‘It's crazy' – Sheffield Wednesday star breaks silence on threat to STRIKE as Championship club's crisis deepens
Owls stars were told this week that they would not be paid on time for the fourth month out of the last five.
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Jamal Lowe spoke to Sky Sports News about Wednesday's dire situation
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Lowe, 31, is one of the Owl's remaining senior players
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Having been told that they would not be paid on Friday as scheduled, players
Wednesday are scheduled to get their season underway in just nine days with a trip to
Speaking to Sky Sports outside the club's training ground this morning, forward Lowe said: "Just a lot of uncertainty really. Just like the fans and just like everyone that's following the story, we kind of find out at the same time.
"So if it's on Twitter, that's when we find out sometimes. But no one's experienced this before so no one really knows what to do, when to expect stuff.
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"It's all unknown territory for everyone. And like you say, players aren't getting it (paid on time) but a lot of the staff that work here every day or work at the stadium every day aren't getting paid either.
"So it's tough for everyone. It's tough for us but for them, we more think about them in harder times like this where you only find out the day before payday whether you're getting paid or not.
Sheffield Wednesday crisis deepens as players free to resign, club legend leaves and staff going months without pay
"And it's not enough time to organise whatever you need to organise if you've got stuff coming out. No one knows. Everyone's got a different story. It is tough."
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On speculation over Wednesday will even be able to fulfil their fixture against Leicester next week, Lowe added: "We haven't spoken that far ahead yet. But everyone's fit. We've been working hard because the season doesn't stop for anyone.
"They're not going to feel sorry for us and say, 'why don't we just push their games a couple of weeks back?'
"Everyone's working as much as they can to be fit. But what happens from there, I don't know."
Wednesday are currently down to around 11 senior players still on the books, with the squad likely to have to be supplemented by under-23 players.
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'IT'S A CRAZY TIME'
On the exodus that has taken place at Hillsborough this summer, Lowe, 31, said: "As you can imagine, people have left. It's an unstable situation at the minute. No one holds any bad feelings towards anyone who's left.
"Everyone completely understands. It's a crazy time. We'll just have to wait and see what happens. We'll just have to see what's going on."
Rohl was replaced by his former assistant Henrik Pedersen.
Lowe is pleased that the Dane will at least be able to provide some continuity.
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"But he was already here already, so that makes life a little bit easier. We've got similar ideologies about how we want to play.
"So that's not an issue. That's probably the most positive thing out of the situation. There's not too much change with that. But we will see, man. We will see."
When asked about staying positive, Lowe admitted: "If you don't laugh, you'll cry. So we have to laugh."
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