[Bug] Unable to Renew Contracts with Any Player in Career Mode
Hello, I would like to report a critical bug I encountered in EA FC 26 Career Mode (Manager). Issue: I am unable to renew the contract of any player in my club, no matter how many times I try. Details: The issue occurs both when starting a brand-new career and when continuing into later seasons (e.g., 5th year). After some time, players end up leaving the club for very low transfer fees, even if I don’t accept it. This completely breaks the career experience. I recorded a video as an example and attached it here. Platform: PlayStation 5 Game Version: Launch version (the game was just released today) Expected Behavior: I should be able to renew contracts with players in my squad and keep them unless I decide otherwise. Actual Behavior: The game does not allow me to renew contracts at all with any player in the squad, and after some time, players leave for cheap transfer fees without my approval. It’s very clear that this hasn’t been properly tested. Even if this is presented as a “new feature,” it makes no sense that all 32 players in the squad would refuse to renew their contracts. That’s completely unrealistic and ruins the career mode experience. This issue makes Career Mode frustrating. Please fix this as soon as possible, otherwise buying early access feels pointless. Please see the attached video for a clear demonstration of the issue. Thank you for your support and hard work! Best regards,Problems with the artificial intelligence in FC 26 Career mode
Problems with the artificial intelligence in FC 26 Career mode I wanted to understand what they did with the machine's intelligence in FC 26 Career mode. The AI's behavior is really bad: Doesn't attack, doesn't shoot, and doesn't cross. Holds the ball too much, even when it should advance. Doesn't do one-two passes or collective plays. On defense, holds the ball in the back in an absurd way. If I press, closing the passes, they lose the ball easily and a goal is scored. I have the aggression on 100 and they haven’t made a single foul. I've already tried all possible settings: Authentic Gameplay, Competitive Gameplay, Ultimate and Legendary difficulties. The result is still really bad: the game is extremely easy, without a challenge, and the matches end in routs. Sadly, you can't enjoy Career mode like this. EA please fix it. I buy this game only for the career mode and it’s completely unplayable.
FC 26 CAREER MODE PLAYER PLAYER TRANSFER REQUESTS [BUG]
There is an big issue with players requesting for transfers when unhappy. There are no clubs who actually make any bids no matter how long they try to leave the club. You can’t even renew their contracts or do anything with them. Please fix this issue with the next patch update because it ruins the player experience.FC 26 Career Mode Feedback Thread!
First off, i want to state how appreciative we are of you trying to fix this mode, the last few years it has fallen way behind where it should be, but we're finally starting to get back on track. But here are a few Career Mode related issues including things from previous years I've noticed that STILL haven't been addressed, which really need to be in imminent Title Updates.. • STILL no option for Pitch Colour & Pitch Wear inside the Career Mode Gameplay settings, please add this. • Transfer Fees & Wages need MASSIVELY improving, especially for High Potential stars, i shouldn't be able to buy a Young Talent who has a 90 Potential for £5m! It should be 10x that.. • Players with only 12 months remaining say "they're happy with their current contract", this shouldn't be possible, they should either agree to sign an extension or say they're NOT interested in renewing and want a new challenge at the end of this one, so you have the decision to make whether to sell them ASAP or lose them for free the following Summer. • When transfer listing these players who have 12 months remaining and refuse to sign an extension also say "they're confused and surprised, and it if was up to them they'd want to stay", when you transfer list them.. Even though they've refused a new contract extension as they said they're happy!? • Possible Lineup STILL only shows 7 subs for tournaments that can have 9 subs, even though 9 subs ARE named during gameplay (visual bug) • When using Sim/Quick Sim for pre-season friendlies, we get an e-mail telling us to remember to use all our our allotted subs? But we've simmed.. So it's the CPU who should be using all of them! • We need the option of selecting 12 subs for International & Champions League matches, as this is a real life rule • Bring back the Manager Unveiling cut-scene that you have removed! Why have you removed it!? At least make it an option, "cut-scene or contract signing screen". And may i also suggest, stop removing things people like, instead make them optional? I thought you'd learned this with the removal of the pre-match intros.. • Please add the option of being able to search for a player based off their Strong Foot, that way we can look for left footed CBs for example.. • We STILL have no Short Tape option for Wrists in Create/Edit Real Players? Even though we have a Long option? Once added, Short Tape should be