I they can, you can change it like, it's in staff resresponsibility & just set it to u controlling who u sign through the youth system.
That is actually a great feature. I let my DoF do almost everything. Staff recruitment, staff contracts, player contracts etc. Just does the boring shit for you.
keep getting save game can not be loaded any ideas folks
Sounds like your file is corrupted. You should always make a new save file every month or so in case of this happening.