If anyone's interested in a human (rushed) translation of the Farke interview

It doesn't tell us anything we don't know and is overly reverent of Klopp. Too many words, my iPhone voice dictation kept calling Farke Fucker, it thinks Teemu Pukki is Tina pokey, Christoph Zimmemann is Christoph to your mum, etc etc, but after many corrections and with some rushed clumsy English - User Posted Link

Daniel Farke makes Norwich dream of promotion.

Another German football trainer is creating news in the shadows of Jürgen Klopp in England. With Norwich City the Westfalian is creating a minor football fairytale and with his rich Bundesliga know-how is knocking on the door of the Premier League.

No. He is not immortalized on the wall of honour yet like Klopp’s image is at Liverpool. At least not yet. But the hype around this fast Westfalian learner and his Bundesliga team from the county of Norfolk in the East of England is getting bigger from week to week. The whole region is dreaming of promotion to the Premier League. And what about Farke, the architect of this football dream? He’s staying cool.

“We’re quite relaxed” says the trainer of Norwich City in an interview with SID, [whatever that is] and describes himself and his team, despite the 15 point advantage on the first team not in the play-offs as, “Outsiders. One thing is clear though: we are greedy and we wanna reach our max.”

As well as greed, the 42-year-old has given belief back to the Canaries. Three years after the last relegation from the top division, they are dreaming again of the good old days at Carrow Road. Of games against clubs like Liverpool or Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City.

“Promotion to the Premier League would be a sensation.” says Daniel Farke. At the moment there’s “the feeling that the canaries are really flying. And if we should go up at the end of the season, then there will be a week-long yellow and green party here.”

All the Germans! So many Germans!

Farke is following in the footsteps of David Wagner, who in 2017 was the only German manager to have so far managed to get a team promoted. The parallels are striking: Wagner was also previously Dortmund second team trainer and handed the reserves over to Farke.

Norwich City can look back on some difficult years. But since Farke took the team over in the summer of 2017 it’s been making progress. In the shadow of the great successes of Klopp the former Oberliga striker has created a new Deutsche Welle [in joke about German music there] in the East of England.

Since then eight players of German citizenship have been playing for Norwich and in addition to that several more have come with Bundesliga experience. The fans like the quality of “made in Germany” and they sing “All the Germans, so many Germans” after the Blur song Parklife.

Farke however does not credit the nationality of his players with any special significance. “The quality of the player is important, the passport however has absolutely no role to play”. The determining thing is “that the guys identify completely with the club and our way of playing. Of course among the German players they do chat a little in their mother tongue. But fundamentally on the training pitch and in the changing room only English is spoken.”

Forgotten in Germany - celebrated on the island.

The path that Norwich have taken under Farke is amazing. While the top teams in the Premier league are spending billions, City in the last 18 months have managed a transfer surplus of more than €60 million.

This is how Farke managed to get the German winger Onel Hernandez from Eintracht Braunschweig or the forward Dennis Srbeny from SC Paderborn for small change. “We don’t have any other choice” says Farke. “Our owners have their feet on the ground and they don’t throw money around.” Decisive matter for the scouting of new players is “quality, character and financial viability.”

This concept is on its way up. Players that have been forgotten in this country, like Moritz Leitner, Marco Stiepermann, Hernandez, Christoph Zimmermann, Srbeny and Tom Trybull are suddenly amongst the top performers. Teemu Pukki, who used to play at Schalke, is leading the scorers’ charts in the English championship with 23 goals. [rather a sudden ending but that's how it is]

Posted By: APB, Feb 26, 20:51:31