{"id":190474,"date":"2025-06-17T01:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T01:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/190474\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T01:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T01:58:09","slug":"sheffield-wednesday-owner-in-talks-with-two-u-s-based-groups-on-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/190474\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday owner in talks with two U.S.-based groups on sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The price tag for EFL Championship club Sheffield Wednesday is \u201ccoming down fast\u201d with owner Dejphon Chansiri \u201cin talks with two U.S.-based groups about a sale\u201d of the club, according to Matt Slater of THE ATHLETIC. One of the interested parties \u201cwants to remain under the radar for the time being but has hired a club broker from the UK to negotiate with Chansiri on its behalf.\u201d The other has \u201cchosen to go public with its interest\u201d behind Florida-based property investor John Flanagan and Sheffield-born businessman Adam Shaw. Neither Flanagan nor Shaw has \u201cwanted to reveal the identities of their investment partners.\u201d But Shaw said that the \u201c16-strong group includes current and former Major League Baseball players, an ex-Premier League star and, if the deal can be done, a well-known celebrity.\u201d Shaw is \u201cadamant the star power of this group would have the same transformative impact at Wednesday\u201d that EFL Championship club Wrexham\u2019s owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have \u201chad since their arrival\u201d in 2021. The asking price for Wednesday has fallen as the club\u2019s \u201crecurring annual losses, late payments and English Football League sanctions have piled up,\u201d but Chansiri is \u201cstill holding out for significantly more than what anyone has put on the table, so far.\u201d Shaw said that his group offered $65M in April. Slater notes that was \u201cflatly rejected, so the group returned the following month with a bid of a guaranteed $75m, only to receive short shrift once more\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6429823\/2025\/06\/16\/sheffield-wednesday-stadium-takeover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6429823\/2025\/06\/16\/sheffield-wednesday-stadium-takeover\/\">THE ATHLETIC, 6\/16<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The price tag for EFL Championship club Sheffield Wednesday is \u201ccoming down fast\u201d with owner Dejphon Chansiri \u201cin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,78029,1620,10031,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-190474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-international-soccer","12":"tag-sheffield","13":"tag-soccer","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114696232473590974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190474","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=190474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}