Plenty of Sheffield Wednesday fans have looked back on Dejan Stefanovic’s time at the club, where he featured during their time in the Premier League, following a tweet from Owlstalk.
The postponement of football due to the recent pandemic has seen football fans engage over social media, looking back at a number of former players in the process.
Sheffield Wednesday fans have had little shout about since the turn of 2020, seeing their side drop out of the play-off places and sink to 15th in the Championship league table.
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It is now increasingly unlikely that the Owls will claim promotion or a play-off place, and some fans have looked back the club’s former Premier League spell for comfort.
Looking back over the 1995/1996 season, Wednesday fans remembered Stefanovic, who arrived at the club from Red Star Belgrade. The Serbian defender would spend four seasons at Hillsborough, racking up 65 appearances (Transfermarkt) before he would move to Dutch side Vitesse.
Spending four seasons in the Dutch league, Stefanovic would return to England for spells with Portsmouth, Fulham and Norwich City, before eventually retiring from the game in 2009.
Looking back on his time with Wednesday, fans issued a response to an image of Stefanovic via Twitter account @Owlstalk.
What do you remember about this fella?
more at https://t.co/86uGG0ej5L#swfc #sheffield pic.twitter.com/3X5jYaef5J
— owlstalk.co.uk (@Owlstalk) April 16, 2020
I remember him joining and marking wrong side from corners. Eventually became a decent player I thought. 🤷♂️
— Todd Bailey (@therealtbailey) April 16, 2020
Good player
— andrew womack (@andrewwomack6) April 16, 2020
Came with Kovacevic. He became a descent player for us and Kovacevic became our record transfer(sale)
— ryan (@ryanHarry_9) April 16, 2020
Good player. Wrongly not played and let go because he couldn’t get a work permit. Another we missed out on money with as well
— Michael Hackney (@hackabusi) April 16, 2020
SOLID
— 🦉🥊🏒🏎 ❤️ (@paulyoung59) April 16, 2020
Very good player
— Greenstreet (@mrbrookeallen) April 16, 2020
Dejan Stefanovic – arrived with Darko Kovacevic as 20/21 yr old prospects. Turned out to be a classy defender, unfortunately most of that time with other clubs – including Portsmouth. As mentioned there were work permit issues due to lack of international appearances.
— Steven Maxted (@sdmaxted) April 16, 2020
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Another bad decision by management to not play him and his mate more, both went on to become decent players at other clubs .
That’s just the swfc way all over .
Sinton turned out to be poor , hinchcliffe ended up not that good it’s the Hillsborough virus— Dominic (@richerfuture) April 16, 2020
Owls fans, what are your memories of Stefanovic? Let us know below…
