Is There Any Way to Fix the AI's Crazy Signings?
AI transfers used to be one of the worst parts of Career Mode. If you throw back to FIFA 16, it wouldn't be a surprise to see Manchester United own 9 world class strikers, but play a formation that only had room for a single attacker. It was dumb to see, it borderline ruined the gamemode, but have things actually got any better? Well that’s what we’re finding out today.
You might not even realise how important this part of the simulation is. If a single club can sign every good player, it’s going to make the Champions League easy, it’ll make players develop slower and seriously can ruin your entire save. I mean just look at this team /u/thisisqiqi posted on Reddit. Kane at Spurs makes sense, this was FIFA 23, but how, and why, would they buy Virgil, Bernardo and Salah?
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Alexander-Arnold to Madrid always happens
Literally happened today 😂
to be fair, its a real rumor now
I swear I see many career mode KZheadrs videos having trent on real. Remember Alaba to Juventus as well ?
True
Ikr
Its not a career mode without Pedri going to Man Utd and Gavi to AC Milan or Immobile to City
For me gavi always always always goes to Newcastle
And immobile to real Madrid
And Balde to city
And trent to real madrid
@@goldbuiscuityt yes literally ffs it's annoying
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
Using PC editor we can actually disable Bilbao's transfer movement entirely. You're right though they sign half an XI just of English talent
@@tutin4090 Maguire and talent is an oxymoron
When that happens, i just imagine that athletic bilbao does not give a shit about tradition anymore and sign whatever they want
@@tutin4090they signed irankunda in my save
I know right. It's crazy because bilbao only allow players born in their region to play for them. Its a well known fact, so fifa should act accordingly..
Every single game I see balde go to man city, EVERY SINGLE TIME
Literally 😂
Same bro
And Rodrygo
rodrygo too
Pedro gave they just sign Barca players
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
when i played the legacy version of fifa 23 the signings were absolutely TERIIBLE when i was playing at man city they sold Haaland, de Bruyne and replaced them with Obrador (66 rated left back) didn't even replace them i immediately stopped playing
@@user-io8yd9cf8b in my saves in FC24 city always finish 5 to 7th because they sell everyone but Haaland
Adding a "start today" like how it is in NBA 2K would be the biggest improvement. Much more people would play career mode.
@@ElGoat7 wdym
@@Manpro107 they could've used matchday live to implement a thing in CM where you could just start a save mid-season w/ the irl standings and squads of that very point in the season rather than completely remove it like they did. Imagine if a club sacked their manager irl and you went and started a save w/ that club from the moment they sacked the manager rather than from the start of the season.
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
Squad rotation? And yea it’s dumb that press conferences make such a big difference
In my CM there was one time where I rested a player for two games so he can regain his fitness and he requested a transfer...
@@ethantalbot3015 yes, i feel like i have a nice rotation but still. pres sconferences are the only way to improve morale. Even 18 year olds are upset with their role.
Your players are saying “How dare you take us from being a relegation team to a top 6 team”
do you sim games? If you play them all then morale should be ok. You could also fudge the morale system by doing the crappy pre and post match interviews and just select positive responses.
I think it was fifa 17 or 16 but Alaba always used to go to Juve all the damn time
And ozil to barca
tbf, that's not the most unrealistc move. It's better than Luke Shaw to Juve
aguero to bayern in fifa 16 especially
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
Same thing happened to me in fifa 13 when I bought Lloris from them. They again put Bale in goal. Of course they never bought a GK 🌝
Glad I wasn't the only one ! @@user-df3xz6lq5n
i think they fixed this in some way, cause i bought all 4 of chelseas gks and they got third in the league
I've had something like this, Swansea's GK was on loan so in season 2 they didnt have a GK. I had to use my own money to sign a new GK and then I did a swap transfer, giving swansea a realistic GK in exchange for one of their lowest rated players.
In FIFA 19 also a lot of clubs hadn't a goalkeeper after 15 seasons.
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
an easy option they could add to player stats is a 'loyalty' rating. It could be on a 1 to 5 scale. So loyal players could be rated at 5, whereas players that fit into the Kevin Prince Boateng category could be a 1 and tart their way across Europe.
in my career mode i’m in the year 2030 or something and saka is still at arsenal
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)
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
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.
NBA 2k have that veto option. game changer for myleague.
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
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.
There’s a few mods that try to
There are many mods that affect AI team's transfers.
