The same thing is happening to me in my Taunton save. I few times a season I get the same email saying that the new limit of scouts has gone up to 2 from 0, but when I go to hire a couple scouts, the board blocks the transfers due to the limit being reset back to 0 with no mention of doing so. There's also no way of requesting the board to manually increase the amount of scouts I can employ. I don't know if this is just an issue with much smaller clubs with small amounts of staff to begin with. But I was watching Zealand's Taunton save and he had 2 spaces for scouts from the get go. :/