Unable to sign players on pre contract on manager career mode

When players are eligible for pre contract discussions, at the right side of your screen it says "we can approach this player directly..." - because, indeed it's missing six months for the player to end his contract and he hasn't renewed yet - but it's not possible to enter negotiations directly with the player because at your left, in the screen, it shows the regular buy or loan menu.

Take note: I wasn't trying to get a player too young; I wasn't playing with an English team trying to get a player from another English team; you can approach players at January, when the market reopens but, obviously, that rule isn't to be applied on approaching players to sign on a pre-contract; if that would be the case, which it isn't, then we couldn't get players out of contract during times when the transfer market is closed.

This situation has been reported by multiple players who are, like me, big enthusiasts of the manager career mode, but, unfortunately, the facts are that you, EA, have been ignoring this issue. The facts are that we're in May, the season is almost over, you guys launched the game in October - 10 months ago - and you still haven't solved this bug.

I even wonder if you ever cared about it since it's not as profitable as FUT, where kids waste their parents money to buy the best cards, to buy the EA pass, the Playstation pass.

Career manager isn't about buying and buying and consumerism, so I suppose you simply don't care at all. 10 months without a response, without a solution, speaks for itself.

So, you know, in the end, it's sad, for a guy like me, 45 years old, who's played FIFA forever, since the '94 edition for Sega Mega Drive watching this happen.