Daniel Farke has done an incredible job at Leeds United.
The German has accrued 100 points this season, becoming just the second manager to get Leeds back to the Premier League since their initial relegation in 2004.
However, there’s still this sense that Farke isn’t fully accepted by Leeds fans, at least not in the same way Marcelo Bielsa once was.
Bielsa was labelled a legend after getting Leeds promoted, meanwhile, there’s been talk of Farke being replaced in recent times.
Speaking on the One Leeds Fan Channel, Stuart Dallas has been discussing Farke and Bielsa, and he says that he finds it really harsh when people try to compare the two managers, noting that both coaches have had different jobs to do in different circumstances.
Stuart Dallas says Daniel Farke shouldn’t be compared to Marcelo Bielsa
Dallas spoke about how his team is compared to the current Leeds squad.
Dallas notes that he doesn’t quite like how Bielsa and Farke are often compared, claiming that their situations are entirely different.
“I think it’s really, people compare the team now to what it was back then and the manager now to Bielsa, but it’s completely different,” Dallas said.
“Bielsa laid the foundations, and the club is where it is now because of him. I think it’s really harsh to compare the two. The group of players we had were just a normal group of lads who bought into everything, he improved everybody.
“The club is where it is now because of him, but the work Daniel has done now, Jesus, it’s incredible, the points tally the past two seasons.”
Where were Leeds when Marcelo Bielsa took over?
Dallas notes that Bielsa and Farke have had wildly different jobs to do at Leeds, and he’s absolutely right.
Farke joined Leeds with one job – get promoted, and he had the tools at his disposal to do it, he’s had parachute payments, investment and a squad packed full of international players.
Meanwhile, Bielsa arrived at Leeds when the team had just finished 13th in the Championship, the squad was lacking quality, and they’d just sacked two managers in the same season.
Bielsa was tasked with getting Leeds promoted, but that was more an aspiration than an expectation, and he managed to pull it off against the odds rather than with perhaps the best team in the league on paper.
Farke and Bielsa have both done brilliant jobs at Leeds, but it’s hard to truly compare the two, and it won’t be possible to compare them until Farke has had a crack at the Premier League.
