Swansea City boss Gary Monk was surprised by Liverpool's sacking of Brendan Rodgers.

While his job would ­appear to be under no threat at all, Monk believes the rapid demise of ex-Swansea coach Rodgers at Anfield just shows how quickly things can change.

Monk said: "What happened to Brendan has rammed home how precarious this job is.

"I knew it when I started. I ­remember being told that you are often only working to an eight-game period.

"If you lose those eight games it is highly likely someone will have their finger on the trigger.

"You always hope you will have more of a grace period than that but any team that has a real bad run over eight or ten games are under massive pressure."