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Great post by OP, hopefully EA can copy this to the CM dev staff and have them work on the problems. I would like to add two of my own, if you could copy them to the list I would be vary grateful as it seemed unnecessary for me to start my own thread when this one has compiled issues all in one place 🙂
1. During a sim test of my first season at Colchester Utd I had Owen Goodman (GK) on loan from Crystal Palace, everything was going well until end of February/March when he began complaining to me about his pay, he wanted an improvement on his contract. Of course he is on loan to us from Premier League Crystal Palace for the whole season so during the loan spell I can't do anything at all to rectify this, his morale then starts to drop and I get a follow up from the Colchester Utd board of Directors to tell me You have made no attempt to rectify Owen Goodman's contract situation so EA need to look at this in the background to make the changes on Loans Into the lower clubs, players that are ON LOAN should not be making new wage/salary demands like they are a regular contracted player.
2. I can see in the Transfers section of your OP that you mentioned clubs signing too many players in the same position as well as clubs not having a big enough squad size in general. So I would like to further add something I have noticed since about FIFA 21, that is the COM controlled sides are allowing too many players to be released to the FA and not resigning players to cover the original position that has been left, for example at the end of S1 and beginning S2 I noticed; AFC Wimbledon, Exeter City, Grimsby, Port Vale, Sutton Utd, Tranmere Rovers, Walsall only had 1 GK left in their entire squad I also noticed higher up from L2 Barnsley and even Everton only had 1 GK as well, firstly the COM AI makes no attempt to cover any of these positions either through signings replacement via a transfer or just picking up a different covering GK from the hundreds available on FA.
Another way this impacts CM is that if I'm a L2 side and trying to make it realistic by the time I get to S3 most if not all of my players on the transfer watchlist become FA or even worse their club becomes so depleted in that position I can't make a transfer to them because they don't have enough cover in that position.
I would suggest that within the edit menu (inside the CM) give the user the option to make FREE transfers for COM clubs, similar to NHL game where you can control club transfers for other teams, that way if I see that Blackpool only have 1 GK but they have viable realistic options on FA I can just freely add them before another season begins, this would sort of be like a club edit / club transfers option at the point in the save where it asks if you want to edit your own club this has to be done every season though not just in S1 or S2 it would be an ongoing option to register players to other clubs for free (similar to the main custom options menu) this would negate the need to create existing codes to fix the problem and the user would be acting as a League GM to make sure that all the clubs have enough players starting the season.
In FIFA 23 I played 6 Seasons total, 3 with Stevenage and then my manager moved to West Brom and we got into the Premier League, I can remember in S1 or S2 I had to make bogus transfers in the save because for half a season Stockport County didn't even have 1 GK, not 1! I had to sign someone off the FA that was pretty good, then agree to sign a player from them offering them the GK in the swap so the GK signed from FA ended up playing for Stockport in the 2nd half, I did sim multiple times but at no point did the COM AI try to sign a GK at all.
So the dev team have three options, 1) either generate new code sequences and rules that prevent the COM AI from releasing too many quality players too soon, 2) create a new rule of 1 in 1 out but make sure it is including the position biased in each transfer, In Everton's case they were down to just 1 GK inside 1 season, so by simming if that GK gets suspended and you end up playing them the COM will probably place Dominic Calvert-Lewin in Goal when really the COM should be smart enough to make replacement transfers for anyone leaving and have enough covering players in each of the registered pos.
3. Implement a custom team/club transfers menu at the beginning of each season, usually in the week where you get to edit your pitch/team stadium etc, there should be a General Manager mode contained so we can go through and make sure the clubs have enough players per position. At all times there should be 2 GK, 6 CB, 2 LB 2RB, 4 CM/DM 2 RM 2 LM 3 CAM and 4 or 5 ST or CF, if the COM AI can make structural changes based on position biased rather than just stockpiling 6 right backs then the game would be more manageable and enjoyable once you get 4 or 5 seasons deep.
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