Ideas
I’m experiencing a recurring bug in Career Mode involving player morale, attitude, and transfer requests.
Players keep requesting transfers even when I am giving them around 90% of available playing time, including starting them regularly and playing them for full matches. I have also increased their wages and improved their contracts, but their morale/attitude still becomes negative and they continue asking to leave the club.
There also appears to be a problem with the player performance and attitude system. Players can perform well, receive regular minutes, and be treated as important members of the squad, but the game still acts as if they are unhappy about their playing time or performance.
For example:
Player starts and plays around 90% of matches.
Player regularly plays 90 minutes.
Player's wage has been increased.
Player performs well during matches.
Despite this, the player becomes unhappy and requests a transfer.
The player's attitude/morale sometimes does not correctly reflect their actual playing time or performances.
Once the transfer request happens, it can be difficult or impossible to restore the player's happiness even after meeting their demands.
It seems like Career Mode is either not correctly tracking playing time, contract satisfaction, performance, or player morale, or these systems are not communicating correctly with each other.
Please investigate the logic behind player morale, squad role expectations, performance evaluation, and transfer requests in Career Mode. Players who are consistently playing and performing well should not repeatedly request transfers because of supposed lack of game time.
This issue negatively affects long-term Career Mode saves because important players can randomly become unhappy and request transfers even when the manager has fulfilled their expectations.
I had this problem in the closed beta. I promoted a youth player, he played every game and 4 weeks later put a transfer request in. I had direct contact with EA Darko and asked them to clarify this would be fixed prior to launch. There seemed little point in buying the game as it was pretty much unplayable (as you have found). I went to follow it up this morning as I hadn't received a response and they had turned off the reply option. Typical EA. Hope it gets fixed but for the first time ever I'm holding off buying it until its fixed. Best of luck!!