My advice when building up a team is to generally be very good with your money (i.e. staying below the wage budget, scheduling friendlies with bigger teams, etc.) while completing expectations in competitions. If you can live up to expectations and improve finances, your job will get easier...
To each his own Redrup. I personally do not choose to use Genie Scout.
I'm very pleased with the response to this thread. I'm glad to see many different approaches to an inevitably huge part of the game.
rvallant, I think your take is very interesting. I'd like you to elaborate on your...
I'm new here at FM-Base, but I thought a great discussion to have would be about how to determine whether a player is going to be a star for your team or a bust. Often, a player has the attributes to be a great player and your scouts recommend him, but sometimes they just do not perform...