Player Review

I've always liked Verrati special cards and really wanted to like this card. I played about 20 games with this guy in Rivals. Div 3. His FB was one of my fav cards last year. Unfortunately, this card just is not it.

Having Verrati in midfield requires you to pair with bigger more physical players, and he cannot really play anywhere but CM or CDM IMO. Without chem boosts, his passing and ball control are elite but his defending lets him down is subpar for a CDM...so you will have to chem boost his defending.

Of course he can get open due to his dribbling, but then you have to shooting which is dreadful for a 500k midfielder, at this time of the cycle. No finesse trait and his longshots are terrible. He does have outside the foot trait for trivelas, but they are not best. Of course you can chem style him with hunter or finisher, but as I said above, at CM or CDM you'll want to upgrade his defending and strength... if you do that his pace, longshots and shooting are left out.

A fun 'gimmick' card that I would like to pack and use a late game sub or for objectives, but for me he is far to flawed to have in the starting XI.