Bout has worked with Feyenoord, Volendam, AZ, Telstar, Bayern Munich, Manchester United and the Netherlands national football team in various coaching and advisory roles in the past.
[3] In 2010, he took over as head coach of the Telstar senior team from Edward Metgod, before joining Louis van Gaal as an assistant at Bayern Munich in 2011.
Bout previously worked with Van Gaal at AZ (where they won the Dutch Eredivisie in 2009),[4] and following the departure of Van Gaal from Bayern Munich in 2011, Bout continued to work at Bayern Munich, serving as assistant manager alongside interim head coach Andries Jonker.
[5] 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.