Top 5 Scouts on Football Manager 2013

by Wyldbore  6/08/2013 | 2:05 2 Posted in Football Manager 13 

The first thing to do in any FM game is not to splash the big bucks on any Brazilian striker but to recruit a good scout.  Let’s face it a scout is more important to a team than any other player or member of staff.  Without a good one would be like going into war with a water pistol.  Chief Scouts and scouts are both important for finding new talents and providing recommendations on players.  The scouts scouting knowledge and judgement on players is vital for making the correct purchases in regard to your tactics and squad personality.  If you do not recruit a very good scout, there is no point in asking them for a scout report as their findings might not be 100% accurate.

Here are a handful of scouts who you should seriously look at recruiting once you have ‘hit the big time’ as let’s face it, you have no hope in recruiting these in League One!

Name: Luciano D’Onofrio
Age: 57
Club: Unemployed
Scouting Knowledge: Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal
Reason: High attributes for judging player ability & potential with knowledge of 4 countries

Name: Newton Motta
Age: 57
Club: Bahia
Scouting Knowledge: Brazil
Reason: High attributes with good knowledge of Brazil.

Name: Bryan Robson
Age: 66
Club: Sunderland
Scouting Knowledge: England
Reason: Probably the best scout within the English league but beware, he will only accept a Chief Scout position.

Name: Frank Arnesen
Age: 48
Club: HSV
Scouting Knowledge: Denmark, England, Holland
Reason: Not the best at judging players but is very adaptable and working with the youths.

Name: Norbert Ziegler
Age: 58
Club: Unemployed
Scouting Knowledge: Germany, Central Europe
Reason: Good knowledge of Central Europe

The first person I will be checking out when FM14 is released is the Peterborough United scout.  The players they have signed over the last three years have been immense (Craig Mackail-Smith, Dwight Gayle, George Boyd to name a few).

Ok, so they do not produce their own players, but instead take straight out of non-league but that has got to of came from having an excellent scouting network.