{"id":166271,"date":"2025-06-08T00:14:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T00:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166271\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T00:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T00:14:39","slug":"sheffield-wednesday-placed-under-transfer-embargo-by-efl-as-owner-is-accused-of-holding-club-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166271\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday placed under transfer embargo by EFL as owner is accused of holding club ‘hostage’"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY have been placed under a registration embargo for failure to pay wages on time.<\/p>\n

The Owls will be prevented from adding players to their squad for the 2025\/26 Championship season due to multiple breaches of EFL regulations on payment obligations.<\/p>\n

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Sheffield Wednesday players and staff have yet to be paid for MayCredit: REX\"Dejphon<\/a><\/p>\n

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The EFL have charged the Owls and owner Dejphon Chansiri with multiple breaches of regulations on payment obligationsCredit: GETTY<\/p>\n

The club were charged this week after failing to pay both players and staff members their wages for May.<\/p>\n

The sanction has heaped yet more pressure on Owls owner Dejphon Chansiri, who has apologised profusely for the delayed wages, to sell the club.<\/p>\n

As it stands, Wednesday are facing a THREE-WINDOW<\/strong> embargo – meaning they won’t be able to sign players until JANUARY 2027<\/strong> at the earliest.<\/p>\n

An American consortium is looking to buy the Yorkshire outfit but has had TWO PROPOSALS <\/strong>rejected by Thai tycoon Chansiri.<\/p>\n

Labour MP for Sheffield South East, Clive Betts, is leading the calls for Chansiri to sell, saying: “He must accept that he needs to sell Wednesday to prevent the complete collapse of the club.<\/p>\n

“We as fans deserve better.<\/p>\n

“It breaks my heart to see the club I have followed all my life being held hostage by an owner who clearly has no interest or care for us.<\/p>\n

“It is clear that Chansiri does not have the ability or resources to fund and invest in Sheffield Wednesday.”<\/p>\n

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Sheffield Wednesday fans have repeatedly protested Dejphon Chansiri’s ownershipCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Wednesday have vowed to pay players and staff as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

A club statement read: “The club continue to seek a resolution regarding outstanding salaries due for the month of May at the earliest possible opportunity.<\/p>\n

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“Mr Chansiri sincerely apologises to all players, coaches and staff affected and everyone connected with the club.”<\/p>\n

Chansiri’s ten-year ownership of Wednesday has been filled with financial issues. <\/p>\n

The Yorkshire club were deducted six points in the 2021\/21 season, in which they were relegated to League One, for breaching spending rules. <\/p>\n

And they were placed under registration embargoes in both the 2023\/24 and 24\/25 campaigns.<\/p>\n

Wednesday ended the 2024\/25 Championship season in 12th place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY have been placed under a registration embargo for failure to pay wages on time. The Owls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,9030,393,12901,4884,189,1620,21069,16,15,2302],"class_list":{"0":"post-166271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-championship","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-english-football-league","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-section-sportfootball","14":"tag-sheffield","15":"tag-sheffield-wednesday","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-yorkshire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114644862856065077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}