{"id":305626,"date":"2025-07-31T03:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305626\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T03:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:52:19","slug":"sheffield-wednesday-players-informed-wages-will-be-delayed-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305626\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday: Players informed wages will be delayed again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sheffield Wednesday&#8217;s players have been informed that their wages will be delayed for a third successive month, BBC Radio Sheffield understands. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is now a possibility that they could refuse to play, with the new Championship season just 10 days away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Owls, who are without a manager after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cyvqv7yg326o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Danny Rohl&#8217;s exit on Tuesday<\/a>, are scheduled to start the season with a trip to Leicester City on Sunday, 10 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The South Yorkshire side are under a number of embargoes because of financial issues, including players being paid late in both May and June, and owner Dejphon Chansiri is looking to sell the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ongoing uncertainty around the club saw forwards Michael Smith and Josh Windass end their contracts by mutual consent earlier this month to join Preston and Wrexham respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their exits, along with the embargoes and the club&#8217;s inability to get players whose contracts expired last month to sign on again, has left Wednesday with a very small pool of senior professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday&#8217;s players have been informed that their wages will be delayed for a third successive month, BBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-305626","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\/114945821472970894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305626","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=305626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}