Garry Monk looks set to be handed a new long-term deal by Leeds United after a promising season in the Championship.
Leeds United manager Garry Monk
A report in The Sun has suggested that Andrea Radrizzani not only plans to hand Garry Monk a new deal at Leeds, but that the contract on the table could see the 38-year-old stay at Elland Road until 2022.
The Sun reports that Radrizzani is closing in on completing purchasing Massimo Cellino’s stake in the Whites, and plans to celebrate by handing Monk a five-year deal as he deems him to be the man who can lead the club out of the Championship and back into the Premier League.
According to The Sun, the Italian is ready to provide Monk with the assurances that he is looking for regarding the plans in place at Leeds, including that he is ready to back him by providing the funds required to make another push for promotion next term after the side came so close to reaching the play-offs this season.
The report from The Sun comes just days after the Daily Mail suggested that Radrizzani had a five-year plan in place to take Leeds back to the highest level, and planned to tie some of the club’s employees down to long-term deals – though little mention was made about Monk’s fate at that point.
Monk is set to be offered a five-year deal
If the former Swansea boss is handed the five-year deal, then the majority of Leeds fans will undoubtedly be delighted, and it is fair to say that Radrizzani’s tenure as full owner will start on a much more positive note than Cellino’s spell did.
Monk has arguably been the catalyst for Leeds’ transformation from being a mediocre second tier side into one that looks genuinely capable of challenging for a place in the top flight.
Nevertheless, news of a five-year deal will surely still surprise many of the Elland Road faithful, especially as in the five years before Monk arrived, the Whites went through eight different managers.
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