{"id":553419,"date":"2025-11-06T18:21:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/553419\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T18:21:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:21:31","slug":"simon-jordan-reveals-what-he-thinks-sheffield-wednesday-are-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/553419\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Jordan reveals what he thinks Sheffield Wednesday are worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simon Jordan believes prospective suitors could snap up crisis club Sheffield Wednesday for just \u00a330million.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Championship’s bottom club entered administration<\/a> last month having failed to pay players on time in five of the previous seven months.<\/p>\n

Simon Jordan reveals what he thinks Sheffield Wednesday are currently worth!<\/p>\n

The move brought an end to the controversial ten-year reign of owner Dejphon Chansiri while Wednesday were hit with a 12-point deduction.<\/p>\n

Riding the storm<\/p>\n

While it appears that Wednesday may be doomed to relegation this season, fans have found some joy in the club\u2019s tumultuous situation.<\/p>\n

Supporters have flocked to the club\u2019s merchandise store in droves while attendances have also increased with many returning from their anti-Chansiri hiatus.<\/p>\n

Wednesday are now looking for new owners as they plot a new era but it remains to be seen what the club\u2019s valuation will be.<\/p>\n

Chansiri acquired Sheffield Wednesday for \u00a330m in 2015 and former Crystal Palace <\/a>owner Jordan believes a similar fee would probably be enough to buy the Championship strugglers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I were buying it I\u2019d want to pay as little as possible and give Chansiri as little as I possibly could,\u201d Jordan told talkSPORT.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I wouldn\u2019t want to make the administrator’s job very difficult if I were buying it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would suspect that if you could work hard with the EFL and the administrators and work hard with the idea of being robust with Chansiri and take some views on what he may or may not do post the completion of administration \u2013 all in, \u00a330million with the stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that\u2019s the beginning of the conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jordan previously spoke highly of Sheffield Wednesday\u2019s potential<\/a> under the right ownership after being linked with a takeover of the club.<\/p>\n

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Chansiri’s ownership is all-but over at Sheffield WednesdayCredit: Getty\"Wednesday<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wednesday fans have returned to support the team following administrationCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Although Jordan poured cold water on that suggestion, the talkSPORT pundit still believes that purchasing The Owls would represent good business and explained why potential owners would be investing their money wisely.<\/p>\n

Huge potential<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you\u2019ll know what you\u2019re going to find when you go in there, which is a stadium because it’s a public matter of public record,” Jordan added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a stadium that needs significant investment but what you\u2019ve got is a community and a football club that\u2019s got huge potential.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you actually look at Sheffield Wednesday despite the fact they\u2019ve got potential, their digital footprint is nowhere near, funnily enough, what Sheffield United<\/a> is. That\u2019s because Sheffield United have been in the Premier League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI looked at a comparison the other day which was Stoke, in the Championship. You look at their digital footprint and it\u2019s in the millions and Sheffield Wednesday isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Sheffield Wednesday is definitely a bigger football club with bigger potential and bigger opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Supporters spent over \u00a3200,000 at the club shop in the hours after administration was announcedCredit: Getty\"Sheffield<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jordan believes Wednesday can be snapped up for as little as \u00a330m<\/p>\n

Jordan urged the club\u2019s future owners to look at a Championship rival club as the blueprint of progression and sustainability.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a League One football club next year and I suggest the model you want to look at is what Ipswich managed to achieve which is not too much money poured in, building a football club with a bit of sustainability and a bit of ambition attached to it,” Jordan continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fanbase wants people to lead them. They want somebody who can take that club forward in my view.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut they also want a football club that\u2019s successful.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course everyone will scream for the next Middle Eastern owner or the next American owner but in an ideal world it might be nice to have an owner that comes from that part of the world (Sheffield).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simon Jordan believes prospective suitors could snap up crisis club Sheffield Wednesday for just \u00a330million. The Championship’s bottom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,9030,23712,393,4884,1620,21069,23561,16,15,21331,66988],"class_list":{"0":"post-553419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-championship","10":"tag-efl","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-sheffield","14":"tag-sheffield-wednesday","15":"tag-simon-jordan","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-value","19":"tag-worth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115504145721048888","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553419","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=553419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}