Searching for FIFA 23 Coins the ideal midfielder to hit that coveted '33' chemistry feels very much like an Squad Building Challenge now, which feels intentional. These challenges are excellent ways to kill a few hours doing frankly nothing. However, EA's'sudoku for football nerds' is ideal for playing on the app companion to the game, and away from Ultimate Team's slow console menus.

In a dark portent of the licensing battles to come, FIFA has lost the J1 League license this year and that meant there was no King Kazu. It also led to the team to change direction and become an exciting Bronze as well as Silver Australian A League team and features the terrifying strike force of Hibs winger Martin Boyle and the aptly called David Ball. Similar to last year my team, which was my underdog, caused some rage-filled exits from rivals sporting million-coin outfits, exposing Ultimate Team as a gilded farce.

I still felt the deep guilt of a double-digit loss when I was spotted by the pros however. When more people started rolling into the arena, I quickly realized that playing three players at the back is an easy route to a 3-0 deficit even if your wingers from the opposition have some kind of speed (as they often do). It's all part of the program as far as online multiplayer is concerned which is why there's a lot of fidgety-twitching and emotions on high across the board; it's the FIFA we're used to, in its most frustrating form.

It doesn't matter of the quality of Ultimate Team's bread & butter of selling and buying silly little guys is still difficult to recommend. Even if I still have some pleasure with it each year, I don't pay for it. It's its brutal nature, and you could be dragged into debt when you go full Gollum with one last treasured player pack.

Beyond consolidating the transfer market There haven't been any significant changes made to the morally questionable way that EA handles microtransactions, but I noticed that the ratings are now rising during the spectacle that somehow make it seem more like a bandit with cheap FUT 23 Coins only one arm...