Been playing this game since fm11 never thought to check languages spoken for scouts. Amazing how ‘beginner guides’ can still help people who’ve been playing for so long.
While I'm not a beginner of FM, been playing since FM11, I've been watching through this series as I find even experienced players can still find and learn things that they maybe aren't doing or doing well. Scouting is one such area for me. I've never taken control of my scouting and it's an area that I mostly avoid. Watching this video in particular I find really helpful and has motivated me to take more control of my own scouting. Hopefully it makes a significant difference to the reports I'm getting and the signings I make. Thanks.
It's an area I've avoided because of how tedious it is sometimes lol. Like if you wanted to play an easier big club save, like Manchester Utd, they have 30 scouts! Have fun manually assigning all of them :S
Thanks Zealand, these videos really keep my faith in contunuing to play this. Just yesterday I spent half my day trying to scout, but after watching this video, I havo to stay, I might as well counted grass outside because it would've had the same effect on my results but at least I would've been outside. I am glad that I have to take a break from FM until monday, because hopefully by then you will have uploaded even more beginner's guide before I waste my time trying to headbutt the system until it works.
I have been playing FM the wrong way for a very long time. Since FM15, FM16, FM19, I am just about to start a new actual game with FM21 and I love this guy. ❤️
I know this is an old video, but I followed your channel after the US National Team Scandal video, bought FM manager 23 because of saving saves, and now im watching a 2 year old beginners guide. Idk whether to thank or curse you!
Been playing a couple years and always assumed delegating scouting would be fine, but all the videos on your channel have shown me how little I really know about the game lol
@@R1chking Its more important what your knowledge of the region is. If you scout a region with 100% knowledge you will find all of the relevant players even without the leagues loaded. If you only have 30% knowledge even in a league you have loaded you will only find about one third of those players.
Hey Zealand. I watch almost all of your videos and though i probably could consider myself a veteran at this point i still find your content informative, funny and useful. Something ive noticed this year which can be extremely helpful is going to your general manager if available. And ask him for specific positions to sign. Apparently this guy knows about players outside your scouting range and players your scouts missed due to being terrible. This is especially useful managing lower league club. As he can find players for cheap, out of contract etc. In countries you're not even allowed to scout in due to board limitations. Keep up the excellent 💪
If I send a scout manager on a country that I haven't check on the very beginning (before you choose your team) as playable or even as "view only" ,is it useless? Or is it useful? Thanks in advance.
Keep meaning to ask so here i go, dose high ambition relate to the likelihood of a forward scoring more goals with a bigger goal bonus clause? I'm sure I'm missing something unlocking some players who should be a lot better and I'm wondering if it cuz I'm a tight bugger and screw my players in this area
Zealand, in this video you mentioned keeping one (good) scout available (no assignment) so that he could concentrate on scouting individual players. Does not having an assignment let them scout *more* individual players at the same time or does it increase the quality of their scouting, or what?
7:39 wouldnt spain, france and portugal etc fall under western europe? because central europe is mostly considered to be around germany, hungary and romania
He is listing all regions at 17:40 and you can see that Spain etc. is in central Europe (at least in fm) And he ist referring to fm's listing. I think he would never consider Spain and Portugal to be in Central Europe
Great tips zealand, especially because in terrible at how to scout. Quick question about your newgen download. First time I downloaded it, it opened and worked. It hasn’t opened since. I’ve un-installed and re-installed a bunch to no avail. Any ideas?
Should you set one scout to cover multiple regions, and that way be able to cover the whole world? Or is it better to scout the most important regions and leave the other ones untouched?
I edit my Scouts name, so Nuno Alves would be Alves (16/16P/14Ad PorSloBra) or whatever comes closes to fitting. That way when I make an assignment, and I'm looking for the best scout, if I don't have one with the best knowledge of the country available, I can get the best scout available without having to search.
Man, I just started watching this series and I like it. I started as Dinamo like you did. However, when I got to recruiting my staff all of the people I tried to offer a contract to either: a. Didn't want to move away from home (waaaahhh), 2. Thought Dinamo were not their type of club or III. Thought working in the Croatia First League was below them. Everybody had an excuse. I spent an hour looking for potential staff members in the staff search and couldn't find ANYBODY. What a waste of time. I've watched enough streams to know that this game can be great but when stuff happens like what just happened to me, that's when people just hit 'Uninstall' and move on.
This must have been a bug because I started a new game with the same parameters and I was able to recruit a full staff. Only an hour of my life gone which I'll never get back. Not the first time....
