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“I was born in Dortmund. That means, if there is interest, then that is nothing that leaves me indifferent, but then I am happy for the appreciation,” Sven Mislintat said Sunday.
Will the current sports director of VfB Stuttgart really return to his heart club, Borussia Dortmund? What are mind games, how could a return fail? SPORT1 gives an overview.
the Ruhr News had first reported that BVB was considering the return of its former squad planner. (Bundesliga schedule and results)
Mislintat has yet to meet with BVB
There has not yet been a meeting of BVB officials with Mislintat, and there is no set date.
That a conversation is planned for March is after SPORT1-Incorrect information. It is more likely a meeting in the summer or at the beginning of the new season.
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Because: It’s not about going back to the new season, but about 2022. Then Michael Zorc will end his era as a coach at Dortmund.
A possible return of Mislintat is by no means a surefire success.
“I did not say: if Dortmund comes, I will go,” emphasized the 48-year-old: “VfB, this team, this city, this group are very important to me.”
VfB confusion: it’s not always about football
In Stuttgart, Mislintat has built a team in less than two years that is doing brilliantly this season as a newcomer and is even excited at times. Like the 5: 1 success in Dortmund in December, which spelled the end for coach Lucien Favre.
On the other hand, there are currently unrest in the Stuttgart club management, a situation that Mislintat also does not like: “Originally there was some room for maneuver for me in the summer of 2022, because even at this club you sometimes have the feeling that it’s not always just about football. “
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But it is not so easy to seduce. “Even if Dortmund came, they would have to have very good arguments first,” said Mislintat, whose contract in Stuttgart runs until 2023.
He is particularly concerned about the corresponding powers to be able to act and operate in Dortmund according to his ideas in the future.
And that could be the trick. Because there is also a Sebastian Kehl. The former BVB captain has been the head of the licensed players department since 2018 and has made no secret of his desire to inherit Zorc after his tenure. The BVB bosses have already chosen Kehl as Zorc’s successor.
BVB wish with Mislintat and Kehl
TO SPORT1-Information would be the desire of the Dortmund club management to involve Mislintat and Kehl together. However, it is questionable whether Mislintat will get involved. (Bundesliga table)
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Mislintat enjoys an excellent reputation (not only) in Dortmund because he initiated transfers like those of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Ousmane Dembélé and Shinji Kagawa. Due to his gift for discovering young talents at an early stage, he is also known as the “diamond eye”. “My friends call me wood eyes,” Mislintat joked one last time at the CHECK24 double pass.
In Dortmund, however, he quarreled with then-coach Thomas Tuchel and thus left BVB in December 2017. For a year he worked in the English Premier League at Arsenal, and in April 2019 VfB Stuttgart finally convinced him of a compromise.
Now the path could lead him back to his former love, but some not insignificant details still need to be clarified.
