MARVELOUS NAKAMBA JOINS A BROKEN EFL CLUB. . . Winless in their last 24 matches . . . Has struggled to pay the players

It’s hard to understand why Marvelous Nakamba decided to join Sheffield Wednesday on Monday given all the challenges which have been tearing the Championship club apart this season. There is no doubt that Nakamba’s relationship with Luton was strained. His wages were always a friction point once the club fell from the Premiership into League One in successive seasons.

But, choosing the Owls, as Sheffield Wednesday are known by their fans, was a big surprise. Admittedly, it’s a short-term deal, until the end of the season, and Nakamba can argue that he needs the game time which Sheffield Wednesday will give him. It’s something which Luton were denying him, once their relationship soured.

But, it surely doesn’t appear to make a lot of sense for one to leave a club in League One and join another which is set to fall into League One in just three months’ time. The Owls have a rich past – they are three-time FA Cup winners. They have been struggling to pay the players and there has been mayhem, including players boycotting a friendly match.

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They were already bottom of the Championship table when they were docked those points and, four months later, they are still bottom of the table with a minus seven points tally on the board. They are 20 points adrift of Oxford, who are one place above bottom place, 22 points behind Blackburn Rovers, and 27 points behind West Bromwich Albion, who occupy the final two places in the relegation slots. They have only won once this season, a 2-0 away win over Portsmouth in September, they have not won in their last 24 league games and they have lost their last seven games.

Only on Friday, it was revealed the EFL League were still assessing the prospective buyout of the club to establish whether the sale would be largely funded by the proceeds of gambling and crypto-gambling operations. Two members of the consortium, which won the bid to buy the franchise, professional poker player James Bord and the crypto-gambling casino owner Felix Roemer, have been flagged.

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