Former Arsenal sporting director Sven Mislintat is excited by linking up with Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool, 90min understands.
Mislintat labored alongside Klopp at Borussia Dortmund between 2008 and 2015, and oversaw a lot of massively profitable transfers that ultimately led to very large earnings for the Bundesliga giants.
Klopp moved to the Premier League in 2015 to succeed Brendan Rodgers as Liverpool supervisor, and Mislintat adopted in his footsteps two years later – turning into Arsenal’s sporting director after falling out with Klopp’s successor at Dortmund, Thomas Tuchel.
However the German’s stint in north London was comparatively short-lived and he moved onto pastures new after lower than 18 months on the membership – his most up-to-date function was with VfB Stuttgart, who confirmed a mutual termination of his contract on Wednesday.
Liverpool are on the hunt for a brand new sporting director after Julian Ward, who has solely been within the job for a 12 months after succeeding the influential Michael Edwards, knowledgeable the membership’s hierarchy of his intention to depart on the finish of the season.
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90min understands that Liverpool haven’t made an strategy for Mislintat, or anyone else at this stage, however Ward’s successor might be an exterior appointment slightly than an inner promotion.
Sources have additional confirmed to 90min, although, that Mislintat is excited by reuniting with Klopp, and that the 50-year-old holds a wider curiosity in returning to the Premier League.
Ward oversaw the signings of Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz and Fabio Carvalho throughout his tenure as Liverpool’s sporting director, whereas he additionally performed a job in extending Mohamed Salah’s contract at Liverpool – ending months of hypothesis in regards to the Egyptian’s future within the course of.
