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❌❌❌Rebuilding AJAX❌❌❌
SEASON 1 (2024-25) begins HERE SEASON 2 (2025-26) begins HERE SEASON 3 (2026-27) begins HERE A Brief History After Pim Mulier was introduced to the sport in 1879 while visiting England, he founded the first ever football club in the Netherlands in his home city of Haarlem, the Haarlemsche Football Club (HFC). This was 14 years after the first ever football game played on Dutch soil, when in 1865 a game took place between a team of British workers from an Enschede textile factory and a British economic delegation from The Hague. The Dutch national football championship exists since 1888. The first ever champion in 1889 was VV Concordia from Rotterdam. Clubs played in four, five, or six local regions and the champions of each region would play a national championship round at the end of the regular season. The aforementioned HFC would win it three times (1890, 1893, 1895). Before the First World War, big teams included HVV The Hague (10 titles), RAP Amsterdam (5 titles) and Sparta Rotterdam (5 titles), the oldest club (1888) to have survived up until today's top flight professional football. Other 19th century teams still active in today's professional football are Vitesse (1892) and Willem II (1896). Going forward, we slowly see the emergence of the teams we know today. Until the introduction of the Eredivisie, it was Ajax founded in 1900 taking most titles (7 titles, their first in 1918), followed by Feyenoord from 1908 (5 titles, first championship in 1924), then Go Ahead Eagles (1902, 4 wins), PSV (1913, 3 wins) and Willem II (3 wins). Football was allowed to become professional in 1954 and a single national top flight league known as Eredivisie was introduced in 1956. In the first ever full-professional season of the Eredivisie (1956-57), PSV-player Coen Dillen wrote history by scoring the most goals in one season by a single player (43 goals). This record still stands to this day. His team however, didn’t win the championship, it was Ajax who became the Eredivisie’s first champions in 1957. In total, Ajax has managed to win the national title 36 times, while PSV falls in second with 25 and Feyenoord comes in third with a total of 16 championships. These three teams would dominate the Dutch football competition for years and are known as the ‘traditional top three’. In fact ever since the introduction of the Eredivisie, AZ Alkmaar is the only team outside these three to have won more than once (1981, 2009). Other winners are DOS Utrecht (1958), Sparta Rotterdam (1959), DWS Amsterdam (1964) and FC Twente (2010). END of last season (May 2024) AJAX are looking for ways to come out of the hole they've essentially dug themselves. It seems a lifetime ago but just over two years ago in February 2022, Ajax was on the peak of its powers having come through the 2021-22 Champions League group stage without dropping a single point while cruising to another dominant national league title, their third in a row. But first Marc Overmars (Director of Football) resigned due to a scandal, then manager Erik ten Hag left for greener pastures at Old Trafford and finally CEO Edwin van der Sar felt the weight of his responsibility: before reaching the moment of his already announced retirement, a brain seizure struck the old-goalie. Fortunately, the now retired director has recovered fully. Ajax however did not recover at all. In the 2022-2023 season, Ajax started well under manager Alfred Schreuder but completely imploded, which lead to the sacking of the manager in January 2023. Under Ajax-2 coach John Heitinga, Ajax fought itself to third place and a lost cup final but the new Ajax leadership decided for new management. For the 2023-2024 season, in came new Director of Football Sven Mislintat who agreed to the signing of manager Maurice Steijn and a dozen costly players under long term contracts. It became such a drama that for the first time in the Amsterdam team's history, it occupied the bottom place in the league table (if only for a single playing round). As surprisingly fast outsiders Mislintat and Steijn came in, they were once again out. Under interim-manager John van 't Schip, Ajax fought back to fifth place.Van 't Schip was promised another role after his interim spell ended after the last league game on May 19th 2024 (a 2-2 draw against relegated bottom team Vitesse). Now, who's now going to take the helm at the Amsterdam side? Moreover, who'll be the new CEO and who'll be responsible for transfers? It's something Director of Football Marijn Beuker and new Technical Director Alex Kroes need to decide. Ajax traditionally relies on people with a history at the club, the so-called AJAX-DNA. However, a massive, major roadblock is a near empty account in the bank. And the players bought under Mislintat are too valuable in terms of transfer fee, too much in terms of salary and too long in terms of contract length. Thus, Ajax is unlikely to sell and therefore unlikely to get new players in return. Yet, this must become the year Ajax finds itself again and will fight once more for national silverware and European prominence (with essentially the same squad that just delivered Ajax' worst season in the 21st century thusfar) - this is no longer AJAX for the Future (as per the traditional marketing slogan), this is AJAX REBUILDING IT.
