General manager of football operations Lee O’Neill says there is no offer currently on the table for the Blues, despite interest from a US-backed consortium, and that owner Marcus Evans’s stance remains unchanged.
Asked about the link at a lunchtime press conference, O’Neill said: "There’s been a lot of speculation in the media. Marcus’s stance hasn’t changed. He’s not actively looking to sell the football club.
"As he’s always said and it’s been well publicised, if there was an offer on the table from anyone that was interested in taking the football club over and they were going to provide significant investment and move the club forward, then he would always look at that and look at what’s in the best interests of the football club.
"His stance hasn’t changed on that, so at the moment that’s exactly where we’re at with it.”
Questioned directly on whether an offer is currently there, he said: "I think, as I said before, at the moment, the conversations aren’t there. There isn’t an offer on the table but he will always look at an offer if it is on the table.”
Asked whether he is confident that Evans will still be in charge at the end of the season, he added: "I am confident. Marcus is [as] driven [as] ever, I’ve spoken to him a few times over the last few days.
"He wants to get the football club back to where it should be and we all know that that’s going to be a difficult job over the next three or four months in particular, but that’s not unachievable.
"When you look at the squad and the games that are coming up, we’re in a good position, so everything’s there. He’s definitely focused and his ambitions are still there to try and get the club promoted this season.”
Asked clarify his comment that there is no offer offer on the table, he reiterated: "That is correct.”
And similarly that the appointment of a new manager is purely down to Evans and not a prospective new owner, he said: "That’s correct.”