[jjamez]

Hoyle vetoed the Lambert signing, lee Clark vetoed the vardy signing, wasn't attitude I don't think, I think he thought his ceiling was mid league 1 and that Novak was the better option and already at the club.

Best way is to have someone who knows football and solely football and leave the finance aspects to someone with solely that expertise, don't mix the two in one person, have two people work together on it.

Thing is Devon, there's always gonna be late bloomers and it could be unexpected. Toney was at Newcastle and underwhelmed out on loan and rebuilt his career to what it is now, like Moore, but therell also be players that burst in the scene and then fade into oblivion, see dale Jennings, truth is, even fergie struggled with it as it's not something readily noticeable and it happens in all sports. I can't say I keep that close an eye on non league and I'm sure there'll be good players out there, but it also doesn't feel like there's a plenty banging on the efl door atm, possibly due to covid and that word of mouth factor being taken away.

As for football manager and FIFA, FIFA focus heavily on the previous iteration and only touch up players when needed. Football manager I know are very much in depth and have people scouting individual clubs around the world. Most the efl clubs have a personal scout assigned to all their teams, it's generally a fan of that club or someone based close to the club, they don't always seem to be that far off considering it's a simulation, by no means rely on it, but to use it as some form of reference, I'd honestly definitely tell clubs to do it