In FUT mode of FIFA 22, you should try to build really strong teams. This year, it happens unusually quickly, says MeinMMO author Max Handwerk – thanks to the transfer market! Only when jumping to the ‘ultimate team’, there are still problems.
This is currently the situation with FIFA 22: The official kickoff for FIFA 22 was on October 1, with Early Access starting already on September 22. Either way: Throwing it back, one comes to the conclusion that FIFA 22 is now somewhere between ‘not even a-‘ and ‘just over a month’ old for all players.
That’s actually not a lot of time, but somehow a lot has already happened. This explicitly refers to the transfer market: It’s incredibly low. There are plenty of strong cards at extremely cheap prices compared to previous years.
Let’s briefly look at a few examples:
- Bundesliga player Robert Lewandowski cost 90,000 coins at this time last year, in FIFA 22 he is currently at 36,000 – and that despite a better card.
- A Paul Pogba in the Premier League cost over 200,000 coins – in FIFA 22 he currently costs 68,000, also with better stats.
- Paulo Dybala from Serie A was just over 40,000 coins at this time. In FIFA 22, he currently costs 11,000.
At this point, there are only 14 gold players who even cost more than 100,000 coins in Ultimate Team. All others that are above this limit are special cards like Heroes, Icons or Event cards.
However, even some of the new Heroes like striker Mario Gomez are already below the 100,000 – although Gomez still cost nearly 300,000 coins at release.
Many cards can now be acquired even with few coins. This noticeably shortens the path to the ‘Ultimate Team’ – at least if you are not after the ‘ultimate’ Ultimate Team.
Strong teams without problems – Then comes the gap
I decided to go for a Serie A team at the start of the FUT season in FIFA 22. The players from the Italian league are usually a bit cheaper than the rest – accordingly, I thought it would be worth assembling a powerful squad here at the start of the season. However, I did not expect how quickly the team would be mostly ‘finished’.
Just a month has gone by, and in Serie A, I am running a bit out of players that I could bring into the team – at least, as long as I stay in the Italian league. I am playing without the use of FIFA Points and have only participated in one Weekend League this year – so it hasn’t cost a lot of time and effort.
Thanks to the low transfer market, I was able to buy players quickly who I thought I would take much longer to acquire. But that’s not the only factor that aided the building process.
- I regularly checked for preview packs – and if one was worth it, I grabbed it and sold the contents on the transfer market. Once, Ederson was included, who at that time still brought 50,000 coins. The preview packs didn’t exist before – and they are a good option to earn coins and improve the team with a bit of luck.
- Through the new division system, you only need 3 wins per week (or 7 for the upgrade) to get decent rewards in Division Rivals, once you arrive in a decent league (I’m currently in Division 5).
- This new system seems to work if you’re not constantly getting crushed. Unfortunately, the new system also has a downside – namely when you end up in too high a division and just keep losing.
- Even with Weekend League qualification, there were already rewards – and once that was achieved, it didn’t take many wins to get a few packs on the weekend.
- Thanks to the low transfer market, players were also quickly found to complete SBCs like de Ligt relatively hassle-free.
In connection with the transfer market, I was able to quickly assemble a strong team that would have taken me longer in the past. In general, powerful teams are not as expensive as before. Only how things will proceed now is the question.
The gap upward is wide: While you can definitely build great teams with little effort, there are still the “top meta players” that are hard to reach. Ronaldo and Mbappé cost over a million, Neymar and Messi follow closely behind. In Serie A, the Hero card of Di Natale would be a great target – but that also costs over a million. The really strong icons are also not cheap.
Taking the “next step” in team building is likely to be challenging without some pack luck despite poor odds of pulling one of these cards. Because: While you can currently buy cheap players on the transfer market, it’s damn hard to earn coins through player sales. It’s obvious, as almost everything is cheap.
To progress here, there are two options:
- Wait until the market drops further
- or collect more rewards from Weekend Leagues and Division Rivals weeks.
But at least I can already rely on a better team for the latter this year than before.
How are you doing in FIFA 22 right now? Have you already put together a good team, do you have top players in your ranks? And what do you think of the current situation on the transfer market? Let us know in the comments!