CMS General Discussion Thread
A thread for everyone wanting to discuss matters related to Career Mode Stories. - Tips and advice in regards to writing a story? - Tips and advice in regards to visuals, use of graphics etc.? - Discussions about future Career Mode plans or ideas? Please make a thread of your own, when you start a Career Mode Story. It makes it much easier to follow, when it's written in a separate thread. But anything else, just fire away here...Unable to Sprint in Career Mode Matches
Product: EA SPORTS FC 25 Platform:Xbox Series X Please specify your platform model. Microsoft Xbox Series X What is your Gamertag/PSN ID/Switch ID? wotcher123 Which mode has this happened in? Career Mode Which part of the mode? Player Career How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? How would I know? It’s your job to find out what’s going on, or why. It was your job in the first place to make sure these things rarely happen. What happens when the bug occurs? I get angry and feel the sudden urge to be violent and destructive. Wait, you mean in the game? Same. What should be happening instead? Normal gameplay. I thought I’d never get to say this, but this is worse than FC 24. At least 24’s basic functionalities were functioning. How do you expect me to play this game and to experience all of those your sugar-coated advertisement of exaggerated copy-and-pasted nonsense when the most basic stuff isn’t working properly? In Player Career Mode, during match, my player can’t sprint as if they are suppressed by the mediocre coding of your game. When they aren’t sprint, it doesn’t mean they are jogging. They just casually fast-walking. It gets worse even with the ball. Even that fast-walking is reduced to 30%, and it’s painfully slow. I tried everything. Changed settings, changed sliders, even started various new files, but none fixed this problem. It’s simple. It’s basic sprinting. Without it, this game is LITERALLY unplayable. How come you guys sit around your comfy desks doing nothing then release this pathetic excuse of a football game. How do you expect me to experience your glorified ‘new’ features when I can’t simply RUN. Do you guys know why sprinting is such important in football games? See, I have to RUN to chase the ball. I have to RUN to get into defensive positions. I have to RUN to make an attack. I do hope, in the closet time, you guys fix this most basic game-breaking problem. PLEASE.
Journeyman - AAB - A new start
So that is it then. I have been interviewed and hired as the new boss for Denmark team AAB. They are a historic team who will be my first foray into management. July 2024 I have evaluated the squad and found we were lacking quality in midfield and lacked any pace at all at centre half. Due to the size of the club and only having 2 million in the budget my main aim is to sign players we can develop at the club to make profit on by selling to the bigger leagues. If we can have this at the foundation of what we do as a football club then we would be in a good position. We sold ageing striker Helenius for £560k as he was in the final year of his contract. We then loaned in Leicester’s Opoku to replace him. We also loaned out young left back Amankwah to gain much needed experience at Mjallby AIF. Our other business in the window prior to the first game has been to sign 16 year old Idris Said from Kobenhavn after they released him from their academy. Let it be ‘said’ he may have a big role to play in the future.
Fc 25 Youth Academy
Hey fc, in career mode & in particular the youth academy, a lot of newly scouted players will have exactly the same type of face I.e the eyebrows are always pointed down with an alien shaped head. It’s like playing a team that are all clones. & also scouting a Target forward specifically wanting someone who can head the ball being a striker, their Head- accuracy is near rated 10 while others are way higher. This is also the same with a goalkeeper, their diving is between 1-15 whereas their kicking is 55-60. and lastly is it correct that no youth player scouted is higher overall than a 65 or so as it’s virtually impossible to scout a proper wonder kid. Thank you, looking forward to future updates, keep up the good work. Definitely great steps being taken in career mode this year.
VfB Stuttgart - Furchtlos und Treu
Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V. better known as VfB Stuttgart. Located: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemburg Nickname: Die Roten (The Reds) Short name: VfB Stadium: MHP Arena Rival: Bayern Munich The motto of VfB Stuttgart is "Furchtlos und Treu", which translates to "fearless and loyal". The motto is 200 years old and comes from the royal House of Württemberg. Starting career on Dec 9, 2024. Bundesliga Position - 8th Champions League position - 28th DFB-Pokal - Quarter-Finals round (still active)Help Us Enhance AI Players in Clubs
Hey EA SPORTS FC Community, We need your help to pinpoint and resolve some issues related to AI players in Clubs. If you've experienced any problems, please share your insights and any videos or screenshots that might assist us. Here are some specific details we're looking for: - AI Player Editing: How many AI players are you editing? Is it just one, or all of them? - Faces and Accessories: Are there specific faces or accessories that seem to cause problems? Please describe them. - Accessories Impact: Do the issues occur when no accessories are equipped? - Club Members' Experience: Are all users in your club experiencing the issue, or is it limited to some? - Purchased Items: Does the problem only arise when using purchased items? - Consistency: Is the issue happening 100% of the time? If so, did it ever work correctly? Was anything equipped between the time it worked and when it stopped? Your feedback, along with any videos or screenshots, will be invaluable in helping us identify and fix these issues. Thank you for your cooperation and support! The EA SPORTS FC TeamPitch Wear in Career Mode
Please can we get a fix for the completely unrealistic pitch wear in career mode. When getting to the later stages of a season the grass seems to die off extremely leaving brown markings all over the pitch. This is so incredibly unrealistic and kills all immersion of the game. Surely all we need is a ‘turn pitch wear off’ option in gameplay settings on career mode? This has been an issue for a good 4/5 years but doesn’t somehow get the traction it should. Please can we finally get a fix.
