The performances earning him the ranking

There are a number of new features on this years edition, including no-touch dribbling and an improved way to slide tackle, but for now the focus is on player ratings and who ranks where in Fifa 17 Coins the top 50. Unsurprisingly, it is Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo who lead the way, with Luis Suarez breaking into the top three, up four from his FIFA 15 ranking. Only two Premier League players make the top 10 in Eden Hazard (6th) and David Silva (10th), with just 17 English-based players in the whole of the top 50.

John Terry - at 44 - and Wayne Rooney - in at 36 - are Englands only representatives, but that is still one better than last season when Rooney was the only one present. In last years version, the Premier League had 16 fifa 16 coins players in the top 50, marking 2016s number a slender improvement on last time out. There are some big movers, and not all positive. Gareth Bale, despite his impressive performances for Wales this week, has struggled at times for Real Madrid, seeing his FIFA ranking slip from 14th to 23rd this year.

Robin van Persie and Radamel Falcao were in Fifa Coins the upper echelons of the ranking system last year in 11th and 12th respectively, but after a season of struggle both have completely dropped out of the top 50. Manchester United fans may think they have a bargain buy in Bastian Schweinsteiger for ￡14million, but his age has counted against him in this years FIFA, seeing the 30-year-old drop 30 places from eight to 38.

There are three changes to the worlds top 10, as David Silva, Thiago Silva and Neymar all move up from their 2015 positions. Andres Iniesta, Schweinsteiger and Franck Ribery are the three men to make way, as they enter the twilight zones of their playing career. Most entrants in the FIFA 16 top 50 play for a top European club - Barcelona and Bayern Munich players, for example, make up five of the top 10. But one non-European entry is that of Carlos Tevez, currently plying his trade in Argentina for Boca Juniors.

The performances earning him the ranking of 27 did come at Juventus though, with the Argentina striker only moving to his boyhood club in June of this year. Manchester City new-boy Kevin De Bruyne is one of the biggest risers in this years edition, making his debut in Fifa 17 Points Account  the top 50. He comes straight in at 28 following his big-money move to the blue half of Manchester, and at the age of 24 is only expected to rise as the years go by.