Newcastle United sporting director Dan Ashworth has outlined the club's scouting plans for the future.
The Magpies are at the cutting edge of scouring the globe for the best young talents in the world.
However, the emergence of technologies such as artificial intelligence and data analysis do not mean the club will ever let go of traditional scouting methods.
With a smile, Ashworth told Chronicle Live: "I listened to Elon Musk's conference the other day with interest that none of us are going to have a job soon!
"You're right, we do have a robot painting the line out there.
What we try and do (on recruitment) is marry up the objective data with the subjective the opinion to check and challenge what the answer may be. So we aren't just data-driven, although we are data-informed. "It is also having the industry knowledge and suitability."
He added: "A player suited for Newcastle United in the Premier League and for Eddie Howe might not be suited for Aston Villa and Unai Emery. So that is where you bring the subjective part into it is he or she a good player, which data can drive but not get away from the industry knowledge and scouting reports and experience.
"So we use both there's so many players out there and you can't scout them all. We bring them down to a manageable number and then check them with our eye, with our subject opinion, and then it will get challenged again as the player starts to come through the system."