{"id":257937,"date":"2025-07-12T03:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T03:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257937\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T03:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T03:54:12","slug":"sheff-wednesday-in-advanced-takeover-talks-with-sports-businessman-who-is-donald-trump-ally-and-us-ambassador-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257937\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheff Wednesday in advanced takeover talks with sports businessman who is Donald Trump ally and US ambassador in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY are in advanced takeover talks with an American sports businessman called Tilman Fertitta.<\/p>\n

Fertitta is also the United States<\/a> ambassador in Italy after making his fortune with various ventures.<\/p>\n

\"WASHINGTON,<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sheffield Wednesday are in advanced talks with an American businessman Tilman Fertitta\"Dejphon<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wednesday\u00a0owner Dejphon Chansiri is under significant pressure amid the club’s financial crisis<\/p>\n

The 68-year-old has been in talks for weeks but has now made an offer to\u00a0Wednesday\u00a0owner Dejphon Chansiri.<\/a><\/p>\n

The cost of the deal is being kept secret and will be subject to the usual due diligence phase.<\/p>\n

Fertitta may lodge cash to help settle some bills in the short term as the process is bound to take weeks.<\/p>\n

But he seems a far more credible candidate than many who have chased the Yorkshire club ownership.<\/p>\n

Fertitta has a basketball team in Houston, is an ally of Donald Trump<\/a> and is seen as a leading expert and\u00a0business and sport. <\/p>\n

Chansiri says he is willing to sell the club to \u201cthe right individual, or group, to take it forward\u201d.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, who finished 12th last season, are in dire straits financially.<\/p>\n

The Owls are currently restricted by a triple transfer embargo due to unpaid player wages and HMRC<\/a> bills.<\/p>\n

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Fertitta is an ally of Donald Trump<\/p>\n

CASINO SPECIAL – BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM \u00a310 DEPOSITS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The club’s\u00a0financial crisis deepened<\/a>\u00a0after six stars reportedly handed in notices, with Chansiri refusing to inject any more cash into the coffers.<\/p>\n

Manager Danny Rohl hasn’t returned to pre-season training<\/a> and is seeking a way out of his contract amidst interest from other clubs.<\/p>\n

And unpaid Wednesday players are raging after being left out of pocket for several months.<\/p>\n

Sheffield Wednesday crisis deepens as players free to resign, club legend leaves and staff going months without pay <\/p>\n

SunSport exclusively revealed how upset stars\u00a0have asked the EFL to send them money<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wednesday are now\u00a0banned from buying players until 2027.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Danny<\/a><\/p>\n

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Danny Rohl remains absent from the Owls’ pre-season amid the ongoing transfer embargoCredit: Getty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY are in advanced takeover talks with an American sports businessman called Tilman Fertitta. Fertitta is also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,32,393,4884,2199,556,300,189,1620,21069,16,15,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-257937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-italy","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-north-america","15":"tag-section-sportfootball","16":"tag-sheffield","17":"tag-sheffield-wednesday","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114838245656863353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257937","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=257937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}