U.S. billionaire investor John McEvoy is \u201camong leading candidates to buy stricken\u201d EFL Championship club Sheffield Wednesday, according to Morgan, McGrath & Burt of the London TELEGRAPH. McEvoy\u2019s \u201cwide-ranging portfolio\u201d includes a minority stake in talent management giant Various Artists. He previously \u201cexplored the prospect of buying\u201d fellow EFLC club Coventry City FC and already holds minor ownership stakes in the Predators and Rockies. He is also the founder of a San Diego-based mobile device distribution company who has gone on to \u201cbuild a diverse portfolio of equity stakes across various sectors.\u201d <\/p>\n
Having abandoned efforts to buy Coventry in 2022, McEvoy is understood to have been \u201cweighing up a bid for Wednesday for months.\u201d His name \u201ccame to light\u201d after insolvency firm Begbies Traynor Group Managing Partner Kris Wigfield \u201cconfirmed there are \u2018already four or five interested parties that look like the real deal\u2019 for new ownership.\u201d However, figures involved in the process of finding a new buyer for the club said last night they were \u201cnot going to speculate on interested parties,\u201d adding that \u201c\u2018nobody\u2019 knows at this stage who the eventual owner will be.\u201d Morgan, McGrath & Burt wrote there is \u201cno shortage of interest\u201d for Sheffield Wednesday<\/a> despite the Championship\u2019s bottom club \u201ctriggering a 12-point deduction — with potential more sanctions to come\u201d — after being put into administration on Friday (London TELEGRAPH, 10\/28<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. billionaire investor John McEvoy is \u201camong leading candidates to buy stricken\u201d EFL Championship club Sheffield Wednesday, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,982,393,4884,78029,1620,10031,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-535878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-deals","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-international-soccer","13":"tag-sheffield","14":"tag-soccer","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115458666605565885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535878","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=535878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}