I agree that and understand that.
However, I don't think that's causing this issue here. For example, there is a player playing in my division (who would be interested in joining me because his agent said so when I asked), who when I manually scouted him, comes up as 5 star CA and PA. He plays for Liverpool, and is English. Why hasn't he appeared on my ongoing Premier League scouting that asks for 4 star PA minimum? And I bet there are another 30 of these sort of players. This sort of high reputation player in the same division as you, should appear in a recruitment focus that has been going for a couple of seasons, in my opinion.