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Wednesday staff not paid on time again

The Sheffield Wednesday chairman Dejphon Chansiri has come in for fresh criticism after some staff and players were told once again that they would not be paid in full on their scheduled payday on Tuesday.

Employees were told in an email on Monday that, for the fifth time in the past seven months, they would not receive their full salaries on time. The Times understands that the majority of the first-team squad will not be paid their full monthly wage.

Staff on the non-football side of the operation have been told that they will receive about £1,000, while academy players and scholars will be paid in full.  The payment of such a small amount to non-football staff will leave many of them scrambling to pay their bills, which has caused consternation within the club and among fans, many of whom have been protesting against Chansiri’s ownership for some time.

Fifa rules state that if a club do not pay a player on time twice, he or she can rip up their contract unless the club in question pay the player within 15 days of the due payday.

Josh Windass and Michael Smith decided to trigger that clause in the summer and signed for Wrexham and Preston North End respectively on free transfers.  Thirteen players left Wednesday in the summer and the club are now under five separate transfer embargoes.  The latest two embargoes, issued last Friday, are in relation to debts still owed to another club for unpaid transfers and to other “football creditors”.

Local politicians and fans groups have demanded that Chansiri sell the club he bought in 2015 for about £30million, but the Thai businessman has recently suggested that he is unwilling to leave even though several parties are interested in taking over the club, who are second from bottom of the Sky Bet Championship.

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