Leeds manager Farke scolded for wasting £7m on third division level player.
Daniel Farke, the manager of Leeds United, has come under fire for spending £7 million on a player who hasn’t been able to live up to expectations. Yorkshire had a very busy summer with a lot of squad turnover under Farke’s direction.
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Leeds’ inconsistent start to the new Championship season has drawn criticism even though they only suffered their first league loss of the year on Saturday against Burnley.
After losing to Clarets in their most recent league game, the Whites have only won two of their first five games, further aggravating the German. After a dismal start to the season, Farke is reportedly “under pressure” at Leeds, according to Pete O’Rourke of Football Insider. Farke is in his second season as Elland Road’s manager for the 2024–2025 season, but even before the ball was kicked, he was under a lot of pressure because of last season’s inability to secure promotion.
He supervised an extremely challenging summer in which Leeds lost a number of important players to Premier League teams for large salaries, and although they did sign players, it might be argued that they didn’t do it as frequently as he would have wanted. If this round of recruits doesn’t pan out, Leeds will scrutinise Farke’s talent identification, which has previously been questioned at his previous clubs.
Farke blamed for wasting £7m on third division level player
Sport Witness cited the Rheinische Post as saying that Leeds manager Daniel Farke has faced criticism for his choice to sign Nathan Ngoumou for his previous team, Borussia Mönchengladbach.
In 2022, the Bundesliga team acquired Ngoumou from Toulouse, a French team, for approximately 8 million euros, or £7 million. Before the German departed the team, the winger appeared in 21 games under Farke’s tutelage. This story claims that Farke even went so far as to liken Ngoumou to a teenage Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Goumou wouldn’t even stand out in the German football third division, according to this source, and there is a view that Farke overestimated the player based on his previous success for Mönchengladbach.
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