11 key changes FIFA 17 needs to make according to fans

Bloomin’ heck have Leicester been exciting to watch this season. They play fast, direct, attacking football, leaning on Riyad Mahrez’s incisive passing and Jamie Vardy’s pace. It’s night and day from Man Utd’s defend-and-nick-a-goal mentality, or Spurs’ patient possession game, and that variety is one of the elements people love most about the Premier League. You’d never know that from offline games of FIFA, where the AI appears to adopt uniform tactics no matter the team it’s controlling. (Where, for instance, are the long balls wanged towards target men in League Two?)

Futhead’s Ahnaf_D has a perfect solution: individual team playing styles. “In FIFA 16, all the teams play the same way which is boring as f***. So EA should add traits to a team. For example, Chelsea [taking an] early lead and parking the bus, or Barcelona’s Tiki Taka.” Omnomcookies96 expands upon this idea beautifully. He proposes that a team’s playing style would be tied to its manager, and therefore change over the course of a career mode. “If Pep Guardiola ends up at Norwich I want them to keep the ball, but if Tony Pulis is there then it’s eyes to the sky for 90 minutes.”

GR verdict: Even if the concept of styles being linked to a particular coach isn’t possible for FIFA 17, a basic version of this would add both believability and challenge. A resounding ‘yes please’.