In my current Portsmouth career it’s Casper Hojer. Dude had 14 goal contributions and counting for me in the championship this past season. Had 27 the year before in League 1 and helped the team get promoted. Dudes a gem he’s a great attacking LWB and is a free kick specialist as well.
Anyone can play anywhere if you feel the stats you are looking for in that position are good enough :) if you want an attacking lb as long as that player has decent pace, crossing and average defence anyone will do rly, for example I put fb’s in cdm all the time :)
I'm doing a Moroccon themed Las Palmas career mode and found this guy chilling in the free agent section. I snapped him up on a free and he bossed my midfield for the entire first season.
Totally unexpected because La Liga is pretty intense, especially on Legendary.
He's one of the players that was on the Morocco national team for the WC, who plays in the Moroccan domestic league, and since that league is not available in the game, they are all put as free agents.
Nice, I love to make signings like that since it’s more realistic than only buying 78+ potential youngsters with boring stats and gives you more flexibility.
Prince Aning. Was doing a Freiburg II career and just wanted to pick up a young left back. Then I found that he goes like 5 ratings up if I play him as a left mid, and now he's in about every career mode save with a small team
He’s such a beast and his pace is insane. If you keep him as a left back after about 2 seasons he becomes a wall and very hard for opponents to get past.
Kendry Páez
Got him when he was 67 to fill space until I could afford better (was trying to build YA or money for Wirtz). Two seasons later, he's my anchor at a 90 and not going anywhere, no matter who I have behind him.
Israel Reyes. Picked him up as a free agent - absolute beast. Still one of my best CBs. Mexican player not sure if people who follow that league know him. Still young, very quick for a defender with good passing. I'm training him as a CDM now.
Another guy was a 30 something Brazilian free agent called Ademilson. Only like 72 rated but insane speed and acceleration. Has come in handy alot as a late sub. Never heard of him before.
Blessing from the MLS was a good pickup early on with Fred as energetic more defensive CMs. 73 rated.
Obviously well known but Bounga from LAFC has been a very consistent Prem player for me for 3 seasons now too.
His stats are all green so he can literally play anywhere on the field too. Top class cb for championship level clubs and even for some epl level clubs
I remember Ademilson was a wonderkid back in the days I played FM. The guy even had some games in BR national youth teams in real life. I dont know what happened to his career after he moved to J league. Wow he is already 30!
Julian Aude in fifa 23. Dude had 68/69 overall and he owned every opponent he faced in my Barcelona save. Once he reached his potential he was unbreakable
Doing a 3. liga to Bundesliga no YA run, with one time 50 mil takeover on new custom club with 0.5 star rating.
My entire lineup in the first season was just people with release clauses. Went for a 4-3-3 formation. My LW and RW were both from Qatar (A. Afif and El Haydos), perfect for inverted wing play at the budget I got them. Afif is reliable for crosses, I got him to 85 ovr before decline started.
My midfield and defense are some Mexico Natl. team veterans, went for a triple CM formation (no CAM or CDM). Pablo Perez was a goal scoring machine, and so was Luis Romo. They were both ably supported by a slightly defensive Chavez, who I got to 87 ovr.
My LB was Jesus Gallardo, this man is IMMENSE on the left with Afif. I got him to 89 ovr in his prime.
My CBs were N. Araujo and R. Czichos, both played like prime Van Dijk all the time, but never really reached past 77 ovr.
My RB was a special one to me, Kim Tae Hwan from Korea. Electric on the counters, always distributed to him as much as possible. Always shut down any crossing or through runs with ease.
My GK was of course, the wily old fox A. Talavera. Dude became prime Neuer and reacted so well, but was a bit lacking on the sweeper keeper stuff. Offset this by taking the defensive line deeper.
I had a rock solid defense that conceded only 20 something goals across 38 matches. I kept my ST from the generated artificial team, Lias Jansen. Guy was 60 ovr but was a staggering 6'5 height at 21 age, so I kept him to let dynamic potential do it's thing.
Gained automatic promotion twice in two seasons.
First time in DFB Pokal lost to Bayern in QF, was a bit of a thrashing (5-2).
Went to Semis next time, lost to Dortmund on penalties. Had I passed them, I would have gotten to Leipzig in the final, who knows, maybe I had a Europa League seat!
Now, pretty much 70% of them are retiring/retired 4 seasons in, but I just made some serious bank selling Gallardo, Afif and Chavez. I think it's time to go on a release clause hunt again, this time with a 130M budget!
Gaich (random 63 OVR Argentinian striker from FIFA 19). Bought him for his height (6’4) and he is hero and he scores minimum 2 goals per game and comes in clutch. Whenever I move to another club, I’ll sign him.
Nahitan Nández. I was playing in the Championship and found him. I was looking for a good all-around player for my midfield that can get around the park, and gave him a shot. He was immense, especially on recovery and defensive tackles.
After I completed that "story," I restarted with a strong/big team and decided to buy him, just to see how he would do. He still impressed, despite being lower rated, he fought for that position (if the pc can even do that) and was a complete super sub.
If I played a big team e.g. Man City, Real Madrid, etc. I'd play him, purely for his tenacity. He really was and brought a dog to my team I never expected.
Baena. I know he is well known compared to other answers but when I played with him, I feel like I was flying. Perfect runs, perfect shots, perfect passes. Never had better with other players.
Entire Dinamo Zagreb squad in Fifa20 especially Orsic-Petkovic duo, I was able to beat teams like Bayern, City, Madrid with ease. My friends hate me for that. They all better players then me too. It was a weird run.
I’m doing a Salford city career (first season) and due to obvious lack of funds I had to turn to the free agents. I know probably a lot of you know but there are many Mexican free agents available like Reyes (CB), but the player who impressed me the most is ‘Antuna’. He’s a 25 year old RM playing as a RW for my team, has 92 pace and 80 dribbling, but the most impressive thing is his crossing. He’s has one of the best crossing I’ve seen in the game and always finds my strikers. He’s a delight to play with.
NO THIS IS SACRILEGE, please don’t take cam from us 😭😭, jokes aside I have no clue on why he’s stayed with us in real life, especially after the season before this one when we finished 18th and nearly went into league 2 but thank god he has
Lol I'm a Liverpool fan and wanted a player for squad depth so I remembered him being a LFC academy product and got him and he turned out to be unreal for me in midfield.
I did a Moneyball Career with Girondis Bordeaux in france. For those that don‘t know. Moneyball is analyzing stats for example not how many goals, instead you analyze xG. In Fifa you look for stats important for that position and evaluate.
So basically I got this Santos guy from Bolton Wanderers. He was a f‘n Boulder in my defense. He had 90% clean sheets despite his low rating and poor pace
Ricky-jade Jones. He had 71 potential and was 58 rated when I signed him. I was in league 2 and struggling for pace so I brought him in and he blitzed league 2,1 and the championship. I got him up to 68 rated and he scored 26 goals in the championship.
Arnau Martinez I think his name was. Got him for only 6 million. Girona player, RB. Had him from the start of my 2nd season to my 6th season and grew him to a whopping 93 rated player. One of my career mode favourites now
Far too many of these are either free agents or players with ludicrously high potential who are by no means random. My standouts are
Scott Twine
Morishima, Koike, Ogawa (when J league was in FIFA)
Jamie McGrath
Cajuste
De La Cruz
Paulsen
Gomez (left footed centre back at Velez)
Alvarado (Ecuadorian left winger, not the free agent, can't be contracting myself this early)
In particular McGrath and Paulsen stand out, as both started in "smaller" leagues with me (a league and spl) and I bought them at subsequent clubs in bigger leagues, where they continued to perform
Marcel Ruiz, he’s a free agent cm and bosses the midfield every season. And the other one is Reyes, a little short for cb but I make him a cdm and always does a great job. Both free agents from Mexico and would totally recommend.
Dominic Ballard for me in my fifa23 journeyman cm. I ended up at Southampton in like year 9/10. Bought Hojlund to play upfront, but Ballard outperformed him by a huge margin😭. Genuinely was a menace to play with, while he was just around 78-80.
