Having already lost a dozen first-team players and with others agitating to leave the manager faces tough task to stabilise club
Daniel Farke is becoming so reacclimatised to the potholes blemishing England’s roads that he seems to regard them as something of a metaphor for his Leeds United team’s travails.
“I don’t want to sugarcoat the situation – I want to speak quite openly and honestly about it,” the German manager says. “I’m confident and in a good mood but I also know it will be difficult. I predict a bumpy road through August.”
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