Manager mode is straight up terrible.

Manager mode was essentially a test run for their tactical football release, but they seem to have left it in the game because some of the plater base seems to love it ... it is far from perfect though, and i only engage in it to set it on auto for five a day and come back in an hour to collect my tokens. ;)

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You should leave it overnight, mate. I was on 16 stars, so I thought, let’s see what happens over a few hours, maybe I'll get some extra rankups. When I woke up, it was back at 0, hahaha.

Having said that, I never bothered with setting it up properly according to any “guides.” I just let it play 5 games collect the tokens, a few minimalistic shard tradeables, and some gems, and it gets to the championship sooner or later.

I thought ll try getting to 40 stars for those 10k gems mate. When I was at 24 I thought alright 16 more stars so if I leave it for a while I can atleast reach to 30 and grind the rest later. Boom when I checked after a while I was at 17 stars. **bleep** 😂. Never fails to amaze me how terrible this crap can make you feel. So now I've played 56 more games and I'm at 16 stars. I've stopped trying at this point. I give up. 

I hate playing h2h cuz of the toxicity there. At some point it's gonna get on your nerves. I always try to be polite to whoever my opponent is. I've even muted the emotes but some dudes with their gameplay itself can just **bleep** you off. The game is just nonsense. Idk how thuram with a high defending wr is higher up the pitch than bale 🤣 this game would never make sense and for EA it's the perfect mix to frustrate people out so one would just end up buying more packs for the "better pull". 

That's the most sensible way to look at it. It ends up being a pain only when we are chasing those rewards. EA are notorious in making you work 3x hard for the said reward. The infamous DDA kicks in whenever you need a win or two and take away all the progress you made in the last one hour or so 

Rookie mistake, realised pretty fast it's pointless to try, hahah, I wouldn't even bother with it now, but if one wants Gullit, one needs shards from its championship  (and maybe 9999 gems from 10 stars, anything beyond will likely drive you insane) :|

Nothing kicks in to make it easier or harder for you mate - as you can see from how your AI team performs, the AI system is nowhere near smart enough to do that.

as you progress you hit higher ranked teams, many with “meta” player combinations that exploit the inconsistencies in the AI, and at the much higher levels, plenty who flat out cheat.

so, as the others have said, don’t sweat it on Manager Mode - just set and forget and take the free event points 

Last ten matches — ZERO wins.

I have a 118 OVR squad. I don’t watch the matches, but I can’t avoid registering the outcomes, and no wins in 10 matches is nothing short of jaw-dropping. 😒😡