Rebuilding FC Barcelona on every FIFA since FIFA 14 part 9: FIFA 22
By Jim James
THE. LAST. PART. It has taken so long, it’s felt like a million years since I started with FIFA 14, the daunting task of winning the champions league with Barca on every one. I didn’t really feel like I would actually do it, let alone post it all to the blog. We’re in the home stretch The FIFA we all are playing. On to the FIFA 21 accolades.
FIFA 21 Top Scorer
Erling Haaland, 92 goals
FIFA 21 Top 3 Signings
- Erling Haaland
- Kylian Mbappe
- Cristiano Ronaldo
Season 1
We start the season with a few departures, we sell Jordi Alba to Real Madrid for $52 million, we loan Gavi to Brighton, we sell Samu Umtiti to Arsenal for $25 million, and we sell Clement Lenglet to Wolves for $43 million. Then we get a great Jordi Alba replacement in Alphonso Davies for $117 million. Then we get Achraf Hakimi for $119 million. We sell Sergi Roberto for $45 million, Neto to Torino for $19 million, we loan Riqui Puig to Milan, we loan Gerard Pique to Bayern, we loan our potential to be special wonderkid Felipe Guerrero to RB Leipzig, we loan Martin Braithwaite to Celta, but we might reverse that. We sign Bastoni for $73 million, we sell Phil Coutinho for $42 million, Ronaldo Araujo for $52 million, we buy Pau Torres for $95 million, we sell Alex Balde for $3 million, and we buy Luka Romero and Youssoufa Moukoko for $3 million and $3.5 million respectively. We’re going young in this FIFA, as we could be in for the long haul.
January, we’re 2nd in La Liga, topped the Champions League group somehow, We won’t sign anyone in January, I’m happy with our team.
The Champions League Round of 16, and I can’t describe the play anymore, it just takes too long, so I’m switching back to FIFA 20 style.
Ajax is the first opponent. A young team, with Antony, a player who we signed in FIFA 21. We’re at full strength, let’s go!
8’ Sergi Busquets scores, 0-1 us.
60’ Dembele scores, 0-2 us.
76’ Martin Braithwaite, who we recalled from loan, scores. 0-3 us.
83’ Haller scores. 1-3 us.
A huge win in Amsterdam, pretty much securing our QF spot.
Same story for the 2nd leg, but we’ll start Braithwaite.
47th minute, Braithwaite scores, 1-0 us, 4-1 us on aggregate.
74th minute Dembele scores, 2-0 us, 5-1 us on aggregate.
88th minute Antony scores, 2-1 us, 5-2 us on aggregate.
A great win, and after that first leg, the win was never in doubt. Quarter finals here we come!
Home leg vs PSG first. We’re facing MNM. Here we go.
6’ Ansu Fati scores, 1-0 us.
10’ Kylian Mbappe scores, 1-1.
65’ Mbappe scores again, 1-2 them.
68’ Dembele scores, 2-2.
Not the result we wanted, but this isn’t as bad as it would have been in every other FIFA because there are no away goals this FIFA. To Paris!
Here we go. We’re playing a 4-2-4 for this leg, with Martin Braithwaite up front with Memphis Depay, with Pedri and Frenkie de Jong in midfield.
4’ Marco Verratti scores, 1-0 them, 3-2 them on aggregate.
72’ Icardi scores, 2-0 them, 4-2 them on aggregate.
82’ Dembele scores, 2-1 them, 4-3 on aggregate.
84’ Ramos scores, 3-1 them, 5-3 them on aggregate.
It’s a poor result but we were never really going to go far in the Champions League this season.
End of the season, we finish 2nd in La Liga (Ansu Fati top scorer!), and we win the Copa Del Rey, beating Real 2-1 in the final. A bad season by our standards, but considering in real life this season we’re 7th and went out in the Champions League groups, we did pretty well. To Season 2!
Season 2
We start by sell MATS to Inter for $135 million, Nico to Crystal Palace for $4 million, and as a Ter Stegen replacement, Jan Oblak for $140 million. As a Busquets heir, we sign Wilfried Ndidi for $142 million, we loan Gavi and Puig out, we sell Depay for $162 million, we sell Busi for $24 million and Pjanic for $30 million, we loan out Ilias, and we splash the remaining cash on Erling Haaland for a series record $327 million. Phew.
