Am I paying too much attention to my staff?

[Unitedsi]

Just wanted to see how much people rely on their scouting and staff reports on their players.

I've always worked on the basis that anyone who is only considered 3* is not good enough, even if their stats look good. I do always make sure that I look at the advice of scouts and staff whose stats for JPA and JPP are high but am I still putting too much emphasis on what they're telling me?

I normally manage fairly big clubs but not the really big teams. Some examples of players that I see on here being mentioned in very high regard that often only tend to get 3* from my scouts/coaches are Matthieu, Briand, Rafinha, Palacio but there's a lot more.

[Purefun]

Well i for one never listen to my coaches i sometimes do listen to my 20/20 scouts though.

[Richard76]

It's vital for your assistant manager to have high potential/ablity stats in my opinion.

[rocky0]

I used to listen to my scouts a decent amount but no matter who the scout was, I was burned more times than I care to count. At this point now I generally use the scout to look at players I want if for no other reason to see how much a team would want for a player. When they give me a price, it usually is pretty close to what the team will actually take.

My Assistant Manager doesnt really do much for me either. I really only use their opinion when I am siging a player and they give me their opinion, decent signing, good player, etc etc.

From what I have seen, even staff with high ratings seem to be hit or miss. Guess this is like in real life but I tend to follow my own ideas more than theirs

[Jimboola]

Scouts I listen too but look at the abilities more. I mainly look at coach reports when a youngster is up for contract renewal. If I am top 4 in the Prem and I am told this kid may make a good Championship striker one day he is offski!!!

[Lisandro Lopez]

I only take into consideration what my Ass.Man or Scouts tell me if

1) They have high stats in JP/JA

2) I have scouted that player a number of times in order for the report to be as detailed as possible.

But I also look at the player and see what his stats are in the important area's for his position, if its a youngster/regen then it's obvoiusly different but I see which stats could be promising and also look at what stats are unlikely to improve that much. Say if a regen had only 3 in pace, then its unlikely he will ever have pace of over 10-12 (Just a random example) etc.

[jamesb123]

I thought a scout's reputation was actually more important than their JP/JA stats. So a World Class scout would give better information than a Regional scout with higher stats.

I'm sure I read it on here after someone did some sort of research into it and found than their reputation is more important than their stats, but I may be wrong.

[Unitedsi]

Thanks for replies guys!