“There’s an agreement with the owner” – Danny Röhl on reaching deal over Sheffield Wednesday future
Fresh comments to the German media saw Danny Röhl’s situation come to a head on Wednesday after weeks of the Sheffield Wednesday manager being linked with an exit from the Championship side.
He’s had his name mentioned alongside clubs relegated from the Premier League, a couple still in it but without vacancies, and a couple of German clubs. It appears to be RB Leipzig who he’s really set his heart on, though, hence him giving that bombshell interview to RB Live.
Röhl has also spoken to Kicker for a lengthy podcast. The German football magazine released some brief quotes from that podcast on Thursday morning, and as part of the article they stated the manager has reached an agreement with Sheffield Wednesday executives so he can leave this summer.
However – they didn’t directly produce a quote on that
Well, having gone deep into over a hour of the Kicker podcast, we’ve found it for you.
The 36-year-old said: “Personally, I had a fantastic time at Sheffield Wednesday. I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’d like to work at the highest possible level with the best players in the near future. And the Bundesliga is, of course, a consideration. And yet, I also know that getting the final nod requires good work, the right people who believe in you, and timing. And if all of that comes together, I might have the chance to return to the Bundesliga in the summer, or to return to the Bundesliga right away. But it could go in a completely different direction.
“My situation in Sheffield is unofficially relatively clear. There’s a clear agreement with the owner about how I envision my future. Unfortunately, I can’t go into detail about that right now.”
Sheffield Wednesday may now feel it’s time to produce full clarity on this for their fans. Currently they have their manager springing from interview to interview in Germany, talking like he’s a free agent and has left the Owls behind him.
That surely cannot be allowed to continue.
The Sheffield Wednesday teammates who ran Shea Charles close to Star award
The talented Southampton loanee took the gong for a season that saw him take key man status, topping many of the stats metrics not only at club level, but throughout the Championship. But in a campaign that ended with Wednesday in the comfort of midtable, there were several contenders lining up behind Charles.
Here, we take a look at a handful of the other Wednesday players who ran the Northern Ireland international close.
Josh Windass
A very close runner-up for this award, Windass produced his career-best numbers at second tier level, returning 13 goals and five assists in a 44-game Championship season. Aside from a generational goal and an influence on the Owls attack that got the best of those around him, what was perhaps most impressive was his sustainability.
A player who has had injury trouble in his long Wednesday career, he put those concerns behind him. No Owls figure made more appearances across the course of the campaign and while – like just about everybody else – there was a slide in his powers in a turbulent second half of the campaign, nobody had a fuller impact on the side’s attacking output across the course of the season.
Where his Wednesday career goes from here will be decided only in the coming weeks. It may even end. If so, he’ll take some replacing.
Djeidi Gassama
A young player who came on leaps and bounds this season, Gassama produced probably the most sparkling of individual performances. His ball-carrying ability lit Wednesday up in periods they were at their best and he jinked and jostled his way to seven goals and an assist in his 43 league outings.
Aged just 21 years old, he’s a player with the skillset and ability to go an awfully long way in the game and along with Pierce Charles is as saleable an asset as the club have had for a very long time. Huge credit must go here to Danny Röhl and his coaching staff for picking him up and turning him into a Championship force to be reckoned with.
