Scouting Costs

Can someone explain why scouting are seemingly so over the top?
I'm currently managing my local club Gresley FC in the eighth tier of English football, the club is semi-pro with a handful of players under contract but most are verbal, all of my staff are also under non-written contracts. I have one local reputation scout on the books but obviously being such a small club we can't afford to send him outside of Britain. so why has he managed to wrack up over £120k worth of expenses? I'm not paying him for him to stop at the bloody Ritz!

Should I just get rid of him and have my coaches or myself scout players instead? I'm only three months into the save and I'm already over £100k in the red.

What type of assignments are you giving him? Have you assigned him to a region/division etc or have you just been sending him to look at lots of individuals?

Price of petrol and sausage rolls have gone up a lot by the looks of it.