David Storch's Sheffield Wednesday takeover: Fresh Owls appointment eyed in new update | OneFootball

The Storch family are looking for a new supremo, as their long-awaited takeover of troubled Championship club Sheffield Wednesday edges closer.

Sheffield Wednesday are set to come under new ownership, and the prospective new owners are looking for someone to lead the club into a new era.

The waking nightmare may soon be coming to an end. Sheffield Wednesday fans have had a disastrous 2025-26 season in the Championship, with iconic players leaving the club, points deductions sinking them to the bottom of the table, and a six-month spell in administration which led to a false start over who the new owners might be.

Wednesday remain marooned at the bottom of the Championship table, and seem certain to set a record low points tally for an EFL season, while the takeover of the club that was proposed at the end of last year collapsed in on itself, forcing the bidding process for Wednesday to need to be reopened.

But with the Storch family's consortium now reportedly on the verge of completing their takeover, the prospective new owners are already looking for someone to lead the club into a new era.

Beadell and Pedersen to stay, as Storch family seek new CEO for Sheffield Wednesday

Journalist Alan Nixon reports on his Patreon on Sunday morning that Sheffield Wednesday have already begun their process for finding a new CEO for the club. He reports that, while the Storch family want to be hands-on in the running of the club, they've also contacted headhunters with a view to bringing in a more experienced head to move the club forward.

Nixon also reports that the process of rebuilding the Wednesday squad should start soon. He confirms that Head of Recruitment Kevin Beadell is now poised to stay put, having been lined up to exit during James Bord's previous, and ultimately unsuccessful, takeover attempt.

It's noted that Pedersen is set to remain with Wednesday for the time being, too, with the Dane's future having come under the microscope in recent times. Nixon states that Pedersen's contract at Hillsborough would make any potential departure an unneccesary expense, and he now looks like he's going to be in charge to try and lead the Owls back to the Championship.

There's a lot of rebuilding work to be done at Sheffield Wednesday this summer

There can be little questioning the urgency of the task that will be awaiting any new CEO coming into Sheffield Wednesday, once the Storch takeover of the club has been confirmed.

The rebuild of the first team squad is the most pressing concern at hand. Wednesday have been reduced to a threadbare squad throughout the course of the last 12 months as a result of restrictions and embargoes on who they can bring in.

They have 12 players falling out of contract or otherwise leaving the club at the end of this season. Some of these players are loanees, but there will also be new player contracts to negotiate, as well as new arrivals to be brought to the club.

That the Storch family have elected to find an experienced new CEO for the club is notable. There's a case to be made that the state in which Sheffield Wednesday found themselves came about as a result of bad decisions made by Dejphon Chansiri, who arrived as the owner of the club with no prior experience of running one.

The decision to retain Kevin Beadell and Henrik Pedersen indicates that the new owners will be looking for evolution rather than revolution, when their deal to buy the club is finally ratified. Any new CEO will have a far broader remit than new players alone with Hillsborough, for example, requiring a lot of renovation work.

But Sheffield Wednesday fans will be pleased to see that moves are already being made for the new owners to hit the ground running, once everything has been signed off. The 2025-26 season may have been a waking nightmare for fans, but all signs are indicating that this may soon be coming to an end.