Iam playing Real Madrid. Should I scout only potentially good Player in every Region, or should I also keep Scouts to scout already good players for my team?
I'm at Leeds and have the same scouts in all the major regions for over a year and they are barely able to find any players. Their scouting knowledge of the regions has barely improved, even though all the scouts have pretty high adaptability (15+). Any advice on what I might be doing wrong?
I have scouts with high determination (15+) scouting allmost every region in The world. Been like 2 years since i started The missions but they so few reports. Drives me mad...
The ability refers to stars, stars are relative to your current squad, so if you're already one of the best clubs in the world, 3 star players are actually pretty good. If you're at a small/medium club, you will want to look for 4+ stars because these are the players that will allow you to take your squad to a next level
You can still scout using stats, but you would have to go the individual league and look at the league leaders in different stats. For example good strikers are typically the top of their respective league or near the top for goals.
You can use screenflow for this. For example in my save once a month the player detailed screen of the UEFA Youth League pops up and you can scout the top scorers etc. It is a bit fiddly but you don't have to click on the leagues individually... FoxInTheBoxFM made two videos about it
perfect example you say to check the language that he speaks while we see a your fur burger desperately trying to escape from the depths of your shirt then immediately cut to a zoomed in shot of languages that the scout speaks. um ok well where the hell does it say that? how do i find what language my scout speaks? i can tell the difference between a blue shirt and a trapped fur burger but i cannot find where im supposed to click to see these languages
in case anybody is interested and didn't quite pick it up. it in fact is not trapped in an axe body spray covered tangle of matted hair trapped under a replica jersey. it is under the overview drop down in information
Your channel is so amazing I sometimes forget you're American
Thanks or ouch, I can’t tell
@@ZealandonYT Just kidding man, you're doing an exceptional work, please keep it up 💪
If not for American football, the us would hands down be the best soccer nation on the planet
@@ZealandonYT 'Thouch' is the word
@@kanyeeastlolz not sure abt that but ok
Been playing this game since fm11 never thought to check languages spoken for scouts. Amazing how ‘beginner guides’ can still help people who’ve been playing for so long.
It's weird how less time I have to play FM due to work, but I still watch all these videos.
Zoran Mamic providing your scout reports from jail :D
They finally got his ass...
While I'm not a beginner of FM, been playing since FM11, I've been watching through this series as I find even experienced players can still find and learn things that they maybe aren't doing or doing well.
Scouting is one such area for me. I've never taken control of my scouting and it's an area that I mostly avoid. Watching this video in particular I find really helpful and has motivated me to take more control of my own scouting. Hopefully it makes a significant difference to the reports I'm getting and the signings I make.
Thanks.
It's an area I've avoided because of how tedious it is sometimes lol. Like if you wanted to play an easier big club save, like Manchester Utd, they have 30 scouts! Have fun manually assigning all of them :S
You more or less mentioned EVERY part of the world as a good place to find good players!! :D :D
He passed over Southern Europe, the Caribbean, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania.
Tbh you can find wonderkids anywhere.
Thanks Zealand, these videos really keep my faith in contunuing to play this. Just yesterday I spent half my day trying to scout, but after watching this video, I havo to stay, I might as well counted grass outside because it would've had the same effect on my results but at least I would've been outside.
I am glad that I have to take a break from FM until monday, because hopefully by then you will have uploaded even more beginner's guide before I waste my time trying to headbutt the system until it works.
Appreciate it mate 🤮
I have legitimately always had my Head Scout control all of this. Thanks to this video, that is going to change. THANK YOU ZEALAND!!!
I have been playing FM the wrong way for a very long time. Since FM15, FM16, FM19, I am just about to start a new actual game with FM21 and I love this guy. ❤️
I know this is an old video, but I followed your channel after the US National Team Scandal video, bought FM manager 23 because of saving saves, and now im watching a 2 year old beginners guide. Idk whether to thank or curse you!
Zealand out here giving Tottenham PTSD right now.
Been playing a couple years and always assumed delegating scouting would be fine, but all the videos on your channel have shown me how little I really know about the game lol
Cheers for this lad, only series that has encouraged me past my 1st day on FM
love the series.hope to see more episodes in the future as a greenhorn myself.
One is coming in the next few days
POV: of me seeing Zagreb and gets memories of last night
still crying now
Shut it
Still worth scouting those regions of you don't have any of those teams or players loading or better to focus on the loaded leagues?
