{"id":582864,"date":"2025-11-20T16:25:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/582864\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:25:19","slug":"finance-expert-reveals-preferred-bidder-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/582864\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance expert reveals ‘preferred bidder’ update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sheffield<\/p>\n

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\"Ciaran <\/p>\n

Thu 20 November 2025 16:02, UK <\/p>\n

Sheffield Wednesday are still weeks away from a takeover after 11 parties expressed their interest in buying the Championship club.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That is according to football finance expert Dr Dan Plumley<\/a>, who has exclusively explained to Football Insider<\/strong> the position Sheffield Wednesday are currently in.<\/p>\n

Plumley previously told Football Insider<\/strong> that Sheffield Wednesday would \u201chighly likely\u201d be sold<\/a> after the club were put into administration.<\/p>\n

Dejphon Chansiri\u2019s ownership of Sheffield Wednesday came to an end<\/a> when the club were placed into administration, whilst they were also deducted 12 points in the Championship table.<\/p>\n

\"DejphonCredit: ImagoSheffield Wednesday latest explained<\/p>\n

John Textor is one businessman interested in taking over Sheffield Wednesday<\/a> and speaking exclusively to Football Insider<\/strong>, Plumley explained the current predicament the club faces before a full takeover can be completed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen that there\u2019s going be a two-week negotiating period and this deadline of Friday the fifth of December for preferred bidding status. So we\u2019re a couple of weeks away from that,\u201d Plumley said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then if you kind of roll that through, it will take a little bit of time for a full takeover to go through because the due diligence has got to be done, and they\u2019ve got past the owners and directors test and everything. <\/p>\n

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\u201cIn terms of what the administrators will be looking for, they have to try and get the highest value for the creditors. You may have heard this thing around that they have to accept the biggest bid on the table. <\/p>\n

\u201cNow there is some kind of flexibility within that, that the biggest bid on the table might not necessarily be the biggest bid overall in terms of\u00a0long term\u00a0infrastructure and what they want to do with that club moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"SheffieldCredit: Getty ImagesInterested parties could \u2018fade away\u2019 amid \u2018negotiation\u2019 stage<\/p>\n

Plumley went on to explain what will be the main priority for Sheffield Wednesday<\/a>\u2018s administrators in the coming days.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo\u00a0it is tricky because the administrators have got to get value out of the deal, but\u00a0they\u2019re\u00a0also trying to preserve the best interest of the club moving forward,\u201d Plumley said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, of course, within that, you\u2019ve got to do a deal with the old chairman and owner because he\u2019s one of the major creditors. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo it gets a little bit tricky, but I think what will happen from here on in is some of those parties will probably fade away, because they\u2019re probably the ones that have got the proof of funds to a certain value but haven\u2019t got the big money to really take it forward and and that\u2019s what the administrators will be looking at. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut with administration, you know, it will come down to whether they\u2019ll have to put their bids on the table. And if the administrators think that the highest bid is not necessarily the best bid, they might go back to a couple and potentially say can you increase your bid? <\/p>\n

\u201cSo\u00a0it becomes a negotiation, but\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0a couple of weeks away from that in terms of when\u00a0we\u2019ll\u00a0know that preferred business status.\u201c<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit: Imago) Thu 20 November 2025 16:02, UK Sheffield Wednesday are still weeks away from a takeover after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,177502,393,4884,1620,21069,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-582864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-dr-dan-plumley","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-sheffield","13":"tag-sheffield-wednesday","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115582962101794612","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582864","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=582864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}