What Henrik Pedersen has said about Dejphon Chansiri should concern Sheffield Wednesday fans | OneFootball

The Sheffield Wednesday manager Henrik Pedersen has revealed that club owner Dejphon Chansiri is "not concerned" about the club's current plight.

Comments made by Sheffield Wednesday manager Henrik Pedersen before their match at Portsmouth last weekend regarding club owner Dejphon Chansiri should concern all supporters of the club.

Well, at least they're off the mark now.

Sheffield Wednesday's 2-0 win at Portsmouth last weekend was proof that there could be life in the Owls yet this season, following a disastrous 2025 which has seen just about everything that can go wrong for a football club go wrong.

But in his press conference held the day before this win, one comment from manager Henrik Pedersen was particularly noteworthy, and it should concern all Wednesday fans.

Because while the win that followed was welcome relief for supporters who are desperate for the fortunes of their club to turn around, they hinted that the owner of the club, Dejphon Chansiri, could still be in denial about its condition.

Dejphon Chansiri has "not complained at all" about Wednesday's terrible start to 2025-26

Speaking to the press before last Saturday's match at Fratton Park, Pedersen was asked whether the club's owner had offered any view on his club’s winless start to the season, and his reply, as reported by the Sheffield Star, was that, "He has not complained at all."

Were Chansiri more trusted in his position as the owner of the club, this could be interpreted as a positive comment. A managerial change is the last thing that Sheffield Wednesday can afford at the moment, and the inference behind Pedersen's comment was that the owner is satisfied with his performance, which has come under just about the most onerous conditions possible.

But with a sale of the club no closer to being completed and rumours that Chansiri has been seeking outside investment in order to keep control of Sheffield Wednesday, there is also another way of interpreting this which is less than complimentary about his view towards the club's current plight.

Chansiri's lack of complaint hints at indifference over Sheffield Wednesday's plight

It is sometimes said that "the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference", and Pedersen's comment that Chansiri has "not complained at all" about the club's current position near the foot of the Championship can easily be interpreted as an example of indifference in action. It could easily be inferred from such a comment that Chansiri isn't that bothered about whether Wednesday succeed on the pitch or not, so long as he retains ownership of the club.

Certainly, the owner's behaviour over the sale of Sheffield Wednesday has indicated that he doesn't want to sell up, even though he is despised by an overwhelming majority of the club's supporters. There has been little evidence to suggest that Chansiri has been anything other than extremely truculent about any possible sale of the club, from setting his price to sell it at an unrealistic £100 million to reports that he is seeking outside investment to prop the club up financially, which hints at a desire to retain ownership, come what may.

And Chansiri should be very concerned at the way in which Wednesday have performed so far this season. It took them six games to register their first League win of the season, and the club has been placed back under embargo by the EFL over regulations regarding ‘Future Financial Information’ and a Profit & Sustainability rule on ‘Secure Funding’.

The first-team squad remains as threadbare as it has all summer, and the mood of Wednesday supporters hasn't improved that much as a result of that win at Portsmouth. And even that win came off the back of an embarrassing EFL Cup home defeat at the hands of League Two Grimsby Town, another match boycotted by the home supporters.

Presuming they make it through to the end of this season, the financial consequences of relegation for a club in such a delicate financial position as Sheffield Wednesday could be ruinous. Falling from the Championship to League One would see the club lose around £9 million in television money next season, and considering that getting the wages and bills paid on time has been an issue for the club for much of 2025, this is money that they can ill-afford to lose.

Pedersen's comments betray possible indifference on the part of Chansiri over the club's current condition. It remains the case that the most viable route out of this mess for Sheffield Wednesday is for the club to be sold as soon as possible. But whether that comes next month or next year, it remains the case that the owner of the club should be very concerned indeed about their current plight.

The Wednesday head coach added that, "we all know it is a difficult position", and it certainly is. But Sheffield Wednesday supporters are already plenty aware of this, and the obvious response to that would be to ask what's being done about this state of affairs. With wages and other bills due to be paid again in less than a week, fans could be set to find out just how seriously Dejphon Chansiri is taking all of this, and there's little to be optimistic on that front at the moment. Such comments from the manager only seem likely to anger a fan base who are already at boiling point still further.