How much Dejphon Chansiri bought Sheffield Wednesday for as off-pitch turmoil continues | OneFootball

The controversial Owls owner has been coming under increasing pressure to sell the club this season.

Dejphon Chansiri's Sheffield Wednesday reign has been a turbulent one to say the least.

The 56-year-old Thai businessman has been the subject of numerous protests by Owls supporters over the years, with the club having largely regressed in terms of their league position during his tenureship.

Just this season alone, Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Rohl and Chansiri endured a lengthy and public communication breakdown over transfer strategy regarding the winter window, and more recently, players and some staff wages went unpaid for the month of March.

These unpaid wages have now been resolved, but this wasn't the first time this has happened under Chansiri's watch, as in October 2023, he asked Wednesday supporters to help contribute towards a £2m HMRC debt and to help cover player wages.

So, how much did Chansiri purchase the club for? Football League World takes a look!

How much Dejphon Chansiri purchased Sheffield Wednesday for

29 January 2015: Sheffield Wednesday had established themselves as a Championship club after two seasons back in the second tier, and were now beginning to look upwards to the riches of the Premier League.

It was also the day when the Chansiri era at Hillsborough would begin. He would lead a consortium that acquired a 100 per cent stake in the football club from previous owner, Milan Mandaric.

Chansiri would purchase the club for a reported £37.5m, and he would immediately outline his grand ambitions of top flight football for the club.

"We will do whatever is appropriate to invest in the club to get them to the Premier League," Chansiri said in March 2015.

Wednesday would go close in both the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons respectively, finishing sixth and fourth in the second tier, but would lose out in the play-offs on both occasions.

Sheffield Wednesday fans have seemingly reached their limit with Dejphon Chansiri

Since that 2016/17 season, the club has never been as far away from realising that Premier League dream as they were then.

A steady Championship decline would follow over the next few seasons, before Wednesday were eventually relegated to League One in the 2020/21 campaign.

That was a season that saw them finish rock-bottom of the second tier, having also been hit with a six-point deduction which was halved from the original 12 they were set to be docked, having breached EFL spending rules.

It would take the club two years before they returned to Championship football, but it would take the arrival of Danny Rohl in October 2023 to help prevent the club from likely falling straight back into League One - Wednesday were seven points adrift of safety upon Rohl's appointment.

However, despite a better season on the pitch this term as far as results and competing in the top half of the table is concerned, Chansiri's rule continues to be plagued with frustrating, embarrassing, and fairly unacceptable off-the-field issues.

As such, Owls supporters are fairly unanimous in the agreement that Chansiri is not fit for purpose as the owner of their proud and historic football club, and there are grave concerns that the aforementioned issues may well drive their excellent young manager, Rohl, out of the club in the near future.

It was revealed in late March that a US-based consortium is waiting in the wings to launch a takeover bid for the football club, but it remains to be seen whether Chansiri has any interest in selling the club anytime soon.