retired_rymar

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by iajafer:

The guidelines are _guidelines_. They're there to ease you into playing the LLM way.

Do _you_ think it's realistic for a Conference Club to send scouts to Scandinavia?

If you do then play the game how you see fit.

Don't ask for our blessing, you decide, you play, you get on with it.

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I think that pretty much sums it up. YOU can do what YOU want, but I wouldn't expect the rules to change.

For what its worth - I'd change the scouting setup anyway - It'd be more normal for clubs to retain scouts in the regions or countries that they wanted to, rather than having them based at the club and sending them out. In this respect - I can't see any conference side retaining a scout from out of the country.

Think about the logistics - not only is there the scouting aspect and cost, but if the club wants to sign a player - who foots the cost of an international move? And how many clubs could genuinely fund a wage that would make it worthwhile? Unless you knew of a player who specifically wanted to move - the only cases in point I can think of here, though, are where the club manager knows an agent who recommends a player for a trial - and that feature is only in on a trial basis at present.

I know it gets cheaper all the time to go and get overseas talent, but its still beyond the majority of lower division clubs in my view - so I'd stick with SWYCT (found it a reasonably well balanced way of proceeding in the LLM game I started a while back).

Decide how you want to play, though - at the end of the day, its just a game and you should try to enjoy it.

retired_kris10nicole

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by dannyo'shea:
Our Danish friend (hej!) has touched on my opinion on this. Why would it be any more expensive (OR unrealistic) to send a scout to Denmark than it is to Scotland. Still gotta travel, still gotta stay in hotels.

The point about how many Danes would leave home etc.. is a little strangely put, as clearly I wouldn't be paying them 100 Euros a week. The squad I inherited in the conference has plenty of players on 500 quid a week and more in some cases. IRL the lower division team I support signed a Danish player several years ago, and we certainly don't pay good money. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

There's two parts to the answer, really. Firstly, you can name isolated examples of lower league teams signing players from further afield than you would expect. However, they are rare, so not to be taken as the norm. I can bet that in most cases there are some sort of exceptional personal circumstances, probably outside football, as to why a player would travel that far to play lower league football. As soon as you start scouting these countries, you are greatly increasing the chances that you will sign a number of players from abroad, which certainly isn't common, if it happens at all.

The second part is distance and culture. Scotland (say) is far more similar to england culturally (though it may not seem so ) than somewhere like Denmark. Whatever travelling times and costs might be, it is far closer geographically, which will make players more willing to move. Sometimes the perception is as important as the reality.