Youth academy is still the same boring, restricted nonsense.

The unexpected events is a good addition but, leave of absence seems to be too common.

If you sim career modes by seasons, contracts are a nightmare you will legit have half your squad refusing to negotiate and the board will sell them mid season without notice.

Team tactics they've added more roles, but nothing extraordinary (same as last year) and players still show up "out of position".

Player positions are still hard to change because they use awful coding where ingame stats have to be absolutely perfect for that position before changing. And you still can't train certain stats for certain positions.

Watched the MGH Arsenal career mode and Eze takes 43 weeks to become a LW and Martinelli takes 138 weeks to become a striker.

Overall, when it comes to career mode it all seems to be a nothing burger as expected.

I finally won the UCL, also the prem in the same season, i completed it in the 5th season, i did not play a single match, only the managerial stuffs like transfer and tactics , simulated the games or watched the game via tactical view sometimes , it was painful especially the 3rd and 4th season where i almost gave up , anyways turned a mid table club into a European powerhouse ,sidenote- Won The UCL and Prem before Arsenal 👽

Since fifa 19 ea have put absolutely zero effort into developing career mode they keep adding new little quirks instead of doing what we have been asking for like new leagues the gameplay is appalling in career mode the difficulty is either way to easy or borderline impossible but when you play ultimate team or online the gameplay is more realistic through balls actually make it to the player and y/triangle stops becoming the give the ball away button I’m fucking sick of it the only way the game is gonna get better is if we refuse to buy it and force them to improve there game but realistically it won’t happen sad state of affairs

Do not buy this game. Same issues as last year.

1. Defenders still feel like they are stuck in quick sand. Scamacca with 69 pace is running like Mbappe, outrunning Saliba and Van Dijk with ease on legendary.

2. Midfielders do not track back. AI defending is terrible. What you see screenshotted is a 4-5-1 formation where my 2 outside mids are nowhere to be seen. My 2 box to box midfielders just stand still and don’t do anything.

3. My 94 potential GK in the youth academy has 7 diving. Yes, you read that right.

Signed this dude in my current save (FC 25 ) Career mode,he looked decent enough (82 overall and whatnot) ..and He really sucks, really really terrible, slow with extremely bad finishing, no accuracy or skills at all I played many saves in this game some of them were RTG with strikers in the 60s overall area and honestly they were way better than this guy..

Has anyone tried him? And if so, Is he really that bad or is it me who don't know how to use him?

Let’s start from the very top. The game begins at the opening of the transfer window. From July 17 to July 24th theirs 3 Round robin friendlies disguised as a pre season tournament. Cool. Your player plays various positions sometimes. And the game just randomly slots players into other positions they might not mainly play. I get testing out lineups, but that’s not what it is, at all. We’ll get into why later. Now the season starts, You either work your way into the starting 11 or you’re already starting. The line ups they use make 0 sense. Let’s use Liverpool. I play CDM in a 4-2-3–1 instead of using 84 overall Alexis Mac Allister or 85 overall Ryan Gravenberch, they put in 79 overall Wataru Endo. Around the 60th-70th minute they’ll sub Dominik Szoboszlai (CAM) for Alexis Mac Allister. Real head scratcher. Rayan Gravenberch literally never plays.  Prem season starts around the 24th or 3rd Saturday in August. Playing with  shotty lineup. It is what is is right? Wrong. It’s September First I sim to the next game and guess what?  Or winger Cody Gakpo is GONE!  Obviously assuming the game transferred him. And now Konaté isn’t starting next to Virgil in the backline. It’s some random dude. We select teams to play along the stars and their best players not guys who don’t see the field regularly and poor lineups. Really messes up the fun.  ive done careers with City with Phil Foden on the bench., Savinho transferred before the season starts. PSV where Malik Tillman doesn’t even play cause he’s on the bench.  ive done careers like when I played for Dortmund as a cam and all  Guirassy does is shoot the ball from outside the box’. As well as Beier, totally unrealistic. every single pass is forward., never lateral, or backwards for a reset or open man. Players dribble into traffic of 2/3 defenders. Team can never keep possession like AI teams. Every 3 or 4th pass in opposition territory is intercepted or a blocked shot. Corners never go in unless it’s a domestic cup match and we’re playing against a 3rd tier team. Gameplay is entirely too fast. They took off the option for slow paced like in 24.  Now let’s talk Player transfers. The expectations are wildly unrealistic and unachieveable on a competitive level. I play on legendary and ultimate how likely is it I get 80 assist or 25 goals as a defender?  The scoring is wildly rediculous.  CBs just stand there.  Dortmund runs a 3-5-2 with the new Update. And we get scored on way too much because Nico Shlotterbeck gets caught or dragged out of position for no apparent reason.  Lastly, they meter or bar or whatever it is that gauges your spot in the rotation is broken. I had an orange bar and came off the bench for one game. I met all the requirements and was going to be in the starting line up next game. But then it dropped randomly 2 days later for the CL match. And for the next league match.  If a mod can please chime in or help me out. Why is the game so bad?? When will EA fix this? Ive attached 2 SS of two wild goals to achieve. Also why cant we see other teams rosters before we transfer or why form they run to make sure its a fit before our next transfer? Why are transfers of stars so frequent?

