Fresh Sheffield Wednesday takeover revelation emerges involving James Bord consortium | OneFootball

The identity of two people involved within the ex-poker player's consortium has been revealed

It has emerged that Jordanian royal family member, Alsharif Faisal Bin Jamil, would be the new Chief Executive of Sheffield Wednesday's ownership consortium fronted by former professional poker player, James Bord.

The Owls have been in limbo on this front for over two months now, having been placed into administration on October 24th, ending Dejphon Chansiri's 10-plus year spell as owner in the process.

The trio of Paul Stanley, Julian Pitts and Kris Wigfield have since overseen boardroom matters in the interim as part of administrative group, Begbies Traynor, as they seek a swift end to the takeover process in which several deadlines involving the fronting up of desired funds and the eventual revelation of a preferred bidder.

However, Bord was named as the preferred bidder on Christmas Eve, as he now hopes to finalise a deal which will see him confirmed as Wednesday's latest custodian in the coming weeks.

It has been well-documented that the South Yorkshire outfit are gearing up for a much-needed reset in so many ways, with Henrik Pedersen and his threadbare squad of players already seeing their fate for the current campaign effectively sealed.

Indeed, the Owls were hit with an automatic 12-point deduction for entering administration in late October, before being docked a further six points at the start of last month after several instances of delayed payments and further non-payments to players and general staff at Hillsborough.

As such, Wednesday are still on minus-seven points with 21 games of their Championship season still to play, meaning they are, unfortunately, on track to end the campaign on the second tier's lowest-ever points total, which currently stands at 23.

As a result, attention has firmly been fixed on developments regarding a takeover.

Sections of the Owls fanbase have, at times, grown frustrated over a lack of communication in certain areas. However, they will have been somewhat relieved to learn the identity of two businessmen who will help front up part of Bord's ownership consortium in S6.

Jordanian Royal Family member named as part of James Bord's preferred Sheffield Wednesday ownership consortium

Earlier on Tuesday morning, comments from extremely vocal Sheffield South East MP, Clive Betts, emerged, with the lifelong Wednesdayite slamming Begbies Traynor over what he believed was a poor and clear lack of communication regarding the latest takeover developments, with Bord being named the preferred bidder almost two weeks ago.

"[It's] unacceptable. I sat on the football governance bill in Parliament, it's now an act and the essence of the change in legislation is to bring fans to the heart of all the processes and requirements about football clubs and how they're run," said Betts on BBC Radio Sheffield.

However, just hours later, the identity of two members who will help Bord oversee matters in the Hillsborough boardroom were widely revealed by local and national publications.

Bord, of course, is a former professional poker player who currently co-owns Scottish side, Dunfermline Athletic, as well as having an involvement with Córdoba CF and Septemvri Sofia, plus his well-documented links to cross-city rivals, Sheffield United, who led an AI-based recruitment drive in the summer under COH Sports.

It has since been confirmed that the Chief Executive of this particular consortium, who still must pass the English Football League's Owners and Directors test, is Jordanian Royal Family member, Alsharif Faisal Bin Jamil.

The investment executive is an alumnus of Oxford University and Imperial College London, as well as being well-known to the aforementioned Bord for some time, as he aids the Londoner's running of both Infinity Sports and Short Circuit.

According to Market Screener, Jamil is also a private equity investor of Milano Investment Partners and is a director of Ingame Sports.

Whilst his individual net worth is yet to be revealed, Jamil and Bord will also be joined by Felix Roemer as a trio of investors.

As previously mentioned, this takeover process has been particularly drawn-out, only adding to the jeopardy felt by sections of Wednesday supporters.

However, it appears that there is now green light at the end of a very long tunnel, which is news that all in this part of South Yorkshire will welcome.

It remains to be seen if a takeover can be completed before the conclusion of the winter transfer window, which would certainly aid Pedersen's hopes of reshaping his squad in advance of the summer, when Wednesday will fully begin their rebuild in League One.