FARKE: WE MAY DROP BUT WE’RE NOT BROKE

Carrow Road: Kick-off 12.30pm

DANIEL FARKE has revealed he turned down better jobs in a bid to keep Norwich in the top flight.

The Carrow Road boss said he had a couple of job offers to make “life easier” and grab a pay rise but stuck with a relegation battle that Norwich look sure to lose.

Farke admits he could have complained about the lack of player investment at Carrow Road after they ran away with the Championship last season. But instead he insists Norwich made the correct decision not to invest, like promoted rivals Aston Villa and Sheffield United, in order to remain financially solid.

Norwich, bottom of the table and at home to Brighton in a huge relegation showdown today, seem doomed to return to the Championship but Farke (above) has no regrets about snubbing offers to move.

“One of my biggest values is loyalty,” he said.

“I turned several offers down during the season. They were spending more, fighting on a different level, and would have made my life more easy. But my decision was to help this club. I have too much love for this club and its people. We have to stick to our plan. I can handle it. The club is going in the right direction.

“I could have cried and said that we needed quality to have a chance of staying up. People may have said ‘yes he is telling the truth.’

“But it would have put too much pressure on the club to make those financial decisions. To risk the future of this club in terms of financial solidity would have not been the right choice. We have chosen to stay solid. Not to be too greedy. The outside world wanted us to spend money, but it would have been selfish.”

Farke says survival in the top flght would have been a miracle. He said: “I was 95 per cent certain we would be in this position. I got the status after promotion and I get the stick now, but the decisions we made had to be for the long term.

“I have other values, not thinking selfishly about my career and about money.”

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