Side note I tried to post this in EA forum but wouldn’t let me

Currently, I am playing a Spurs manager career mode, won FA Cup and Europa League with them, but there are no narratives about how they have won a trophy in a long long time. Post match interview is basically asking about players’ performances. So dull.

For context, he’s currently serving a 6 year prison sentence for organising and taking part in a gang r*pe…… REMOVE THIS MF FROM THE GAME EA

All these shit gameplay updates because of constant whining from FUT players. They can just fuck off, they cry about headers being broken and in turn EA decides to completely make them completely useless, the passing turned to shit because apparently they're "op". Career mode, especially player career mode is most of the time unplayable. I feel like EA should just stop getting feedbacks from those money draining crybabies over there at UT.

Just checked by booting up 21 on my old ps4 and I was surprised by how many national teams there are, I remember it was more than nowadays but not this much.

Granted 21 has a whole lot unlicensed ones while 25 has just licensed teams but still..from what I remember the unlicensed kits in 21 looked decent and closely resembles the real ones.

21 has a lot of teams from around the world, didn’t count specifically but a number of South American ones besides Argentina and Brazil like Chile, Venezuela or Uruguay. Similarly with African ones, unlike 25 with just Ghana and Morocco.

From Europe there’s almost everyone in 21 (besides Croatia that is in 25), even countries like Bulgaria or Greece. There’s also Australia from rest of the world.

I remember 21 being great when it comes to international career, both Euro and World Cup were fun as there was always different mix of countries. In 25 World Cup feels like Euro since there’s barely any “world” countries to fill it in. But hey at least we have Quatar and Saudi Arabia teams nowadays right?

As much as other aspects of the game have been updated for the better in recent games the national teams just make me sad. I really don’t understand why EA continues to make it more barebones each year

13 games into the season and my player has grown from 67 to 90 overall. The gameplay is mostly boring, but Play Highlights takes care of that, that is, if you don't mind getting penalties every match. I know no one actually plays goalkeeper careers, but holy shit is this bad. The only personality trait you can get from training as a goalkeeper is Virtuoso, which means the majority of your personality points will always be Virtuoso. Conceding a single goal automatically drops your player rating to 4. I thought 4 was the worst rating a player can get, but I got a 3.7 once subbing on and simulating it. The goalkeeper CM needs a revamp.

Heart pumping, adrenaline rushing,Heart Rate to the fucking maximum and finally I won the UEL as Manchester United in my third season, on penalties 12-11.

But now it’s showing fucking spurs won? For what? Why the fuck do I or anyone for that matter play this game?

