Fresh Sheffield Wednesday issue emerges involving Danny Rohl | OneFootball

Danny Rohl's protracted departure from Sheffield Wednesday is causing a headache for the club's other backroom staff.

The ongoing uncertainty over the future of Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Rohl could have consequences for the club's other backroom staff.

Wednesday ended last season in 12th place in the Championship, but manager Danny Rohl has been widely admired for a long time, and it has seemed for some time as though his departure from Hillsborough this summer is inevitable.

But Rohl obviously isn't the only member of the club's backroom staff, and this uncertainty has created an issue which could cause the club another significant issue over the course of this summer beyond having to find a replacement for him.

Rohl uncertainty has knock-on effects for Wednesday's other backroom staff

Journalist Alan Nixon this morning reported on the situation at Hillsborough, stating that Rohl is waiting for Southampton to make a move for him, but that this might happen until July.

This causes a problem for the club's other backroom staff, whose contracts expire in June, a date slipped out of alignment with Rohl's contract dates when he signed a contract extension at the end of the 2023/24 season.

Should the manager leave for the south coast this summer, he may choose to take others with him. But at the moment, there is little clarity on exactly what is going to happen and when.

Wednesday have been aware of this misalignment for some time

The issue of the gap between Danny Rohl's contract dates and those of the rest of his staff has been known about at Hillsborough for some time.

The Sheffield Star reported in February that the contracts given to Rohl's central backroom staff were not in line with his extension to 2027, with the majority of those deals believed to be expiring this summer.

The matter is now only all the more urgent now that it seems that Rohl's departure from Sheffield Wednesday is inevitable. With no clarity over their futures, those staff can now only wait and see what happens in the knowledge that their contracts may have expired by the time his widely-expected move to Southampton actually happens.

The prevarication over Rohl's departure is bad for Wednesday. Danny Rohl is obviously a very much in-demand manager, but he's also still under contract to them for another two years, meaning that it's not only his decision over where he goes next; it's also his decision when.

Should club owner Dejphon Chansiri seek to sack him in order to get greater clarity about the position and bring in the next manager early ahead of the summer break, he'd be liable to pay up the last two years of Rohl's contract, a bill that would run to millions of pounds.

As such, it would appear that the whole of Sheffield Wednesday could be in a state of limbo until Rohl finally makes his move, and that's bad news for the entire club, not just their backroom staff.