(Credit: Imago, talkSPORT on YouTube)
Thu 19 June 2025 18:10, UK
Sheffield Wednesday are in desperate trouble but Simon Jordan might just have the ideal solution to their problems.
Wednesday have been hit with a transfer restriction which will see them not able to carry out any transfers that require a fee for the next three windows (BBC Sport).
That is currently running alongside a registration embargo meaning the club cannot sign any new players, or free transfers, until they have paid outstanding wages in full.
The English Football League has also charged the club and owner Chansiri over the non-payment of wages.
Chansiri is being urged to sell the club amid the financial chaos and Jordan believes he knows the right person to step in.
Chansiri is being urged to sell Sheffield Wednesday. (Credit: Imago)‘Huge opportunity’ awaits new investor
Wednesday plan to appeal against the decision and speaking to talkSPORT (18 June), Jordan believes that is the right verdict.
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Jordan said: “They need to appeal it and find a better solution to it than ultimately being stopped from being able to buy players.
“I’m sure they will put their best foot forward and present a plan to the EFL which shows them meeting all their obligations.”
Jordan went on to explain who he thinks should be lining up an offer to take over the club.
“This is a club that I think have a huge opportunity which is why I was trying to get the Saudis to buy it,” Jordan claimed.
“I was talking to John Textor the other day, if he comes out of Palace I was saying to him that’s the football club you should be buying if you want to buy another English club.”
Jordan then explained why he believes there is big potential in the club and states that Wednesday are purely in trouble due to the owner.
“I think it is a club you can buy and get huge momentum behind,” Jordan said.
“There is no doubt in my mind that a properly run Sheffield Wednesday with proper energy, proper momentum, proper policies, proper disciplines, proper focus on what it was doing should be a football club operating at the top end of the Championship and looking at the Premier League.”
Rohl has done a good job at Sheffield Wednesday in tough circumstances (Credit: Imago)Future bleak unless Chansiri departs
Football Insider verdict
Wednesday were founding members of the Premier League in 1992, but the club have not played in the top flight since dropping out of the division in 2000.
When Chansiri bought the club in 2015, he promised Premier League football would come to Hillsborough by 2017.
They agonisingly lost 1-0 to Hull City in the 2015/16 play-off final at Wembley and have not come close since to returning to where the club believes it should be.
In the financial turmoil of recent times, manager Danny Rohl has done a remarkable job to keep Wednesday afloat in the Championship.
Rohl’s record at Sheffield Wednesday
A 12th place finish last campaign was commendable and coming close to even a mid-table finish now seems unrealistic next season.
Rohl, if he stays, has his work cut out once again to work more miracles.
Rohl has recently been linked with a move away from the club with Middlesborough and Leicester possible destinations for the German.
Everyone at Wednesday is hoping a positive solution is found sooner rather than later otherwise the future looks bleak for the club.
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