‘He is my man’: Leeds chair says Daniel Farke to stick on as supervisor in Premier League

The Leeds chair, Paraag Marathe, has ended hypothesis over the way forward for Daniel Farke through revealing he’s going to keep on as supervisor at Elland Road within the Premier League subsequent season.

Farke led Leeds to the Championship name and earned promotion again to the top-flight in his 2nd season accountable for the membership. Despite this good fortune, there were rumours that the 48-year-old may well be relieved of his tasks, having up to now been relegated from the Premier League whilst Norwich supervisor after taking them up.

Marathe has now showed that Farke will stay. “I’m not one to respond because some random gossip paper wants to say something. I’m not going to make comments based on rumours and gossip. But now, today is that day,” he instructed BBC Radio Leeds. “I was waiting for the season to conclude. I wanted to win a trophy, just like Daniel did, just like the players did, just like all the staff did, and we got that goal.

“My plan was always to come and speak to you all right after the season concluded, and so that time is now, and I want to tell you all that I’m very excited to run it back with Daniel.”

He added: “I’m under no illusions that it is going to be easy. The past two seasons the three promoted teams came straight back down but we have something they don’t have: we have Daniel Farke first of all.”

Asked to verify if his feedback put an finish to hypothesis over the chief’s long term, Marathe stated: “I have ended the speculation. He is my man. I’m really excited about collaborating with Daniel, with Robbie Evans, who we promoted to managing director, with Adam Underwood, who we promoted to sporting director, and together, we are going to build the best squad that we can with every penny that we’re allowed to spend to go and compete in the Premier League.”

Marathe led 49ers Enterprises’ takeover of Leeds in July 2023. Farke’s first season in fee ended within the agony of a playoff ultimate defeat to Southampton at Wembley. But promotion again to the end flight used to be sealed with a 6-0 victory over Stoke in April earlier than a past due winner at Plymouth on Saturday secured peak spot within the Championship.