David Prutton drops Daniel Farke sack verdict at Leeds United as Steve Cooper replacement mooted
David Prutton has shared his verdict on Daniel Farke’s future at Leeds United after the Whites missed out on promotion to the Premier League.
Having been pipped to automatic promotion by Leicester City and Ipswich Town, Leeds managed to reach the Championship play-off final before losing 1-0 to Southampton at Wembley.
Many expected Farke to get the current squad out of the division at the first time of asking, mainly due to his experience in the division with Norwich City but will have to settle for another promotion battle.
Writing for the Yorkshire Evening Post on Monday (3 June), Prutton said: “It quite clearly sounds like Daniel Farke is going to remain in charge and is that the right call? I think given what he has done when he has had the right tools at Norwich, he made automatic promotion look relatively straightforward.
“So if he is in a position where he has a set of players that can do what his Norwich side did then yes. I mean who else would be out there that could be tasked with the same kind of question and thrown into that same kind of mix?
“There’s people like Steve Cooper but Cooper has done it once, Farke has done it twice. I’m not saying then that makes Daniel Farke twice as good but you want promotion so you get people who have achieved promotion which is exactly what Daniel has done. Whether he had the right players, whether he had the strongest squad to be able to do it, it’s now down to them.”
Daniel Farke set to remain as Leeds United manager
Even despite the incredible amount of talent in the Championship this season, nobody expected the three-horse race that occurred at the top of the table, and little of the blame can go towards Farke.
While Leeds did slip up towards the end of the league campaign, in games that should have been won, the team were almost perfect up until that point, a standard that no one should be held to.
As stated before, Farke has previous experience with promotion from the Championship, having achieved it with Norwich on two separate occasions, so it is no surprise to see the manager with full backing from the hierarchy at Elland Road.
The Whites are set for a summer of change after missing out on promotion, with several stars set to leave the club, though Farke will still be expected to make the best of a bad situation and help Leeds climb back up to the Premier League next season.
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