{"id":7333,"date":"2025-04-10T08:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T08:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/7333\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T08:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T08:12:13","slug":"gnonto-situation-causes-shock-after-what-farke-did-to-leeds-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/7333\/","title":{"rendered":"Gnonto situation causes shock after what Farke did to Leeds star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/FEATURED-IMAGE-EXCLUSIVE-RIGHT-2025-04-09T155655.324-1140x641.jpg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Wilfried Gnonto Daniel Farke\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 50%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Credit: Imago)<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ian-darke.png\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" alt=\"MOT Leeds News speaking to Ian Darke\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p> Wed 9 April 2025 19:10, UK <\/p>\n<p><strong>Leeds United are finally back to winning ways in the most welcome of circumstances, after overcoming a tricky away test at Middlesbrough.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dan James cast the decisive blow (8 April) in the latest of his match-winning impacts this season, with the solitary early goal enough to separate the sides on a night when everything around the grounds <a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/matchday\/aaronson-awful-again-dan-james-motm-leeds-player-ratings-v-middlesbrough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tilted back in Leeds\u2019 favour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/tag\/daniel-farke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Farke<\/a> is under immense pressure to achieve a Premier League return at the second time of asking, and with as much as he has on his plate, it is unsurprising that he often tends to take a conservative team selection approach.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1farke-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Leeds United manager Daniel Farke\" class=\"wp-image-189757\" \/>Farke got some key respite in midweek as results went for Leeds (Credit: Imago)<strong>Farke sympathy given by expert but Wilfried Gnonto snub questioned<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/news\/leeds-promotion-chances-predicted-by-supercomputer-after-win-v-middlesbrough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds got the job done<\/a> 70 miles north on Teesside, Sheffield United came unstuck at home to Millwall as Burnley were held to a goalless draw by Derby County.<\/p>\n<p>As a reuslt, the Peacocks are back top, with Farke having tweaked his team for the contest at the Riverside \u2013 including taking Gnonto back out of the XI.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian has started just one league match in 2025 \u2013 Saturday\u2019s draw with Luton Town (5 April) \u2013 and was hooked after 63 minutes, Farke then bringing him on for the final quarter of Tuesday\u2019s game. It has led some to believe the time will come this summer for <a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/comment\/willy-gnonto-sale-makes-sense-this-summer-after-what-has-happened-at-leeds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gnonto to depart Elland Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>TV commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/author\/iandarke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ian Darke<\/a> has exhibited his surprise at Farke\u2019s regular omission of the young forward, but sympathised with the Whites manager for the task he has ahead in the coming weeks and the consequent risk-averse approach he may be inclined to take.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m surprised Gnonto has started as few games as he has, given what he\u2019s shown in a Leeds shirt,\u201d Darke exclusively told <strong>MOT Leeds News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a massive decision for Farke to make each and every time. They have Solomon and James, then Gnonto and Ramazani \u2013 Aaronson centrally \u2013 and when you have that much talent, it\u2019s difficult. He\u2019s got to sit down and decide who the players are to ensure the job is done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have to have the mentality and character to get Leeds over the line, and I think Farke is conservative and prefers to stick with the players who have got the team into this position in the first place. He may feel that, or just that the odd tweak here and there is all they need to get the ship going in a straight line again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Wilfried-Gnonto-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-185275\" \/>Gnonto very rarely plays a full game for Leeds (Credit: Imago)<strong>Leeds United have several talented forward options<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Farke has an unenviable task of keeping many players happy who likely consider themselves above Championship standard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motleedsnews.com\/tag\/willy-gnonto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gnonto<\/a>, James, Manor Solomon, Joel Piroe, Mateo Joseph, Largie Ramazani, Brenden Aaronson, Patrick Bamford \u2013 you can\u2019t wedge them all into a starting XI \u2013 and Farke is mindful that too many changes could cause a major drop in performance.<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>Wilfried Gnonto \u2013 Leeds United 2024-25<\/td>\n<td>Total<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Appearances<\/td>\n<td>38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Starts<\/td>\n<td>21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Goals<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Assists<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>(Championship only) (Soccerway)<\/p>\n<p>Granted, Leeds have performed nowhere near what is expected of them in the past few weeks, but that win at Middlesbrough felt like a turning point.<\/p>\n<p>Despite any egos, dissatisfaction at lack of game time or disagreements with the manager, unity is absolutely paramount to get Leeds over the line now. They have been given an unexpected fresh opportunity \u2013 they simply cannot waste it.<\/p>\n<p>Related Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit: Imago) Wed 9 April 2025 19:10, UK Leeds United are finally back to winning ways in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[1385,94,4513,79,16,15,4514,4515],"class_list":{"0":"post-7333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-daniel-farke","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ian-darke","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-wilfried-gnonto","15":"tag-willy-gnonto"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114312665146253858","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333","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=7333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}