There is no best training plan. There is a ceiling.

Trained out, under the manager that suits them, every open booster well filled. What each row prints is the finished build rather than the card you pull: how far it goes, who gets it there, and who the player was at the moment the card is about.

1. 107 CB Giorgio Chiellini

   Italy 2016

   Giorgio Chiellini

   Ceiling 107 at CB · Antonio Conte gets it there · Defensive Awareness 85 → 101 · booster added Defending +1

   Euro 2016, round of 16, the Stade de France, 27 June. Spain arrived as reigning European champions and left without a goal. Chiellini opened the scoring in the 33rd minute, Graziano Pellè sealed it in stoppage time, 2-0, and Italy had their third clean sheet of the tournament. That was the whole idea of Antonio Conte's side: not a forward line to fear, but a back three of Chiellini, Bonucci and Barzagli who had played together at Juventus every week and did not need to talk. Germany ended it in the quarter-final, 6-5 on penalties.

   Power Tackle · On sale until 01-10-2026

2. 108 CB Leonardo Bonucci

   Italy 2016

   Leonardo Bonucci

   Ceiling 108 at CB · Antonio Conte gets it there · Defensive Awareness 85 → 102

   Bonucci's Euro 2016 started with one pass. On 13 June his long ball found Emanuele Giaccherini for the opener in a 2-0 win over Belgium. Against Spain in the round of 16 he was Man of the Match in another 2-0. Then Bordeaux, 2 July, 38,764 inside: Mesut Özil put Germany ahead in the 65th minute and the player who walked up to equalise from the spot in the 78th was a centre-back. In the shoot-out Manuel Neuer saved his kick and Germany went through 6-5. A defender who passed like a playmaker and took the penalty nobody else wanted.

   Power Tackle · On sale until 01-10-2026

3. 106 DMF Daniele De Rossi

   Italy 2016

   Daniele De Rossi

   Ceiling 106 at DMF · L. Spalletti gets it there · Aggression 84 → 99 · booster added Duelling +1

   De Rossi reached 100 caps in 2014 and came to Euro 2016 as the man standing in front of Antonio Conte's back three. In the round of 16 on 27 June, Italy beat Spain 2-0 and he limped off. The injury kept him out of the Germany quarter-final on 2 July, lost 6-5 on penalties, and afterwards someone suggested he had refused to take one. His answer was the whole man: "Do I look like the type who would refuse to step up to the spot? Conte didn't ask me, and that's it. I hadn't even warmed up during the game."

   Power Tackle · On sale until 01-10-2026

4. 105 AMF

   Trendyol Süper Lig Monthly MVPs Aug '26

   Gabriel Sara

   Ceiling 105 at AMF · R. Martínez gets it there · Ball Control 80 → 96 · booster added Striker's Instinct +1

   Galatasaray's August in the league was unbeaten, and it turned on one goal. A 2-2 at home to Çorum on the 14th, 4-0 away at Erzurumspor on the 21st, then Göztepe at Rams Park on the 29th in front of 49,218. Göztepe led in the 17th minute, Davinson Sánchez levelled, and in the 55th Sara put the champions ahead for good, 2-1 on the way to 3-2. Seven points from three games for a midfielder Brazil had called up in March.

   Trendyol Süper Lig Monthly MVPs · On sale until 01-10-2026

5. 106 LWF

   Trendyol Süper Lig Monthly MVPs Aug '26

   Leandro Trossard

   Ceiling 106 at LWF · D. Deschamps gets it there · Acceleration 83 → 99 · booster added Striker's Instinct +1

   Trossard's first August in black and white was a month of learning a new league. On the 16th, the opening day, he played 62 minutes of a 1-0 home win over Eyüpspor. On the 23rd Beşiktaş lost 1-0 away at Alanyaspor. On the 31st he played 84 minutes as Çorum were beaten 6-2. Six points from three games. Behind him was the goal that mattered most in May: the only one in a 1-0 at West Ham, three points that decided Arsenal's Premier League title, before the move to Istanbul in July.

