The Sheffield Wednesday Herald
Squad21 Aug 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rafa Páez
96 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
Sheffield Wednesday pay Norwich City $22.0M for a proper upgrade
Norwich City did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $22.0M for Mathias Kvistgaarden, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A fracture rules Matt Butcher out for 35 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sheffield Wednesday will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Too dear: Sheffield Wednesday walk away from El Hadji Malick Diouf
$10.6M was the most the club would pay and Brentford were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market21 Aug 2028
Sheffield Wednesday may not be able to give Altay Bayındır what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Altay Bayındır wants continental football; whether Sheffield Wednesday can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Market21 Aug 2028
Will Grainger has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sheffield Wednesday they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Real improvement from Ato Ampah at Sheffield Wednesday
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ato Ampah is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Joël Piroe in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sheffield Wednesday this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
In brief
- The terraces Sheffield Wednesday spend $22.0M on the signing the town wanted
- Market Sheffield Wednesday promote Robert Cooper from within
- Boardroom A promise the Sheffield Wednesday board did not keep