Is There Any Way to Fix the AI's Crazy Signings? 

Alexander-Arnold to Madrid always happens

I remember vividly a fifa 12 save I had back in the day where Spurs let Brad Friedel retire & sold Gomez in the same window. The season before they came 5th. But with no keeper had to play Bale in GK (I guess he had the best stats). After January I checked and they still didn’t buy a GK. They got relegated 🤣! They had signed new players but not a keeper. The AI can do some wacky stuff

Very relatable, I'd be playing on one save, next thing I see, an english player in Athletic Club, or I could see Gavi in Real Madrid, once something like that happens, It just ruins the entire save, and I just give up on it, I wish there was a mod that could fix the unrealism, or at least EA could work on that.

It does my head in when Arsenal sell Saka, Martineli and Saliba all in the first season. Then they buy about 4 left backs for no reason

This why I only play on PC with either FIFER or PaulV2k4 realism mods. Mods make career mode so much fun

"If you don't want players in Saudi Arabia moving back to Europe after 6 months," perhaps not the best example of 'unrealistic' transfers haha.

I think EA should associate particular styles of play with particular managers. Then allow those managers to be moved around like on Football Manager

In PES 6 master league mode I've seen a team with a second GK in defense position, because after some seasons they had only one legit defender. However, their whole reserves were forwards, mostly CFs.

Having AI that not only makes signings that make sense, but also evolves what kind of signings the clubs make over the course of the career to reflect changes at the clubs that may happen irl, i.e. new manager, new ownership, rising up or falling down their leagues having an impact on what signings they make etc.

What we need is dynamic rating system. You see, it’s already bad in real life - huge players don’t move that often as there are not many clubs who could afford guys like Mbappe and Bellingham. In-game if these don’t transfer away at all it becomes stale - clubs just don’t need a replacement because they already have a decent player. So there should be some sort of a dynamic rating for players. So that it could go down and not only up. Like, Utd could sign an 85 rated striker that flops and his rating is changed to 82, and they need a replacement. If this former star goes to a lower rated club he also becomes like 78 rated, so that to not make that team completely OP. Hard to implement, but I believe there should be something like that. Otherwise clubs just don’t need new signings because their squads are already stacked

I bought all the keepers of real madrid and they didn't sign any new ones for 4 years. They were bottom of the second league for 3 years, but somehow they could still afford to keep Bellingham, Valverde, Rodrygo, Vini JR, Camavinga and Tchouameni

pretty sure it just signs players based on ratings, so if u have a bad fullback they sign a fullback

I always put the negotiation type on strict idk if it makes a huge difference but I don’t see that many crazy transfers for the first few seasons

That’s why I ban first transfer window and European competitions in starting manager career

It’s also crazy how City in this example signed 3 key Madrid players, Rodrygo, Militao AND Güler. Like, there’s no way that ever happens.

Imo an equally bad thing is the stupidity of the coaches.. i just joined madrid on my player carrer and instead of 90+ rated vini and rodrygo playing in the starting 11 its some academy strikers both rated 80💀💀

It was so annoying to see that when I wanted to sign German LB Luca Netz, he was on Athletic Bilbao 😑

I had a save in which Brighton signed Moukoko and Zaire-Emery and got relegated that same season....

I fixed this problem for manager career on PS5 with moving players to free agency and add them back instantly to there teams BEFORE starting a new career! Players that are "newly" signed are not getting sold for at least one season!

I just started a new cam player career mode at Liverpool and trent has gone to real Madrid and nunez to man united

implementing actually realistic transfers might be tough to do, like respecting playstyles etc. but for me 95% of the purpose would be done by teams building squads with proper depth, fielding their actually best players and not having a top club sign 70 rated 30+ year olds while 90+ rated players go a club where they are 10+ rating above everyone else. just make the transfers make sense from an age and overall rating perspective, whilst maintaining a balance in depth. whats the point of being 5-10 seasons in, having all 90+ rated players whilst there isnt even a 5 star club anymore, anywhere in the world and when u sim every game u barely qualify for champions league, while the board hates you, bc u couldnt get a youth player signed last season to compete with 90+ rated ones, whilst not even needing transfer money. also there are so many mods that make career mode easier (which i love), but i would love a challenge, that i dont have to make by my own, but have strict rules in the game that prevent me from getting a half star club to 4 star within the first season.

I always put a ton of players on the transfer list and sim every 4 days, checking if any unrealistic bids went it. Then I bid myself to stop the AI from making silly transfers. But if I miss someone and go back without saving, sometimes the AI creates more unrealistic signings or the player rejects my move because "it wasn't appealing enough". I've literally spent hrs trying to correct AI transfers, sometimes giving up on the save altogether, and it's come to the point I hate the transfer windows.

