Is Real Sporting de Gijón's 2026/27 squad broken in EA FC 27? All 30 player ratings revealed: Otero and Gelabert 74, Sarco with 82 potential

What's up, lads? It's the most wonderful time of the year: EA FC 27 drops and, as an EA SPORTS Game Changer in their Creator Network, I've got exclusive access to the full game before the rest of the world. We're very few creators in Spain with that privilege and the first video each year can only be one thing: Sporting de Gijón's official squad in the game, keeper to striker, checking out their averages and attributes, whether they match reality and if their faces actually look like them or if someone sculpted them out of a potato. Here's everything: the video, the full table and my take—and fair warning, I'm a Sporting fan so don't expect objectivity.

Is Sporting's squad broken in EA FC 27?

Broken? Nah. But there's no game-breaking superstar either: the squad's highest average is 74 and only two players have it, Juan Otero (striker, 88 pace) and César Gelabert (attacking mid, with his face spot-on and even that neck tattoo). Behind them, a block of 73 with Guille Rosas, Àlex Corredera and Rubén Yáñez, and the rest spread between 61 and 70. To give you an idea: if you're after a "realistic" squad for Manager mode, Sporting is exactly that—a mid-table Segunda side you need to build up. And given what we've seen at El Molinón (4 points from 12 at home and two straight defeats), EA didn't flinch.

Heads up on a detail from the video: in this year's Manager mode the average is dynamic. When the season starts almost every player shows up with an extra point in green (Yáñez comes out at 74 when his actual average is 73, Otero at 75…) because the game considers them "primed" from pre-season. The numbers in this table are EA's official ratings, without that bonus point.

Sporting's 30 averages in EA FC 27, player by player

The 24 players with Ultimate Team cards come from EA's official ratings; the remaining six (Ordóñez, Àlex Diego, Duñabeitia, Bruno Rubio, Ferreres and Conde) I pulled from the final game. Average is the overall rating and Pot. is the potential Manager mode estimates. In green, attributes of 75 or higher; in red, below 50.

For goalkeepers: PAR saves · MAN handling · THR throw-outs · REF reflexes · POS positioning. «—»: attribute not published by EA (players without Ultimate Team cards). EA SPORTS FC 27 data as of 17 September 2026, database update from 10 September.

What stands out most (and what hurts most) about each one

Squad records in EA FC 27

• Fastest: Juan Otero, 88 pace and 90 sprint speed. Followed by Gaspar Campos (80), Guille Rosas (79) and Pablo García (78). Slowest? Loum: 33.
• Strongest: Otero again, 92 strength, ahead of Pablo Vázquez (86), Casas (82) and Loum (82). And also the highest jumper: 90, with Casas (85) and Ferrari (83) behind.
• Best shot: Gaspar Campos, 75 shooting with 87 power and 80 long shot. That's a cannon, Gaspi.
• Best passer: Corredera (73), followed by Otero, Gelabert and Guille Rosas (72). Gelabert has the highest vision (75).
• Best dribbler: Gelabert (75), with Otero and Guille Rosas (74) and Corredera (74) close behind.
• Best defender: Hugo Guillamón, 75 defending, more than any centre-back (Vázquez and Gularte 69, Sáenz and Diego Sánchez 67, Rosas 66).
• Engine room: Guille Rosas, 92 stamina; Corredera (90), Gaspar and Gelabert (87) and Otero (85) also run marathons.
• Most aggressive: Guille Rosas, 84. Par for the course.
• Better weak foot: four stars for Gelabert, Gaspar, Guillamón, Ferrari and Konrad. Most skillmoves: Otero, the only one with four.
• Highest potential: Alejo Sarco (82), Gelabert, Diego Sánchez, Àlex Diego and Manu Rodríguez (77), Ferrari, Cuenca, Guille Rosas, Bruno Rubio and Duñabeitia (76).

Sporting's ideal XI in EA FC 27 (by ratings)

If you let the averages decide, you get a 4-3-3 pretty similar to what we see on Sundays: Yáñez (73); Guille Rosas (73), Pablo Vázquez (70), Jorge Sáenz (68), Diego Sánchez (69); Guillamón (70), Corredera (73), Nacho Martín (68); Gaspar Campos (70), Otero (74) and Gelabert (74). Squad average: 70.9. On the bench, Casas (69), Ferrari (68), Pablo García (68), Gularte (68), Nikita (67), Loum (66) and Konrad (66).

And if you play Manager Mode thinking two seasons ahead, the names change: Sarco up front from day one (64 → 82), Diego Sánchez nailed on at left-back (69 → 77), Manu Rodríguez in midfield (62 → 77) and Cuenca (64 → 76) and Àlex Diego (61 → 77) rotating at the back. That's literally the squad Sporting in real life needs to develop.

Face scan accuracy: who looks right and who doesn't

EA have scanned some players and «interpreted» others. Spot on: Gelabert (even the neck tattoo), Jorge Sáenz, Alejo Sarco (bang on), Guillamón, Guille Rosas, Pablo Vázquez, Duñabeitia, Enol Prendes and Manu Rodríguez. Decent: Diego Sánchez, Cuenca and Pablo García with his curly fringe. Miles off: Rubén Yáñez, who doesn't really look much like himself at all. You know what to ask for in the next update.

My take: where I disagree with EA

Generally the ratings are fair for what the team's showing, but there are two things I'd change. Guille Rosas deserves more defensive ability (66 is low for someone who bites like that) and Cuenca a touch more pace—at 19 and playing how he does, he runs faster than 71. And while it's not a complaint, it's definitely a positive: that EA sees Sarco with an 82 ceiling when he arrived at 64 means that outside Gijón there are people who see what we see. Now the manager needs to see it too.

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