Just a few examples from his time in Stuttgart (2nd league)
– Kalajdzic
– Kobel
– Endo
All three players were absolute strokes of luck. However, there were also some mediocre transfers made during this transfer period. (Silas, Forester, Klement)
Then it continued with:
– Anthony
– Mavropanous
– Ahamada
– Ito
– Millot
– Führich
– Marmoush (only via rental)
-Guirassy
Overall, these were all player discoveries that can be described as terrific and were mostly sold with a significant transfer increase. I consider his latest discovery (Milosevic) to be one of Serbia’s greatest striker hopes.
But there were also some transfers at Stuttgart that didn’t work out (including Faghir, Perea, Pfeiffer, Beyaz, Sankoh, Coulibaly, Mola). This means that the Stuttgart squad was a bit bloated and a significant transfer loss had to be recorded for players like Klement, Müller, Förster, Faghir, Perea, Pfeiffer and Silas. (approx. 25 million).
That’s something like the common thread at Mislintat. Very good transfers (Mikautadze, Forbs) are always offset by bad transfers (Mannsverk, Sosa, Tahirovic, Akpom).
At Dortmund he allegedly supported players like Groß, Anton and Guirassy as transfer targets, i.e. players who do not necessarily promise sustainable development, but also brought transfer targets like Svensson, Ramaj or Cherki into focus.
However, his coaching policy was much more serious than his transfer policy. Ie here he only made mistakes. (Walter, Matarazzo, Steijn)
Now let’s come to the biggest criticism of Mislintat. He wants to be the sole ruler and has little or no tolerance for other opinions. At VfB he had an unanimity clause written into his contract. This clause was a controversial contractual provision that gave him the right to veto all important personnel decisions in the sports sector. It was not without reason that Wehrle wanted to have this clause deleted, which in turn led to the later break/change.
He also left a lot of scorched earth behind at Ajax and his second BvB spell. Nevertheless, one has to say that his preference (Cherki instead of Beier) would probably have been a much better decision for Dortmund.
Conclusion:
Mislintat has proven his “diamond eye” through a large number of transfers. The high revenues outweigh the transfer flops. He laid the foundation for Stuttgart to play internationally year after year, even though Hoeneß was the biggest success factor for this.
At BvB you can certainly be critical of his last commitment, but if you look at Kehl’s transfer policy, it is to some extent understandable that Mislintat was very upset about many decisions. In my opinion, Mislintat would be the better sports director.
But Mislintat as a sole decision maker doesn’t work either, see Ajax. That’s why, in my opinion, it would be best if Mislintat wasn’t given complete freedom in the sporting direction.
However, Düsseldorf has already made a massively wrong decision with the decision to start and has also not improved the squad in the long term, so I think that Mislintat should be given a fair chance first. This deal definitely carries some risk. But I think there is a higher probability that Mislintat will form Düsseldorf into a Bundesliga team again than that they will slip into the 3rd league. It is more questionable how much money Mislintat is actually allowed to spend.