New Sheffield Wednesday<\/a> manager Henrik Pedersen admitted he was living day-to-day at the crisis club<\/a> rather than setting targets for the season ahead.<\/p>\n A stormy past few months<\/a> has seen Wednesday hit with several EFL<\/a>-imposed embargoes for financial breaches, including failing to pay players and staff <\/a>on time in May, June and July.<\/p>\n That led to the 15 first-team players still on the books at the club to boycott a behind-closed-doors friendly<\/a> against Burnley, which came to light on the same day Pedersen was announced as Owls boss.<\/a><\/p>\n Pedersen is certain a repeat scenario would not unfold<\/a> in their Championship<\/a> curtain-raiser at Leicester <\/a>on Sunday, although he was unwilling to think too much beyond the East Midlands trip.<\/p>\n The Danish boss told the PA news agency: \u201cI think if I spoke about goal-setting \u2013 with 15 players right now \u2013 and say we will stay in the league or this or that, this is not where we are right now.<\/p>\n \u201cTomorrow, I will do everything with my staff to have the best (training) session for the players and then on Sunday, make the best possible game plan. This is where we are right now.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course, I have an idea of how the club should look in the future. In my head, I know where we want to be but this is not interesting for the players right now.<\/p>\n \u201cI think I have a really good relationship with the players. I\u2019m convinced we have a group who are really looking forward to Sunday\u2019s game and will do everything they can for our club.<\/p>\n \u201cHow the players are handling this situation is not for everyone to do this, it\u2019s for special ones and they\u2019re doing a really special job at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Owner Dejphon Chansiri is looking to offload Wednesday<\/p>\n Pedersen stepped up from assistant last week to replace Danny Rohl, who left the club by mutual consent after helping them avoid relegation in 2023-24 before overseeing a respectable 12th-place finish last season.<\/p>\n Unable to sign or loan players for a fee until January 2027, Pedersen is working diligently to bump up the threadbare playing and non-playing numbers at Hillsborough and bring in individuals for free.<\/p>\n Adding to the uncertainty is owner Dejphon Chansiri looking to offload the club but Pedersen, who says he speaks \u201cregularly\u201d with the Thai businessman, has no regrets about committing to Wednesday.<\/p>\n Pedersen said: \u201cWhat (Chansiri) said to me the last time we spoke is he will do everything he can to solve the problem as quick as possible. I think he\u2019ll do what he can.<\/p>\n \u201cTo be Sheffield Wednesday manager is an honour. I spoke with (other) clubs but I said to my wife \u2018it\u2019s really interesting but you know where my heart is\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cMy family love to stay here. My two boys love to be in the school where they are, they love to play football here and my wife loves to be here. When the club asked me to come back, I had no doubt.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s important (to look at) what can I control, what can I not control? Of course we need new players and new coaches, but right now it\u2019s not so easy just to find players and players and players.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a tough environment right now because there are so many things (happening) from outside. But I have the biggest respect for my players and staff and how they are handling the situation.\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":325880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-325879","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\/114988945587911714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325879","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=325879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Owner](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/381fd13edb0b081d898f38553239f079Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzU0NjU4MzU5-2.40939747.jpg\")
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