United head coach Garry Monk is “very hopeful” that captain Liam Bridcutt will be fit for Saturday’s Championship trip to Cardiff City.
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Rock-bottom Rovers lost 2-1 at fellow strugglers Leeds United on Tuesday to stretch their winless opening to the Championship campaign to seven games.
Monk’s side beat Blackburn on Tuesday evening but The Times say maverick owner Massimo Cellino has “grown tired” of the former Swansea manager, report the Huddersfield Examiner.
“There’s maybe people who have brought speculation about the manager, but it’s nonsense really”.
As it has turned out though, Monk has made a awful start to life at Elland Road and his team is now just hovering above the relegation zone in the Championship at the moment.
Monk said, “Every game is as important as the next but we haven’t had the results we wanted”.
“We can only take one game at a time and that is Cardiff on Saturday but we have given ourselves a platform now”, he continued. They go to Leeds in mid-week knowing that another defeat will extend their miserable start to the season and Coyle will know that his tenure at Ewood Park is already looking precarious, even at this early stage of the season. “I understand that. We need to start delivering on that, which we’re capable of doing”.
“It’s frustrating, it’s annoying, and when all is said and done, I’ve got the ultimate responsibility to win games and win points and we’ve not done that well enough to this point”.
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“We are just giving him as much time as possible to recover, he didn’t train today but we only had half the group training today”.
