Ideas
Career mode started with 3 players with less than 12 months remaining on contract. None of whom would allow me to renegotiate a contract, just got message “the player is not looking to engage in contract negotiations for the time being’. One left in January transfer window as only had a few months left. Nothing I could do stop that. The other players left when contracts expired. All of whom were showing as high morale. Tried a new career mode with no transfers allowed and lost these same players when contract expired. Please patch EA as career mode is very broken with this bug.
I had this issue aswell seems to be a bug needs sorting out! Had to restart the career and the players that were expiring that I wanted to renew and keep i had to release players when starting career mode to sign them as free agents once it loaded up