IronWilson1867

It wasn't 70quid...

EFL: "That'll show them..."

What a waste. He should with Wednesday.

Personally, I have a feeling we will avoid a points penalty, IF we get taken over. However, if we go into administration, we will receive a 15pts deduction. So, basically, we cant let administration happen. We need a buyer!

Fully expect us to get drilled today. SHEFF WED 0 QPR 3

100% DC will blame us fans for boycotting the games, and merchandise.

For the half time show. It turns into a roller coaster.

Come back, Danny!

I'd say we are relegation fodder even in L1

I can't see if the interview was posted, so here it is, word for word: When Danny Röhl got the call offering him the Sheffield Wednesday job he was at the airport with his wife and two sons, leaving for a holiday in Turkey. He caught the flight and took his family to their resort before heading off again, to fly to London. This summer was not dissimilar. The Röhls were in Turkey once more when Danny’s agent phoned to say the terms of his departure from Wednesday were proving hard to broker with the club’s eccentric owner, Dejphon Chansiri. Another holiday bit the dust. Röhl jetted to England to fulfil his contract, doing two weeks of pre-season until an exit deal was agreed. Both his arrival and departure were examples of how, at Chansiri’s Wednesday, a person learns to — forgive the pun — Röhl with it, and reflecting on 21 months as manager there, Danny says with an ironic smile: “Yeah, it was the full package.” Fan protests, unpaid wages, logistical farces, a battle over transfers, a relegation dogfight, an owner who rejected a training-ground revamp because he disliked the feng shui … there are more straightforward first management jobs. “A lot of good experience for me,” Röhl quips. “Some people said, ‘If you survived Wednesday then you learnt a lot.’ ” He was 34 and the youngest manager in England’s top four divisions when he replaced Xisco Muñoz in October 2023. Wednesday were rock bottom of the Championship, with two points from ten games, after their worst start to a season in 157 years. Röhl arrived with an incredible CV for someone just a year older than the club captain, Barry Bannan: Germany No2 and assistant manager at Bayern Munich, Southampton and RB Leipzig; protégé of Hansi Flick and Ralf Rangnick. And, from the start, his coaching precocity was evident: with football that was high-energy but also high on tactical detail and flexibility, he drove Wednesday to safety, inspiring and unifying the squad despite it containing 19 players whose contracts were up at the end of the campaign. After guaranteeing survival with victory away to Sunderland on a joyous final day, flushed with optimism Röhl signed a new three-year contract. The indications from Chansiri, a Thai tuna magnate, were that he would get the tools to mount a promotion push. It didn’t take long for doubts to form. The training ground needed a new gym and there was no undersoil heating for the pitches, nor even covers to protect them in cold weather, and things moved slowly when trying to get these issues fixed. With the training ground unusable in December and January, Röhl trained his players at Hillsborough, until the surface there deteriorated too. Last week, The Times revealed Wednesday practised at university facilities and on an artificial surface at a social club this summer because of ongoing problems with their training ground pitches. Sometimes, during Röhl’s time, they had to abandon practice and have meetings instead. Reshaping the squad proved problematic too. Chansiri insists on conducting transfer and contract negotiations himself and Wednesday have no director of football. Despite everything, Röhl had Wednesday three points off sixth place when the winter transfer window opened. Röhl believed that, with the right signings, a charge to the play-offs was on. Yet preferred targets, like Louie Barry, went elsewhere and the reinforcements that arrived at the end of the window were eclectic signings: the 33-year-old Stuart Armstrong, an out-of-contract Japanese left back (Ryo Hatsuse) and Ibrahim Cissoko, a young Dutch loanee. Chansiri had refused to engage with Southampton when they made an approach for Röhl in December and, during a rambling, five-hour fans’ forum in mid-January, announced he and his manager had not spoken for a month and said Röhl was “very brave” to have suggested supporters should go there and question him on transfers. By April, their relations had broken down completely and club employees were not being paid; for the ensuing three months the players and coaching staff did not receive their wages on time either. Röhl came to a reluctant conclusion. “It was around the Hull game, where we lost to a very late goal,” he says. “We couldn’t pay the salaries and wages, the communication was not what I expected and there were all the small things. I fought myself, and asked myself: ‘What could happen in the summer? Do I have the conviction we can make the next step?’ “I tried to speak with the club, to see if there was a dialogue, and when there wasn’t I had to take a decision,” Röhl says. Once the club refused to discuss his future, he pushed — unsuccessfully — for an early departure, wanting to avoid a summer of uncertainty for himself and the club. It’s not that he shirks challenges. Chris Powell, his No2 at Wednesday, tells of Röhl’s extraordinary work ethic. Powell would watch the opposition two or three times on video but come into the analysis meeting and find Röhl had been up until 4am, until he had viewed ten or 11 of their games. “I’d say, ‘Don’t you ever sleep?’ ” Powell sa Because Chansiri likes a slim operation, Röhl would find himself doing tasks such as approving hotel bookings and helping to organise bus travel, and if the squad needed an overnight stay he would have to write a detailed email outlining why. It affronts him that some have suggested his commitment wavered after the Southampton interest was rebuffed. “Just a small example. [In March] we played at Plymouth on Saturday and Norwich on Tuesday and I worked on Monday over the whole night. I didn’t sleep, to prepare for Norwich. If someone speaks about my attitude, that something changed, it’s completely wrong,” he says. “What changed in the second half of the season was not me but the mood at the club.”ys, laughing. Indeed, in the fortnight after Röhl cut short his holiday to go back for pre-season he held 40 planning meetings to prepare the club for the 2025-26 campaign — despite knowing he would leave the moment his severance was agreed. He looks backs now not with anger but fondness — and pride that despite all last season’s difficulties Wednesday still ended 12th, their best finish in eight years. He cherishes the two phone calls he received from Bannan (who says Röhl is the best coach he has had in his career) when he departed and Wednesday supporters singing his name at Watford, in his last game. “That was a great moment and if you ask me now, I had the best time as manager in Sheffield. I love the fans, love my players. I love even our [training] facility. “But I have emotion and I am ambitious. I don’t want to finish 15th. I need the mindset of [feeling] you’re moving forwards. I want to say this again: it was never that I changed my attitude. The love was always there. And I was so sad to leave.” Chansiri? “At first, when we meet each other for dinner, it was always in good humour and we could laugh together. But what I learnt in Red Bull was that in modern football you need the best man for the job. There’s a reason why a successful club has a big structure, with technical directors, sporting director and so on.” There is a story (it has been dismissed as a jest by insiders) about Chansiri asking staff if they could change the flow of the River Don that runs alongside Hillsborough, for feng shui reasons. It is also said that Chansiri rejected a set of plans for a training ground revamp because the structure of a piece of land involved did not look lucky. However, Röhl shrugs. “Luck is very important to him. He tries everything,” Röhl says. “I think it’s a cultural thing. You have to accept it. It’s nothing negative.” And the months of not being paid? “Everybody was affected but I felt, more, for people in regular jobs at the club,” he adds. “Everybody knows life is expensive. You have to pay bills. “What was really hard was trying to help people but not having information. It’s hard to say something which gives hope when the picture is not clear.” A hallmark of Röhl, at Wednesday, was his ability to flex and adapt his football — to the demands of the Championship with all its fixtures and differing settings and opponents, and within games. There was one at Middlesbrough where Wednesday trailed 3-0 and he rejigged the line-up and tactics at half-time. It finished 3-3 with Middlesbrough down to ten men and hanging on. He’s 36 but different from all the ideologues among the younger generation of coaches. “I’m very convinced that in modern football you need everything,” he says. “It’s not about possession or out of possession. The most important thing is you understand what’s best for your team, prepare for the opponents, and be flexible. “Of course I have my identity, but that does not mean going down one street, you have to look left and right. My non-negotiables? To play without intensity would be the biggest [crime]. But what is negotiable is making mistakes, my players shouldn’t be afraid. “I want to see a brave team, a team really brave to take [the game] forward instead of sitting back. That is not my style, I will not park a bus.” Flick visited him in Sheffield and Röhl took the Barcelona boss to his favourite restaurant, Nonnas on Ecclesall Road. Last month Röhl was in Mallorca to watch Flick’s Barcelona and he is planning a study visit, to spend a week with La Liga’s champions. Since departing Wednesday he has also been to the United States, to visit several Major League Soccer teams while taking in a baseball game and the US Open tennis. He has also enjoyed the family time, little things like putting the boys to bed and holding a party to mark his younger son’s first day at school. Refreshed and ready to work again, ideally his next club would be in Germany or England but he is open-minded. “I’ve said many times, the biggest goal is to work with the best players you can and I’ve seen that world — at Munich, the German national team, at Leipzig,” he says. “But also loved working, at Wednesday, with a group of big, big mentality and character so the main thing is to get the opportunity to build up something or continue another manager’s good work. “For me it’s not important if you have two pitches or four pitches for the training, what matters is if you have the right people around you and goals together. It’s very important for humans and people [to feel] they want to go in the same direction.”

