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Alex Miller on the Thai Embassy Protest
misterro replied to the_forgotten_city's topic in Sheffield Wednesday Matchday
I've spent a lot of spare time in my life reading about football, and only ever want to spend that time reading high quality stuff by excellent journalists or authors. So I'd like to think I know a good writer when I see one. Alex Miller is a tremendous writer, he really is. We're very lucky to have him covering our club. -
Long-time European football expert and Lyon fan Andy Brassell absolutely scathing about John Textor and his capabilities as an owner here. It's a good listen - about 10 mins long: I've seen and heard Textor interviewed in many different places over the last few years. He always talks a great game. However, his track record as an owner and the consistency of how negatively the fans feel about him at every club he has been at speaks volumes. I really hope we get a new owner. I hope it's someone other than John Textor.
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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/djeidi-gassama-rangers-transfer-done-35554300 Daily Record now reporting that it's almost done. Hope not!
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The Guardian covering our plight today: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jun/28/sheffield-wednesday-financial-crisis-football-championship-dejphon-chansiri
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Texter getting slated on Sky Sports
misterro replied to heppers's topic in Sheffield Wednesday Matchday
Video of the interview is in this article: https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11806/13388136/lyon-relegated-to-ligue-2-over-finances-but-french-giants-will-appeal-against-incomprehensible-decision -
Potential Sheffield Wednesday owner calls for 55,000-seater stadium, says club ‘way bigger than Wrexham’ Sheffield Wednesday should have a 55,000-capacity stadium, one of England’s best academies and be “way bigger than Wrexham”, according to the co-leader of a North American group trying to buy the crisis-hit Championship club. The four-time title winners are the second-oldest professional club in English football, and were founding members of the Premier League in 1992, but they dropped out of the top flight in 2000 and have spent the 25 years since yo-yoing between the second and third tiers. Thai businessman Dejphon Chansiri bought the South Yorkshire side in 2015 — and initially spent heavily on a push for the Premier League — but that financial support has long since dried up and Wednesday are yet to meet all of their wage bill for May, having also been late with April’s payments. Having first said he would sell the club in late 2018, only to place a Premier League-level valuation on the business, Chansiri’s price tag is coming down fast and he is in talks with two U.S.-based groups about a sale. One of those parties wants to remain under the radar for the time being but has hired a club broker from the UK to negotiate with Chansiri on its behalf. But the other has chosen to go public with its interest, with Florida-based property investor John Flanagan giving an interview to the local BBC radio station last week and his partner in the venture, Adam Shaw, a Sheffield-born businessman based in the same U.S. state, now speaking exclusively to The Athletic. “Sheffield Wednesday are nowhere in America. We sell zero shirts and have no commercial presence there — that’s got to change,” says Shaw, a lifelong Wednesday fan. “With the World Cup in the U.S. next year and with the individuals we have in our ownership group, we could easily become Florida’s English football team. “We should and can be way bigger than Wrexham. Ryan Reynolds would give his left leg to have what we already have at Wednesday in terms of our history and fanbase. Let’s use that.” Neither Flanagan nor Shaw has wanted to reveal the identities of their investment partners, but the latter says the 16-strong group includes current and former Major League Baseball players, an ex-Premier League star and, if the deal can be done, a well-known celebrity. He is adamant the star power of this group would have the same transformative impact at Wednesday that Wrexham’s owners Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have had since their arrival in north Wales. The Hollywood duo paid £2million to buy the club, then in the fifth-tier National League, in 2021 but sold a minority stake in the team, now in the Championship with Wednesday after three straight promotions, earlier this year which valued them at £100m. And now, according to reports, they are looking for new partners at a valuation of £350m. While most football finance experts believe that is an unrealistic price for a newly-promoted second-division side with a relatively small stadium, no training ground and no real tradition of developing players, every expert believes McElhenney and Reynolds have a much better chance of attracting investment at that level than Chansiri, as that was his original asking price, too. That number has fallen as Wednesday’s recurring annual losses, late payments and English Football League (EFL) sanctions have piled up but Chansiri is still holding out for significantly more than what anyone has put on the table, so far. Shaw, who has been speaking to Chansiri about buying the club for two years, says his group offered $65million (£48m), with a significant chunk of that in performance-related bonus payments, in April. That was flatly rejected, so the group returned the following month with a bid of a guaranteed $75m, only to receive short shrift once more. Chansiri seems to believe Wednesday’s history, large stadium and loyal fanbase are worth a premium on top of the usual valuation for Championship clubs, which is about double a side’s annual revenue. Wednesday earned just over £26million in the 2023-24 season, their first back in the Championship after two years in League One, which would suggest an enterprise value in the £50m to £55m range. For comparison, American investor Shilen Patel bought second-tier side West Bromwich Albion for £60m last year, while British businessman David Clowes paid £55m to rescue Derby County from bankruptcy in 2022, shortly after their relegation from the same division. Chansiri, of course, is probably thinking more about the £105million that U.S.