13 iconic cards that would be worthless on FIFA 22\u2019s FUT Market EA SPORTSThe collapse of the FUT market in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team has been unprecedented, rendering some of the game\u2019s best cards basically worthless \u2013 but how would it reflect on some of the franchise\u2019s best-ever players? It has been well documented that the market is going through an extremely rough patch in FIFA 22, with the likes of Kai Havertz dropping from a valuation of 115,000 coins last year to a mere 5,000 this time. That\u2019s not the only example, either. With a dead market has come a really torrid struggle for FUT Club owners, who have argued many packs are now not even worth opening. If you don\u2019t get one of the top stars, the chances are that you\u2019ll have to sell the player who appears on your board or walkout 10 to 15 times over to afford a great card in the future. Those of us who have been playing Ultimate Team from the very start \u2013 started our journey as card collectors, and slowly got used to the fast-paced nature of online play \u2013 will have played with some incredible items over the years in EA\u2018s series. The sad thing is, though, many of them would be utterly worthless today. Iconic FUT cards that wouldn\u2019t survive in FIFA 22 1 \u2013 Kaka, FIFA 11 (86) The cover star of FIFA 22, Kylian Mbappe, is worth a whopping 1.3 million \u2013 1.7 million coins, but the cover star of FIFA 11 would probably fetch around 10-15k in the current climate. 2 \u2013 Xavi, FIFA 12 (92) The pass master. Xavi was one of those footballers that didn\u2019t ever fit the Ultimate Team meta mould of pacey midfielders, so you can bet your bottom dollar he would be in the lower echelons of the market today. 3 \u2013 Robin Van Persie, FIFA 12 (86) The flying Dutchman. Robin Van Persie enjoyed a purple patch of his career between 2010 and 2014, but there\u2019s no way a striker with that pace (82) would be considered high-value in FIFA 22. Dare we say it, he could be modern-day fodder. 4 \u2013 Carles Puyol, FIFA 11 (87) A brick wall of a defender. Carles Puyol is one of the most decorated centre-backs in history, winning the La Liga six times and the Champions League on three occasions. While he might be held in high esteem among football fans, there\u2019s no doubt that this slow, high-rated card would have a sinking valuation these days. A quick prediction would be 6,000 \u2013 8,000 coins, which is a fraction of what it once was. 5 \u2013 Frank Lampard, FIFA 12 (87) A box-to-box midfielder. Frank Lampard was a staple of Premier League teams up and down the land in FIFA 12, with a fantastic shot that made up for his sluggish sprint speed. Sadly, he would just be viewed as a rating in FIFA 22, and we\u2019d give him an estimated valuation of 7,000 coins\u2026 tops. 6 \u2013 Antonio Di Natale, FIFA 13 (85) Faster than a car. Italy\u2019s Antonio Di Natale was a nightmare for defenders when he was fed with a lofted pass. Once he got in behind, there was no chance you were catching him. However, if you look at the Serie A market in FIFA 22 where cards such as Ciro Immobile \u2013 similarly rated \u2013 is 14,000 coins and two ratings higher\u2026 There\u2019s not much hope for the former Udinese man. 7 \u2013 Zlatan Ibrahimovic, FIFA 13 (88) The skillful Swede. Zlatan Ibrahimovic has had a crazy career but in FIFA 13 he was arguably at the peak of his powers, having joined PSG from AC Milan. With 88 shooting, the 6ft5 star was dominating Ultimate Team as the perfect poacher, priced in the upper echelons of Ultimate Team. In 2021, though, this card would be lucky to be over 20,000 coins. 8 \u2013 Bastian Schweinsteiger, FIFA 14 (88) World Cup winner. In 2014, Bastian Schweinsteiger got his hands on the biggest trophy international football has to offer, but looking back at his base gold card, it would be worthless in the unstable FIFA 22 market. 63 pace? You\u2019re looking at 5,000 coins for a card that used to be one of the best around. 9 \u2013 Thiago Silva, FIFA 18 (88) Everybody\u2019s favorite Brazilian. Thiago Silva was in every team he could possibly be. Players all around the world would try to shoehorn him into their defensive lines, because of how fast he was compared to the competition. As sad as it is, though, with 80+ pace CBs cutting about in the game today, PSG\u2019s central defender wouldn\u2019t have the aspirational price he one did. 10 \u2013 Ronaldinho, FIFA 10 (87) The trickster. Ronaldinho had every single skill in the book in his locker, beating opposition teams by himself at times. FIFA 10 is probably the time where he had his best base card, but a 77 pace LF wouldn\u2019t survive in this market. Ronaldinho as SBC fodder? What is the world coming to? 11 \u2013 Carlos Tevez, FIFA 12 (88) Bulldog-like approach. Carlos Tevez was one of the most lethal strikers in the Premier League at the time FIFA 12 was released, marking his highest base rated card to date. In a world where 90+ pace strikers are considered to be meta and most of the others fall short, it\u2019s a shame to think the Argentine would probably be around 6,000 coins nowadays. 12 \u2013 Didier Drogba, FIFA 12 (86) The man for the big occasion. Didier Drogba scored so many important goals for Chelsea over the years, many of which came against their London rivals Arsenal. While this was a landmark year for the Ivorian, scooping the Champions League trophy in Bayern Munich\u2019s backyard, his card would have a poor value if it was released a decade later. 13 \u2013 Alexis Sanchez, FIFA 16 (86) The flying winger. Alexis Sanchez\u2019s glory years came at Barcelona and Arsenal, playing for the latter when FIFA 16 launched. At the time, he would undoubtedly be a regular in your opponent\u2019s starting 11, though with the way the FUT market has gone \u2013 valuing just a select few cards in the realm of the elite \u2013 Sanchez wouldn\u2019t be near Raheem Sterling\u2019s price of 30,000 coins. A few thousand coins would likely be his valuation. Now \u2013 it\u2019s always good to look back at the past and remember some of the top cards we used to play with. But really, the way the in-game economy is going today in Ultimate Team, this is just another way of showing how bad things have gotten. Each of these players should be among the top-rated and top-priced in the world, but there\u2019s no chance they would be in 2021. Many would simply be considered fodder, and that\u2019s the sad reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
13 iconic cards that would be worthless on FIFA 22\u2019s FUT Market EA SPORTSThe collapse of the FUT market in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team has been unprecedented, rendering some of the game\u2019s best cards basically worthless \u2013 but how would it reflect on some of the franchise\u2019s best-ever players? It has been well documented that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}