@@R1chking Its more important what your knowledge of the region is. If you scout a region with 100% knowledge you will find all of the relevant players even without the leagues loaded. If you only have 30% knowledge even in a league you have loaded you will only find about one third of those players.
me seeing this comment two weeks later and getting memories from that night
That discard tip is amazing, had no idea about that. defo gonna use it more now
Hey Zealand. I watch almost all of your videos and though i probably could consider myself a veteran at this point i still find your content informative, funny and useful. Something ive noticed this year which can be extremely helpful is going to your general manager if available. And ask him for specific positions to sign. Apparently this guy knows about players outside your scouting range and players your scouts missed due to being terrible. This is especially useful managing lower league club. As he can find players for cheap, out of contract etc. In countries you're not even allowed to scout in due to board limitations. Keep up the excellent 💪
Zoran mamic after finding a wonderkid in a prison:Zeeland this guy is superb signing
Bro that hurts
At last a new episode! :) More beginner tutorials please! :)
Suggest a beginners guide to team talks & press conferences as they have big effect on the teams mental attitude to games.
love this mini series. keep em coming mate. and stay safe😷
Great video! Love your hints and tips videos
I believe this is your best looking t-shirt you have worn in a video ;)
- An Icelander
That was some epic music while flipping through screens. I almost wanted to conquer something and felt glorious doing it....
I love this channel so much💝
Brilliant video:) this will help me a lot
im from uruguay and i can say that you pronunced very well the name of my country
Thanks for this series! When is the next tutorial/guide video coming?
Fire truck passes. Lost opportunity to crack a joke about really hot prospects. ^^
I feel scouting is the thing every FM player overthinks
how come?
How come?
how come?
how come?
@@utsavbasu1048 lmao
Zealand, you crazy bastard. You are able to explain the legendary home-grown status to us?
Need one of these on Morale, Form and Fitness (fatigue) my g.
*passionate eye contact*
If I send a scout manager on a country that I haven't check on the very beginning (before you choose your team) as playable or even as "view only" ,is it useless? Or is it useful? Thanks in advance.
Keep meaning to ask so here i go, dose high ambition relate to the likelihood of a forward scoring more goals with a bigger goal bonus clause? I'm sure I'm missing something unlocking some players who should be a lot better and I'm wondering if it cuz I'm a tight bugger and screw my players in this area
Zealand, in this video you mentioned keeping one (good) scout available (no assignment) so that he could concentrate on scouting individual players. Does not having an assignment let them scout *more* individual players at the same time or does it increase the quality of their scouting, or what?
7:39
wouldnt spain, france and portugal etc fall under western europe? because central europe is mostly considered to be around germany, hungary and romania
He is listing all regions at 17:40 and you can see that Spain etc. is in central Europe (at least in fm)
And he ist referring to fm's listing. I think he would never consider Spain and Portugal to be in Central Europe
i really hope fm adds a way to save scouting assignments. its so insanely annyoing to do it for each scout...
Great tips zealand, especially because in terrible at how to scout. Quick question about your newgen download. First time I downloaded it, it opened and worked. It hasn’t opened since. I’ve un-installed and re-installed a bunch to no avail. Any ideas?
Best intro 😎
Should you set one scout to cover multiple regions, and that way be able to cover the whole world? Or is it better to scout the most important regions and leave the other ones untouched?
Second option because the first could take years to get rolling
Hi fella quick question - Your scouting assignments do you set it to ongoing or do you have a finite time limit
I edit my Scouts name, so Nuno Alves would be Alves (16/16P/14Ad PorSloBra) or whatever comes closes to fitting. That way when I make an assignment, and I'm looking for the best scout, if I don't have one with the best knowledge of the country available, I can get the best scout available without having to search.
Thank you Vanessa
Man, I just started watching this series and I like it. I started as Dinamo like you did. However, when I got to recruiting my staff all of the people I tried to offer a contract to either:
a. Didn't want to move away from home (waaaahhh),
2. Thought Dinamo were not their type of club or
III. Thought working in the Croatia First League was below them.
Everybody had an excuse. I spent an hour looking for potential staff members in the staff search and couldn't find ANYBODY. What a waste of time. I've watched enough streams to know that this game can be great but when stuff happens like what just happened to me, that's when people just hit 'Uninstall' and move on.
This must have been a bug because I started a new game with the same parameters and I was able to recruit a full staff. Only an hour of my life gone which I'll never get back. Not the first time....
thank you
Those shades make you look like Dodgson from Jurassic Park.
Love the kit. Lýtur vel út ;)
Zoran Mamic as general manager will age well
Hi Zealand, I'm early to class 👋
ty bro
great quide
Hey Zealand, sometimes when I go to scouting I can’t make any assignments, do you know why?
