Two Sheffield Wednesday summer departures have now all-but confirmed.
Sheffield Wednesday are barrelling towards a big summer with 18 players either set to become a free agent or set to see their loan contracts expire.
Danny Rohl says contract planning is underway ahead of the summer and next season.
But the German reiterates that beating the drop is not only the focus right now, but a huge determining factor in whether a lot of players stay or leave.
Out of contract at Hillsborough this summer are; Will Vaulks, Liam Palmer, Barry Bannan, Di’Shon Bernard, Cameron Dawson, Dominic Iorfa, Josh Windass, Lee Gregory, and Ciaran Brennan.
And seeing their loan deals expire in S6 are James Beadle, Ian Poveda, Ike Ugbo, Jeff Hendrick, Ashley Fletcher, Momo Diaby, and Kristian Pedersen.
Then there’s names like Marvin Johnson who is thought to be out of contract in the summer, though there’s no official confirmation of it.
Now, The Star have reported that two names look set to leave Sheffield Wednesday in the summer, though they’re not names currently in the first-team.
It’s reported that young duo Adam Alimi-Adetoro and Luke Cook are both set to leave when their contracts expire this summer, despite the club having options to extend their deals.
Alimi-Adetoro, 22, and Cook, 21, have failed to kick on at Wednesday, with barely any developmnt team appearances this season.
Cook is the one perhaps most well-known to Wednesday fans, though even he has just the one first-team appearance to his name, coming in the Carabao Cup last season.
Both players signed for the Owls at the same time at the start of the 2022/23 campaign.
Expect there to be a horde of players leaving the club this summer, from the first-team and the youth teams as well.
Whether or not Rohl stays, this season has arguably kick-started a reset at the club, with owner Dejphon Chansiri surely seeing now that the way he’s run the club in recent years is unsustainable.
The club needs to reset themselves and their goals from the bottom up, starting with the youth team.
Bailey Cadamarteri‘s emergence this season has given the club hope in their youth academy and it should give the current academy players hope that there’s a route into the first-team as well.
But if players aren’t making the mark then the club needs to be ruthless with them and move them on.
Clearly, it seems like Alimi-Adetoro and Cook aren’t turning heads right now, and what next season might hold for them remains to be seen.
But it looks like Sheffield Wednesday might not only bolster their first-team in the summer, but also their development team.
Watford striker James Collins was recently on trial with the Owls, so we could see a few signings of this calibre in the summer.
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