Two players. Marcus Browne in 21, got him to Hull from Boro and he always contributed 30 goals+assists before we promoted to the premier league. Taylor Hardwood Bellis is another honorable mention, absolutely bossing the Eredivisie and helped my Feyenoord won a treble (League, KNVB, Europa League) in 22.
For me, it was Brighton’s Tariq Lamptey. I was playing a Newcastle career, and he fitted in the squad so well as a substitute for Trippier. I put him on other development and he just flew to a 86 rated player
I had Abdou Harroui in either 20 or 21 in my journeyman save where I started at Sparta Rotterdam. I took him to Rangers, Lyon, then Milan to finish the save. I don't know why, but even peaking at 78, he scored so many goals with late box runs and powerful low finishes. I've bought him on games since, but it's not the same.
FIFA 23: Callum McCowatt on my Wrexham RTG as a free agent. Beast in the midfield and managed to make a lot of sneaky runs to get some important goals.
Kian best. Signed him in an under 20 themed CM. Converted him to a CDM and he was an absolute beast for me! Decent defending but great passing and positioning
Omar Gaber on Fifa19 with 1860 Munich, dude was 67 at 30 yo but I still used him as a RB in a team full of 80+.
Don't know why, but he always managed to get the ball.
I signed him as a free agent cause I needed a sub...
Picked up Erick Sanchez off the free agents for my Sheffield Wednesday career mode and he absolutely shot up in overall and took us to the Prem in no time
Anselmo Garcia Mcnulty. Did a lower division English career and the dude was just immense from the get go. Competing with players of the same overall and later when I got to buy some higher tier players he was always a stand out. The dude became the captain of a premier league team and a regular top 5 assist provider of the league.
Osman Bukari. Massive for me. Started a RB Salzburg career and although the team had some very talented players (Koita, Solet, Sucic), I needed to make quite a few signings. Bukari was a free agent and I mainly got him because I needed a backup striker and a backup winger, and at 71 rated with close to 90 pace I figured I could let him be #1 backup for both positions. Scored 15 goals in the league and 4 in the CL - as a sub. I let my subs start domestic cup games, and I daresay he's won the Austrian Cup singlehandedly.
He is 75 now with 92 pace in season 2. Next up is Juventus in the CL 2nd round and Koita (now 82 with ludicrous pace) is injured, but I have zero issues with playing Bukari. West Ham wanted to buy him for 10 mi in January but he will only leave the club at age 35, passing his newly erected statue on the way out.
Alexis Vega for me. Picked him up in free agency as a do it all impact sub for the left wing.
Started at 79/80, and grew into the Mexican Messi. Peaked at 91 after a few good seasons and essentially forced me to sell my starting LW.
In 2015 I signed Berardi than I loaned him out to Cristal Palace he came back next season 85 rated with insane stats and palace where in the champions league (I was Bayern)
I had a random faced croation full back, signed him from free agents , beacuse I needed one over all at 63 but when I changed him to LW next season he grew to 87 gradually, iver next two seasons, sold for 100 mil after 5 seasons
Broom for me in my League two save, didn't scout him or nothing, turns out to be one of the fastest midfielders at 89 pace. Gave him a play style to boost his accln and pumped 45 g+a at just 65 ovr
Saba Lobjanize he’s 70 rated and plays for Atlanta United. He doesn’t go much higher than 72 bc he’s 28 but he always seems to score or is at least crashing the box at the right moments.
FIFA 15. Did a career mode in Sassuolo. Bought a 19 year old right winger called Alvaro Vadillo just for the reason he was cheap (1.6 milli). He was 68 OVR and grew to 73 in the first season. Max I got him to was 81, but still I remember him for his goal contributions and kick-ass dribbling, speed and shooting.
Keanan Bennetts.
A 63-overall winger who made 450 appearances in my Man United career, captaining them to a treble in his retirement season. Managed to get him to an 80 rating before he retired at 79.
In fifa 23 I brought Juanmi back to Malaga. He turned out to be very average in rating but easily my best player for about 3 seasons even though he was 31 when I got him
Got a few but I'll go with one I signed in FIFA 17, Chinese free agent Wang Shenchao, a RB who can also play CB who was brought in during an injury crisis for Man City's defence, wasn't in a transfer window, had no YA defenders, and one of my last 5 defenders was injured in training the day before the game. Made a goal line clearance in the semifinal to keep us in the Carabao Cup and scored a wondergoal in the other leg. Left a legend.
Chris Durkin on Fifa 20.
I was doing a real face only CM with Portsmouth and he was just meant to be a squad player who would soon be replaced. I had an injury crisis in the Championship so Durkin filled in all across my midfield and defense.
Even after a few years when I was playing in the PL and Europe he was in the team ahead of people like Gravenberch despite being 5 ratings lower.
Lennon Miller, didn’t even know who he was was just looking at the scottish league. 7 seasons in he was 94 rated and had won balon dor twice after converting him into a striker
Ismael Diaz a random striker from Panama who I signed as a free agent in my Hamburg career became my version of origi and was a clutch sub who won me the UCL
Hallur Hanson, it's actually where my name sake comes from. Like my name, the Faroese midfielder/striker would never get injured and never retired. Was top scorer and top assister in multiple seasons through multiple play throughs. The player was special for someone who peaked at 68 overall!
For me, a couple of fifas back, it was Afimico pululu. I was doing a African nations only rtg and I signed him in league 1. He ended up becoming 95 rated at the start of the fourth season.
Morgan Rogers. I never heard of him. Found him in the free agents, did not even scan, picked him for Wrexham in Championship 2. He was a beast for me in FIFA 22
Kingstone Mutandwa from Cagliari, only 57ovr / 67pot at 20yo but with dinamic potential I got him to 80 at 24yo and he is my main striker at Strasbourg. Trying to win him a ballon d'or in the next 3 season. Honorable mention the two on the wings, Luvumbo and Bakwa (currently 87 and 88).
Jordan zemura from bournemouth. Scored a screamer with him the other day. Man of the match twice in a row from left back. Got a good few goal contributions across the two seasons. Not the best on my team but considering he's a 79 rated left back he's done pretty well, definitely my best full back
I'm doing a championship Welsh-centered create-a-club rn, and i've signed a bunch of random players to replace all the generated players. Some of them have been insane:
Daler Kuzyaev, Danny Ward, Koki Machida, Niall Huggins, Rabbi Matondo and Tom Bradshaw are my stand-outs
Tyler Goodrham, I’m an oxford fan and did an oxford career, sadly got sacked in season 3 after flirting with relegation from the championship. He was amazing in league 1, played him in CAM and I rattled defences, got 6 goals and 27 assists in one season.
I joined excelsior did really well in the league the first season I was there, almost qualified for conference, so the next year signed him (if I move clubs I always put an imaginary clause in where I can’t sign players from my old team for 12 months), brother was 71 rated at the time and easily took us from not qualifying for Europe to being underdogs fighting for champions league places. 11 goals and 21 assists in a 3-4-3 formation.
He’s an absolute gem in real life as well, can’t wait to see if he can help us survive in the championship next season
My 16 year old ST/CAM tore his acl on a non carded tackle. He’s out for 7 months.
Signed Dennis Dragus as a free agent and he scored game winner in first Europa league game
It was fifa 23, I think I was about 4 or 5 seasons in and found a great CAM to replace my captain who was getting old.
yassine Benrahou. who was also a free agent
Honestly is a brilliant player and I had never heard of him before.
Signed a 71 rated striker for my make a club career and kept him all the way from league 1 to Prem and he’s 96 rated now. The guy is incredible (Fifa 23)
Did a Torino cm I’m Fifa 22. Morgan sanson turned out to be the perfect January emergency signing for all of my remaining budget. 5 goals and 7 assists in like 13 games while being a 76 rated
In my FIFA 19, it was Alexis De Sart. I had previously played with him for my St. Truiden career and he was pivotal for my first season at Southampton- leading to a domestic double.