   Trendyol Süper Lig Monthly MVPs · On sale until 01-10-2026

6. 106 CF

   Trendyol Süper Lig Monthly MVPs Aug '26

   Vedat Muriqi

   Ceiling 106 at CF · R. Martínez gets it there · Offensive Awareness 81 → 98 · booster added Striker's Instinct +1

   August 2026 was the month Muriqi came home and would not stop scoring. On the 11th, a second debut for Fenerbahçe in a 1-0 win at Sturm Graz. On the 22nd, the opener after seven minutes of a 4-2 over Konyaspor, his first goal since returning. On the 26th in Lyon, the 24th-minute goal that was the first of his career in a European club competition: 2-1 on the night, 3-2 on aggregate, and Fenerbahçe into the Champions League league phase. Four days later he scored after three minutes of a 2-0 win at Samsunspor. Three goals in eight days from a striker who left Mallorca with 50 La Liga goals, second only to Eto'o in the club's history.

   Trendyol Süper Lig Monthly MVPs · On sale until 01-10-2026

7. 105 RB

   Trendyol Süper Lig Monthly MVPs Aug '26

   Sidny Cabral

   Ceiling 105 at RB · Cristian Chivu gets it there · Stamina 82 → 100 · booster added Off the Ball +1

   Cabral's first August at Trabzonspor. The league opened on the 15th with a 1-1 at Kasımpaşa. On the 23rd, with 36,316 at home, Trabzonspor beat Başakşehir 2-1 for their first league win of the season, and Cabral played all 90 minutes with five tackles, the most in his side. He had come from Benfica in June for a reported 10 million euros, straight after a World Cup, Cape Verde's first, in which his strike against Argentina was named the Goal of the Tournament.

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8. 108 CF

   Anticipated Standouts 26-27

   João Pedro

   Ceiling 108 at CF · R. Martínez gets it there · Offensive Awareness 82 → 99 · booster added Striker's Instinct +1

   Brighton sold him in July 2025 and within weeks he had won a world title with somebody else. João Pedro scored twice in the Club World Cup semi-final and once more in the final, then spent a first Chelsea season proving the summer was no accident: 20 goals, 15 of them in the league, a first top-flight hat-trick at Aston Villa, a brace at Napoli. He finished on 49 appearances and took Player of the Season with more than 60 per cent of the vote. Only 11 Chelsea players have ever scored 20 in a debut campaign in the Premier League era. This card is the year the fee stopped being the story.

   Anticipated Standouts 26-27 · On sale until 28-09-2026

9. 107 AMF

   Anticipated Standouts 26-27

   Florian Wirtz

   Ceiling 107 at AMF · Xabi Alonso gets it there · Ball Control 82 → 104

   A hundred million pounds buys a great many opinions. Wirtz left Bayer Leverkusen for Liverpool on 20 June 2025, the largest fee the Bundesliga has ever collected and the largest Liverpool has ever paid, and answered in the least theatrical way available: an assist on debut in the Community Shield, two more at Eintracht Frankfurt in October, a first Premier League assist at Tottenham on 20 December, a first goal for the club on 27 December. The German Footballer of the Year of 2025 had already won a Bundesliga and a DFB-Pokal before any of it. This card is the season the transfer fee stopped doing the talking.

   Anticipated Standouts 26-27 · On sale until 28-09-2026

10. 107 CB

    Anticipated Standouts 26-27

    Jan Paul van Hecke

    Ceiling 107 at CB · L. Spalletti gets it there · Aggression 83 → 101 · booster added Defending +1

    A centre-back gets famous the season his team stops needing to defend. Van Hecke played 36 of Brighton's 38 league games in 2025-26 and finished second in the entire division for passes, with only two players in it touching the ball more often. He had already taken both Player of the Season awards at the Amex in 2024-25, and had played 118 times there across three seasons. Tottenham signed him on 18 June 2026, a Netherlands international with a World Cup behind him and the ball at his feet by design. This card is the year the passing was the point.

    Anticipated Standouts 26-27 · On sale until 28-09-2026

11. 109 RWF George Best

    Northern Ireland 1970

    George Best

    Ceiling 109 at RWF · R. Martínez gets it there · Dribbling 87 → 102

    Northern Ireland never reached a World Cup or a European Championship in the years George Best could have played in one, and that is the fact this card keeps returning to. He was capped 37 times between 1964 and 1977 and scored 9 goals, and the best of him was spent somewhere else. In 1968 he took the European Cup with Manchester United and the Ballon d'Or ahead of Bobby Charlton, Dragan Dzajic and Franz Beckenbauer. Two seasons later, on 7 February 1970, he scored six goals in an 8-2 FA Cup win at Northampton Town, a record nobody has touched since. This is the card of a country that could not give him a stage, in the year he built one himself.

