Often overlooked by EA in favor of online options and the expansion of players and modes within Ultimate Team (due to its growth and profit potential), FIFA's Career Mode has dragged on for years. . This year, the mode has probably garnered the most attention in a long time, but it's still a trivial comparison to the online options, and yet there are still a large number of players who stick to it as they go. looking to bring their team to the top.
While many players have their own methods when it comes to Career Mode, there are a few things worth considering when kicking off your saves in this year's version of the game. Here are our top five tips for getting the most out of your career mode save.
Don't bother with the playing career
For years, FIFA has offered you the opportunity to take on the role of a player in a team or create a young and hungry midfielder or advanced player who will grow up to be a superstar. But if there's one mode in the game that's half-baked, it's this one. Progress is slow. you have no control over many aspects of your career and your team. Frankly, AI-controlled players are awful, they never enter good spaces, have no sense of positional play, and are absolutely unreliable when it comes to passing for a chance or going. finish their chances. 've set up.
It's a total mess of a fashion that once had the potential to be great, but neglect has left it in tatters. Play as a manager instead.
Only invest in the best
It may seem like an obvious trick, but when the budget is tight, the temptation is to use the funds first on transfers and contract renewals, then on staff. This is not a problem for big clubs like Manchester City or Real Madrid, as you will be able to complete your staff roster with the best and use pocket change to buy Kylian Mbappe. However, teams with tighter purses may be left with the choice between buying a particular player and hiring the best staff member.
You should absolutely resist the temptation to choose the budget allocation option, especially for youth staff. Even in a tiny club, recruiting the best possible youth staff member that your money can pay a player is often the most effective way to fill your club's pool of talented young players. Likewise, with scouts, the best will provide faster and more information at a time for more players. This is especially useful if one of your players is coming closer to the transfer closing and you need a valid replacement. This money can now mean that you can't buy the player you wanted, but it does mean that the foundations are there for the best possible future for the club, especially if you have multiple potential players over 90 from your academy in the season 1 .
Train the best players in your academy instead of buying
It's realistic to believe that if you play for a team that is in football's much lower leagues, signings will be limited to the occasional signing under the marquee, with free transfers or lower-rated players. So instead, don't bother signing anyone. Put your budget available in Youth Scouting and bring in high quality young people. Even if you don't have a lot of potential players, they are all going to make a lot of money, even at a very young age. Assuming you can find clubs that can change them all, young players will get a reasonable price for an English Division 2 club, ready to spend later if you need to.
As budgets are usually carried over to the next season, you don't have to worry about losing money as it will be available the following season.
... unless you use a first division club
In previous years, training the children in your academy has been a long but useful process, as it means that at the technical level, where the training is most effective, they generally prove to be very effective. Scoring goals and playing assists are easy. What is not so great is the intelligence of the players. Suppose you have trained a player for the CAM position for the competition with Christian Eriksen. Technically, it is relatively easy to train the player to be this good, but the training methods available in the game do not allow you to improve mentals and some physical aspects very easily, if at all. Your player may be able to stroke the ball around Eriksen, but being in the right position to receive the ball, or having the vision and calm to shoot it consistently, is much less. While that's not a problem in the lower leagues, it makes a big difference at the top.
Generated players also seem to have a slight sluggishness about them. If you train a winger in physical stats and full ball techniques and then compare him while playing Raheem Sterling at the same OVR level, the latter will certainly feel a lot better in control.
For this reason, when playing like a big club, the best choice is to buy real players with high potential. In general, after further development, they usually don't have this sluggishness or (apparent) mental flaw in their playing. The goalies are the only place where it matters less. They can be trained relatively easily in all attributes.
Take the challenge
It won't necessarily be for everyone, as there will be players playing FIFA to relax and have a fun and easy game with their team, taking them to the top. But if your game is very competitive, try to start with a higher difficulty level than last year.
The CPU AI has improved slightly in recent years as teams seem to have developed a bit more stylish game for their teams (so you won't see Crystal Palace playing Tiki-Taka and holding 70% of the ball against Chelsea. ). less frustrating to play against a higher level opponent. If you played on Professional last year and found the challenge, take the next step and play on World Class. You might lose a few games during the season, but challenging yourself is the best way to improve and learn new ways of playing. It will help you even when playing online, when most players tend to adopt an ultra-aggressive attacking or counterattacking style. Possession breeds frustration and causes them to make mistakes that you can exploit, for example. The career mode can help you refine this new style of play.
