Predicting 21 players who will be slapped with a downgrade on FIFA 23

FIFA 23 will hit shelves worldwide on September 30, 2022.

The annual release of EA Sports’ tentpole video game is always met with a great deal of anticipation, and that can be said of both avid gamers themselves as well as general football fans.

That’s because the FIFA series holds a unique standing in the pantheon of video games by way of passing commentary on the real world of football as opposed to just the digital copy displayed within its product.

The highly popular Ultimate Team game mode means that the real-world professional players within each edition have to be awarded a rating out of 100 based on how good they’re deemed to be.

That, in turn, leads to a situation where FIFA’s player ratings essentially stand as one of the biggest objective rankings of footballers to be produced each year.

The phenomena has amassed so much interest over the last decade that seldom does a game release go by without videos of the players themselves reacting to their new ratings going viral.

Those fiddly little numbers out of 100 might be viewed as arbitrary to some, but they have taken on a wider cultural significance that means the comparisons you can make from them really carry weight in the footballing world.

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So, as everyone here at GIVEMESPORT hotly anticipates the release of FIFA 23, we couldn’t help putting our tinfoil hats on and imagining what player rating changes could be in store for the new game.

We’ve already predicted the top-rated players in competitions such as the Premier League and La Liga, but now we’re forecasting which stars could be in for an unfortunate surprise when they boot up their copy of the game this year.

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