Halfway through the season, and we’re 3rd in La Liga but it’s a close race. We also won our Champions League group. We go on to the Champions League knockout stage.
RB Leipzig is the first opponent. Haaland has been really on form so I would be surprised if he didn’t get on the scoresheet here. We’re on a 12-game win streak going into the game at the Red Bull Arena. Haaland already has 9 in 6 in the Champions League. We’re at full strength. Let’s go! A Valentine’s day matchup. Here we go!
1st minute, Pau Torres scores. 0-1 us.
That’s it. No goal for Haaland, but a lead going into Barcelona.
No more winstreak, but that’s ok, that doesn’t matter, let’s do this!
7’ Alvarez scores for them, 0-1 them, 1-1 on aggregate.
28’ Haaland scores, 1-1, 2-1 us on aggregate.
68’ Alvarez scores again, 1-2 them, 2-2 on aggregate.
79’ Alvarez gets a hat-trick, 1-3, 2-3 them on aggregate.
I’m stunned. We won in Leipzig, how did we lose? I’m simply shocked. See you at the end of the season. Julian Alvarez just knocked us out of the Champions League.
We win La Liga, and the Copa, so all is not lost, onwards and upwards to season 3!
Season 3
We’re just trying to get all the good backups we can, so we sign Romeo Lavia from the free agents, Matias Soule for $17 million, Dane Scarlett for $7 million, Felipe Guerrero, our future star from Leipzig for $90 million (RB Leipzig activated a buy clause from a loan), Maarten Vandevoordt for $15 million, Fabio Carvalho for $17 million (from Leipzig), Ilaix Moriba (from Leipzig) for $20 million, Francisco Conceicao for $4.5 million + Francisco Trincao, Adam Hlozek for $61 million, Alain Truffert for $20 million, Julian Alvarez, the player who scored a hat-trick to knock us out for $46 million + Adam Hlozek, Dylan Rensch for $30 million, and Billy Gilmour from the free agents. We also sell Oscar Mingueza for $24 million and Eric Garcia for $27 million. We also sign 3 5 star 5 star youth scouts. Champions League here we come.
Halfway through the league, and I’m worried. We’re 5th in La Liga, 6 points off 4th place Real Madrid. We’re also out of the Copa Del Rey and we placed 2nd in our UCL group. Oh deary me.
Oh no, Bayern in the round of 16. The team morale stinks, we’re doing poorly, but maybe this is the game to turn our season around. The home leg first. Here we go.
28’ Haaland scores. 1-0 us.
32’ Muller scores. 1-1.
A disappointing and worrying result in Barcelona. We just need to pick up our spirits and march through.
The game in Munich. I’m still very worried about the team, and the performances. We are off an El Clasico win, so that should help. Here we go.
5’ Haaland, scores, 0-1 us, 1-2 on aggregate.
71’ Davies scores, 0-2 us, 1-3 on aggregate.
79’ Ansu Fati scores, 0-3 us, 1-4 on aggregate.
A Shocking but very welcome win in Munich! Hopefully this turns around our season and spirits! Quarterfinals, here we come!
Real Sociedad in the Quarters, it seems easy, but we can’t underestimate our opponents. They’ve signed Malen, Maddison, and Saul. We should win, but we’ll give 100%. Here we go, the leg at the Anoeta.
32’ Ndidi scores. 0-1 us.
38’ Januzaj scores. 1-1.
54’ Pedri scores. 1-2 us.
70’ Ansu Fati scores, 1-3 us.
73’ Malen scores, 2-3 us.
It’s a great win, we should be through!
Here we go, the 2nd leg. The win streak from before the Bayern 2nd leg is still going strong, and we want to continue it. LET’S FINISH IT LADS!
5’ Malen scores, 0-1 them, 3-3 on aggregate. Uh oh.
42’ de Jong scores, 1-1, 4-3 us on aggregate. Yessssss.
79’ Kramaric scores, 1-2 them, 4-4 on aggregate.
