After one win in 11 Premier League games, Swansea City parted company with manager Garry Monk.

The Swans’ legend had been with the club for 11 years before becoming their manager in 2014.

The Welsh side were 15th in the division when Monk was sacked, his last match in charge being a 3-0 defeat at home to Leicester City.

And on December 9, 2015, news of his departure was confirmed.

Swansea finished eighth the previous season under Monk, but three wins in their opening 15 matches was alarming enough to see the club’s chairman Huw Jenkins wield the sword and terminate the contract of the legend - much to fans’ dismay.

Since Monk’s departure, Swansea have had eight managers in three years.

Alan Curtis and Francesco Guidolin saw out the rest of that season; the latter was sacked in the October the following year.

Bob Bradley was appointed before dismissed after an 85-day horror show at the helm

Four more bosses had since been appointed with the Swans relegated after having three managers last term after a seven-year stay in the Premier League.

Paul Clement, the longest-serving boss since Monk, lasted just under two years before another manager, Carlos Carvalhal, this time, tasked with keeping Swansea up.

He ultimately failed and left in the close season with Graham Potter being appointed in the summer.

It has been a whirlwind for the Welsh side since Monk’s departure with desperation to stay up causing the hierarchy at the Liberty Stadium to make knee-jerk reaction decisions.

The Premier League is not the be all and end all but the financial implications to staying up or going down are vast, and the club did all they could -  if hastily - to avoid that.

That sort of lack of continuity was their ultimate downfall and has caused the club to spiral down to the Championship.

Fans were right to lament the decision with all the unforeseen chaos that followed, and the club now finds themselves in with a battle to get back to the Premier League after their relegation last season.