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OnlyOne

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Interesting that bigger teams weren’t interested. Think the business he did for us over summer was fantastic.

Think he just wanted a bigger role which we and I guess other top clubs weren't to ready give. Be looking forward to see how he does and hope we haven't burned any bridges incase he wants to come back as a TD one day.
 

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Interesting that bigger teams weren’t interested. Think the business he did for us over summer was fantastic.

Probably he was also looking for the job/position he wanted in a club that would let him do his thing and for a period greater than a year.

@Toby Andrl take on this would be interesting.
 

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Probably he was also looking for the job/position he wanted in a club that would let him do his thing and for a period greater than a year.

@Toby Andrl take on this would be interesting.

I think it's great news. He'll be working as Sporting Director under/with new Sporting Chairman Thomas Hitzlsperger. The best thing probably is that after years of the club being run as a one man show of the Sporting Chairman and that failing miserably because of a lack of sporting competence in the rest of the club, Hitz, when he came in a few months ago, said he was gonna build a team around him and with Mislintat he's actually made a first step and good on that promise. That's excellent.

In regards to Sven himself, I think it's known that I highly rate him and I think he'll do a great job in Stuttgart. It's a massive surprise though for me and most fans, because although there were rumours about him, everyone thought he was in a category too high for us.

As to why he might have chosen VfB:
As troubled as the club as been in the last decade, it's still one of the biggest traditional clubs in Germany with a massive, loyal fanbase. Despite the rise of Hoffenheim we're still the biggest club in the region - which is one of the richest and economically strongest in Germany with Mercedes, porsche, Bosch, IBM and endless more. So there's plenty of options to find strong sponsorship partners when successfull.
The problem has been that over the last decade the club has been run directly by either completely incompetent people like Horst Heldt or Robin Dutt as one man shows, or that the non executive hierarchy got too involved in the operative business. E.g. Horst Heldt completely overblew the budget after the 2007 Championship and the Mario Gomez sale, so when Fredi Bobic - who's now doing a great job at Eintracth Frankfurt - came, he was supposed to significantly lower budget costs but at the same time keep the club in the upper echelons of the Bundesliga. When that understandably failed and the high demands of hierarchy and fans couldn't be met, he had to go. Apparently he told the board - full of business people - they didn't have a clue about football and how a club is run, so that was the last nail in his coffin. So one of the biggest problems has always been not enough football knowledge and competence at VfB Stuttgart and too many non-executives including board members from business sponsors meddling in operative affairs too much and this being easy for them because there always only was one person - the Sporting Chairman - who you'd have to target/veto/harrass. So now that Hitzlsperger has finally formed a double pivot by bringing in an absolut expert like Sven Mislintat and is apparently still looking to add it's a big, big step in the right direction and a sign that Hitz knows what's been the problem.
Other, better faring clubs like Gladback could have been an option, too. But I think most of them have more settled and powerful Sporting Directors or Sporting Chairmen, like e.g. Eberl. So it might have been the more interesting and more open option to join newly appointed and rather inexperienced Hitzlsperger to form a new team with evolving power structures/dynamics than just rightout go and work under a settled and powerful guy at Gladbach, Bayern, Leverkusen or Leipzig.
VfB Stuttgart has hit rock bottom again this season, but as much as it's dangerous ground for any manager or executive to taint your name, with this laid out basic foundation for massive success naturally around the club, it's as much a chance to raise your status quickly if you succeed in getting the mess cleaned up. With able, structured and patient leaderhip Stuttgart has all the foundations to recreate Dortmund's resurgence, but there's also enough of trouble and interference right now the club might plunge down the leagues as countless other traditional clubs have done before. So it's definitely easy to burn your hands here, but there's also the chance of massive success.

I very much welcome Mislintat and can't wait for the transfer window. I just hope we manage to stay up in the 1. Bundesliga.
 
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This might be a good time to get an English DoF considering the potential of England producing a massive pool of talent in the coming years.
 

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BBC article on him a while back linking him to United, the bolded part might interest a few on here:
Mitchell is a name which keeps cropping up, with some sources considering him an "outstanding fit" for United.

The 37-year-old, who is Manchester born, is currently head of recruitment and development for Bundesliga side RB Leipzig. He has previously worked at Southampton and Sp**s alongside Pochettino, who is being tipped for the United manager's job by former captain Gary Neville.

There are some who feel that getting Mitchell in place may be a way to lure Pochettino to Old Trafford after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's caretaker manager stint.

Neville says Pochettino would be the "ideal candidate" to meet his three key principles of promoting youth, playing entertaining football and winning football matches.

And Mitchell has played a key part in helping the Argentine produce hard-working, attacking and youthful teams while at Saints and Sp**s, according to those who know him well.

Renowned for his furious work ethic, Mitchell is credited with recruiting the likes of Sadio Mane, Graziano Pelle and Dusan Tadic at Southampton, plus Toby Alderweireld, Dele Alli and Kieran Trippier at Sp**s.

But it was Alli's move from League One MK Dons where he really earned Pochettino's trust. Former MK Dons player Mitchell went to great lengths to convince the Sp**s boss that Alli could make the jump to the Premier League and then took the player under his wing to ensure the then 19-year-old felt settled after moving to London.

That episode underlined a key aspect which will interest United fans: his willingness to promote young players. It is said that if Mitchell is confident of a promising prospect coming through a club's academy, he won't sign an established player to potentially block their route to the first team.

Although he was a popular player during his time at MK Dons, Mitchell is also ruthless when he needs to be and knows his own value.

When Tottenham decided on a different style of recruitment, Mitchell had no hesitation in walking away, and has had plenty of offers from top clubs since.

His close bond with Pochettino remained intact. The only question mark may be over whether United want a director of football who has a wider range of skills.
 

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BBC article on him a while back linking him to United, the bolded part might interest a few on here:
The bolded part is interesting. He would have worked well with Wenger but do we have the time to do this now? If we get the calibre of players he has unearthed elsewhere, then we won't need time as they'll hit the ground running.
 
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Speculation has been growing in certain circles that Arsenal's pursuit may be approaching its end but club sources insist that that is not the case and that there is no imminent sign of the process coming to an end.
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****ing click bait titles. Isn't football.london just a renamed goal.com? They along with this clown Benge can get in the bin. Would rather read daily express before them.
 

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Some of the worst outlet I've read stuff on. They present themselves almost as some sort of insiders and super knowledgable football minds, but they're essentially brewing mixes of speculation and conjecture.
 
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