EA Sports ratings of clubs in the Football League always were poor, particularly the player development of such players. For example, every fifa prior to 11 I built Saints into the greatest side in Europe, on hardest difficulties and everything. On Fifa 11, got Saint to the Premier League in five years, and kept them up as lower mid table for a further three, on an overall budget of around £10 million. No Sky payments taken into account, or player development, as I was remarkably able in using Lallana quite realistically, and he scored some delightful goals for me after jinking runs, yet he never topped skilled 71. Because the board difficulty was was legendary, as I kept the club survivng with no budget the board ex[ectations kept rising, until they wanted solid top half finishes, whilst my squad was really Championship quality, and threadbare. After third survival season, I was sacked. For the first time ever on a fifa game. I enjoyed two happy years at Wolves, with domestic cup successes, but again poor player development, so I am now at Sunderland, who have given me a slight degree of financial backing, plus have many saleable assets to raise funds for the team. However, I lost much interest after Cortese found me surplus to requirements. They must sort outplayer development and realistic budgets which take into account promotion or Europe-money, or I will lose interest! See, I do believe I am the true Nige.
On the plus side, I play as Saints online, and regularly beat players using Barcelona and Manchester United, as I am so used to the team chemistry and positioning I know where Lallana's run is without looking, or whether Lambert is heading to the front or back post, or the exact amount of power Lee Barnard needs to guide the ball into the top left of the goal, instead of the top left of the stand. So yeah.