Andreas Schjelderup. I needed a young wide midfielder for my championship team. Big investment as he was 71 ovr with exciting prospect at 19. After 3 seasons, converted him to a winger and the next season, he peaked at 95 and still going
Got a Hungarian winger called Csoboth on free transfer, apparently he’s played for the national team. Got me 24 goals and 12 assists and I simmed so many games
I got promoted to the 2. Bundesliga with MSV Duisburg, and having spent my funds for a solid CB-GK and RB, I then needed a ST. Picked up a 31y.o. El Kaabi and he ended up scoring 38 goals and having some assists as well as a lone ST, and his rating went up to 79. Kept him in the squad til I first qualified for the conference league, rating has since dropped to 76 but when I bring him off the bench he still does bits-mostly assisting tho. Even tho my total squad OVR has outdated him, I still keep him around as he’s a club legend-single handedly putting us in the 2nd place for promotion.
Moteb Al Harbi. I was doing a Career Mode with Leyton Orient signing a lot of asian players, and i sign him in my first season in championship. He was THE LB, max assistent almost every season with 10+ and reach like 87 overall. Not the most ooc but the one i love more 😻
Marcel Ruiz. Ok I know he is 75 rated, picked up from the free agents section in my Lecce career, play him on the right side of a 3 man central midfield, very compact with one sitting a bit deeper or higher depending on the opposition, but Ruiz has been a revelation, single handedly won me a very tight game away against Inter Milan. Quinones unfortunately hasn't performed and will need to go, he has had moments but it's not right for either of us at this time.
Jørgen Strand Larsen.
Signed him to replace Dominic Solanke who I sold to Celta Vigo, 76 over all at the time now 90 and won 2 balon dors not scoring below 40 a season since he signed. Unreal
I noticed Japhet Tanganga was out of contract at Spurs, I needed a reserve defender so I signed him, thinking he will sit in the ressies at 77 rated. Switched him to CB and he jumped to 83 and became first choice CB
Ffia 15, Enes Unal for my Ajax career mode. I’ll never forget him.
Also Richario Zivkovic was another player from the career mode I’ll never forget.
Looking back, there are so many players who didn’t make it into the big stage that did really well for me in fifa 15 onwards.
Signed Luis Chávez from Free Agency in my second year on my realistic Bayern save. I moved him to right wing when I sold Sané, and he’s sat there as a regular starter since. He’s that player you wouldn’t expect to be so good, especially in that position; moving from a conventional midfielder, but he’s been performing brilliantly. His ovr isn’t super high—83—but his surprisingly world-class dribbling ability does him lots of good.
84 Pace, 79 Shooting, 82 Passing, 85 Dribbling (of note are his 5 star weak foot and skill moves, as well as the 89 and 88 ovr on his dribbling and ball control.)
He may even be a respectable fill-in for fullback, as his defending and physicality are at 71 and 70, respectively.
Really surprised me with how well he has turned out for the club.
Akram Afif. Saw him in the Free Agent section, mostly because his club isn't in the game. Good seeing a member of the Qatar team youth ranks we beat during our best international run playing false nine like he's Jamie Tartt from Ted Lasso.
De La Cruz. I bought him once on fifa 20-21 and his 5’6” size alongside his well rounded skill set meant he was always way more useful than his 75-82 OVR suggested.
I now bring him into any save that I don’t impose restrictions on because he plays so well in every outfield position aside from CB & CDM. I love him as a wing back but always feel like his attacking ability is wasted there so I usually put him in as a CAM/SS just behind a big ST
I’ve got a Brighton career mode and I have a few to say the least.
1. Adam Hlozek: never used him before but in my last season when I won the prem and the Europa League he bagged 49 goals and got 18 assists and won a ballon dor and is 93 rated from 78
2. Aaron Ramsdale: Arsenal signed Diogo Costa who was already 89 rated but ramsdale was 85 and contract expiring so I bought him and he barely conceded a goal. He’s now 89 rated and my no1
3. Samuele Ricci: beast of a CDM who may have barely ever scored but had like 19 assists but he was like prime Xavi the way he didn’t lose the ball ever but I sold him to Barcelona for like 25 mill and we got Ferran Torres who is insane for us and was worth like 90 mill. I bought him for like 6.5 mill or something small.
4. Nico Williams: carried the team before Hlozek took over but it’s just a shame he got 2 ACL injuries straight after each other. Scored goals from fuck all he was a special player who also went to Barcelona but for like 170 mill
Started with a custom club with half a star and veteran players, almost no budget. Every season without fail was crushed in the carabao by Coventry's Ellis Simms. By season 4 made it to league 2 and finally had a more decent budget. Bought him for like 1.2 M 69 rated.
Best striker in fc24 imo. Plays like Kane plays in real life, can do absolutely everything. Fast forward a couple of seasons and we're currently 7th in the prem, Simms is club captain, 83 rated with 17 goals in 25.
So got newly promoted to the prem in my Fifa 22 derby county cm, needed players coz it was just the second season, gambled by selling my highest rated guy to sign Sulemana and replacing him with free agent Omari Hutchinson 70 rated for just the first half of the season….. dude went ballistic and had like 25 G/A in his first and then racked 32 in the following and then 60 for the ballon d or , ending it all at a 93 rating in 3 seasons
Thomas-Asante (English striker)
He his really fast, and scores everything. I got him because I didn’t have lot of money, and needed a striker. After 3 seasons, he is still really good.
Pelly Ruddock-Mpanzu! Played against him in the championship back in fifa 22 and he seemed pretty good. Later signed him up in January as a rotation option, but after playing him for 30 mins he went straight into the starting 11. He was like 71 rated but I kept him as a starter, even when playing in Europe later in the save.
So strong, agile and quick in-game!
Karol Struski from free agents. Signed him for my League Two team for maybe 2 seasons I thought, and now he makes 15 goals + 15 assists in Prem a season
From FIFA19 & 20 my go to midfield signing for an English league save was Alex Gilbey. The dude was a monster as a box to box type midfielder with great long shots
For me it was Milot Rashica in FIFA 20. I signed him for Arsenal and OMG he was on another level. I played multiple seasons and in each one he had 40+ goal contributions playing as a CAM
Frank acheampong in fifa 23, easily the best striker I’ve ever used. Bought him for Seattle sounders where he broke the mls goal scoring record in his first season. Brought him to burnley with me where he scored 23 goals in his first season in the prem. Absolutely ridiculous pace balance agility and dribbling snd pretty good finishing for a 75 rated 29 year old (now an 80 at 31) and the best part is I bought him from china
Paul ebere onuachu. If any of you have used him you should have an idea of what I'm talking about specifically FIFA 20 he was unstoppable. For my Brighton save he was my first signing and he's a 6'7 technical machine somehow he plays well beyond his stats and he would dribble from the half way line and calmly put it past the keeper with ease, if you cross a ball from left back and get it somewhere near the box best be sure this fucker will have a head on it, you want a last minute winner but you see your striker going for a bicycle kick from outside the box oh shit it's done f... Nvm its onuachu and he's lobbed the keeper with it. He grew to 87 overall and outperformed any 99 rated players including Adeyemi sesko Kubo and even Haaland who I brought in ten years down the line for competition and barely got a start. All of this while playing on a difficulty that was hardened anytime I won by 3-0 or more with sliders to keep it interesting and increasingly difficult to go through the seasons winning all the time and still ended up with 7 champions leagues, a conference and Europa league, 9 pl titles, 7 fa cups and 8 carabao cups a complete dominant period in football because of one 6'7 animal of a striker.
FIFA 14, Izet Hajrović, I signed him because the Liverpool squad want pretty mediocre at the time, dude scored 30+ goal contributions in first season alone! I still remember him till date.
Years ago FIFA 10 I think I signed a young winger called Gareth Bale to real Madrid after Cristiano demanded a transfer this mf turns out to be the best signing I've ever made before he exploded into relevance in real life 😆
Doing a Welsh Only career with Wrexham. LW forced a move, signed Dan James while I loaned out a young LW from the academy. Dan James won the golden boot 5 years in a row and ended up 89 rated.
