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Theres no such thing as scouting these days really, you know that literally every single player in world football is on every single scout in world footballs list, that there are special apps and analysis that scouts all have for details on every player at their fingertips. Sure they might go and watch them play, do some analysis on how they would fit into the clubs team they are working for, but thats alongside however many other clubs scouts that are doing the exact same thing. Scouting job seems more of a formality these days. Instead there is really just a clubs ability to actually get a player to sign the dotted line.

Unless a clubs pulled some lad out of Ecuadorian Catholic Church Sunday League who then actually slots in nicely and performs at a significantly higher level, theres not really any 'scouting genius' being done on the behalf of clubs these days.

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