What Simon Jordan has said about the current Sheffield Wednesday situation - It's worrying | OneFootball

The Owls are in a very poor state at the moment, with uncertainty rife throughout the club.

Simon Jordan has described the current situation at Sheffield Wednesday as "the blind leading the deaf," as more chaos continues to hit Hillsborough.

Everything appears to be falling apart for the Owls at the moment, and that's not just meant metaphorically. There are major issues around the funding of the club, which left many players and staff members unpaid for a long time, to the point that players, like Michael Smith and Josh Windass, went without their wages for two months and were ultimately able to hand their notices in.

The manager, Danny Rohl, has done all he could over the summer to try and get away from Wednesday. Those attempts proved to be unsuccessful, and he has since returned to Middlewood Road, after pre-season preparations had begun, with his tail between his legs, but that hasn't done much for his job security.

Not everybody is happy about the way he has acted. A number of the remaining players have been left frustrated by Rohl's actions, and his future is in a very tenuous position.

On top of all that, structural issues with Hillsborough's North Stand could lead to it being closed for the start of the season - yet another crack in the once-great club that is currently being held together by the thinnest of threads.

Simon Jordan weighs in on Sheffield Wednesday state of affairs

These issues all ultimately stem from the failure of the chairman and owner, Dejphon Chansiri, to provide the requisite financial resources to run the club. He is open to selling, but the recent progress on any form of takeover of the Owls has stalled.

A number of businessmen have been urged by talkSPORT presenter Jordan to look at buying the crisis club. He has now chimed in on Rohl's situation and some of the players' unhappiness with the boss.

"I mean, this feels like the blind leading the deaf," commented the former Crystal Palace owner. "Are the players ultimately unhappy with the manager full stop? Because I remember seeing reports about Sheffield Wednesday and some of their performances last year when they really turned it round. There seemed to be this universal belief in the manager.

"Are they unhappy with the manager full stop, or are they unhappy with the fact that he took a sabbatical because there are other issues reverberating around?"

TalkSPORT reporter Alex Crook confirmed that the frustration came due to the latter point, and that Barry Bannan, who is still training with Wednesday despite not being under contract with them, is leading the cohort of disgruntled players.

Sheffield Wednesday could be sailing towards oblivion at this rate

For those Wednesday supporters out there who have to sit and watch their club fall apart in this manner, it must be so disheartening. Even at its high points in recent years, following the Owls hasn't done good for anybody's heart rates and long-term health, but this is just outright sad to see.

It's a rudderless ship, both at the wheel and in the engine room, and the only thing that can save this Titanic of a situation from crashing into the iceberg that lurks somewhere in the dark distance ahead is for a competent captain to come aboard, someone who has the ability to try and change its course as quickly as possible, before yet another football ownership-related disaster happens.