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Dejphon Chansiri is still set to receive a healthy sum when Sheffield Wednesday is sold

Dejphon Chansiri is still expected to pocket £15 million as part of Sheffield Wednesday's sale.

This is per a report from Rob Dorsett, who goes on to state that some potential buyers "dislike" the idea of paying that much money to the former owner.

The Owls have been in administration for over a month now, after HMRC was set to issue a winding-up petition against the club, which Chansiri was unable to foot.

This brought an end to Chansiri's 10-year-long run as owner of Sheffield Wednesday, which ended on a truly sour note with staff and players being unpaid as the club was driven further into the ground while the owner held out for a £100 million bid.

Ultimately, that lofty asking price was to ensure that the money he lost as owner through the day-to-day running of the club, and most of the loans he gave to the club, which at the time of administration was estimated to be £100 million, would be covered.

Chansiri won't make that much, but he is in line to receive an eight-figure fee when the sale comes.

Dejphon Chansiri set to earn £15 million from Sheffield Wednesday sale

According to Sky Sport's Rob Dorsett, Dejphon Chansiri is set to earn £15 million as part of the deal to sell Sheffield Wednesday, as and when the day comes.

The administrators at Begbies Traynor are still standing firm on their £30 million minimum asking price for the club, which stands at good value for a side with the history and pedigree of the Owls, but the report does state that the money owed to Chansiri may serve as a red flag.

The delay of some final offers means that the "preferred bidder" deadline which the administrators set to be December 5, is set to be pushed back slightly, although according to Paul Stanley's interview with The Athletic, that delay may only be a week or so.

There will still be plenty of interested buyers, but the £15 million in which the former owner will bank from this will leave a bit of a sour taste in their mouths.

Ultimately, there will need to be a lot more invested in the club to keep it operating in the short-term, and to challenge in the long term, and for the amount of work that will need to be put in to get the club out of the financial rot in which Chansiri left Wednesday in, having to pay him £15 million before any of that work is done will be a kick in the teeth not just to prospectiev buyers, but to Wednesday fans, too.

Sheffield Wednesday fans will be disappointed at eight-figure fee set to be paid to Dejphon Chansiri

Sheffield Wednesday fans arguably dislike no one more than Dejphon Chansiri, given the emotional turmoil that they were put under during the final few months of the Thai businessman's reign at Hillsborough.

There were serious worries that Wednesday would never be sold, and would cease to exist in the near future.

Therefore, whilst Chansiri's loans will likely be unsecured when a sale is made, most Wednesdayites would arguably prefer him to receive absolutely nothing. Unfortunately for them, that's not how the process works.