FM17: Arsenal Squad Player Ratings Breakdown


RealSport have been scouring through Football Manager 2017, the immersive manager experience game from Sports Interactive, to give you the lowdown on every Premier League squad.

To help you understand your squad, we’ve included each player’s star rating, in terms of their current and potential ability, their value and age. For example, if a player has a low current ability rating, but high potential, he is probably a young player that should be loaned out for improvement. If they have high current and potential ratings, they can slot straight into your first team.

The important thing to remember, however, is it’s all relative with FM. A two star player at one club may well be a four star player at another of lesser stature.

Arsenal’s starting transfer and wage budgets are as follows:

GOALKEEPERS

Position
Player
Current Rating
Potential Rating
Age
Nationality
Value
Goalkeeper
Petr Cech
4
4
34
Czech
£5.25m
Goalkeeper
David Ospina
2.5
2.5
27
Colombia
£9m

DEFENDERS

Position
Player
Current Rating
Potential Rating
Age
Nationality
Value
Defender
Mathieu Debuchy
2.5
2.5
30
France
£3.4m
Defender
Carl Jenkinson
2.5
2.5
24
England
£8.5m
Defender
Hector Bellerin
3
3.5
21
Spain
£22.5m
Defender
Shkodran Mustafi
3.5
4
24
Germany
£27m
Defender
Nacho Monreal
3
3
30
Spain
£9m
Defender
Kieran Gibbs
2.5
2.5
26
England
£10.5m
Defender
Laurent Koscielny
4
4
30
France
£13.5m
Defender
Pet Mertesacker
3.5
3.5
31
Germany
£5.75m
Defender
Gabriel Paulista
3
3
25
Brazil
£18.75m
Defender
Rob Holding
2.5
2.5
20
England
£3m

MIDFIELDERS

Position
Player
Current Rating
Potential Rating
Age
Nationality
Value
Midfielder
Mohamed Elneny
3
3
23
Egypt
£21m
Midfielder
Franic Coquelin
3
3
25
France
£21m
Midfielder
Granit Xhaka
3
3
23
Switzerland
£28.5m
Midfielder
Santi Cazorla
3.5
3.5
31
Spain
£11m
Midfielder
Aaron Ramsey
3.5
3.5
25
Wales
£33.5m
Midfielder
Theo Walcott
2.5
2.5
27
England
£30m
Midfielder
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
3
4
22
England
£22m
Midfielder
Danny Welbeck
3
3
25
England
£30m
Midfielder
Mesut Ozil
4.5
4.5
27
Germany
£55m

STRIKERS

Position
Player
Current Rating
Potential Rating
Age
Nationality
Value
Striker
Lucas Perez
3
3
27
Spain
£30m
Striker
Alex Iwobi
2.5
3.5
20
Nigeria
£12.25m
Striker
Alexis Sanchez
4.5
4.5
27
Chile
£50m
Striker
Olivier Giroud
3
3
29
France
£21.5m

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