Scouting: What is the advantage of scouting a region versus a country?

I usually just assign whole regions to a scout rather than individual countries as they can cover more ground. With only 5 scouts it would be very unproductive to assign a country to any of them.

What would be the advantage of scouting a country only?

Also is there any way that scouts will only recommend 4star or higher potential players? Its a PITA when scouts recommend a player and when you look at the scouts report, the only recommend 1 or 2 stars for the player.

I would imagine, when you scout a country, you get a better range of players from that place, not just a few of the best

Reputation. When you scout region you only find the players that have the highest reputation. Country gives you a wider range with a better chance of uncovering youngsters with high potential.

Ahhh........ no wonder i can find any youngsters!! guess i need to change my policy

Also by scouting entire regions, the scouts don't tend to build up local knowledge as well / retain that knowledge.

If you scout individual countries, you should end up with staff that know each area inside out.

When I'm managing in the Premiership/Serie A/La Liga I always have one scout assigned to each of the other two countries. Like dude already said, you find more players and can scout them quicker. And the best talent is likely to be in those three countries.

my strategy to find good youngsters was to just go into other teams youth teams and put everyone in the team into a shortlist and then assign scouts to scout those young guys.

i only went to the big teams from about 5 countries but if i spent more time i could have covered more teams - saw a few from brazil especially that had decent potential.

i was at arsenal by the way so i had very good/the best scouts and some money behind me.

randomj

Does anyone know how you expand the list of scoutable countries? for me it is always the same 10 or 15. Any way to scout just china for example? Do you need high China knowledge?

You need your board to allow you to scout anywhere in the world (unless you're already in Asia).

Could you specify the specific Clubs you target while scouting.....

my strategy to find good youngsters was to just go into other teams youth teams and put everyone in the team into a shortlist and then assign scouts to scout those young guys.

i only went to the big teams from about 5 countries but if i spent more time i could have covered more teams - saw a few from brazil especially that had decent potential.

i was at arsenal by the way so i had very good/the best scouts and some money behind me.

randomj