By Thai Newsroom Reporters
SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY owner Dejpon Chansiri is desperately looking for ways and means to promptly sell the debt-ridden Championship side to a potential buyer after negotiations with a couple of others had recently stalled, if not entirely fallen through.
The Thai owner has repeatedly assured his unfaltering intent to sell off Sheffield Wednesday, who finished right in the middle of last season’s table of the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football system, after a decade of poorly running the Owls, incurring some four million pounds in arrears and encountering intermittent protests from their frustrated fans and supporters.
A team of business professionals had failed to close a takeover deal between Dejpon and American restaurant-hotel-casino mogul Tilman Fertitta or Italian entrepreneur Francesco Guardascione primarily due to lack of clarity and accord over the Owls’ unsettled financial burdens with the Owls owner allegedly taking the helm in shambles and mess.
It was no secret to South Yorkshire-based fans and supporters who have openly held grudges against Dejpon that the Thai owner was no longer welcomed and constantly pressed to part company with the Owls and leave Hillsborough stadium for Bangkok where he could probably rewind and look for anything to do other than to run another professional football club.
Sheffield Wednesday were reported to owe four million pounds worth of an undisclosed sum of payments to other English football clubs, namely Brighton & Hove Albion, Southampton, Norwich and Hull, who had loaned their players to the Owls last season, plus last month’s wages for Owls players as well as staff members and overdue tax.
However, recent sales of a couple of young Owls strikers, namely Djeidi Gassama to Rangers in Scotland and Anthony Musaba to Samsunspor in Turkey, for 2.2 million pounds and 800,000 pounds respectively raised some cash to settle the overdue wages and relieve the financial troubles to the extent that the Thai-owned side could hopefully spare themselves a three-window transfer embargo and a points deduction for the upcoming season.
Given difficulties keeping highly-paid players at Hillsborough, let alone recruiting others from elsewhere, the financially-ailing Owls have parted company with senior strikers Josh Windass and Michael Smith on free-transfer basis.
Whilst Sheffield Wednesday’s sell-off efforts with the help of those negotiators have yet to bear fruit once and for all, Dejpon is expectedly scrambling to see to it that they will find a new buyer and finally close a takeover deal for the Owls before the 2025/2026 campaign starts barely three weeks away with their first game at King Power stadium to play Leicester City, the other Thai-owned Championship side who were just relegated from the Premier League, the top tier of the English football echelon.
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Top: Sheffield Wednesday reset following goal #3, which gives them the victory during the Sky Bet Championship match between Sheffield Wednesday and West Bromwich Albion at Hillsborough in Sheffield, England, on September 28, 2024. Photo by Stuart Leggett / MI News NurPhoto via Getty Images and published by Sheffield Wednesday News
Insert: Sheffield Wednesday owner Dejpon Chansiri. Photo: Getty Images and published by BBC
Front Page: Sheffield Wednesday’s Liam Palmer celebrates after scoring against Preston. Photo: Sky Sports
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