-based investors Steve Rosen and Helmy Eltoukhy paid for Wednesday’s city rivals Sheffield United last Christmas, although United were vying for promotion out of the Championship at the time, have Premier League-level facilities and are still in receipt of parachute payments following their 2024 relegation from the top flight. Shaw believes Wednesday could and should be worth more than neighbours United one day, too, but the road back from years of fan unrest, too many managers and not enough investment will require radical thinking. The 47-year-old, who runs a mental-health platform and publishing business called Triggerhub, says his group would immediately upgrade Wednesday’s academy and training ground, renovate their near 35,000-capacity Hillsborough stadium and lean into their American contacts to boost commercial revenues. “We are Sheffield Wednesday, we are a big enough club to create the best academy and training facilities in the UK if we put our minds to it,” he says. “Let’s get Hillsborough fully open and give fans something decent to eat and drink, with service with a smile. We’d also really like to see if we can wrap three of the sides, to create a more modern, bowl effect but we would leave the South Stand alone, as we want a mix of old and new.” Shaw would also like the club to “review and increase the honour” it has shown to the 97 Liverpool fans who died in a crush at the stadium in 1989, the worst disaster in British sporting history. While this may sound a noble idea, it could perhaps be controversial with some Wednesday supporters, as the club has struggled with the legacy of the tragedy for decades. As an expert on mental health, Shaw believes “one way to overcome something that traumatic is to embrace what happened for all those affected”. He said one possible idea for marking the tragedy in a more public way is to let the families of those who died rename the West Stand, also known as the Leppings Lane End, which is where the crush occurred. Looking further ahead, “perhaps five years”, Shaw’s group would like to move Wednesday away to a new, 55,000-capacity ground. “We wouldn’t do anything without consulting the fans, but we think the club should have a home where people can park more easily and have up-to-date facilities,” he says. “If we want to create a culture that ensures we become a sustainable, competitive and successful Premier League side, then we must be proactive. Premier League clubs are all upgrading their stadiums.” He said the group have a site in mind but reiterated that it would not do anything without the fans’ support. In the meantime, he wants to cut the cost of tickets for all fans and give away up to 5,000 seats per game to ambulance crews, fire fighters, National Health Service staff, police officers and current and former members of the military. “I know this is an American tradition, but I believe all Sheffield Wednesday fans would get behind this initiative,” he says. “It’s the very least our great club can do for all those brave first-responders and military personnel who have sacrificed so much for others every single day of their lives.” Among the group’s other plans are improving the quality of the club’s merchandise and its retail operations, going back to a more traditional version of Wednesday’s distinctive owl logo and backing manager Danny Röhl, who is currently in dispute with Chansiri over his return to work this month. Shaw would also like to see a fans’ representative join the board. Whether Shaw and his partners — or the other group in takeover talks — will ever get the chance to deliver any of their plans is likely to depend on Chansiri’s tolerance for bad news. His most recent failure to pay his staff on time means the club have been in arrears for more than 30 days in the past 12 months, which brings an automatic three-window registration ban. That sanction cannot be published on the EFL website under its current rules but the league is in the process of changing these so that three-window bans can also be listed. The EFL has also charged Chansiri personally for breaching regulation 21.2.2, which states that a club owner should not take, or omit to take, any action that would result in breaking the rules. With the main source of the Chansiri fortune, the family’s stake in the world’s largest tuna producer, Thai Union Group, under pressure from U.S. tariffs and a plummeting share price, pressure is mounting to sell up. Wednesday have not responded to requests for comment. By Matt Slater https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6429823/2025/06/16/sheffield-wednesday-stadium-takeover/
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I like Beadle, but he's currently the worst-performing Championship goalkeeper in terms of save percentage at just 51.9%. Boro's Seny Dieng is the next lowest at 57.5%. Hopefully Beadle will have an upturn in performance after the international break.
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Amazing work!
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Here's that thunderbastard he scored against Man United.
