Sure , here ' s two pics from the last few months . <| sep |> If you assign a scout to a region or have your chief scout do it , the countries they look in are decided partially by the team and level you are playing at and the level of talent production each nation has in the game . If a certain region only has two or three countries with high enough talent production then your scout will cycle through those countries . The rest of the continent will have a minuscule chance of producing talent up to the standard of your team and league so the scouts don ' t look there . I think it may have been FM 13 or 14 , you could set assignments to scout the world and they would go everywhere and you could eventually achieve 100 % knowledge in every continent . SI changed it in recent releases though . The only way to get around this is to do as you have already outlined and manually send a scout to individual countries if you wish to scout them but then you will have to manually redo those assignments to ensure your knowledge doesn ' t drop ideally when they have regen intake .