Swansea City interim manager Garry Monk has said that he and his staff are working hard to get the team "football fit".

Monk has stepped up training among the Swans squad following complaints that previous boss Michael Laudrup's sessions lacked intensity.

"I know the levels they can get to in terms of what I call football fitness," Monk told reporters. "There is being able to run all day, which is your endurance, but to be able to keep the ball like we do, make movements, press, get back and retrieve you have to be football fit.

"That's down to your training, and they've only trained like that for 13 days or whatever, but that is the level they have already got to.

"If you can have a longer period with them, and you get that football fitness into them, they can only go one way. Long-term, you can see the benefits coming already."

Monk has guided Swansea to one win, two draws and one defeat in his first four games in charge. He takes his side to Anfield to play Liverpool on Sunday.