By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN AMERICAN consortium strongly reconfirmed a well-calculated goal to take over the previously Thai-owned Sheffield Wednesday before the current season closes in early May even if the Owls may start next season with as many as 15 points to be deducted. The consortium was set up by David Storch, founder
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Sale could revolutionise Sheff Wed – administrator
By Dale Johnson, BBC PARTIES with “significant financial means” are interested in buying Sheffield Wednesday and could “revolutionise the club”, says joint administrator Kris Wigfield. The Sheffield Wednesday Supporters’ Trust, meanwhile, has revealed it is to raise funds to sign players while the club is in administration. The Championship club and the company which
Read more‘Four or five serious bids’ for Sheffield Wednesday
By David Anderson, BBC Sport England SHEFFIELD Wednesday’s joint administrator says they have “four or five” serious bidders and the club could have new owners by the end of the year. Kris Wigfield is leading the search for new ownership after Dejpon Chansiri put the Championship club into administration on Friday (Oct. 24). Wigfield
Read moreSheffield Wednesday docked 12 points after filing for administration
By Reuters and published by CNA SHEFFIELD Wednesday have been deducted 12 points after a court filing on Friday (Oct. 24) showed the second-tier side filed for administration amid mounting financial issues at one of England’s oldest surviving football clubs. The English Football League had previously charged the Championship club in June with multiple
Read moreSheff Wed v Coventry delayed after fans protest on pitch
By BBC and ESPN THE Championship match between Sheffield Wednesday and Coventry City at Hillsborough today (Oct. 4) was briefly delayed after a small group of home fans ran on to the pitch to protest against the club’s Thai owner Dejpon Chansiri. In the 10th minute Owls supporters joined together to chant against the
Read moreSheffield Wednesday fans protest at Thai embassy
By Chloe Aslett & Oli Constable BBC News, Yorkshire SHEFFIELD Wednesday fans staged a demonstration outside the Thai embassy in London in protest at owner Dejpon Chansiri yesterday (Sep. 4). Supporters are calling for the Thai businessman to sell the club amid a host of ongoing financial issues at the Championship side. Alan Burgess
Read moreSheff Wednesday appeal for help after nightmare summer followed by arrival of starlet
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AFTER arguably the toughest summer in the history of Sheffield Wednesday, Owl fans saw the arrival of an exciting new face with the signing of Manchester United defender Harry Amass at the last moment. Of course, the 18-year-old full-back on loan from Manchester United until January lacks experience. However, having
Read moreSwansea ease to victory against Sheffield Wednesday
By Gareth Vincent, BBC Sport Wales SWANSEA City claimed a deserved victory at Hillsborough as goals from Zan Vipotnik and Ronald ensured Sheffield Wednesday remained without a league win this season. Vipotnik put speculation over his future to one side as he struck for the third time in as many games in all competitions
Read moreOwls fans hold funeral protest at ‘death of club’
By Lucy Ashton, BBC EMOTIONAL Sheffield Wednesday supporters have held a mock funeral procession with a coffin to symbolise “the death of the football club”. Protesters with banners, whistles and flares wound their way through Hillsborough Park ahead of the Owls’ match against Stoke City with the latter scoring a comfortable 3-0 victory. Fans
Read moreYoung Owls dump Bolton Wanderers out of Carabao Cup
By BBC TROUBLED Championship side Sheffield Wednesday beat 10-man Bolton of League One on penalties to reach the second round of the Carabao Cup, where they will host Premier League Leeds United. Owls goalkeeper Pierce Charles saved kicks from Aaron Morley and Max Conway in the shootout to leave veteran Liam Palmer to win
Read more‘Sell up, you plonker’ – how Sheff Wed fans united against owner
By Nick Mashiter BBC Sport football news reporter at King Power Stadium AS SHEFFIELD Wednesday fans sang outside Leicester City’s King Power Stadium, a plane circled overhead. Behind it was a banner with the message “Dejpon Chansiri Out”. Inside, another banner had already been laid across empty seats, urging the owner to sell. Wednesday
Read moreOwls tipped as first Championship side to be relegated
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY have been forecast as the first Championship side to be relegated at the end of the upcoming season primarily due to the Thai-owned football club’s unresolved financial crisis and ownership fiasco, according to an English football pundit. Benjamin Bloom has predicted on his YouTube channel that the Owls
Read moreDejpon scrambles to sell the Owls as new Championship season looms
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
Read moreApril Fools’ Day: Owls fans’ novel revolt against Thai owner?
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SOME SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY fans are coming up with a novel task of telling Thai people in this country and elsewhere, either via conventional or social media, how devastatingly Dejpon Chansiri, the Thai owner of the Championship football club, has allegedly fared so far. Whilst Dejpon continues to take the helm
Read moreRohl to stay put with Sheffield Wednesday over tempting Southampton
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY manager Danny Rohl would likely stay put with the sitting-pretty Owls in the Championship rather than venture into the Premier League to salvage the poorly-performing Southampton anytime soon, according to news reports. Though Rohl has reportedly held private talks with representatives of Southampton, which are embarrassedly stuck at
Read moreDejpon praised for clearing Sheffield Wednesday’s debt
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEJPON CHANSIRI, the Thai owner of Sheffield Wednesday football club, has begun to win praise and support from local fans whilst desperately seeking co-investment for the English Championship side. Until recently, Dejpon had been viewed by those fans as an “utterly unfit” owner of the Owls and intermittently encountered “Chansiri
Read moreFeature: Unpopular Owls owner in search of co-investor
By Out-Crowd DEJPON CHANSIRI, the Thai owner of English football club Sheffield Wednesday, is decidedly looking for a co-investor to help with the planned shopping of outstanding players during the summer transfer market. After a fruitful talk with Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Rohl to the extent that the German has finally agreed to stay
Read moreSheffield Wednesday survives Championship final game
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY are still ranking among a total of 24 football clubs in the English Championship after surviving tonight’s (May 4) final game of the season under German manager Danny Rohl. Sheffield Wednesday midfielder Liam Palmer and striker Josh Windass scored a 2-0 win over Sunderland in the first half
Read moreSheffield Wednesday manager looks to keep ace players for next season
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY manager Danny Rohl is resolutely looking to keep outstanding players with the Owls for next season with hopes of building a stronger squad rising beyond the final game of the current season scheduled for tomorrow. Rohl is earnestly looking forward to holding a “make-or-break” negotiation with Sheffield Wednesday
Read morePressure on Sheffield Wednesday owner eased
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRESSURE SUSTAINABLY BUILT on Dejpon Chansiri, the Thai owner of English Championship football club Sheffield Wednesday, is more or less diminishing now that German manager Danny Rohl has decidedly offered to stay with the Owls despite the fifty-fifty chances of their being relegated from the second tier of the English
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