Swansea City skipper Garry Monk rejects claims of player unrest at club

“11th after 7 games in with a positive goal difference, if you were offered this at the start of the season you would have taken it.

I will wait and see where we are in January, the bottom line is, we are aiming for around 40 points, we are still on target for achieving that.

Footy is a fickle game, it annoys me, one week you are a hero the next you are being doubted, you need to trust ML, he is a good guy and was a great player, he is not here to ruin the club or his reputation and he knows more about footy than probably most offering advice and is a bigger player than anyone he teaches, so show a bit of faith.

We need to iron out a few wrinkles, I am sure there are enough people at the club who live for it and know what is needed. Ml is well suited to wales, we say it how it is, and he is like that too.

We all want the same thing, so there is no need for disharmony, leave that to the trouble makers trying to unsettle us and use it to stick two fingers up at them and let the results do the talking.

We made fools of them last year by finishing 11th and when we were told we were figured out, we beat man city two weeks later.

Football is full of fickle idiots.”

“I dont know the facts but the story reads very similar to stories which came out during Laudrup's stay in Moscow and just after he left Getafe.

He has a reputation from his playing days of being a softie and maybe the rep sticks regardless of what his training methods are. He's not from the English school of hard knocks and maybe it raises a question or two among observers.

The mistake I feel Laudrup did make was he wanted a squad of 23 players before he even had seen the current crop, which numbered about 33. He then went out and bought several foreign players - some of which have been very good - to replace then current members on the back of what he had seen on videos of the Swans last season, though he hadnt personally actually seen those players he decided to replace.
This means something like 15-17 players are leaving or have left Swansea without having been given a chance to impress the new man. Any source of discontent may well be found in a player who's now gone.”

“laudrup has been quite unlucky !

players making individual errors giving away soft goals, players getting themselves sent off, chances not being taken up front, injury to neil taylor, etc”

“Slagheap, with the exception of Caulker I think our new players are better than those we lost. A Spanish international instead of anEnglish under 21, Ki has more physical presence than Allen, Michu scores goals and has more aerial ability than siggy. Chico is not as tall as Caulker and possibly not as good a tackler but he is a better passer. Not as good!!!
Jampy3, you expose your lack of knowledge because Tayloris our left back, not right back. You might want to learn about the team before commenting again.
People can knock us, can be jealous of us, can start silly rumours, but we're still here and they can go to.........a very hot place and burn in it!!”

“In my opinion there are a number of factors why we have had shall we say a topsy turvy start to the season.
1 We have lost 5 first team players from last years team,and replaced them with by and large not so good players.
2 We have lost last years Manager and our current Manager has changed a few things .
3 Our current Manager has ripped up the playing blueprint set out for him by previous Managers,and while I will admit our current style creates more chances it leaves us far more wide open to the counter attack.

It is going to be interesting if this change in personel and playing style will keep us in the prem I am not so sure but I am keeping my fingers crossed.”

“jampy, michu has scored 5 goals in 7 games, which is the same as van persie/fletcher and only one short of the current record by d ba, when you factor in he has hit the post a few times to boot its clear he is worthy of being compared to gylfi in terms of contribution. he cost 2 million, fletcher was 14 million, van persie was over 25 million. Nuff said.

I do agree we miss Caulker and with taylor missing I think its obvious we have a hole.

Ki is looking good for allen, scotty was great in the champ league, but he hardly scored for us apart from penalties, pablo has already been robbed of a goal and I am sure its only a matter of time before our forwards gel and start to finish better.

We have to stop giving away silly goals though, or we make every game a mountain.”

“no offence to the manager or other readers, but i think we miss last years loan signings more than the couple of players we sold, sigi and caulker especially. when you add allen and sinclair, plus injury to right back and the fact we still got tate, it's hardly surprising there is unrest in dressing room”

“hadoken4245, what has the ramblings you posted on here got to do with the lead story. you take going off the subject to a new level”

“Sources say Ashley Williams led a walk off of some players after last Friday's training session (5th Oct. the day before Reading game). Unhappy with training methods (and his own form?). @AshWills84 not made any twitter comments regarding "rebellion".”

“The funny thing is, I actually heard a local rumour several months ago that Laudrup is training them harder than Brendan did. I thought good, tons of people would kill to be in their boots.

I just read the article here...
http://tinyurl.com/9ajmh26

Its hilarious, if someone said at the start of the season would be in 11th 7 games in with a 6\12 goal difference over the bottom 6 teams I think many would have taken that with a smile.

Lets have it right, we always get beat by Everton, we lost to stoke away last year, Aston Villa beat man city in the cup less than 2 weeks after they beat us under a manager who has a good record against us, and we were really, really unlucky vs reading, who in turn the week before had drawn with newcastle, and actually beat them because newcastle handballed it in, in fact, I also recall one of the Everton goals as being a hand ball too so it was really 2 nill and they are flying at the moment while we have some issues.

It was important to get back on track against reading, I saw enough against reading to remain positive, it was obvious who the better was, and sometimes it does not always work out that way.

I read a stat that swansea have allowed more shots from inside the box than any other team, WE HAVE to address this somehow.

Swanseas main aim is to become a sustainable premier league team, at least for the next few years, and looking at the current league, there is definitely room for us.

There are several teams having a horrible start to this season, teams in a much worse positions than us with more expectations and history at the top, so I just lets keep plodding along and turn all the **** into gold.

The reality is, out of 38 games, will lose over 20, win about 10 and draw the rest assuming around 40 pts, so we are going to lose TWICE as much as as win for the next few years.

We just need to tighten up a bit, we know we have some defensive issues, but I am sure there are people at the club who know what is wrong and they will address it.

We have one of the best clubs in the league, its our own, we have not sold out like many of the others who are owned by foreigners to obtain influence and money.”