They should introduce squad size and homegrown rules also

Crazy? Van Dijk going to United when he's way past it is a completely on-brand signing for them. Probably paid £100m too.

Well I played a carrer mode in fifa 23 with sampdoria and basically every transfer window united, in united fashion spend like 100mil on some random player

If the AI would tell you you can't be a Liverpool manager and sign a player for United that should be the same for the CPU😊

2:03 how can you just change their lineup? It doesn't show "all team cheets" for me.

Muy jóvenes para conocer la mítica canción ZINEDINE ZIDANEEEEEE.

Yhh player career is ridiculous vini jr is on the bench over Werner

Those assholes stole Kudus from West Ham!?

for me morata to man utd

Manchester United having crap signings is 100% accurate! I CAN CONFIRM AS A UNITED FAN MYSELF! EDIT: Managers moving around is a great idea but knowing FIFA they would have Mourinho at Burnley and PEP at Everton in a few seasons.

Its not real if kroos and alaba dont go to liverpool

Its not a career mode without Pedri going to Man Utd and Gavi to AC Milan or Immobile to City

One time I signed Harry Maguire for the first season in a Burnley Career and when I put him on the transfer list wanna know who offered for him? ATHLETIC FUCKING BILBAO

Every single game I see balde go to man city, EVERY SINGLE TIME

I think it was fifa 17 or 16 but Alaba always used to go to Juve all the damn time

3 things that would massively improve career mode IMO is: 1. More realistic signings 2. Manager sackings and replacements in AI clubs 3. Online career mode The first 2 would add a lot more realism, especially if they could implement things like Bilbao's basque policy

AI kills career mode. My players are upset with me no matter what. I just finished 5th with Burnley and the entire squad hate me lol

As you touched on in the video, I don't know why EA can't programme certain players to stay with their club for a few years, or at least decrease chances of them being sold. As an Arsenal fan it's hard to imagine a homegrown player like Saka leaving for at least the next few years, let alone to a close rival. In my current (Leicester) career he moved to Liverpool, with Salah moving the other way 😂. Wish they could also programme something like "club usually signs

7:25 in all fairness that's what I want to see from the AI, playing a RB at LB because it genuinely makes more sense than sticking to the script. (He has no right foot)

How to fix FIFA career mode. 1. Make characters editable... Have a backroom team. Make them editable so you can create a staff member (maybe you want Gerrard on your Liverpool coaching team etc). Make it cost money to create them, and their stars / skill rating. Instantly more fun even if the staff actually do very little in game. Let people do this for staff and youth players (change name, looks but not skill or potential). 2. Have a Storyline AI feature - For example, if you were doing really well, other teams would make stronger signings, perhaps you rival (e.g. if Liverpool then Everton) get a financial takeover and you'll be more likely to play them in cup matches and quarter finals. If you get knocked out by Real Madrid in CL then it makes stronger chance to draw them in knock out rounds next season.. If you are unbeaten in the league for a long while then the news stories become about that etc. 3. VETO MODE - Make it so there is an option to VETO all transfers in career mode. You can essentially look through transfers one by one and select "undo" if its still in the transfer window. It would lock after deadline day and not be editable. Yes, this could be used to cheat, but would be a far greater tool to enjoy career modes... And in a single player mode, why not let people cheat of thats what they want - at least the rest if us get to make career modes fun and realistic. 4. Review MODE, a mode where you can force transfers / edit lineups of any team in career mode if required. Maybe its a once a season thing at the start of each season (like stadium edit) when you can just align things a little to fix any issues. Have the transfer player and team sheet available for all clubs like in Customise on the main menu. 5. Customisation - Make as much of the game editable as possible in customise mode. Add traits, skills to players, edit / transfer managers of teams, add an in game kit creator, add a stadium builder/ editor. Edit fans, flags in the stadium, icon posters... Literally make as much as possible customisable and you'll get all types of fans loving it.

sometimes interesting signings happen aswell, in Fifa 20 I had a save where Southampton signed Lautaro Martinez, and by 2023 they constatly finished top 4, and even got to a Champions League final, also Martinez was the top scorer pretty much every season in the prem, meanwhile the real Southampton got relegated

Trent Alexander Arnold always going to City or Real Madrid

Remember playing a player career with Man United ages ago as a RB. By season 4 Rooney and Anderson were the CBs and the highest rated players outside of myself, Rooney, Anderson and De Gea were low/mid 60s

Strict negotiations kinda limits the rivals doing business together, keeps it somewhat realistic, still see some crazy stuff tho

