"Mess" - Simon Jordan slams Dejphon Chansiri amid Sheffield Wednesday situation - He issues Owls price tag | OneFootball

There are troubled times ahead for the Owls as their owner looks for new investment.

Simon Jordan has slammed Dejphon Chansiri for turning Sheffield Wednesday into a "chaotic mess."

Here is the current state of play at Hillsborough. A number of their players haven't been paid over the last two months, leaving them open to hand in their notices to the club; some of them, including Josh Windass, have reportedly done so.

The club's facilities aren't yet ready for pre-season training, forcing the team to begin their preparations for next season on their own. The manager, Danny Rohl, wants to leave ASAP and there's uncertainty about who will replace him.

Oh, and they are also under transfer restrictions for the next three windows, and have had two embargoes placed on them by the EFL, with potentially more punishments to come.

It's a mess that the chairman Dejphon Chansiri has created - that's how Jordan, the former owner of Crystal Palace, sees it.

Simon Jordan slams Dejphon Chansiri over Sheffield Wednesday horror show

He said, on his talkSPORT show with Jim White on Wednesday: "Chansiri seems to have turned this club into a chaotic mess, and he has spent a lot of money to do it as well...

"If you're looking at the wages of Sheffield Wednesday, and I speak to Josh Windass every now and again, and I get on quite well with him, and he's always keeping me up to date on his views of what Sheffield Wednesday should and shouldn't be doing, and you look at it and think 'Well they can't have that huge a wage bill'.

"From what I understand, and I'm happy to be corrected, Chansiri has spent £200-300 million on this football club. So, with that in mind, his net payroll to his players can't be more than £1.5-2 million a month.

"It would appear that either he has decided that it is the end of the day and he's not prepared to put a single dime in there, or he's bleeding out of his eyes economically and can't find the money."

Chansiri put out an open message to the club's supporters last week clarifying the situation around bids he had received from an American consortium. One of their co-leaders, Sheffield-born Adam Shaw, told The Athletic that his consortium had offers worth £48 million and £55 million rejected by the Thai businessman.

Chansiri denied this, claiming that the offers were worth just shy of £30 million and then around £40 million. Performance-based add-ons were included in both offers.

Jordan has told his fellow former Palace owner John Textor to look at buying Wednesday. He showed a little bit of sympathy for Chansiri's situation.

"He talks about the meetings he is having, I've seen the letter that has been sent about the meetings that he is having with various investors. They want to do it in dollars, then they want to do it in pounds," Jordan continued.

"The problem with selling a football club when you're in distress is you get so many people that kick the tires, and so many people that get between the wall and the wallpaper and call out from behind it to tell you that they're representing somebody so they can get paid for it.

"It's a difficult conversation to have with meaningful people. You're trying to get people into a situation where, if you want to talk to me, then I need to see some indication of good faith."

Regardless of the difficulties of trying to sell the club, Jordan still believes that Chansiri must lower his asking price and realise that he's not going to be able to recoup as much money as he wants from the club.

"They're looking like they're £200 million in debt," he added. "Now that debt can only be to one person: to Chansiri. Nobody is going to buy Sheffield Wednesday for anything more than £60-70 million, so he's going to have to get his head in the game, and around the game, and across the game, that he's going to have to take a pill...

"What he's trying to achieve is the perfect Utopian world of getting out with some of his money back, getting out with some upside in the opportunity if Sheffield Wednesday ever go on to be successful, and perhaps, if we give him the latitude that he wants us to give him, making sure that the right person comes through the door.

"The Sheffield Wednesday supporters will be going 'Well who says you can be the judge of that? You clearly aren't the right person'.

"But another person would say he's spent £300 million and he's run out of cash, and he's got it wrong, and he's made mistakes, and he fell out with Darren Moore, and he's agitated the fans, and he's put the prices up, and he's got lots of things wrong.

"But you can't argue with, and it will be forgotten, how much money he has spent."

Sheffield Wednesday are staring down the barrel

It's a horrible situation for Wednesday to be in at this moment in time, particuarly for fans, players, and all the club staff that bind together a football club.

At this rate, it seems like they are going nowhere but down, and that feeling will only be made stronger if more and more players begin to submit their notices to the club.

The only way this gets resolved is by an imminent sale of the club, and even that will take time because of the mandatory due diligence processes.