It's still early days but there's huge potential to document the careers of players as well as recreate moments that will be etched in football history with FIFA 23 Coins this mode. The current selection includes highlights from the great times that included Jurgen Klopp and Kylian Mbappe. In next year's game, it'd be exciting to see what EA's team will do with other legends of football like Pele and "King" Kazuyoshi Miura.

Elsewhere, there are sweeping changes to the chemical system. Chemistry is no longer influenced by a player's position in the formation in relation to other players. It's which allows for greater diversity across leagues and nations. It's unlikely to influence the way that people think about their strategy However, it's nice that you're able to bring in wildcard players and have more options to connect them to top division players.

Trying to find the perfect midfielder to achieve that coveted "33" chemistry feels similar to the idea of a Squad Building Challenge now, which seems to be deliberate. The Squad Building Challenges can be an excellent way to spend a few hours doing frankly nothing. But EA's'sudoku for football nerds' is best played using the companion app, and away from Ultimate Team's inefficient console menus.

In a dark omen of the licensing battles for football to be fought, FIFA has lost the J1 League license this year and that meant there was no King Kazu. It also led to an abrupt change to the thrilling Bronze and Silver Australian A League team and features the terrifying strike force of Hibs winger Martin Boyle and the aptly named David Ball. Similar to last year my underdog team was responsible for some rage-filled exits from teams sporting million-coin costumes which exposed Ultimate Team as a gilded farce.

I still felt the deep shame of being a victim of a double digit thrashing when the pros found me out, but. As more players started to roll in, I noticed that playing three players at the back is a swift way to get a 3-0 lead when the wingers of your opponent have any kind of pace (as they typically do). It's all part of the program as far as online multiplayer goes with fidgety twitching, and emotional highs across the board. It's the FIFA we're all familiar with, but at its most frustrating.

Whatever the case whether Ultimate Team's bread and cake of buying and selling the snarky little players is difficult to recommend. Although I've had some pleasure with cheapest FUT 23 Coins it each year, without ever paying, the main reason is the barbarous nature in which you could be dragged into debt when you go full Gollum by purchasing one last player pack.