Michael Laudrup got much stick for the lack of discipline in the Swansea squad during his last months in the club. Now, Garry Monk is facing the same problems at the Landore Complex.
In January it was revealed that Chico Flores had picked up a brick during a row with Monk, back when monk was still active as a player. Just two weeks after Laudrup was sacked. Since then, Monk has taken over as an interim-manager, and now the dressing room has been ripped apart by in-fighting between the players once again.
According to the Daily Mail, Monk had organised a training game trying to get the Hull defeat out of the system. However, the plan was undermined by a training ground fight involving not less than six first-team players. To make the situation even worse for Monk, Swansea chairman Huw Jenkins witnessed the clash.
Monk is trying to repair the relations between the players and united the squad in order to avoid relegation, but it seems that, as Laudrup, Monk has problems controlling the players.
One of the reasons for the lack of discipline should accordingly be that the number of high earners brought in last summer has affected the morale in the dressing room. Michael Laudrup and Huw Jenkins had their debates over the players brought in, and even though Jenkins had a say in most of the transfers he is now ready to make a number of strategic changes in the summer.
