If you want to scout free agents what you have to do is not send one of your scouts out to a country. like if you have 3 scouts and send one to eangland, one to say france and then the third you leave alone, then you go to free agents and scount any player your interested in. this is what I do.
I think it should work like this, you send a scout out, he brings back player X. you then ask him to scout player X(it should be no means take 30 days), after about 1-2 weeks your scout says "hey boss heres the report on X." you get the same info you do now. you then say"I would like more info on player X" the scout goes back out and 1 week later you know all they is to know about player X.
this way would make way more sense to me