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Xerxes and Andrei, the pay is good, it just depends on what your doing, also you get a commision for players you scout that pan out too (if the club is big enough).
The clubs usually pay to be clients of the scouting firm, and sometimes they ask for a particular consultant if they worked for them before and liked them, or if they don't ask, they are assigned a consultant. For example, Ipswich Town really likes me, so when they call up the firm, they ask to work with me usually. Sometimes my scouting involves looking for actually a specific type of player (such as a speedy winger) or a particular player, or maybe just a more general search (such a promising young talent from Morocco) that sort of thing...
Duffman, I can comment of Conor Henderson a bit. I can tell you he'll be in the ROI side soon. He's good, really good.
Rhian, not necessarily. I have plenty of coworkers who got into scouting in different ways. Some were managers from town clubs or something, others were lawyers. Basically, you just have to prove you can scout talent, however that happens. It just depends. Its more likely that as a scout, you would work for an actual club though.
Hamburg, what do you mean exactly? One was a bachelor degree in Sport Management for Ithaca College in NY, the other was a FIFA Sports Masters degree, here is the site for the program. Its tough to get into, but if you do, you have a beeline into football. http://www.fifamaster.org/
Foster- send me a personal message about help with internships
Scotgun, I've never actually worked for SPL clubs personally, but our firm has worked for Dundee United and Motherwell. I have a coworker who is Scottish, so he does all of that work. I have scouted at plenty of Scottish clubs though...
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