The Sheffield Wednesday owner, Dejphon Chansiri, has failed to pay his players for the month of April.

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That's according to a report by The Telegraph, who claimed that the Wednesday players' salaries for the month of April were due to be paid last Friday - less than 24 hours before the Owls faced Nottingham Forest in a crucial Championship clash - however, Chansiri was unable to pay his playing staff.

It is also claimed that Darren Moore's men are still yet to receive their wages for the month of March, too, meaning that this is now the third month of the season in which Wednesday players have not been paid on time, as the same thing happened back in November.

Incompetent owner

While Wednesday's point in their goalless draw with Forest on Saturday was already rather impressive, as the result just about keeps the club's hopes of avoiding relegation to League One alive, the fact that the players put in such a shift, despite having gone two months without pay, makes the result even more remarkable.

However, with the news now becoming public, exactly how the players deal with the situation ahead of what could well be a straight relegation shootout with Derby County this Saturday, remains to be seen.

Indeed, it is not a difficult scenario to imagine that, along with the stress of being in the midst of a very tight fight for survival, not being paid will have a negative impact on the players' mental state, something that could easily lead to a reduced level of performance, which, it goes without saying, brings with it the possibility of relegation.

And, if the worst should happen against Wayne Rooney's side on Saturday, it would seem abundantly clear that there will be a lot of blame on Chansiri, with Moore likely to be furious at the owner's incredible levels of incompetence - especially at such an important stage of the season.

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