Dejphon Chansiri is a Thai businessman who is the current owner of English

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club

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. Chansiri's family controls the

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, the world's largest producer of canned

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. The Chansiri family is estimated by Forbes to be worth $720m as of 5/7/19. In January 2015, a consortium led by Chansiri acquired a 100% stake in Sheffield Wednesday from

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for £37.5m and targeted promotion to the

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by 2017. During the summer of 2015, Chansiri changed many aspects of the Sheffield Wednesday set-up including the backroom staff and players, such as sacking manager Stuart Gray and replacing him with

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, who had previously managed Turkish side Besiktas and several clubs in his home country of Portugal.

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