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