Quote Originally Posted by War Machine Dawg View Post
I'm still rocking FIFA 14. Love FUT, but the market has gone to hell since '16 came out. I've been focusing on a couple of career players. Got a CAM that's worked his way up to Man U first team and a striker trying to make the Arsenal first team. The striker is currently dominating the Championship at Bournemouth. I should probably up the difficulty, considering I'm on pace to score an insane number of goals. And by insane, I mean 60+ is within the realm of possibility. I'm already over 50, if I'm remembering correctly. The problem is there just aren't as many achievements for strikers to complete as midfielders. Plus I suck at using skilled dribbling. If I could do that, I'd be completely unstoppable.

Btw, here's a helpful trick to make your career player progress faster: Start him off at an MLS club and decline loan options during the summer window. Odds are your team will suck early and the manager will give your player a shot. You'll likely find yourself starting really soon. Then play through the MLS season and gain ridiculous experience against a fairly bad league. Request a transfer or loan during the January window and join a lower division Euro league team. You could be mid-70s easy by the time the second summer window rolls around and have a legit shot at playing for a club in one of the top Euro leagues.
That was always my strategy. The MLS, Australian League, and Brazilian league I believe all kinda straddled the big Euro seasons and you could do that with any of them. I always got bored with My Player though because it was either too easy (scoring 50 goals a season) or upping the difficulty and making it too real. I've always had more fun being a manager and playing in the transfer windows to create absurd teams (my Newcastle team was ridiculous after 3 seasons).

I think I'm going to do what I mentioned previously, taking a League 2 team and work them into the Premier League. But to add a shade of realism I'm going to limit the # of foreign players I can sign until I get up to the 2nd tier. Otherwise it's too easy to abuse the free agent system.