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
Strict negotiations kinda limits the rivals doing business together, keeps it somewhat realistic, still see some crazy stuff tho
are you sure? I've never noticed any AI difference when strict negotiation is selected. My understanding is that it doesnt affect AI transfers and only affects the transfers that the player engages in.
Trent Alexander Arnold always going to City or Real Madrid
Always Madrid for me, every time
realistic only teams he will go to
Yeah happens every time and always replaced with a 75 rated right back. It used to always be Mario Gaspar from Villareal. It's happens every career mode, so much so that I actually create a duplicate of Trent in the edit more and put him on Liverpool. Then when the real Trent leaves, I still have a Trent lookalike in their squad.
Ikr
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.
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
Balde to City and Trent to Madrid along with Osihmen happens every save, I swear
Rodrygo to City too. AI turns City into the most PSG style team, they sign the most un-Pep players possible
"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.
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.
I think EA should associate particular styles of play with particular managers. Then allow those managers to be moved around like on Football Manager
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
How easy is it to set up the live editor? I've never owned fifa on PC but I'm thinking about it. I'd get it for steam deck but apparently it plays like shit on the Steam Deck. Also, can you edit retirement ages (so players don't retire at 32)
How tf do you reverse AI transfers on live editor? I asked the people that made that tool if it was possible and they said no?
Hey @geografifa It doesn't matter which edition or which country I play in. In the case of my numerous careers in the Polish league, I encountered this problem. Many less qualified players joined the exemplary Ekstraklasa team. In particular, in '15, during Zawisza Bydgoszcz's career, a total of 8 strikers joined Wisła Kraków, when the starting lineup played in a 4-2-3-1 formation. Greetings from Poland. good job!
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
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
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
Theres realism mods in fc 24
@@Spud_Farmer they're behind paywalls
@@west5385 you're right I'm sure fifa 23 modded is probably better anyways
@@west5385 How easy is it to set up the live editor? I've never owned fifa on PC but I'm thinking about it. I'd get it for steam deck but apparently it plays like shit on the Steam Deck. Also, can you edit retirement ages (so players don't retire at 32)
also this was when wjinaldum was still at psg
One of my Player career saves had city signing Rodrygo, Trent, Trippier, and many others in the very first transfer window of the save
9:05 Augsburg mentioned yeah!
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.
Ea should hire this guy to do something with career mode
This why I only play on PC with either FIFER or PaulV2k4 realism mods. Mods make career mode so much fun
the random AI transfers makes the game feel so unrealistic man
Play fm
Fm is not good@@mitchellhengeveld8949
@mitchellhengeveld8949 it just scams you
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 😂
A couple years ago, i had a career mode save where liverpool signed erling haaland, but because they played a 4-3-3 (5), he never actually played despite being a 94 overall
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
I know it's not related to the video but I have one question: how do you manage to do storylines like in Stade de Reims videos? Do you use chatGPT or it's something you come up with? Maybe you already said it in other videos and I missed it
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!
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
It was so annoying to see that when I wanted to sign German LB Luca Netz, he was on Athletic Bilbao 😑
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.
what is the "see all ratings" mod you mentioned at 1:47 ?
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
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.
how do you block them?
@@makrockatansky7585 by making offers
i think they should add a ‘likely destination’ thing where players who have openly said where they’d wanna go end up there in let’s say 50% of career modes.
In my FIFA 23 Player career mode, when I joined a new club, they would sell their world-class players and replace them with players who weren't as good. I saw Tomori, Sancho, Camavinga, Joao Felix, Isak, Musiala, etc., get sold soon after I arrived. It got to a point where I couldn't play it anymore.
I’m doing a Sociedad career, I went into the derby with Bilbao and see Curtis Jones on their team
That’s why I ban first transfer window and European competitions in starting manager career
In my save, teams like city and Liverpool are barely in the top 10 because they only have first team players, no good benched or reserve players
I found a solution to this you manually transfer top plates in and out of their teams that way the ai sees them as recently signed so they don't move for a couple of seasons
In one of my career mode save atletico madrid signed so many great names but still lost to my developing united side in cl quater final
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💀💀
There was a feature around 10-15 years ago where players would just change their team if it fits their rating. This would already change so much. Why do 85 rated players who should play CL go to a small club that has tons of money because they sold a huge talent. At the same time i can't loan a player from the Bundesliga to the 3. Liga even though they are 60+ rated, it's so dumb
Rodrigo to Man City has happened in every career mode for me this year
they need to add an option where you can see more detailed stats about every player from the past and current season
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.
