Previous owners were diabolical and change had to come - Walsh

Ian Walsh has welcomed the takeover of his former club Swansea City.

After an eight year spell, Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan sold their majority shareholding.

Andy Coleman and fellow Americans Brett Cravatt and Jason Cohen now control 77.4% of Swansea's shares, with Brit Nigel Morris holding a 14% stake.

"I think the previous owners have been diabolical for this football club, without a shadow of a doubt," said former Wales forward Walsh.

"The club has gone backwards since the original Americans took over."

The former Swansea goalscorer added Coleman "says all the right things" but that "the proof of the pudding is what they deliver to this football club".

"I desperately want to believe that he is going away completely from the previous owners, even though he’s been involved with them," said Walsh.

After Sunday’s 4-3 loss to table toppers Leeds, the Swans are currently 14th in the Championship.

Walsh told Radio Wales Sport: "Results will be the key things as to whether these people are talking a good game or are providing a good game.

“I said back in the day, you don’t buy a house with the foundations breaking down, that’s what they seem to think has happened, but that’s far from the truth.

“This is a solid football club, it’s got fantastic fans, tremendous emotion, and in my opinion a changeover had to come.

“Let’s just see now in the next six months, because it’s not going to happen overnight, let’s see what they deliver.”