One of the biggest flaws on career mode has been the relatively low wages you can sign top stars for - and also their willingness to sign for 'nothing' clubs.  When Sunderland in the championship can sign a world class player on a Bosman, you know the game is messed up.

Meanwhile, Brereton is such a guaranteed hit that I've banned myself from signing him when I start a new game.  Same with Rico Henry at left back.  His rating doesn't go that high, but he's a ridiculously effective option down that side of the pitch.

Finally announced that on FIFA20 they will have an option to turn off international offers!  

i've had some down time and decided to reopen my last campaign.  unfortunately it was in the transfer period which is the most slow and agonising part of the game - has anyone heard if the issue with contract negotiation breakdowns has been fixed in the new games?

anyway.  second season with hudders after surviving relegation last season by focusing on picking up some prospects.  ben brereton imo is still the best youth pickup in the game for the first few years.  i play him as an attacking mid and he has so many late runs and links ups and nails so many goals.  the got the golden boot in my first season.

i managed to pick up post world cup 18 mbappe - on a $60k salary!  first touch for the team in the first game for the season he scores.  picks up a hat trick in his first match. what a gun.  i might have found a fifa ST to match martial.

I don't think there is an option.  I too am sick of it.

does anyone know how to turn of international team offers on career mode. fkn sick of it.

yeah i can see it.  ive got a fullback - the canadian davies - 99 acceleration and 99 sprint speed. opposition with the ball have started to outpace him....

Get rid of the ball quickly.  If in doubt turn and pass back to a defender.

The same scripting 'bug' hit again...  Despite being so far ahead of the rest of the league in almost every way - and having gone to 16 wins, 5 draws...  I then managed 1 point from 5 games, the defeats all by a single goal (1-2, 2-3, 0-1, 1-1, 2-3)...  Went from being 10 points clear at the top of the league to being a point behind Liverpool.  Haven't played since.

i did some reading on it and supposedly if you train your youth too much the physical stats wont grow.  the theory is that you get them to their overall potential in the stats you are training, whereas if you left them they would reach the potential by an overall rise in stats - including the physical

so i've pulled my best prospects off training now they are in the low 80's and ill see how where they improve as the get up to the 90's.

yup, the strength thing it quite a big deal in this edition. which is pretty shitty considering how many defenders have high strength stats and how many attackers are low - also hardly any of them get called as fouls - which they should - and even if they do the free kicks are so fucked it wouldnt matter.  i've managed 1 direct free kick into the goal in maybe 100 attempts in game.

ive signed players like martial for run the midfield or step in aas a striker because of his solid strength rating. helps a lot. i have hazard on the team but you cant go anywhere near an opposition player.  also i think world class makes this issue even bigger.

Just bought 18. Playing as Charlton Athletic on world class. Holding my own at 3rd place after 14 games, but honestly, what is with my players getting shoved off the ball? It happens a dozen times a game, even when my player has his back to goal. Does anyone know how to counter this? 

career mode is pretty good 

I must have bucked the trend - I've got a winger and a striker with a bit of pace.  Annoying as I don't play with wingers - but he seems to be doing ok in AM.

Incidentally - I've managed to go half a season unbeaten in my latest re-start.  2nd season at Everton - finished 4th in first season, Messi on a free transfer, playing up front most weeks with a 17 yr old who can't score to save his life but creates tons of chances for Leo.  14 wins, 4 draws, and won my Euro group too.  Knocked out of the league cup by Burnley, but we won't talk about that.

yup. ive done it.  first thing i do in any career is buy a youth coach and send them to aus. 

you never get any pace out of the youth recruits. they pretty much end up solely taking up GK, CB and CDM spots. they are too slow for any other position. 

5 star youth coach to Australia then 4 years of training the sh*t out of any prospects you can find to go to the world cup with a teenage super-squad..?

FFS! Got Australia in the first season only to see they didn't qualify for the world cup. Saudi, China and NZ in. What the hell? So now i'll need 4 years of patience and will win the whole thing in 2022.

Took Barnet to the Championship and threw it all away to sign up with Leeds. Currenly in the EPL in 2021 with Luongo Rogic and Mooy killing every game. Josh Vela, and Joe Sbarra are great English players. Ollie banks and Elliot Johnson are such awesome value.

Scored a free kick in virtually my first game of FIFA18 - haven't managed to repeat that perfection since.  Similarly, I managed a perfect lobbed volley in one of my first games on FIFA17 - completely by mistake - and haven't repeated that since either.

AI team selection has been fucked for as long as I can remember.  EA have never got on top of it.  Whether it's stockpiling goalkeepers or Man Utd constantly picking Wilson up front regardless of their other options.

Getting pretty bored with 18.  Keep trying to kick the habit but then falling back onto it.  I took to creating 22 of my friends as '70' rated players and using them to replace the entire Sunderland squad last night.  Will pop Sunderland in the EPL and play a season with my squad over the next few days to see how things go.

doing the road to glory... again.  again with melb city from league one in england.

scored my first ever free kick. emre can from pretty much front on to the goal post just outside the box.  if the games mechanics are accurate no one outside of the big 5 leagues can score free kicks ever.......

also the AI squads are still fucked.   de bruyne, pogba, sanchez, salah, hazard - all early subs in the second half - pretty much every game against their respective teams.   why can't the AI pick starting squads correctly?  there is something wrong with the game.

