Scouting Knowledge not making any difference

[swfc-dan]

Hi I am struggling to understand why players from foreign nations aren't all showing up in my transfer player searches, despite me having high levels of scouting knowledge for that area (max) and having that country full loaded on the game. I'm managing an English team and my player searches always come up with all English players and ones from the top foreign clubs, but none from the smaller clubs from other nations that are loaded on the game. I thought this was because I was low on scouting knowledge of those nations but I hired staff with max knowledge of those areas and it still made no difference to my search results (despite me now having max knowledge). I can find these players that are loan listed/transfer listed abroad by searching through those overseas teams manually but this takes much longer and surely shouldn't have to be done this way, which is the whole point of scouting knowledge.

But why am I finding scouting knowledge seems to make no difference to my search results?

[Cougar2010]

You need to actually scout the countries.

The scouts have to do some work to find the players.

[swfc-dan]

You need to actually scout the countries.

The scouts have to do some work to find the players.

This is just to have the players show up in a standard transfer search? Not talking about detailed reports on the players.

If that's the case then presumably have to send the scouts with knowledge of that country to scout it. Didn't remember this being the case before.

[Guest]

It's part of the scouting revamp for FM15, lower rep players require a scouting assignment before they become known to you.