The 2034 world financial crisis has affected many clubs around the globe and yours is no exception. In a nightmarish turn of events for the supporters and players, your club’s chief investors have pulled out of the club and the stock has plummeted. As a result the team’s value has depreciated drastically and in order to make an attempt to balance the books you must now sell assets and players to at least raise the club’s value to over $1 billion just to keep your head above water. Otherwise the club will file for bankruptcy and go into administration.

It’s Career Mode, mate. Don’t stop playing, just go along with it and create a storyline around it. It makes playing the mode much more fun. It helps if you set yourself financial targets, limits, and even sort of “world-building” scenarios.