81’ Haaland scores, 2-2, 5-4 us on aggregate. The sealer.
A couple heart attacks during the match, and the win streak is over, but we win the war! Semi Finals here we come!
Man City in the semis, and the first leg is at the Etihad. We just need to beat them and we’re off to the Champions League Final. Off we go.
31’ Haaland scores, 0-1 us.
That’s it. I dont want to jinx it but we may be going through here.
2nd leg, full strength. I hope this is the last time I’ll have to put “2nd Leg” down in the series, but we need to have a good performance. Up the Blaugrana!
51’ Ansu Fati scores, 1-0 us, 2-0 us on aggregate.
74’ Ansu Fati scores again, 2-0 us, 3-0 us on aggregate.
We’re through! Let’s do it, please, and make my Christmas Eve a little more special. Never mind that it’s May/June in the game.
PSG in the final. Dickens or Shakespear couldn’t write this. Potentially the last game in the entire series, and we have to beat Messi and Mbappe, two of our better players throughout the whole series. Our Starting XI for this game:
Fati (91) Haaland (93) Dembele (91)
De Jong (92) Pedri (90)
Ndidi (90)
Davies (93) Hakimi (89)
Torres (89) Bastoni (89)
Oblak (93)
We lose 4-1. AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
It’s a trophiless season, but on the plus side, our players are just getting better, and there’s no way we can’t win it soon, right?
Season 4
We start the season by fixing the contact demands of our team, and sellling Youssoufa Moukoko to Valencia for $15 million. We also sign Lionel Messi for $69 million for our last season.
Halfway through we’re 10 points at the top of La Liga, and doing well. At the advice of Jacob we’re signing Antonio Sanchez, Luis Suarez’ regen for $81 million + Dane Scarlett. Ronaldo is still not retired or retiring so the Suarez regen is the closest we can get. Onto what is hopefully the last UCL knockout I have.
Juventus first. We won the group so it’s the away leg first. For glory!
33rd minute, Pedri scores, 0-1 us.
53rd minute, Dembele scores, 0-2 us.
82nd minute, de Jong scores, 0-3 us.
This was the team at it’s best. A 3-0 away win, and a sure ticket to the quarter finals.
2nd leg, have nothing to say, except let’s secure the tie!
26’ de Jong scores, 1-0 us, 4-0 us on aggregate.
74’ Vlasic scores, 1-1, 4-1 us on aggregate.
Would have wanted better, but we go through!
Man City first, and I have the home leg first! Holy moly. Praying for the result here at the Camp Nou.
73’ Phil Foden scores, 0-1 them.
78’ Pedri scores, 1-1.
A worrying result, but we did have to play Vandevoordt in goal. We need the FIFA gods on our side for the 2nd leg.
2nd leg, I really need a win here or I’ll go crazy.
40’ Joao Pedro scores, 1-0 them, 2-1 them on aggregate.
41’ Ansu Fati scores, 1-1, 2-2 on aggregate.
70’ Haaland scores, 1-2 us, 2-3 us on aggregate.
79’ Pedri scores, 1-3 us, 2-4 us on aggregate.
87’ Joao Pedro scores, 2-3 us, 3-4 us on aggregate.
Yes! We go through!
Leipzig in the semis. The less said about the last time we played them, the better. Here we go, the leg in Leipzig commences!
33’ Nkunku scores, 1-0 them.
50’ David scores, 2-0 them.
79’ Jovane scores, 3-0 them.
83’ Ansu Fati scores, 3-1 them.
Oh no. it’s all gone terribly wrong. We’re not out, but we need a great 2nd leg to go through.
Here we go, the 2nd leg, and I have a terrible feeling it’s going to go all wrong.
15’ De Ketelaere scores for them, 0-1 them, 1-4 them on aggregate.
36’ de Jong scores, 1-1, 2-4 on aggregate.
50’ De Ketelaere scores, 1-2 them, 2-5 them on aggregate.
71’ David scores, 1-3 them, 2-6 them on aggregate.
I could shrivel up and descend into the ground right now. Nothing is going right. The FIFA gods hate me.
The only thing we won this season is the league. W e g o a g a i n.
