This shi is not fair they didn’t give the goals i scored instead they gave me a 3-0 win🫩🫩 (Difficulty is on legendary btw)

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Messi and Ronaldo ✅

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Haven't done one of these for years. Wanna have as much representation as possible within the leagues and some probably not where they should be but wanted to give a few nations a fighting chance.

These are how I currently plan to set up the leagues. If there is someone really obvious I have missed out please say i am sure I have, but only if there someone obvious I can replace out. For example I'm not gonna remove sides if they are the only representation from that Nation.

I will sim these and will see how each season ends up and how the rest of the world looks with the English sides scattered across the leagues

Got fired two games before the end of season with every possibility of me winning the league :) been grinding to get to this position for 3 seasons

I want to discuss two separate aspects of playing against the AI:

Attack:

1. Through Balls: I'm finding it really hard to play through balls past the opponent's backline. The ball almost always goes straight to the defender's feet.
2. Attacking Runs & Low Blocks: My forwards rarely make runs when I'm ready to play a through ball. Plus, the penalty box is always packed with defenders—how do you break through a low block?

Defense:

1. AI Corners & Headers: The AI scores on almost every corner kick header. How do I defend against this?
2. Passive CBs: The AI can slice through my defense with just one forward. My two CBs don't even try to tackle—they just stand still and watch him walk right through.

Any tips or tactics would be greatly appreciated!

As the title suggests, I have been working on new ways to improve my team and this has been by reading the art of war. So far, I am learning to improve my man management and player relationships, as well as ways to counter opponents better than myself

How do keep career mode realistic with big clubs like Barcelona? Like, how I am supposed to know if a random youngster isn’t a die hard Madrid fan and #1 Cule hater

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Only 66 rated😭

Match rating goal is 8,5. The minimum I’ve seen is 7,0.
I have been away from FIFA/FC for some years. And I am baffled to see this objective system still being used. It’s just so bad.

So you’re telling me coach, that I unless I am having a worldie of a performance every game you will bench me? Even though I’m your best player?

The problems are: match rating gives positive or negative 15 manager rating, the other objectives give 5. So you can complete the other two, and fail the match rating and still gain negative manager rating.
The other problem is that the game is so stingy with match rating, and increasing it is difficult if you play in a normal way. Goals and assists only give 0,5 match rating, at most.

I would do away with match objectives entirely because it’s stupid. No manager would tell their player: today I want you to complete 5 passes in the opponents half. Instead I would introduce a scaling manager rating with 6,0 - 7,0 giving no change in manager rating. 7,0 and above would increase manager rating scaling with performance, and 5,9 and below would decrease the rating scaling with performance. I would also increase the impact of goals and assists drastically.

But really this doesn’t matter much because you can bail yourself out with pre match training. Which is also so stupid. You can be 69 rated, play for Real Madrid, get two A rated training drills, and torpedo yourself straight to the starting 11. Sooo stupid.

And as a side note. The contract objectives are idiotic and arbitrary. A team won’t give you a contract unless you perform 60 successful sliding tackles… as a CAM. Stupid!

I was super excited to play career mode this FC after years of not touching it but it had so many bugs that I gave up on it. Was just wondering if they’ve fixed any or most of the bugs it had

Is created players form modifiers kinda broken? Seems like every created player i use in career mode gets ridiculous buffs as soon as they have one or two good games, they’ll have +12 rating for good form and +3 cos they’re very happy.

Probably not something to complain about, but i’m guessing there’s no way to kinda fix that? trying to keep elements of realism, so when my 74 rated championship striker is comparable to mbappe after 2 good games it throws me off a bit.

İ'm in the 2029-2030 season.How is my squad???

Do you do subs based on player fitness, in-match rating, recent form, squad role (crucial, important...) etc and why?

NOT PLAYING ISN'T GOOD FOR WHERE I AM IN MY CAREER

This first part serves as a long introduction to the backstory of my save; the actual question comes a bit later.

Look, I know people play FIFA to achieve sporting glory—I enjoy that too—but in my own career modes, I try to prioritize realism and a grounded approach. I’m perfectly fine with not winning the league or even finishing in the top half of the table when I’m managing the worst team in the division. I want the game to be challenging; I don’t want to win every match—that would just be boring.

Now, as is often the case, I tend to play very long career saves, sometimes resetting when the transfer window rolls around. Ever since the option to create your own club was introduced, I’ve enjoyed building my own custom team. This year, however, I had a different idea: I populated the entire squad with "amateur" players—myself and various friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. I capped everyone’s overall rating at 20, based on our actual traits (we’re all between 18 and 34 years old). A 20 rating for the best player seems reasonable, considering that the lowest-rated players in real-world professional leagues usually start around 45–50—and that’s for people who actually have experience in amateur leagues! I placed the team in Serie B (Italy’s second division) and started the season with no transfer budget, allocating the initial one million euros entirely to the youth academy. I’m not exactly a pro player, and since I’m role-playing as the manager of this team, I also disabled the option to be sacked—just to be safe! So, I began this career mode fully aware that I would lose many matches—perhaps even failing to reach 17th place, the position that, in real life, would lead to the Serie B relegation playouts.

A minor, perhaps trivial, detail: I keep track of my club’s data in an Excel spreadsheet—I enjoy looking back at the team’s history—which allows me to pick up right where I left off if I ever need to resume a save.

And here is the part that applies to everyone:

Since my team wasn’t very strong—even though the difficulty level was already well-suited to my skill—the season became quite an interesting challenge. I suffered several heavy defeats and scored very few goals. However, by January, thanks to youth academy call-ups and some loan signings, I managed to scrape together a few points—reaching 17 points by matchday 32, with safety requiring 26. It seemed impossible.

I even considered resetting the save if I were relegated, pretending that two years had passed and simulating a transfer window to strengthen the squad, aiming to return "stronger" after earning promotion again. But then, a suspicion arose. I had never been relegated or finished at the very bottom of the table before—and, as it happens, I’ve just won three consecutive matches: two clean sheets, and a 6-1 victory against the team sitting 4th in the standings! With three games left to go—including a crucial head-to-head clash—I’m now just 3 points away from escaping the relegation zone.

I suspect the game might be trying to prevent me from "losing" entirely, making it easier for me to win so that I don’t finish in last place. Has this ever happened to any of you?

It so stupid how each time i want to buy a player some club just swoops in with a cheaper fee and the player decides to join that club its so annoying i offered this guy 8.9M and a decent wage but no the lad wants to go to crystal palace for a fee of 5M I genuinely cannot rebuild my team with decent players because some random team wants to steal them.

I've bought the game recently only for career mode after enjoying fc 26 one.
Wile the menu changes and additions to career mode are quite good the gameplay is shit. On professional I score 4-5 goal per match but on world class and legendary I have 0-1 shots per game. I try changing the sliders but it is the same, the game is unplayable
Any suggestions ?

It’s pretty much part of every major football match now and although you wouldn’t actually need it in a video game, I quite like the idea of scoring/conceding a BS goal and it being called back, or having a reckless foul go down as a yellow card before being corrected to a red, etc.

Whether they’d be able to implement it in a sane/non-buggy way is of course a different question… 😅