5 Tips to keep your Career Mode realistic on FIFA!

How to keep a FIFA Career Mode save realistic

Analysing the squad

Find best young player (Under 21)
Try to figure out Avg Age of squad (Can be found on SoFIFA)
Figure out a formation and see where you need improvements
Compare existing squad to squad rules for the league

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

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[noneofyourbusiness]

In addition to everything you said:

Be ruthless with your squad. If you're taking over a new team, dont be afraid to freeze out players (regardless of their rating) who dont fit the style you want to play. This is what a lot of managers do in real life, until the player decides to leave (example: Ozil at Arsenal).

Pay attention to match ratings, and try where possible to rotate your starting 11 based on who is playing better, not who is higher rated.

When negotiating contracts with players, only agree to a role which you can realistically give them. If they ask for "important", but you see them only being a "rotation" player for you, then too bad. You must end negotiations with the player, and let events unfold. Contract negotiations fall through all the time in real life. This is a great way of counteracting the way that FIFA pretty much lets you buy any player without much fuss.

If you are playing as a team in a lower division, do not sign players from the league/s above you, unless it is a loan, or the player is transfer listed. Likewise, if you are playing in the premier league, but are not playing in europe, do not buy players from teams who are playing european football that season. However, you should certainly sell to higher clubs should a suitable offer come in.

[PyroAceros]

I hate that youth players want to be promoted to the first team so fast

[datboidiego]

If you are doing a wolves career mode, only sign Portuguese players

[Mobilz]

Me: I’m gonna do a realistic save this time with salford
5 minutes later: wins 10-0 against grimsby with an mbappe’s hattrick haaland’s double and Cristiano’s manita

[azamrahman]

Me : I’m going to do a roadmtomglory from the 2nd division 2 minutes later mbappe Ronald Kdb messi playing for Wycombe

[oxocube]

I've got hundreds of hours on fifa and mainly only on Career mode. The biggest thing I do to keep my saves realistic is play almost every game. I rarely simulate any games, as it allows for me to have complete control over my squad and how they're playing, as well as seeing who fits the style the most. Additionally, it really makes the season feel more realistic, as you get closer to the end of the season and start getting tired and waiting for the work to pay off, and it makes it much more tense knowing that if you lose this FA cup final, this is going to be your last shot at silverware for a few real-life weeks.

[jimhernandez]

me trying to keep it realistic then i see my manager wear the team jersey

[gabrinjos]

0:26 analyze the squad - pick a formation, keep track of amount of players & their age + squad rules
1:10 youth academy - pick the stars of scouts lower (same as your team stars), follow your team's youth policy, ...
2.:16 transfers - buying only when fully scouted + not higher than your best player (except older players & loans) + 3:10

[Madvillany]

I find strict negotiations are working well in my Newport County save. Currently on Season 6 and my highest earner is on £12k a week. Definitely stops you from signing OP players and big names.

[levigriffiths]

Mate just stumbled on your channel and you're really underrated. Unique fifa content can see you're growing steadily. Do you think you could do a video on welsh football? Got Cardiff, Swansea and newport in game and great young players like rodon, ampadu, brooks.

[ivancodor]

I would actually recommend piling up players in the youth academy, so u can change their position to fit the needs of the squad📈

[pogbafan]

I mean even if I play a career mode in a realistic way. All the AI clubs don’t.

[MrMuppetLover]

1:53-1:57 - Another thing to mention is that you should scout players based on the history of the club itself, as in the countries of players that represented the club the most other than the home country.

[Manyxbox]

When I start a new Career mode, I always to, at least in the first seasons, to copy the pattern of the transfers for that team in rl. For example, Liverpool in the last few years try buy young players from other leagues that can improve the squad and also develop at Klopp's management, or players that got relegated but can be a good fit for the team. So, if I start a career mode w/ Liverpool, I try to follow this patern at least in the first years, possibly changing something over time, cause the type of transfers that a team do doesn't stay the same for a lot of years

[pinolaviero]

Me: *trying to make my Carrier Mode realistic*
Aston Villa: *buys Rodrygo for 122 mil. €*

[RyanGamin]

Also play on a challenging difficultly. This is all good and fine but if your playing on like professional and banging in 200 goals a season maybe turn up the difficulty.

[mytime]

The only reason I play this booty of a game is Career Mode. Really love position change mechanic. If they keep improving, which they probably won't, it could be really good. Only gripe is that I can't turn veteran fullbacks and CDMs into CBs or wide players with some defensive stats into fullback or it takes ages to do so.

[michaelcalder]

I would like to add the following of my own tips:

1) *Sign players max of 1 overall higher than average starting 11 overall ( 1 Exception allowed per season)

2) 50% prize money can be used for transfers

3) 50% of sold players fees can be added to transfer budget for that season

4) Have to always be in positive for net spend

5) No Training- It is overpowered

6) 2 Free agents max allowed per season

7) 5 players max for summer transfer window
2 Players max for winter transfer window
Both include loans
Exception, if you sell a player then you you may bring in one extra player for each sale on top of the 5 transfers for summer and 2 for winter

8) Can't Buy from a league better than the one you are in

9) Disable First season Transfer Window

10) No use of Sofifa or any other external source to find players



Hope those tips are useful

[duanededig]

Ive actually been doing this since fifa 18... for example my espanyol career after 1 season i sold marc roca to lazio coz they paid his buyout, also even when i won the league 3 seasons later i sold 4 of my starting 11 and placed a spending cap for myself to keep it realistic saying that the rest went into stadium dev and etc... this is y career mode need stadium improvements and better sponsorship deals when ur club plays consistently good

[giannisgalanos]

Great suggestions! I also try to mainly sign players from my team's home nation, but your ideas were also very cool.