Liverpool stars’ shocking FIFA 14 ratings show rapid rise with Andy Robertson improving by 22 POINTS
SIX years ago, FIFA 14 was released.
Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Radamel Falcao and Franck Ribery were the only players rated 90 or more.
Way down the list (and in some cases, way way way down the list), were a group of players plying their trade across the world.
Six years on, that group have come together and become Champions League winners.
But how were Liverpool's current crop rated on FIFA 14?
Well, bottom of the pile with a rating of just 61 was left-back Andy Robertson. He spent the 2013/14 campaign at Dundee United following his switch from Queen's Park to make his debut season in the Scottish top flight.
After impressing at Hull, he has gone on to become one of the most dangerous left-backs in the Premier League, as his 83 rating on FIFA 19 suggests.
His partner-in-crime on the other side of Liverpool's defence, Trent Alexander-Arnold, was just 14 and working his way through the youth ranks at Melwood.
Goalkeeper Alisson was still with his first club, Internacional, in his homeland Brazil and rated 63.
According to Futhead's stats, the stopper was given a ranking of 87 for FIFA 19, bettered only by Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah who were both rated 88 in the winter update.
Van Dijk - then in his first year at Celtic - was a 72 on FIFA 14 while Salah was tearing up the Swiss league with Basel before his move to Chelsea.
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Among the other big movers for Liverpool are Fabhinho, rated at 67 on loan at Monaco to 85, Jordan Henderson, 75 at Liverpool to 82, former Hoffenheim striker Roberto Firmino, 78 to 86, and Sadio Mane, 69 while at RB Salzburg to 86.
But the likes of Georginio Wijnaldum and Joel Matip have only gone up by four since their time at PSV and Schalke respectively in 2013 when the ratings were finalised for FIFA 14.
Ironically, though, Mr Consistent James Milner was rated 81 on FIFA 14... five years later and he was still an 81.
