If you care about the FIFA 22 ratings, you’re a saddo. I know this because I care about the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:FIFA 22 ratings, and I’m an extreme saddo. For example, what’s impressed me far more about Man UTD this season than Ronaldo’s return or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Lingard’s resurgence is Bruno Fernandes’ xA rate.

To that end, know that I know caring about FIFA ratings is both silly and unimportant. I even wrote back before the Euros that this year’s discourseꦿ was going to be exhausting, with a pandemic hit season, legends coming to the end of their careers, several big guns injured, and the recency bias of both the laꦇtter stages of the C🌸hampions League and the Euros. Now, for some reason, I’m joining in that discourse.

Related: I Played FIFA Like꧋ Gar🌄eth Southgate - Ask Me AnythingThis isn’t some pathetic complaint that Jadon Sancho is 87 when he should CLEARLY be 86 - although a slow start to life at Old Trafford and limited minutes for England have done little to convince most fans of his magic yet. These players are given numbers based on analysis of their performance, plus some occasional stat padding to ensure top class players who don’t fit the FIFA meta aren’t given ratings that make a mockery of the whole thing. Harry Kane’s stats, for example, do not make him an elite FIFA forwar🍃d, but because he’s Harry Kane, he gets a 90.

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Inste🦋ad, this is a specific look at my team, Newcastle United. Even more specifically, it’s a look at our best player, Allan Saint-Maximin. I know the grass is always greener, and we’re a Premier League club at zero risk of administration, but still - we’re awful. After the great - if occasionally overly defensive - we’ve brought in Steve Bruce and have been mired in the quagmire of zealousless, ambitiousless, tacticless Bruce Ball for the past few years. We slowly sink further and further down the table, with our goal difference, hopes, and dreams all chucked in the same swamp. How’s the bacon, did you say? Fucking shite.

The one bright light of Bruce Ball🅠 has been Maxi, the man who once inspired a fan to take his penis out a✱nd whirl it around like a helicopter. From Ginola to Ben Arfa, Newcastle have always loved flair players, and Maxi is the latest in a long line. He’s the one shining star left at St. James Park. In FIFA 22, he’s been downgraded from the already harsh rating of 80 he had in FIFA 21 to a monstrous 79.

Again, the numbers they give players don’t really matter. I’m not writing this because I want to petition EA to giܫve ASM the 83 rating he deserves. It’s more just a sad reflection of what supporting Newcastle United means these days. I remember when we were playing Barcelona and Inter Milan in the Champions League. When we were the dark horses for the title. When Cisse and Krul’s brilliance at both ends took us deep in the UEFA Cup.

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Newcastle being Newcastle, nothing concrete came of those glory days, but at least it was entertaining. These days, it’s𝔍 so drab that the only player worth opening the curtains for has been dragged down to the same rating as Aaron Cresswell, Chris Wood, and Junior Firpo. Another victim of the swamp that is Mike Ashley’s Newcastle United.

This is what the FIFA ratings are like for most normal fans. I say normal, because while the typical Champions League winner candidates dominate any conversꦿation around football, their global fanbase is dwarfed by the combined numbers of regular fans supporting local teams destined to never win anything major. While Lewandowski ousting Ronaldo or a fou✃r point bump for Phil Foden grab the headlines, for most fans, the FIFA ratings are a reflection of where your club stands in the world.

Maxi’s ratings dip is not on him. He had a few injuries last season, but was a consistent performer off the pitch, and his mercurial playstyle demaওnds attention. Saint-Maximin’s numbers have dipped not because of him, ꦆbut because of the club he plays for. It’s not that there’s an agenda against us, it’s just that we’re rubbish. It wouldn’t do for us to have an 83 rated winger in our ranks, so we get a 79 and are stuck with it.

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Online, which is where I spend the majority of my time on FIFA, I’ll end up playing as someone like Chelsea anyway, because I’ll need to counter all the boring cheats sticking rigidly t♋o the security blanket of PSG. Maxi’s stats don’t affect me there. But they’re a stark reminder of Newcastle’s ever-falling stock in the football world, and a depr♑essing underscoring of what Bruce Ball has done to us. Come back Pardew, all is forgiven.

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