SWANSEA CITY'S COACH, MICHEAL LAUDRUP, SACKED!!!!!

Swansea City have sacked boss Michael
Laudrup and put club captain Garry Monk in charge for Saturday's clash with arch-rivals Cardiff City.

The news came a day after chairman Huw Jenkins dismissed rumours that they had discussed Laudrup's future.

"It is a decision we have taken reluctantly," Jenkins told the club's website. "But it's a decision made in the best interests of
Swansea City football club and our supporters."

Rumours had been circulating about
Laudrup's future since the Swans lost 2-0 at
West Ham on Saturday.

It was their sixth defeat in eight Premier League games, leaving them only
two points off the relegation places.

Monk had been tipped to join the club's backroom staff as part of a
mooted reshuffle of the club's coaching
set-up, but instead finds himself in the role of
head coach "for the foreseeable future".

Laudrup succeeded current Liverpool
manager Brendan Rodgers in south Wales in
June 2012 and went on to lead the Swans
to their first major trophy when they won
the 2013 League Cup.

That success won them a place in this
season's Europa League, a campaign that
produced a memorable 3-0 victory at
Spanish top-flight side Valencia in
September.

They face Napoli in the last
32 of the competition this month.