Sheffield Wednesday's Dejphon Chansiri opens up on firing Tony Pulis and Sam Hutchinson's situation

Chansiri gave a long, very substantial explanation of the hiring and firing of Pulis, giving insight into why he was brought on board, the conversations that took place, and what led to his eventual departure from the club.

He told the media, "We need to start from the beginning… I interviewed him over one year before, but at that time I wasn’t convinced about his style of play. It wasn’t correct at that time.

“This time when I interviewed him I thought he had experience, and we needed someone strong. We needed to first stay up, and then get into the Play-Offs if we can.

“He convinced me that he could do that with our squad. We spoke to him about every player we have, and of course he studied them.

"He said he thought our squad was good enough to keep us in the league, but I understand that we needed to bring more players to get into the Play-Offs - which I understand because we can’t score. I told him I don’t like old English style, and he told me he said he wouldn’t play like that - he would play depending on the opponent.

“That’s why I brought him here, and I told him I was straightforward and wanted him to be straightforward. He told me had dinner with other owners once a week, and I said if I was there I’d have dinner with him every day. I said we needed to get to know each other.

“I spoke about our player mentality, their inconsistency, and he said he’d dealt with that before. I believed and trusted him in that. I thought that he would be fit to help us.

“Since four or five games, I started to question if he was the right one or not… Because of how he played, how he treated our players, but of course he’s good with the press and praise the fans - which is good for him, but he can’t damage the club.

“I spoke to my team, and they said maybe give him more of a chance. So I said ok, but I needed to make a decision before the end of the month.

“If he’s right he should go forward into the window, but if not then he shouldn’t recruit any players.

“He text me saying he’d been here for three weeks and would give a summary. He could talk to me directly because he had my number, but it wasn’t like what he said in the press.

“He told me we were a big club with big potential, but results don’t lie over the last 12 months. He said the belief is that they don’t have identity.

“He said in his interview they were good enough, but when he doesn’t win then they’re not good enough and unbalanced.

“He sent me some players, and then worked with our recruitment team. After our team finalised with him who he wanted to bring in - loan or transfer. Our people had already started working on the players a while ago,- see we have talked, some we have sent offers.

“It’s not like what is being said on social media, that he didn’t get who he wanted.

“He is the one who wanted Sam to come back, for instance. I have questions of course, I always have questions.

“I said it was ok, so now we’re dealing with the player anyway - even though I’ve sacked him.

“Some loan players need to go back, and we need to bring new ones anyway.

“I told him we should speak once a week, but he didn’t do that. I text him, because otherwise he wouldn’t talk to me.

“He’s the one who didn’t want to talk with me, not the other way around.

“He said to me that he thought that we would be better suited with a different style of manager - which to me said he didn’t think he was best for the job.

“Then he told me the squad hasn’t bought into his method, and I was surprised... If he’d told me at the start that he’d have played counterattack, then I wouldn't have hired him.

“After that I decided that I didn’t need to wait, because it meant that he didn’t have any confidence and that he didn’t know how to manage the team.

“We arranged a call after the game we won, but nothing came back… At the end he said ‘Forget it, we’ll meet another day’.

“After that, a few days ago, we had a chat. I asked what he wanted, and he told me he didn’t think he could do it.

“We spoke about maybe doing a termination of mutual consent. His lawyers sent one that I couldn’t accept because it made him look good and me look bad.

“I told my people to ask with him because he won’t talk to me. I wanted to do a simple mutual consent…

"He is the worst one in my club, and tried to create trouble a lot…

“We didn’t win many games, maybe it’s because he couldn’t manage the team and then try to make it not good.

“He was unprofessional. He said if he didn’t have a decision today then he’d call sick and not come to work…

“He’s good friends with the owner of Middlesbrough, and that made me more scared - I thought my people were going to do better to work for the game. So I thought it’d be the best decision to sack him instead. I told my people to play attacking, and they said they’d do that and put in two strikers.”

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