{"id":296114,"date":"2025-07-27T14:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T14:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296114\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T14:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T14:50:15","slug":"dejphon-chansiri-slashes-sheffield-wednesday-price-tag-by-50m-but-its-still-far-too-high-for-potential-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296114\/","title":{"rendered":"Dejphon Chansiri slashes Sheffield Wednesday price tag by \u00a350m but it&#8217;s still &#8216;far too high&#8217; for potential buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Sheffield Wednesday look destined to remain under the ownership of Dejphon Chansiri as the latest report on his attempts to sell the club suggests no bidders are getting close to his valuation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a summer of turmoil for <a href=\"https:\/\/eflanalysis.com\/tag\/sheffield-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheffield Wednesday<\/a> fans who have seen their club hit with transfer restrictions after <a href=\"https:\/\/eflanalysis.com\/tag\/dejphon-chansiri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dejphon Chansiri<\/a> failed to pay his staff on time.<\/p>\n<p>Those fans have also had to sit back and watch as key players like Anthony Musaba and Djeidi Gassama were sold to raise funds. Even worse, <a href=\"https:\/\/eflanalysis.com\/news\/fear-even-more-players-could-leave-sheffield-wednesday-after-windass-and-smith-expressed-free-for-all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Smith and Josh Windass terminated their own contracts<\/a> due to the issues at the club.<\/p>\n<p>Chansiri has said he is open to selling the club, but various bidders have come and gone this summer with <a href=\"https:\/\/eflanalysis.com\/news\/business-expert-slams-bizarre-sheffield-wednesday-takeover-process-hes-never-seen-anything-like-it-before\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bids stalling amid claims of a bizarre process<\/a> behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-1214546927-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"The Sheffield Wednesday club crest outside the Hillsborough Stadium\" class=\"wp-image-39038\" \/>Photo by VisionhausDejphon Chansiri refuses to budge on Sheffield Wednesday valuation<\/p>\n<p>It is thought <a href=\"https:\/\/eflanalysis.com\/news\/prospective-new-sheffield-wednesday-owner-reveals-details-of-consortium-as-chansiris-75m-mistake-comes-to-light\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chansiri rejected a $75m offer<\/a> for Wednesday from Adam Shaw earlier this summer, and talk of Shaw stepping in has gone cold of late.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/chansiri-still-135001395?utm_campaign=patron_engagement&amp;utm_source=post_link&amp;post_id=135001395&amp;token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJyZWRpc19rZXkiOiJpYTI6YWQ3ZTdmYjEtMTQyYS00Zjc0LWJhM2EtZWU1OWEzMTNkODRjIiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTM1MDAxMzk1LCJwYXRyb25faWQiOjMwOTEzOTc4fQ.471RLhmGSz2Hwd7Fj92Du3-tXafU6iFuYn9MT1iPJo0&amp;utm_id=f754c6e2-92ac-4c03-ba20-4471fdc2fbbc&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a report from Alan Nixon<\/a> on Patreon has shed some light on the state of play, with a claim that Chansiri is still pricing himself out of a sale.<\/p>\n<p>Nixon says Chansiri is standing firm in his valuation, which remains at \u201ca staggering \u00a3100 million\u201d despite all the ongoing chaos at the club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eflanalysis.com\/news\/the-punishment-sheffield-wednesday-and-chansiri-are-now-facing-after-efl-place-embargo-on-the-owls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wednesday are dealing with various punishments<\/a> from the EFL, with more potentially to come if things continue in the same vein. It\u2019s also thought any potential <a href=\"https:\/\/eflanalysis.com\/news\/dejphon-chansiri-will-leave-behind-a-4m-problem-for-new-sheffield-wednesday-owners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new owner would inherit an immediate \u00a34m debt<\/a> from Chansiri.<\/p>\n<p>All of this, twinned with the dwindling squad numbers, calls into question the price tag that Chansiri has set.<\/p>\n<p>Nixon adds that insiders claim Chansiri has dropped his demands from \u00a3150m to \u00a3100m this summer, but interested parties still see this as being \u201cfar too high for any chance of a deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"669\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-1085683796-7-1024x669.jpg\" alt=\"Sheffield Wednesday owner Dejphon Chansiri\" class=\"wp-image-43775\" \/>Photo by George Wood\/Getty ImagesDoes Dejphon Chansiri really have any intention of selling?<\/p>\n<p>There are some who claim <a href=\"https:\/\/eflanalysis.com\/news\/one-of-the-reasons-dejphon-chansiri-doesnt-want-to-sell-sheffield-wednesday-mooted-by-finance-expert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chansiri is secretly reluctant to sell Sheffield Wednesday<\/a>, and it\u2019s becoming increasingly likely that they might be right.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been said by many that <a href=\"https:\/\/eflanalysis.com\/news\/what-dealing-with-sheffield-wednesday-owner-dejphon-chansiri-is-really-like-according-to-former-player\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chansiri is difficult to deal with<\/a> at the best of times, and his insistence on that \u00a3100m price tag could well see any potential takeover fail to get off the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Fans are desperate for Chansiri to leave, and it does look like the only way for this once great club to have any chance of recovery is for him to move on.<\/p>\n<p>But, with just two weeks left until the season starts, it\u2019s impossible to imagine a world where Chansiri is not still at the helm for that first game at Hillsborough. If so, it\u2019ll be very interesting to see what the fan reception is like, whether he\u2019s in attendance or not.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday look destined to remain under the ownership of Dejphon Chansiri as the latest report on his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,64536,393,4308,4884,1620,21069,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-296114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-dejphon-chansiri","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-football-finance","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-sheffield","14":"tag-sheffield-wednesday","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114925759855199747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296114","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=296114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}