Yaya Toure's rating in FIFA 15 is also infuriating. Somehow, the Manchester City midfielder hasn't budged an inch from his score of 86 in last year's game despite easily being the best midfielder in the Premier League in 2013-14. His 20 league goals last season was an astonishing haul and represented Toure's personal best campaign in front of goal of his entire career. Toure scored 24 in all competitions when you also take into account domestic and European cup tournaments and was rightly named in the PFA Premier League Team of the Year for his excellent displays. Yet despite firing City to their second title in three years, EA somehow arrived at the conclusion that his rating should stay where it is. Which is maddening. You have to wonder what more Toure could have done to gain an increase, an increase that again would have seen him climb into the game's top-20-rated players. Instead he falls just outside the elite category in 22nd place and were it not for the publisher's stringency he would surely be sitting among FIFA 15's biggest hitters right now.
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.