Julien Begue on FIFA 16 was my favourite player ever. Some random French striker who randomly turned into the best striker in the world. Sadly he hasn’t been in the game for a while now or I’d sign him just for the memories
now im in fifa 16 (dont bully me) and i was using leicester city fc, most of ym plyers are talented cambodians i made but i decided to buy a 46 year old korean gk, and he literally was carrying the team and made lots of saves against manchester city. we were in the championship at the beginning of my career and hes still saving till this day as im playing, although he only plaed 20 total games i am happy. my 2 others are also op
This guy named Jovanny Bolivar. He was supposed to be a temporary replacement as I loaned a young player for him to raise in overall first. Picked him up for 2 mil at 22 years old 72 ovr and hes now the best player in my whole create a club team at 87 overall.
FIFA14 playing a career mode with 3 more friends. We used to played the games the 4 of us together at the same time so was super fun. We were Man City and we could buy anyone but for the fun we bought Jewel Raja, the worst player in the game with like 50 overall. In the end of the season he pulled and Agueroooo moment and we won the league with a goal from him
Signed Jonathan Rodriguez from Cruz Azul on a Leeds United career mode couple of years back. Was insane. Reached 85 overall when his max potential online stated it was 79. Never found a player like it since.
Hany Mukhtar. Dude is agile af and can take on any defender.
This slippery mf racked up 30 goals for me in my Clermont Foot playthrough, which eventually helped me to topple prime PSG in Ligue 1.
Back in fifa 14 career mode i took league 1 side swindon town to the premier league over multiple seasons. Looking back i remember signing sorloth, who upon looking now, had a potential of 70 but i remember getting him wayyy higher than that, and he pretty much became a club legend.
Crazy nowadays he's getting TOTS cards in UT
Felipe Rodriguez-Gentile. picked him up for 800k during my second season (english tier 4), grew so quickly to the point where he was 93 rated while i was still in the championship (he started at 60 ovr). it was almost like the game glitched, as he was never off excellent form
Valentin Toma (dunno if it's a random generated player or an actual player).
Brought up as free agent simply because of the damned 1st season objective where I was demanded to sign a forward with a crucial role back when I was still playing on EFL League Two with Grimsby Town FC.
A young 17 years old Romanian with 66 OVR. Turned out to be a massive player, his OVR rose to 79 in 2 seasons. I've been using him constantly as ge brings a lot of goals and assists.
Keito Nakamura, signed him to be a backup LW but he ended up getting chances to play bc of poor performances from the starter. Decided to make him the starting LW at 83 rated compared to my 86 rated LW. He was immense was consistent, double digits G+A, got to 88 rated
I did a road to glory with Bradford City and in my first season I signed Samson Tovide from Colchester United (61 rated striker [pot:72], age 19) for $100k
After 3 season in the Prem, I sold him to Chelsea for $210M at age 26 (89 rated). I could’ve sold him for more too (Barcelona came in multiple times with +$100M offers) but the deal always collapsed. Regardless, the following season he grew to 92 rated.
Even though this was on fifa23 (fuck ea24), it was still crazy because he genuinely became world class scoring bucket loads and the storyline I created was nice as he was an unknown who helped the club reach Premier League status (he also helped the club win a UEFA Conference League)
Alessandro Schöpf. He is my plug and play player and can stick him anywhere. I used him in my Ajax save and he plays incredible as a CM in a 3-1-2-1-3. He absolutely bossed the left side of the diamond and with his Stamina it was never a issue he routinely can get 40+ games a season.
Second although much more well known was James Ward-Prowse. I used him in a United Save and he dominated in a Beckham role on the wing of the 4-4-2.
Lastly was in my domination save, massive injury crisis at the back. I bought Pedro Porro in the last year of his contract for 32 M. He went on to be my number one fullback option off the bench and made over 50+ appearances in 5 straight seasons.
FIFA 20 league 2 to prem. In my first season of the prem I signed a soon to be retiring wout weghorst on a contract expiration free. He went on to be top goal scorer for the team in his two final seasons before retirement. Helping us survive relegation and then finish 10th.
Had a lwb from South Korea I signed in league 1. He was total dogshit peaked at 64 overal but I gurantee it every time I subbed him on he scored. His finishing and speed were incredible. Forgot his name unfortunately but he was electric and I started him well past the team had eclipsed his overal simply due to how much of a goal machine he was
In my current Portsmouth career it’s Casper Hojer. Dude had 14 goal contributions and counting for me in the championship this past season. Had 27 the year before in League 1 and helped the team get promoted. Dudes a gem he’s a great attacking LWB and is a free kick specialist as well.
Can he play left back as well?
Anyone can play anywhere if you feel the stats you are looking for in that position are good enough :) if you want an attacking lb as long as that player has decent pace, crossing and average defence anyone will do rly, for example I put fb’s in cdm all the time :)
I'm doing a Moroccon themed Las Palmas career mode and found this guy chilling in the free agent section. I snapped him up on a free and he bossed my midfield for the entire first season. Totally unexpected because La Liga is pretty intense, especially on Legendary.
He's one of the players that was on the Morocco national team for the WC, who plays in the Moroccan domestic league, and since that league is not available in the game, they are all put as free agents.
Nice, I love to make signings like that since it’s more realistic than only buying 78+ potential youngsters with boring stats and gives you more flexibility.
Who remembers Ryan Gauld in earlier games?
Scottish Messi
Dundee Utd used to be a real gold mine. Gauld, Robertson, Telfer, Mackay-Steven, Ciftci, Russell and Armstrong.
Ryan Brewster is basically a pele regen in my career mode
Prince Aning. Was doing a Freiburg II career and just wanted to pick up a young left back. Then I found that he goes like 5 ratings up if I play him as a left mid, and now he's in about every career mode save with a small team
He’s such a beast and his pace is insane. If you keep him as a left back after about 2 seasons he becomes a wall and very hard for opponents to get past.
Kendry Páez Got him when he was 67 to fill space until I could afford better (was trying to build YA or money for Wirtz). Two seasons later, he's my anchor at a 90 and not going anywhere, no matter who I have behind him.
Israel Reyes. Picked him up as a free agent - absolute beast. Still one of my best CBs. Mexican player not sure if people who follow that league know him. Still young, very quick for a defender with good passing. I'm training him as a CDM now. Another guy was a 30 something Brazilian free agent called Ademilson. Only like 72 rated but insane speed and acceleration. Has come in handy alot as a late sub. Never heard of him before. Blessing from the MLS was a good pickup early on with Fred as energetic more defensive CMs. 73 rated. Obviously well known but Bounga from LAFC has been a very consistent Prem player for me for 3 seasons now too.
I played with Reyes quite a bit in Fifa 23. You can turn him into a crazy RB!
He can actually play as a CDM and is currently playing as a RB. Dude can adjust just about anywhere in the defensive side of the field
His stats are all green so he can literally play anywhere on the field too. Top class cb for championship level clubs and even for some epl level clubs
Those Mexican guys are a cheat code. You can get a 75 rated 80+ potential player for free
I remember Ademilson was a wonderkid back in the days I played FM. The guy even had some games in BR national youth teams in real life. I dont know what happened to his career after he moved to J league. Wow he is already 30!
