Carlton Palmer has suggested that Sheffield Wednesday owner Dejphon Chansiri's lack of footballing knowledge has cost the club in recent seasons.

Chansiri purchased the club in January 2015, and they have remained in the Championship throughout his time in charge.

The Owls currently find themselves second from bottom in the second-tier standing, having been handed a six-point deduction for breach of EFL financial regulations.

But while Palmer seemingly has no complaints about the backing Chansiri has given Wednesday during his time at the club, it seems he does feel as though a lack of knowledge of the game means the businessman has not always got things right during his time in charge at Hillsborough.

Speaking about Chansiri's time with Wednesday, the ex-Owls midfielder told Football Fan Cast: “Listen, since he’s been since he’s taken over, he has put his money where his mouth is. The only thing that I would say about the chairman is that I don’t think he’s been rightly advised.

“He spent a lot of money, he’s paid a lot of money in wages. He just hasn’t had the right advice."

Assessing how Chansiri could have done things differently, Palmer believes that the Owls owner could have benefitted from advice from someone who knows the club directly, as he went on to add: “I’ve said this before, I mean, Howard Wilkinson lives in Sheffield – what he knows what he doesn’t know about football isn’t worth knowing about – you know, I think he should have got somebody in there to advise him, who knows about football.

“If he’d have done that, I think Sheffield Wednesday would have got promoted by now.”

Wilkinson is of course a former Sheffield Wednesday manager himself, and guided the club to promotion to the top-tier of English football during the 1983/84 season.

 

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The Verdict

I do think that Palmer has a point here.

It is always going to be hard for someone in charge of something to make the right decisions if they are not necessarily familiar with the subject they are dealing with, and that does seem to apply to Chansiri here.

Indeed, there has not been a great deal of stability around Hillsborough under Chansiri, not doubt as a result of that, which is not going to help the club make a return to the Premier League any time soon.

You can therefore understand why Chansiri might benefit from an adviser such as Wilkinson, who knows the club well so can help make the decisions, although it may take more than that to get them promoted, given they will need the right players, playing the right way for them, to do that on the pitch as well.