FARKE in the club Interview: This time we do not need a wonder
His positive way can not take Daniel Fark, the German coach of Norwich City. Also not through a complicated preparation for his second Premier League season with the Canaries. After the immediate renewal of the 44-year-old sees his club much better this time better on the best league in the world. In the interview with the club, the former coach of Dortmund U 23 talks about the Corona outbreak in the preparation, the differences in 2019 and its future plans with Norwich.
The preparation for the season opener against Liverpool on Saturday night was not optimal. Do you still feel anticipation of the Premier League Start?
Yes, because for us it's the return to the big stage. For this we worked the entire past year. We really wanted to measure ourselves with the best clubs and players. That we can now go back to home games with our fans in the back, is a really nice feeling that the anticipation increases again after we could not celebrate our championship title with our followers in the stadium.
The last test against Newcastle went 0: 3 lost, you have personnel problems. Because of corona ...
Two and a half weeks ago we had an outbreak within the team, in the middle of our short training camp, which we had to cancel. Eleven of our players had to go into isolation within two days of two weeks. We have trained for two weeks with a maximum of ten players, two test matches had to cancel and follow stricter protocols than anyway. Our cabin was closed, for example, we had to move in the car. This time was a huge challenge for our whole troupe, especially mentally.
Two of your EM participants - the Finn Teemu Pukki and the Scot Grant Hanley - went from the holiday almost directly into the isolation ...
Yes, our Captain Hanley has not been a single minute with the team in a test in the field, Pukki at least a few minutes long. We will have to adjust that the start of the season will be influenced. Two, three weeks we will have to fight ourselves properly. But that's the new normality, so complicated is too. Meanwhile, I even see it halfway positively.
Why this?
It was as uncomfortable in these two weeks: I hope we survived it with it and we do not flow along the same way in the middle of the season.
The social and political pressure here seems to me much lower to me.
Daniel Fark on the topic of vaccination in England
The German clubs ask their professionals to vaccinate. How is dealt with the topic in England?
The social and political pressure here seems to me much less, whereby we also have to meet strict safety requirements. However, a total of very liberal is about whether someone wants to vaccinate or not. After my feeling, significantly less premier league players should be vaccinated than it is the case in the Bundesliga.
What role does the traditionally strong player union in England play?
They pay attention to extremely strongly that no pressure is exerted on the professionals. As soon as someone just raises the moral index finger, they already refer to the personal decision of each one. You will see how the whole topic evolves.
Regardless of the acute problems: What have you done for your second season with Norwich in the Premier League?
It is about to go to the next step in our development. We want to establish ourselves on Premier League level and belong to the top 20 in England perspective. Even if we are very aware that this goal is the only self-funding club at this level highest ambitious.
Your first year in the Premier League ended with the descent.
Adminished on a house wall: Daniel Fark. Imago Images / Shutterstock
If you are honest, then that did not have much to do with the Premier League at that time what we could offer. The club was just not ready for the rise in 2019. We have used the associated revenue at that time to remedy our liabilities, to expand the infrastructure, to bind our talents to us in the long term and strengthen the youth academy. In our squad was just a field player with Premier League experience. The remainder consisted partially from professionals, which previously had a new contract in the second league in Germany, Spain or France. We would have needed a miracle to keep the league. But it finally said too much against us. We had many injured, had to do the last games without viewers. It was - despite some highlights and many compliments we received - ultimately conclude that we could not keep ourselves at Premier League level.
What is different now than 2019?
We are prepared in a significantly better position and much better, even if we continue to be the only self-financed Premier League club. To establish itself, remains a serious task. But we do not need a wonder this time to keep the league, but a lot of hard work and a little luck with violations of key players. We know how difficult it will be to keep up without money from the outside and without rich investors. But we want to try to establish ourselves in our special way.
Unlike 2019, you have invested larger this time. Among other things came from the Bundesliga Milot Rashica and Josh Sargent of Werder Bremen.
We realize that we have now developed a good reputation, which allows us to oblige even players who have already played at the highest level. When I started here four years ago, it was not thinking about it. However, through the sale of Emiliano Buendia to Aston Villa, we have also achieved high transfer revenues. Despite the previous purchases, we have therefore further generated a transfer surplus.
How realistic is it that you yourself make a 40 to 50 million euro expensive transfer?
Currently that would be absolutely impossible. Even a player beyond 15 million euros is not representable for us - this is not unusual sum in England, not for a newcomer. But we have a certain competitive disadvantage through our club structure, which we fully accept. We have to work more flexibly and creative, faster and more even than the competition, sometimes perhaps riskers act. We do not complain about it.
The rumors stick to their stem players Todd Cantawell or Max Aarons could still rely on the club. How firm plan with you?
I am very, very confident that you stay with us. Because compared to recent years we have no financial pressure this time. We have no liabilities, despite the corona crisis are economically very stable and solidly situated. But of course we are still not a buyer club. When crazy offers come - and they often come in England very late - then it can happen that someone still leaves us. We have to make our reality: a big-money-move, how big transfers are called here, we usually have to realize.
How much is she annoying that as a coach sometimes?
I am coach at Norwich City, not at Manchester City or the FC Chelsea. These clubs can withstand all offers. But we are a club whose philosophy belongs to develop players and then achieving good proceeds with them. Of course, I always want to work with the best players. That's why I would also want the troupe to stay together and we still add one or the other player with quality. But I know that the club depends on revenues and I may have to work more flexibly sometimes. That does not change the fact that we want to be as successful as possible.
You have recently extended your contract by four years. An exceptionally long time. Why this duration?
On the one hand, I value this contract period as a great deal of confidence of the club to me. At the same time, it is also a clear statement from my side, that I want to get the confesses what we have built here and still build. And I'm honest: I have an extremely high appreciation for the Bundesliga, but once you have worked on Premier League level, then you just have to realize that this is the best league in the world. You measure you weekly with the best players and coaches in the world. That's a high challenge that makes you. At the same time, the importance of football here is a few percentage points greater than in other countries. In view of this total package, there are few things that could be tempting for me.
Four years are an eternity in football.
That's true, but I have the total conviction that our way is not over yet. I have deliberately told my contract renewal that sometimes it can be happy to do something really extraordinary in a club than to be the 37th trainer of a club, which then might bring the 147 title.
Does not it irritate you to play the championship in a first league?
But. I've been able to win a league four times in my coaching career, knows how it feels and what is needed for it. Of course it irritates me to do this on the highest level. Probably the time when I would like to realize. But this point is not now, he will not come in foreseeable time. My focus is full on Norwich City. We have a lot here and I wanted to clearly document that with the extension over four years.
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