Leeds appoint Daniel Farke as manager

First, some breaking news. Daniel Farker has been appointed the head coach of Leeds United. The former Norwich boss, who has won the championship twice, has signed a four-year contract. Let's get some instant reaction and go to Ellen Road and our reporter Peter Stephenson. Yes, a warm welcome to West Yorkshire and a warm welcome to the new manager of Leeds United Football Club, Daniel Farker. How good does that sound? Thanks a lot, sounds really good. I'm quite grateful to work for this amazing club in such a responsible role. You feel humble in such a moment. Obviously, there were some busy days, but from now on I'm allowed to work in this responsible role for this club and I'm looking forward to it. It's a big, big club with a passionate support, but they'll be desperate to get back to the Premier League. How big a job have you got? Yes, I think it's important to be realistic. I haven't worked long enough in this business that season after relegation is always difficult because there's always a little bit of hangover. We need a really good transfer window right now. First of all, it's to concentrate on good decisions before you speak too early about goals and targets and something like this. It's quite important to be there with good work, to have some good decisions, to work good in pre-season. Then we'll see how much we can prepare. Have you got a lot of money? Have you got to do a lot of chopping and changing, have people to leave before you can buy? First of all, after relegation it's always a difficult season. My experience since I came to English football is that much less than 50 per cent of all the teams who are relegated are able to bounce back on the first chance. For that, we have to be humble and don't speak too much about ambitions. Concentrate on what you have to do. We need some good decisions with the staff, to create a staff who is there with big unity and highly motivated to bounce back. The same with a group of players. We need to have some good decisions with the incomings, with the outcomings. That's also up to me to work a lot on the fitness level, to bring my ideas and my football into the heads and to the hearts of my players. So, a lot to do. A lot to do for just four and a half weeks of pre-season. Huge task, but I'm looking forward with my coaching staff to fulfil all the wishes and the dreams. You've taken Norwich twice from the Championship to the Premier League, so you know what it takes. In a few words, what does it take? Well, in the Bundesliga I've worked on the Premier League level. I know the Premier League is by far the best league in the world, but the Championship is by far the toughest league in the world. That's what I can say. Obviously, the last two times I've managed in this league, thank God I was able to win this league, but it's never a guarantee that you do it also the next time. So, it's important to stay humble, to stay down to earth, to concentrate on really good work with the club. We need big unity in this club, also big unity with our supporters. We have to change our mentality again because, let's be honest, if you suffer relegation, you get used a bit to lose football matches. If you want to be successful on the Championship level, you need to get used to winning games again, so winning has to become a habit. To work on this attitude, it's not that you press a button, it's more like a process. We have to make sure that we're ready once the season starts and we're getting better with each and every week, and then we'll see what the outcome is. Do you feel perhaps that you've got unfinished business in the Premier League, having tasted it, that you want to get back there? Not unfinished, because I had one try with Norwich, and believe me, it will always be an important part of my life, and I love the players, I love to work with them together, but we were so far away from being a Premier League side, we had no chance to stay there. I see this potential in this club, I know what we can achieve in the mid- and long-term, but right now it's not the time to speak about the mid- and long-term targets, it's more like to concentrate on the everyday work, and this region knows exactly what is necessary. It's not a dreamland, you have to work hard, you have to earn your credit step by step, and that's what we'll try to do. On the training ground tomorrow, I believe, with the players for the first time, you and your three coaching staff that you've brought with you, how good will that be to get the boots on and get out there? Yeah, it's no better feeling than to smell the grass a little bit and to be ready to work with the boys, because the last days and weeks were there with many talks, and many negotiations, and talking about it in a theoretical way, but the best thing is always to feel the grass and to smell the grass, and I'm looking forward to the first time together with the boys on the training pitch tomorrow. Thank God that starts. And it's just 33 days before you play Cardiff here, 33 days. Yes, it's a short period, I know it will be quite tough, but the situation is like this, we don't complain about it, we accept this and we work hard from day one right now off, and day one is tomorrow, and we try to be as ready as possible when the season starts. Well, Daniel, enjoy training, enjoy Ellen Road, and thanks for joining us on Sky Sports News, and all the very best for the season ahead. Thank you. We appreciate it. There you go. Thank you. Daniel Faulkner.