From what I understand, all squads are set as of the end of the European season (after winter transfers, but before summer transfers) so for example Fernando Torres will be in Chelsea 10-11 and not Liverpool 10-11 despite playing half the season for Liverpool.
Following this logic, Vagner Love was loaned to Flamengo in the winter of 09-10 so in theory he would be playing for the Flamengo 09-10 team and not CSKA 09-10, since he wasn't there in the spring, that's the rationale I had in mind.
Don't know about others but personally I mostly play single exhibition matches and in this context it is an unpleasant surprise to when you realize you don't have any defenders/midfielders/strikers on the bench.
While I understand that it is impossible to ensure this for every of the hundreds of teams, I noticed this with Argentina 2018, fixed it for myself and thought it would be nice of me to report it to you - that's the logic here.
Also I swapped Caballero in goal, he started as many games as Armani but he was the original choice goalkeeper plus he has a scanned gameface.
For Russia 2018, Russia 2016, Russia 2012 and CSKA 09-10 I also changed substitutes and free kick/corner/penalty takers to what they really were (because naturally I followed those teams very closely), and again thought it was worth sharing with you (and the community) to make another little contribution to the common goal of authentic classics.
Before my original post I did specifically load 2.8 DBs to check and saw that many of what I reported to
@ACICOG in November 2020 hasn't been updated, so I am duly taking into consideration the latest version of the DB (e.g. Raul is captain of Real Madrid 09-10 but is a substitute on the bench; Ronaldinho is on the bench for Barcelona 07-08 but he played more matches than anyone else as LW that season).
I can copy the reports here again here with statistics (and not just personal opinion) as proof.
For example why Chelsea 09-10 should be 4-3-3 instead of 4-1-2-1-2 (forgive quick Russian google translate):
(4-3-2-1 is naturally 4-3-3 in FIFA terms)
For Real Madrid 09-10 I should have updated my previous report (forgive funny Chinese google translate), (the above FIFA10 screenshot was for formation purposes only), that's the best representation of players based on stats :