Iam playing Real Madrid. Should I scout only potentially good Player in every Region, or should I also keep Scouts to scout already good players for my team?
I'm at Leeds and have the same scouts in all the major regions for over a year and they are barely able to find any players. Their scouting knowledge of the regions has barely improved, even though all the scouts have pretty high adaptability (15+). Any advice on what I might be doing wrong?
Lucky you, my team in the highest polish league allows me maximum 1k wage for a staff and like 5k for a player
Can you make the next episode about training?
W I R E T H E W O R L D
I'm very new to this game but im trying to hire new scouts and it only let's me search for a chief scout
Any time I find someone with scout stats that good, they want like 80k p/a minimum, usually more! You’re signing that guy at 26k????
Tunisia sounds so much more exotic the way you say it
I have a scout that knows Colombia quite well. But when I try and assign him to that country it just says I can scout the UK and Ireland. Help?
Portugal being Central Europe is funny
Here I thought you'd go with the Team America "Montage" Music....
I feel so dumb scouting people when they could be trial people. I thought that trial was they just came to the team to play. LMAO
I have scouts with high determination (15+) scouting allmost every region in The world. Been like 2 years since i started The missions but they so few reports. Drives me mad...
I am here to learn how to "wire the world". That is all.
who needs scouting when you’re in non league and just abuse trials
Am I doing something wrong my scouts like never have reports…
you said uruguay right, greetings from uruguay
Hi guys, before a match, my tactics screen doesn’t show the tactics or the players names, it just shows shirt numbers, please help me out
I think you need to assign a guy a shirt number and it'll go away. If not, I'm not sure
HOW DO I SEE MY CURRENT “SCOUTING RANGE”?? IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR HOURS IM GOING INSANE.
why would you want the scouted ability to be lower if your a really big club, surely its the other way round?
The ability refers to stars, stars are relative to your current squad, so if you're already one of the best clubs in the world, 3 star players are actually pretty good.
If you're at a small/medium club, you will want to look for 4+ stars because these are the players that will allow you to take your squad to a next level
helpfuls a bit of a stretch mate
VICE CAPTAIN AMERICA! SALUD!
Why are my scouts never coming back with any reports from south america?
Why wouldn’t you tell them to search for a star instead of superb?
Keep mentioning SOUTH AFRICA and I will keep watching your Videos
Can't way for your Training for dummies video, I can't get any players attributes to increase.
I hate how you can't scout by STATS unless you leave it to the Computer.
You can still scout using stats, but you would have to go the individual league and look at the league leaders in different stats. For example good strikers are typically the top of their respective league or near the top for goals.
@@theguy1103 Well I hope next year they will implement Scout by Stats as assignment for Analysts.
You can use screenflow for this. For example in my save once a month the player detailed screen of the UEFA Youth League pops up and you can scout the top scorers etc.
It is a bit fiddly but you don't have to click on the leagues individually...
FoxInTheBoxFM made two videos about it
LETS GO I CAME EARLY.....pause
Hello reese
Reece didn't edit this video, it was me this time
@@iamAyal Well done!
No South Europe?
There's something about seeing contracts negotiated annually in dollars that makes me fill up with nationalist fervour.
Makes my monthly euros cry haha
@@FranzFridl I keep going "HES PAYING A SCOUT 26K A WEEK!?"
perfect example you say to check the language that he speaks while we see a your fur burger desperately trying to escape from the depths of your shirt then immediately cut to a zoomed in shot of languages that the scout speaks. um ok well where the hell does it say that? how do i find what language my scout speaks? i can tell the difference between a blue shirt and a trapped fur burger but i cannot find where im supposed to click to see these languages
in case anybody is interested and didn't quite pick it up. it in fact is not trapped in an axe body spray covered tangle of matted hair trapped under a replica jersey. it is under the overview drop down in information
alright damn it the are they gone joke won me back. lets keep learning
cant even get past step 1 of signing decent scouts sigh
why mention DW ;(
Merrrrrr
I just want a Swansea full of Americans its hard. No money and they only want to scout England any advance
This whole video I was waiting for a "WIRE THE WORLD", slightly disappointed...
There is nothing wrong with this.... other than it is a mortal sin. LMAO
Well i guess that's about it. Turn off the internet. End of the world is coming. 18:44 video and you didn't mention twitch not even once game over
18:25
:OOPS:
why would anyone scout a 1 star player though 😂
The way you said Tunisia makes me feel sick
Damn his hairline is roughhhhh
Better than mine lol, I’m only 26