Monk Sacked

[HertsWolf]

Go away dingle.

Why are you being such a tool?

 

[Renegade]

I was thinking Moyes earlier, but he doesn't really fit into the ethos Swansea have built over the past decade. Rodgers going back would make far more sense and he would be a cut above any of the managers realistically available. Even Moyes.

 

[JimJams]

Pearson. I'm serious.

 

[GodsGift]

Really poor form from the Swansea board, I thought better of Huw Jenkins. Yeah their recent form has been bad, but they won't go down.

Moyes would be a disaster and I'm not sure the timing is right for Rodgers to come back either. Really intrigued to see who they go with, but I can see it being Warburton.

 

[Avatar]

Really poor form from the Swansea board, I thought better of Huw Jenkins. Yeah their recent form has been bad, but they won't go down.

Moyes would be a disaster and I'm not sure the timing is right for Rodgers to come back either. Really intrigued to see who they go with, but I can see it being Warburton.

Moyes would be amazing. Just imagine the pressers where he tries to speak welsh.

 

[thespus]

As has been said, I don't think they are/were in any danger of going down. There is too much quality. I think they're a competent striker away from being in the same spot as West Ham and Crystal Palace.

I would have liked to see them give Monk the rest of the season, and if he couldn't turn it around to finish top half, do everything to sign Eddie Howe if Bournemouth go down (hopefully they don't).

 

[claret50]

Strange decision by the owners, Monk deserved better.

 

[snortingfrogs]

Erik Hamrén would be nice to see.

 

[Pagnell]

As has been said, I don't think they are/were in any danger of going down. There is too much quality.

I'm unsure of this view, and it's a bit of a cliche to claim a team has too much quality to be relegated. How can someone say a team with 6 points from a possible 33 aren't in danger of being relegated? Only Villa sit below them in the overall form table and whilst sure, on paper there are squads that are worse, that isn't what decides a teams finishing position. I definitely wouldn't have ruled out things becoming worse and ending up in a relegation scrap, nor would I have ruled them out of them being on the wrong side of that after 38 games. I agree it's a shame but I also see why the decision was made, especially before January if Jenkins has plans to spend a few million to bring players in to help stop the rot.

I suspect this decision would be getting less ridicule if Monk was a young foreign manager who'd just started out rather than English.

 

[Alty]

It's oddly familiar. He did well last year, the players seemed to be working for him, then all of a sudden they stopped concentrating and/or putting the hard yards in. Which is a bit like under Laudrup. They were a good side under him and won a cup, then started to look a bit lacklustre all the time.

A squad of good players who like stroking the ball around but can't be arsed trying for a manager when things aren't going well? I genuinely don't know but it seems strange. Everything I've ever heard about Monk suggests he's a bright guy and works his nuts off. Seems a very harsh sacking.

I genuinely think it might help a lot of managers if chairmen/chief executives gave managers unequivocal votes of confidence (real ones, in private - not public ones that mean the sack is imminent). Quite often players seem to stop trying once they've decided they're not keen on the manager because they know that'll result in the manager being sacked. If the chairman makes clear that is simply not going to happen, then the players have to keep working or else they'll be getting relegated/miss out on European football/fail to reach whatever their particular aspirations are.

 

[Whitechapel]

He inherited that Laudrup squad, and they flourished, and as soon as he tried building his own it fell to bits. I don't think Monk is as good as people think.

 

[Abertawe]

Ayew aside as it turned out we've had a poor summer window. Tabanou was meant to be quite good for hasn't featured and Eder doesn't look up to much. Letting Dyer go (he is dire) without a replacement wasn't great thinking either. I was expecting Grimes to feature more this season but that hasn't really happened.

He still should've been allowed to carry on, we wouldn't have been relegated.

 

[Pagnell]

He still should've been allowed to carry on, we wouldn't have been relegated.

Every team below you bar one has better form, both home and away. I'm unsure how you could be so confident but we will never know I guess.

 

[Abertawe]

Form is temporary Pag, AG, pg. AP, NELL

 

[snortingfrogs]

Say welcome to Avram Grant Swansea fans.

 

[Pagnell]

Form is temporary Pag, AG, pg. AP, NELL

Yup, especially when a new manager is brought in to make sure that is the case. Which is precisely what Jenkins had in mind one suspects.

 

[Art Morte]

It can be fine margins sometimes. I think only two things went wrong for Swansea: Gomis stopped scoring and their new signing Eder turned out to be crap. Whoever the new manager is going to be, if they can only get a striker scoring goals again, Swansea will be fine.

 

[PDS]

Avram Grant wouldn't fill me with confidence if I were a Swansea fan. We were all wrong about Ranieri at Leicester so maybe this will pan out the same way but he doesn't strike me as an instant impact kind of manager to turn things around

 

[Abertawe]

Avram Grant would be like some kind of sick nightmare.

 

[G-Dragon]

If Swansea get Avram Grant, they might actually get relegated. Monk was no better though, had initial success with inherited squad. Always came across as a smug too. So much for the next Guardiola..

 

[johnnytodd]

It's a knee jerk reaction and it is exactly what is wrong with today's game....they like most clubs depend entirely on TV Money and if they go down its big trouble financially............We are now just catering for plastic football fans around the world.

This was exactly what was predicted when sky took over.

 

[Stevencc]

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...reat-about-replacing-garry-monk-a6768426.html

 

[epic73]

7) Dean Saunders

8) Mourinho

 

[epic73]

What'll Monk do now? Go manage Stoke?

 

[thespus]

I'm unsure of this view, and it's a bit of a cliche to claim a team has too much quality to be relegated. How can someone say a team with 6 points from a possible 33 aren't in danger of being relegated? Only Villa sit below them in the overall form table and whilst sure, on paper there are squads that are worse, that isn't what decides a teams finishing position. I definitely wouldn't have ruled out things becoming worse and ending up in a relegation scrap, nor would I have ruled them out of them being on the wrong side of that after 38 games. I agree it's a shame but I also see why the decision was made, especially before January if Jenkins has plans to spend a few million to bring players in to help stop the rot.

I suspect this decision would be getting less ridicule if Monk was a young foreign manager who'd just started out rather than English.

It's the same concept that keeps our minds from entertaining the thought Chelsea are actually in a relegation scrap, just to a lesser extent. They'll progress to their mean. I think they'll finish 7-10 points clear of 18th.

 

[SALTIRE]

It would be hilarious if they got Avram Grant.

 

[The Paranoid Pineapple]

Yeah this really. I'd personally have liked him to get January to bolster a few areas and then see how he did but I suppose they're scared of relegation. There's no way they're going down with some of the poor teams in the bottom 4/5 though.

Beg to differ. Sacking a monk has got to be RATHER BAD for your karma

 

[The Paranoid Pineapple]

What a bizarre world though when Swansea, one point adrift of Chelsea (manager still at the helm), sack the guy in charge for underperformance.

 

[JimJams]

Beg to differ. Sacking a monk has got to be RATHER BAD for your karma

He wasn't a Buddhist Monk so I think they're alright. He's probably more in line with Friar Tuck. He certainly managed like a pisshead.

 

[Abertawe]

Poyet still slight favourite for the coveted position. Jorge Sampaoli has dwindled in price and is only just behind Poyet. Emery and Bergkamp are the only others with sensible odds. No one knows fackin naffin.