Engage with the community to come up with any kind of FIFA 20 features wishlist and you find yourself inundated. I’m still enjoying FIFA 19, and stand by GamesRadar’s original review, but it’s far from flawless – and as a result, across Reddit, the EA forums and social media, this footballing heavyweight takes a daily ham♐mering. The clamour f♔or change is noisy and limitless, meaning some great ideas to reshape the series get lost in the shuffle.

This FIFA 20 features wishlist, then, isn’t an attempt to include 🧔every potential change. Instead it’s a mix of the common sense, the curious, and the completely left-field that might otherwise go unnoticed – from long-demanded Pro Clubs and career mode tweaks, to some necessary upgrades within the all-conquering Ultimate Team. Peep that whistle and let’s get underway.

1. Remove fixed potential in career mode

Changes to this once-trusty, now-rusty timesink are covered in depth via GR’s look at FIFA 20 career mode, but a couple suggested by Fifaplayer4000 warrant inclusion here too. A major issue is the mode’s inability to m💮aintain interest over multiple seasons, and his suggestion of changeable sponsors, kits and stadiums would alleviate that. As would the proposed removal of upper growth limits applied to every player.

, sick of seeing the game fail to respond to your command while attacking a cross or long clearance. Davvebingan wants ratings reflected more accurately in-game: “My 98 pace wingback shouldn&rsqu꧋o;t be burned by a 99 pace winger, while my 99 pace winger can’t then r🧜un away from a 70 pace defender.” And DaveSmith89 feels tackling animations need to be tidied up. “1st [successful] tackle should dispossess the opponent, not give him another chance [to retain possession] or rebound to a team-mate.”

3. Take a back-to-basics approach

Continuing the above theme, ’s baigepops presents a short, simple hit list of gamꦗeplay basics which need to be addressed. My pick of them is eliminating American football style blocks which often get ignored by referees and have become a standard weekend league tactic: “Smashing in to an opponent with a defender is more effective than tackling, as fouls are rarely given for this – looking at you, flashback David Luiz. Fix this.”

Other issues he raises, all of wဣhich need some time 𒉰under the development microscope, are:

- “A well timed tackle is more likely to result in your opponent gaining possession in a better position than🍌 when the original tackle was made.”

- “Taking the timꦚe to build play to create one-on-one opportunities is less rewarding than hi🍎tting the ball with your back to goal from outside the box.”

- “Players can’t make passes in straight lines with no pressure on them, yet players facing the wrong direction with an opponent pressuring them randomly chip a pass (without commanding them to) perfectly to their [team-mate].”

- “Goalkeepers still run alongside the ball and let it go ༺out 🔜of play for a corner.”

Val🦂id points, succinౠctly presented. Over to you, EA.

4. Eliminate kick-off goals

“Why are kickoff goals still a thing? It’s ridiculous that it still happens.” Yes it is, &rsquo﷽;s T🐠ommyc21, and if I were to single out one element of FIFA 19 that infuriates more than any other it’s my team’s ability to lose all concept of shape and/or marking for 30 seconds after a restart. Every damn time. No more words on this one needed. It simply has to be changed.

5. The truth about pack odds

Ultimate Team pack odds are the shadiest side of FIFA 19. This year🎃 EA to try to counter claims that the mode constitutes gambling (FIFA points are no longer sold in Belgium as a result of this) – but they’re still too vague, particularly around promotions. Consider this, for instance, from the September Ones to Watch promo: "Some campaign specific categories, for example Ones to Watch, feature rare content. In some packs, the rarity of this content category m𝓰ay be less than 1%, and within that there will be a wide range of probabilities."

Essentially, we’re getting the bare minimum of information concerning the series’ most lucrative money-spinner, and you can understand the community seeking change. “Why isn't anyone asking how these packs are generated in the first instance? Do people care?” writes Jabroni 9900 on . “What if packs are generated per user basis? All based on algorithms that take onboard how much money a player has spent etc. While the probabilities of packing p♐layers is shown to us, we may never know how packs are generated in the first place as we🎃ll as whether it's based on algorithms per user.” 

6. Listen to fans on Pro Clubs

This one has been campaigned about for so long that there’s a specific Twitter hashtag – #fixproclubs – forꦡ it. Here’s a choiꦺce selection of the best suggestions, such as cross-platform play to expand Pro Clubs’ appeal.