Be a Scouting Expert on FM

Football Manager is about the players. Scouting is how you typically acquire them, so I would say it’s kind of important. The fact that I haven’t made a scouting video for FM20 yet is certainly a mystery, but it had to be time. How to scout from start to finish. From hiring the staff to setting instructions to filtering through incoming scouting reports.

If you are interested in things like “the best place to find cheaper wonderkids” or “how to scout while poor” I have made these videos - check them out in my feed! It’s why I had avoided making a scouting video for so long, I have always been dancing around it. It was a recent realization that so many people avoid setting scouts themselves. I’m just trying to change lives out here. Enjoy!

Much love,
FM Senpai

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[willybob]

Thanks to you, Zealand, I’ve become a better man; a better husband; a sensual lover and a loving father. And it’s all down to your fm tips. Cheers from GB.

[benashe]

The sad thing is that the people who didn't watch Zealand record this live will never know how many takes that chair fall took.

[fmgamer]

Love all of these. You’ve helped enhance my game so much

[KianJustSux]

Actual data analysis is really helpful in signing players in real life
It is really under represented in the game and the stats that you can get for a player is really limited
You see channels like Tifo Football and how you can use data to find gems is surprising
I hope in FM 21 they revamp this

[petertr]

Questions! 1 - How does asking for scout reports interfere with the long term scout assignments? Does it really drag someone back from Brazil to watch someone in England for a game?
2 - Does having no assigment allow a scout to get through that backlog pipeline faster?

[kevincampbell]

What I do is manually at the start of my career is to look for players based on the position and attributes I need and filter to see how wanted they are from other clubs and negotiate for them.
I found this channel yesterday I must say I like it. Keep it up Zealand.

[KingLamink]

Scouting's the one thing that actually get, still gonna watch this video and inevitably find out I'm doing it completely wrong

[NotesfromtheBenchRWDP]

For those who weren't there for the live stream, it took sooo many takes to get his chair to actually give way xD

[BenChowdhiry]

Absolutely love these videos

First FM was 2018, which I played but not really properly and let the game carry me most of the way
Next one was 2020 and I thought fuck it I need to take this shit on, so these videos are super super helpful, and it's so much easier that you're entertaining to watch 😅

Keep them coming!

[davidmorris]

Please can you do one on Affiliate clubs?

[allisonwilliams]

Zealand, you are my Senpai! After listening to the tips you gave on scouting on your Twitch channel I overhauled my scouting. Hiring scouts with knowledge of Africa and Central & Eastern Europe to try and find cheap wonder kids and it has taken probably about a year in game but it starting to pay off. I've just signed a 16yo attacking midfielder from Liechtenstein with 4 star potential who was on non-contract terms with a club in Liechtenstein. All I've had to pay is a 19K signing on fee and his basic wages.

[benfleck]

You are a legend in the FM community. U have sorted my saves out no end. Stay safe pal. We need u to lead us. Plus ur funny to boot

[frenchbanditi]

Having spent the past 2 seasons with Chesterfield in the Sky Bet Championship; My primary field of scouting is for sustainability in said league (As well as moving forward).
We play 46 god damn games in the league alone, never mind Fa cup, Carabao cup etc.
As you have eluded before in one of your videos, (And by watching Leeds - Take me home (Amazon), it is a VERY expensive league considering it's not top tier.

Don't really know where I was going with this point but, I need to balance the books, AND have a BIG depth chart to keep player turnover for fitness etc.

As ever, awesome video, keep em coming, can't wait for your fm21 videos :)

Lyl from the U.K

[Winti]

only 5 min in the video and the first thing I learned had nothing to do with scouting but that there is an option to filter only realistic staff members for your reserve and under 18 team. That will make it so much easier looking for good reserve staff by myself.

[iainvos]

Also since you didn't mention them, Croatia, Slovakia, Czech republic, and Serbia are great places to find talented players on the cheap that are not restricted by the foreign player rules of say Spain and Italy. After finding that one out I always make sure to turn those leagues on at the beginning of each save. Also if the scouting report is below a 75 I don't even bother taking a look unless they are in the 16-19 age range. Everything ranging from 75 to 85 goes into a separate short list, then everything 85+ goes into a separate shortlist, and the youth players go into a separate one as well. And then when the transfer window comes around I have a list of players that I can browse through to see which player fits my needs the best.

[stefanmirkovic]

I swear these intros are getting better and better

[saadniazi]

Video starts at 2:32. You're welcome.

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I had no idea how any of this worked until you mentioned the Take Control option... Thanks!

[casteri]

When you stay up until 2 am twice to see it made and the end product

[nealm]

You can pretty much just leave your chief scout to do all of that by leaving him in charge, and then just manually send the scouts out on the same searches by clicking on the focus and then making short term assignments, assigning scout to search specified areas for the players based on the same criteria you used, and the chief scout automatically assigns the best scout to do the job. If you want Columbia scouted he assigns the scout with the most knowledge of Columbia, so you don't have to look and find which one it is before giving the assignment.

That way you don't have to deal with all the other micro managing with your data analysts etc. Unless you want less playing and more micro managing with your game.