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Transfers are now handled in two parts first, a transfer fee is agreed and then a contract is meted out with the player being bought. Instead, there's far less to do in managing a team managers still supervise the transfer or loan of players, but the back-room staff and stadium improvements are all gone. Anyone who didn't get on with Fifa 10's Manager Mode will be overjoyed to hear that players declining in form after one or two games on the bench, and players who refuse ridiculous transfer offers in the first three seasons are things of the past. In the latter two modes, users can pick to play as the whole team or as an individual player, and for the first time, this includes playing as the goalkeeper.

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The developers have combined Manager Mode and Be A Pro Mode from last year's entry into the streamlined, slick Career Mode, in which players can be a manager, a player, or a player-manager for 15 seasons. EA Canada has also wisely kept what worked from Fifa 10 referees still try to leap out the way of oncoming balls and goalkeepers will let the ball drift out for a goal-kick.

There's also an increased sense control over the movement of a player once they're in the air - particularly if the player in question is an aerial specialist (see Chamakh). Aside from the aforementioned physicality, which sees players fighting more for position, when the ball is crossed into the box, youвЂ™ll see more attacking players trying to get on the end of it. Perhaps to compensate for this, corners and set-plays have been made more exciting as players have more control over the outcome. It's also down to the fact that EA Canada have made it far harder to score with a lob than in Fifa 10. This is due to the fact that goalkeepers no longer charge out like kamikazes at incoming strikers, instead staying a little closer to their line and narrowing the angle of shot more.

It's also far harder to score in Fifa 11.

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