{"id":270662,"date":"2025-07-18T00:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270662\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T00:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:26:10","slug":"sheffield-wednesday-fans-rage-at-disastrous-josh-windass-announcement-were-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270662\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday fans rage at disastrous Josh Windass announcement: &#8216;We&#8217;re done&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FEATURED-IMAGE-RIGHT-5-2-1140x641.jpg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Josh Windass\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 50%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Credit: Imago)<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250708_072338701.PORTRAIT2-150x150.jpg\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" alt=\"Chris Smith\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p> Thu 17 July 2025 20:45, UK <\/p>\n<p><strong>Sheffield Wednesday have announced the mutual termination of the contracts of Josh Windass and Michael Smith and it\u2019s safe to say supporters are not happy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Windass and Smith registered 18 and 12 direct goal involvements, respectively, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Championship<\/a> last season, making them the only Wednesday players to hit double figures in that regard.<\/p>\n<p>But now, both players have left the club as free agents, having tendered notice periods in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/sheffield-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wednesday<\/a> repeatedly failing to pay their wages on time.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.co.uk\/sport\/football\/sheffield-wednesday\/sheffield-wednesday-josh-windass-michael-smith-5230278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Star<\/a>, four more players have handed in their notice, with yet more taking legal advice on their situation.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, there are fears the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/sheffield-wednesday-supporters-setback-dejphon-chansiri-danny-rohl-hillsborough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Stand at Hillsborough could be closed next season<\/a> due to safety concerns.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Owls can confirm that the current contracts of Michael Smith and Josh Windass have been terminated by mutual consent.<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield Wednesday thank Michael and Josh for their services and wish them well for the future.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/swfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#swfc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sheffield Wednesday (@swfc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/swfc\/status\/1945908110247481554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Sheffield Wednesday fans lash out at after Windass, Smith announcement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday officially announced the departures of Windass and Smith on Thursday (17 July) in what could be just the start of an uncertain and worrying time for the club\u2019s fanbase. <\/p>\n<p>MORE FOOTBALL INSIDER STORIES<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps unsurprisingly, those supporters levelled massive criticism toward owner Dejphon Chansiri on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019re done. Thanks Mr Chansiri.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan (@DJisatwit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DJisatwit\/status\/1945908208318480404?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Admin you need to start speaking out. He isn\u2019t here what can he do. Gather the staff together and prepare a statement and release it. There cannot be a single member of staff left at the club that doesn\u2019t despise him. We need to start doing things different <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/swfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#swfc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lewis Widdowson (@LMWiddowson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LMWiddowson\/status\/1945913564226523629?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a joke \u2013 selling players well well below their value- probably lost circa \u00a310m on the 2 x exits this week- crazy business strategy &amp; again now allowing players to walk for free when we could have be forced to sell them to try to get some \u00a3\u00a3\u00a3 in. Suicidal strategy!!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hector (@BullasRobin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BullasRobin\/status\/1945911368147747292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Absolute disgrace just throw the towel in this season and play U21s<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ciaran \ud83e\udd89 (@CSPswfc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSPswfc\/status\/1945908230418211189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Can you terminate Chansiri\u2019s contract?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Will Lowley (@LowleyW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LowleyW\/status\/1945908428305563834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I want my season ticket refunded, been going to Hillsborough since the mid 90&#8217;s and now feel sick at the thought of going  in a few weeks, Dejphon has ruined a huge part of my life and until he&#8217;s gone I want to file for divorce from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/swfc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@swfc<\/a> absolutely done with it. Until then \ud83d\udc4b<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul (@Paul_1867) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Paul_1867\/status\/1945914640392716311?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is still not as bad as it\u2019s gonna get. <br \/>Cheers lads, thanks for the memories. Uto.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Spiderbones (@ddaardvark) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddaardvark\/status\/1945909560373301359?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p>Football is, of course, a brutal business and supporters of major rivals wasted no time in kicking Wednesday fans while they\u2019re down.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Really not looking good for these lot\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bradderz (@pafc_brad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pafc_brad\/status\/1945910403768222150?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Apparently the new owner is called Lee Gwan<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JJ (@jimbobram92) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimbobram92\/status\/1945911156415078774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Rangers have a clear run at Josh Windass<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Windass spent two years with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/rangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rangers<\/a> between 2016 and 2018, scoring 19 goals in 73 appearances in a productive spell with the Glasgow giants.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old has been heavily linked with a return to Ibrox recently, with former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/tag\/england\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">England<\/a> goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/rangers-well-placed-to-re-sign-josh-windass-after-sheffield-wednesday-claim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Robinson tipping Windass as an \u2018easy pick\u2019 for Rangers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Stat<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Josh Windass<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Appearances<\/td>\n<td>73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Goals<\/td>\n<td>19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Assists<\/td>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Josh Windass\u2019 Rangers stats (2016-18)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an easy pick, isn\u2019t it? With the state of Sheffield Wednesday at the moment,\u201d he told <strong>Football Insider<\/strong> (13 July).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s only got one season left on his contract as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a player I like, he\u2019s a grafter, he works extremely hard and you know what you\u2019re going to get from him every single week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe scored 13 goals last season and seven before, so I wouldn\u2019t see him as a replacement for the likes of Dessers or Igamane, he would play in a deeper role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at the type of players Russell Martin is looking to bring in, Windass is the type of player you can look at in the dressing room and know what you\u2019re getting from him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Sheffield Wednesday in the state they\u2019re in, it could be an easy pick for Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be a good fit for both parties I think, and for Russell Martin, he can take advantage of what is a poor situation at Sheffield Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With Windass now a free agent, he\u2019s sure to pick up further interest from Championship clubs. However, the pull of Rangers can be powerful, especially for a player who has experienced the Ibrox crowd before.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Related Posts<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit: Imago) Thu 17 July 2025 20:45, UK Sheffield Wednesday have announced the mutual termination of the contracts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,53730,5074,1620,21069,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-270662","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-josh-windass","12":"tag-rangers","13":"tag-sheffield","14":"tag-sheffield-wednesday","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114871401542281214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270662","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=270662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}