West Ham United boss Gianfranco Zola was pleased to meet with the club's new owners yesterday.

David Gold and David Sullivan met with Zola at the club's training HQ.

"I welcome the new chairmen to the club," the manager told whufc.com. "It has been a good day. They have been very positive straight away and we have already begun working on what we need. We are going to find the players we need to help us. They know what the difficulties are and are working hard to sort them out.

"We have spoken for so long about stability and the possibility of keeping our players so it has been very good to get things sorted out. The meeting last night went well and I am looking forward to the next match.

"The players are positive as well and it was a good meeting with them today. They are really happy that we have what we have been looking for and now it is down to us to do our jobs."