Sheffield Wednesday takeover news: Another Dejphon Chansiri hurdle, merging bids develop, more Anders Holch Povlsen clarity | OneFootball

The team's match at Blackburn fell foul of the weather, but it's still been a busy weekend of news regarding Sheffield Wednesday's takeover.

Sheffield Wednesday's trip to Ewood Park on Saturday may have been a washout, but takeover talk is continuing apace.

Sheffield Wednesday's away match at Blackburn fell foul of the weather, with torrential rain forcing the abandonment of their match after 61 minutes of play. But with the team now 28 points adrift of safety at the foot of the Championship, the club may be forgiven having other things on their mind at the moment.

Wednesday were put into administration on the 24th October, and with each passing week the point of the club finally coming under new ownership draws closer and closer. And while no announcement has yet been made on the club's future, there has been ongoing conjecture over the club's future over the weekend.

So here's a round-up of the latest from Hillsborough, as Sheffield Wednesday continue their fight for survival.

There's a new Dejphon Chansiri hurdle to clear

Sky's Rob Dorsett has clarified that no "preferred bidder" is likely to be announced before the end of this week. Posting to the social media platform X, Dorsett said: "Delayed final offers from some would-be #swfc buyers mean “preferred bidder” status unlikely before the end of this week."

He goes on to add that: "Several parties still doing deep dive on the accounts, and some dislike the idea of paying Chansiri £15m as part of the deal." That some of the parties may be paying particularly close attention to the club's accounts is hardly surprising, given the extent to which they had difficulty paying player and staff wages throughout 2025.

But as Chansiri is a creditor of Sheffield Wednesday - and the rights or wrongs of how this came to be the case are neither here nor there, so long as he hasn't acted illegally - the administrators have no choice but to consider his interests as a creditor as part of the package being built to rescue the club; they're required to do so by law.

Potential future owners are welcome to "dislike" Chansiri getting a proportion of his money back, but it's not something that the insolvency practitioners can do anything about.

Two of the competing bids for Sheffield Wednesday reported to have merged

Reports have suggested that two of the competing bids to buy Sheffield Wednesday have merged, and that one of them made direct contact with the soon-to-be former Wednesday owner Dejphon Chansiri earlier in the year.

At the end of last week, it was reported that interest from the Storch family and a group led by US businessman Jon McEvoy were merging their bids for the club, and that this change was at the forefront of the reasons why the process has moved beyond the 5th December target date originally discussed by the club's administrators, as confirmed by a statement issued by them on that day.

But the Sheffield Star has also revealed that McEvoy had attempted to deal directly with Dejphon Chansiri earlier in the year, only for that interest to be rebuffed.

"The family made contact in efforts to strike a deal with Dejphon Chansiri through a third-party known to be in contact with the outgoing Owls chairman were made as far back as the summer," they reported, "but they were quickly rebuffed amid great frustration over indications of the asking price and process of sale."

Further cold water on Anders Holch Povlsen claims

Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, owner of the Danish club Midtjylland, had been linked to a possible move for Sheffield Wednesday, but reports in the press have suggested that this is not going to happen.

The Athletic's Matt Slater had posted to the social media platform X that "Midtjylland owner Anders Holch Povlsen has not made a bid for Sheffield Wednesday and is not intending to make one", and this has now been corroborated by the Danish news outlet Tipsbladet, who reported that "there is no question of the Danish tycoon making an offer".

As reported by the Sheffield Star, Tipsbladet confirmed that "no indication that he will become a club owner in the English league this time".

Don Goodman: "A shame" that Simon Jordan wouldn't be involved in Sheffield Wednesday's future

Speaking exclusively to Football League World, Sky Sports pundit Don Goodman has confirmed that it's "a shame" that the former Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan won't be getting involved in Sheffield Wednesday's future.

"He talks a lot of sense," he told us. "He’s got that football ownership background, he’s well-connected and I’d be a little bit disappointed if I was a Sheffield Wednesday fan that he hasn’t seen enough in the potential of the football club to go beyond and into the next phase and actually end up buying it."

But Goodman also added that he believes that Jordan could be suitable for another club at this level, and that he hopes that this could be the case elsewhere in the future. "Maybe another opportunity at another club will come to fruition," he said. "I think he’d make a good owner if he were to get back involved."

It had previously been reported that the Dubai-resident entrepreneur Ryan Howsam had contacted Jordan about fronting his bid to buy the club, with the ambition being to make a Welcome to Wrexham style documentary about the club. Howsam has since withdrawn from the race, with the Sheffield Star reporting: "The Howsam-Jordan bid didn’t materialise into a formal offer after it became plain the cost to buy the club would surpass the figure they had in mind."