Have Leeds’ celebrations been marred by Farke reports?

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Daniel Wales and Lee Sobot discuss if Leeds’ celebrations have been impacted by talk of Daniel Farke’s future.

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00:00Now, Leeds United secured their place back in the Premier League on Monday afternoon

00:05following their 6-0 win at home to Stoke City,

00:08coupled with Burnley defeating Sheffield United at Turf Moor,

00:12which guaranteed Leeds and Burnley's promotion back to the Premier League.

00:17Of course, after that ensued fantastic celebrations outside of Elland Road,

00:22which saw thousands be outside of the stadium, you know, pyrotechnics,

00:27and just lots of celebrations and joy at Leeds finally being back in the Premier League

00:32after a couple of seasons away.

00:35But of course, once all that settled down and died down,

00:38talk began about what could be Leeds' future in the Premier League

00:41and will it be with Daniel Farker?

00:44Of course, it's an interesting one.

00:47He has managed in the Premier League before with Norwich, but not had the best of records.

00:52So, is he given that chance at Leeds, or do Leeds move on from him

00:56and go for someone with perhaps better know-how in the Premier League?

01:00Or, should talks like this be parked for now,

01:03and should it be the case where Leeds just enjoy these celebrations for what they are,

01:07a club getting back to where they want to be,

01:10and focus on that a little bit later on,

01:12and perhaps even give Farker a fair chance at seeing what he can do with Leeds,

01:17at least the start of next season,

01:19or will that itself be too late if things do not start well for them?

01:24We'll now go to Lee Soberts of the Yorkshire Evening Post,

01:26who's offered his thoughts on the celebrations and Farker's future.

01:30Yeah, I think the thing to add there is that they might replace him,

01:35but they also might not, you know,

01:36and the report was very, very vague that came out as well and stuff,

01:39and I think basically all it is is that Leeds are sort of like, you know,

01:42considering his future as such, but I think that's probably normal.

01:45I think most, pretty much every club that will get promoted,

01:48you know, the managers, they will be assessing the manager's position,

01:50especially when you're going into the Premier League in such a big division like that,

01:53and, you know, obviously people will look at Daniel Farker's Premier League record

01:56with Norwich, which obviously is not great, but, you know,

01:59he's spoken about that before, even in other press conferences beforehand,

02:02and basically said, you know, which I think is quite correct,

02:05that he wasn't properly backed there at Norwich and stuff,

02:07and, you know, I personally think, like,

02:09you've got to sort of, like, give him a chance in there and stuff.

02:11I do think, obviously, if Leeds go up and they don't start particularly well,

02:14then, obviously, you need to make a change sooner rather than later,

02:16because you don't want to start getting sort of, like, you know,

02:17cut adrift at the bottom, but, you know,

02:19this is a totally different ballgame, a different team to that Norwich side and stuff,

02:23and, obviously, you know, you're talking about a team here that have got,

02:26you know, great momentum, they're in flying form and stuff,

02:28and you would hope, obviously, with the right additions that they would continue

02:31that next summer, obviously, next season,

02:33obviously, it's going to be a massive, massive step up to the Premier League,

02:36and even before Leeds had sealed promotion,

02:39basically, most people coming up to me saying,

02:40well, how are we going to stay up if we go up, you know,

02:43and what are we going to do over the summer and stuff,

02:44and, yeah, obviously, you're going to need an awful, awful lot of work,

02:48but it was sort of quite good to hear Parag Marate, the chairman,

02:51come out very, very quickly and say that work's already been going on

02:53ahead of next season and stuff,

02:55and, yeah, so we'll just have to wait and see in terms of what does happen

02:59over the summer, both with, well, obviously, with players' ins and outs

03:01and Daniel Tharker, I mean, as I say, I personally think, you know,

03:04after such a tremendous season and achievement at Leeds,

03:06I think he's got to be given the chance,

03:08and I hope he's given the chance,

03:09and I hope he turns out to be a massive success in the Premier League,

03:12because he's definitely got unfinished business there, so to speak,

03:14but the mood at the moment is just one of absolute jubilation,

03:17there's no doubt about that, because all, you know,

03:19this season was about sealing a top-two finish,

03:22well, it was about sealing promotion, but nobody wanted to go through

03:25the dreaded playoffs, and obviously, you know,

03:28we've had twists and turns this season and, you know,

03:30we had the defeat at Portsmouth and then a few draws and stuff,

03:33and, you know, people were getting a bit worried about it,

03:35but ultimately, they've done it with two games to spare, you know,

03:37which there were times when that didn't look like happening,

03:40so, you know, hats off to the team, hats off to the players,

03:43hats off to the club, to Daniel Tharker and his staff,

03:45I mean, it's a tremendous achievement what they're on now,

03:48you know, to be on 94 points and obviously have a chance

03:50of finishing on 100 points, and the home record

03:53is just absolutely remarkable, I think it's 55 points

03:55out of a possible 66 at Ellen Road, which is, you know,

03:59that is some going, all you've dropped is one defeat

04:01and four draws, I mean, that's a tremendous, tremendous record,

04:04but, yeah, fully deserved, as with Burnley as well,

04:07you obviously say congratulations to them, I mean,

04:09now the two of them are eight points clear,

04:11it's not even particularly close at the moment, is it,

04:13now we're two games to go, and it's job done,

04:15but, yeah, Monday was an absolutely fantastic day of,

04:18I mean, you know, I mean, I've got to say,

04:19I think going to the game, I think there was, like,

04:21quite a lot of confidence, actually, from fans,

04:23I don't think it didn't really feel like there were

04:25that many nerves, it felt like more like anticipation,

04:27I think people, like, expected it to happen, really,

04:29and I certainly did as well, I thought they'd probably

04:31beat Stoke, I didn't think they'd beat him 6-0,

04:34to be honest, but, yeah, I mean, emphatic,

04:38Peru scoring four, obviously, absolutely amazing,

04:40job done by half-time, and then, obviously,

04:42it was just over to Burnley.

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