8 Tips To Keep Your Career Mode Realistic!

Realism is hard to achieve in Career Mode. You’ll see Atletic Bilbao ditch their Basque policy on day one because they want to sign Kalvin Phillips. You’ll see Real Madrid play Joselu over Mbappe and Haaland, and you might even see Onana make a save. Today I'm sharing some tips I've found that can actually make your experience a lot more realistic, from transfers to squad planning, and hopefully they’ll also make the game a lot more fun too.

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[will-bpgz]

Adjusting the injury slider helps make the game more realistic. Sometimes i have to play reserves players or even youth players for a few weeks to cover injuries. EA need to introduce a slider for transfers as well. To many teams spending unrealistic amount of money on players they don't need.

[sambossaert]

How I do it:
* I take a second or third tier team. Or smaller league with small team.
* I adjust the sliders but play on World Class, I can easily win on World Class without adjusting them but I'm losing on legendary. So adjusting them so when you play it's more like 1-0... Sometimes you lose in big games also.
* I don't make signings in the first summer transfer window
* After the 1st season I try to make free signings.
* I try to implement players from the youth squad
* I like to buy young players from mid teams from the same country/league that can become key players (I always try to buy players from the same nationality as my team is)
* I don't put players on the transfer market but eventually wait for bids to come in and then sell them.
* Set transfer policy to strict
* No financial takeover
* Set transfer window off for the first season.

[siljorfag]

A things PES did absolutely fine was the "Transfer frequency" option before starting a Master League. Setting it on "High" was similar to FIFA CM (a bit less chaotic); "Normal" was very balanced and signings were made to cover squad depth or players with very low overall; "Low" the AI would only sign players if its absolutely necessary, for example, if I get their starting RB, the AI will sign another RB to replace it - transfer were kept at a minimun and from season to season, you actually get to see original players in the teams line-up instead of seeing Harry Maguire captaning Bilbao.

[tw_]

I have a small tip to make transfers more realistic in lower leagues.
If you find a wonderkid who fits the standard of your team, but they're playing for a big club (e.g united or liverpool have some good talents) loan them in, in real life, these clubs would not let you buy them.

[tobyhellewell]

All of this tips are great for the user to consider, but this game mode will forever be broken with the unrealistic transfers, star players on the AI team not being played, AI teams having 7 first team strikers. It’s such a shame we’ll never get it with EA sports making this game

[ILKILO]

(for console players)

1 thing I personally go the extra mile to do once I've reached a point in the save where I've accumulated ridiculous amounts of cash is: Buying top players at some of the smaller clubs who've essentially outgrown their club and than immediately swapping them for a faceless or low rated player at a bigger team(that I release immediately) which would be interested in that player IRL if they were perfmorning to that level. What it also allows me to do is fill in any gaps at the big teams considering how poor transfers still are this year and keep European competitions, leagues and even squads if I were to move job interesting. I do this with clubs in the lower leagues sometime and try and create my own fairytale story lol (it does actually work on occasion)

I'm in season 6 of a Palace save currently and just qualified for European football for the first time. In doing that I realized that Bayern Munich were nowhere to be seen and hadnt even qualified for the Conference league so in the next summer window I analyzed their squad myself and saw that they had a 93 rated Musiala, 89 rated Kimmich and an 89 rated German regen in midfield however they had 2 goalkeepers who didn't even have a picture in game and they were both loan listed... Kobel was 90 rated by that time and still at Dortmund so I purchased him myself and swapped him for a 73 rated center back at Bayern which I than swapped again for a League 1 player before releasing him. I also try and "fix" big teams in my own league who are underperforming.

My other suggestion would be that say you're managing an English side and find a really good youth player out of Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal etc. due to just how many youth player I accumulate over the seasons and my squad size, I try to sell some of them on to the big clubs in their home nation. I also scout "lesser" nations more to try and make the world cup and international competitions more challenging and feel less "foreign" to me by the end of the career mode. In my Palace career for example I ended up turning a player from the J league called "Ko jae Hyeon" into the next Son and one of the best players in the league. I than purchased a center back from the J league a few seasons after and scouted the nation for 2/3 gems. I'm now waiting to manage them in a world cup and see how far I can take them, hope this helps anyone trying to find new methods to really take their career modes to the next level.

[davidwalker]

Some great tips here, especially the 'Delegate' one for realism. One thing I always do now around transfers is to forbid myself from ever 'Transfer Listing' players - it's unrealistic and too easy an exploit to get rid of unwanted players and for good money too. You can list, say, some useless £5m valued player and by doing so you'll very quickly get offers of that value to easily cash in on. This is far too easy especially when you have far too much money to spend anyway especially as big clubs. By restricting your ability to exploit this, you make your transfer budgets that little bit more challenging plus in turn means you have to wait for offers for players and even sometimes consider bids that may come in for more 'valuable' players you don't necessarily want to discard, if you're looking for funds to perhaps re-invest elsewhere.

