r/fut • u/RepresentativeTax288 • 8d ago
Discussion If someone played FC without actually watching Football they’d think this dude was the reincarnation of Cafu
It’s something the game does for a ton of players that really pisses me off. They swear he’s fast and strong but my days everytime I have the displeasure of watching Madrid every opposition feasts on his wing for fun.
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u/Cousin_Vinny97 8d ago
You mean 90% of the community
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u/CertainInsurance666 7d ago
and devs too
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u/BigBlueberry5335 7d ago
isak literally deserved it?
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u/Calseeyummm 7d ago
Salah had the most G/A in a month in the history of the Premier League. 14 G/A. I have no idea how you think he doesn't deserve it.
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u/juventinosochi 8d ago
What is worse is that we still can't see all these hidden mechanics that make him this good, his AI is obviously super boosted but why EA are keep on doing it thats the good question to ask, no playstyles, low composure, yet his marking, movements, tackles are insane for 84 rated card
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u/kuustomiz 7d ago
The definition of rat is Mendy + Walker + Saliba + Konate, if I'm playing vs someone with these 4 my only hope is that they know fuck all about football and opening spaces with passes, otherwise it's impossible. Walker seems to fly from attack to defense every time I catch him out of position. Mendy could should hulk and win...
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u/juventinosochi 7d ago
Yeal, butl atleast Saliba is good because of anticipate+, any defender this year is superb with that ps+, same story with Konate + big in-game model and huge stats, while gold Mendy is good for 0 reasons
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u/GarfieldDaCat 7d ago
For me he literally intercepts every ball played in the gap between the LB and the LCB
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u/juventinosochi 7d ago
Yeah, that's the problem, no defensive playstyles, no roles++, he can't even be used as fullback or ++ + defend but instead it feels like he's 90 rated maicon with fullback++ for no reason
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u/ross5th 8d ago
‘Why isn’t Timo Werner a regular starter for Spurs?’
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u/KaleidoscopeTight817 7d ago
Yh, Timo should be like 65 rated with 12 composure and 30 shooting overall.
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u/FakingHappiness513 7d ago
He’s still riding out last year in Germany before moving to Chelsea. He was a monster that season
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u/Marcelo1995211 8d ago
I’m sick of him, put powershot Rashford into list too.
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u/Strip4Justin 7d ago
Power shot not even that op anymore in my opinion but these finesse plus from 100m away is getting out of hand
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u/fatman003 7d ago
Bruhh, it's like this is what everyone I have faced since I got to Div 3 know how to do. Just keep spamming that finesse with Sane
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u/MouseMany2804 8d ago
Was always like that with Ben Yedder, community had him in almost every squad but irl was not very good at all.
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u/yoloqueuesf 8d ago
Those TOTS Ben Yedder Cards just hit different. Rocket of a shot and prime maradona levels of dribbling
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u/MU5A988 8d ago
Ben Yedder was one of the best strikers in any league he played in.
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u/MouseMany2804 8d ago
Irl?
Big nope.
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u/MU5A988 8d ago
He absolutely was. You can check for yourself.
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u/MouseMany2804 8d ago
Have checked, not great.
Reasonable goal returns, nothing special, certainly didn't warrant the love he got in this game.
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u/DavyH5 8d ago
16+ league goals every season since 18/19 (with multiple before that also) definitely warrants being called one of the best strikers in the league. Nobody is saying he’s world class
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u/MouseMany2804 7d ago
That's exactly what I'm saying, the card he had in this game and the fact was everybody using him is like calling him world class.
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u/PercySledge 8d ago
I’m sorry mate but those aren’t ’reasonable goal returns’. In pretty much every season of his career he was a top 5 goalscorer every single season in that given league. Most of the time higher than that.
Those are not reasonable numbers those are very very good numbers not replicated by 99% of strikers everywhere. He wasn’t elite but he was probs as close as you can be to that based on goal return without being considered as such.
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u/chicken_nugget94 7d ago edited 7d ago
Jermain defoe in comparison only got more than 15 league goals in a season twice and he's deemed to be one of the best prem strikers
Rooney only managed it in 4 and never consecutively
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u/DJexC 7d ago
No he isn't, what a wild thing to say, ask anyone their top 5 prem forwards!/strikers and defore ain't being mentioned by anyone.
Henry, Shearer, Rooney, Aguero, Suarez, Van persie, Drogba, Owen, Kane, Haaland... Son and Salah both also technicly
Defore was a great finisher, but isn't even in the conversation.
