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While the initial euphoria over the long-awaited promotion to the Premier League<\/a> for Leeds<\/a> is slowly but surely fading, and the team under record-breaking head coach Daniel Farke<\/a> is focusing on surpassing the 100-point mark in the final two Championship<\/a> matches against Bristol City and Plymouth, attention at Elland Road must now turn to the future. Whether the time advantage from the early promotion can be used effectively in terms of squad planning and transfers seems questionable when looking at the current structures at the Yorkshire side.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With CEO Angus Kinnear<\/a> and squad planner Nick Hammond<\/a> both leaving the club for Everton\u2014two of the key decision-makers alongside Farke\u2014there is now a gaping void. The enormous challenge of assembling a competitive squad for the English top flight as a newly promoted team has now been made much harder. The role of the American \u201c49ers Enterprises,\u201d majority owners of the club since 2023, in filling these crucial positions is being watched with both anticipation and scrutiny. Into this emotionally charged situation at the club came, surprisingly for many, a report from the Daily Mail during the week about a potential dismissal of the promotion-winning coach. Transfermarkt takes a look behind the scenes at Elland Road, where, despite the extraordinary sporting success, not everything seems as rosy as it might appear.<\/p>\n The English newspaper speculated on Wednesday that the Leeds owners might not trust Farke with the job in the top flight. No further details were given by the English publication, but the report quickly spread through news agencies, including in Germany. The gist of the claim: Farke has done well to take Leeds back to the English top-flight, but has never been able to establish a team in the Premier League. Aside from the newly set records by the German coach, even a glance at history quickly disproves this narrative.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Before his time at Leeds, Farke had already led Norwich to the Premier League twice. After the first promotion in 2019, the 48-year-old amassed 21 points\u2014essentially with the Canaries\u2019 Championship squad\u2014despite minimal investment of just \u20ac8 million compared to the competition and today\u2019s standards. A performance that, given the sporting gap between the Championship and the Premier League, can be considered pretty respectable. After the second promotion in 2021, Norwich invested \u20ac63m, allowing Farke to start the season with a reinforced squad, but he was let go already in November following a 2\u20131 win in Brentford. He was succeeded by Dean Smith, who ended the season with a significantly stronger squad but managed only one more point than Farke had two years earlier. To this day, the German tactician is one of the three most successful coaches in Norwich\u2019s club history (with at least 50 games).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n