Borussia Dortmund has released his technical director Sven Mislintat. Sports director Sebastian Kehl is the winner of a power struggle on the management.
The separation from the 52 year old misinter announced the listed Bundesliga club on Thursday afternoon (06.02.2025). Sven Mislintat had only returned to Dortmund in the spring of 2024 after he had acquired an excellent reputation as a scout for talent in the years under coach Jürgen Klopp, which were fetched and later sold again for full profits.
Well -known relationship between the throat and misintell
Mislintat became doom, among other things, the tense relationship with Sebastian Kehl, which the responsible persons and many observers already knew about the return. Mislintat is said to have exceeded his skills several times by starting and leading negotiations with players.
Kehl had tried in vain last year to move to the management. Lars Ricken received the additional post there, previously head of the youth performance center at Borussia.
Ricken by Watzke counted
Ricken was counted on Wednesday by Hans-Joachim Watzke, the spokesman for the management, who wants this role at the latest at the end of the calendar year. The most powerful man at BVB for decades said at the “Spobis” conference in Hamburg that the relationship between Ricken, Kehl and Mislintat was “in need of optimization”. Before that, he had asked a question that was rhetorical: “Do the three harmonize?” It is the task of Ricken, according to Watzke, “that everyone marches in the same direction”.
Watzke, Ricken, Kehl, Mislintat and the external consultant Matthias Sammer formed the so -called elephant round in Dortmund, in which important personal details were discussed and decided. In this round, mislords and throat are said to have been more different when assessing new additions. When this was discussed by the media in the summer, BVB explained that it was friction that was necessary every now and then.
Most important transfer fails
There had already been reports in the last week of January, according to which Mislintat would lose his job until the Bundesliga game in Heidenheim (2-1). However, the closure of the transfer window was then waited for, in which Borussia Dortmund reaches some obligations. The most important transfer, on the other hand, failed. Rayan Cherki, a flexible and technically very experienced offensive player, received no release from Olympique Lyon.
Niko Kovac said that the completed and possible transfers were “hand in hand” when he was introduced on Tuesday (04.02.2025). The new coach started his work two days earlier and will play for points for the first time in the game against VfB Stuttgart, former association of Mislintat.
New contract for Kehl
Sebastian Kehl, who played with Ricken and Sammer at BVB, is the winner of the power struggle. The 44 -year -old sports director only received a new contract at the beginning of January, valid until 2027 after the old one had expired in the summer of 2025.
However, the notification of the association for extension sounded reserved. Instead of with a praise for Kehl’s customary industry, Ricken was quoted that “intensive discussions about content, structures and economic issues” were led and brought to a positve. In order to create the goal of creating the renewed qualification for the Champions League, we will continue to bundle all forces. Since then, Nuri Sahin has been on leave as a coach, now the technical director followed with mislordat. The forces were reorganized.