On the fringes of the start of training at VfB Stuttgart, Sven Mislintat spoke to SWR Sport about transfers and the Atakan Karazor case. His most important statements:
Sven Mislintat on the Atakan Karazor case:
“You can’t say exactly how this will develop. You listen to what the lawyers tell you, what is reflected back from the personal conversations that Ata has with his family and his lawyer. But of course I won’t be able to say anything about it , as this is an ongoing process.”
On whether VfB are looking for a replacement for Karazor:
“I would like to answer that as if Ata were injured. If Ata had an injury, we would also deal with it internally, so we are calm and relaxed there.”
On Sasa Kalajdzic’s future:
“There were already some hot rumours, which by the end of the day had already cooled down a bit. So let’s sign the two top German clubs with Dortmund, who signed Haller (Sébastien Haller, editor’s note), with Bayern, who Bringing Sadio Mané into the Bundesliga without giving up Lewy (Robert Lewandowski, editor’s note. That means the two issues have become relatively calm. For a while it looked like there was a battle between them “The two big clubs around Sasa Kalajdzic. There are clear agreements. He has said that he doesn’t want to leave the club on a free transfer, which makes us optimistic that if it doesn’t happen that he leaves this summer, we’ll extend it for at least a year Then we just have to see what’s going on in England.
About potential newcomers:
“We’re relatively calm there. We haven’t sold anyone and if I could make a wish, we’ll just keep the three, which are always associated with big clubs (Sasa Kalajdzic, Borna Sosa, Orel Mangala, ed . Red). Then Silas comes back, then you have four top guys who stayed, who you don’t have to replace. That would be the ideal scenario, but we’ll see if that’s realistic.”
On which positions VfB is looking for reinforcements:
“Without fees, i.e. proactively, one topic has already been made relatively big in the newspapers: That is the full-back position on the right, where we only have Pascal Stenzel in quotation marks in the more defensive variant. And usually you try to do it twice occupy. And it is certainly the case that with Kempfi (Marc-Oliver Kempf, Amd. d. Red.) A central defender left us who had quality Pascal Stenzel can play the half-back, but if it is a classic back four system, we still need a fourth central defender.These are the positions where we look with a sense of proportion and with the budget that we have, so smaller.
