Papers Reporting Sacking Is Imminent

The papers are claiming that as Monk is resisting the change then he will face the sack after a run of form that has seen the Swans just one game in nine.

Saturday’s defeat at Norwich certainly led to new levels of dissatisfaction within the team dominated possession at Norwich but ultimately failed to get a shot on target as they slipped another place down the league table.

Monk led the Swans last season to a record breaking 8th place with 56 points in the Premier League and that for me should suggest that he has longer than an eight game league run to get the fortunes where we want them to be. To make a change now when four of the next six games are at the Liberty and all games that we are capable of winning would seem reactionary and I am not sure that now is the right decision.

There may well be a viewpoint in the club that they want someone to work alongside Monk but again back in the summer it seemed that a call was made to allow Monk to bring in his own choice in James Beattie to add to his backroom staff so there must be some viewpoint that he is the man for the job at least for now anyway.

The Mirror reported a couple of weeks back that Monk had missed training before the club scuppered that one with a picture of the manager at the training ground so it is difficult to understand whether there is any validity in their story.

There will be little doubt that Monk is under pressure to turnaround the slump in form that has appeared since the end of August and has seen the Swans take just five points from the twenty-one available but I am not sure that the club will have moved themselves into the place where a sacking is imminent nor where they believe that a change above/alongside him is the immediate answer either.

There has always been a strong argument that would suggest that doing that would make the manager’s position very difficult and whilst it is possible at the moment I just don’t think it will be that way.

Whatever happens we do know that the form needs to pick up and quickly though starting against Bournemouth in two weeks at the Liberty.