Firstly, I completely agree with you. However, fans not boycotting, I put it down to those that are out of the loop. Those that don't use Owlstalk or social media, and know about organised protest/boycotts times and dates. Either way, 2K isn't that bad. It's just 10% of 20K or 20% of 10K, which we probably would sell normally for this game. That's a massive drop and loss in revenue.

Some how, that's increased by a million since last week

I love it

I bet DC is devastated about that...

Lets wait until pay day to see. Nixon is rarely correct.

I agree. There's nothing even close to a takeover happening. Usually, there's something in the air, solid rumors get out, a feel good factor comes in. There's no way a statement will just pop up out of the blue saying "takeover done". NDA's or not. There will be an inclinging of a build up. Something that let's us know. But there's been none of that. DC will dig his claws in and hold on for dear life. He'll keep kicking the can down the street.

When we scrape relegation survival the EFL will slap them on us.

THIS!

Ah. Like this 0 stars post. Pointless and boring.

Sowwy. Did I hurt your feewings?

AN talks absolute nonsense. Never gets anything right.

Leicester 0 - 1 Sheff Wed (68) Bannan

My thoughts are the same.

100% agree.

In the main John Textor post, I mentioned JT becoming a partner with a scenario where DC stays on. That doesn't seem unrealistic after reading that X post...