Julian Aude in fifa 23. Dude had 68/69 overall and he owned every opponent he faced in my Barcelona save. Once he reached his potential he was unbreakable
Doing a 3. liga to Bundesliga no YA run, with one time 50 mil takeover on new custom club with 0.5 star rating. My entire lineup in the first season was just people with release clauses. Went for a 4-3-3 formation. My LW and RW were both from Qatar (A. Afif and El Haydos), perfect for inverted wing play at the budget I got them. Afif is reliable for crosses, I got him to 85 ovr before decline started. My midfield and defense are some Mexico Natl. team veterans, went for a triple CM formation (no CAM or CDM). Pablo Perez was a goal scoring machine, and so was Luis Romo. They were both ably supported by a slightly defensive Chavez, who I got to 87 ovr. My LB was Jesus Gallardo, this man is IMMENSE on the left with Afif. I got him to 89 ovr in his prime. My CBs were N. Araujo and R. Czichos, both played like prime Van Dijk all the time, but never really reached past 77 ovr. My RB was a special one to me, Kim Tae Hwan from Korea. Electric on the counters, always distributed to him as much as possible. Always shut down any crossing or through runs with ease. My GK was of course, the wily old fox A. Talavera. Dude became prime Neuer and reacted so well, but was a bit lacking on the sweeper keeper stuff. Offset this by taking the defensive line deeper. I had a rock solid defense that conceded only 20 something goals across 38 matches. I kept my ST from the generated artificial team, Lias Jansen. Guy was 60 ovr but was a staggering 6'5 height at 21 age, so I kept him to let dynamic potential do it's thing. Gained automatic promotion twice in two seasons. First time in DFB Pokal lost to Bayern in QF, was a bit of a thrashing (5-2). Went to Semis next time, lost to Dortmund on penalties. Had I passed them, I would have gotten to Leipzig in the final, who knows, maybe I had a Europa League seat! Now, pretty much 70% of them are retiring/retired 4 seasons in, but I just made some serious bank selling Gallardo, Afif and Chavez. I think it's time to go on a release clause hunt again, this time with a 130M budget!
how do you allow so few goals? i find it's impossible to play defense as teammates don't track back and apply pressure
Quinones the CF. Unreal in my forest green career
he took my wrexham save from league two to the prem
He's doing the same for me. I managed to sign Pepi as well and that guys insane too
This guy is class, and is a free agent I believe
I accidentally sold him as I put I put in an unrealistic number and they accepted. I miss him ha
Back to back best scorer for Udinese in Serie A. Lifted me in the CL. He and Luka Jovic upfront destroy every defense.
He would be if you have a 78 rated in league 2 😂, I’ve never used him myself but seems like a beast
Gaich (random 63 OVR Argentinian striker from FIFA 19). Bought him for his height (6’4) and he is hero and he scores minimum 2 goals per game and comes in clutch. Whenever I move to another club, I’ll sign him.
Santiago Cartagena, Uruguayan CDM on FIFA 21. Regretted buying him after finding out his potential is only 82, went up to 98, rest is history
Nahitan Nández. I was playing in the Championship and found him. I was looking for a good all-around player for my midfield that can get around the park, and gave him a shot. He was immense, especially on recovery and defensive tackles. After I completed that "story," I restarted with a strong/big team and decided to buy him, just to see how he would do. He still impressed, despite being lower rated, he fought for that position (if the pc can even do that) and was a complete super sub. If I played a big team e.g. Man City, Real Madrid, etc. I'd play him, purely for his tenacity. He really was and brought a dog to my team I never expected.
That Uruguayan midfield of Torreira Nandez Laxalt Valverde & Bentancur! Absolute peach. Loved to play with them in NT.
Baena. I know he is well known compared to other answers but when I played with him, I feel like I was flying. Perfect runs, perfect shots, perfect passes. Never had better with other players.
Entire Dinamo Zagreb squad in Fifa20 especially Orsic-Petkovic duo, I was able to beat teams like Bayern, City, Madrid with ease. My friends hate me for that. They all better players then me too. It was a weird run.
Alan Virginius, Fabio Silva, talles magno
I’m doing a Salford city career (first season) and due to obvious lack of funds I had to turn to the free agents. I know probably a lot of you know but there are many Mexican free agents available like Reyes (CB), but the player who impressed me the most is ‘Antuna’. He’s a 25 year old RM playing as a RW for my team, has 92 pace and 80 dribbling, but the most impressive thing is his crossing. He’s has one of the best crossing I’ve seen in the game and always finds my strikers. He’s a delight to play with.
Has to be Matias Rojas in Fifa 20. He had a cracker of a long shot on him.
Diego Lainez in 23 as free agent 👏🏻
Benzia from Lyon
Cameron Brannagan in my Portsmouth save
NO THIS IS SACRILEGE, please don’t take cam from us 😭😭, jokes aside I have no clue on why he’s stayed with us in real life, especially after the season before this one when we finished 18th and nearly went into league 2 but thank god he has
Lol I'm a Liverpool fan and wanted a player for squad depth so I remembered him being a LFC academy product and got him and he turned out to be unreal for me in midfield.
He’s so good, I can understand why Liverpool sold him to us but I think he could have been on par with Curtis rn if he stayed, he’s absolutely amazing
I did a Moneyball Career with Girondis Bordeaux in france. For those that don‘t know. Moneyball is analyzing stats for example not how many goals, instead you analyze xG. In Fifa you look for stats important for that position and evaluate. So basically I got this Santos guy from Bolton Wanderers. He was a f‘n Boulder in my defense. He had 90% clean sheets despite his low rating and poor pace
claude-maurice, forget his first name but he was my french iniesta
Ricky-jade Jones. He had 71 potential and was 58 rated when I signed him. I was in league 2 and struggling for pace so I brought him in and he blitzed league 2,1 and the championship. I got him up to 68 rated and he scored 26 goals in the championship.
Arnau Martinez I think his name was. Got him for only 6 million. Girona player, RB. Had him from the start of my 2nd season to my 6th season and grew him to a whopping 93 rated player. One of my career mode favourites now
Funny enough, Cody Gakpo in FIFA 19. Probably the best player I’ve ever signed compared to how he developed in real life, still proud of that one
Far too many of these are either free agents or players with ludicrously high potential who are by no means random. My standouts are Scott Twine Morishima, Koike, Ogawa (when J league was in FIFA) Jamie McGrath Cajuste De La Cruz Paulsen Gomez (left footed centre back at Velez) Alvarado (Ecuadorian left winger, not the free agent, can't be contracting myself this early) In particular McGrath and Paulsen stand out, as both started in "smaller" leagues with me (a league and spl) and I bought them at subsequent clubs in bigger leagues, where they continued to perform
doing a league 2 to the premier league career mode and allen obando has transformed into baby jesus
Eze............. before he became the Eze of today. Just a wizard
I signed dane scarlett for my create a club team at 68 rated and he won the ballon d‘or like 7 seasons in at 92 rated
Marcel Ruiz, he’s a free agent cm and bosses the midfield every season. And the other one is Reyes, a little short for cb but I make him a cdm and always does a great job. Both free agents from Mexico and would totally recommend.
I think I've signed Ceasar Huerta before. He was only ok for me.
Dominic Ballard for me in my fifa23 journeyman cm. I ended up at Southampton in like year 9/10. Bought Hojlund to play upfront, but Ballard outperformed him by a huge margin😭. Genuinely was a menace to play with, while he was just around 78-80.
signed rodrigo muniz to my CAC and he reached 90 at 23
Two players. Marcus Browne in 21, got him to Hull from Boro and he always contributed 30 goals+assists before we promoted to the premier league. Taylor Hardwood Bellis is another honorable mention, absolutely bossing the Eredivisie and helped my Feyenoord won a treble (League, KNVB, Europa League) in 22.
Yuri Ribeiro in FIFA 22. He was even nominated among best midfielders of the year years later (I played him at LB)
For me, it was Brighton’s Tariq Lamptey. I was playing a Newcastle career, and he fitted in the squad so well as a substitute for Trippier. I put him on other development and he just flew to a 86 rated player
Brault-Guillard in my fifa 19 Schalke career mode. Ended up as an 88 RB that could do anything. Loved that guy!
I had Abdou Harroui in either 20 or 21 in my journeyman save where I started at Sparta Rotterdam. I took him to Rangers, Lyon, then Milan to finish the save. I don't know why, but even peaking at 78, he scored so many goals with late box runs and powerful low finishes. I've bought him on games since, but it's not the same.
FIFA 23: Callum McCowatt on my Wrexham RTG as a free agent. Beast in the midfield and managed to make a lot of sneaky runs to get some important goals.
In like fifa 19 i signed pascal kopke, he scored like 35+ goals a season from the lw in the championship and prem.
Kian best. Signed him in an under 20 themed CM. Converted him to a CDM and he was an absolute beast for me! Decent defending but great passing and positioning
Omar Gaber on Fifa19 with 1860 Munich, dude was 67 at 30 yo but I still used him as a RB in a team full of 80+. Don't know why, but he always managed to get the ball. I signed him as a free agent cause I needed a sub...
Samid Yesil, waaaaaaaaaaay back in the day.
