The transfer window is one of football's greatest spectacles. This season was no different, with Barca crying poverty then signing several multi-million pound stars, many of whom were sniped from under Chelsea's noses. There was drama with Antony to Man Utd. There was drama with Cucurella to City, I mean staying at Brighton, I mean moving to Chelsea. Joao Pedro to Newcastle was announced by the most esteemed of unofficial channels (a fabled 'here we go' was signalled), then he signed an extension at Watford. Then Newcastle went out and signed Alexander Isak for a club record fee. Diego Costa rose from the dead to sign for Wolves. Liverpool fans spent the summer crying out for a midfielder, then had to make do with Arthur arriving from Juventus via air ambulance. And, in case you missed it, Erling Haaland signed for Man City. Despite all this, it was one of the more understated transfer windows in recent memory. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:FIFA's transfer window, conversely, stinks.
Career Mode is the main reason I play FIFA, which I know puts me in the minority, but I've been given many reasons to be hopeful in recent years. Over the past few games, we have had more reactive negotiations, meeting with Pep himself to convince him to loan out Liam Delap to our League 1 minnows. I've taken Marcus Rashford, Raheem Sterling, and Dua Lipa (aren't modders just the best?) out to dinner to convince them to sign for Borussia Dortmund. This year, we even see players completing their medical and posing with the shirt outside the ground, as well as sold players being sadly escorted from the ground for the final time. But as nice as a date with Dua Lipa is, these are all minor, aesthetic updates do not fix the fact that the windows themselves are bland and nonsensical affairs.
For my part, I tried to play somewhat realistic with my signings. Now that Newcastle are an ambitious team, we already have a foundation of quality. Pedro came in, as did summer transfer target James Maddison, plus a couple of scouted youngsters. It was a reasonable and believable transfer window for the Mags. Other teams can't say the same. Arsenal, having just splashed the cash on Gabriel Jesus, immediately made him a bench-warmer again with the signing of Levante's Morales. Meanwhile Alvaro Morata is something of a journeyman, but it was still a shock to see him turn out for Brighton. Man City, in the same summer they signed Kalvin Phillips, snapped up Sergej Milinković-Savić. Perhaps that makes sense considering they also let Riyad Mahrez and Rodri leave. Eduardo Camavinga, Real Madrid's bright hope for the future, left for Bayern Munich, while Bayern legend and stalwart Thomas Muller now turns out for Everton. Liverpool still did not sign a midfielder, but hopes of Bellingham were crushed as he moved to (sorry, Liverpool fans) Chelsea.
I played Forest and was irritated at coming up against Serge Aurier, then realised he'd signed for them in real life. That's probably the best way to describe it - every team has a window like Forest's this summer. I've 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:interviewed a Career Mꦇode modder before who explained that the algorithm causes teams to look at weaknesses in a median fashion, so even though Arsenal have Jesus, the lack of a back-up striker causes the CPU to acquire another forward for them. As Arsenal are a top class club, they go for a high quality striker. And because Arsenal's default formation has just one forward (because of a reliance on Jesus), the signing of another world class striker causes Jesus to be on the bench. Quite how Everton signed Muller, I have no idea.
This all sounds like the makings of an exciting window, but in practice it's just a load of random names popping up in the top corner of your screen while the worst commentators in FIFA history babble on with regurgitated lines that bored you the first time. Deadline Day is a series of ten hour- long segments that tick down in seconds like the Countdown clock, where all that happens is Matt Ritchie turns down three different moves away to fight for his place. You're 33 and fifth choice in your position. It's not gonna happen mate.
The transfer window is one of the best parts of football, especially as a neutral observer (which is how I've been forced to view it for years as a Newcastle fan), but in FIFA it's stagnant and ridiculous all at once, constantly getting more and more melodramatic aesthetic upgrades while nothing at all gets fixed. At least I got to see us sign Maddison and Pedro.