Staff - Scouts

To begin with, the staff that are already at the club are pretty decent - as you'd expect from a top-rated Premiership team. With this post, I'm going to show you what staff I chose to keep and which to lose, and those who will replace them. This may get costly.


For some reason, I'm going to start with the scouts.
Scouts: (key: if I do a (x/y) type thing, this means the judging player ability and potential attribute. In this case, x=ability -- y=potential. Other stats will be included)
Most of the scouts are pretty decent. Steve Rowley as your Chief is a pretty fantastic option. 20/20 rating is pretty damn magnificent. No change there. Also, make sure you keep the scouts that you have. Cagigao is STUNNING.
However, there are a few there with lower than my standard. ie: Martin Keown and Christian Karembeu. Keown (15/14) does have a high determination stat (20) but for the life of me, I don't know what that does. Karembeu has 15/15 but also has a very high determination (18) and adaptability (17). Again, *shrug*. Also, Bobby Bennett (15/17), Everton Gushiken (15/16), Jurgen Kost (16/16) and Stewart Houston (16/16) may also be casualties.
KEY TIP: Do NOT go chopping your way through the ranks early on. You WILL forget who you try and sign, you will forget what you wanted to do. I have done this before. One offline game, I sacked 80% of the staff, then found that I lacked the funds to get all the people I wanted, and therefore lost out MASSIVELY.
BRING IN: (tip: Try and sign 'free agent' staff. No compensation fees) - Also, these are tips, not definite buys...

• Luciano Moggi (lol... 20/18 -> Tactical Knowledge 19) - I said that I aim to use scouts like him to scout next Opposition... this is why.
• Luciano D'Onofrio (18/20 - again, TactKnowledge is 17)
• Cesare Maldini (19/17)
• Borba Filho (18/18)
• Gilmar Francisco (19/19)
• Juarez Fischer (18/18)
• Bojan Krkic (18/20)
• Mauro Pederzoli (18/19)
• Pantaleo Corvino (20/20) - Hold your horses on this one. He's down as both a scout AND a Director of Football. This is where not axing everyone at once works. You can try and sign him as a scout, but he prefers the DoF. --> Arsenal don't start with a DoF. So I'll use him.

These are just 8 Scouts (1 DoF) using the following:

• Judging Player Ability 18
• Judging Player Potential 18
• Staff Role: Scout
• Employed: No

There are others that are high in the Ab/Po rating, but they are Assistant Managers etc, they will feature later in my AM/RM/U18M Section.

When looking for Scouts, you obviously want the highest judging player ratings you can. But you may need to compromise. As I plan to look to the future, a very high Potential rating would be more beneficiary. If you want to find players to come in straight away, then a high Ability rating is more necessary.

Arsenal are allowed 14 scouts. They start with 13. Don't try to increase the amount you can have just yet, you've just started, the board are yet to warm to your whimsical ways.

I will edit here what scouts I signed, and what ones I released. Hopefully, with contracts too.