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May dropped from Scotland squad
Stevie May has been left out of Gordon Strachan’s Scotland squad for the games with the Republic of Ireland and Qatar next month. May has featured in recent squads but has been replaced by Celtic’s Leigh Griffiths after his disappointing season at Hillsborough. Also included in the Scottish set-up is former Owls defender Mark Reynolds. […]
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Chansiri appoints new man to committee
Chairman Dejphon Chansiri has added experienced coach Jonathan Hill to Wednesday’s Sporting Director committee, following the shock exit of Adam Pearson earlier this week. Hill, who has almost 20 years of coaching roles on his CV, was assistant academy director at Wigan Athletic before moving to Manchester United as academy youth coach and spending nine […]
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Owls to fly out for pre-season training camp
Wednesday will be flying out to Portugal for a five-day pre-season training camp this summer. The squad will be in the Algarve from Wednesday 22 July until Monday 27 July and will play one match during this time in the Albufeira region, with full match details still to be confirmed.
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May linked with loan move back to Scotland
Stevie May is being linked with a possible season-long loan move to Aberdeen. The Aberdeen Evening Express says the Dons have opened talks with Wednesday about the striker spending next season at Pittodrie and, if it goes ahead, then it would mean a reunion with boss Derek McInnes and assistant Tony Docherty, who gave May […]
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Pearson joins Leeds after three weeks at S6
Adam Pearson has quit Wednesday to move to rivals Leeds United … just three weeks after joining the Owls. Pearson, who was brought in by chairman Dejphon Chansiri as part of a three-man football committee, has been appointed executive director at Elland Road, having previously worked there as commercial director. Mr Chansiri last month announced […]
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New name on Sporting Director committee
Wednesday have added Paul Senior as a fourth member of the recently-established Sporting Director committee. Senior has previously worked for Tottenham, West Ham, Crystal Palace and Charlton in operational and strategic roles. He has been involved both domestically and internationally in player recruitment, having established scouting networks in more than 80 countries. Chairman Dejphon Chansiri […]
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Five offered new deals at Hillsborough
Chris Kirkland, Kieren Lee, Jose Semedo, Glenn Loovens and Chris Maguire are to be offered new deals by Wednesday. They are all out-of-contract this summer, along with 11 others who have been released, and we now wait to see whether they will accept new terms as Stuart Gray begins his remodelling of the squad for […]
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Buxton one of 11 players freed by Wednesday
Long-serving defender Lewis Buxton is one of 11 players released by Wednesday following the end of the season. Joining Buxton in exiting Hillsborough are: Kamil Zayatte, Jacques Maghoma, Giles Coke, Paul Corry, Rafa Floro, Dejan Kelhar, Gary Madine, Joe Mattock, Rhys McCabe and Matt Young.
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Owls spoil party and go close to win
Atdhe Nuhiu’s injury-time strike ended Watford’s hopes of lifting the Championship title … and Wednesday might have snatched an unlikely win but for referee Lee Probert whistling for full time when Lloyd Isgrove was poised to clinch all three points. Watford had taken the lead through Matej Vydra midway through the first-half and missed chances […]
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Sporting director committee set to meet
Stuart Gray says he will be having his first in-depth meeting with Adam Pearson and Glenn Roeder next week as the club’s newly-appointed sporting director committee begins planning the way ahead. One of the first close-season jobs will be to decide which of the 16 out-of-contract players are offered new terms at the club and […]
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