I had a save in which Brighton signed Moukoko and Zaire-Emery and got relegated that same season....
Same, Brighton making high class signings then going down.
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
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
Cuz people basically want the game to be fun but sorta realistic. Imo career mode should be somewhere between what we have rn, and Football Manager. Like FM is just too daughting with the with the amount of stuff you have to Manager and you can't actually play the football, but FIFA career mode it's too far the other way: player transfers make 0 sense, no complexity whatsoever. Imo they should just make it an option when you start the save: sliding scale of the current wild signings, to somewhat realistic.
They should introduce squad size and homegrown rules also
It’s not career mode without the most random transfers
Nuno Mendes has gone to City in every single career mode save i’ve done this year
4:27 atleti are probably playing with a 3 at the back formation
What kills me is that every time I put summer transfer on jamie vardy goes to real madrid and kane goes to inter Milan
I’ve just started a new save and Aston Villa signed 4 strikers in the first transfer window
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.
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.
Osimhen to Atleti or Barca is a surety
I just started a new cam player career mode at Liverpool and trent has gone to real Madrid and nunez to man united
I always see that the entire barca defence being signed by city and midfield by psg
Arnua martinet packing his bags to go to Madrid for 40m 1 day after the career mode starts💀
One thing is Taa leaving Liverpool everytime. Most of the time for Bayern or Real Madrid
7:31 literally what Madrid Play IRL
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
YESSS! NO MORE VALVERDE AT SPURS AND ALVAREZ AT VILLA
in real madrid a lot of the players leave because of the release clause so that makes it kinda boring to see madrid into the 3rd season with a shit team
The worst thing is when teams like Getafe or Hoffenheim stars doing 80+ million signings
question for the ps5/ xbox / pc ea fc 24 players, does Vinicius jr start at the default striker position along side rodrygo or would they just bench them always. This would always happen and they would always replace them with lukaku or immobile ( i play on the Nintendo version of ea fc 24)
Yes but a way to fix it is by going in to team sheets on like the main menu and moving them to Lw and rw position
@@gyat786 thx :) unfortunate that rodrygo keeps going to man city tho
@@user-io8yd9cf8b np I don’t really think you can fix ai transfers
Saint-Maximin please come back to Hannover 96
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😊
Disable first summer transfer window which somehow "recodes" the signings
Where did you download that all team sheets mod
In my career mode son is on Liverpool and VVD to barca and their replacement was stones
I swear it's always either Harry Kane or Lautaro Martinez to united lmaoo
It’s not a 1st transfer window without Alex Sandro to Crystal Palace
Rodrygo, Araujo and Bastoni always go to Man City, Alexander Arnold, De Bruyne and Barella always go to Real Madrid, Kane always go back to Tottenham, Zayre Emery always goes to Bayern on the third season. On my current career Real Madrid has Lautaro, Osimhen, De Bruyne, Van Dijk and Davies, and they only got rid of Rodrygo and Valverde, and it is only the second season.
I see Rodrigo to city every time without fail
Wait what, you can sign verrati in career mode? How and which league
fifa 20 had the most realistic transfers (except for every winter going to barca
it wouldn't be career mode without gavi to inter, immobile/ Lukaku to real madrid, and rodrygo to man city (end me)
This is why I don't like to play FIFA for any other modes than single friendlies or multiplayer games (which suck in a whole different way), I really need much higher level of realism for a perfect immersion, so I play Football Manager for these purposes. I know even FM isn't perfect in that way, especially less known leagues have many problems with unrealistic transfers (for instance, when I play in the Czech league, there are so many random transfers of foreign players who would never come to those clubs, plus it's full of hyper-talented generated players after just few years), but it's still lightyears ahead of FIFA in this sense.
These are the problems with the AI. Teams signing rival players. The same scripted transfers. Some teams like United signed 35 right backs and no left backs. Also the squad makes absolutely no sense with some players playing in weird positions.
EA products are focused on ultimate team and multiplayer. Thankfully Fifa/FC's career mode has had some big updates the NHL series is still 5 years behind in terms of features and the AI in that for trades is horrendous. PC players are lucky enough to be able to download mods that fixes a lot of issues, if only EA would bring NHL back to PC.
Which mod is he using to access different team sheets
Step 1: Start playing FM24
Wolves haven't signed a Portuguese player in years.
Crazy? Van Dijk going to United when he's way past it is a completely on-brand signing for them. Probably paid £100m too.