Sheffield Wednesday are on the lookout for a new manager after Garry Monk’s departure from Hillsborough earlier this week.

Dejphon Chansiri brought Monk’s tenure to an end little over 12 months after initially appointing him, citing now as the time for another change at Hillsborough.

Monk was the answer to Sheffield Wednesday’s problem at the start of last season, with Chansiri forced to make a change when he might not have wanted to as Newcastle United lured Steve Bruce out of Hillsborough.

Despite things briefly looking up under Monk, he never had the desired impact at Hillsborough, which wasn’t the case for Bruce in his short time in-charge at SW6.

For former Wednesday goalkeeper, Chris Kirkland, he feels it was a big loss losing Bruce when they did, as he admitted when speaking to Football League World.

“That was a huge, huge loss for Sheffield Wednesday,” Kirkland explained. “They've been crying out for that for years to get somebody in like him.

"I'd have loved Steve Bruce to stay there. I think that was their chance to grow, he'd have got players in for sure." 

Bruce eventually stepped in at Hillsborough in February 2019, overseeing a positive end to the season that saw Wednesday lose only three times following his appointment.

Those defeats came against eventually promoted Aston Villa and automatic promotion-chasing Leeds United, as well as Queens Park Rangers on the final day of the season.

The Owls finished 12^th under Bruce, but he never built on his work and walked out on the Owls when Newcastle United came knocking in the summer of 2019.

He remains the Magpies’ boss in the Premier League having kept them in the top-flight rather comfortably last season.

Meanwhile, Wednesday sit 23rd in the Championship table.