besidavi’s method for attaining 5*5* scouts on FIFA 12 is a very clever method and gives you a good chance of success. You do, however, need to have quite a lot of money for it. What if your club doesn’t have so much money? There is an alternative, although it will probably take longer to achieve good results seeing as it leaves more to chance.
In besidavi’s method, you “encourage” 5*5* scouts to be generated by buying up scouts with at least either experience or judgment rated 5*. FIFA 12 seems to replace highly rated scouts with other highly rated scouts, thereby giving you another chance to get a 5*5* scout next time. In this method, however, you rely on reloading to generate new scouts randomly. Here’s how it works.
As besidavi points out, the list of 5 scouts you have to choose from is refreshed every Friday. So, make sure you have at least one spot available to hire a new scout, then save your game on a Thursday (best to create a backup on this day as well). Now, advance, stop the game on the Friday and have a look at the new scouts that have been generated in the “hire scout” screen. If there are none that you like the look of, simply quit and reload the save on the Thursday. Advance again to the Friday and you’ll have a new set of 5 scouts to choose from. These scouts will have a different combination of experience/judgment ratings from the last time you tried, so there’s a decent chance you can find a good scout in there.
Of course, seeing as this is all down to chance and doesn’t involve you “encouraging” good scouts to appear, you may have to wait a while until you find one. On the other hand, you may get a 5*5* scout first time if you’re lucky! The key is to keep trying. It requires patience, but is a lot cheaper than besidavi’s method.
So, to recap:
- Make sure you have at least one spot available to hire a new scout
- Save your game on Thursday
- Advance to Friday
- Check the list of newly-generated scouts in the “hire scout” screen
- If none take your fancy, reload and try again
- Repeat as necessary
And that’s it!