Swansea City captain Garry Monk hopes new boss Brendan Rodgers can be the catalyst to a season that ends with promotion to the Premier League.Rodgers officially takes over on Monday after seeing his side win 1-0 at Yeovil in a pre-season friendly on Saturday.
Monk says Rodgers' pedigree as a protege of Jose Mourinho at Chelsea and experiences at Reading and Watford can pay dividends.
"Hopefully that is what takes us to the next level," said Monk.
Rodgers, 37, was confirmed as Swans manager on Friday, on a 12-month rolling contract with the Championship club, as successor to Paulo Sousa who left to to take over at Leicester City after just a year at the Liberty Stadium.
Monk is hopeful Rodgers' approach can help Swansea achieve their ambitions while bringing stability in the wake of the uncertainty created by Sousa's departure.
"We're all looking forward to working with him," Monk said. "The announcement came and all the boys are eager for some leadership and he oozes confidence.
"We're looking forward to someone that wants to play football, which is the style that we play.
The announcement came and all the boys are eager for some leadership and he [Rodgers] oozes confidence
Garry Monk
"So there'll be a few tweaks here and there and a few new methods, but it's all part of being a footballer.
"He wanted to keep the footballing style and he wanted to impose a few tweaks here and there and he wanted to add to the quality that we've already got here and, like I said to him, we needed leadership.
Monk expects Rodgers to address the goal-scoring weakness that eventually killed off their play-off hopes last season.
"We've only had a quick meeting... I'm sure he's looked at that side of things [goal-scoring] and I'm sure he'll add one or two players and when I see him talking about tweaking a few areas, maybe that's an area where he's going to improve us," Monk added.
"We have to improve all over the park anyway to try and go any better than we did in the last couple of seasons."
BBC Sport Wales revealed on Thursday that Rodgers had been offered and accepted the Swansea City job, his third in less than two years.
Until taking over at the Swans, Northern Irishman Rodgers was out of work from December after being sacked six months into his job at Reading.
He previously worked under Jose Mourinho at Chelsea, first as youth coach and then reserve team boss.
Brendan Rodgers is on a 12-month rolling deal at SwanseaRodgers was handed his first managerial post at Watford in November 2008 after a personal recommendation from Mourinho.
He impressed at Vicarage Road, but his stay lasted just seven months before leaving for Reading - the team where he spent much of his playing career - last June to replace Steve Coppell.
The two clubs agreed a £500,000 compensation package for the highly-rated manager, but he struggled at his new club and departed six months later.
Swansea travel to Welsh Premier side Llanelli for their latest pre-season friendly on Tuesday, followed by a three-match trip to Holland.
Monk said: "These are all about fitness and sharpness and the more games we play, the more match time we get and the sharper we're going to be.
"Then we've got three games in Holland and hopefully by the time we get back from there we should be in peak condition and ready and firing for the start of the season."
Source: BBC Sport
Source: BBC Sport