Sheffield Wednesday will seriously regret £3m transfer situation | OneFootball

With new owners likely in the next few weeks, Sheffield Wednesday come to regret letting two of their most talented players go for just £3 million.

Sheffield Wednesday may come to regret the sale of Djeidi Gassama and Anthony Musaba for less than their market value.

Sheffield Wednesday's difficult summer has left the club on the brink of collapse, with a transfer embargo having been put in place for the next three windows over the late payment of wages to players and tax owed to HMRC, and players having reportedly given their notice due to the late or non-payment of wages.

A need for ready cash has been seen in the nature of the sales of Djeidi Gassama and Anthony Musaba. Gassama has left for Scottish giants Rangers for £2.2 million, while the sale of Anthony Musaba to the Turkish club Samsunspor is believed to have made the club just £800,000.

Both players seem to have been sold for substantially less than their market value, and this hasn't gone unnoticed.

Gassama and Musaba sales are "gross mismanagement" which underline "the mess they're in"

Dom Howson has posted to X about the sale of these two players, and he is highly critical of the club for having let them go. He states that the club has sold the players "to ease their financial troubles" and that money received for them is "well below market value for two of their better attacking players".

But he also has strong criticism of Dejphon Chansiri and the senior management of Sheffield Wednesday, lambasting them for "gross mismanagement" and pointing out that these two sales are examples of the "the mess they're in" at the moment.

The sales of Gassama and Musaba had the stench of 'fire sale' about them

The decision to sell these two players for under their market values as Wednesday seek to ensure that everybody is paid on time certainly has the whiff of a "fire sale" about it. Samsunspor are understood to have paid £800,000 for Anthony Musaba, but his estimated value has jumped immediately to £1.4 million.

The sale price of Gassama is somewhat more in line with expectations, but at just 21 years of age it might have been expected that his value would rise sharply according to his potential to grow as a player in the future.

The assumption made by Dom Howson is that Wednesday are selling solely because they have to, and what we already know about the club is that they desperately need money coming into the club.

Of course, under such circumstances, buying clubs can see the whites of the selling clubs' eyes and will adjust their offers accordingly. In the transfer market, players are ultimately worth what somebody else is prepared to pay for them. Offers will be tempered, in no small part, by how important it is to the buying club to get that money through the door.

That these sales have happened at these prices certainly seem to be a sign of how badly Sheffield Wednesday have been run in recent months and years. And with two holes in their attacking options for the season to come, it may be a decision that they come to regret in a playing sense and also financially, with the mis-management of the club seeing them lose potentially significant fees.