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Old 4th June 2008, 17:34   #19 (permalink)
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Of course they don't, but you don't have to be a fulltime scout to know a lot about say Liverpool's academy players. A lot of fans follow their clubs youth teams very closely and would be able to make a report on a specific player.

And it's people like that who are being used as researchers by SI - as Miles Jacobsen mentions in the interview: They've got a lot of researches all over the world - even if they are not full time.
Yeah and those researchers are used by the clubs I'd say. The clubs would have first hand knowledge on the information and then the game might get some small bites for the game.
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