A new era has begun at Leeds United, with Daniel Farke impressing new owners, 49ers Enterprises, enough to land the job ahead of the likes of Patrick Vieira and Scott Parker.
It’s a job that the German will understand comes with significant pressures, none more so that the need to get the all whites back up into the Premier League as quickly as possible and ideally at the first time of asking.
The sooner that he understands which players will remain at the club, which will leave and how much money he has to spend, the better idea he will have as to whether an immediate promotion is achievable.
Previous managers had been backed in the transfer market under the former regime, however, it was clear that the energy around Elland Road was significantly bad enough to transmit into below par performances over an extensive period.
One of the first challenges that Farke will have is to restore some equilibrium and positivity to the dressing room.
Get everyone singing from the same hymn sheet, and he’ll be half way there already.
It’s clear he will need to strengthen, and to that end, a report in the reliable Yorkshire Evening Post notes that he’s likely to have significant backing in the transfer window, as well as being handed an ‘aggressive’ wage bill to bring in the quality of players that will help with the fight for promotion.
What concerns me, we are letting players go without recruiting, no idea if transfer money will go missing, we need all players back including loans, sell rather than loan, and invest in players who want to play! Annoyed all players who let us down and aided relegation, should be made to stay for a few months, and repay the awful last season most of them had. Disgrace when managers get sacked for players very poor performances, or at least return 50% of there wages as a sorry to the club!
The players we’re letting go out on loan all have loan guarantees in their contracts which kicked in after relegation. There is very little the present Leeds management can do about that. If the players want out, they get to go. It’s as simple as that.
In any case, why would we want players who don’t want to stay? They’re on Premier League sized salaries, which we can’t afford anyway. Loans mean someone else will pay them for the next season.