{"id":631752,"date":"2025-12-14T10:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/631752\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:44:16","slug":"leeds-united-a-bit-like-scotland-as-daniel-farke-told-why-he-should-beat-the-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/631752\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United &#8216;a bit like Scotland&#8217; as Daniel Farke told why he should beat the drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds United legend Gordon Strachan is backing his former club to beat the drop \u2013 because Daniel Farke still has the players on his side.<\/p>\n<p>United boss Farke had been under increasing pressure after five defeats in a row saw them drop into the relegation zone. But a spirited 3-3 draw against Liverpool last weekend gave Strachan enough evidence to suggest the dressing room is still firmly behind their manager ahead of an away trip to Brentford.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Strachan, who spent six years at Elland Road as a player, said: \u201cWhen you see a manager under pressure, or a team that is struggling, you usually see players who are disheartened, lacking confidence, or having trouble putting effort in.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li\/>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p>\u201cBut with Leeds, I never saw that. The players were always putting the effort in. But at the same time, a lot of Leeds players, I thought if you put them up for sale, I wouldn\u2019t see many Premier League clubs rushing in to buy them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t mean that disrespectfully, it\u2019s just that they didn\u2019t quite have the ability for the Premier League. But usually you see a struggling manager who loses the dressing room, they say, or the players down tools, but that wasn\u2019t happening at Leeds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Strachan thinks Leeds\u2019 works and endeavour, similar to his country Scotland, will be the way to achieve success.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI think they will have to get by on common sense and effort, and hope that is enough, because there are not enough star players there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re a bit like Scotland. They need to make the most of what they have and they have to earn their wins as a team, every move has to be earned. Unless they get a Scott McTominay, they will struggle in the best league in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m quite happy with how they are going now, because they spent a fair amount, but I don\u2019t want to see them go and spend \u00a3300million that could put themselves back into the crisis they found themselves in a few years ago. Will they beat the drop? I\u2019m saying yes, absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United legend Gordon Strachan is backing his former club to beat the drop \u2013 because Daniel Farke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,1385,393,141073,4884,1860,2922,179,13314,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-631752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-daniel-farke","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-gordon-strachan","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-leeds","14":"tag-leeds-united","15":"tag-liverpool","16":"tag-scott-mctominay","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115717516047318206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}