Best Scouts in Football Manager 2015
Setting up a backroom staff is not complete without an able scout to help acquire the best player for the club. Here, in Football Manager 2015 it’s a must to have an advice from a scout who gives a better detailed report about the player we like or about to sign for the team. Preferably a club can sign upto seven or nine scouts depending on the club’s level, and it is always a must to have a Chief Scout, who oversees that your criteria is met by others who are either scouting the Opposition team or roaming around the world searching for the next big thing in football.
Once you fill up all the posts in Scouts department, then comes the situation where you should decide whether you get to call the shots in which countries does the scouts want to search or you can always give that decision to Chief Scout or Director of Football. Instead, if you choose the former, then you should choose wise on which scouts goes where. Some of them are maybe best in scouting the opposition teams that you are going to face and some of them maybe best in roaming around the world searching for the players.
So to help you choose, we have created a list of best Chief Scouts and Scouts available in the game to help you create a great scouting network and to broaden the clubs knowledge on various players. We have also classified the type of Scout (Roaming or Opposition Team) in the List of Best Scouts table.
Note: This list is best recommened to use at the start of a new game, as the attributes may vary and there is also a possibility that a Scout can also be signed as a Chief Scout if offered more money!!
Chief Scout:
A Chief Scout, as said will help you with being the head of your Scouting department by delievering a second opinion on the player you wish to sign and by giving you the final scout report of great prospects or wonderkids or the players who are about to become free agents in the game. Here is the list of the Best Chief Scouts you can sign for your club:
| Name | Age | Club | JPP | JPA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piet de Visser | 79 | Chelsea | 18 | 18 |
| Roger Galvao | 35 | Free | 19 | 19 |
| Willibert Kremer | 45 | Bayern Leverkusen | 19 | 19 |
| Graham Carr | 69 | Newcastle United | 19 | 18 |
| Giuseppe Corti | 57 | Atalanta | 20 | 18 |
| Steve Rowley | 62 | Arsenal | 20 | 20 |
| Alexandre Ceolin | 51 | Atletico Mineiro | 20 | 20 |
| Malcolm Elias | 48 | Fulham | 19 | 16 |
| Jim Lawlor | 48 | Manchester United | 18 | 19 |
| Mario Vossen | 39 | Borussia Monchengladbach | 18 | 16 |
| Michael Reschke | 56 | Bayern Munich | 17 | 17 |
| Angelo Orazi | 62 | Roma | 19 | 17 |
| Andrea Carnevale | 53 | Udinese | 18 | 18 |
| John Park | 52 | Celtic | 17 | 15 |
JPP → Judging Player Potential JPA → Judging Player Ability
Scouts :
As a manager after appointing the Scouts it’s your duty to broaden the club’s knowledge in the footballing countries around the world by sending them to search for the next big player from that country. Not always every Scout can do this, because some of them maybe good at scouting next opposition teams and not in roaming around the world. To choose the best scout before sending them for errands is to choose wisely.
The attributes like Adaptability or Determination will usually be high for the scouts who are capable in Roaming around the world to search for players. And if a Scout has high attributes for Tactical Knowledge then he can be best deployed for bringing a detailed report about the Next Opposition teams.
There is also another category, where the Scouts are not good at roaming around the world or detailing about the opposition team but are really good at giving you an accurate scout reports for a specified player. These Scouts are mostly targeted by lower league clubs to become their Chief Scouts.
Below is a list of Scouts who are classified as either Roaming or General or Scouting Opposition Teams.
| Name | Age | Club | JPP | JPA | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antonio Lopez | 55 | Manchester United | 18 | 20 | General |
| Rosario Argento | 55 | Free | 20 | 18 | General |
| Gilles Grimandi | 43 | Arsenal | 16 | 17 | Opposition |
| Segio Innocenti | 38 | Udinese | 15 | 17 | Roaming |
| Norbert Ziegler | 60 | Free | 17 | 17 | Roaming |
| Martyn Glover | 56 | Free | 19 | 19 | Roaming |
| Voro | 50 | Valencia | 14 | 16 | Opposition |
| Mauro Pederzoli | 52 | Free | 19 | 18 | General |
| Borba Filho | 61 | Free | 18 | 18 | General |
| Luigi Maldera | 68 | AC Milan | 18 | 16 | Opposition |
| Keke Duran | 27 | Real Betis | 17 | 15 | Roaming |
| Albert Nadj | 39 | Free | 15 | 14 | Roaming |
| Florian Zahn | 31 | Kaiserslautern | 16 | 15 | General |
| Paul Mitchell | 32 | Southampton | 18 | 18 | General |
| Frans Masson | 63 | Feyenoord | 15 | 14 | Opposition |
| Jeff Vetere | 47 | Free | 18 | 16 | Roaming |
| Roberto Marta | 43 | Juventus | 18 | 18 | Roaming |
| Bryan King | 67 | Everton | 18 | 18 | Roaming |
JPP → Judging Player Potential JPA → Judging Player Ability
The list maybe comparatively small with the vast ocean of Scouts available in Football Manager 2015, but these are the very best scouts in the game and will consistently come up with best talented players.
As you progress in your career, you can certainly see some of these Scouts might retire at a certain point or you might fire them or they might consider offer from other clubs, in that situation before hiring a new Scout, try to filter the them by their attributes for Adaptability, Determination and Tactical Knowledge.
This will help you in finding the Best Scouts available in the market and help you broadening the Scouting Network.