The young manager is under pressure at Leeds United.
Steve Evans has told The Football League Paper, via Inside Futbol, that he hopes Garry Monk is given time to prove himself at Leeds United, but suggested he could be in big trouble if they slip rock bottom of the Championship table.
Leeds host bottom-of-the-table Blackburn Rovers at Elland Road tonight in perhaps the Whites’ biggest match of the season so far.
Defeat would see them slip to last place in England’s second tier if 23rd-placed Preston avoid a loss at home to Cardiff City this evening, and Evans cannot comprehend a club of United’s stature being rock bottom of the division.
Monk, who welcomed 12 players to Leeds in the summer, has won one and lost four of his six games in charge of the club, having replaced sacked Evans in June.
And although the Scot says that the 38-year-old need time in which to work with his troops, the ex-Rotherham boss suggests that something has to give unless Monk stems the tide of defeats for the Yorkshire giants.
“Massimo Cellino, who I have to say I had a good relationship with, has supported him with the number of new recruits, against the one permanent and one loan signing I had sanctioned,” he told the Football League Paper, quoted by Inside Futbol.
“Now, of course, Garry needs sufficient time to work with those players. That will also be dependent on results because Leeds United simply cannot be at the bottom of the Championship!”
Monk is the seventh manager Cellino has hired in the Italian’s two-and-a-half year spell as Leeds owner, which tells its own story.
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