We Finally Found the Best Way to Scout

Or download the editor, set a hidden tab with CA and PA on and scout every newgen with PA over 150

Can you go slower dude????? I cant se what you are clicking on 🤦‍♂️

Best way to scout is a Tool called GenieScout 🤣

Still a great video. However, what is your current approach on FM24? Is it still nation scouting? Are there any updated impressions from your side?

This doesnt work at all for me in fm24, for some reason my scouts are not finding any players in their respective nations, for example most of the u20 u21 squads of european and south american nations were barely scouted when i double checked. I wonder if im doing something wrong or not understanding how this works exactly.

we need this for fm23

Does this still work on FM23?

If you send one scout to west Africa he’s either coming back with malaria or he’s just not coming back

Anyone thinking this would work in earlier versions?

I admit that genie scout made me ignore completely the scouting, but also less exciting. Thanks for the info

I did everything how you did it and my scout did not find anyone. It's been 2 months, he knows the countries pretty well, but he did not find anyone. Can anyone help?

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Came back to this video and Scouting in FM22 is really broken. I setup exactly how Zealand did and even with 2 Scouts in both Spain and Portugal. My scouts missed all the Hot Prospect on all of the top flight clubs. I had to manually click and scout them myself.

I have been scouting in nations such as Austria and Poland, but in those assignments I am not getting any results back from those nations, instead I’m getting reports back from players in leagues such as the Spanish league, the French league and the German league…. Why would this be?

Is it important to scout when i play such clubs as Liverpool who got 300m budget? Its my first season of FM ever, so just trying to learn

Hopefully scouting In FM23 advances further. Data has changed the game regarding scouting. In FM terms sending a scout off to Serbia for example and hoping he strikes lucky and finds a gem seems outdated. I could sign-up to Wyscout myself and produce a list of potential targets without ever watching a game of football in the country.

JESUS!!! You are the oldest looking young guy i've ever seen!! WOW!!

There really should be a way of creating an assignment which scouts for teams that have been relegated, would be a quick way of seeing players that are being let go etc.

the best way to search regens is to search them trough player search by setting the key attributes for each role at at least 11 and 17 years... and set up scouting reports on those findings. For example if you search a Regen Central Defender (DC): Tackling - Marking - Heading - Acceleration - Pace = 11 or more.... if a guy at that age has those attributes it's a high chance is good, but you can filter them out by scout report 1week with your 20 Potential Ability Scouts

I wonder if playing away matches can help get my players scouted for when i want to sell. I know loaning them away works and them starring in the national squad. Can I arrange a friendly at home with a club i want to scout players from, but dont have the budget to go abroad?

If all my scouts are on assignments bar one, he is scouting next oppo, who scouts the players on my shortlist?

I quite like the SecondYellowCard approach. You need good scouts or step one won't work but when you have developed your back room staff (or if just playing with a team who already have good scouting resources) you just que up a load of team reports, generally the best to use are national under 21/19 sides but you can do clubs and senior national sides as well. Those reports get info on all the players who play for that side, not a lot but enough that it'll separate players who might be 5 star players from the many who definitely aren't, generally he finds as many as 4/5 per team but often it's 1/2 or even none. He takes those potentially good players and then just keep queing them for one week scouting reports, dropping off those who fall below the 4 star potential or if 21 or over the 4 3 star current ability mark. I'm not sure it's the most efficient but other than queing up all the reports if like him you do it in one big batch (between streams) it doesn't take much effort and means you have an awareness of a lot of players.

Yup. Scouting national teams and their U20 or whatever is a great thing to do. I started a save with Salford City in league 2 and found a RB in the welsh under 20’s who is at championship level. Signed for free. Beast.

Great vid and really helpful. Just started this and been doing it for a bit. I’ve got some scouts in Israel , France and Spain who are attending matches but some scouts in Holland , Belgium , Croatia and Serbia who aren’t even attending matches - any suggestions why this is the case?

I dont get reports back quickly when I had. One scout scouting 4 nations I had one scouting Argentina Brazil Columbia and Peru and in 4 months I got 1 report back for 1 player I don’t understand

my player knowledge so low even ı can't see the players stats that playing in my league. What should ı do?

What is meant with scouting knowledge exactly? I´m currently playing FM21 with unmasked abilities, but my scouting knowledge isn´t at 100 % at every country. I literally can go to any team and look at the attributes of any player. It can´t be the scouting reports, cause i don´t have scouted every player of my domestic league but i´m having 100% knowledge of it. So please mr. Z can you give me your thoughts on what scouting knowledge in FM is?

This doesnt working neither

Is there a way to see which countries are included in each region on the game?

your room realy looks like theres a lot of manual labor being done pal!

Would this work with end of contract scouting? I'm in the 3rd tier of Norway and can't afford to spend money yet

does distance play a role.. imagine if a set a scout to Japan,US, Nigeria, and Italy ..

I tried doing this and my scouts aren't getting any reports back. All im looking for is new prospects with no other variables. Is it due to region/country knowledge lacking? Do i need to enable these foreign leagues in settings?

Why are you wearing Roma's third jersey lol

Added another thing to what I don't like about this version of FM.

My scouting knowledge has been stuck on 41% for a two seasons now

I just started watching this after seeing a couple of Save your saves (following Ben saying on stream you were great / the network game) and WOW this is great. I set my 16 scouts to nations and picked ones who speak the languages. It's been a month and I already have like 12 reports.

Ok, tried nation scouting, good lord it makes a huge difference to the amount of recommendations I've been getting, thank you so much for that.

Quick question though, anyone got tips for getting reports and increased knowledge from nations you can't send scouts to specifically? Thinking the likes of Bosnia etc.

Man oh man, that air is smooooooooooookin' Zealand

Got the Scout's honour achievement thanks to this video!

I play on x box so it's very different but I'm going to try this as my regional scouting is pish

what if i’m only looking for a particular position?

is this type of scouting only good for fm22 or will it work in oder fms like fm20

I doubt he’ll read this, but: I’m pretty sure the best way to scout is simply to hire scouts that already know the area. 1) you’ve proven many times that scout stats don’t make a huge difference. 2) this entire video is all about how scouts gain knowledge (if they already know the area this is moot). 3) maybe determination matters more with this strategy, 4) they know the languages by default.

Long story short. Managing in France? Want to scout Dem. Congo? Hire a scout from Africa.

Obviously: choose the best scouts, by stats, that already KNOW the area.

well, it is not possible to send scout to specifical countries like Burkina Faso, Senegal, Cote D"Ivoire etc... :D

Should I change the transfer budget? For example in your save, it appears as automatic which equals to 700k. However, I want to get scout reports of much more expensive wonderkids like 10M-20M.

does the amount of leagues you have active for your save affect this much? my computer can't really run a database more than 50k players

Before video: "What could I possibly be doing wrong? How hard can it be?"
Half-way through: "Oh my God! I'm doing it wrong!"

Is there some way to set up a scouting assignment to look for players who's contracts are running down? (A year left say)

As for scouting specific players, I think you need to set the assignment yourself to be the actual scout in the country the player is in.

I've found that if you let the Chief Scout do it then it ends up with a random scout getting the assignment. So your Germany scout could end up scouting a player in Brazil while your Brazil scout ends up scouting a player in Germany.

I use the default wish list to keep track of players I want to scout and then assign the next player when one report is finished. So a scout isn't bouncing between clubs and you get the reports you really want sooner.

Finally I scout on a weekly basis, that way if anything comes up in a report that makes me not want the player I can end the process right away.

It's a lot of micro management, but I think all of these make scouting more efficient by saving in travel time and the amount of time scouting duds.