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Ex Southampton player with Röhl agrees to join Owls
misterro replied to goodytheowl's topic in Sheffield Wednesday Matchday
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https://www.sport.de/news/ne6692774/fussball--danny-roehl-der-heimliche-trainer-des-jahres/ In his new sport.de column, Florian Regelmann examines all the topics that are currently troubling, exciting or upsetting him. Episode 2 is about the secret coach of the year: Danny Röhl Alonso? Hoeneß? HE is the secret coach of the year Xabi Alonso with Bayer Leverkusen, Sebastian Hoeneß with VfB Stuttgart, Frank Schmidt with 1. FC Heidenheim - we saw incredible coaching performances in the Bundesliga alone last season. But we should not forget that a young German coach also achieved something historic in England. "I was the big hope here from the start. On my first day, I was at an amateur game and 3,000 fans were calling my name, even though I hadn't done anything yet. It was crazy," Danny Röhl tells me on the phone. He is not in Sheffield at the moment, but in his hometown of Leipzig. When I talk to him, I inevitably think back to our first meeting in a Munich beer garden in the summer of 2019. At that time, Röhl had just moved from Southampton FC under his mentor Ralph Hasenhüttl as assistant coach analysis to Hansi Flick and FC Bayern. Röhl, who was only 30 years old at the time, was considered a hot name among the talented coaches. At 16 he said he wanted to be a coach. His own career as a player (a fast man for the wing!) was ruined by many injuries. He slipped into the coaching track very early on, at a very early stage in the RB cosmos. Röhl is the type of tactical mastermind, but contrary to some prejudices, he is not only that. Röhl is also equipped with the necessary soft skills, he can lead a team - in the end, he has everything in his toolbox that you need to be a top coach. He also has the necessary ability to think outside the box - I remember how we talked about offensive and defensive coordinators in football or how he reported how a study trip to ManCity had made a lasting impression on him. Danny Röhl: A Mission Impossible as first head coach After our conversation, a very successful period followed, including a treble at Bayern, and a notoriously less successful period with the national team. In September 2023, Flick's time as national coach was history, and Röhl was also without a job. What happened next was almost like a fairy tale. At the beginning of October, Röhl was sitting in the stands at the Champions League match between RB Leipzig and Manchester City when his mobile phone rang. It was his agent telling him that Sheffield Wednesday was likely to sack their coach. He had been in contact with Sheffield since the summer, but no deal had been made. One day later, Röhl was at the airport and was about to fly away on a family holiday when his mobile phone rang again. The message: Dejphon Chansiri, the Thai owner of Sheffield Wednesday, wanted to meet him in London on Friday. Now you have to know: Sheffield was in last place in the autumn of 2023, without a single win, with a measly three points to their name. Never before had a Championship club managed to avoid relegation without having won a game after a quarter of the season. Add to that a club in disarray with an owner who is not particularly popular with the fans, to put it mildly. There are easier tasks when you imagine your first head coach job. Danny Röhl: That is the big difference to being an assistant coach But Röhl flew to London anyway and took the job in the working-class city. "I was obviously disappointed about the end of my time at the DFB, but I wasn't empty-headed and without energy. My great affinity for English football is well known, and Sheffield Wednesday is a traditional club, so all of that played a role. And then I saw the realistic chance to turn things around. The team wasn't playing football that corresponded to my idea. I was convinced that there were still enough games to get things on the right track," explains Röhl. But he has to admit that he underestimated the task in that he never thought he would have to get 50 points in 35 games. Normally, 45 points, or sometimes much less, were enough to stay in the Championship. But not this season. Röhl implemented his way of playing football, naturally influenced by the RB school with lots of pressing and chasing, but also combined with possession football and solutions in the final third. In the first week of training, Röhl didn't say a word about defense, it was all about training with the ball. Röhl's work quickly paid off. He led Sheffield Wednesday back to safety, but he also had to endure setbacks again and again. It was a real rollercoaster ride. At the end of November they lost 2-1 at Birmingham City, although they were clearly the better team. At the beginning of February they were beaten 4-0 at Huddersfield - suddenly the deficit had grown to eight points again. They just couldn't get over the ominous line. Even after the 1-1 home draw against Stoke four games before the end, the disillusionment was still great, before they ended the season with three wins in a row and actually made the impossible possible. "That's the big difference between being an assistant coach and being the boss. As a head coach, you still have to stand up in front of the team after a really tough game and spread optimism, even if it doesn't feel like it and you're totally depressed yourself. As an assistant coach, you just sit in the dressing room and listen to what the boss says," says Röhl, describing the transformation he had to make. Coach in the Championship: Fanatical football - a lot of madness! What you must not forget when looking at it: The Championship is a tough league, in terms of quality perhaps even the best after the top 5 leagues. Try playing on a Tuesday evening in wind and weather in Preston, Rotherham or Millwall. It's all about full throttle. Try playing on the 23rd, 26th, 29th December and on New Year's Day! The 24-team league with 46 games per season makes it possible! Someone like Röhl, who likes to put a lot of time into detailed training work, had to adapt extremely. It is also worth taking a look at the finances: HSV, for example, would be in 16th place in the Championship with a squad value of around 50 million euros. The top clubs in England's second division are worth over 200 million, while cash-strapped Sheffield Wednesday are worth just 20 million. "I know the Premier League very well and I have to say that if you are a football romantic and want to see fanatical football, you have to watch Championship games," says Röhl. The fact that the now 35-year-old seems very mature may also be due to the fact that he has been much more than just head coach in the last six months. Is manager even a sufficient description for his area of responsibility at Sheffield Wednesday? The sign in front of his office should probably read "Mr. Danny Röhl, does everything." The fact that all transfers go through his desk seems sensible and logical, as we know from the English manager model. But this is also a very demanding challenge for a young head coach who has never spoken to agents on the phone before. 27 players, 27 agents, plus players you want to sign - that adds up to quite a few appointments. And in the transfer business, you don't just win. But a lot more goes through Röhl's desk. He is the person in the club who is more or less responsible for infrastructural improvements. If he wants a new gym to be built, he has to act as "project manager". He selects the hotels for the summer preparation. Even doctors' bills end up with him for countersignature. Premier League or Bundesliga? Danny Röhl wants to move up Despite this, or perhaps because of this, Sheffield Wednesday was exactly the right club at the right time for Röhl. He really appreciates his employer. Although Sheffield is home to two clubs, the support is also extremely good in the Championship. At the penultimate away game in Blackburn, 7,000 fans attended, and an entire straight was full of Sheffield Wednesday supporters. Every home game in the venerable Hillsborough Stadium, sadly known to all football fans because of the spectator disaster of 1989, is a highlight. No matter where he goes, Röhl is recognized, but he stresses how respectfully this happens in Sheffield. What's next for Röhl? Other clubs came knocking, but in the end he decided at the end of last week to sign a long-term extension with Sheffield Wednesday. Röhl was primarily concerned with the perspective. He sees the club as a "sleeping giant" where something big can emerge. But he also knows that tradition is no longer enough and that investments will be urgently needed if things are to move up. And Röhl wants to move up. With his club. But also personally. "My aim is to work at the highest level as quickly as possible," he says. Translated, this means: Röhl has the clear goal of working as a head coach in the Premier League or the Bundesliga as quickly as possible. That's where he wants to be. That's where he belongs.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13071465/MATT-BARLOW-Sheffield-Wednesday-dysfunctional-mess.html MATT BARLOW: How one the great northern football clubs in Sheffield Wednesday became a dysfunctional mess. Struggling on the pitch, with the strong whiff of neglect off it… -Struggling Sheffield Wednesday beat Birmingham 2-0 to boost their survival bid -Danny Röhl is one of the best things to happen to the club in a desperate season Sheffield Wednesday won on a night they really had to win, three new loan signings sparkled with promise and Hillsborough resounded to the beat of its new favourite victory anthem. Daddy Cool by Boney M has been popularised by way of tribute to the EFL's youngest manager, one of the best things to happen to the Owls in a fairly desperate season. They are just wild about Danny Röhl in S6. They are crazy like a fool, you might even say, although the actual lyrics from the 70s disco classic don't bear any closer scrutiny. The thing is no-one is fooled in Sheffield. The relief of occasional victory barely masks the shambles one of the great clubs of northern football has become. Punters know it because they live it every day and they hear what's going on. Hot water sometimes runs out after games, a problem blamed on an old stadium in need of a power upgrade and the habit of some players draining the system with pre-match showers. The heating broke in the offices before Christmas, although fixed within 24 hours and the club portable heaters were brought in. Pitches at the club's Middlewood Road training ground were frozen and unfit to use in the cold snap and the inflatable dome with its indoor pitch has been out of action for a year, damaged by heavy snow last year and not expected back up before next month. Röhl trained some days at Hillsborough, where the pitch is in poor condition as it often is in midwinter and reflects the neglect around the rest of the stadium. Urgent attention is required but money is tight at this level. Just three full-time ground staff tend the pitch at the stadium and those at the training ground. By way of reference, the ground staff at a Premier League club would be at least double this and often in double figures. What must Röhl make of it all? He has worked at Bayern Munich one of the best-run clubs in the world, and RB Leipzig with its space-age commitment to sports science. Sheffield Wednesday is a dysfunctional