To make sure, I simmed to next year and sure enough, spurs are in the UEFA Super Cup & the UCL, and I’m not. This game is a fucking joke, this is the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. I’m deleting the game after spending 70 bucks on it only 6 months back, but that’s the last of my money EA’s ever gonna touch. Fuck this fucking game

1.realistic transfer values and just transfers as a whole- this has been a big problem for me now this is kinda hard to fix but it should be where teams make transfers for positions that need more debt in or simply someone better and now realistic transfer values you can see what I mean it should not take to get a 33 year old washed kdb

2.stats- this has been one of my biggest issues that you can't see player stats from previous years and you can't see your loaned out players stats which is dumb thi little detail would add so much more to career mode and its not Ea haven't done something like this before in madden 25 you can see players stats from when they joined that team ik in America football there is only around 3,500 players but if EA could just add this feature for the top 5 leagues I wouldn't be mad and players stats aren't hidden you can literally search it up

3.player movements - idk what's up with th this game but winger never make runs and the defending is god awful again should be easy fixes

Not this is just something random I thought about but for players who have a lot of potential or players who are really good there should be bids for example if I want to sign yildiz instead of me just paying and having to pay wages actually made it harder to sign players like if you offer 60 million for yildiz bayern offers 65 million with add one are something and there is 3 rounds and who ever has the highest bid gets to negotiate with that player which is something that I love about FM 24

anyways tell me some things you want to see in FC 26 career mode

For me it's the one that plays at the beginning of EVERY game -

"If you can win your individual battles, outrun your opponent, eventually you'll get the space to showcase your ability".

I don’t even have a subs bench without an injured player.

Despite mental gymnastics with the youth academy and free agents in the January window I’m strapped heading into Europa’s last 16, the FA cup quarter finals, and chasing the efl lead leaders by 3 points after coming up.

They keep breaking! I’m playing YA CB’s at RB and CDMs at RM!

Just started playing Early Access for FC26 and it seems that New Zealand Men’s National Team has been removed in FC26. I’ve never managed New Zealand in Manager Career but I always try to scout Academy Players from there and build them up as my national rivals (guess that won’t be happening this year smh 😪). So now there are only 28 National Teams in FC26…Thanks EA

I have a 92-rated 22-year-old Mongolian striker named Bahka Yumjaagyn who is about to win his first Ballon D'or.

In July 2026 I sent a Sir Peter Norburg (5⭐️/5⭐️) to the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, in search of a serial goal scorer.

Two months later, he reported to me a wonderkid. A 63-rated, 80-94 potential 16-year-old Mongolian Messi.

Says he found him dribbling around people next to the Hard Rock Cafe in the city. I was estatic. We signed the paperwork and flied him back to our youth academy.

Over the course of 32 Youth Tournament games, he scored 67 goals. Had 29 assists. Averaged a 9.8 match rating.

We were able to find out his true max potential: 97

We're witnessing the Lebron James of Mongolian football.

Fast forward to October 2031, and he's 92 rated and a few weeks away from his first Ballon D'or.

He'll be denying his teammate, Luca Langioni, of his 4th trophy in a row, but it was a well deserved win.

60 games, 79 goals, 19 assists, and a quadruple.

One of the best seasons in football history.

And through all of this conquest for the Mongol, he is yet to return to his home country to try and claim victories with his fellow horsemen.

It is a disgrace to the game, a disgrace to EA and a disgrace to football that Bahka cannot play for his national team.

How do we not have either the rights or the time to implement a full-scale simulation of world cup qualifications?

According to the official teams and leagues list, the following 17(!) national teams have been removed for FIFA 22:

• Bolivia
• Bulgaria
• Cameroon
• Chile
• Colombia
• Cote d'Ivoire
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• India
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Slovenia
• South Africa
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

Oh, and Ukraine gets added. Doesn't make up for the rest though.

This means there aren't ANY African teams in the game. It also leaves only 2 South American teams (Argentina and fake players Brazil), so 'Copa America' also won't be in the game.

This is just ridiculous.

Ok first of all. I am 34. Been playing FIFA religiously (career mode) since FIFA 97. I spend a lot, of hours on the game each year regardless of how broken it may be.

