How much money Sheffield Wednesday players lose after new Dejphon Chansiri payment issue | OneFootball

It's been confirmed that Sheffield Wednesday players will not be paid on time at the end of the month; this is how much they'll be owed by their club.

Sheffield Wednesday's players have already reportedly been told that they will not be paid on time at the end of September.

With four points from their last two games, Sheffield Wednesday's fortunes have turned around on the pitch over the last couple of weeks, with a 2-0 win at Portsmouth and a 1-1 draw at home to Queens Park Rangers having kept their city rivals United at the bottom of the Championship table, while they remain perched just above them.

But this seems to be where the good news ends for the crisis-struck South Yorkshire club.

There remain few visible signs that the takeover that fans crave is anywhere near happening, and it's now been reported by BBC Sheffield's Rob Staton that the players have been informed that they will not be getting paid again on time for the end of September, the fifth time in the last seven months that this has been the case.

Sheffield Wednesday's players will miss out on more than £900,000 at the end of September

Capology estimates that Sheffield Wednesday's players will miss out on over £900,000 with the end of September payroll not being paid.

They calculate the club's annual wage bill at £11,515,400, and this equates to £959,616 per month. There are a couple of caveats to this number. Firstly, this refers to base salary only, meaning that any bonuses will not be included in the figures.

And secondly, Capology doesn't take into account the wages for loan players and what proportion of which player's salary may be paid by their parent club. In the case of loanee Harry Amass, for example, it's been widely reported that the player's parent club Manchester United are paying the whole of his estimated £5,000-a-week wages.

The overwhelming majority of Sheffield Wednesday's staff are not multi-millionaires

While there are players in the current Sheffield Wednesday squad who earn very comfortable salaries indeed, the majority of players on the club's current staff do not earn tens of thousands of pounds per week. Nine of the players that Capology lists earn less than £80,000-a-year - £1,500 a week or less - with the lowest-paid, Sean Fusire, being estimated to earn just half of that amount, £750-a-week, or £39,000-a-year.

And these aren't the only people on Sheffield Wednesday's staff, either. In fact, they're a tiny minority, and even that £950,000 a month figure may be less than half of what everybody connected with the club will be missing out on, should everybody go unpaid at the end of the month.

The last set of company accounts available for the club were for the 2023-24 season, and they showed that Wednesday had 271 people on their staff, with a total wage bill of £21.8 million. The majority of these people are in ordinary positions, earning ordinary money. A lot of them won't be able to afford the club wages being paid late yet again.

It should go without saying that paying your staff on time should be the most basic job of any business. Those employed by Sheffield Wednesday, if anything, have been doing a remarkable job of keeping such a dysfunctional club going on a week-by-week basis. It is clear that Dejphon Chansiri cannot run the club as a solvent business. The case for him selling up and leaving it to someone who can has never been clearer.