FIFA 17: 8 Things EA Still Can't Get Right
2. Tranfer Market
Making the transfer market seem believable and realistic in FIFA’s Career Mode has always been a difficult task. We all know Lionel Messi would never leave Barcelona for the sunny shores of Plymouth Argyle, and that is easy enough to program into the game, but it appears replicating the unpredictable (but also really predictable) nature of the modern-day transfer market is still too much for EA, as the same old issues have cropped up in FIFA 17.
Many players have taken to forums to describe how, in their games, Man United have monopolised the world’s best strikers, with everyone from Greizemann, Suarez and Icardi being signed by the club in a single transfer window, alongside keeping their existing strike force intact. Fans have also noticed that the same old transfers keep occurring, with David Alaba constantly getting signed by Juventus; a transfer that has seemingly happened in every Career Mode in every FIFA game for the past few years.
Most fans aren’t likely to care what the other teams are doing during their Career Mode, but when you’re winning the Champions League year after year, yet are struggling to sign even average players, it can get frustrating seeing the ‘big’ teams spending hundreds of millions of pounds just to create the world’s most expensive subs bench.