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It's been a turbulent couple of weeks for Swansea City.

After what was a second consecutive disappointing transfer window, chairman Huw Jenkins decided to step down from his role - a move that was long advocated by the Swansea City Supporters' Trust.

It's also a move that has generated plenty of debate over how Jenkins and his legacy will be remembered at SA1.

Despite overseeing an incredible rise to the Premier League, the relationship between Jenkins and the club's fans has soured in recent years.

Trust board member Tim Bull appeared on TalkSport today to discuss how the former chairman will be remembered, with Jim White, Bob Mills and Danny Murphy in attendance.

Here's how it went...

Bob Mills: A lot of things I've seen about Huw have accused him of selling his soul to the Americans

Tim Bull: Well that's exactly what we think. If you're a Swans supporter like I've been since 1964, we've used to the rollercoasters of up and down and no one in the Trust has denied what the board did when Huw was chairman in getting us up through the divisions and into the Premier League.

I don't know when you last came to the Liberty, Bob, because he's been hugely unpopular for three years. We've been fighting relegation and we lost our Swansea way of playing, which Michael Laudrup epitomised.

We'd been fighting relegation and the relegation last year was almost inevitable. There's been a rapid change of managers to do a firefighting job. There's been some awful transfer dealings.

We've brought in players who are past their sell-by date like Wilfried Bony, who are on very high salaries, which we were then stuck with when relegated, which is causing a lot of the problems now.

We've just had a window where the club wanted to move out five players, if you include Dan James and Leroy Fer and as far as we know neither of them wanted to go. They moved out three players including Montero to West Brom and his crosses lead to two goals against Birmingham the other night.

And then Tom Carroll to Aston Villa - another promotion rival.

Poor Graham Potter was not allowed to bring one person in, even on loan. What our ire is as supporters and the trust board is that Huw seems to have been totally involved in transfers and making the decisions.

He picked some good managers in Roberto Martinez, Brian Flynn, Brendan Rodgers, Michael Laudrup, who was fantastic. So, he did do a good job and the fans acknowledge that and all the fans were quite happy for him to have sold his shares, got his £10m, have his villa in Spain.

But then to stay on and oversee the decline of the club for the last three years and not listen to us, and to sell the clubs to Americans.

Let's face it, wherever Americans have been involved in football - Sunderland and Aston Villa in particular - it's not been a big success story. I don't think they understand the culture. Their clubs go from city to city.

Jim White: Liverpool are doing all right though, Tim

TB: Well, they haven't won much since the Americans took over. The same with Arsenal, but let's not talk about them, let's talk about the Swans.

JW: But you can't lay it all at Jenkins' door can you? He was operating under instruction of the American owners

TB: Well our ire is equally as fans and as a trust, is equally at Steve Kaplan and Jason Levein. Absolutely. As I'm saying, we don't think they really understand football.

BM: Is there one thing that you can put your finger on when it started to go wrong? I know Danny's said on a few occasions that they should never have sacked Garry Monk

TB: Well the record speaks for itself. We finished 8th in the Premier League then. The highest season ever, but this is the trouble. You have a few bad results and managers get sacked. Yet with the board and Huw Jenkins, it's three years of bad results and he's only just gone.

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There's a hint that he didn't resign and there was a push, but who knows. It certainly went very, very badly wrong when Bob Bradley came and that was just the Americans trying to get American commercial interest. We called him Brad Boobley. It was a disaster. Clement came in and kept us up, and I admire the man, but it was a very, very defensive system though. It wasn't the Swansea way.

When Bradley came in, Guidolin had been promised by Jenkins in the press that it wasn't about the performance, because we were playing Manchester City twice, it wasn't about getting points, it was about seeing a performance.

The players played their heart out for Guidolin in those games and yet they still sacked him.

What there is, is a complete lack of trust between the fans and the board. Huw Jenkins was a big part of that.

BM: Where do we go from here? The Americans are still there

TB: Yes. And they probably won't be going anywhere soon. Of course, they promised they'd do everything to try and get us back into the Premier League and what they've done is badly let Graham Potter down.

What we do know is that we've got a fantastic manager in Potter. He's worked miracles with mainly young players, new players coming in, and as you know throughout the transfer window we were six points off the play-offs.

JW: Would you take the job?

TB: I'd take the chairman's job for nothing!

Graham Potter's got a master's degree. He's a very unusual manager. He played pro football for years at a good level. We all know what he did at Ostersund, a lot of clubs had their eye on him. I think it's a good appointment by the board, I have to say.

But what's the point in doing that and then not allow him to bring him players, even loan players, in the transfer window when you're six points off the play-offs?

JW: Will the Huw Jenkins legacy be viewed as a success?

TB: He was part of a board of directors and there were others that had been more successful in business than him. So it wasn't just Huw. He just became the figurehead. Like I said, we all appreciate those seven years of playing well in the PL and getting up there.