EA Sports have begun the countdown in their reveal of the top 50 players on the upcoming FIFA 17.

Releasing the list in stages, EA have begun with the players ranked between 50-31st place.

50 Blaise Matuidi (CDM 86)

49 Marcelo (LB 86)

48 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (ST 86)

47 Dimitri Payet (LM 86)

46 Arjen Robben (RM 87)

45 James Rodríguez (CAM 87)

44 David Silva (LM 87)

43 Karim Benzema (ST 87)

42 Arturo Vidal (CM 87)

41 Sergio Busquets (CDM 87)

40 Samir Handanovič (GK 87)

39 Mats Hummels (CB 87)

38 Thomas Müller (CF 87)

37 Angel Di María (RW 87)

36 Alexis Sánchez (LW 87)

35 Ivan Rakitić (CM 87)

34 Jan Oblak (GK 87)

33 Leonardo Bonucci (CB 87)

32 David Alaba (LB 87)

31 Hugo Lloris (GK 88)

30 Eden Hazard (LM 88)

29 Giorgio Chiellini (CB 88)

28 Petr Cech (GK 88)

27 Toni Kroos (CM 88)

26 Gianluigi Buffon (GK 88)

25 Marco Reus (LM 88)

24 Andres Iniesta (CM 88)

23 Diego Godin (CB 88)

22 Philipp Lahm (RB 88)

21 Kevin De Bruyne (RM 88)

He's protected by an excellent defense and has huge problems in some areas of the game, set pieces are certainly a concern, but his pk ability is one of the worst I've ever seen in a top team's keeper.

He's obviously a very good player, but are you suggesting he's on the same level as others who share his rating, such as Sanchez, Di Maria, and Muller? I think that's reaching big time for a very young keeper who's only really played one full season with a top club.

@Dynastian Thats the point, Navas is ranked as worse as Navas, also, Courtois is OP considering his bad last season.

I'm seriously not impressed by FIFA or PES player rating and I'm not suprised to see that kind of stuff anymore, we should really see it comming since EA are alway doing that kind of BS from what I seen...

Also, regarding Messi rating, I don't really care if he get a worse overall rating than Ronaldo but I think Messi should be able to play in more position effectively because when you think about, that true in real life, Ronaldo only play as winger and rarely as a striker, while Messi has played on the wing, as a striker and sometime as a attacking midfielder if I'm not wrong, so I think that he have more potential to be a more all around player. Tell me if what I'm saying make any sense, not a big FIFA player so I'm not sure what I say is true. :)

Lol Claudio Bravo and Navas have lower ratings than Oblak, Petr Cech, Lloris and Courtouis XD Bravo and Navas are highly underrated. If those keepers are that high, than those two should be as well.

@Rayrex7 Agreed. :)

Lloris deserves the high rating imo, but Handanovic, Oblak and Cech are overrated with 3-4 points.

@Phenohyte, Handanovič was absolutely amazing last season, deserved TOTS over all imo.

@Phenohyte @Croatian Actually, Cech was pretty good, I think he pretty much deserved his rating. On other hand Courtois didn't deserve such a high rating at all, last season wasn't so good for him.

here is the top under 21 players https://www.easports.com/fifa/news/2016/fifa-17-player-ratings-career-mode-hidden-gems

with all those upgrades saul should have gotten at least 82 and i don't who how tf shaw got upgraded to 80 while bellerin is only 79. and gimenez should have got 84 if not 85 83 should have been his rating without the defenders upgrades.

Where did you get that Shaw got 80 and Bellerin 79? If Shaw got higher upgrade than Bellerin who did amazing last season while Shaw didn't even play, this just shows how EA knows something about football.

@quikzyyy Lad, do you really think EA know anything about football, I'm pretty sure they are too occupied making the game in just one year and making sure to take away license from PES to watch any game. Pretty sure they ask a bunch of ten year old for the ratings of the player. ;P

@liomessi Also, I really hope all those player get their face in the game, that would be sick and it would make it easier to have a fully scanned team later in the game. :D

^ea are getting very particular with their faces i think lots of them will. all the premier league ones definitely will.

@quickzyy go on the link i showed. it's all there.

Hoho, if they get the face for the Bundesliga, I would hope they end up getting this guys http://www.futhead.com/16/players/6158/marco-sailer/ Would love to make a badass beard XI with him and Ledley. XD

But seriously, which league is more likely to have the most face scanned after the BPL?

@Lio Ah, the table with overall didn't load for me yesterday, but yeah you're right. But how the hell you upgrade player who didn't play for whole season +3 and then upgrade Bellerin who had amazing season (and don't tell me he didn't) +2?
EA LOGIC

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It has to be the La Liga with Barca and Real there I think.

@Phenohyte Full face for Barca, Real and Atetico is really a must and was already expected for my part anyway but the rest of la liga isn't quite as popular. I would love it though, for Sevilla, Villareal and Bilbao. But that pretty much it, Serie A would be an interesting league to do since they have few more team that are a bit more known than La liga, with Napoli, Roma, Inter, AC Milan, Fiorentina now and Juventus.

90 Boateng is laughable- chiellini, hummels or bonucci are all better defenders, admittedly aubemayang is slightly overrated 84-85 imo

Debuchy overall 80
Bellerin overall 79

How retarded on a scale 1-10 you must be to do this?

@quikzyyy I would say 20 would be right. :P At least, Bellerin will have plenty of potential to make up for it but still, EA are so high. Those rating are disgraceful at best.

I just can't even imagine what are they smoking when they make these ratings...

I have no idea buddy, but it can't be good, for if it was, those rating would still be better than that. EA are so bad at this, I sometime wonder why they don't hire a team of specialist and expert to make the stat of the player.