FIFA 18: 7 Players Who Can’t Be Happy With Their Rating
1. Gareth Bale
As painful as Marco's fall from grace must have been, at least Reus snagged the FIFA 17 cover. Gareth Bale has yet to be celebrated by EA Sports in a similar fashion, and he's another who has seemingly fallen out of favour with statisticians putting together lists for the new game. Bale has even dropped out of the Top 10 entirely.
Things become very confusing when closely analysing Bale's stats between FIFA 17 and 18, only to find that nothing has changed. We're not kidding. Numbers for pace, dribbling, shooting, defending, passing and physical are identical across both games, so why did EA drop him from a 90 rating to 89 and punt the Welshman down from FIFA's 6th best player to 17th this year?
No, Bale isn't the star that Cristiano Ronaldo is in the Real Madrid team, but he's still important to the Spanish club's success. He's never recaptured the goal-scoring form of that first 2013-2014 season at the Bernabéu, and yet Gareth is one of the world's most dangerous attacking players. You'd think that would count for something.
What other players do you think will be grumbling about their FIFA 18 rating? Let us know down in the comments section below!