mess. Which is the reason Friday's fine 2-0 win against Birmingham City came with a backdrop of fresh protest organised by the 1867 Group, an independent fans' group who want Thai owner Dejphon Chansiri out. They distributed thousands of yellow posters, held aloft on mass as the teams emerged, live on Sky Sports, and erected a mock 'For Sale' sign in the street outside. Chansiri, son a canned fish tycoon, is thin-skinned and takes the criticism badly. From his angle, he bought the club when nobody wanted it. He threw millions from the family fortune at the Premier League dream and nobody thanked him for his efforts. That's because he fell short, losing at Wembley in the Championship play-off final in 2016 and the play-off semi-finals a year later, then the overspending caught up. Wednesday broke the EFL's Profit and Sustainability Rules, were deducted points for financial irregularities and spent two years languishing in League One before promotion in spectacular style. Good decisions and good appointments – and there have been some in nine years since Chansiri bought the club from Milan Mandaric - seem to be forever eclipsed by bad ones. Probably because there is no infrastructure to provide Sheffield Wednesday with the stability of a normal club. Instead, it blows around in the wind at the whim of the owner. Chansiri fired Darren Moore to puncture the euphoria of last May and replaced him with Xisco Munoz whose only win in a dozen games was on penalties in the Carabao Cup against Stockport County of League Two. Röhl was appointed in mid-October and started knocking them into shape. The Owls won five of eight from the start of December and their 34-year-old boss got a nomination for Manager of the Month. Victory on New Year's Day against Hull City lifted them within three points of safety with the transfer market open and even Wednesday's notoriously pessimistic fans started humming the theme to Great Escape. They should have known better. Chansiri let Röhl and his team down as one deal after another collapsed in January. Conor Coventry rejected the Owls to join Charlton in a relegation battle one league down, as did Myles Peart-Harris, who opted for Portsmouth. Duncan McGuire snubbed them for Blackburn, who then made a mess of the deal leaving him without a transfer. There were echoes of the summer transfer window when Wednesday earned a reputation for being difficult to do business with, reluctant to pay fees to agents. Meanwhile, they still demanded money for players they desperately wanted out to make room on the wage bill. In the end, even more loan signings were thrown into the mix. When the window closed there were seven registered on loan but a maximum of five can be named in any match-day squad. Jeff Hendrick and Ashley Fletcher were left out on Friday. Hendrick, on loan from Newcastle, is among those omitted from the 25-man EFL squad by Röhl in the hope the club might still pick up free agents. Others include Lee Gregory and Callum Paterson, who is injured. New loan signings Ian Poveda, Ike Ugbo and James Beadle, impressed against Birmingham and the win rekindles hope that Röhl might produce a little more alchemy and escape the drop but there's a tricky trip to Leicester on Tuesday followed by Millwall away on Saturday. Relegation looms but there is a bigger picture because what Owls supporters crave most is a break from this endless cycle of chaos and uncertainty.
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It's usually behind a paywall but has been archived here: https://archive.ph/ZMMRL Enjoy.
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https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12915828/carlos-carvalhal-interview-survival-with-celta-vigo-his-coaching-epiphany-and-talk-of-sheffield-wednesday-return Sounds like he would come. And like he's got better as a coach in the years since he left us.
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From David Ornstein's column in The Athletic this morning: Vladimir Ivic approached to take over from Tony Pulis at Wednesday Former Watford boss Vladimir Ivic was approached by Sheffield Wednesday over their managerial vacancy, Adam Leventhal can reveal. It’s understood an agent working on behalf of the club made an enquiry to representatives of the Serbian at the end of December — around the time that Tony Pulis was sacked after just 45 days in charge. Ivic is known to be keen to get back into management, but it’s thought that the instability of the Hillsborough job may have contributed to him looking for opportunities elsewhere. He has remained with his family in Hertfordshire after his sacking by Watford on December 19, rather than returning to his home in Greece. The 43-year-old is keen to find the right club after his time at Vicarage Road lasted just four months. He won nine of his 22 games in charge and left with Watford in the Championship play-off places. Sources close to Ivic say that alternative approaches have been made from clubs in England and the Middle East, but the right project hasn’t presented itself as yet.
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Apologies if this has been posted before. A very funny podcast episode (from the excellent Quickly Kevin 90s football podcast series) dissecting Steve Bruce's debut novel 'Striker!', a murder mystery set in the world of football. Enjoy... https://aca.st/11176a
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A couple more good articles about the new boy. Apologies if already posted: http://offtheupright.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/paul-corry-makes-dream-move-abroad.html http://inbedwithmaradona.com/journal/2012/4/20/paul-corry-irish-footballs-next-big-thing.html Sounds like he's got his head screwed on.