Former Sheffield Wednesday player fears for club in wake of Tony Pulis sacking

Tony Pulis was sacked as boss on Monday night, just 45 days after replacing Garry Monk, who got the boot himself after 11 games of the season.

Pulis registered just one win from his 10 matches in charge but four points from the last two games suggested there might have been an upturn in fortunes coming around, even if it wasn’t exactly easy on the eye.

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With just a couple of days to go until the January transfer window opens and Wednesday in dire need of quality in the squad, Chansiri has a huge job on his hands in attempting to bring in a manager who will steer the Owls away from the threat of relegation to League One.

Former Wednesday defender Jon Newsome says there are two types of potential boss who would be willing to throw their hats into the ring but Chansiri will not have an inbox overflowing with hugely impressive applicants.

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"Who they need and who they can actually attract to the football club are two very different things,” said Newsome. “[Look at] past history, those few years of managers losing their jobs [problems with] financial fair play. Garry Monk started the season, he had a transfer window where he got to bring players in but you're starting with -12 points. That's an incredibly difficult sell to a footballer.

"Thankfully they had six of those dropped but you are now going into a January window where you are in a relegation battle so regarding the manager ... there's one of two [who Wednesday can attract], someone who has been out of the game for a while who thinks, 'you know what, it might be a bit of a poisoned chalice but I'm going to take the opportunity anyway'. Maybe Tony Pulis was one of those.

"Or you look at someone who is in the lower leagues who is an up and coming manager who sees it as an opportunity that they just can't turn down.”

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Newsome went on to suggest that Chansiri’s interest may well be waning such are the difficulties that the club have ended up in over the past few years of a reign that kicked off with two play-offs in succession and now faces the real possibility of the team playing in the third tier.

"He came into it probably as a naive, not a football kind of person, he's probably seen from afar the opportunities that were there for people to come into the game,” Newsome told TalkSPORT.

"To be fair to him he's thrown a lot of money at the club, he now realises that throwing a lot of money at clubs is not the way to success, or always the way to success.

"Unfortunately, in my opinion there is a lot of wasted money down there and I just fear he has got to the point where he has probably fallen out with the idea of it all.

"It's costing him a lot of money, there needs to be another good amount of investment, whatever that could be under financial fair play and the club has got to be turned around because we are staring through the trapdoor into League One.”

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