Liverpool have reportedly added Sven Mislintat possible candidate to the list to replace Julian Ward as sporting director in May.
This news comes courtesy of a tweet from Sky Sports reporter Florian Plettenberg following the Englishman’s bombshell announcement.
Excl. News #Mislintat: He is a candidate in order to replace Ward as a Sporting Director at #LFC in summer 2023! No concrete negotiations yet but he‘s open for Liverpool. Relation to Klopp still brilliant. They have worked together in Dortmund (08-15). @Sky_Marc @SkySportDE 
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— Florian Plettenberg (@Plettigoal) November 30, 2022
The German, known as ‘Diamantenauge’ (Diamond Eye) after helping bring the likes of Pierre Emerick-Aubameyang and Shinji Kagawa to Germany, has worked in the Premier League before, spending two years with Arsenal as their chief scout.
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Though his time in London didn’t quite work out as well as hoped, the Anfield hierarchy will perhaps be hoping to get the man the Gunners thought they were getting from Borussia Dortmund.
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