for up the other end of the pitch that'd be great.

FIVE new assassin's creed games surprisingly revealed last night. Two are shit mobile games (shit because all mobile games are shit). One looks like a proper back to its roots game - proper Ezio vibes from the trailer - set in Baghdad. Mirage. One set in Japan where you are a ninja/shinobi - Project Red. One that seems to be more centred around Europe and witchcraft - Project Hexe.