{"id":269286,"date":"2025-07-17T12:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269286\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T12:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:24:10","slug":"sheffield-wednesday-expert-view-owls-takeover-is-off-so-what-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269286\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday expert view: Owls takeover is off – so what now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back to the drawing board.<\/b><\/p>\n

Last Friday, we received information that an agreement had been reached with a party interested in buying Sheffield Wednesday. Multiple sources confirmed this, with a growing belief a takeover could actually be on the cards.<\/p>\n

Later on Friday, we also discovered that Francesco Guardascione was part of a group pursuing a purchase of Sheffield Wednesday.<\/p>\n

There were also reports in the national media of interest from Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta but we could not find anyone to back this up.<\/p>\n

We understand the prospect of a takeover played a part in the delayed transfer of Djeidi Gassama to Rangers. <\/p>\n

By Monday, with that deal being widely reported in Scotland to be close to completion after all, the mood changed around a prospective takeover. Things appeared to have stalled. <\/p>\n

There was belief that a potential buyer could provide an advance to pay outstanding bills. We understand that ended up not being the case.<\/p>\n

With Gassama sold<\/a> and fellow winger Anthony Musaba departing for Samsunspor in Turkey, players and staff were finally paid their wages for June on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

So what now?<\/p>\n

There are multiple parties showing interest in Sheffield Wednesday. However, even with the process being handled by a professional team<\/a> with experience in selling football clubs, it’s believed that negotiating a deal to buy the club is a challenging process. Words like ‘unique’ and ‘unorthodox’ are still used to describe negotiations.<\/p>\n

We’re back to a total lack of clarity on what the future holds. <\/p>\n

Will further player sales be necessary to pay the bills? Is a points deduction from the EFL inevitable? Is the asking price to buy Sheffield Wednesday a stumbling block for any serious potential buyer? What happens to the North Stand, with a further SAG (Safety Advisory Group) meeting due on Friday where the subject will be discussed?<\/p>\n

Dejphon Chansiri’s legacy as Sheffield Wednesday owner is already set. He is overseeing a shambles.<\/p>\n

It won’t change anything now but trusting the right people to find a buyer, doing things the right way and enabling the club to move on will at least enable a line to be drawn. Is he prepared to do that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back to the drawing board. Last Friday, we received information that an agreement had been reached with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-269286","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-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114868562408154922","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269286","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=269286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}