Rapid Vienna sports director Markus Katzer revealed why they chose Isak Jansson as a direct replacement for losing Nicolas Kuhn to Celtic... as the Hoops seem poised to make the same move.
The Swedish winger has been linked with a £3 million move to Parkhead as Kuhn heads for Como in a £17 million exit.
Jansson, 23, joined Rapid as Kuhn's direct replacement after his Parkhead switch in January last year.
And Celtic appear to be well placed to land him ahead of other interested parties, including Lazio, Fiorentina and Paris FC.
And Rapid sports director Katzer revealed just last month why he was so delighted to land Jansson as a replacement for Kuhn for a bargain £200,000 from Spanish Second Division side Cartagena last summer.
He said: "We needed a replacement for Nicolas Kuhn after he signed for Celtic.
"We asked our manager what type of player he was looking for in particular and he told us he wanted someone who could beat a man, one-on-one.
"We did a wide data search across our target markets and in terms of dribbling and taking on players, Jansson appeared in the top three.
"We looked at a lot of his videos and he was exactly what we wanted.
"Usually, we would watch a player live, but with the timescale and the closing of the transfer window, we had no time and had to trust the data.
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"The risk was relatively low because we also know that in eight to nine out of ten cases, the impressions from video scouting are confirmed during live scouting.
"And with Jansson, it wasn't a risk at all because we first agreed on a free loan first and then a small transfer fee of £200,000.
"One week after we exercised the purchase option in the season, we had an offer of more than £1 million on the table.
"He will clearly be transferred for many times what we paid for him. He has been an amazing success for us."