FUCKED THINGS ABOUT CAREER MODE Signings: 1: Balde to Man City 2: Imobille to Man City or Man Utd 3: TAA to Real Madrid 4: Salah and Van Dijk to Tottenham Teams and trophies: 1: Tottenham winning trophies 2: Average 2029 champions league final = RB Leipzig vs PSG 3: Man Utd winning at least one Premier league in the first 5 seasons 4: West Ham getting relegated to Championship 5: Man City never winning champions league 6: Bayern München being grouped in champions league

Transfers are totally dumb! Also there are some more major things that may ruin the save. • Players retiring stupidly soon • Smaller leagues selling their best players and buying almost no one • Players (even more if they are young) ALWAYS improving massively. Then some seasons pass by and every ucl team is 5 star rated and A LOT of players have huge ovr!! Its not realistic man, some players do not develop as expected, I'll even say thats the case for most players. Some others develop as hell out of the blew like for example Vardy in Leicester (preview FIFAs actually had that feature and it was great since it brings some random unexpected events to the save and its realistic if its moderate) • MOST players with 1 year left on their contract dont resign with the club or with another before the new season. Then the new season starts and there's A LOT of good players without club. • Too many youth players generating every season, makes it unbalance because the amount of total players in game increase every year and i have a theory that thats why many players retire young Also: I dont really like the regens feature man. Its not realistic since it makes the game somehow more static, makes you feel like everything remains the same. And also you know that for example if a player like Modric retires there will be automatically be a croatian regen that will 100% develop to be +90 rated while being 22 years old or younger. Thats insane and very unrealistic. Also one more thing, wtf is that about massive amount of youth players being free agents every new season. WTF is that about, makes no fucking sense to me

This is why I can never play this game without mods. I play for the realism so I am still playing modded fifa 23 to this day. Its better than vanilla fc 24

Personally this is why I always remove first summer transfer window when i play.. so at least they cant have 2 windows in the first season to make horribly unrealistic signings

In FIFA 20, I used to do the transfer to free agents then back to their original club for 80-90% of the teams in the league I was going to play in. This would make it ao transfers were impossible for 18 months for those players (usually just 6-7 key players or homegrown talents etc) I would then sign cover for some key positions to improve squad depth and options for clubs if they sold players or maybe a young striker with good potential if they had an ageing forward. This helped massively and would make career modes good for 5-6 seasons before it got silly (as opposed to the first transfer window). In FIFA 22 this didnt worl as well though, regularly see teams end up with random players in random positions (Lewendowski at LB once bayern sold Davies etc). Frustrating beyond belief.

Balde to City and Trent to Madrid along with Osihmen happens every save, I swear

Me trying to do a Realistic Career with Newcastle trying to buy a LB then I see Davies to Arsenal, VVD to Spurs, Stones to Spurs, Toney to GETAFE and Oyarzabal to Barcelona for 70M, Immobile to Real Madrid then I stopped the Newcastle Career then I started one with Barcelona, 1B and bought Van Dijk, Mbappe, Vinicius, Davies and all the stars even Neymar

the random AI transfers makes the game feel so unrealistic man

also this was when wjinaldum was still at psg

Disable first summer transfer window which somehow "recodes" the signings

Glad I didn't buy this piece of shit game

Step 1: Start playing FM24

Ea should hire this guy to do something with career mode

This is why with the live editor I do transfers myself and reverse the stupid ones. I send older players to MLS and Saudi, and silly moves like Rashford to Latium and Saka to Leipzig can just be avoided that way Also ensuring Championship clubs don't keep their 84ovr keeper, and newly promoted clubs get a few good deals to give them a fighting chance

I'm just happy Mbappe stopped going to Southampton in my saves. That was an issue I had in 3 fifa straights that stopped happening in FiFa 22 and haven't seen him since. Idk why but it was really annoying me 😂

Players wanting to leave in career mode is a glitch! Go sim 4 games on calender in career then go to team management. You will notice everyones stamina is depleted from the games except 1 or 2 players!!! In the games “ bug “ those players never played because after you sim a game in calander their stamina is 100% while everyone else is a bit depleted. Its a glitch and those players will want to leave. I simmed man city from summer to new year. Rodri was my starting CDM and requested a move away. This entire time in sim the gamd registered him not playing.

On my save in FIFA 23 Legacy Edition, (So FIFA 16 with current squads) City signed Mbappe and kept Haaland, yet they bench Haaland to play Mbappe up front when Mbappe could go LW, I signed up Haaland to solve the issue, he's now 33 years old and my most senior starter.

It’s not career mode without the most random transfers

I've managed to keep it pretty realistic with my man u save. Though tedious, only way is to look at the transfer history (every day) and go back and block any unrealistic moves. It works around 80% of the time but you need assets or money in the bank which means, you can only play with a rich club.

