Monk exit, a broken heart and message to Chansiri: Every word Carlos Carvalhal said on Sheffield Wednesday
Former Owls' boss has been giving his reaction following the departure of Garry Monk - Here is everything he said on the latest S6 developments
Ricky CharlesworthFootball writer
Carlos Carvalhal spent two-and-a-half years as Wednesday manager.
His reaction to Monk going
"In any situation, I never like it when the manager is sacked.
"Garry Monk is a very good manager. I was a little surprised about the last results, it but that's football.
"I don't know what happened inside with relations between the people inside the club.
"But I don't like when a manager is sacked in any circumstances."
Sympathy with Monk
"I never been in a situation like this. But to prepare a team when you have minus-12 points, and you start like that, I imagine that is really very difficult.
"Because even if you win you're still in a bad situation.
"You must work a lot in the mental part of the players and try to focus on the games, not looking at the table, because it is really, really very bad.
"Monk had that situation at Birmingham in the past and he dealt with the situation in a good way. He was ready to be in this situation.
"When someone is sacked, it can be about results, it can be about the relations between the people in the club, the owner and the people around the owner. Really, I do not know what has gone on.
"But Garry Monk is still a good manager, for sure."
"It's a massive club with a big base of fans. They must be in the first places of the Championship, for sure.
"Different circumstances in the last few years have made the team lose some quality, individually.
"It's very hard to talk about this situation because it's not a normal situation.
"As a team, a club and a manager they had to start on minus-12 points so it's not a normal circumstances that you start under to play when you aim to get promoted or play-offs.
"So the first problem to solve is to get the team out of the relegation zone.
"The mental side of it is very hard for all the club.
"The results didn't come. If it's about the work or mentality of the players, sometimes these things happen especially in these difficult occasions."
Recollections of his time at S6
"It was really hard. In the first season we achieved the play-off final but we played as underdogs and the team played really well, attacking football.
"In my opinion we played the best football in that season. Second season the expectations were more high. The fans created expectation to achieve promotion. In that second season we achieved better, we achieved fourth as opposed to sixth the year before.
"At the end, we didn't lose in the semi-final against Huddersfield - we lost on penalties - but didn't achieve the final.
"Then, third season everyone expects promotion to the Premier League but the reality was that our team, between the first and third seasons, we are talking about a gap of 16 to 18 points.
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"But people don't understand that. It's very hard to achieve one play-off, and two in the Championship is very, very hard. In the third season it was much more hard.
"It was a really very strange to me because I refused some good offers to leave in the third season, even in the Premier League, but I stayed because my heart stayed in Sheffield Wednesday.
"This is football. After four or five months we had some injuries to important players, I think seven or eight players were injured.
"Results were not so good and then maybe 10 or 15 per cent of fans didn't like what was happening and I was sacked.
"But this is football. I could have changed and gone to the Premier (League) but I stayed and after three or four months everything changed.
"It broke my heart in that moment."
Who next for Wednesday?
"Really, I don't know.
"What I expect is that the club must find a path as soon as possible to create a good base to put expectations in the correct place and within one or two seasons get the club where they deserve to be - in the Premier [League].
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"They have a good owner. The owner is a nice guy, he has a good heart. I expect that he is learning about football day-by-day and I expect that the fans will get around him and give him confidence to a manager and put everyone together, to put the club in the Premier League.
"If we choose a manager and we lose the confidence of the manager, I am talking about the fans, the owner and the people around the club, and don't give time to a manager, it will be impossible for Sheffield Wednesday to reach the Premier League in the next few seasons.
"They must find a path, choose someone with a good project and follow that personality and trust. This is the way."