STEVE Cotterill may yet look to add German efficiency to his hard-working Burnley machine.
The Clarets boss admitted there was an element of curiosity in his recent scouting trip to Germany after puzzling over the lack of Germans playing their trade in the English game.
And after spotting several players with potential, including a teenager that the club will seek further reports on, Cotterill revealed his journey could yet bear fruit.
Cotterill (pictured) said: "One of the reasons I went to Germany in the first place was that I was intrigued as to why there are not a lot of German players over here in our country.
"I wanted to go and see for myself why because it seems we have so many different nationalities over here, but very few Germans and yet you would actually think they are the closest to our game."
Cotterill's itinerary saw him take in four games of varying standards - including a top
Bundesliga game on the final day of the German league season - before returning to England this week to step up his search for new recruits.
And he explained: "The trip went well, but it's the same old adage of whether those players I saw and liked would come over and do well here.
"I saw a couple of players in the Bundesliga who I thought might be good enough to play here. But you don't know if you can get them out of their respective clubs.
"Another 18-year-old kid playing in another game would be relatively cheap, but at this stage it was just a case of weighing things up and getting a feel for the standard."
In the meantime, there are no further transfer developments to report from Turf Moor, where Cotterill is busily pursuing several lines of enquiry as he looks to add to the two summer signings made so far, Wade Elliott and Garreth O'Connor, both from Bournemouth.
He said: "It's just a case of keeping talking to players and seeing what happens from there."
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