Garry Monk: Swansea boss holds ‘honest’ talks over league plight

Swansea boss Garry Monk has told his players not to pay any attention to speculation over his future as manager.

Claudio Ranieiri has revolutionised Leicester City from an unfashionable second tier team, into people’s favourite “second team”.

“History shows you that in terms of whether they are title contenders, the answer is possibly not”.

“But I think for sure they are genuine top-six contenders”.

“When teams have lost games, they’re risky because they want to come back and when they win all their games people say they’re on a streak”. Vardy’s accomplishment has been a fantastic side story to an wonderful fairytale that is Leicester City’s season.

Christian Fuchs, meanwhile, believes Leicester can go into the match with confidence, particularly given their fine form on the road so far this season that has seen them go undefeated in seven games. We know it’s going to be a tough game.

Swansea were much improved, albeit in defeat, against Liverpool at Anfield last Sunday.

“We’ve had a good week, worked very well and hopefully we can produce an even better performance because it’s about maintaining that high standard now”.

Lukasz Fabianski is adamant that Swansea can face high-flying Leicester City without any fear.

“The players talked about their perception of the situation and how they felt in certain games”.

The Swansea goalkeeper claims that the Welsh club have been buoyed by their encouraging performance in last weekend’s narrow 1-0 loss to Liverpool and will go into Saturday’s Premier League clash determined to turn around their stuttering season.

Sensational striker Jamie Vardy scored at the 24th minute to put the Foxes early on top, but at the same time set a new record with a goal in his 11th consecutive Premier League game.