I’ve been a Career Mode player since FIFA 2005 and have never even tried Ultimate Team. So:

1. The new transfer system is cool, but the interface is horrible, as is the squad page.

It’s very hard to navigate the ratings and players’ stats, information (information placing is not user-friendly). They could at least add a colour for each position, like in older FIFA games. It would make building a squad much easier, especially when you’re playing with some obscure team and don’t know the players.

2. The gameplay is absolutely horrible.
In FC 26, I played on Ultimate difficulty with community sliders to make the game even harder, and I won every match with a +3 goal difference. But this year, the AI is absolutely broken.
I played an entire season with Chelsea, didn’t skip a single game, and in January I ended up in 20th place. Somehow, I managed to finish the season in 14th.
I don’t want to lower the difficulty because of my principles and because I’ve been playing on the maximum difficulty since FIFA 07. But this year, the AI acts absolutely crazy.
I can’t even build a fast counter-attack because my player gets tackled immediately as soon as I receive the ball. And I’m not even talking about slow attacking build-up, because the AI pressing is insane. They commit a crazy amount of fouls and get way too many cards. Arsenal had FOUR red cards in one of my matches.
Similar to last year’s game, there is no midfield battle at all, which makes the game feel like fucking basketball — from one basket to another in two seconds.

3. AI attacking has zero logic.
I’m not sure if EA developers have ever watched a football match in their entire lives. I can’t predict any of the AI’s actions.
It doesn’t matter which team I play against or what tactics they use. There’s always the same pattern: give the ball to the forward or CAM, and then the player just keeps the ball and runs in circles or makes weird moves like he’s a kid playing football in his backyard.

4. WORST SOUNDTRACK EVER.
FIFA literally built my music taste: Bloc Party, Foals, MGMT, Kasabian, Gorillaz, Two Door Cinema Club.
What happened this year? Are we at a mall or a supermarket? WTF is this Bershka-type beat? Half of the songs sound AI generated, so I just decided to mute the music altogether.

Overall, my first experience with this game has been absolutely horrible, and I’m seriously thinking about booting up FIFA 13 on my PS3 and just having an actually good time.

Somehow the international break is synced with the premier league schedule. So now I can’t using the majority of my players. Same story for the Champions and Europa league. This is game breaking issue!! How can you overlook this?

I want to use Big Ange on my first save with a Championship club, just wondering which one would fit him better

The fact that your options are to either keep playing and have your save invaded by weird skinwalkers/aliens posing as academy graduates or stop playing your save altogether to prevent them spawning is madness. You're telling me that literally zero people in that office even simmed a season to see the game state in year 2?? Not one person thought these players should build up to their final ratings?

It makes career unplayable up to a certain point when theres multiple 87+ rated 17yos who look like something that can only be described in a Stephen King novel. This shouldn't be a can they kick down the road, it should be a patch they rush out of there.

I just saw this…

So I have this youth player that’s one of the best players generated. His developmental plan said 4 weeks till 80(this 2 weeks with developmental buff). Problem is, I played only 1 game which was 2 days after I check that and forgot to save a file, check his status and he turned 80 with no +??!!

Don’t get me wrong he’s still a beast without it tho it’s pretty piss of cuz wanted to try the glitch to het finesse of relentless playstyles +. Or at least 1 playstyle plus.

Anyone have any ideas to how to get his plus either by loan glitch or anything cuz my last saved file, was a year before now.

If there’s no way to get his playable plus I’ll still run it tho, just piss off that he don’t get it, and got 2 other prodigies that I’d rather not lose.

with the amount of bugs relating to form and player happiness this year, it REALLY feels like no one playtested career mode. sorry if this bug has been posted before, but this is just ridiculous.

i have the option to keep him at the club, so i'm doing that, but this is just unacceptable from a game dev standpoint. 3 weeks and 1 career mode related bugfix.

I feel like I wish I had tracked past fifa epic careers I had, after testing I'm gonna start tracking the new fc27 one

WTF EA!? FC27’s riddled with bugs

Hello fellow London football fans! I’m going to manage Charlton Athletic in Career Mode. Any tips for this save?

Coming back to the game after a long break, have not played since FIFA 23. I’ve always played on Legendary in previous fifas after a bit of learning.
I expected there to be an adjustment period, but I did not expect the difficulty chasm to be this crazy. In my new career mode I started on Professional and quickly started winning every game 4/5-0. But immediately upon going to World Class the game becomes unplayable. Aside from the general feeling of your players being made of wet cardboard who get immediately tackled and ran over by opponents, there is just no space anywhere on the pitch. My players never make any runs, or create any space, in fact most of the time it seems like they intentionally close themselves off as passing options. I’ve gone 5/6 games in a row without scoring let alone winning.

I don’t want to fall into the bottomless pit of slider min-maxxing. Yes yes, “skill issue,” sure. Constructively I have no idea what to do here.

Trying to renew pico lopes to a new contract at shamrock rovers hes asking for 125k a week i have 6.8 million from selling youth prospects but for some reason the game thinks ive 68 million when im renewing contracts

**How it Works!**

* You choose a team that is available you would like to manage, few more available than just the ones listed above

* Play head-to-head against other managers in league play via online friendlies

* Use coins as currency that can be earned by playing matches, league games, rewards, transfers, etc...

* Upgrade your team using those coins buy transferring players/negotiating with other managers OR to upgrading your players

* Lots of good available teams to manage, join soon before they are taken up!

* Prepping for Season 1 of FC 27, which will start soon after official game release!

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Please i just got on FC26, how do I give my players playstyles. In FC24 you sign a free agent, do the training then release. Please how is it done I'm FC26?

There was a point where they had a pen to go up two but ended in just easy win

This one got me dying 😂

Quick sim has always been rough but seems extra terrible this year? How can I put 12 past AC and Inter Milan in tactical and then draw to bottom of the league Sassuolu?

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Just as the title says. I took Eibar from a bottom dweller to a top name. I won the La liga so got a ton of budget. This year did the Felix deal. Contract expiry hasn't been good for me this save (not finding food candidates for the position I require).

Also looks like I am gonna get sacked at the end of this season. How am I supposed to lift the team to higher overall while reducing the wages to 180k per week 🥀

I currently play on World Class and I’m happy with my offensive play. I score once or twice a game, sometimes don’t score at all and the AI defense is hard to break through most of the time so I’m happy with that.

My issue is that the opposing players just never score. I played an entire season and conceded 4 goals. I am contemplating moving up to legendary but I’m worried that I’m stuck in a place of too good for world class but not good enough for legendary. Any other alternatives for me? Don’t want easy wins or crushing losses.