Bernard Schuiteman is now technical director of the Swiss record champion Grasshoppers, but not so long ago he traveled the world on behalf of Manchester United. After three years in the English superpower, it was ready for him.
Schuiteman focused on Central Europe and regularly brought in new names. In the eyes of the former player of Bayer Leverkusen, Feyenoord and FC Utrecht, Manchester United did not participate enough. “Sometimes I begged the club to take a player. Like Dayot Upamecano,” he tells RTV Rijnmond.
“That boy was then seventeen years old and played at Red Bull Salzburg. Take it now, manI kept saying. He’d cost a few million at most, but they didn’t. Now he is the central defender at Leipzig and the whole world is after him. “It was the reason for his departure from England.” I was annoyed that I was not close to the decisions. That was the reason for me to look further. “
Ziyech
Schuiteman worked at FC Twente between 2012 and 2014. He scouted Hakim Ziyech at sc Heerenveen. “Anyone can scout Ziyech? Surely he was, but he was nowhere near as far as now. Moreover, the question was whether he would fit in with Twente. You cut him out and stick it on your own team. This is how scouting works. And then hope you see it correctly, as was the case with Ziyech at the time. “
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