FIFA 18: 10 Changes EA Sports Must Make

Other than that number that moves up and down almost at random, is there any point to the youth system? Beyond existing as a means to keep the game going ten seasons into a campaign mode. But for the usual four-seasons-then-bored crowd, what threat can your board mount? Yeah you won the triple in your first season but you didn’t bring fresh talent Darren ‘potato face’ Moore into the first team, so we’re letting you go. Please.

You can invest millions, hire the best scouts around and send them to three corners of the globe for years at a time. But you can be sure that all they’re coming back with is a handful of youngsters that look like the cast of Police Academy IV and there won’t be a 60+ rated player among them.

I get that it takes time. But throw us a bone, Fifa. Give us a wunderkind from the favelas who’s a 75 at age 16. Or how about a reliable Milner figure who will never get above 78 but has a stupidly high stamina and strength.