Elsewhere, there are sweeping changes to the chemical system. Chemistry will no longer be affected by the position of a player in the formation relative to other players. It's it allows for more variety across nations and leagues. I don't think it will impact anyone's strategy much, but it's nice knowing that you can throw in wildcard players and FIFA 23 Coins have more options to connect them to top division players.

Finding the ideal midfielder to achieve that coveted "33"-like chemistry feels similar to a Squad Building Challenge now, that's a bit of a deliberate. These challenges are an ideal way to pass several hours doing nothing. But EA's'sudoku for football geeks' is best played using the companion app away from Ultimate Team's sluggish menus for consoles.

In a dark signpost to the battle for licensing of football games to follow, FIFA has lost the J1 League license this year this year, meaning that there will be no King Kazu. In the end, it was an abrupt change to an equally exciting Bronze and Silver Australian A League team, featuring the feared attacking force Hibs forward Martin Boyle and the aptly named David Ball. Similar to last year my underdog team triggered some angry quits against teams with million-coin collections which exposed Ultimate Team as a gilded farce.

There was a sense of the humiliation of a two-digit battering when the pros found me out. Once more players began rolling into the arena, I noticed that playing three at the back is a quick path to a 3-0 deficit for wingers who are not able to show at least a little speed (as they generally do). In the end, it's just par for the program as far as online multiplayer goes which is why there's a lot of fidgety-twitching and excitement abounding across the board. It's the FIFA that we are all familiar with, in its most frustrating form.

Regardless of the quality of Ultimate Team's bread cake of buying and selling absurd little boys is not something I would recommend. Although I've had some amusement every year, I don't pay for it. It's the barbarous nature in which it is easy to be dragged into debt by going all Gollum by purchasing one last player pack.

In addition to consolidating the transfer markets the transfer market, there have been no significant changes in EA's morally questionable approach to microtransactions. However, I did notice that ratings have been rising since the show's glitzy unveiling that makes it seem more like a bandit with FUT 23 Coins buy only one arm...