the default for 99% of players as they wear this is real life, instead of players currently wearing Sweatbands instead.. This isn't Tennis? • There is STILL a bug of when a player wears coloured wrist tape then he wears the home kit's colour for the away & 3rd kits too which looks ridiculous and is also illegal! Please see the following post on how to fix it: https://x.com/GenericEAFC/status/1956800836736024612?t=vY6FBcjhx1FjlFhZEpJZpw&s=19 • STILL no Undershorts option in Create/Edit Real Players? Instead it's strangely defaulted to players ONLY in Cold Weather? • STILL no Cold Weather Gear option for players in Create/Edit Real Players, even though Data Reviewers have access to this option? PLEASE add this into the actual game.. • Add the holes in socks that Bellingham wears into the socks options so we can give Created/Edited Players the same socks option? • Please add the Generic stadiums from FUT into Create Your Club in Career Mode • PLEASE add back the old Low Socks option that you have replaced this year, the new ones are more 3/4 length than Short! Add the old ones back and rename the newer ones "3/4" • Please add the option to turn TIFOs On/Off/Big Games Only.. I don't need to see a big TIFO of Diogo Dalot before my cup match against Barrow.. • Secondary Positions STILL take to long to complete! For example, Luke Shaw is a LB, but in-game hes set as a CB and it says it will take 81 WEEKS to assign as a LB? Even though its named as a secondary position? It shouldn't take time AT ALL.. It should ONLY take time for training in NEW positions! • I was playing as Portugal and had 2 friendlies against Qatar within 4 days? You shouldn't be playing the SAME team in the same week.. • The Clean Sheets tab doesn't show GKs with Clean Sheets, but shows outfield players instead. • Unexpected Events - Great idea and i love them, but maybe add an option to specifically choose the frequency of EACH one just like you can for them in the first place? For example, id want an option to turn the option of a player randomly retiring OFF, but turn the chance of seeing a player getting injured in training to HIGH... • Press Conferences are STILL a mess and make absolute zero sense. Why would i humble a player who had a good game!? This would massively lower his moral in real life.. (Consider removing them until you can address them) • STILL no Player Interviews in Player Career like we had in The Journey? • STILL can't request a Transfer or Loan n Player Career? These are basic feature requests.. • When you search for a player their Potential is shown but once you shortlist them you can no longer see it, so you have to search for them again to see it? Which is counter-intuitive as you have already shortlisted them, so should be able to view it there too.. • When viewing your players in Squad Hub the competition name isnt viewable due too being too long to fit into the scrolling bar, thus the bar needs enlarging to fit the whole competition name on view to be able to see it • When viewing the CPU's squad, you can see after only 10-12 games they have played all 3 GKs the same amount of games? GK's don't rotate this much in real life, only when injured or for lesser cup competitions, please make it so the number one GK is played more often for CPU teams.. • Please add the Generic stadiums from FUT into Create Your Club in Career Mode • Please add Tattoos you can apply for the Right Arm, also for the Left Arm, so we can actually create matching Sleeve Tattoos! Why would there be different options for Left/Arm & Right Arm!? • Please add ALL the new hairstyle options that players with Cranium faces have into Create a Player! (I've seen MANY that aren't selectable!?) • Please REMOVE the bright screen flash that occurs during menu transitions! • Please show the Stadium Preview image when selecting your team in Career Mode just like you can see when selecting a Stadium in Kick Off. • I can't see the text during Player Negotiations due to the colours • We need the option to start a New Job at the End of the Season! (So you can finish the current season with your current team, the team you accept a job offer from will place a caretaker manager in charge until you take over) • Loans - Players in real life can't play against parent clubs. They should be unavailable and we should get an e-mail before the game to tell us so we have to make adjustments to our squad just like we do for Injuries/Suspensions.. Same for Loaned out players playing against us too! • Around The Grounds needs to pause on the screen so you can actually view and take a look at other scores/results, currently it flashes up for a few seconds and automatically moves to the next screen too fast so you can't actually look at them, also a Skip button prompt needs adding so you have the choice to view them or not! Thanks for reading, i will try to update this list if i find anything else worth mentioning. May i also suggest liaising with your Career Mode community more, especially on X, maybe inviting some of them to Vancouver to playtest for you? Instead of YouTube influencers that have zero knowledge of the mode and/or what needs addressing/adding.. You can find me on X: @GenericEAFCFC26 Career Mode - Sharpness Bug?
