The Whites head coach finds himself under pressure at Elland Road.
Leeds United head coach Garry Monk has provided an insight into his relationship with owner Massimo Cellino.
Monk’s Whites sit 22nd in the Championship, having won just one of their opening six league matches to leave the 37-year-old under increasing pressure.
Only appointed in June, Monk has added 11 new faces to the club’s playing staff, but given Cellino’s notorious impatience when it comes to firing head coaches – six in fewer than 30 months at Elland Road – the bedding-in period could do with coming to an abrupt end.
After Saturday’s home defeat to Yorkshire rivals Huddersfield Town, Monk told a reporter from BBC Radio Leeds: “It’s none of your business,” when asked how the Italian felt about the club’s poor start, adding: “I’m not going to give someone else’s opinion. You have to ask the man himself.”
However, having had time to reflect, Monk cut a much more approachable figure in Monday’s pre-Blackburn Rovers press conference.
“I speak to the owner near enough every day,” he told the Yorkshire Evening Post. “He’s been great, very supportive of what we’re doing here and of myself, the staff and the players. We work closely.
“There’ll be ups and down but we’ll come through all that. It’s not the start to the season we wanted, that’s obvious, but we’re still very early in the season and there’s determination to get on the right track.”
On the scrutiny under which he current finds his position, Monk added: “That’s just the nature of near enough every club. “That’s for me to deal with but I don’t focus on that and that’s the truth.”
Given the scrapping of the emergency loan window, Monk must work with what the squad he has got until January, barring the arrival of any free agents in the meantime.
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