5 Tips to keep your FIFA 23 Career Mode Realistic!

A few tips i've collated from playing FIFA over the past decade!

Keep as many original players as you can

FIFA players have such high squad turnover
IRL this kills chemistry
During the 10 year period between 2003/13, Leicester City and Sunderland signed close to 150 players each
2-3 starters per season should change really, with a few prospects
Lots of people will reduce the squad down to the bare minimum of 18 players, just keep the originals as squad filler
Real squads have around 25 match ready players with rest being fillers/youth

Youth Academy

Dont use academy scouts that are higher than your teams star rating
Try to only keep 1 or 2 players per area of the pitch, dont stockpile 5 LW’s while having 0 RW unless you plan to retrain
Scout countries that you have players from already
Neighbouring countries is another good place to scout

Buying Players

Fully scout a player before signing
Don't buy players that are more than 1-2 OVR higher than current best player, this rarely happens.
If you do, make sure it's either an old player returning to former club, or a short loan of a player from division above
EG if my starting 11's overall average is 66, the best player I can sign must be 68 rated. But, he can't be from a better team. The only exception is players over 30 years old, they can be 3 ratings above your starting 11's overall average.

Selling Players

Don't horde players, if you do reject an approach, offer the player a new contract.
If offer comes from team much better than yours and is over market value, chances are irl the team would accept

Keeping overall realistic

Dont sign players that are massively better than current existing young players. EG if you have an 19 year old with 70 overall, dont then sign a 17 year old who is 75 even if this is lower than your best players overall
Try to keep training to players who arent in starting XI
This helps with sharpness and will stop players increasing by 10 overall a season

Limit end of contract players

AI is dumb when it comes to renewing contracts
Can find world class players for no fee and unlike real life tiny wages
IRL free transfers usually cost a similar amount because of signing on fees and higher wages

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[l.g.]

These are my rules for a satisfyin career:
-Always play a lower division team and make it ascend.
-Always consider 2 players for each role + 1 bonus keeper, 1 bonus midfielder and 1 bonus striker and nothing more, we're a small club, no wages waste.
-Sell a player whenever he can makes the club big bucks, doesn't matter how much affection i have for him, i'm not the boss, i'm only the manager and modern football is cruel...
-...except for "a people's hero", i always chose a 16yo local kid from the youth accademy to be "my Totti", the flag of the team, gotta keep him at any cost. I need ONLY 1 paladin and i'm happy with my fairy tale.
-Never fully rebuild in 1-2 transfer windows, that's BS.
-Never rebuild the team or a tactic chunk of it altogether each year (your defence sucks? Your wingers too? Your striker can't strike? Boo uuuh, your fault. Not the club's fault, the president paid for those players already, now it's up to you!)
-Buy max 1-2 players per SUMMER session, maybe, MAYBE, 1 more in January if i have a brutally injured player or i found an extrimely convienient free agent with a realistic not op overall.
-Never go fully Y.A. or zero Y.A., consider to have like 30/35yo veterans here and there, usually cheaper, and...
-...eventually they are the only players allowed to have a slighly more higher overall values than the division they got to play into. Aaaah pensioneers...
-Don't try to win everything soon, like the FA CUP final against and teams like those when you are roleplayin a cornwall small club from English League 2, cmon man
-Use the "restart the match" option only if the script REALLY ruined a match, otherwise DON'T EVER DARE. Accept the fate. It's ok to lose matches.
-Don't simulate more than 15% of the total matches each season. LIVE THE LIFE MAN! FEEL IT!
-Let the OCD kicks: set the right kit numbers in a realistic way, edit your 5* skill moves player so he has fancy pink boots and high socks, put matching color on your goalkeeper between gloves and boots, make your youth kids have the same boots brand of the team kit brand (they are teens, they don't have personal sponsors yet!) and details like those things...

[flightrisk]

One of the best tips I've taken from you in my CM saves was to spread out my scouts for the Youth Academy. In my 15 year English save I slowly started pushing out into Europe with my scouts over several years, before putting a scout in Croatia and got two players with the last name Soldo and they were similar looking. Ended up becoming a solid pair in my 4-3-3 and became like joint legends.

[frxserrr]

The one thing I hate about FIFA and the player development is how increasing certain stats also increases weak foot/skill moves. I kind of wish that was a separate option to train as it usually means you have many players in your squad with 5* SM/WF just because you wish to increase them in areas in which suits them. I'm aware this doesn't really affect defenders/midfielders as much as attackers but wanting to train a midfielder as a playmaker often leads to 5*WF. I just don't like how it kills the realism with it being so abundant within your squads.

[beezergutler]

One thing that does suck is the manager tasks. It tells you to sign 3 under 20 players or a couple of crucial players etc. if you don’t do it you can get sacked. It penalises players for keeping it realistic

[TheBluePhenom]

My tactic has always been to start with the lowest rated club in the country and build up the academy, and then during the first transfer window call up the academy ready prospects and either loan out or play them in positions where there's a veteran in an expiring contract. I also tend to look towards specific countries for scouting based on need (I go to Argentina for wingers, Netherlands for defender, etc.), but I like the thought about just leaving it to a more localized approach.

[Fruitbox]

The dynamic potential nerf has honestly ruined career mode for me so I’m going to try some of these tips out.

[Vogurt]

Transfer all teams into the premier league and then the bottom 3 leagues as well, and start as a team in the bottom tier, and work your way up in to the massive World League.

[okmate]

I’m pretty bad at fifa and I play professional however I win most games however if I switch to world class I lose anyone know how I can find a middle ground so the matches are fairer

[jasongarcia]

One thing that I do when using a team where the loan player is my key player. I'd just buy replacements for whoever was on loan. As well as making realistic sales. Like one I'm doing with Hamburg where Real Madrid for some reason wanted my 18 year old 66 rated RB. Obviously no one would want to deny that

[_RandomPea]

Started doing the away games with your suggestion and I see what you mean, quite enjoying it actually and getting a few odd results away from home as a result not running away with the league.

[joshuwa]

- try and sign players your club is linked to

- if you do a cm save with another club; check in on your favourite club, the AI sometimes keeps it realistic e.g. Leeds signed JWP and Solanke

[CompaSystem]

Love all your vids mate, this one's class as usual.

[RealAJT]

Another thing - let some players contracts expire so you dont earn money for everyone, for example dont renew the contract of a 36 year old just tom sell him for 800, 000. This will keep some realism in your save

[jofieji]

The career mode objectives ruin long saves.

[pedroribeiro]

I have 22 players in my team but i make sure that some can play more than one position so i always have back ups.

[StarCS]

Young me: stfu ima sign Messi and Ronaldo

[Reefx]

do you have any tips to keep higher teat teams saves longer and more fun?

[palmonia]

Make a new club with 0.5 stars in the efl league 2. Try to get in efl league 1 then efl champs so on.
You can't sign any player from an another club. If you want to sign a GK form Chelsea who is french you cant do it because you did not choose france.thats right you have to select a country to sign players from another clubs. (You can still choose a player from not the country you choosed from if its a free agent). Second you simulate all the matches 'cause you can beat Liverpool with a 0.5 star team easily if you dont simulate.

[juanramirez]

I was able to sign Ronaldo to Crawley Town, made game too easy

[liamjones]

Actually you signing too many players in your Nottingham Forest career mode is exactly what happened in real life, so you could say it was realistic.