Monk, 36, was sacked after one win in 11 league matches left Swansea 15th in the Premier League table. The former defender had been at the club for 11 years and retired as a player to succeed Laudrup, initially as interim manager, when he was sacked in February 2014. He staved off the threat of relegation. “The decision has been taken very reluctantly and with a heavy heart,” Jenkins said in a club statement.
“To find ourselves in our current situation from where we were in the first week of September, and considering the drop of performance levels and run of results over the last three months, it has brought us to this unfortunate decision. We hope to appoint a replacement as soon as possible.”
Swansea have yet to reveal who will take charge of the league match at Manchester City on Saturday with suggestions that the long-serving coach Alan Curtis might step up. There is also a high regard at Swansea for former assistant Colin Pascoe who was sacked by Liverpool, where he had been Rodgers’s assistant, in a coaching reshuffle last summer.
Swansea’s assistant manager Pep Clotet – who Monk had promoted from the club’s academy and who was recently linked with the Brentford job before Dean Smith was appointed – and first-team coach James Beattie are also poised to to leave.
Monk guided Swansea to their highest-ever finish of eighth last season and started this campaign strongly with an unbeaten four-match start – including a home win against Manchester United – that lifted them into the top four. But since then form has deteriorated leading to claims that Swansea firstly wanted Monk to bring in more experienced staff to work alongside him – which he resisted – and then that the manager’s job was under threat even though he signed a new deal in the summer.
“It was not a decision we took lightly, especially given Garry’s history and standing within the club,” Jenkins said.
Source: telegraph.co.uk