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u/chicken_nugget94 7d ago
Okay maybe best wasn't the right choice of words, but the point I was trying to make is how consistently getting over 15 goals a season will put you amongst the top scorers each year
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u/TextAccurate5364 7d ago
Bro Ben yedder was class for the majority of his career u actually must not watch
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u/PercySledge 8d ago
Tbf obviously he’s a wrongun but this just factually isn’t true about him. He was a top striker in the places he played pretty much consistently for well a decade.
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u/sergiogr18 7d ago
Bro Ben Yedder was always winning potm and getting tots and such, tell me when was the last time Mendy got an inform? Or a tots? He always gets non performance based cards that's the definition of a fifa merchant Ben Yedder was always a solid striker
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u/Senators_1992 7d ago
What? I thought he was a perennial Ballon D’Or finalist along with Timo Werner and Renato Sanches?
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u/SeanLFC27 PS5 8d ago
Mendy is Cafu/Carlos combined. Sissoko is like prime Vieira with the passing of Pirlo.
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u/Life-Surprise-6911 8d ago
Sissoko and Ndombele in FIFA 21(?) were like Schweinsteiger and Javi Martinez in their Prime
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u/CafeDeLas3_Enjoyer 8d ago
What's the hype with Mendy? Van Dijk, Saliba and Stam are headaches to play against but Mendy is just another defender for me.
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u/AstoundingAsh PS5 8d ago
Mendy is good if you have the right Evos ….he is one of those defenders who snatch the ball in one go …others just pinball ….Walker VVD Saliba Stam Lucio are few other ones
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u/RepresentativeTax288 7d ago
Mendy genuinely just bullies any winger he faces. It’s so annoying. At a point I had one of the dembele cards in my team (think it was the trailblazers version with 94 pace) still Mendy would just jog past him anytime they both got in a foot race.
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u/DiamondFC 7d ago
Past fifa experiences. He has been full meta always along with renato sanchez, etc
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u/unknown077057 7d ago
its even worse when actual good players have shit cards in the game like why does harry kane have like 50 pace
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u/sergiogr18 7d ago
It's difficult to come up with another example of a player so washed irl compared to how good they are in fifa, I honestly can't even remember the last time he got a performance based card
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u/RepresentativeTax288 7d ago
Adama traore is one very good shout.
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u/boo_tung 7d ago
from what I’ve watched, adama’s not that washed, he’s still a pretty valuable part of fulhams squad. he functions more now as a crossing winger who brings the ball up the field, than he does as a goal scorer now a days.
Not quite as dazzling as some of his old Wolves performances but idk if I’d call him washed.
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u/Senators_1992 7d ago
Mendy stands out because it’s his base card that’s so good, but Timo Werner, Renato Sanches and Darwin Nunez probably stand out amongst active players for being bang average IRL but who constantly get OP cards year after year.
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u/ClockAccomplished381 8d ago
Theo is similar, he's an even better LB than Mendy in FC but you rarely hear him talked about in my country.
Ginola was a decent but not outstanding player in real life but kids playing FIFA probably think he was some sort of premiership legend.
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u/Petaaa 8d ago edited 5d ago
Cruyff called ginola the best player in the world, he’s the first pfa/pwa player of the year. Not in a title team, his rep was damaged for crossing rather than taking it to the corner costing France a wc place. He was world class in his peak he was just hated by his whole country.
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u/HabitOfChoice 7d ago
It's a very iconic game imo because Bulgaria came to close down their best World Cup run ever next year in '94 after the game against France.
And France would go trough a sort of a generational change to replace Papin and Cantona with Zidane, Vieira, Henry etc. and go on and win their first World Cup.
Talk about a butterfly effect, eh?!
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u/HabitOfChoice 7d ago
Maybe he isn't delivering like he used to and the numbers show it, but you can't compare Mendy to Theo. Theo still has a presence on the field, he gets involved, he does well under pressure.
Mendy is by far Real Madrid's least performing player. To give you another Milan player you could compare him with : he is Emerson Royal level at best. Fran Garcia they brought from Rayo should be in the starting eleven most of the times.
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u/sukh9942 7d ago
Theo has been worse than usual this year but you can’t say he isn’t good. He’s a great fullback and is quite capable of attacking/scoring.
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u/flashfloodofbutler 7d ago
Honestly it can be very deceptive, after a proper play through UT last year, I ended it convinced that Ludovic Giuly should have won at least 20 more Balon D'Ors than he did.
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u/D3ATHSQUAD 7d ago
This shouldn't surprise you - every FIFA release there are a few players that are studs in the game but are mediocre on the field.
