If you’re an Arsenal fan who plays FIFA 17’s Ultimate Team game mode, you may have been dismayed upon the game’s release at some of the ratings allocated to the Gunners squad.
Arsenal’s best eleven on the game comes out at an overall rating of 86, with a special Bellerin card, a Haloween-boosted Mertesacker, a European Team of the Group Stage Ozil and an ‘in-form’ Giroud bringing the rating up.
The Ultimate Team (or FUT for short) experts over at ultimateteam.co.uk have used recent Career Mode upgrades to players on FIFA 17 to predict EA’s plans for Winter Upgrades on the trading card-like game mode.
According to their predictions, Hector Bellerin, Alex Iwobi and Alexis Sanchez are all in line for a boost to their ratings – with the first of those probably the most deserving, having been lumped with the same rating (79) as Dierciu Mbokani, Gokhan Tore and Aleksandar Kolarov when the game came out last year.
Bellerin is predicted to have earned an increase in his rating to 80, with Iwobi going from 70 to 74 (the highest a silver card can go) and Sanchez boosted from 87 to 88.
Here is what their cards could look like if those predictions are correct:
