FIFA 20 Talents: Best & cheap players with career potential


In this guide to FIFA 20 you will learn

  • How the career mode in FIFA 20 works
  • What are the best talents for your career
  • Why you also have to bet on cheap players

The hype surrounding the release of FIFA 20 for Nintendo Switch, PC, Playstation 4 and Xbox One is particularly high this year. So that you can start perfectly from the beginning, we have created a guide to all FIFA 20 licenses and teams, the top 100 ratings and all stadiums in FIFA 20.

Furthermore we show you all FIFA trophies and achievements in an overview as well as the best methods to earn coins in FIFA 20. Furthermore our FIFA 20 FUT-Guide brings you all tips & infos about the FIFA Ultimate Team. Furthermore, we give you all important information about the FUT web app and companion app as well as the new VOLTA game mode and refresh your knowledge about tactics, tricks and skill moves in FIFA 20.

In this guide we present you the biggest talents in FIFA 20, with which you can really rock the career mode.


This is how the new career mode in FIFA 20 works

EA has finally managed to include some great new features in our favorite FIFA 20 mode (). These include a dedicated manager, dynamic player potentials, player talks, team mentality, post-match interviews and more.

Your goal in this year's popular offline mode remains to prove your skill at managing your own club and lead your chosen team to new levels of glory and success. You can create your manager in FIFA 20 with more options than ever before and even play as a female manager as an option.

Depending on the club you start your management career with, different tasks and challenges await you. If you start with a top team like Liverpool FC, Real Madrid or Paris Saint-Germain, the demands are correspondingly high and titles are expected from you. For this, you'll already have a team with the best players at your disposal, so you'll really get started right away.

However, the career mode is much more exciting with a completely unknown team that, with your help, will first move into the spotlight of European soccer. However, you'll need a lot of patience and you'll have to buy the best talents, train them and show good performances in many games.

In this guide we will tell you what are the best FIFA 20 tal ents for both strategies. Also, always remember that all your decisions in FIFA 20 career mode have a direct impact on the morale and performance of the team, from press conferences to team rotation.

Top 10 talents in FIFA 20: Two Bundesliga players are included

Recently, EA Sports released a list of the best talents for FIFA 20 career mode. Thanks to the new dynamic player potential in FIFA 20 career mode the best possible rating for each player is no longer set in stone. Instead, it depends on the performance you achieve with the candidates in the game and how many appearances you give the youngsters. If you skillfully showcase the best talents, there are at least 11 players who can achieve a rating above 90.

The top 10 includes Kai Havertz (20, Bayer Leverkusen) and Jadon Sancho (19, Borussia Dortmund), two Bundesliga pros with 92 potential. Despite his current injury, Germany's Leroy Sané (Manchester City) even makes it to fourth place among the best talents in FIFA 20. The greatest overall potential is held by Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain), who can achieve a ranking of at least 95, provided you develop the young Belgian correctly. Below you can find the overview with the ten best talents in FIFA 20:

Player name (age)ClubPositionRatingPotential
Kylian Mbappé (20)Paris Saint-GermainST, RF8995
Matthijs de Ligt (20)Piemonte CalcioIV8593
João Félix (19)Atlético MadridMS, ST8093
Leroy Sané (23)Manchester CityLF8692
Gianluigi Donnarumma (20)AC MilanTW8592
Kai Havertz (20)Bayer LeverkusenZOM8392
Jadon Sancho (19)Borussia DortmundRM8492
Vinícius Júnior (19)Real MadridLF7992
Frenkie de Jong (22)FC BarcelonaZM8591
ousmane Dembélé (22)FC BarcelonaRF8490

Vinicius Jr. and Joao Felix have the strongest development potential among the ten best FIFA 20 talents. Both young players can increase their base rating by at least 13 rating points. The only goalkeeper in the top list is the Italian Gianluca Donnarumma with a 92 potential.

The best FIFA 20 talents: Rank 11-20 in the overview

If you don't start your career in FIFA 20 with an absolute top team, then the top 10 talents are unaffordable for the time being. Fortunately, there are already some affordable players on the places 11-20, who have a huge potential at the same time. First and foremost, these include Phil Foden (Manchester City), Moise Kean (Everton FC) or Dominik Szoboszlai (RB Salzurg).

Szoboszlai is the only top talent with a silver card. He starts with a weak 74 points and can improve by no less than 15 rating points to an 89 overall rating. The 19-year-old Englishman, Phil Foden, starts the game with a 76 and can still improve by 14 rating points. His Italian competitor, Moise Kean, also starts with a 76, while he brings a potential 13 extra points.

Player Name (Age)ClubPositionRatingPotential
phil Foden (19)Manchester CityZOM7690
Luka Jović (21)real MadridST8389
Trent Alexander-Arnold (20)Liverpool FCRB8389
lautaro Martínez (19)inter MilanST8189
Houssem Aouar (21)Olympique LyonCM8189
lucas Paquetá (22)AC MilanZOM7989
Moise Kean (19)Everton FCST7689
Rodrygo Silva de Goes (18)Real MadridLF7689
Sandro Tonali (19)Brescia CalcioZDM7589
Dominik Szoboszlai (18)RB SalzburgZOM7489

FIFA 20 Talents: The cheapest players with the greatest potential

But even these top talents have their price, so you can't afford every player from the beginning. Especially if you decide to start your career at an unknown club and lead it into the limelight yourself, you'll first resort to cheap players. It's best to choose young players with a low rating and high potential at the same time.

Among the best cheap talents are Mason Greenwood (Manchester United), Takefusa Kubo (Real Madrid) or Pietro Pellegri (AS Monaco). These players are perfect for starting in a lower league. With the right support, they offer enough potential to grow into top performers in the top international leagues. In the following you can find an overview of the cheapest players with the biggest talent potential in FIFA 20.

Player nameClubPositionRatingPotential
Roberto Piccoli (18)Atalanta Bergamo U19ST6485
Troy Parrott (17)Tottenham Hotspur U18ST6485
Fábio Soares Silva (16)FC PortoST6585
Rhian Joel Brewster (19)Liverpool FCST 6585
Mason Greenwood (17)Manchester UnitedMS, RF, ST6787
Pietro Pellegri (18)AS MonacoST6786
Julián Álvarez (19)Club Atlético River PlateST6785
Jann-Fiete Arp (19)FC Bayern MunichST, LM6785
Myron Boadu (18)AZ AlkmaarST6785
Julián Carranza (19)AZ AlkmaarST6886
Amine Ferid Gouiri (19)Olympique LyonST6886
Ahmed Kutucu (19)FC Schalke 04ST, MS, RF6885
Erling Bride Håland (18)RB SalzburgST6986
Musa Barrow (20)Atalanta BergamoST6985
Timothy Weah (19)LOSC LilleST, LM6985
Takefusa Kubo (18)RCD MallorcaRM, MS, ZOM7088
Adam Hložek (16)Sparta PragueLM, ST, RM7087

FIFA 20: The best central defenders for your career (IV talents)

In FIFA 20, the defense has been revised so that active defending has become more important. That's why you need a solid central defense that stands stable even in career mode. You won't be able to afford the best IV players in FIFA 20 like Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool FC), Giorgio Chiellini (Piemonte Calcio) or Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid).

Instead, look for young IV talents who will grow into important cornerstones in the defense under your leadership. Here, too, you need to find cheap players who have great potential. In the following overview we show you the ten best players in defense in FIFA 20 career mode. Among them are Ibrahima Konaté and Dayot Upamecano (both RB Leipzig), who will also be among the most popular players in FIFA Ultimate Team due to their perfect green link.

Player name (age)ClubPositionRatingPotential
Niklas Süle (24)FC Bayern MunichIV8590
Lucas Hernández (23)FC Bayern MunichIV, LV8489
Eduardo Quaresma (17)Sporting Lisbon U17IV6488
William Saliba (18)AS Saint-ÉtienneIV7188
Éder Militão (21)Real MadridIV, RV8188
Ibrahima Konaté (20)RB LeipzigIV7988
Dayot Upamecano (20)RB LeipzigIV7788
Manuel Akanji (24)Borussia DortmundIV77 79
Joseph Gomez (22)Liverpool FCIV, RV 67 85

Don't forget that it's not enough to just buy young players and wait until their rating improves automatically. All FIFA 20 talents will only reach their full potential if you train them regularly and they perform well in many matches.

The best FIFA 20 talents without transfer fee & youth work

However, you don't always have to spend a lot of money to secure outstanding talents. Instead, you can start working with the youth at your new club as soon as possible and develop your own top talents, which you can later sell at a high price. In addition, always be on the lookout for unattached players. As long as they are not much older than their early 20s and have a solid development potential, go for it.

Because you have nothing to lose, right? Either the young talents develop into important players for your team or you sell them on at a profit. Because you didn't have to pay for the signing of the unattached FIFA 20 tal ents anyway. In addition, you can sign clubless players at any time without being bound to the transfer market.

For the development of the best talents it is important that you complete a training session in every week of the career mode in FIFA 20. To do this, you'll choose five players from your team and assign them training tasks that fit their position. This will improve their stats bit by bit, which will also be reflected in their overall rating over time. If you're good at the skill games, you'll take over the training yourself.

Alternatively, you can have the training sessions simulated, whereby the results are then influenced by chance. The younger the FIFA 20 talent is, the better the increased values will be. The bottom line is that it's up to you to decide whether you want to quickly develop especially young talents to boost your club's coffers or develop them into cornerstones of your FIFA 20 Career Mode team.

FIFA 20 Career Mode: The best unknown talents

If you have already gained experience in the career mode of FIFA 20, many of the talents mentioned so far will already be on your radar. That's why we'll tell you the best talent secret tips for all career mode pros and those who still want to become one. This includes especially players that are new in FIFA 20 or have been patched into the career mode afterwards.

Player name (age)ClubPositionRatingPotential
Jérémy Doku (17)RSC AnderlechtRF6686
Adam Hlozek (17)Sparta PragueRF7086
Enzo Millot (17)Wolverhampton WanderersZM6386
Nicolas Dominguez (19)Atletico MadridZM7587
Augustin Urzi (19)Vitesse ArnhemLM / ZM6987
Pedro De la Vega (18)NunezRF7088
Dominik Szoboszlai (18)RB SalzburgZOM7489
Rodrygo (18)Real MadridLF / RF / ST7689

Argentine Augustin Urzi and Pedro De La Vega in particular will not be on many players' radar. Both talents are strong outfield players with high sprinting speed. Most opposing outside defenders don't stand a chance against the lightning fast wing talents.

These are the best clubs for the career mode in FIFA 20

Before you start signing the best talents, you will have to choose the right team. Of course, we will help you with this difficult decision and present you the ten best clubs for the perfect start of your FIFA 20 career. We start with small clubs where you have a great journey ahead of you and end with the best top clubs within the FIFA 20 career mode.

ClubTransfer budgetClub valueYouth development
UCD AFC502.522 €940.000 €Very high
SV Waldhof Mannheim1.575.070 €3.500.000 €Low
Salford City1.884.024 €2.400.000 €Very low
FC Bayern Munich II5.119.879 €10.600.000 €Medium
Union Berlin9.271.485 €35.240.000 €Medium
Ajax Amsterdam35.387.948 €340.000.000 €Very high
Atletico Madrid68.575.240 €1.190.000.000 €Medium
Borussia Dortmund72.355.296 €991.909.000 €Medium
Piemonte Calcio115.343.624 €1.565.000.000 €Medium

If you are looking for the ultimate challenge in FIFA 20 career mode, choose UCD AFC from Ireland. With only half a million transfer budget, you can safely forget about signing the best talents. Instead, you'll start a long road to glory and rely on the development of young talent over many years to eventually win the UEFA Champions League with the college club. If you don't own FIFA 20 yet, you can find .

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