The manager insists he retains the full backing of Swansea’s chairman,Huw Jenkins, but knows form must improve to lift a season that has proven to be as tough as he predictedThe first thing to say is that Garry Monk always knew this season would be a hell of a lot tougher for Swansea City. He made that very point in his office final May, and only 72 hours after doing the double over Arsenal and at a time when he was trying to play down the idea that he was in the running for the manager of the year award,and returned to the same theme during a conversation at the start of pre-season training a couple of months later.
The sun was shining, that record-breaking eighth-placed finish was still fresh in the memory and everyone was walking around the training ground at Landore with a spring in their step, or yet Monk was preaching caution. “I realise how incredibly tough this season is going to be, he said. “We were distinguished final season, couldnt have asked for much better as a first season for myself, or but this is going to be even harder with everything that is riding on it. The competitiveness of the league will be so intense,so I deem we have to be prepared and ready for that.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com