Leeds on the verge of hiring Daniel Farke - Mail 29/6/23

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Leeds are on the verge of hiring Daniel Farke to lead them back to the Premier League and hope to have him in place by the start of pre-season

Daniel Farke is set to take over as Leeds boss at Elland Road ahead of next season

The Yorkshire club were relegated to the Championship at the end of last term

The German manager twice marshalled Norwich to Premier League promotion

By DAVID COVERDALE

Daniel Farke is on the brink of becoming the new Leeds United manager, with the club hoping to have the German in place for the start of pre-season training next week.

Mail Sport revealed last week that the former Norwich boss had emerged as the Whites' preferred candidate following a lengthy interview process.

And Farke is now understood to have agreed terms about taking charge at Elland Road and has already visited their Thorp Arch training ground.

Leeds had been waiting for the EFL to approve their takeover by 49ers Enterprises before announcing who would be managing them in the Championship.

The club are still hopeful that the American group's buy-out of Italian Andrea Radrizzani will be given the green light in the coming days.

However, Leeds also want to have their new boss installed before the players return to Thorp Arch for testing on Monday – and Farke is their chosen man.

The 46-year-old was first sounded out by the Whites at the start of this month, soon after he was sacked by German outfit Borussia Monchengladbach.

He twice led Norwich to Premier League promotion as Championship winners, in 2019 and 2021, and impressed the Leeds hierarchy in early conversations.

Farke then emerged as Leeds' No 1 choice last week after he was formally interviewed, along with other shortlisted candidates, Patrick Vieira and Scott Parker.

The Whites have been without a boss since Sam Allardyce left at the end of the season after he failed in his four-game mission to keep the club in the Premier League.

The recruitment of a new manager has been headed up by Leeds chief executive Angus Kinnear and Paraag Marathe, the club's vice-chairman and president of 49ers Enterprises.

Marathe will become Leeds chairman once the EFL have ratified the 49ers' takeover, which is not expected to be a problem.

Leeds announced on June 9 that 'an agreement has been reached' for Radrizzani to sell his 56 per cent stake to the Americans, but the EFL are still going through their Owners' and Directors' Test.

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