After suspension: BVB confirm Mislintat decision | OneFootball

After months of power struggles, Borussia Dortmund is ending the chapter with Sven Mislintat. The contract of the Technical Director will be terminated prematurely, and Mislintat will receive a severance payment.

Borussia Dortmund and Sven Mislintat have agreed on the premature termination of the contract, which was valid until 2028. As first reported by the Ruhr Nachrichten and later confirmed by Sky Sport and SID confirmed, the cooperation will officially end on August 31, 2025 - one day before the end of the summer transfer window. Sports Managing Director Lars Ricken confirmed the agreement and emphasized that the talks had gone well. Mislintat will receive a severance payment as part of the contract termination; his annual salary was reportedly around one million euros, according to Sky.

The 52-year-old returned to BVB as Technical Director and squad planner in May 2024, after previously working for the club in various functions between 2006 and 2017. He rose from an employee in the scouting department to Director of Professional Football during this time. He was involved in the transfers of Robert Lewandowski, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Ousmane Dembele, and Shinji Kagawa, among others.

Return to BVB: Mislintat encounters tensions with Kehl and Ricken

However, after his return, tensions quickly arose with Sports Director Sebastian Kehl and Ricken. Mislintat was accused of exceeding his area of responsibility and interfering in other areas, which led to significant unrest within the management. The responsibilities had been re-regulated in writing in the meantime.

Already at the time of the contract signing, the long contract term had caused "irritations" internally, and before his return, there were already rumors that the cooperation could become difficult. The leadership structure had been reorganized at the request of club boss Hans-Joachim Watzke, with Ricken at the helm. Kehl and Mislintat functioned as "deputies," which further intensified the tensions.

Between his two engagements at BVB, Mislintat worked as Chief Scout at FC Arsenal (2017-2019), Sports Director at VfB Stuttgart (2019-2022), and briefly at Ajax Amsterdam (May-September 2023).

With the formal contract termination, Sven Mislintat's chapter at Borussia Dortmund is finally coming to an end. The club management is likely to be relieved to be able to finally put the issue to rest.

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