With the major European football leagues well under way for the 2014-15 season and FIFA 15's release date approaching, EA Sports has begun to announce the player ratings in the upcoming title.
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The developers are releasing the top 50 players according to their ratings, which began yesterday with those ranked 50 to 41. Today EA Sports moves on to the next 10 players, who begin at 85 overall and go up from there.
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I have a bit of an issue with the way players are rated in the FIFA series, which you can read on yesterday's rankings post, but here are the newly announced players regardless:
85 Overall: Karim Benzema, Carlos Tevez, Mario Goetze, Diego Costa, Toni Kroos, Arturo Vidal, Petr Cech
The inclusion of Rodriguez over the majority of players rated 85 is pretty unreasonable in my view. The Colombian had a fantastic World Cup and is supremely talented, but his season at Monaco wasn't overly impressive and he doesn't have the career to support this rating. Goezte is undoubtedly more accomplished and just as gifted, and this one strikes me as a product of his World Cup and mega transfer to Real Madrid.
Cavani at this level is fair level, though it's hard to say he deserves it more than Costa, who had one of the best goal-scoring rates in Europe. Courtois is the best young keeper on the planet, and likely in the top 4 overall, so 86 (or even higher) isn't too debatable in my book.
Check back for more player ratings as they come from EA Sports leading up to the game's September 23 North America release date.
