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da bet7： Sheffield Wednesday are approaching quite the milestone, although it’s not exactly a positive one.
Next year will mark a second decade that the club have been absent from the top-flight of English football, and their chances to enact on that may well be dependant on whether or not the EFL sanction them this season.
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The Owls are in line to face a points deduction after being charged for financial misconduct over the sale of their Hillsborough stadium Dejphon Chansiri.
Trends tend to stick in south Yorkshire as the club have twice been faced with a transfer embargo while another long-term issue is once again rearing its head.
Over the past few years, it’s hard to think of many players that have gone onto become a regular figure in the blue and white shirt that the club have actually produced themselves.
The current squad is the oldest in the Championship, after all.
In fact, no player under the age of 23 has featured for Wednesday this season, and that is quite damning.
This was, of course, something that former manager Jos Luhukay tried to eradicate during his spell – the Dutchman made bold calls to drop Keiren Westwood for the then-inexperienced Cameron Dawson while Jordan Thorniley, Matt Penney, Ash Baker, Fraser Preston, and Connor Kirby were all handed regular opportunities.
All of those players, at the time, were 22 or younger – but it ultimately cost him his job.
However, during that summer, the club let slip of George Hirst, who is now a frequent and prolific member of Leicester City’s youth team.
He has bagged six goals this campaign across the Premier League 2 and the EFL Trophy, per Transfermarkt.
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The 20-year-old striker is only proving that the club’s attitude towards younger players is entirely wrong as had he still been on the books, then he may have been vital in putting a stop to their goalscoring woes under Garry Monk.
Under the 40-year-old’s stewardship, the Owls have scored 14 goals in ten league games, four of which coming in the very same match while top goalscorer Steven Fletcher is enduring a run of six successive matches without finding the net.
Those involved with the decision-making at Hillsborough need to buck up their ideas fast, or they’ll risk losing many more players like Hirst, who clearly had the potential brewing inside.
Monk may well fear the use of their academy because of what happened to Luhukay too.