Speaking on The Redmen TV, Goal journalist, Neil Jones, has been discussing the Sporting Director role at Liverpool and Sven Mislintat.
The German has been linked with Liverpool this week after a report by Sky Germany’s Florian Plettenburg suggested that he’d be interested in the role.
Jones says that Mislintat does have a chance of getting this job, but he does say that there is a huge caveat in that Liverpool could be sold before Julian Ward leaves which would change the type of job that is needed from a Sporting Director depending on the type of investment the new owners would pump in.
Mislintat has a chance
Jones shared what he knows about this situation.
“The briefing point around Julian leaving was that Jurgen and Billy Hogan are going to lead the process of identifying the model going forward. Now, Sven Mislintat coming to Liverpool tells you what that model is, and it’s ‘leave it to me’,” Jones said.
“But there is a huge sort of caveat around it, which is, what if the owners have sold by then and the model is just to go out and buy the best players in the world or the model could be that they’re not going to buy new players. That changes who you need.
“There are a lot of moving parts, but I’m not at all surprised to see him linked especially as he’s leaving his current role.
“There’s a lot to point towards that he’s got a chance I would say.”
Good option
In our view, Mislintat would be a good option to replace Julian Ward no matter who Liverpool’s new owners may be.
Make no mistake about it, regardless of who takes over the club, the vision will still largely be shaped by Jurgen Klopp, and there aren’t many out there who know Klopp in the way Mislintat does.
The pair worked together at Borussia Dortmund to great effect, and there’s every reason to believe that this partnership could again pay dividends at Liverpool.
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