{"id":322834,"date":"2025-08-06T15:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322834\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T15:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:33:16","slug":"former-crystal-palace-owner-interested-in-buying-sheffield-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322834\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Crystal Palace owner \u2018interested\u2019 in buying Sheffield Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Crystal Palace<\/a> co-owner John Textor said he was \u201cdefinitely interested\u201d in buying Sheffield Wednesday<\/a>, according to reports.<\/p>\n

American businessman Textor sold his 43 per cent stake in Crystal Palace in July and is a majority shareholder at Lyon, Belgium club RWDM Brussels and Brazilian side Botafogo.<\/p>\n

Textor told journalist Alan Myers<\/a> he wanted to buy \u201ca traditional English club\u201d but has not yet made any approach to embattled Wednesday owner Dejphon Chansiri.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt\u2019s true that I am looking for a traditional English club to buy, or with which I can partner\u2026 I just have not spoken with anybody at Sheffield Wednesday yet and I am monitoring the situation, hoping to better understand it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m definitely interested, It\u2019s a lot to solve in a short amount of time with regards to taking advantage of the transfer window but it\u2019s definitely a club and community I would like to help.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Textor<\/p>\n

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Textor is also a majority shareholder at Lyon, Belgium club RWDM Brussels and Brazilian side Botafogo (Lucas Figueiredo\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Thai businessman Chansiri has come under increasing pressure to sell the club, which he bought for a reported \u00a337.5million from Milan Mandaric in 2015.<\/p>\n

He recently confirmed he had rejected one consortium\u2019s \u00a340m bid, while talks with various other interested parties have stalled.<\/p>\n

Wednesday have lurched from one crisis to another in recent seasons and are currently under three English Football League<\/a> embargoes for various financial breaches.<\/p>\n

Wages were not paid on time for the third-successive month in July and players refused to play in a behind-closed-doors friendly against Burnley last Saturday.<\/p>\n

That heightened concern within the EFL that the club would not be able to fulfil Sunday\u2019s opening Sky Bet Championship<\/a> fixture at Leicester.<\/p>\n

Under EFL rules, the delayed payments allowed key players Josh Windass and Michael Smith to walk away from their contracts for free to join Wrexham and Preston respectively.<\/p>\n

\"Dejphon<\/p>\n

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Dejphon Chansiri is under pressure to sell Sheffield Wednesday (Martin Rickett\/PA)<\/p>\n

Amid the summer chaos, former manager Danny Rohl initially failed to return for pre-season training before eventually departing by mutual agreement and being replaced by his assistant Henrik Pedersen.<\/p>\n

Captain Barry Bannan, who signed a new deal with the Owls at the weekend, has since said he did not think the players would boycott Sunday\u2019s game, but it has been reported the players had considered it.<\/p>\n

The Owls have sold out their allocation for the trip to the King Power Stadium, where Sheffield Wednesday Supporters\u2019 Trust have planned a large-scale protest.<\/p>\n

The Trust has called on fans to delay entry to their seats until five minutes after kick-off, while a large banner will be displayed in \u201ca visibly empty away end\u201d.<\/p>\n

Textor sold his stake in Palace as they bid to overturn UEFA\u2019s decision to demote them from the Europa League to the Conference League under its multi-club ownership rules.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI often cite (Wednesday) as an example of what\u2019s wrong with football today, the lack of parity, because of the influence of money and I wish there was a system where the Sheffield Wednesdays of the world could be champions again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-322834","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\/114982551927117842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322834","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=322834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}