Henrik Pedersen says that he hopes to see Sheffield Wednesday’s takeover completed as soon as possible, to give his side the best chance going forward.

The Owls are in trouble in the Championship, with Pedersen’s men 26 points adrift of 23rd place in the table let alone those outside the relegation zone, but it’s not just their league position that is suffering due to their threadbare squad.

Injuries are piling up given the lack of ability to rotate, and today the Dane spoke about how he only has eight senior players to choose from as he prepares to select his side for the trip to Ipswich Town this weekend. There are hopes that the process of finding a new owner to take over from Dejphon Chansiri is coming to an end, with the insolvency practitioners, Begbies Traynor LLP, eager to nail down a preferred bidder in the coming days.

It’s thought that there are now two parties being properly considered, with a merged US consortium centred on bids from John McEvoy and the Storch family one of the them and former Newcastle United owner, Mike Ashley, the other. Another group, that includes former poker player and football analytics enthusiast, James Bord, may no longer be seen as a viable option.

From Pedersen’s perspective, he’s just eager to see things wrapped up so that he can focus on the football and get some help on the pitch. He maintains that discussions with administrator, Kris Wigfield, are constant.

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“I spoke yesterday with Kris, and we’re speaking very often,” he told the media. “We have a good dialogue, so I hope that there will soon come a good solution for our club, our fans, for everyone. It will help with many things, of course it will…

“We need players, and I think he’s working really hard to get it done as quickly as possible so we have a chance to do something in January. But we also know that it takes time to make everything done, and right now we don’t know who the new owner will be or the reaction from the EFL. So there are a lot of questions that are open before we can say anything about what we can do in January transfer window.”

Wednesday and their battered troops head to Ipswich on Saturday for their latest outing, and the odds are stacked against them as they look for their first victory in 14 matches.