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Danny Rohl is in talks to leave his post as Sheffield Wednesday boss. The German took over as Wednesday boss in October 2023 with the club ten points adrift of Championship safety and went on to lead the club to a mid-table finish. His exploits has seen him linked with a host of clubs including Leicester City and Southampton. Rohl is engaged in crunch talk with Wednesday chiefs regarding his exit sparked by frustrations over an inability to strengthen his squad for the next three transfer windows. The club’s players are due back for pre-season training on Thursday but Rohl is not expected to take the session according to The Telegraph. Rohl’s backroom team are out of contract this month which could leave the club’s preparations for the new season in tatters. The club’s academy coaches could be forced into taking training next week when Rohl’s assistants leave the club. There are also concerns of the club’s training facilities with the Middlewood Road training base deemed not ready for the start of pre-season. The club confirmed in May that the training ground would undergo structural improvements with building work taking place to improve the site’s facilities at a seven-figure cost. However, a delay in completion of the enhancements is not believed to be due to finances; instead, the work has taken longer than anticipated to complete. But it is Rohl's impending exit that will be of huge concern to the club's supporters following his superb impact since arriving in South Yorkshire. Sheffield Wednesday became just the third to ever to survive relegation having picked up three points or less from their first 11 fixtures. That was testament to Rohl’s work at the club in his first season and the German went on to produce further heroics last term by leading Wednesday to a mid-table finish. Ahead of the new season, there is likely to be a sense of dread that Wednesday could be in for a relegation battle. It comes after owner Dejphon Chansiri put a whopping £100million valuation on the club in his attempts to sell. The Owls were hit with a three-window transfer embargo by the EFL earlier this month as a result of Chansiri’s failure to pay wages on three separate occasions during the 2024/25 campaign. That could lead to the club’s stars pushing to leave on free transfers should there be a repeat of his failure in paying the players. Reports claimed that former Sheffield Wednesday owner Milan Mandaric had jetted in to discuss purchasing the club with Chansiri refusing to enter into talks to sell. © 2025 talk SPORT Limited
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