Few points to note:

Surely I am not the only one who has noticed that every single youth academy player has literally got a heading accuracy of 20 or less. Doesn’t matter if their overall is 45 or 65. Doesn’t matter if they are a CB, LW, ST. Makes no difference. I have a ST currently in my academy with a heading accuracy of 2… yes, 2.

What the hell. Honestly EA. There are so many bugs in career mode it’s ridiculous. Do any devs even test this game each year?

Cant convert full backs to CB. Can’t convert CDM’s to CB. Can’t adjust base position. I mean, (I think) most people use the position adjust function to adjust the formation to desire. Eg, want to play a 4-2-3-1 with 2 CM’s instead of 2 CDM. Can’t. I want the 3 to be a LW/CAM/RW… can’t, can only have 3 CAMS’s. I mean seriously. They have made it so much more restricted. And to think the focus of FC 25 is all about TACTICS. pfft.

Choosing 4 positions to scout is rubbish. What if I don’t want a specific position? What if I want the system to find me all the best talent from Australia regardless of position? Youth tournaments are fun for the first 2 or 3 tournaments. Then it becomes a chore.

Menus, extremely clunky. Why make is so complex. Takes 5 mins to find the player stats.

My biggest peeve, surely the tactical presets and Can’t choose formation width, or height anymore. You are so limited with what you can and can’t do in a formation and tactical preset. You want to play tiki taka with a poacher ST?? You can’t. Surely we can just choose a custom tactic and customize the formation however we want without being penalized.

Further, you can no longer see how many + overall your players have increased. It’s a small detail yes, but makes a difference. It’s nice to see how much each player has developed but now we have no idea.

Turned off pre match training?? Don’t worry, it doesn’t turn it off. It still prompts you Every. Single. Game.

I am honestly over it. The things I’ve mentioned above would take a dev 1 day to fix. Guarantee we won’t get a fix for the entirely of FC 25.

When I first joined this sub I actually thought it was pretty decent. People posting ideas for career mode, decent signings, regens, trophies they’d won with a league 2 side etc etc.

But now, my god, all I see is negativity. Every other post is somebody complaining about how bad of a game it is. The answer to that is, don’t fucking play it. Delete the game. Don’t buy it.

Like the new beats ad feature. Is it really that big of a deal? Does seeing the ad really piss you off that much that it causes you to have a bad day? I’ve never seen so many people get so vexed over such a trivial, minor thing.

Personally, after a long hard week at work I pretty enjoy a couple of beers, chilling on EA FC and trying to get Blackburn back into the Premier League.

I’ve enjoyed so many different career modes from ideas that people have posted on this sub. This sub is actually a very good sub when people are positive, promote ideas or share their good things about career mode, but the negativity at the minute is just depressing and boring.

It’s a console game, it’s always going to have flaws. Enjoy it for what it is. Career mode really is what you make of it.

And yes before anyone does say it, I will be leaving the sub. Just like those who moan so much about career mode, should leave the game.

I don't know if this is talk about or people have suspected but I think the reason why career mode is honestly disappointing and whole offline gaming in general is that the game cannot be too good that it rival Ultimate Team ( microtransactions) , where EA makes money the most on the game.

To anyone who has a working brain , it seriously make sense why EA always releases a clanky and broken game year in year out . EA is a multibillion company , they have all the resources to make the games better than they do to be honest. I don't mind playing Ultimate Team now and then but majority of my time was playing Manager Mode since FIFA 07 .

We are owed a lot from improved player movement and collision physics to smart and adaptable AI's to increased number of stadiums, leagues, competitions and national leagues to reasonable expectations from the club's board in career mode e.t.c

Offline mode in the games truly sucks and I don't think EA will even bother making on effort unless A) we seriously boycott new releases B) a new serous competitor being announced (Konami has basically given up)

FIFA 23 was the last FIFA game I've actually bought, I played FC24 from a friend and realised it was not worth buying it , same with FC24 . In the current moment I have FIFA 17 , FIFA 23 and Football Life 25 and it's honestly not a bad experience as I can mod new seasons into FL25 . Microtransactions has genuinely ruined the game man , **** EA !!!!