Manager insists club ‘belongs in the Premier League’ and has been building a taller, tougher side to keep them there
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he trampoline man. It sounds like a promising title for a novel, film or even a song but it is a label Daniel Farke remains desperate to avoid. To the Leeds head coach, the term “trampoline manager” carries no hint of glamour, let alone romance.
Farke knows that, after winning three promotions to the Premier League, the first two with Norwich, and enduring two immediate relegations, he could do without his latest bounce into the big time prefacing a swift tumble back to the Championship. No matter that there are persuasive mitigating factors for those two relegations with Norwich – mainly involving a severe shortage of money. Mud sticks.
In Farke’s case, the received wisdom that he’s not quite an elite-level tactician seems unfair but it surely informed the slew of headlines last spring suggesting that his reward for leading Leeds back into the top flight would be the sack.
