Sheff Wed players face late payment of wages again

Sheffield Wednesday, a crisis club, has informed its players that Tuesday’s pay day for September’s wages will be missed, and that they will not be paid on time this month.

The club’s hierarchy has informed the playing staff of the situation, according to BBC Radio Sheffield, with a decision regarding non-playing staff salaries still to be made.

The English Football League (EFL), which has already placed five embargoes on the Championship strugglers, the most recent two being added last Friday, will punish players or staff for not paying them.

The most recent embargoes relate to debts that are still owed to other “football creditors” and clubs that are still owed to other “football creditors.”

If September’s pay day is missed, the club will have missed the fifth consecutive month of payments made to its members.

Due to restrictions placed by the EFL in June, which prevented the club from making any transfers or loans for the next three transfer windows, Wednesday first failed to pay players’ wages on time in March and May of this year.

Dejphon Chansiri, the troubled owner of Wednesday, made an announcement over the summer that he would be willing to sell at Hillsborough, but he hasn’t been able to agree to any deals with potential new owners.

In the summer, a consortium of Americans believed to be interested in the club broke up, followed by a lackluster summer of playing talent and mutually agreed-free coaching.

With fans’ groups holding protests every week and a lack of success in their first seven league games, Wednesday are just one place ahead of Sheffield United, who are city rivals, at the bottom of the table.