FIFA 20 Career Mode: 10 Ways EA Can REALLY Fix It

8. Manager History

As this generation of sports games creaks towards inevitable replacement on newer hardware, one thing becomes clearer: EA are turning FIFA titles on PS4 and Xbox One into soft 'Legacy' reprints of products already on the market. This is a problem with annual updates generally, but the developers aren't learning from history.

History. Now there's a thought.

Wouldn't it be nice to fire up FIFA 20, launch in Career Mode, spend half an hour creating a new manager (that new suite is admittedly very swish) and then decide exactly how much credibility they have? Football Manager fans will know all about this; in that series, it's entirely possible to create a Sunday League stalwart who's lucky to be in the job or a global superstar who has won everything before hitting the dugout.

In a game mode that relies on self-created lore and players sewing the fabric of their own footy universe, this sort of thing is essential. It's totally missing in FIFA, and that's a shame. It'd be great to see the media respond accordingly depending on what kind of experience your gaffer has too.