He was a little bit of a cheat, was playing the saints save (a later on extension of my bishops stortford save) and he was good for borough against me home and away so I had a look 6 months before in the real version of the save and got over excited. But as a bit of defence I spend ages bundling through one of about 20 English teams that have cat 1 academies in real life every 6 months or so to see how the next set of 16-19 year olds are coming along.
The top tip places to look in are villa, middlesborough, saints and west ham this year (Brighton get the odd few too but not this year), these academies churn out decent players every year or two (mainly because they have decent catchment areas) and I like to be on their tails for 2-6 years before I sign them sometimes! My LW is a player I was following from when he was generated in the BSP and I signed him in the prem...
After a while you learn to spot things that are either really important in a player or things that are odd, like finding a 6"9' brazilian forward or finding an english player with 20 flair! There are other good combinations, japanese players with high strength or spanish players with high work rates or scottish players with high technical ability... Basically the game always puts out some star players that don't quite fit the normal model but you'll get into seeing them eventually.