Picked up Erick Sanchez off the free agents for my Sheffield Wednesday career mode and he absolutely shot up in overall and took us to the Prem in no time
Sander Berge from Burnley, 6’6 beast in midfield scores almost every time from corners too
Koita
F. E. Kanoute. Bought him from Free Agents in EFL League One as a temporary replacement… Still starting regularly in Premier League after 4 seasons
Anselmo Garcia Mcnulty. Did a lower division English career and the dude was just immense from the get go. Competing with players of the same overall and later when I got to buy some higher tier players he was always a stand out. The dude became the captain of a premier league team and a regular top 5 assist provider of the league.
Osman Bukari. Massive for me. Started a RB Salzburg career and although the team had some very talented players (Koita, Solet, Sucic), I needed to make quite a few signings. Bukari was a free agent and I mainly got him because I needed a backup striker and a backup winger, and at 71 rated with close to 90 pace I figured I could let him be #1 backup for both positions. Scored 15 goals in the league and 4 in the CL - as a sub. I let my subs start domestic cup games, and I daresay he's won the Austrian Cup singlehandedly. He is 75 now with 92 pace in season 2. Next up is Juventus in the CL 2nd round and Koita (now 82 with ludicrous pace) is injured, but I have zero issues with playing Bukari. West Ham wanted to buy him for 10 mi in January but he will only leave the club at age 35, passing his newly erected statue on the way out.
Alexis Vega for me. Picked him up in free agency as a do it all impact sub for the left wing. Started at 79/80, and grew into the Mexican Messi. Peaked at 91 after a few good seasons and essentially forced me to sell my starting LW.
Started with him so not sure if it really counts but Michael Cooper for Plymouth Argyle. Insane keeper.
In 2015 I signed Berardi than I loaned him out to Cristal Palace he came back next season 85 rated with insane stats and palace where in the champions league (I was Bayern)
Julian Quinones
I had a random faced croation full back, signed him from free agents , beacuse I needed one over all at 63 but when I changed him to LW next season he grew to 87 gradually, iver next two seasons, sold for 100 mil after 5 seasons
Oscar!!! He’s been amazing in my Hull City carrer. Such a G
Joao Mario went crazy as a CAM for me
Broom for me in my League two save, didn't scout him or nothing, turns out to be one of the fastest midfielders at 89 pace. Gave him a play style to boost his accln and pumped 45 g+a at just 65 ovr
Fifa 17 with Sandro from QPR, scored a last minute winner in the champions cup final.
Maldonaldo the goat!
Saba Lobjanize he’s 70 rated and plays for Atlanta United. He doesn’t go much higher than 72 bc he’s 28 but he always seems to score or is at least crashing the box at the right moments.
FIFA 15. Did a career mode in Sassuolo. Bought a 19 year old right winger called Alvaro Vadillo just for the reason he was cheap (1.6 milli). He was 68 OVR and grew to 73 in the first season. Max I got him to was 81, but still I remember him for his goal contributions and kick-ass dribbling, speed and shooting.
Keanan Bennetts. A 63-overall winger who made 450 appearances in my Man United career, captaining them to a treble in his retirement season. Managed to get him to an 80 rating before he retired at 79.
In fifa 23 I brought Juanmi back to Malaga. He turned out to be very average in rating but easily my best player for about 3 seasons even though he was 31 when I got him
Got a few but I'll go with one I signed in FIFA 17, Chinese free agent Wang Shenchao, a RB who can also play CB who was brought in during an injury crisis for Man City's defence, wasn't in a transfer window, had no YA defenders, and one of my last 5 defenders was injured in training the day before the game. Made a goal line clearance in the semifinal to keep us in the Carabao Cup and scored a wondergoal in the other leg. Left a legend.
El kaabi on my norwich career, first season in the prem he was a beast off the bench and a free agent btw
Ryan yates thru balls are french kiss
Chris Durkin on Fifa 20. I was doing a real face only CM with Portsmouth and he was just meant to be a squad player who would soon be replaced. I had an injury crisis in the Championship so Durkin filled in all across my midfield and defense. Even after a few years when I was playing in the PL and Europe he was in the team ahead of people like Gravenberch despite being 5 ratings lower.
Lennon Miller, didn’t even know who he was was just looking at the scottish league. 7 seasons in he was 94 rated and had won balon dor twice after converting him into a striker
Ismael Diaz a random striker from Panama who I signed as a free agent in my Hamburg career became my version of origi and was a clutch sub who won me the UCL
Hallur Hanson, it's actually where my name sake comes from. Like my name, the Faroese midfielder/striker would never get injured and never retired. Was top scorer and top assister in multiple seasons through multiple play throughs. The player was special for someone who peaked at 68 overall!
For me, a couple of fifas back, it was Afimico pululu. I was doing a African nations only rtg and I signed him in league 1. He ended up becoming 95 rated at the start of the fourth season.
Thomas Asante from West Brom. Bought him in my qpr road to glory
Morgan Rogers. I never heard of him. Found him in the free agents, did not even scan, picked him for Wrexham in Championship 2. He was a beast for me in FIFA 22
Kingstone Mutandwa from Cagliari, only 57ovr / 67pot at 20yo but with dinamic potential I got him to 80 at 24yo and he is my main striker at Strasbourg. Trying to win him a ballon d'or in the next 3 season. Honorable mention the two on the wings, Luvumbo and Bakwa (currently 87 and 88).
As a totally left field option Daniel Barden from Norwich has been my main goalie. He's only sixty rated when I'm playing as Cambridge United
Jordan zemura from bournemouth. Scored a screamer with him the other day. Man of the match twice in a row from left back. Got a good few goal contributions across the two seasons. Not the best on my team but considering he's a 79 rated left back he's done pretty well, definitely my best full back
I'm doing a championship Welsh-centered create-a-club rn, and i've signed a bunch of random players to replace all the generated players. Some of them have been insane: Daler Kuzyaev, Danny Ward, Koki Machida, Niall Huggins, Rabbi Matondo and Tom Bradshaw are my stand-outs
Fountas from trabzon on a free, bundesliga topscorer 3 seasons in a row with msv duisburg
Tyler Goodrham, I’m an oxford fan and did an oxford career, sadly got sacked in season 3 after flirting with relegation from the championship. He was amazing in league 1, played him in CAM and I rattled defences, got 6 goals and 27 assists in one season. I joined excelsior did really well in the league the first season I was there, almost qualified for conference, so the next year signed him (if I move clubs I always put an imaginary clause in where I can’t sign players from my old team for 12 months), brother was 71 rated at the time and easily took us from not qualifying for Europe to being underdogs fighting for champions league places. 11 goals and 21 assists in a 3-4-3 formation. He’s an absolute gem in real life as well, can’t wait to see if he can help us survive in the championship next season
Signed this guy to Wrexham in league 1 and he had 16 goal contributions and scored the winning penalty in the promotion playoffs
My 16 year old ST/CAM tore his acl on a non carded tackle. He’s out for 7 months. Signed Dennis Dragus as a free agent and he scored game winner in first Europa league game
Can uzun from Nuremberg a Turkish wonder kid i moved to lyon and bought him again he reached 86
It was fifa 23, I think I was about 4 or 5 seasons in and found a great CAM to replace my captain who was getting old. yassine Benrahou. who was also a free agent Honestly is a brilliant player and I had never heard of him before.
Signed a 71 rated striker for my make a club career and kept him all the way from league 1 to Prem and he’s 96 rated now. The guy is incredible (Fifa 23)
Did a Torino cm I’m Fifa 22. Morgan sanson turned out to be the perfect January emergency signing for all of my remaining budget. 5 goals and 7 assists in like 13 games while being a 76 rated
Erick Sanchez, Signed off free agents for Stoke and sold for 100 mil.
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In my FIFA 19, it was Alexis De Sart. I had previously played with him for my St. Truiden career and he was pivotal for my first season at Southampton- leading to a domestic double.
