Arsenal’s FIFA 16 Player Ratings Dissected

It’s FIFAtember, and FIFA 16 is right around the corner. FIFA 15 has begun to look like stone age technology and it is time to get the controller in our hands and wipe the smug grin off of West Ham’s collective face with a 7-0 win to kick off the Arsenal season.

With anticipation brewing, Arsenal’s FIFA 16 ratings have been revealed and as always, question marks are prevalent.

Here is a look at Arsenal’s ratings, provided by futhead.com:

Mathieu Debuchy (80)
Kieran Gibbs (80)
Per Mertesacker (83)
Gabriel (78)
Laurent Koscielny (83)
Tomáš Rosický (80)
Mikel Arteta (81)
Jack Wilshere (81)
Mesut Özil (87)
Olivier Giroud (82)
David Ospina (78)
Theo Walcott (81)
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (79)
Aaron Ramsey (82)
Alexis Sánchez (86)
Nacho Monreal (80)
Santi Cazorla (85)
Mathieu Flamini (76)
Calum Chambers (72)
Danny Welbeck (79)
Héctor Bellerín (74)
Joel Campbell (76)
Petr Čech (85)
Francis Coquelin (78)

So there you have the list of ratings for our men of North London. There are some noticeable changes to some noticeable upstarts that barged their way into the League. A ton of the Gunners received points boosts after a fantastic close to the season, but a lot of those point boosts still might not reach the heights we would expect.

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Arsenal have indeed gotten off to a slow start this season, but take these FIFA 16 ratings as an indication of the quality that is in this team. They have a mass of individual talent that, once they come together, will look like a well-oiled machine. It is just up to the gaffer and the troops to kick it in gear and make some improvements.

There are some noticeable improvements to some guys that definitely needed it. Francis Coquelin gained a whole 8 point increase. Hector Bellerin got a 13 point boost.  Gabriel Paulista received a generous 3 points boost based simply on becoming a player based in England.

Not long ago, we published our predicted player ratings for Arsenal which you can see here. We like to hold ourselves accountable, so look for our ratings next to their actual ratings in the pages to come.

We will now dissect that Arsenal FIFA 16 player ratings position by position.

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