Personally, I always leave the first transfer window of a new career open, however, when conducting a 'realistic' save, I refrain from purchasing any new players, until the January transfer window. Generally, I start with a bottom-mid table club, and need to offload 'junk' players; under 70 rated who will never play a minute, and especially the faceless players who have not been scanned and entered into the database (OCD, never have any blank players in a career mode squad) to obtain enough transfer budget to acquire three five star youth scouts, and full allotment of expert assistant coaches. At this point of the gaming cycle, I am only experimenting with the new settings, configuring the manager face, etc. The first Title Update should be released between next Tuesday and Thursday, which contains hundreds of new face scans (hopefully), recent real transfers, and missing third kit options. Only then will I proceed to create a long-term Manager Career mode save.
I started a WSL career as Chelsea. Came up against Man City ant they had sold Bunny Shaw and Chloe Kelly to Barca and PSG respectively. I want to play 2-3 seasons against ‘real’ teams and not see Aitana Bonmati signed by Leicester or someone. Ridiculous really that this cannot be done for an entire career and apply to all clubs if that’s what you want to do. It wouldn’t be so bad if some of the transfers weren’t so absurd.
