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Daniel Farke will is set to be sacked by 49ers Enterprises if Leeds lose their next two Premier League matches against Chelsea and Liverpool.
Farke frustrated by Man City tactics at the Etihad
The Whites were left heartbroken by a late Phil Foden winner at Manchester City on Saturday, as a crucial point slipped through Farke’s fingers.
The German bemoaned City’s dark arts after the match, believing goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma went down with a “fake injury” that allowed Pep Guardiola to give his players a team talk.
“It is within the rules,” Farke said. “It is smart. If I like it, if it is in the sense of fair play, if it should be like this, I keep it to myself and I leave it to the authorities to find solutions for it. It is within the rules.
“I asked the fourth official at this point if you want to do something and he said: ‘No, our hands are tied, we can’t do anything’.
“If we don’t educate our players in football, what to do in terms of fair play, sportsmanship, if you just try to bend the rules to your advantage and you can do a fake injury in order to do an additional team talk, it is nothing I personally like but if it is within the rules I can’t complain about it.”
Leeds want a new manager before the January transfer window
The Leeds manager is feeling the pressure with his side now sat in the bottom three heading into two huge fixtures, as they take on Chelsea at Elland Road on Wednesday before welcoming Liverpool to Yorkshire on Saturday evening.
And according to a report from The Guardian‘multiple sources at Leeds have privately conceded that Farke’s fate is in the balance’.
He is likely to be relieved of his duties if they lose both games, despite some within the club feeling the performances have deserved better results.
More intriguingly, the report states the 49ers want a new boss in before the January transfer window if they do indeed make a change, as they would like to make signings in January to mold the team to the new manager’s needs.
And while just who that is remains to be seen, a report shared by Give Me Sport claims Gary O’Neil is now the frontrunner to take over.
The former Wolves manager has been out of work for nearly a year after he was sacked in December 2024, but was looked upon favorably during his time at Molineux.
“It’s unbelievable and you think the summer they had as well,” Shay Given said on BBC Match of the Day last year.
“I’ve just written some names down Nunes, Neves, Collins, Coady, Jimenez, he had to sell all of them to balance the books up.
“So the job he’s done under such restraints and Financial Fair Play is just phenomenal.”
