As Sheffield Wednesday fans will now be painfully aware, their manager Danny Röhl has been speaking a lot in the Germany media this week. Much of it has been talking up an exit, including revealing that he’s reach an agreement with Sheffield Wednesday’s executives which will help him define his own future this summer.
Essentially, he’s told everyone he’s pretty much off and has been pitching himself for other jobs.
Danny Röhl also found time to talk about the quality at teams like Southampton, Leicester City and Ipswich Town, and express his surprise at how all three faced immediate relegation from the Premier League. He doesn’t think that will happen with Leeds United, this season’s Championship winners.
The Leeds United squad should have just about recovered from their partying for when the season starts, and Röhl expects them to have a good crack at the Premier League.
Speaking on a Kicker podcast, the Sheffield Wednesday manager said: “If you also have teams, if you just take Brentford, that have developed dramatically. Even Brighton, who were able to invest 300 million. They were also in the Championship five or six years ago. But making that leap will be the challenge for all newly promoted teams. I’m excited about Leeds, who, in my opinion, have been the best team this season. They have an incredible fan base. They also have a great German coach, whom I really like. And I hope they can break the barrier.”
Röhl is clearly a big Daniel Farke fan, with Leeds United recently confirming the manager will be keeping his job following promotion.
The Sheffield Wednesday boss knows how difficult winning the Championship will have been for Leeds United, and he explained what a fight it is in the second tier: “There are only two direct promotion spots. And behind them, from position 3, 4 to position 20, it feels like every team wants to make the playoffs. So every team is trying to attack, every team is fighting for points. And that’s what makes the challenge in the Championship so brutal. This season alone, I think we’ve had 16 coaching changes with 24 teams, and over the entire time I’ve been here, I think we’ve had 26 coaching changes. That means, on average, every club changes coach once every twelve months.”
