"At one point we went up to a £13 million overdraft and that scared a lot of the old shareholders; that the reality of dropping out of the Premier League would be difficult to cope with."
"We needed a shareholder or shareholders taking financial responsibility for the club. That's how we felt and everybody knew that.
"What Jason and Steve have done at DC United, with the new stadium and the rebranding and how that has grown, shows they have got the resources and knowhow to do what they need to do,"
"They are very experienced, strong businessmen, but from day one there's no doubt Swansea City has been a headache for them.
"Have we seen the best of them? No, I would say. I think they have a lot to offer, but the current situation of upheaval has not helped."
"Losing Gylfi, Llorente and Jack (Cork) was too much for us,"
"They were more than just players, they provided belief within the squad. They made a difference."
"We'd had players previously like Bony and Michu who also made a difference. But when we lost those three in that summer, they were very difficult to replace."
"A big turning point was losing Michael. We never really recovered from that."
"That was a shared decision, a really difficult decision. All our shareholders, and I'll emphasise all, were pushing to get rid of Michael Laudrup.
"That didn't sit comfortably with me, but it's something I went along with at the time."
"I had a 70% pay cut after relegation and for the last year, the majority of expenses working for the club I've paid myself. I also made an offer in July last year to work for nothing if we made more cutbacks. I was prepared to put a team of staff together to try to get us back on an even keel as fast as we could."
"I felt things needed to be done instantly. I felt we could start at the top where the salaries are higher and work down, stripping the club back to the bone and running it in a similar way to what we used to do."
"That didn't happen because the decisions weren't mine to take."
