Are you building your squad but you are not sure about which centre backs and full backs you should buy? Take our suggestions of the best young defenders for FIFA 16 Career Mode.
How to choose Best Young Defenders for FIFA 16 Career Mode
In this article we will suggest the best young defenders for FIFA 16 Career Mode that you should be able to use in your club. Keep in mind that the best players for us may not be for you. It depends of your club, other players, formation, transfer budget, wages budget, play style, preferences, etc…
To select the best players, we have mainly into consideration their stats, potential and age.
In our website we suggest defenders of three categories:
- Best of the Best
Ideal for unlimited wallets or for who wants the best.
- Best Deals
Decent defenders that you can find at good prices or ending their contracts.
- Best Young
Young defenders with great growth. Potential future top players.
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Centre Back
Right Back
Left Back
Best Young Centre Back for FIFA 16 Career Mode
Our Choice: AYMELIC LAPORTE
Nationality: France
Club (first season): Athletic Bilbao
Rating: 83
Potential (1): 87
Age: 21
Varane is the best young centre back. However, he is so good that we have included him in our best defenders list. Laporte is also a Very complete defender. He is quick, good at heading, strong and even can score free kicks.
Best Alternative: MARQUINHOS
Nationality: Brazil
Club (first season): Paris Saint Germain
Rating: 81
Potential (1): 87
Age: 21
Marquinhos is young but already has a long experience. Have you checked his stats? Nice, right? Then, imagine when he reaches his maximum potential.
Second Best Alternative: DANIELE RUGANI
Nationality: Italy
Club (first season): Juventus
Rating: 78
Potential (1): 88
Age: 21
Like Marquinhos and Laporte, our choices for FIFA 15, Rugani has everything to be the best defender in the world. You need to buy him fast before he gets too expensive.
#4: NIKLAS SÜLE
Nationality: Germany
Club (first season): 1899 Hoffenheim
Rating: 78
Potential (1): 88
Age: 20
This young player is already better at the defence than many of the most popular centre backs. His defending stats are absolutely insane: standing tackles 84, sliding tackles 81, interceptions 82, heading 80 and strength…93. And don’t forget that he is only 20!
#5: JOHN STONES
Nationality: England
Club (first season): Everton
Rating: 77
Potential (1): 87
Age: 21
Mourinho have Zouma but he was crazy about John Stones and it is easy to understand why. He will grow up fast and become one of the best centre backs in the world.
BEST YOUNG CENTRE BACKS
1. Aymeric Laporte
2. Marquinhos
3. Daniele Rugani
4. Niklas Süle
5. John Stones
6. Kurt Zouma
7. Alessio Romagnoli
8. Chancel Mbemba
9. Jairo Riedewald
10. Vallejo
Best Young Right Back for FIFA 16 Career Mode
Our Choice: SERGE AURIER
Nationality: Ivory Coast
Club (first season): Paris Saint Germain
Rating: 80
Potential (1): 85
Age: 22
You need to be good to play in the starting eleven of a club like PSG. Aurier is so young and already an amazing right back. If you want someone young for this position, you need to buy him.
Best Alternative: FABINHO
Nationality: Brazil
Club (first season): AS Monaco
Rating: 78
Potential (1): 86
Age: 21
You may not be impressed by his stats but you should know that Fabinho has good chances of becoming better than Aurier. Give him time and you will see…
Second Best Alternative: HÉCTOR BELLERIN
Nationality: Spain
Club (first season): Arsenal
Rating: 74
Potential (1): 84
Age: 20
He is one of the community favourites. If pace is really important to you, then you can stop searching. RB…check.
#4: IVÁN LÓPEZ
Nationality: Spain
Club (first season): Levante UD
Rating: 75
Potential (1): 83
Age: 22
Who said that you have to spend all your money to buy a good and young right back? Iván López is ready to your team. Are you ready to try him?
