{"id":147757,"date":"2025-10-27T12:24:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/147757\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:24:21","slug":"sheffield-wednesday-four-or-five-serious-bidders-for-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/147757\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday: ‘Four or five’ serious bidders for club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wigfield hopes the sale process will move quickly and a group could have preferred-bidder status next month, with a view to completing the purchase of Wednesday before the end of the year.<\/p>\n

“Due to EFL rules, we have to market the club for 28 days,” he said. “So it’ll be at least 28 days before we’re getting close to a preferred-bidder status.<\/p>\n

“So I’m hopeful that by the end of November, if things go well, we might know who’s going to buy the football club.<\/p>\n

“Then hopefully a deal can be concluded this calendar year, so that the new owner is in for… the January transfer window, if the EFL allows the new owner to buy players.”<\/p>\n

Wednesday fans returned in their thousands on Saturday after their previous boycott and a season’s best crowd of 27,261 witnessed the 2-1 loss to Oxford<\/a> at Hillsborough.<\/p>\n

Wigfield says supporters have already spent more than \u00a3500,000 on tickets and in the club shop to keep the Owls going.<\/p>\n

“We had no money to start with, but the fans have already put in over half a million pounds since Friday through buying tickets and merchandise,” he added.<\/p>\n

“So the response has been incredible, but we need to keep raising money to be able to pay the wages next Friday.<\/p>\n

“So more tickets are going on sale for the next home games today and we need the fans to keep purchasing stuff. It’s quite a difficult circumstance, but that’s what we need.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wigfield hopes the sale process will move quickly and a group could have preferred-bidder status next month, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-147757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115446118070836145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}