[jamesbenjamin]

As it’s too easy to get huge transfer budgets without much effort, I usually sell below value and buy above value to limit myself somewhat. IRL clubs receive transfer sums divided by the nr of years of the players’ contract so it’s very unrealistic to be able to spend the full sum in one window. Also, usually only a share of the transfer sum goes to new transfers. The rest goes to costs and upgrades for the club. This limits your progress a bit which keeps the career mode fun for longer I find. A side benefit is that your oponents receive a bigger budget and can attract better competition for you to play against.

[JustAlphaa]

A suggestion I have is simming 70% of your matches. I play on World Class, and every time I play, Its always a high scoring game. For example 5-3 6-2 4-2 3-3 etc. Simulating keeps it much more realistic, especially if you play on an easier mode. I've had career modes where i get promoted in the first season then get European football the next, or one where I played w/ west ham in fifa 23 and got them to win the historic treble in the third season, and same thing with spurs in eafc but in 2. Long story short just sim your games to keep it realistic. Even if you get bad results, it will put you in a believable position. I'm doing one with Club Brugge rn, but in Serie BKT. Simming my games made it way more enjoyable, and when I got promoted I only finished 15, whereas if i played most my matches I would have probably got European Football. Every time I play Im always top goalscoring team in the league, once I finished at 101 Goals for and 60ish goals against 😂 even when I'm relegation scrap.

[MrMuppetLover]

I always reject Athletic Bilbao if they try to come in for a player on my squad.

[zhod]

If i do small leagues, i try not to go over double of the leagues transfer record. For example, in turkey, its like 20 million, so i dont spend more than 40

[thevidkoproductions]

the thing i always do is shop at teams that got relegated/failed to qualify to europe. the thing is though while i would avoid signing players from big teams, but I came across Fulham who had 7 85+ players in their first team, got relegated, but then wanted 60m for each of them? When in reality they'd have to sell out for 50% or less of their value because the players would want out.

[kingmonkey]

Andre Onana making a save is a very rare occurrence 😂

[idk-sru]

Bro really roasted onana for mo reason 💀

[YesOkayButWhy]

You might even see Onana making a realistic career mode save.

[kerrymandanny]

I try keep it as realistic as possible. so if im a small club i wont sign well known players. And i sell my higest overall player the first couple seasons and re invest. Its what would happen in real life if you are a league 1 or championship side the big dogs will try and raid your talent lol. Ill usually sell 1 big player and replace him with no more than 3. Its cool seeing players you built up at other clubs or playing against you. I limit how many players i bring in and usually dont spend all the transfer budget. I use alot of it to re sign my players for another year. I dont really play as big clubs it gets boring fast so at most ill pick a weak championship side and sim about half the season to keep me from winning 10 or 15 games in a row so ill play one sim one kind of thing. Ideally ill start at league two and work my way up with these rules applied along with a few othere and it keeps it challenging.

[BMJgunner]

Im a Utd fan and ive just been insulted not even 15 seconds into the is why im subbed

[Armo]

Onana catching it is even rarer in this game… genuinely. Very rare

[jarmoliebrand]

I’ve made the habit of signing some older, more experienced players here and there in career mode. I always used to be ‘eh, he’ll go down in his overall so quickly’, but if a player is actually interesting for your club, he could have one or two good seasons. My most recent FIFA is 20 and I started an Aston Villa career mode and signed Milner for his experience and versatility. Now I’m in the second season. He’ll retire at the end of the season and has dropped two ratings already but he has been of good value.
I made myself a rule that I must have a certain revenue with the club every season, forcing me to sell players (I sold Grealish in the first January transfer window) and/or look for cheaper (and often older) alternatives. I also take a look at what the squad might realistically need. I have a decent attack, but I could use a backup striker with more experience, as the team qualified for Europa and my oldest attacker was 25. I bought Deeney, with the leadership trait (like Milner) and the team player trait. He can be the backup before some younger players will outgrow him. I will loosen the revenue rule once the team regularly qualifies and performs in Europe and abolish it once I get like three UCL round of 16 or quarter finals in a row.
I also used to send my youth scouts… wherever. In this career mode, I make sure to have one scout in the UK at all times.
Since I play a rather outdated FIFA now, I also tend to buy some players a team has bought irl. I bought Openda when I did a Vitesse career mode. I have bought Emiliano Martinez now with Villa (though his rating is way lower there, he’ll be good backup).
I also tend to loan in a player here or there when I’m a smaller club. In a Vitesse career mode, I completed my midfield for the first season with an Ajax loanee.

[mbkcsuad]

I always quit my careers when they start getting too unrealistic