Sheffield Wednesday owner Dejphon Chansiri may be getting very anxious about this recent bit of government news.
In terms of football owners, Chansiri at Sheffield Wednesday is about as controversial as they come.
He’s been at Hillsborough for coming up to 10 years now and it’s been a decade thwart with highs and lows, though recently it’s been more lows than highs.
Despite Danny Rohl working wonders on the pitch, fans have been protesting against Chansiri in growing numbers.
The 1867 Group have led the protests, seen in recent Championship games against Plymouth Argyle and Leeds United at Hillsborough.
This season has been Chansiri’s most controversial by far; it started with the exit of Darren Moore followed by their public feud, then a string of club statements released by Chansiri, of which one asked fans to pay a £2million HMRC bill on behalf of the club.
Chansiri later paid this in what seemed like a very bizarre publicity stunt from the Sheffield Wednesday owner.
Government plans to introduce independent football regulator
Plans are rolling through Westminster to introduce an independent football regulator to the English game.
As per a report from The Independent; the ‘independent regulator will have the power to settle the ongoing row over financial distribution between the Premier League and the EFL’.
The main aim is to ensure the sustainability of football clubs and to keep them at the heart of communities throughout the country.
Why will Sheffield Wednesday owner Dejphon Chansiri be worried
Not only will the regulator set out to bridge the financial gap between teams in the Premier League and in the Football League, but to also provide financial sustainability to clubs from the National League all the way to the Premier League via a safeguarding system.
The Independent write:
“The regulator’s primary purpose, once established, will be to safeguard the financial sustainability of clubs in England through a licensing system. This will cover clubs from the National League up to the Premier League.”
There will be strict fines implemented for teams who don’t abide by the new system.
Dejphon Chansiri will be hit where it most hurts
Chansiri may well be a decent businessman. He’s got a fortune behind him and he’s pumped a fair share of money into Sheffield Wednesday over the years.
But as a football owner, he’s clearly lacking.
His poor planning; not having a decent boardroom in front of him who can make footballing decisions, transfer planning and so on, has left Sheffield Wednesday in a real rut.
The club has no finances to really start investing in facilities and in the team and it seems like a cycle that is going to be very difficult to break out of, at least with Chansiri at the helm.
But news of an impendent regulator; not only helping to level the financial playing field for football clubs in the UK but also providing more stricter regulations for current owners in the Football League will hopefully prompt Chansiri to run Sheffield Wednesday properly.
He outbursts earlier in the season, his sky high pricing for everything from tickets to club merchandise, and the constant threat of staff not being paid so on will really grab the regulator’s attention.
Chansiri certainly wont want to incur fines from the regulator and so the answer is simple; he needs to improve or sell the club.
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