The Sheffield Wednesday Herald
Squad21 Aug 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Joel Akpobi
39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sheffield Wednesday lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market21 Aug 2028
Tyrell Malacia asks to leave Sheffield Wednesday
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout21 Aug 2028
Hayden Matthews says Sheffield Wednesday went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A one-man rearguard from Alex Palmer
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market21 Aug 2028
Louie Barry has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Sheffield Wednesday can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
No thanks: Manuel Ugarte rejects the move
Sheffield Wednesday had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Manchester United, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
The dugout21 Aug 2028
Yan Valery frozen out at Sheffield Wednesday
This is not rotation. Yan Valery has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Sheffield Wednesday is pretending otherwise.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Sheffield Wednesday
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Words exchanged at Sheffield Wednesday
Viktor Gustafson and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
In brief
- Transfer targets Door shut on Aaron Pressley
- Market Joshua Miller steps up from the Sheffield Wednesday academy
- Market One of our own: Benjamin Thompson joins the Sheffield Wednesday first team