Leeds United news: Speculation over manager Garry Monk’s future ‘nonsense’, insists Whites winger

Speculation over the future of Leeds United head coach Garry Monk is "nonsense", according to winger Stuart Dallas.

Monk is the seventh boss in two-and-a-half years at Elland Road under owner Massimo Cellino and it has been reported the contentious Italian has already grown tired of the former Swansea boss.

Leeds suffered a shaky start to the season but secured their first home win of the campaign, their second victory under Monk, against bottom club Blackburn on Tuesday night.

The result lifted the Whites out of the Championship's bottom three, and Dallas insists the team and club are fully behind the manager.

"I don't read the newspapers to start off with, but obviously the fans have got a lot of expectation here," Dallas said after Kyle Bartley's late header had clinched Leeds' 2-1 midweek win.

"There's maybe people who have brought speculation about the manager, but it's nonsense really.

"He's a good manager, we have bought into what he is doing, everybody is enjoying it and I can only see us getting better."

Monk himself labelled the visit of Blackburn a 'must-win' game after his side's home defeat to local rivals Huddersfield on Saturday.

But Dallas, finding his feet again following his summer exertions with Northern Ireland at the Euro 2016 finals, dismissed early fears that Leeds could struggle this season.

"What are we? Six or seven games in?" he said. "To start talking about relegation is silly.

"Obviously we've been disappointed that we haven't been able to get results, but to talk about the relegation zone is silly.

"We can only take one game at a time and that is Cardiff on Saturday, but we have given ourselves a platform now.

"It's something that we haven't had this past couple of seasons, we haven't been on a three or four, five, six, seven winning streak and it's something we need to do."