if i find a young player who looks like he could be good and the scout says he's not got the potential to be better than our current RB say or says he has the potential to be a good l2 Rb and im in L1 should i not bother or is there a chance he could be worng

im saying this because i obviously can see PA but do the scouts always know the PA cheers

If you have good scouts then take their advice- if they are poor, then use your own judgement

Scouts only use PA to assess a player' ability. The snag is that this says overall what value a player has, not what value he has in a certain position.

For example, there may be a striker that has 20 for pace, composure, off-the-ball, finishing and technique who has all other stats of 1. The scout will probably say he isn't much good.
Whereas a striker with 1 in the vital areas but 20s for everything else would probably be rated better (of course he'd really be a defender in that case ).

Scouts also ignore current form.
Find the L1 top scorers and request reports on them - they'll probably say the player would struggle in L2 and isn't anywhere near as good as the goal-shy muppet that's running around up front for your team.

It can be very frustrating. Especially when a scout says good things about a player with seemingly rubbish stats.

When predicting the future, you just can't tell what areas a player's improvement is going to be in.

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ok thanks, (thanks for the second post too, was confused a little)

i guess they should really go on current from because a scout would be able to deeply test the player in training and stuff but just go to games , but i guess this has to be changed accordinly to fit in football manager