Live Start Points - Teams Do Not Negotiate with Pending Free Agents
Product: EA SPORTS FC 25
Platform:PlayStation 5
Please specify your platform model. Sony PlayStation 5
What is your Gamertag/PSN ID/Switch ID? t_alexandre9
Which mode has this happened in? Career Mode
Which part of the mode? Manager Career
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Start a new career using Live Start Points on the most recent/current week. Sim or play through the season and keep track of players on A.I. teams with expiring contracts.
What happens when the bug occurs? No expiring contracts are renewed by A.I. teams It also appears that no teams make an attempt to sign these players to a pre-contract. 100% of pending free agents become free agents the following season.
What should be happening instead? Teams should be at least making an attempt to re-sign their best players instead of letting them all leave on a free.
Discovered this today when I finished the first season in my Spurs save and went to scout Jonathan David at the start of season 2. He was playing for some tiny team in the Danish league. This led me to search for free agents and the list was massive. Then found Mo Salah and Van Dijk playing in Argentina...
Went back to my checkpoint before the first season ended and every single player with an expiring contract was reading as "expiring in 0 months" and all became free agents. Salah, VVD, TAA, Alphonso Davies, Kimmich, etc. Obviously, this dismantles immersion and leads to the already unrealistic transfer market being 100x worse as teams like Liverpool have to replace all the guys they lost. And because these players are being lost for free and then picked up in free agency (seemingly only by small teams - who should never be able to afford the salaries...) the transfer budgets are seriously skewed. Simmed through the season just for kicks and Liverpool finished 9th because they didn't have the funds to replace the players they'd lost in free agency.