Hello everyone, I'm currently playing the start of my second season and have an issue with player sharpness - it won't go higher than 80! No matter what training plan is selected, while I can achieve 100% fitness, I cannot achieve higher than 80% sharpness. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Is it a bug from the latest patch? My team won the EPL and FA Cup, so I'm wondering if this is actually a game mechanic (of the team being over confident and/or complacent).I cannot respond to offers for player transfers in career mode.
In the manager career mode that I started 7 days ago on PlayStation 5, I see a 'no action available' notification in the offers made to the players and I cannot respond to transfer offers. Depending on this situation, transfer requests are automatically rejected after a few days in the game. This issue started three days ago, early in my second season. It's definitely not related to the club's financial situation or the players' contracts. I've tried checking for updates, creating a new save, and continuing the game, but nothing seems to work. At the same time, my scouts started to be unable to find players. Even though their player search filters were set to "all". These appear to be bugs in the game at this stage. Can you help me with this issue?Create/Edit Real Players Mode Needs Open Heart Surgery!
I dont mean this to sound rude, but Create/Edit Real Players has been the same for 10+ years now and its getting rather embarrassing! Were on PS5 consoles in 2025 not PS4 in 2013.. I make a thread on your Official Forums each year on how this mode can be improved that gets ignored EVERY year. But again, here i am with a list i feel can dramatically improve the creation side of the game that i ask for you to PLEASE look at: • Cold Weather Gear: Please add this setting that Data Reviewers get as an option IN GAME! This is needed for so many reasons that i will post below.. • Short Wrist Tape: We have a Long Tape option, but no Short? Short should be the default as that is what 90% of players actually wear yet its missing from the game? Instead, you have players running around wearing Sweatbands, this isn't Tennis! We need LOTS more accessory options, see MLB: The Show, they have an option for Short/Medium/Long Wrist Tape.. • Wrist Tape/Accessories Bug: Regarding Wrist Tape etc, there is STILL a Bug of when if a player wears coloured Wrist Tape then he wears the Home kit's colour for the Away & 3rd kits too which looks ridiculous! We need a 'Same As Kit' Colour option for accessories! • STILL no Undershorts option? Instead it's strangely defaulted to players ONLY in Cold Weather? This is why we need the Cold Weather Gear setting, as you could select Undershorts then choose On/Off/Cold Weather Only) so please make them selectable! • Grip Sock option: 90% of players have been wearing this sock option for YEARS now • Add the holes in socks Sock Type that Bellingham wears in-game into the socks options so we can give Created/Edited Players the same socks option? It's literally in the game.. • Please add Tattoos you can apply for the Right Arm, also for the Left Arm, so we can actually create matching Sleeve Tattoos! Why would there be different options for Left/Arm & Right Arm!? Also add LOTS more Tattoo options, just look at all the ones you had in The Journey that came out 8 years ago!? You literally have the assets.. • Please add ALL the new hairstyle options that players with Cranium faces have into Create a Player! (I've seen MANY that aren't selectable!?) • Ankle Tape: Should only be an On/Off setting only, as by law the colour HAS to match the sock anyway, so im not sure why we have blue ankle tape / red ankle tape etc.. (When set to On it would be the same colour as whatever kit they are playing in, just like Undershirts do) • Undershirt lengths: Please add different lengths for Undershirts such as 3/4 and rolled up • Shorts lengths: Please add Short & Long options for Shorts, the current ones would be Medium.. • Compression Pants: Please add these long Undershorts that players such