So it’s a running theme that Career Mode
tends to get a bit stale and repetitive after
a while because the mode doesn’t offer anything
new to keep players enticed.
Well, in the past I’ve released videos giving
ideas on how to mix it up with challenges
to make it more exciting.
I plan to give you guys more ideas with this
video today in order give you some freshness
in your career mode saves and perhaps bring
you back to the mode for FIFA 20.
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With that being said, let’s get into the
challenges.
First of all, we start off with the strict
owner challenge.
In this situation, the owner of your club
is heavily driven by financial targets.
Perhaps it’s even a plc which needs to show
profit in order to please the shareholders
and maintain a high share price on the stock
market.
As a result, you have to make profit in every
transfer window; so your transfer fees will
be lower than your sales in every transfer
window.
Profit doesn’t carry over from each window,
so you start with a clean slate at the start
of every window.
This only includes transfers.
If you’re making profit and generating income
from other means such as sponsorship or tv
revenue etc. that makes no difference.
The profit has to be from transfer outgoings.
In this challenge, you’ll find it very difficult
to build that squad if you’re having to
sell certain players in order to bring in
new ones.
Creating a dynasty will be very tough and
a real challenge for you to overcome.
The majority of you will probably start with
top tier football teams, but if you want to
make it very tough for yourself, then start
with a club in one of the lower tiers, particularly
leagues one and two in England; where your
players will carry much lower transfer fees,
but to improve the side you’ll have to pay
higher prices.
That one will be a real tough, intriguing
challenge.
Next up we have the transfer ban challenge.
Now, I don’t really need to go into too
much detail in order to explain how this challenge
works.
Think of a Chelsea situation in real life.
After some dodgy dealings in the past by the
club before you joined, a disciplinary panel
decided to hit your club with a 12 month transfer
ban; meaning that for the next two transfer
windows, you will be unable to sign players
for your club.
Now, this isn’t a complete transfer ban,
meaning that you can still sell players or
loan them out should you wish to, but you’re
unable to make any incoming signings for the
next 12 months from when you join.
This challenge will see you be forced into
having to work with the players you already
have at your disposal for the full first season.
Now, there are some work arounds that you
can utilise to your advantage should you choose
to.
The transfer ban doesn’t stop you from signing
players on a pre-contract agreement during
the second half of the first season; so you
should certainly bare that in mind if you
decide to take this career mode challenge.
Whilst doing this with Chelsea is certainly
a realistic challenge, you should definitely
look to find clubs who have a current problem
with the quality in their squad – and are
crying out for changes; because then that
will be a real tough challenge to sink your
teeth into.
From one transfer challenge to another, this
time you’ll be restricted in the transfer
window once again, but perhaps not in a way
that you’d think.
The Basque Country transfer philosophy is
something that has been at the heart of some
clubs within the Basque Country.
For those of you who don’t know, Basque
Country is a region covering some of Northern
Spain and Southern France.
Whilst it’s still part of the respective
countries, it does have features that separate
it from the rest, such as its own language,
flag, native food and dialect – and much
much more.
This regional patriotism has seen some clubs
reflect that in their transfer and staff hire
philosophy.
In particular, Athletic Bilbao, who will only
sign players if they were either born in the
Basque region or have spent a considerable
amount of time there from a young age; most
noticeably as part of the youth academy.
This way of running the club has seen the
La Liga side praised for not only their desire
and proven record of sticking to a philosophy,
but also how it promotes the growth, nurture
and promotion of local young talent.
Yes, most impressively, the majority of players
who feature for Bilbao are products of its
very own youth academy; making it all the
more impressive that the club has been able
to remain competitive throughout its existence.
Even winning a trophy along the way.
A great challenge for you to sink your teeth
into would be this one.
Not only does it encourage you using the youth
academy, but the restrictions in place for
you in the transfer market mean that you’ll
be a lot more active minded and challenged
throughout the entire transfer process.
The best way to replicate it in game in terms
of the youth academy would be to do as follows:
send a scout to Spain and a scout to France
(as they’re the two nations covering Basque),
then use a random fruit machine generator
which gives you a 1 in 10 chance of promoting
a youth player from Spain – and a 1 in 15
chance of promoting a youth player from France.
That way it maintains the tough nature of
this challenge – and also represents how
small the region is in comparison to the size
of the two respective countries.
You also don’t have to do this with Athletic
Bilbao either if you don’t want to.
On top of them, you can also pick from other
Basque-based clubs such as: Eibar, Real Sociedad,
Deportivo Alaves and Leganes.
Whilst these clubs aren’t quite as strict
on this philosophy as Bilbao are, you can
soon change that should you choose to manage
one of them instead.
Moving on to the fourth challenge on this
list, we have the squad registration rules
challenge.
This scenario is very much tailored to people
who want a realistic and challenging experience
within their career mode saves.
It involves you simply adhering to the squad
registration rules for whichever league you
decide to start a save in.
For example, for Premier League clubs, the
rules are that the squad must have a maximum
of 25 players, and at least eight of them
have to be home grown (i.e. have played in
England for at least three years before they
turned 21).
Meaning you can only have a maximum of 17
foreign players registered.
However, it’s important to not that players
under the age of 21 do not have to be registered
– and therefore don’t count towards the
squad registration criteria.
If you have players beyond the criteria who
you wouldn’t be able to register, then you
simply can’t play them.
You can do this in other leagues as well.
For example, the Chinese Super League has
a very strict policy on squad registration.
Clubs can only have up to four foreign players
registered in the squad – and only three
in every matchday squad.
In addition, every goalkeeper must be of Chinese
nationality.
This one is a whole lot tougher, but it’s
certainly an interesting challenge to get
your teeth stuck into.
There are registration rules in almost every
professional league in the world, so for other
divisions which you might want to do this
challenge in, simply do a quick Google search
and you’ll be able to find the registration
rules to start this challenge for your chosen
club.
Fifth and finally on this list, we have the
club liquidation challenge.
This ideally needs to be done in either England
or Germany, because Germany has three leagues
and England has four.
The basis is this.
Choose a club, any club in the top league
of the country.
That club goes into liquidation; meaning that
they went bust after being unable to pay off
many debts and spending beyond their means.
They transfer ownership of the club to a new
company, but as a result, are relegated to
the bottom tier of that country.
Swap them into the bottom league of that country
and start the career mode save with them.
Can you return back to the top league in your
Career Mode?
However, the challenge doesn’t stop there,
though.
Not only do you have to start I the bottom
division, but you also have to sell every
player at the club that was already there
at the start.
You can not field any current serving player
in any game.
All of them have to be new players that you’ve
signed during that career mode.
If you’re unable to sell the players from
the old regime in the first transfer window,
then that’s fine, but you’re still not
allowed to play them.
That’s where the real challenge comes into
play.
This scenario is very much modelled on that
of the situation that occurred with Rangers
in Scotland a few years ago.
Almost the whole of their team from the previous
season had rejected new contracts and had
therefore left the club.
Forcing them to field an almost entirely new
team of players.
This is one that I’m certainly going to
look into doing at some point soon.
So, that rounds it off for this video guys.
Please do get at me in the comments section
if you have any other suggestions for challenges
on career mode that aren’t on this list.
Let me know which of these challenges you
fancy doing and In addition, if you tried
any of these challenges out, tell me how it
went and what you thought about it.
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in game.
On that note, we’re going to round it off
there.
Thanks so much for watching, and I’ll see
you next time.
