Another rating that raised our eyebrows was Nemanja Vidic being afforded an 87. The big Serbian has been a loyal servant to Manchester United down the years and has won five Premier League titles and the Champions League. However, a spate of injuries has limited the 31-year-old to just 28 league appearances since the start of the 2011-12 season, and there's no way he's an 87. That rating, astonishingly, puts him on a par with the likes of Edinson Cavani and Gareth Bale (a little more on him later) and sees him given a higher rating than Vincent Kompany. EA got this one badly wrong. There may have been a time where an 87 for Vidic would have been met with acceptance, but those days are long gone.
Joseph is an accredited football journalist and has interviewed nearly all of the current 20 Barclay's Premier League managers. He is also a correspondent for Bleacher Report and has written for Caught Offside and Give Me Football.
