“I’ll tell you: we don’t have a scouting team. Our owner got a YouTube video from the agent, along with Transfermarkt details. Then he contacted me and said: ‘we’re looking for a striker, right? Is this something? That’s pretty much the process’, Jansen told Leeuwarder Courantas reported FeanOnline.
“No club here has achieved that (having a scout). But it would be great to have a scout who could scout talent at home, and also abroad. Sometimes we are looking for a striker, and then our very rich owner turns up with a 1.65m left winger. He can’t play as a striker at all.”
“Then the owner of the club answered that someone like that can definitely play football. Then I said: ‘that’s true, but we want a striker’. Then he said okay, cancel the contract, and new players come. That’s how we operate. But that’s not the way I want to work, and that’s not the way I’m used to.”