The Valiants part 2
Continuing my career from FC 24 where we escaped relegation to stay in league one going into the 2024/25 season. https://answers.ea.com/t5/Career-Mode-Stories/The-Valiants/m-p/14037497#M2816 Port Vale FC, a club with a record that nobody would ever want. They are the longest club to be in existence and to never play in the top flight. 113 season without top flight football for the second team in Stoke. The club's traditional rivals are Stoke City, and games between the two are known as the Potteries derby. Port Vale's highest Football League finish was fifth place in the second tier in 1930-31, whilst their best FA Cup finish saw them reach the semi-finals in 1953-54. In the 2023-24 season, they reached the quarter-finals of the League Cup for the first time.Crossing the Border: The New Saints Career Mode
Welcome to Oswestry, home of The New Saints! Brief History The New Saints of Oswestry Town & Llansantffraid Football Club, commonly known as The New Saints (Welsh: Clwb Pêl-droed y Seintiau Newydd) or TNS FC, are a Welsh professional football club that play in the Cymru Premier. They are the most successful club in the Welsh league structure, with 16 league titles to their name. Since the 2001–02 season, they have finished as champions or runners-up in every season, apart from 2008–09, where they finished third in the league. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the club is that while it was formed as Llansantffraid F.C. to represent the Welsh border village of Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain (population: 1,000) in 1959, it now plays in the English town of Oswestry on the other side of the border. That's right, the most successful Welsh Premier League team plays in England! This is because Llansantffraid, or Total Network Solutions F.C. as it was called at this time (as a result of a sponsorship deal which ended in 2006), merged with struggling English club Oswestry Town in 2003. When the sponsorship by Total Network Solutions (which was acquired by BT) came to an end, a new name had to be decided for the merged clubs. "The New Saints" was agreed upon as appropriate to the history of both the originally merged clubs: Llansantffraid was always known as "The Saints", Oswestry had strong connections with Saint Oswald, while the club's name was already abbreviated to TNS. Pantomime Villains A lot of controversy and animosity has surrounded the club, with one article describing TNS as the "pantomime villains" of Welsh football. In 1997, Mike Harris bought Llansantffraid and promptly got to work, changing the club’s name to Total Network Solutions after his computer networking business. When Oswestry Town was on the verge of bankruptcy in 2003, Harris bought them as well and merged the club with their Welsh neighbours. Harris’s investment meant the side moved to Oswestry’s former home Park Hall, which went through a £3 million overhaul, leaving behind the club’s Llansantffraid heritage. This alongside all players being given full-time contracts and more money being invested into the club made TNS the dominant force it is today. Unsurprisingly, this wasn’t popular and Harris became a divisive figure. Moving the club to England and remaining in the Welsh pyramid annoyed a lot of Welsh football fans, as did his aggressive investment in the side. Turnstiles Gathering Rust A period of sustained success always makes the perennial winner an obvious target for opposition fans. But a problem has emerged for TNS: as the gap has widened, so has the connection with the people TNS would hope to be attracting in the turnstiles each week. Despite unprecedented success, the fanbase is nowhere near as big as you’d expect for a side that has been so dominant in recent times, with an average attendance of just under 300. Perhaps it's time to leave the Welsh football pyramid for a bigger stage? This is where our story begins. The New Saints in the Football League Using the club's full-time status, sizeable investment and European pedigree as key arguments, chairman Mike Harris has brokered an agreement with the Football League to join as members from the 2024/25 season. Manager Craig Harrison, a former Football League player with teams including Middlesbrough, Preston North End and Crystal Palace, is leading The New Saints into this new era, and has assembled a playing staff to make the leap to a higher level of football: EFL League Two. Squad details to follow...
Fc 25 career mode faults!!!
Fc25 faults Training plans are in affective as players don’t reach full fitness/sharpness when setting it to full. Tried manually aswell and it’s the same outcome! Tactical plans are completely broke as they change your players positions for instance your cm will go to rm when changing in between with/without the ball menus?!?! No goal stats for the season when your player scores a goal (prem) It doesn’t tell you how many levels your player has evolved/decreased over a season?!??!?!?!? so you have to take a picture at the start of the season to know…. MENTAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When you’ve put all this great work into the youth academy changes there is no way of knowing how many levels they have evolved in a season, basic stuff!!!!!!!! In the media menus it doesn’t tell you who wins the player of the month award, it just tells you who’s up for it. I’ve noticed that in the pre kick off game animations formation my players (my wingers) are in the wrong position being that my lw is shown as a rw and my lw shown as a rw It doesn’t tell you in your emails/notifications when you receive a transfer request?! This means you miss out massively selling/loaning players!!!Games not counting: "error communicating with EA servers" at end of match
Problem: At the end of a Clubs game, after the final whistle goes, all players on the team are presented with a message along the lines of "There was an error communicating with the EA servers". The game is not counted in the clubs stats like it never happened and no one gets XP. Game breaking when trying to progress through play offs. Frequency: Currently happening in say 1/4 games. Have seen multiple posts on Reddit reporting the same problem. First noticed: This started happening mid December, have played clubs constantly since release so somethign has be broken since then. Matchmaking Region: British Isles/ Western Europe Platform: Xbox Series X and PC (we play cross play have players on both)
