The newly-appointed football regulator has outlined how he sees the situation of the ownership at Wednesday moving forward in the following months.

With owner Dejphon Chansiri failing to pay the full wages of players and non-playing staff for five out of the last seven months, chair of the new English football independent regulator, David Kogan, has spoken to the BBC about the position at S6.

He said he has already been meeting with Wednesday supporters’ groups, local MPs and members of the House of Lords from the Sheffield area. Added to this, he said he has been heavily involved with the EFL to look at the situation.

Mr Kogan said: “We are very conscious of the issues. Sheffield Wednesday is one of the great brands in English football and it is very, very important to English football.

“Our powers will start kicking in over the course of the next few months. We put out a consultation on ownership four weeks ago. We now have the response to that consultation.

“Parliament needs to put through secondary legislation which will start, I think, in the next few weeks.

“We are working on a timetable where ultimately we will be able to investigate Sheffield Wednesday and get the evidence very, very  quickly because there is lots of it around.

“We will then take whatever action is necessary.”

He added: “My view is that, not just for Sheffield Wednesday but for any club that’s in trouble, we need to investigate it, get the evidence and then take a decision.

“But, ultimately, if we can’t get an owner to agree with us about the next course of action then we have the right to force the owner out of that club.”