Follow @FIFAscouting Well it took a while, but I’ve finally been able to update the FIFA 14 Lower League Gems series for summer! If you want promising players for an absolute bargain, you’re in the right place. If you’re not sure what these articles are all about, click the bold link below. Otherwise, let’s get straight in to the recommendations. …
FIFA 14 | So You Want A… Central midfielder UPDATE
Follow @FIFAscouting The position of CM brings with it a lot of variety, so as with the article on centre backs, this article on sees my recommendations broken down into three categories to reflect this. My choices will either be categorised as box-to-box, passer or attacker. Box-to-box midfielders are just as good defending as they are attacking, and often have …
FIFA 14 | Lower League Gems – Central midfielders
Follow @FIFAscouting Welcome to the Lower League Gems for FIFA 14! If you want promising players for an absolute bargain, you’re in the right place. If you’re not sure what these articles are all about, click the bold link below. Otherwise, let’s get straight in to the recommendations. [expand title=”Click here to find out what Lower League Gems are” tag=”center” …
FIFA 14 | So You Want A… Central midfielder
Follow @FIFAscouting We’re going to have a look at central midfielders now, but because there are so many of them – and so many different types of CM – I’ve chosen a few more players than normal and divided them into categories – attacker, passer and box-to-box. Let’s get started with my recommendations: Attackers Tonny Vilhena Charles Aránguiz Gary Gardner …
FIFA 13 | Lower League Gems – Central midfielders (Winter update)
Follow @FIFAscouting Welcome to the Lower League Gems series for the winter update to FIFA 13! If you want promising players for an absolute bargain, you’re in the right place. These articles aim to highlight young, high potential players that are priced at £1m or less. The pre-winter update version of this series had 76 as the minimum potential, but …
FIFA 13 | So You Want A… Central midfielder (Winter update)
Follow @FIFAscouting Usually EA release a big update with all of the transfers sometime in early February. However, this year they did it slightly differently. Since FIFA 13 came out, every year the EA team have made updated OVRs and potentials available for download based on real life player performances. Usually these are just slight tweaks, but after some breakout …
FIFA 13 | Lower League Gems – Central midfielders
Follow @FIFAscouting The idea behind these articles is providing quality players to teams limited funds. With that in mind, none of the players in these articles cost more than £1m. As before, remember that player contracts have a huge impact. The fewer years left on the contract, the more likely you are to get a good deal. So if a …
FIFA 13 | So You Want A… Central Midfielder
Follow @FIFAscouting The aim of this series, as last year, is to provide a shortlist of players that meet this requirement. All players have at least potential 80, and all will have an OVR of 73 or lower. The original intention of this (in the FIFA 12 series) was to keep costs down, but looking at this list I’m not …
FIFA 12 | Lower League Gems – Central midfielders (winter update)
Follow @FIFAscouting I realise I may not have made it clear at first – this article refers to players’ stats after the winter update. Plenty of choice on offer again today, and a lot of very cheap players full of potential especially when compared to other positions. Let’s get stuck straight in to my recommendations: Alessio Esposito Scott Allan Christopher …
FIFA 12 | So You Want A… Central Midfielder (Winter Update)
Follow @FIFAscouting On to the central midfielders now. There are some familiar faces up at the top – Josh McEachran and Afriyie Acquah maintaining their places at the top of the list – but there are also a lot of changes. Many players have had very decent potential boosts, such as Sergi Roberto, Jordan Mutch and especially Lorenzo Crisetig. Here …