Have gone for Yoevil.  As small as it gets and a funny part of the country.  Will see how far I can take them before a crash kills me off!

Have noticed that the game appears to assign the coach a random height (for sideline graphics) - had never noticed it until now when it appears to have decided my guy is about 5'5", all the other coaches tower over 'me' when they shakes hands after the game.  Hilarious.

I went to a couple of Wimbledon games back in the 80s when they were still at Plough Lane at the peak of the crazy gang days.  Horrible place to go, horrible team to watch, but a remarkable story.  I loved that when they went to Milton Keynes the supporters just started up AFC Wimbledon.

My pre season with Sydney went pretty well making the final of the pre season cup. 3 games into the new season and i've rolled WSW, Brisbane and City 4-0, 4-0, 3-0.

While none of that is overly interesting Matt Simon got plenty of game time in the pre season games.

Come to the first international window and the australian squad is named:

O'Neill
Brillante
Zullo
Wilkinson


Matt fucking Simon :lol:

There is definitely coding in there. Many times i've been absolutely flying and then get a run of absolutely shit results. Frustrating really

Start with AFC Wimbledon (league 1) i went to kingsmeadow august last year and watched them play doncaster. Great club i love the histiory and amazing story really. How quickly they have come up after having to start from scratch.

The bubble burst...

I'm not sure if there's some kind of all-important internal confidence setting for the players - but went from mid-table in January, closer to European qualification than to relegation, to a run of 12 defeats and 2 draws in 14 games, including a couple of 4-0/5-0 thrashings.  Couldn't string 3-4 passes together.  Depressingly frustrating.  Sacked in April.  Offered the Ackrington Stanley job (4 points adrift at bottom of League 2 with 3 games to play) - drew first game, sacked.  Rehired, win and a draw, finished last...  Game crashes.

It was a terrific challenge whilst it lasted and I'm sure I'm a much better player now as a result of almost 3 full seasons in the Prem with a bunch of League One quality players.

Next career mode may have to start in League Two with someone rubbish, and see how far I can take them...  Legendary mode - pre-set sliders.

Just fix the fucken thing. Not like they arent generating revenue. Surely they could sink a few more dollars into career mode

You'd think there's got to be a part of the program that decides if the deal collapses or not...  Just change the probability on departing players from random to certain.  It would be better for all deals to go through rather than none.

EA have all but admitted the transfer system is broken and they dont know how to fix it

1st season - 1st in Championship
2nd season - 17th in Premier League
3rd season - 14th in Premier League

4th season - it's Christmas and if I win my next game I'll be in the top half of the Prem.  Scraping wins and draws, losing a few - and sometimes getting thumped, a couple of 4-0s defeats already this season.  LOTS of transfers collapsing due to not agreeing terms.  I'm assuming the players don't want to leave the Premier League.

Highlight of this season has definitely been beating Newcastle away, with a hattrick of near identical goals from a soon-to-retire Adam Rooney.

So...  For next season, should I...
(1) Keep going with the u70 model (which is beginning to get tiresome now)
(2) Sign a bunch of youth team players and see if I can put a youth team out in the EPL
(3) Sign a bunch of top class 80+ players on Bosmans in January (I've already scouted out a dozen just in case, and have the money to do it.

i would like more depth in the game.   
-meaningful financial control over the club. 
-manager targets that you can influence without just having to win games.
-saveable team sheets!!!!! so you can actually change formaitons/tactics in mid game to a saved formation with tactics and player instructions that are pre set.
-saveable team sheest, so you can copy the team sheet and have a second team of youth/outer players that you use in cup games etc without having to swap the whole team out one by one before a game. 
-saveable team sheets,so you can take your prefered formation, tactics, player instructions into a new team.
-saveable team sheets, so you can load it up when you are playing multiplayer.
-broader training.  being able to group train and set areas of focus.
-being able to hire trainers and facilities that influence training. better trainers might be able to get better scores rather than the random A-F bullshit you get when you auto train.
-being able to hire med staff and facilities to influence injury recovery and prevention
-hiring youth training staff to improve/influence the development of the youth players. even focus areas - attacking, defensive, goalkeeping trainers with passing, shooting, tackling, etc stats of their own.
-Scouting of the league you are in and teams you play.  Maybe hiring scouts for this.  I call bullshit on not having scouting information on every team you play against in your league and in cups.  irl every team has week to week info on the teams they play. this scouting information should also be accessible to transfers.  the current scouting system is useless bullshit.  the only use it has is singling out a player for more information. the "global transfer network" is useless.
-fixing the "transfer has broken down" bullshit. any player that is flat told they are never going to be playing in your team would leave.

there's so much more.  career mode just feels neglected. the transfer cut scene changes this year are good.  clunky but good. at least you can negotiate in a day instead of waiting a week for a random outcome.

 

Moving the sliders can give the AI better passing, shooting, sprinting, etc., than me...  But that's ultimately no different to me forcing myself to pick inferior players who pass and shoot less accurately, move slower, tire faster, etc.

For FIFA19 I'd love them to bring in more realistic financial controls - or a slider for career mode to alter the club's finances.  It's too easy to build a squad of superstars.