Sheffield United CEO, Stephen Bettis, has opened up about the situation at the club.

The Blades are near certainties for relegation from the Premier League, as they are rock bottom with a fourth of the campaign to go.

Bettis stated that there is no pressure on manager Chris Wilder, as the club are aware of the tough job he is doing.

He stated on the plans for the summer and next season: "That's the plan, to use them wisely [parachute payments].

“Let's be completely honest, we have the potential to lose maybe one or two players because they won't want to play in the Championship. We have to be mindful of that but the players in my head that I'm thinking of are actually on long-term contracts so if they want to go, we want to get the right money for them.

"We'll use that money and the money we get from the parachute payments to actually strengthen the squad for next season.

“Chris [Wilder] is under contract and will be here and the whole point of recruiting Chris at the time, I think was that when we made the change from Hecky [Paul Heckingbottom], we knew that Chris understood the club, understood the DNA, understood the culture and understood the way to move it forward and if the worst happened and we did still go down, he's got a proven track record of getting us back out so there's no better man for the job.

"The reality of it is, there's no pressure or expectation on Chris for the rest of this season to do anything in terms of results for us so that's not going to affect whether he is here next season or not."