I now find myself in Division 7, and while I know there will be people reading this chuckling to themselves at such a diminished achievement, the difference in my overall play is night and day. If I could play Mut 21 coins myself from two or three weeks past, I'd likely win 15-0; the progress has been dramatic. I am still making silly mistakes and panicking defensively once I shouldn't, and I'm not scoring as many goals as I believe I should be, but there's no question I have improved a great deal.

The next steps for me are to work on improving what I've got. There are better versions of Pogba and Kante, as an example, which would enhance my searching to get a fee; I'd really like to find somebody like Eric Cantona upfront, however I still know that it's going to put me back millions of Coins. I am at a point now, with my squad, at which I'm basically trading any cards I earn and rescue my Coins so that I can make minor improvements to the gamers I've already got.

I've really mostly enjoyed playing online; nobody utilizes a microphone so I have not encountered anywhere near the quantity of abuse I faced in Cheap Mut 21 coins. I did receive some very salty messages, but generally I think FIFA 21's matchmaking works nicely; I feel like I am playing against players at a roughly similar ability level, which is contributing to some competitive matches with fun ebbs-and-flows; sometimes I catch roundly beaten by a better player, other times I win professionally as well. Fair.