Sheff Wed players to fulfil Leicester opener – what has happened with Owls?

According to BBC Sport, Sheffield Wednesday’s players will play Leicester City on Sunday in their first game of the Championship campaign.

The Owls’ off-season has been turbulent because players and staff members were paid off in May, June, and July, registration restrictions were in place, Hillsborough’s North Stand was closed due to concerns over its structural integrity, and manager Danny Rohl left the club.

The EFL was concerned about the club’s ability to play its opening game, so the BBC learned that a behind-closed-doors training match with Burnley was postponed after the players refused to play.

When asked on Tuesday morning if the players could go on strike and refuse to play for the Foxes, club captain Barry Bannan responded, “No, I don’t think so.”

We left the Burnley game at the weekend because it has already happened too frequently, and I believe it is much simpler to do so in a pre-season friendly game than a championship game.

We’ve just entered training, and we’ve made it appear to us to be okay with it, so we made the decision to say “enough is enough” really.

The 35-year-old, who has made 447 starts for the Owls in ten seasons, claimed he had turned down “interest from elsewhere” to stay at Hillsborough.

Only 15 first-team players are in the Wednesday squad, who have also made HMRC payments and are facing mounting debts.

Between 2015, when Dejphon Chansiri bought the club, and 2024, Sheffield Wednesday lost £ 178 million.

When he first arrived, Chansiri was eager to speculate about player purchases and higher salaries.

Remember that in the beginning, Wednesday was competing for Premier League promotion twice.

However, it seems as though Chansiri’s ability to finance the club has declined recently, particularly over the past few years.

Due to this, there has been no maintenance on the stadium and no wages have been paid by creditors.

One of the Hillsborough stands is determined to be ineffective and will be empty when Wednesday play their first games as a result.

When a dream doesn’t materialize, people often pursue it and wonder what to do when it doesn’t.

And it’s a problem that exists in English football’s second-tier because average losses cost £400,000 each week.

There will be consequences that will leave clubs’ futures looking quite precarious if an owner’s circumstances change, as appears to be the case with Chansiri, or if their attitude toward football changes and they no longer want to subvention clubs, as we have seen elsewhere.