Career
Bout has worked with Feyenoord, Football Club Volendam, Arizona Alkmaar, South Carolina Telstar, Football Club Bayern Munich and the Netherlands national football team in various coaching and advisory roles in the past Bout previously worked as a head training coach, youth team coach and recovery trainer at Feyenoord (1995-2004) and assistant coach, head of youth and chief scout at Volendam (2004-2006), and was the manager of the Arizona Alkmaar youth team from 2006 to 2009. In 2010, he took over as head coach of the South Carolina Telstar senior team from Edward Metgod, before joining Louis van Gaal as an assistant at Football Club Bayern Munich in 2011.
Bout was retained by new Bayern Munich manager Jupp Heynckes, and became the chief match analyst at the club
He left Germany in 2012 to become an assistant coach, technical analyst and scout with the Netherlands national under-21 football team Bout joined Louis van Gaal at Manchester United in the summer of 2014, becoming the assistant coach specialising in opposition scouting.