#5: MANQUILLO
Nationality: Spain
Club (first season): Marseille
Rating: 72
Potential (1): 83
Age: 21
Yes, another Spanish right back. If you play with a top club, maybe you will have to put him in the reserves. In two or three seasons he will be ready to assume the right side of the first team’s defence.
BEST YOUNG RIGHT BACKS
1. Serge Aurier
2. Fabinho
3. Héctor Bellerin
4. Iván López
5. Manquillo
6. Kenny Tete
7. Nélson Semedo
8. Timothy Castagne
9. Calum Chambers
10. Yasser Al Shahrani
Best Young Left Back for FIFA 16 Career Mode
Our Choice: GAYÀ
Nationality: Spain
Club (first season): Valencia CF
Rating: 80
Potential (1): 87
Age: 20
First it was Jordi Alba. Then, it was Bernat. Now it is Gayà. Valencia CF looks like a left backs factory. And they are becoming better and better. Gayà is the best one. Do I need to say anything more?
Best Alternative: LUKE SHAW
Nationality: England
Club (first season): Manchester Utd
Rating: 77
Potential (1): 88
Age: 20
He is one of the most popular young players in England and it is easy to understand why. Fast and with a great tackling, one day Shaw may be better than Gayà.
Second Best Alternative: JETRO WILLEMS
Nationality: Netherlands
Club (first season): PSV
Rating: 78
Potential (1): 86
Age: 21
This player is almost perfect, an obvious choices for your club. He is so good that he has 4 star skills. Not usual for a LB.
#4: WENDELL
Nationality: Brazil
Club (first season): Bayer 04
Rating: 77
Potential (1): 85
Age: 22
Far away form the quality of the top 3, Wendell is still a good choice for most of Career Mode clubs.
#5: ABDUL RAHMAN BABA
Nationality: Ghana
Club (first season): Chelsea
Rating: 78
Potential (1): 85
Age: 21
What do you expect from a left back? Pace? Good crossing stats? Great tackling? Well, we know a guy who have it all.
BEST YOUNG LEFT BACKS
1. Gayà
2. Luke Shaw
3. Jetro Willems
4. Wendell
5. Abdul Rahman Baba
6. Fuka Arthur Masuaku
7. Mattia De Sciglio
8. Bernat
9. Andrew Robertson
10. Jordan Amavi
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Notes:
(1) Potential is an average of estimated rating a player can reach. It doesn’t mean that you will reach that overall nor that you won’t overcome it.
Hello , I think you should also include Gimenez (ATL Madrid) in top 10 young CB . His rating is 79 and potential is 87.
Yes, great player.
In fifa 14 Sciglo is RB but here he is LB
Yes, they changed it.
He’s a full back, he’s pretty decent on both sides
Check nationality of ABDUL RAHMAN BABA. By the way, site is perfectly good!
Sorry about that. Thank you very much.
Who are some realistic signings for Man Utd???
Thanks
Harry
Defenders? Laporte, Fabinho, Gayà
Varane 22 83
Yes, Varane is the best one:
“Varane is the best young centre back. However, he is so good that we have included him in our best defenders list.“
Comment: I want to start a career with Athelitico. Which players should I buy?
Follow these suggestions, please.
i think you forgot Ayemeric Laporte on your list?
Please double check.
He is the number 1!
I’m playing with Valencia in career mode who do u think I should buy
Hi. Why don’t you follow our suggestions ?!
I want to buy Kurt zouma / john stones for bayern 04,who better ? Zouma or Stones ?
Look to our ranking. Zouma is 6th while Stones is 5th.
The ajax team have a lot of potential and talent
As always. Ajax is Ajax.
What about Romagnoli from AC Milan
He has 80 marking 79 slide tackle and 80 stand tackle and he is only 20
He is definitely a must buy.
Alaba is probably in the best defenders list but he had great potential, he can play in the midfield or centre back, and he upgrades quite quickly, can you tell me his potential please?
He can reaches 88 or even more
mate alaba is much older than them he’s already 24
Realistic signings for Bayern career mode?
Varane, James
Which LB should I get?
