One last thing.
Difficulty in the game should not be about increasing CPU "cheats" or "stats", but about the difficulty and depth of controls. So, in the higher difficulty level, you would be force to play all manual and on the lowest, you could choose to play all auto if you wanted.
Besides, regarding to online, the higher your rank, more "manual" it forces you to play. That was a nice idea of Jumbo in the Fifa 09 thread that led me to think about all this "difficulty" concept.
Implementing this would:
1- Popularise the "all manual" controls in players, as they want to play higher difficulty in the game and people who right now doesn't even bother would be prone to do it because of the challenge.
2- It could potentially fix always playing all the annoying-auto pranks who play online, because as you progress in rank, you would be forced to cross manually, then shoot manually, finally passing manually.
3- Make "difficulty" a more coherent concept.
4- Hey, it's a cool idea, isn't it?
Credits to Jumbo!