The quick trick to boosting player potentials

Follow @FIFAscouting With a few short loans you can get that coveted “Has potential to be special” status for your FIFA 14 players – even with those who had no potential status at all Sometimes, no matter how hard we try, we just can’t scout that world beater we’re looking for. We reload and reload until we’re tearing our hair …

FIFA 14 scouting guide

Follow @FIFAscouting FIFA 14 is out, we’ve all had a go at it, and it’s pretty good, right? Lots of nice changes, some big, some small. Those new skill games are pretty cool. I quite like some of the new animations. But come on, that’s not why we play it – we want to scout. The next Messi isn’t going …

FIFA 13 scouting guide – update

Follow @FIFAscouting After a bit of testing I realised there was actually a way to reload your scouting reports. Now, I’m not necessarily recommending you do this – there’s not really any need, seeing as the scouting system is so much better this year. However, I’m putting this information up in case anyone wanted to try it. Basically what I …

Help for the November patch update

Follow @FIFAscouting A lot of people have been having scouting issues after installing the game’s November update. In particular, it now seems that players in your youth academy can sometimes refuse any contract offer you give them, even those with huge weekly wages. In my post on developing youth players I said that one way to easily sign youth players …