Who would actually want to be the next manager of Sheffield Wednesday?

Because, the theory goes, if a politician is sacked after six months it is their fault. Any sooner and the mess is surely the fault of the Prime Minister that appointed them.

What said, then, of Dejphon Chansiri after Tony Pulis was chopped after just 45 days in charge?

“Of course I take full responsibility,” the Thai businessman said in a rare press conference eight weeks ago when pulled up on the club’s points deduction for financial misconduct.

“Whatever happens to this club, there is no excuse, I have to take responsibility.”

Since then he has sacked two managers and the club remain entrenched in the Championship relegation zone. Since then the PFA have been called in to mediate an issue with players not being paid. Since then thousands of supporter ticket refunds, however difficult the logistics of administering them may be, remain unpaid.

Since then, since then, since then.

Nearly a year after an initial deadline, the circumstances of the world have conspired against Wednesday’s ability to publish their accounts for the 2018/19 season, we’re told, meaning that the financial landscape of the club remains something of a nervous mystery.

Results under Tony Pulis were dreadful, of that there is no denying, but by the very nature of last Monday evening’s late-night statement, circumstances of his sacking are clouded with question marks, the ‘other issues’ mentioned leaving scope for justified speculation among the fanbase and beyond.

It is two weeks since the Welshman said he would lay down some home truths to the owner about the state of his club in a meeting he said was pencilled-in at the outset of his mini-reign.

He said there would be ‘no sugarcoating’. Whatever your take on his playing style and rhetoric, there are few managers in football with the same experience as him in clubs that are on fire. You could have charged the equivalent of a 10-year season ticket to be a fly-on-the-wall for that conversation.

From what we can gather, that conversation only took place yesterday. Asked repeatedly in that time whether he had the information required to plan for a positive start to the forthcoming January transfer window, Pulis was repeatedly conspicuous in his diversion.

He said an ‘influx’ was needed, suggesting recent recruitment at the club had failed and that the squad was as disjointed as he had ever seen. Communication between the two men, it seems, was not exactly free-flowing.

As the outgoing manager sets sail on the shortest managerial reign in the club’s rich history, for the second time in a couple of months attention turns to who will step into the Owls top job. The last three Sheffield Wednesday managers Dejphon Chansiri has appointed have Premier League experience on their CVs.

The question is, at what stage of a career would a manager have to be to willingly step into what appears to be, from the outside at least, something of an omnishambles?

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