[Manager Career Mode] Multiple Major Bugs EAFC27 at launch

Hello EA,

I am putting together a comprehensive list of major bugs, technical flaws, and gameplay issues found in EA Sports FC 27 Career Mode. I have broken these down clearly so the QA and development teams can investigate them.

And my fellow gamers, if you are experiencing these same issues, please upvote and reply to help get this pinned and addressed on priority!

Part 1: Technical & Career Mode Bugs

Permanent Transfer Lock on "Loose" Negotiation Settings

Category: Transfers / Manager Career

Issue: Even with transfer negotiations set to Loose, signing players with "Medium" interest (e.g., Sean Steur, Javi Guerra, Jauregizar, Pisilli) is completely broken. Over multiple seasons, all approach requests are instantly rejected by the selling club.

Details: The selling clubs have sufficient squad depth and plenty of time in the window to find replacements. Even when one wants to offer massive premium transfer fees, the user is completely locked out of negotiating. These players eventually join other non-rival clubs, but remain permanently "locked" and un-signable for the user's club forever. The rejection status never resets at the end of transfer windows or seasons. You can't just sign them for eternity.

Coaching Staff Slots Glitch

Category: Club Management

Issue: Hiring slots for coaching staff are completely bugged. The game prevents you from shuffling, swapping, or reallocating more coaches to specific departments (e.g., trying to move coaches to focus heavily on the Midfield department).

Youth Academy Scout "Soft-Lock"

Category: Youth Scouting

Issue: Once a scout completes an assignment and the report is available, it is impossible to send that scout to a new country. Even after completely clearing the scouting pool by signing or rejecting every single player, the option to reposition the scout is missing. The UI remains stuck on "Report Available."

Broken Youth Academy Player Faces & Textures

Issue: Youth academy player generation has seen zero improvement and appears heavily glitched. Players generate with unrealistic, bright hair colors, highly repetitive preset face shapes, deformed lips/mouths, and extremely pale, sickly skin tones. Only 5–6 face presets look normal; the rest are highly immersion-breaking.

Dynamic Potential Hard Cap

Category: Player Growth

Issue: Dynamic Potential appears to be hard-capped at a +2 maximum increase. Regardless of a young player's phenomenal form, match ratings, and season-over-season stats, their potential ceiling refuses to scale realistically, making the feature feel stagnant.

Missing Attribute Growth & Status Tracker

Category: UI / Squad Hub

Issue: There is no longer a clear visual trajectory to monitor player growth. In previous editions, users could easily see numerical attribute increases (+/-) and changes in potential status text (e.g., Showing Great Potential vs. Has Something Special). This critical tracking UI is missing or obscured.

Core Game Freezes & Hard Crashes

Category: Stability / Performance

Issue: Frequent screen freezing occurs during standard menus and match transitions. Furthermore, the game suffers from complete application crashes back to the system dashboard right in the middle of active gameplay.

Misaligned Formation UI & Commentary Desync

Category: Squad formation 

Issue: The 4-2-3-1 Narrow formation layout displays incorrectly in the Team Management screen compared to previous years. Additionally, during kickoff, the commentary guy incorrectly calls the tactic a 4-5-1, indicating a text/audio desync.

Part 2: Gameplay & AI Tuning Issues

First-Touch Instability & Bouncing Ball Rebounds

Issue: Player first-touches while receiving standard ground passes are heavily overtuned for me by default, frequently spinning wildly out of control. Additionally, defensive AI logic breaks during corner deflections, bouncing balls, and rebounds, resulting in a disproportionate number of cheap, unavoidable goals where user inputs are ignored. Once a while is ok, but every single time, come on.

Repetitive Robotic CPU fast Tiki-Taka, Rebounds, Corner disparities even in Authentic mode

Issue: While open-play passing feels smoother, the CPU attacking AI lacks variety. CPU teams rarely score from logical, open-play build-ups. Instead, they struggle until they instantly trigger hyper-fast, robotic "tiki-taka" passing sequences that are entirely un-defendable. CPU also doesn't let our defenders win headers when taking corners. And almost all rebounds and ball bouncing are pounced by CPU players even if my player is in closest proximity. 

Low Tier Transfer/Loan Market Stagnation

Issue: Receiving transfer or loan offers for unused/fringe squad players is incredibly rare in the first two seasons. Lower-division clubs show zero interest in taking these players on loan, forcing users to repeatedly manually release players and waste budget.

Broken Real Player Face Models (Under-20 Wonderkids)

Issue: Highly-rated wonderkids under 20 (such as Nijstad, Inacio, Jeltsch, Nathan de Cat, Mikkel Bro Hansen) completely lack authentic faces. Furthermore, young players who do have real faces (like Gilberto Mora, Baturina, Jesus Rodriguez, Paul Wanner, Lucas Bergvall, Leoni, Vuskovic, Yildiz) look severely deformed, ugly looking, and completely unrealistic in-game.

Generic Social Media Feed Algorithms

Issue: The social media section lacks context. Comments are frequently completely unrelated to the actual post. The feed heavily favors news about external leagues/teams rather than prioritizing the user's own club, academy graduates, or recent trophy wins.

Part 4: Intrusive Ultimate Team SP Progression Updates Mid-Career Mode

Issue: For players who exclusively play single-player offline Career Mode and have zero interest in Ultimate Team, the continuous visual pop-ups and progression notifications for Ultimate Team Season Points (SP) during post-match screens are incredibly frustrating and immersion-breaking.

Part 5: Suggestions & Feedback for Future Updates

Dynamic Overall Tuning: Scale back the speed of attribute growth for players in their mid-30s compared to under-30 players. Additionally, make hitting a 90+ overall significantly more challenging and prestigious to preserve realistic game lifecycles.

Commentary Depth & Variety: While the local commentary addition is appreciated, the script feels robotic and lacks historical flavor. Commenty should dynamically track your club's transfer window sagas, highlight your big-money signings during matches, and discuss the progression/milestones of your youth academy graduates over multiple games.

Praise where it's due: The new detailed, multi-step transfer negotiation process is incredible and a massive step forward for the mode, it just needs the above bugs ironed out to make it playable ! This may have saved you this year single handedly. Otherwise EA was doomed this time since many of us founder fans don't care about UT and Grounds mode. Andreas seems to take interest and is taking input from fans.