'Our role is integral to football's future' - football oversight chief the regulator's chair
The team's current difficulties constitute a "major concern" and the new football authority is looking to gain the ability to examine team situations in comparable cases, the recently named head the official has stated.
In a wide-ranging interview, Kogan, who was appointed on Monday, expressed "sympathy" towards Wednesday's fanbase.
The regulator engaged with four supporters' associations connected to the South Yorkshire club recently.
The football club have been struggling on and off the field in the current year, with the club failing to pay players on time on five separate occasions, including in last month.
"Clearly Sheffield Wednesday has been a major concern for the league and a substantial concern for English football," the chairman stated.
"Sheffield Wednesday is one of the great brands for the English game and in recent days we have met fan representatives.
"We're now looking to get powers... which will permit us to bring Sheffield Wednesday - and other clubs referred to us if they need to be investigated and dealt with."
Economic Challenges and Proprietorship Status
The team's struggling chairman the current owner indicated in the summer he would be prepared to relinquish control at Hillsborough, but he has been unable to finalize an agreement with potential new owners.
Failure to pay player wages on time in March and May resulted in restrictions being imposed by the league officials in June, preventing the club from carrying out any transfers or loans for the subsequent signing windows, although those limitations were removed in the end of the transfer window.
Regulator's Perspective
The chairman stated: "The job [of the regulator] is there for the supporters of Wednesday, other clubs in similar situations where people are committed to a community organization that has represented their community in multiple situations.
"I have absolute sympathy for the club's situation, as I do for all the clubs that in modern times have encountered failure, or nearly ceased operations, for causes separate from the supporters."
Questioned about whether the regulator could force an proprietor to divest a club if they are considered unfit, Kogan said: "If your question is 'would we intervene in the final instance?', the answer is once we assemble the facts and understand the situation, we will."
But the chairman emphasized that forcing owners to sell clubs would be viewed as the ultimate measure and the authority would rather to collaborate with owners.
"Our least desirable course of action is begin intervening in an particular organization, an individual owner, without having the opportunity to collaborate with that chairman to fix the problems affecting the organization and the proprietor's dealing with," the chairman stated.
"However, realistically, when you review the record of the sport, over the recent generations there have been some owners, not many, but some who have been irresponsible in the manner they have operated their organizations and finally don't wish to take responsibility for the long-term prospects."
Owls fans have been voicing opposition to owner Dejphon Chansiri during the current campaign
'Mistakes could erase significant advances'
Kogan met with officials from numerous teams to lay out the remit of the authority recently and maintained it represented a "forward-thinking discussion" with a "significant participation" from the lower divisions to the top flight.
"It's a job that's actually really important, because should mistakes occur, if the sport makes errors, the significant advances achieved could disappear rapidly," the regulator warned.
"And that's what nobody wants in the context of the English game is a huge success story - we've got to keep it going.
"Considerable investment coming into football and has been invested for the recent generations, because certainty is lacking it will keep flowing into the sport, which is one of the reasons why I think we have to take a really clear view on challenges and obviously, of the immediate future."
Elite Division Worries
Top flight officials resisted the formation of an authority because of apprehensions regarding adverse consequences on the Premier League's sporting equality, but the chairman responded: "I fully support the prosperity and expansion as an economic entity of the Premier League.
"I of all people understand the worry about compromising the top flight as an elite competition of this country. But simultaneously, if you talk to the Premier League after today's meeting, they would have had a high level of reassurance -and, actually, they have been advising us privately they have a high level of reassurance."
Partisan Associations
The chairman continues to confront a "full inquiry" by the official appointments authority after he revealed he contributed money to the political party in 2020.
The 68-year-old contributed funds to Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Lisa Nandy's leadership campaign, along with that of the current Prime Minister.
"I've been completely open about my former ideological connection [with Labour], and that political affiliation came to an end the day the official body endorsed my nomination," Kogan said.
"I currently have no participation in any sort of politics."
