The trampoline man. It sounds like a promising title for a novel, film or even a song but it is a label Daniel Farke remains desperate to avoid. To the Leeds head coach, the term “trampoline manager” carries no hint of glamour, let alone romance.
Farke knows that after winning three promotions to the Premier League, the first two with Norwich, and enduring two immediate relegations he could do without his latest bounce into the big time prefacing a swift tumble back to the Championship. No matter that there are persuasive factors for those two relegations – mainly involving a severe shortage of money. Mud sticks.