Rodrigo to Man City has happened in every career mode for me this year

Crazy CPU signings is what makes the saves fun, because the game certainly doesn't. Club Brugge won the CL in my save, in 2031, with a good chunk of world superstars and i love it, idk why you want to find a way to stop it

Atletico Madrid is the most unpredictable team in the transfer windows

Saint-Maximin please come back to Hannover 96

look after all it's not about realistic transfers because in real life back in the day we were saying that Messi to PSG isn't realistic so look what happened next and it's not the only example.

did anyone else see CASEMIRO at barca

Imagine if they had slowly and carefully built Career Mode from FIFA 06. After 16 years of balancing, new added functionalities and deeplearning IA, it could have been the greatest simulation, period. Literally just including some kind of ChatGPT-4 technology would fix signing.

I’m doing a Sociedad career, I went into the derby with Bilbao and see Curtis Jones on their team

I don't hate it as much in manager career as I do in players career, because in players career the better your player does, the more likely it is your team will sell it's best players and replace them with players whose overall is 3-4 lower than the player that was sold (I'm especially talking about big clubs like Bayern)... which makes absolutely no sense, because the more success you as a team have, the better players you should be signing...

I remember when Messi went to Real Madrid in the middle of his prime lol

The player career mode point is unbelievably valid. Even beyond my manager bringing in 3 world class strikers after signing me at a 93 rating rather than focusing on an aging defense, there's very very little initiative for me to look to move to other teams the longer the save goes on. The reason (in my opinion) we look for transfers in player career is because we get the chance to play with top players at the best clubs. But, when I think about transferring to Madrid and I see that they've sold Rodrygo, Tchouameni and Camavinga and instead of replacing them with 85-90 rated players, they buy 2 left wingers worse than Vini and put some 75-80 rated 30-something year olds where they used to be, it kinda makes you feel like there's no point in moving because Madrid has become such a weak team.

I moved to Real Madrid in my 4th season in player career and i looked at the player list it looked normal and no big transfers other than Trent so i was pleased after the transfer window closed they sold 4 players and the main XI included 76 luca zidane and 80 Ceballos🙂 After they had Tchouameni 89 and 91 Valverde

Does anyone know how to make the managers spend the full budget like lets say psg have 250 mill and the manager will spend all of the budget on the best players itw and a club like lets say palace or someone idk but they will hardly make any signings or if they do they will get about 15 60 rated players and never maximise the budget

The game is dumb, wayy to many transfers also very unrealistic

Dude PSG signed Trent, Jude, Rüdiger, Tchouameni like that team was insanely OP

EA should integrate the morale system for players out of your club, it's unrealistic that players with a +85 overall who don't play any matches are comfortable sitting in the bench instead of going to another club that allows them to play more. Also, loans should be more common.

If EA had any sort of competent coders and game designers these game moders would attract so much more ppl to the game, who aren't rlly interested in ut stuff....

Manager career is too easy for me now i play on ultimate and have won the league 10 out of 11 seasons, ive won like 6 champions league in 11 aswell plus won the FA CUP 8 times in a row😂😂

Had to stop playing solo career mode, these mf wouldn’t stop playing immobile at CM and valverde at RW

Big CPU teams should scout and sign young players with highest potential and than play the from time to time so they can reach their full potential.

my second season west ham wanted yo buy my vlahovic for 174 million euroes. How the hell could they even afford it.

"This midfield is unbalanced and bad!" And you're saying that's not realistic for Man Utd?

Wolves haven't signed a Portuguese player in years.

Bro I was doing a player career mode, and Vitor Roque moved to REAL. MADRID.

2 fifas in a row i have had this, where Trent alexander arnold always goes to real madrid for me.

I once had a player career save file where i played as a striker and every club i go to erling haaland will follow. Even sevilla.

Tara to Madrid Immobile to Manchester United Mendy to Man City Rodrigo to Arsenal

What kills me is that every time I put summer transfer on jamie vardy goes to real madrid and kane goes to inter Milan

in my ea fc 24 atletico madrid pulling most of the greatest signings 😂😂😂😂😂

The worst thing is when teams like Getafe or Hoffenheim stars doing 80+ million signings

It’s not a 1st transfer window without Alex Sandro to Crystal Palace

In FIFA 20 Nketiah and Norton Cuffy went to Real Madrid

Give me #SaveCareerMode back, wish they’d care more about the mode, but it’s not ultimate team

YESSS! NO MORE VALVERDE AT SPURS AND ALVAREZ AT VILLA

For me Bellingham always joins City 😂