Source: Team_Talk
Strafford calls for Owls support
Strafford and Owls chief executive Nick Parker, who appointed New York-based sports-focused investment bank Inner Circle Sports in June to help attract major new investors, insist average home crowds must hit the 25,000-mark in order to create genuine interest.
Strafford told the club's official website: "We've got one of the best sports finance intermediaries in the world working for Sheffield Wednesday. We've got some of the best people that own sports assets in the world thinking about Sheffield Wednesday.
"They're thinking about us right now. They're looking at us and that's the reason I want the crowds up. We need to prove we're worth investing in."
Strafford added: "The worst case scenario is our current business plan and we're already delivering against it. That's what gives me absolute comfort. If we carry on the progress we have done for the last six to nine months the club is going to be fine - it might just take us two or three years longer to get into the Premier League."
Inner Circle Sports advised Tom Hicks and George Gillett on their £470million Liverpool takeover in early 2007 and more recently aided the purchase of a controlling stake in Sunderland by Texan billionaire Ellis Short.
