There is little like the anticipation of a new season, not knowing what will come, optimistic this could be your club’s year. Sheffield Wednesday fans have sold out the away end at Leicester on Sunday to watch their team take on a club recently mixing it with Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City in the Premier League. The excitement should be building at Hillsborough but instead there is only worry and anger.
It has been a summer of discontent at Wednesday, although the problems began years ago, and the only thing for supporters to cling to is that it may end Dejphon Chansiri’s reign. Those at the King Power Stadium are due to show their disdain for the ownership by leaving their seats empty for the first five minutes and covering the area with a large anti-Chansiri banner. A plane is scheduled to fly overhead with a further message aimed at the owner.
“The attitude among the fans at the minute is despair,” says Ian Bennett, the chair of the supporters’ trust. “In the short term, surviving is the biggest thing and I think it’s going to be a problem. We’re not going to be competitive at all. I think it’s just going to be an absolute nightmare and we’re very concerned about the future of the club.”
It is not the first protest against Chansiri and the reasons for complaints are so plentiful it would take a book to explain. To concentrate on some of the most recent elements, employees did not receive their full wages in June and July, leading Josh Windass and Michael Smith to hand in their notice and depart for nothing; the prized asset Djeidi Gassama was sold to Rangers for £2.2m – far below his market value – to belatedly fund June’s salary shortfall; there are 16 first-team players on the books, including a solitary goalkeeper; the club are under a transfer embargo until 2027, which stipulates they cannot pay fees; and Danny Röhl, the highly rated head coach, has departed.
Players took a stand by backing out of a friendly against Burnley and released a statement demanding a resolution. A strike has been mooted but the focus is to prepare as best they can for competitive fixtures for the sake of supporters under a head coach, Henrik Pedersen, who is aiming to bring tranquility amid the chaos. He took time to watch a staff member play padel this week. Even Pedersen, however, was uncertain on Thursday whether the captain, Barry Bannan, could be registered to feature on Sunday after signing a new contract. Money received this week via Premier League solidarity payments allowed wages to be paid on Friday, lifting certain embargo restrictions and enabling the club to sign players on free transfers and register Bannan, but the long-term picture is beyond precarious.
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