Every individual linked with finalising a Sheffield Wednesday takeover from Dejphon Chansiri | OneFootball

Sheffield Wednesday still don't seem to be close to being sold, but that isn't because there haven't been groups interested in buying the club.

Sheffield Wednesday don't seem to be any closer to being sold than they have been since protests restarted against Dejphon Chansiri, but that doesn't mean that various groups haven't been interested in buying them.

With the end of the month almost upon us again, Sheffield Wednesday remain in crisis. The end of each calendar month means another round of worry for fans over whether the club's wages and bills will be paid on time. They managed this at the end of August, but there remain questions over whether they will be able to every month until the club is sold.

Protests against Dejphon Chansiri have ramped up again since the summer, with the owner still seeming reluctant to sell. There have even been suggestions that he is looking for outside investment into the club, with the presumable aim of retaining control of it himself.

There have been rumours concerning various groups and individuals who could be interested in buying the club since before the end of the 2024-25 season, but none of these have come to anything. So here's a round-up of what happened to those who've been most closely associated with it all.

Adam Shaw's US-Based Consortium

The first group to be closely associated with purchasing the club since the full extent of the club's financial problems started to manifest itself came from a consortium led by Adam Shaw, a Florida-based Sheffield Wednesday fan with a background in legal services.

Shaw's consortium seemed to be the real deal, with 16 people on board including the Florida-based property investor John Flanagan. It was reported that the group made two offers for the club, of £48 million and £55 million, both of which were rejected, with a statement put out by the club describing the first of these bids as "derisory".

Shaw put out a statement in July in which he said: "Our desire and our resource, does not provide my US partners and I any entitlement or privilege where the current legal owner is obligated to participate or even consider any form of negotiations or discussions. Due to the current owner's decision not to enter into discussions with my US partners and I, regarding our intentions over our potential acquisition of the club, we do not have adequate disclosure to be in a position to make a formal offer."

With there having been no indication of any further offers having been made since the summer, it can be safely assumed that there will be no further interest from them in buying the club until something substantial changes from Chansiri's end. Among their plans for the club were a complete renovation of Hillsborough to increase its capacity to 55,000.

John Textor (& Keith Harris)

The former part-owner of Crystal Palace and 'disruptor' John Textor has been linked with the troubled club for several months, but there is nothing to indicate that he has yet submitted a formal bid to buy Sheffield Wednesday. Textor had previously been connected with interest in buying Everton, although nothing came of that, either. Textor was believed to have registered an interest in buying Sheffield Wednesday, and it was reported in August that he'd teamed up with football financier Keith Harris to raise the capital required to do so.

Textor had previously told the journalist Alan Myers: "I have always been a fan of the most traditional English clubs… My great grandfather was English, and I have long understood the importance of Sheffield Wednesday in the history of football.

"It’s true that I am looking for a traditional English club to buy, or with which I can partner… I just have not spoken with anybody at Sheffield Wednesday yet, and I am monitoring the situation, hoping to better understand it."

This, however, was more than six weeks ago. At the end of August, The Guardian reported that Textor was no longer working with Harris, but that he was poised for talks with Chansiri regardless. Since then, though, the trail regarding him purchasing Wednesday has gone quiet, and earlier in September it was reported that Textor was strengthening his links with the Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis.

With no fresh links connecting Textor to Sheffield Wednesday in over a month, this is a takeover trail that also seems to have run cold.

Turki Alalshikh

Stories linking the Saudi boxing promoter Turki Alalshikh to Sheffield Wednesday started in May, when Simon Jordan announced on talkSPORT that he'd "recommended" Wednesday to him as a club in England that he could buy into, though he added that Alalshikh was more interested in buying a club based in the south, with Southampton and Millwall among the names mentioned as being of interest to him.

But Alalshikh's slightly firmer interest, when it did arrive, was focused elsewhere. Journalist Alan Nixon reported that he'd paid a visit to Ashton Gate to look at Bristol City's set-up, amid rumours that he could be set to register an interest in buying that club instead.

Alalshikh himself had a fairly blunt reply to mounting speculation that he could be set to make the Lansdown family, Bristol City's owners, an offer they couldn't refuse. Posting to the social media platform X, he said: "It is not true that I will buy Bristol City FC." Subsequent reporting by talkSPORT confirmed much of what had been said in May, and there has been nothing firm to connect Alalshikh to Wednesday beyond Simon Jordan having 'recommended' them to him.

At the exact time of writing, there don't seem to be any concrete bids on the table for Sheffield Wednesday, and the owner of the club is giving no indication of wanting to sell in a rush. As such, there seems little likelihood of the agony of the club's fans ending any time, particularly soon.