Simon Jordan shares Daniel Farke Leeds United contract verdict as ‘stinks the place out’ claim made
Daniel Farke should not have been given a four-year contract at Leeds United, according to talkSPORT pundit Simon Jordan.
Farke has been appointed as the new Whites manager on a four-year deal, as confirmed by the club’s official website on Tuesday (4 July).
But Jordan thinks the length of the contract for the new boss, who has taken over from Sam Allardyce at Elland Road, is too long.
“Would you have given him a four-year contract?” host Sam Matterface asked Jordan live on talkSPORT.
Jordan replied: “I don’t think it really matters what contract you give somebody, because at the end of the day you’re going to put mitigation clauses in there anyway. So if he stinks the place out, you’ll have a deal that will compensate you for having to pay a proportion of his contract up.
“Probably not, I probably would have looked at a three-year deal, because I think that is the sort of space that would give people enough opportunity to feel that they’re going to be given a chance, and not too much opportunity to give too much comfort or too much economic benefit from not achieving in the short term.
“Because the aim is to get out of the Championship at the first instance.”
Promotion the aim
Amid all the noise behind the scenes at Elland Road in recent times, the sole aim for the upcoming season remains the same; gaining promotion to the Premier League.
And who better than experienced boss Farke to take on the difficult project in West Yorkshire, with the German having won the Championship title twice during his time with Norwich City.
The manager knows the competition as well as any other, and has proven on two occasions that he is capable of building a team that can not only gain promotion from the division, but can win it.
The circumstances are, of course, very different, with Farke now working with a completely new set of players, many of which will still be downbeat after their relegation from the Premier League.
So the new man in the Elland Road dugout definitely has his work cut out for him, in that he must be tactically aware, but must also be a motivator from the touchline.
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