Sheffield Wednesday look set to miss out on yet another January transfer target.
Sheffield Wednesday have had an increasingly frustrating January transfer window.
Danny Rohl has managed to bring in James Beadle and Ike Ugbo on loan, but the Owls boss may have been hoping for a few more by this point.
And we’ve seen a handful of players being linked with Wednesday, some more closely than others, but eventually going on to seal alternative transfers.
Sheffield Wednesday wanted by Conor Coventry and Darko Gyabi but they signed for Charlton Athletic and Plymouth Argyle respectively.
Isaac Hayden is another target as well, but he’s since been reported to be in talks with Preston North End.
And now it looks as though Arsenal’s young striker Mika Biereth could join the list of Wednesday transfer targets who’ve slipped through the net this month.
Mika Biereth poised for Austrian Bundesliga loan
Biereth, 20, started the season on loan at Motherwell. He scored six and assisted five more in 14 league outings for the club before he was recalled yesterday, amid reports linking him with Sheffield Wednesday among others.
Now though, The Star are saying that, whilst a move for Biereth isn’t completely ‘dead in the water’, the Owls aren’t currently ‘leading the race to take Biereth on’.
The same report adds that Austrian outfit Sturm Graz are ‘among the sides believed to be in a stronger position’.
Sheffield Wednesday dealt transfer window reality check
Sheffield Wednesday have been overlooked on more than one occasion this month, it seems, and it looks like they’re going to miss out on a few more January transfer targets yet.
Despite the upturn in form under Rohl and the positive playing style now in place at the club, there’s still better options out there for players like Coventry and Gyabi; Coventry clearly wanted game time security, whilst Leeds United may have viewed Plymouth Argyle as a more stable environment for Gyabi.
And now that we know Wednesday aren’t leading the race for Biereth, his initial links appears somewhat ambitious.
He was shining in the Scottish top tier and whilst the Championship may be of equivalent quality, if not better, Biereth dropping all the way down to 22nd place Sheffield Wednesday doesn’t seem like a huge step forward for him.
But joining Austrian’s 2nd place side does, and so that move seems much more feasible as things stand; Graz are also in the Europa Conference League play-offs next month.
There’s still hope where Biereth is regarded. Wednesday though might have to lower their expectations this month, or wait until later in the transfer window when players are scurrying for moves and what not.
Sheffield Wednesday welcome Coventry City to Hillsborough tomorrow.