as Robben/Giggs used to wear in Cold Weather (again a Cold Weather Gear setting needed) the assets are already in-game as they were in VOLTA! • Arm Sleeves: That Pogba etc wear • Potential Stat: This should be editable under Attributes • Composure Stat: This should be editable too, in fact make everything editable! • PlayStyles: These should have their own tab that we can be manually added/removed from players • Please show a players Star Head as his Profile Photo instead of a black silhouette • Bring back Game Face • Cranium: If Game Face can't be used, then let us upload photos so Cranium can make a player likeness for our Created or Generic player • Gloves: Why are they are so basic? Add Adidas, Nike and Club Logo branded ones • Colour Wheel: Add a colour wheel instead of having multiple different colours for each item, there should only be 1 item, for example: Wrist Tape, then you choose the colour.. • Manager Cold Weather Gear: Another reason for needing Cold Weather Gear, as currently in Manager Career you edited attire is automatically overwritten when playing in Cold Weather by coats/jackets that aren't selectable!? • We can only Create a Player with the Burth Year of 2005 so they are automatically 19, this needs changing to 2008 so we can create 16 year olds..
Add Slovak clubs to 'Rest of the World' in FC 27
Hello EA Sports FC Team and Community, I am writing on behalf of the Central European football community to request the inclusion of MŠK Žilina, FC Spartak Trnava and ŠK Slovan Bratislava to the 'Rest of the World' in FC 27. Here's why: MŠK Žilina: 1- their U19 success in UEFA Youth League. They destroyed teams like Liverpool (2-1), Inter Miláno (3-1), AC Sparta Praha (5-4), Crvena Zvezda (3-0), Dortmund (2-0), Pafos (5-0). 2- they won Slovnaft Cup (Slovenský pohár) so they will be playing 1st qualifying round of Europa League. 3- Talent Factory. They produced world class players like Dávid Hancko, Milan Škriniar, Martin Dúbravka, Róbert Boženík, or Jakub Kiwiora FC Spartak Trnava: 1- they will be playing 2nd qualifying round of Europa Conference League. 2- they qualified to Europa Conference League in season 2023/2024. 3- from the last 5 winners of the Slovnaft Cup, they won it 3 times ŠK Slovan Bratislava: 1- season 2023/2024 they played Europa Conference League, season 2024/2025 Champions League, 2025/2026 Europa League. 2- they're richest football club in Slovakia, with modern stadium. 3- good academy I have already raised this request through EA Live Support under Case numbers: #246750250, #240545088, and #240724591. The advisors confirmed the feedback was noted but recommended posting here on the forums to gather community support. Please upvote if you want to see authentic Slovak teams in FC 27! Thank you.
FC26 Character Creation Sharing System (Face & Appearance Codes)
Hello EA SPORTS Team, I would like to suggest a feature that could improve multiple modes in FC 26, including Clubs, Career Mode, and Player Customization. Currently, in the tactics section, players can share and import tactics using codes. I believe a similar system should be added for character creation and player appearance. For example, many players create highly detailed and realistic faces (such as famous footballers) in Clubs mode and share them online. However, recreating these faces manually is very time-consuming and often does not result in the same accuracy. If there was a system where players could share a “character code” or “appearance code,” others could simply copy and paste that code to instantly use the same face or customization. This feature could be very useful in: - Clubs mode (custom player faces) - Editing AI players or bots in Clubs teams - Player Career Mode customization - Manager Career Mode character editing It would save time, improve creativity, and allow the community to share their creations much more easily—just like tactics sharing. I believe this would be a very popular and useful addition to the game. Many players in the community would love this feature. Thank you for your time and consideration.