‘Perfect situation’ - Sheffield Wednesday boss hails new Owls signing with big potential

The former Manchester United defender became the Owls’ fifth signing of the summer on Monday night, penning a deal at Hillsborough after choosing them over interest elsewhere in the Championship and also overseas.

Bernard, who has had loan spells with Hull City, Portsmouth and Salford City in his young career so far, is primarily a central defender, and ticks a lot of boxes for Wednesday as they look to bolster their ranks prior to the season opener against the Saints in a few days’ time.

Xisco says that he’s not sure yet whether the Jamaica international will be able to make his debut at Hillsborough on Friday night, but did say that he’s a player with ‘big potential’.

“It’s a perfect situation today,” he told Radio Sheffield. “We have another player, we have another to try and help guys this season. I’m very happy with Di’Shon, I know about him and he has big potential for us. It’s one step more, and we need to keep on moving every day.

"Right now we’ve spoken with him, and he’s had some testing in the training around. We need to know exactly how fit he is, it’s true he played with the national team two or three weeks ago, and maybe he is not 100% fit but maybe has very good condition - we need to check him and put out our strongest XI on Friday.”