The Swansea City captain told the Evening Post “It’s amazing. I don’t know quite what’s gone on. I think they’ve made something like £52m out of sales so where’s all that money gone?
“I think someone must have taken some money out of the club, and to see them struggling is a great shame.
“Southampton is a really good club, the facilities are amazing. The set-up’s that of a Premier League club and if they’re doing well their crowds are up there in the late 20,000s, early 30,000s.
“It’ll be bittersweet for me. It’s great I’m now in a position where I can go back when we’re above them in the league. But it’s sad as well to see such a good club in the situation that they’re in.
“Hopefully they can stay in this league and try to progress.
“But my head and my heart are here now. I want Swansea to do well and I want to win this game.
“If we can go back to the South Coast and do a double that would be brilliant,” said Monk.
“It was great last week, all my Southampton mates were happy as Larry, but hopefully they won’t be so happy this week when we get a win.
“Obviously we’ve played them down here, which was good, but I’ve been wanting to go down there.
“Apart from the Cardiff games it was the one I looked for first in the summer.
“On paper it looks a great game for us, but these are the games you find that teams slip up in.
“We’re on a good run and often those runs come to an end at places you don’t expect.
“We have to make sure we concentrate.
“Every game away from home in this league is difficult, but we’ve done well away, we’re on a good run and we want to keep that going.
“We’ve got a level-headed group of lads here, there are no stars, we just all work hard for each other and that’s doing really well for us.
“Last year we took each game as it came and we ended up winning the league, so this year we’ve taken the same approach.
“At the start of the season maybe it took us a little bit of time to get the belief that we could do well in this league.
“Now we’re on a roll and confidence is high.
“But we have to make sure we’re not complacent, that we keep pushing on and all the lads know they have to be switched on.”