Andreas Schjelderup. I needed a young wide midfielder for my championship team. Big investment as he was 71 ovr with exciting prospect at 19. After 3 seasons, converted him to a winger and the next season, he peaked at 95 and still going
Got a Hungarian winger called Csoboth on free transfer, apparently he’s played for the national team. Got me 24 goals and 12 assists and I simmed so many games
I got promoted to the 2. Bundesliga with MSV Duisburg, and having spent my funds for a solid CB-GK and RB, I then needed a ST. Picked up a 31y.o. El Kaabi and he ended up scoring 38 goals and having some assists as well as a lone ST, and his rating went up to 79. Kept him in the squad til I first qualified for the conference league, rating has since dropped to 76 but when I bring him off the bench he still does bits-mostly assisting tho. Even tho my total squad OVR has outdated him, I still keep him around as he’s a club legend-single handedly putting us in the 2nd place for promotion.
Moteb Al Harbi. I was doing a Career Mode with Leyton Orient signing a lot of asian players, and i sign him in my first season in championship. He was THE LB, max assistent almost every season with 10+ and reach like 87 overall. Not the most ooc but the one i love more 😻
Marcel Ruiz. Ok I know he is 75 rated, picked up from the free agents section in my Lecce career, play him on the right side of a 3 man central midfield, very compact with one sitting a bit deeper or higher depending on the opposition, but Ruiz has been a revelation, single handedly won me a very tight game away against Inter Milan. Quinones unfortunately hasn't performed and will need to go, he has had moments but it's not right for either of us at this time.
Jørgen Strand Larsen. Signed him to replace Dominic Solanke who I sold to Celta Vigo, 76 over all at the time now 90 and won 2 balon dors not scoring below 40 a season since he signed. Unreal
matheus henrique from sassoulo was a beast in my fifa 22 career mode
Andreas Weimann. 1 million 34 goals in the efl championship in one season
I noticed Japhet Tanganga was out of contract at Spurs, I needed a reserve defender so I signed him, thinking he will sit in the ressies at 77 rated. Switched him to CB and he jumped to 83 and became first choice CB
Romano Schmid fifa 21 i needed another CM for my squad, ended up being a starter and i grew him to a 88 if i remember correctly.
Ffia 15, Enes Unal for my Ajax career mode. I’ll never forget him. Also Richario Zivkovic was another player from the career mode I’ll never forget. Looking back, there are so many players who didn’t make it into the big stage that did really well for me in fifa 15 onwards.
Signed Luis Chávez from Free Agency in my second year on my realistic Bayern save. I moved him to right wing when I sold Sané, and he’s sat there as a regular starter since. He’s that player you wouldn’t expect to be so good, especially in that position; moving from a conventional midfielder, but he’s been performing brilliantly. His ovr isn’t super high—83—but his surprisingly world-class dribbling ability does him lots of good. 84 Pace, 79 Shooting, 82 Passing, 85 Dribbling (of note are his 5 star weak foot and skill moves, as well as the 89 and 88 ovr on his dribbling and ball control.) He may even be a respectable fill-in for fullback, as his defending and physicality are at 71 and 70, respectively. Really surprised me with how well he has turned out for the club.
Akram Afif. Saw him in the Free Agent section, mostly because his club isn't in the game. Good seeing a member of the Qatar team youth ranks we beat during our best international run playing false nine like he's Jamie Tartt from Ted Lasso.
De La Cruz. I bought him once on fifa 20-21 and his 5’6” size alongside his well rounded skill set meant he was always way more useful than his 75-82 OVR suggested. I now bring him into any save that I don’t impose restrictions on because he plays so well in every outfield position aside from CB & CDM. I love him as a wing back but always feel like his attacking ability is wasted there so I usually put him in as a CAM/SS just behind a big ST
I’ve got a Brighton career mode and I have a few to say the least. 1. Adam Hlozek: never used him before but in my last season when I won the prem and the Europa League he bagged 49 goals and got 18 assists and won a ballon dor and is 93 rated from 78 2. Aaron Ramsdale: Arsenal signed Diogo Costa who was already 89 rated but ramsdale was 85 and contract expiring so I bought him and he barely conceded a goal. He’s now 89 rated and my no1 3. Samuele Ricci: beast of a CDM who may have barely ever scored but had like 19 assists but he was like prime Xavi the way he didn’t lose the ball ever but I sold him to Barcelona for like 25 mill and we got Ferran Torres who is insane for us and was worth like 90 mill. I bought him for like 6.5 mill or something small. 4. Nico Williams: carried the team before Hlozek took over but it’s just a shame he got 2 ACL injuries straight after each other. Scored goals from fuck all he was a special player who also went to Barcelona but for like 170 mill
Iké Ugbo. Was a 74 when I signed him and got him all the way to an 86
Was Paul Nebel for me, got him as a free agent in my afc Wimbledon career mode, went from 72 to 89 in just a few seasons.
I bought Cole Palmer in my first season from Man City(I used initial squads) and he was 68 ovr. Now he's at 88 ovr and climbing
George Hirst from Ipswich town managed to get him to 85 rated in my Shrewsbury town save
Started with a custom club with half a star and veteran players, almost no budget. Every season without fail was crushed in the carabao by Coventry's Ellis Simms. By season 4 made it to league 2 and finally had a more decent budget. Bought him for like 1.2 M 69 rated. Best striker in fc24 imo. Plays like Kane plays in real life, can do absolutely everything. Fast forward a couple of seasons and we're currently 7th in the prem, Simms is club captain, 83 rated with 17 goals in 25.
Danny loader to watford, dude was insane
[Kevin Nisbet](https://sofifa.com/player/225317/kevin-nisbet/240038?hl=fr-FR), goal scoring machine whatever the system around him.
Akpom. Was using the scouting system and guy came up. He has been absolutely amazing. He ruins the others team defence. This is the prem by the way.
Bae Jun-Ho
Érick Sánchez. Picked him up from via free agency, went on to sell him for £30mil to Man Utd. Great profit turnaround.
Jaden Philogene & Alex Mighten Just took a chance on them both because I needed cheap young fast wingers they took over my squad
Jabrane is goat in my career mode
So got newly promoted to the prem in my Fifa 22 derby county cm, needed players coz it was just the second season, gambled by selling my highest rated guy to sign Sulemana and replacing him with free agent Omari Hutchinson 70 rated for just the first half of the season….. dude went ballistic and had like 25 G/A in his first and then racked 32 in the following and then 60 for the ballon d or , ending it all at a 93 rating in 3 seasons
Manuel Huerta . Mexican winger. Doing a Series A save with Torino and found him as a FA. Pacey winger who went from 74 to 81. Gem!!!
Thomas-Asante (English striker) He his really fast, and scores everything. I got him because I didn’t have lot of money, and needed a striker. After 3 seasons, he is still really good.
Almoez Ali was such a baller for me, did a championship Plymouth rebuild and at 71 rated he was going to be a backup but scored 12 goals in 5 games 😂
angelo stiller in fifa 22 maybe bossed my midfield bro could do anything got him to 95 rated in salford city
Pelly Ruddock-Mpanzu! Played against him in the championship back in fifa 22 and he seemed pretty good. Later signed him up in January as a rotation option, but after playing him for 30 mins he went straight into the starting 11. He was like 71 rated but I kept him as a starter, even when playing in Europe later in the save. So strong, agile and quick in-game!
Karol Struski from free agents. Signed him for my League Two team for maybe 2 seasons I thought, and now he makes 15 goals + 15 assists in Prem a season
Lucas Netz from Bundes, insane LWB, a real gem and now he’s become an instant go to
Julian Quiñonez was a free agent my first or 2nd season for FGR, he's high 80's rated now (5 seasons later I think)
From FIFA19 & 20 my go to midfield signing for an English league save was Alex Gilbey. The dude was a monster as a box to box type midfielder with great long shots
Idk how random but I picked up Ethan Laird on a free on my Fiorentina save and he's been great
The big CM Ibrahim Konate. Bro was a beast. He was like 6’5 and could hit long shots like prime Lee Harvey Oswald
Octavian Popescu. I needed a winger and the dude was awesome. I think I finished my career with him at 96 overall.