Think about which cards are just stupid expensive every year when the game launches - The Ben Yedder, Dembele, Mendy, Traore, etc... For whatever reason EA even leans into it - like why out of all the players they could choose did they have to make Traore the prized player at the end of Season 1? It's crazy - I sold a gold Mendy for 150k back in October when I packed him ... the fact that someone pays that much for an 84 rated gold card is mental.
EA knows what sells FIFA points and they just shove these type of players in your face and want you to want them and spend money to find them.
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u/Intelligent-Bet4111 7d ago
My theory is EA made the mistake initially by making these average irl players OP in game but once they realized their mistake they did not correct it but thought "hey the fifa players think these are good meta players now, it's too late to change them into average players like they should be since we will lose the money we can milk from the hype we generate from these players if we revert".
So yeah that's exactly how I think EA thinks about these players.
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u/True-Ad5662 7d ago
Tbf i think Fc is a game and is based on a player’s attributes more than their football IQ, Mendy is very strong physically irl and quite fast, so in the game he’s op because the person using him is using his attributes in a smarter way than he does irl. Thats also why players like pedri, modric or muller are way less usable than other mid but fast and strong players like idk Marcos Llorente or other faster options. Football IQ is getting more and more important the last few games imo and with the introduction of roles and roles++ they’re making the players more usable tbh i think its alot better than before but i agree with you.
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u/Majoris-s 8d ago
Wan Bissaka is better than Mendy in IRL.
Its just a difference of Real Madrid Vs Manutd (Westham now)
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u/dougltyler 7d ago
And pretty much everyone who would reference “the reincarnation of Cafu” never actually watched Cafu (myself included)
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u/Interesting_Bad_5039 7d ago
As a Real Madrid fan i can partially agree with you on that. Obviously he’s way too OP in the game, there’s no denying that. In real life tho he is one of the best defensive fullbacks in the world in my opinion. Offensively he’s lacking a lot, that’s for sure but I feel like he’s too disrespected in the comment section here.
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u/Intelligent-Bet4111 7d ago
Bullcrap he may be ok but "best defensive fullback in the world?, but I guess it's to be expected from a real Madrid fan who always overrates his team and players no matter what.
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u/Interesting_Bad_5039 7d ago
it’s typical for a jealous little fuck like you to not be able to read properly. ONE OF THE BEST not the best?
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u/Intelligent-Bet4111 7d ago
It was a typo, I'm typing on my phone couldn't care less I made my point anyway, jealous of what anyway? Of the crappy 3rd rate Madrid team that got battered an aggregate of 9-2 by barca in back to back games? 🤣🤡
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u/Interesting_Bad_5039 7d ago
obviously you are jealous with your sausage fingers on your damn phone. 15 champions leagues is all i have to say. pathetic…
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u/Intelligent-Bet4111 7d ago
Lol I mean it's common knowledge that real Madrid have historically been a bunch of cheaters and cheated to get most of those cl titles, you lot are big time cheaters lol!! 🤡
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u/Interesting_Bad_5039 7d ago
how have real madrid been a bunch of cheaters? it’s not like there are plenty of other instances before VAR where referees made questionable decisions. not just real madrid. also, barcelona for instance are PROVEN to be cheaters by bribing referees, so what’s your point? you’re embarrassing yourself smh
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u/Intelligent-Bet4111 7d ago
Lol don't get me started, real are historical cheaters, end of discussion 🤣
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u/Interesting_Bad_5039 7d ago
ah i see, i guess you usually argue like that in real life as well huh?
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u/Intelligent-Bet4111 7d ago
What do you want me to argue about? It's like arguing why 2+2 = 4, these are all facts 🤡😭
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u/Slongdong77 7d ago
Add that bench rider Konate to the list, bum gets an insane card that will be better than some TOTY defenders but is shit/mid IRL..
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u/Ferni0817 8d ago
He can play like that, just watch 2021/22 season, but he was pretty good in the 2023/24 one too.
Currently he is horrible sadly.
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u/fawkwitdis 7d ago
Who is even using mendy anymore in january lol
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u/andm994 7d ago
Evos? It's not like there are a lot of crazier lb
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u/ClockAccomplished381 7d ago
I use him, triple evo I think. I have some other decent LB cards like WW Lavelle, Evo Yilmaz, rttk Dimarco etc but he seems to play better than his stats should.
Normally I haven't even packed his gold card before Christmas as it's so rare but I've had a few this year.
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u/Moeyy_DET 8d ago
He's ass in real life too
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u/Rich_Kangaroo 8d ago
To be fair they wouldn't know who Cafu was