Rodriguez 88 , 68 mils
Gaya 83 , 43 mils
Shaw 85, 55 mils
Kurzawa 84, 55 mils
Current year: 2020
Hi.
Probably Rodriguez.
Hi there!Which players suit perfectly in PSG?I want to buy top class.Which are your suggestions?
Varane!
Hey man thanks for the this list. i would like to you ask how would you rate aleksandar dragovic. Is he a good buy?
Which club ?
i got martial up to 93
Hi. Please what’s Kelechi Iheanacho’s potential?
85. Definitely a great player.
What is vardy’s potential
71. EA needs to fix this next year…
Mr. Lopes , I’m impressed by your list ..yiu have helped me in so many ways…speaking of defenders sir , Jonathan Tah is awesome ..19 76
Good to know. That’s our goal.
Tah jedvaj
Thanks a lot for your list, Mr.Lopes. It’s very helpful. Btw, I use your list to sign player in FIFA 14 ???. I am amazed that they’re cheaper than i think.
Thank you very much.
If you want, you can take a look to our FIFA 14 Career Mode guides like this one.
Any cheap left backs? For about 1-2m? For a Portsmouth career, cheers!
Gaya or Masuaku
Hi I’m playing with Chelsea and I need a left back,any suggestions for a perfect player?thanks
Alaba
Any realistic signings for FC Ingolstadt?
Take a look here, please.
Any cheap midfielder for qpr? About 1-3 million sterling, I buy emre can for 5 million sterling .
You can take a few ideas here.
Who’s a good CB for 6 million
Varane?!
Is Gimenez CB Atletico Madrid a good buy ?
Yes. Absolutely!
Hello Rodrigo Lopes, great list ! I’m doing a Borussia Dortmund career mode in Fifa 16 and I need a ST, a Winger, a LB or RB, a CAM a CM and a GK. I would like to have young players with lots of potential but also grown and already improved players. What are your suggestions?
PS: Do you speak Portuguese? I know you’re a Benfica fan! I’m a Porto fan and I speak Portuguese!
Hi Yuri.
Sim, falo. Você quer uma equipa quase inteira. Se seguir as sugestões que encontra aqui, de certeza que irá se sair bem. Por exemplo, Bernd Leno é um ‘must buy’.
Cumprimentos
Hi yuri
you must buy
paco alcacer for st
gonçalo guedes for winger
bellerin for rb
mausaku for lb
halilovic for cam
renato sanches for cm (for you :D)
oblak for gk
all of it not expensive for dortmund and few seasons later you can sell for +30m €
I’m Beşiktaş fan from Turkey and my fav player is Quaresma 😀
tah
Giant he quickly reach 85-88 in 1 or 2 season
mausauku in 2. season you can play in lw or lm ge quickly growth and best left beck in career after shaw
florenzi
he doesnt reach over 81 but all season he scored 15+ goals and generally 10 assist he is amazing i play him for 8 season
Need a CB and CM for Liverpool on my career who could fit in?
Thanks
John
Varane and James if you have money enough to buy them.
Dybala or giroud who is better
Dybala
I am starting a career with Dortmund who shoud I buy for LM and RM? I want them to be replacements
Berardi or Bernardo Silva in the right side and Gonçalo Guedes or Julian Brandt in the opposite side
I need a young (0-23 yo) cdm who has a high potential and is less than 12 million
Danilo from Valencia. Geis from Shalke 04 is cheaper.
Who is better? Gorse or Courtinhio? Thanks, great website!
Mean Gotze thanks
They are both great players. Very difficult to pick one…
bellerin got 89 in 2021 without training
Lopes,who can I buy to replace zlatan ibrahimovic..I am playing for Man united in season 2018
Dybala
I want a young players
Besides Dybala, who can I buy…
Griezmann is young enough for you?
Yeah okay thanks
I am currently in Arsenal and I already have Laporte, Koscienly and Mussachio.I want another Centre Back with high potential but is also established. Whom I should buy Eric Bailly or Sule?Or someone else?(ditch Varane and Stones)
Varane is your best choice