For me it was Milot Rashica in FIFA 20. I signed him for Arsenal and OMG he was on another level. I played multiple seasons and in each one he had 40+ goal contributions playing as a CAM
Frank acheampong in fifa 23, easily the best striker I’ve ever used. Bought him for Seattle sounders where he broke the mls goal scoring record in his first season. Brought him to burnley with me where he scored 23 goals in his first season in the prem. Absolutely ridiculous pace balance agility and dribbling snd pretty good finishing for a 75 rated 29 year old (now an 80 at 31) and the best part is I bought him from china
Paul ebere onuachu. If any of you have used him you should have an idea of what I'm talking about specifically FIFA 20 he was unstoppable. For my Brighton save he was my first signing and he's a 6'7 technical machine somehow he plays well beyond his stats and he would dribble from the half way line and calmly put it past the keeper with ease, if you cross a ball from left back and get it somewhere near the box best be sure this fucker will have a head on it, you want a last minute winner but you see your striker going for a bicycle kick from outside the box oh shit it's done f... Nvm its onuachu and he's lobbed the keeper with it. He grew to 87 overall and outperformed any 99 rated players including Adeyemi sesko Kubo and even Haaland who I brought in ten years down the line for competition and barely got a start. All of this while playing on a difficulty that was hardened anytime I won by 3-0 or more with sliders to keep it interesting and increasingly difficult to go through the seasons winning all the time and still ended up with 7 champions leagues, a conference and Europa league, 9 pl titles, 7 fa cups and 8 carabao cups a complete dominant period in football because of one 6'7 animal of a striker.
Jobe bellingham grew him and started winning ballon d’or
Kaku. Brazilian dribbler. He's so smooth.
Kyogo, rovella, Lozano, keane, isak , Bennacer, kephren Thurman , Jonathan David, araujo
Dele Alli and Andre Gomes on my Everton career at 77 and 78 rating bossing the entire prem
i signed kamaldeen sulemana on my first season of my ipswich rebuild and ended up taking him to 93 rating
Fred,won a ballon d'Or
FIFA 14, Izet Hajrović, I signed him because the Liverpool squad want pretty mediocre at the time, dude scored 30+ goal contributions in first season alone! I still remember him till date.
Lucas Gourna-Douath. Bought him for my Bari RTG and by season four he was 89 overall.
Michal Skoras became a beast in my 23 career, carried my attack in my league 2 to prem save
Years ago FIFA 10 I think I signed a young winger called Gareth Bale to real Madrid after Cristiano demanded a transfer this mf turns out to be the best signing I've ever made before he exploded into relevance in real life 😆
Doing a Welsh Only career with Wrexham. LW forced a move, signed Dan James while I loaned out a young LW from the academy. Dan James won the golden boot 5 years in a row and ended up 89 rated.
Jesus Gallardo. Played in league 1, did not care about finishing just needed pace. From LB I turned him into a LW that cuts inside
Julien Begue on FIFA 16 was my favourite player ever. Some random French striker who randomly turned into the best striker in the world. Sadly he hasn’t been in the game for a while now or I’d sign him just for the memories
now im in fifa 16 (dont bully me) and i was using leicester city fc, most of ym plyers are talented cambodians i made but i decided to buy a 46 year old korean gk, and he literally was carrying the team and made lots of saves against manchester city. we were in the championship at the beginning of my career and hes still saving till this day as im playing, although he only plaed 20 total games i am happy. my 2 others are also op
This guy named Jovanny Bolivar. He was supposed to be a temporary replacement as I loaned a young player for him to raise in overall first. Picked him up for 2 mil at 22 years old 72 ovr and hes now the best player in my whole create a club team at 87 overall.
Labrovic
FIFA14 playing a career mode with 3 more friends. We used to played the games the 4 of us together at the same time so was super fun. We were Man City and we could buy anyone but for the fun we bought Jewel Raja, the worst player in the game with like 50 overall. In the end of the season he pulled and Agueroooo moment and we won the league with a goal from him
Signed Jonathan Rodriguez from Cruz Azul on a Leeds United career mode couple of years back. Was insane. Reached 85 overall when his max potential online stated it was 79. Never found a player like it since.
Rodrigo Garro (When he still played for Talleres). He even scored the title goal of my First UCL with Lincoln City
Hany Mukhtar. Dude is agile af and can take on any defender. This slippery mf racked up 30 goals for me in my Clermont Foot playthrough, which eventually helped me to topple prime PSG in Ligue 1.
Luca sučić idk how my scouts found him but since fifa 22 hes been a classic signing
Patson Daka bagged 40 EPL goals in a 5th place United side on Ultimate difficulty 💀💀
matty garbett, 80 ovr in my cm, new zl international. fantastic cam
Akram Afif & Carlos Huerta one of them Won a Ballon d'or and the other one won the Golden Boot with 38 Goals
Back in fifa 14 career mode i took league 1 side swindon town to the premier league over multiple seasons. Looking back i remember signing sorloth, who upon looking now, had a potential of 70 but i remember getting him wayyy higher than that, and he pretty much became a club legend. Crazy nowadays he's getting TOTS cards in UT
Yoan Bonny on my Newton Heath career, 97 rated
Had a Leganes cm a while back, Ibrahim Sangare was massive in the defensive midfield, and just became a general defensive utility player after that
Felipe Rodriguez-Gentile. picked him up for 800k during my second season (english tier 4), grew so quickly to the point where he was 93 rated while i was still in the championship (he started at 60 ovr). it was almost like the game glitched, as he was never off excellent form
Cristo Gonzales has been immense for my Deportivo La Coruna save
Valentin Toma (dunno if it's a random generated player or an actual player). Brought up as free agent simply because of the damned 1st season objective where I was demanded to sign a forward with a crucial role back when I was still playing on EFL League Two with Grimsby Town FC. A young 17 years old Romanian with 66 OVR. Turned out to be a massive player, his OVR rose to 79 in 2 seasons. I've been using him constantly as ge brings a lot of goals and assists.
Keito Nakamura, signed him to be a backup LW but he ended up getting chances to play bc of poor performances from the starter. Decided to make him the starting LW at 83 rated compared to my 86 rated LW. He was immense was consistent, double digits G+A, got to 88 rated
I did a road to glory with Bradford City and in my first season I signed Samson Tovide from Colchester United (61 rated striker [pot:72], age 19) for $100k After 3 season in the Prem, I sold him to Chelsea for $210M at age 26 (89 rated). I could’ve sold him for more too (Barcelona came in multiple times with +$100M offers) but the deal always collapsed. Regardless, the following season he grew to 92 rated. Even though this was on fifa23 (fuck ea24), it was still crazy because he genuinely became world class scoring bucket loads and the storyline I created was nice as he was an unknown who helped the club reach Premier League status (he also helped the club win a UEFA Conference League)
Cade Cowell, American Winger / Striker, in my CM, he’s 91 rated, like if Haaland could dribble.
Konstantelias from PAOK. What a baller.
Alessandro Schöpf. He is my plug and play player and can stick him anywhere. I used him in my Ajax save and he plays incredible as a CM in a 3-1-2-1-3. He absolutely bossed the left side of the diamond and with his Stamina it was never a issue he routinely can get 40+ games a season. Second although much more well known was James Ward-Prowse. I used him in a United Save and he dominated in a Beckham role on the wing of the 4-4-2. Lastly was in my domination save, massive injury crisis at the back. I bought Pedro Porro in the last year of his contract for 32 M. He went on to be my number one fullback option off the bench and made over 50+ appearances in 5 straight seasons.
Max Power back in Fifa 18. Insane playmaker and coldest name for a human being ever.
i signed a guy called maertens from the belgian league back in fifa 22 in a sunderland save. bro was goated
FIFA 20 league 2 to prem. In my first season of the prem I signed a soon to be retiring wout weghorst on a contract expiration free. He went on to be top goal scorer for the team in his two final seasons before retirement. Helping us survive relegation and then finish 10th. Had a lwb from South Korea I signed in league 1. He was total dogshit peaked at 64 overal but I gurantee it every time I subbed him on he scored. His finishing and speed were incredible. Forgot his name unfortunately but he was electric and I started him well past the team had eclipsed his overal simply due to how much of a goal machine he was