    National All-Stars · On sale until 08-10-2026

12. 108 GK Edwin van der Sar

    Netherlands 1998

    Edwin van der Sar

    Ceiling 108 at GK · Ronald Koeman gets it there · GK Awareness 84 → 100 · booster added Goalkeeping +1

    A goalkeeper's tournament is measured in the goals he could not stop, and in 1998 there were two of them. Van der Sar carried the Netherlands to the semi-finals, where Ronaldo scored in the 46th minute at the Stade Velodrome in Marseille on 7 July 1998 and Patrick Kluivert answered in the 87th in front of 54,000. Extra time settled nothing and Brazil won the shoot-out 4-2. In the quarter-final Dennis Bergkamp had brought down a long pass and scored in the last minute against Argentina, which is the goal everyone still plays back from that summer. Three major tournaments in a row ended for him on penalties, Euro 1996, this one and Euro 2000, and this is the card of the one that came closest.

    National All-Stars · On sale until 08-10-2026

13. 108 CF 19 Jun '00 Alessandro Del Piero

    Big Time Italy 19 Jun '00

    Alessandro Del Piero

    Ceiling 108 at CF · R. Martínez gets it there · Curl 83 → 106

    This card is pinned to one day, 19 June 2000. At the Philips Stadion in Eindhoven, in front of 30,000, Luigi Di Biagio put Italy ahead in the 39th minute and Henrik Larsson levelled for Sweden in the 77th, and the game was heading for the kind of draw nobody keeps. Del Piero scored in the 88th. That 2-1 sent Sweden home and sent Italy on, all the way to a final France won 2-1 with a golden goal from David Trezeguet. A group game decided in its last two minutes is a small thing to build a card on, until you notice everything that came after it.

    National All-Stars · On sale until 08-10-2026

14. 108 RWF Gareth Bale

    Wales 2016

    Gareth Bale

    Ceiling 108 at RWF · D. Deschamps gets it there · Kicking Power 82 → 101

    Wales had not been to a major tournament since the 1958 World Cup when they arrived at Euro 2016. Bale scored 7 in qualifying, more than anyone else in the squad, played every match of the finals and scored 3 more. The night it all met was 1 July 2016 at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy, where Radja Nainggolan put Belgium ahead in the 13th minute and Ashley Williams, Hal Robson-Kanu and Sam Vokes answered in the 31st, the 55th and the 86th in front of 45,936. Portugal closed it 2-0 in the semi-final on 6 July 2016 through Cristiano Ronaldo and Nani. This is the card of the summer a small country went further than anyone had planned for.

    National All-Stars · On sale until 08-10-2026

15. 107 CB Carles Puyol

    Spain 2008

    Carles Puyol

    Ceiling 107 at CB · L. Spalletti gets it there · Aggression 85 → 101 · booster added Defending +1

    Before 2008, the last thing Spain had won was the European Championship of 1964. That ended on the night of 29 June 2008 at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna, 1-0, Fernando Torres in the 33rd minute and UEFA's man of the match. Puyol started every game but one at that tournament, and in the 5 he played Spain conceded 2 goals. The side is remembered for keeping the ball, which is the half of it anybody can see; the other half was a defender who would not let the plan be broken into. He finished with 100 caps and a 2010 World Cup to go with this.

    National All-Stars · On sale until 08-10-2026

16. 107 AMF Tomáš Rosický

    Czechia 2006

    Tomáš Rosický

    Ceiling 107 at AMF · R. Martínez gets it there · Ball Control 85 → 99 · booster added Striker's Instinct +1

    The Czech Republic opened the 2006 World Cup with ninety minutes that looked like the whole tournament was theirs. On 12 June 2006 at the Arena AufSchalke in Gelsenkirchen, in front of 52,000, Jan Koller scored inside the opening minutes and Rosicky added two, in the 36th and the 76th, to beat the United States 3-0. The first of his was hit from 30 yards, 27 metres, and is the goal that still opens every clip of him. He had scored 7 in 12 qualifying matches, the last of them the only goal of the play-off second leg against Norway that put the team in Germany at all. The Czechs then went out in the group, which is why this card is one night rather than a summer.

    National All-Stars · On sale until 08-10-2026

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