Dejphon Chansiri claim made by MP - He has "no interest in selling" Sheffield Wednesday | OneFootball

Things have continued to go from bad to worse at Hillsborough this summer.

A shocking claim by Sheffield Wednesday owner Dejphon Chansiri has been revealed by a local MP.

Just 11 days from the start of the Owls' 25/26 Championship campaign, the club itself is nothing short of a mess. Currently managerless, with a very small squad that has had a very limited pre-season, they are likely to be woefully underprepared to face Leicester City on the 10th August.

Problems off the pitch grow too. Wednesday are still under an embargo due to failure to pay other clubs for previous transfers, and the north stand at Hillsborough has had to be shut due to safety reasons.

The desire to see the owner and chairman depart has never been higher, and yet Chansiri has maintained his hopes of getting £100 million for the currently decaying club.

Shocking Dejphon Chansiri sale stance revealed

The club's supporters' trust and local figures have done all they can to put pressure on the Thai businessman to sell up, but a recent revelation made by Clive Betts, the MP for Sheffield South East, has shed light on Chansiri's stance on the situation.

All of the local MPs got in touch with the owner to discuss Wednesday's current state. The chairman's response, according to Betts: "What has it got to do with you?"

"It [the club] needs to be sold, but there's no evidence that Chanisri is trying to sell it," the Sheffield South East MP told Rob Staton on BBC Radio Sheffield.

"We had this fake offer from some Italians a few weeks ago. The money never came, they never produced it, but they've tried to buy at least three other clubs in the last couple of years. None [of the deals] got anywhere because they didn't have the money.

"I understand that some of the documents that had been shown in that takeover were, shall we say, a little dubious.

"There was no serious bid there on the table. All we know that there has been nobody appointed to act as a broker to sell, no one been appointed to encourage people to come forward, no one been appointed as a lawyer or accountant to manage the sale. There isn't any process going on to sell the club.

"Then you have to ask yourself, why is Mr Chansiri sat in Thailand with a loss-making club [with] no interest in selling it, just running it into the ground? Only he can answer the questions, but I think you'll have trouble getting him on the show, Rob, to actually answer any questions...

"All of the Sheffield MPs wrote to him [Chansiri] a few weeks ago and asked to meet him to discuss the situation [at the club]. The answer that came back was, 'what has it got to do with you?'

Sheffield Wednesday are in deep trouble

That sort of attitude is incredibly worrying given the severity of the situation at Hillsborough. Things are literally falling apart, both on and off the pitch, and yet there is no sense of urgency within Chansiri to say 'Okay, this is getting bad now'.

His actions contradict his words that he has done "everything possible" to try and sell the club, at least in the case of the two previous bids from an American consortium.

Setting a £100 million price tag for a Championship side that has no hope of getting promoted, and would frankly be elated to avoid relegation at this point, is not a proactive move towards selling. If anything, it's the opposite.