I hope she didn't hear that
Anyway back to the game, your newly purchased scouts seems to do fine, right? And about that rate5 GK, was he a former scout or something you bought on the TM? Lately I had some issues with players bought from the TM, but never with the scouts...don´t know why. The only player that got a rate5 last season was a scout that I bougt in the middle of the season (DR/DMR, Darijo Srna). But 2 games later he suddenly got a rate8 and now he is a standard rate7.
Also my 3rd 19yr old MC (6*) played badly one season, but then when I played him next to a playmaker his ratings went up, from 5-6 to 7-8. He scored a couple of times as well.