Season 5
I can’t believe we’re at 5 seasons. We have Erling Haaland, who’s as good as prime Ronaldo, Ansu Fati as good as recent Messi, Ousmane Dembele, as good as This season Ronaldo, the best left back ever, the best GK ever, and we still haven’t won the thing. The nly transfers we make are Billy Gilmour to Arsenal for $39 million and Kylian Mbappe for $355 million + Alvarez. The new transfer record.
Halfway through the season and it’s all going good. Top of the league, in the cup. To the UCL.
Inter first. I’m not gonna hype these up too much, I just want it done. To the San Siro!
1’ Mbappe scores, 0-1 us.
62’ Ansu Fati scores, 0-2 us.
Yes! A big win going to the Nou Camp, let’s go!
2nd leg, let’s seal the win!
52’ Salcedo scores. 0-1 them, 2-1 on aggregate.
55’ Pedri scores! 1-1, 3-1 us on aggregate.
Full time, we’re through! Woohoo!
El Clasico next. We face our former player, Depay up front. Let’s win!
57’ Dembele scores, 1-0 us!
89’ Truffert scores, 2-0 us!
A great win in Barcelona, now to seal it at the Bernabeu!
The Bernabeu leg, we don’t let it slip now!
63’ Memphis Depay scores, 1-0 them 1-2 us on aggregate.
85’ Haaland scores, 1-1, 1-3 us on aggregate!
Onwards to the semis! It’s a great performance and I;m happy with the lads.
Juventus next, the home leg first. We beat them handily last year and we’ve only improved. Up the Blaugrana!
30’ Haaland scores, 1-0 us!
55’ Haaland scores, 2-0 us!
60’ Griezmann scores vs his former team, 2-1.
85’ Ansu Fati scores, 3-1 us!
A good match in Turin may have seen us get back to the Champions League final!
The 2nd leg. Full strength, let’s win!
8’ Haaland scores, 0-1 us, 1-4 on aggregate.
39’ Davies scores, 0-2 us, 1-5 on aggregate.
40’ Vlasic scores, 1-2, 2-5 on aggregate.
62’ de Jong scores, 1-3 us, 2-6 us on aggregate!
84’ Ansu Fati scores, 1-4 us, 2-7 us on aggregate!
A HUGE win in Turin, and we’re back to the Champions League final and I have an idea.
My idea is that because this could be the last game in the series, it’s the first that I play myself.
30th of May, 2026. Barcelona face Liverpool in the final. Two footballing superpowers, head to head. Barca haven’t won the competition in 11 years and Liverpool, in 7. Both teams hungry for it but only 1 comes out on top. Let’s go.
11’ Vencedor dances through the defense, there’s nothing I can do about it, his shot goes off the post and in. 1-0 Liverpool.
29’ Mbappe gets the ball from an interception, passes to de Jong who passes back, Mbappe passes to a sprinting Dembele who slots it home at the near post. 1-1.
35’ de Jong gets an interception, he plays a long through ball to Haaland who scores off the 1st timer. 1-2 us.
Half Time, 1-2 us. Ansu Fati is injured so we bring on Lionel Messi, who is 75 rated, has 47 Sprint Speed, 1 Defensive Awareness and 9 overall defending, on. He is retiring after this game.
68’ We have a corner, Dembele crosses and Torres heads it to Pedri who’s outside the box, he controls it, shoots, and it takes an awful deflection off Ginter and Alisson is fooled. 1-3 us.
75’ We get a penalty! Messi is gonna take it. Alisson almost saves it, but he scores. 1-4 us.
81’ Harvey Elliott gets the ball, goes past Pau Torres’ tackle, passes to Tielemans, and he passes it back, Tielemans shoots and scores. 2-4.
85’ Davies makes the run down the wing, takes a shot but it’s deflected. It goes to Messi who one times the cross to Dembele who scores. 2-5.
89’ Guerrero takes a shot, Alisson saves it, he gets it back passes to Pedri who scores. 2-6.
Full Time. WE’VE WON THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We also win the Copa Del Rey.
Hey, thank you for reading through the whole 9 parts, I really appreciate it.. I’m going to make more series’ soon, but not on career mode, I’m career mode’d out. See you soon.