Re: Player career mode, can not disable first transfer window.

Same issue on PS5.

EA when will this be fixed?

Has anyone found a fix for this yet?

I’m having same issue on Xbox. I like no signing first window apart from free agents. By time I’ve got to October there all gone 

From what I understand, the 'Disable Transfers' or 'Disable Transfer in the First Window' of Manager Career mode only has an effect on the user created club, not the entire database of clubs, in all leagues. The transfer option should be grayed out for the user, or in the past, users could sign players at the start of the career, however, those players would not join until January 1st. There is no option to stop all clubs from transferring players in and out for the duration of a career mode save (thirty years), or disabling all immediate transfers from CPU controlled clubs.

So basically u need to start with the window open unlike the previous games. Kinda stupid to change that always like not getting players move till jan but free agents was fine. 

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 like play as lower league clubs or create one. Also play as my club I support. But not being able get free agents with that is pretty annoying. Hoping they just made a mistake and will patch it. Nothing annoys me more when u have first window open and all the big signings move about. 

Quite a bug that didn’t exist in previous games. 

It wasn't like this on previous versions of the game. If this is the case, what is the difference between "Disable transfers first window", "Disable transfers for career" and "Transfer embargo"? 

For the latter, can you set a number of windows?

Disappointing if it none of these options affect the CPU. At least on old versions the disable first window would stop all transfers globally.

It would be good to get some clarity from EA on what these features should be doing though.

I was expecting that this setting affects all clubs, but get disappointed when the season starts and all teams transferring players

I'd like to play the whole calendar (including cups and international tournaments) facing the real teams line up, but there is no option to do that ☹️

That’s all I’m wanting to know but ea will not fix this be nice if they did cause it annoys me. Come the time I can start to look at players the good youth r gone and best free agents also

I'm the same, I'd like at least one season with real squads throughout.

It's funny how fast they answer the UT related topics but ignore all the others 😃

Hopefully its rectified in the first patch.

Update on this. I tested the "disable first window" option and it mostly worked as previous versions, however CPU is still able to make free agent signings. Pretty sure this didn't happen on FC24.

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So if it doesn't get fixed, the only way we can play with real squads in career mode is wait for January transfer window to pass in real life. Then we can start our career with the "starting point" selecting a week in February.

 

Such a shame this issue gets overlooked. There's no way they don't know about it. It's the first thing I noticed when I started a career.

Very annoying. If you want your career to be realistic that really need to be fixed ! Come on EA, you already made some fixes, this one must be done quickly ! Extremely important for carrer mode players

What's up, FC fans.

Just popping in to let you know we've shared this along to the EA FC team and they're aware of it. We'll provide updates on this as soon as we hear back with more information. Thank you for raising this our way!

Hi, thanks for picking this up.

Apart from the fix, can you shed some light on which transfer settings affect the CPU and which ones are just for the user? Thanks

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.