CONFIRMED Chris Wilder 3.0 - Returns for the third spell.

[adiosmiamigo]

Do you seriously believe that of, say 30,000 supporters, there are 15,000 who are besotted with Wilder? I’d guess there’s a few hundred vocal idiots for whom he can do no wrong and on the other hand a few hundred, possibly like you who seem to hate him.

The majority will recognise that the man has faults in both personality and football terms that possibly warranted a change this season. However, unless you are wedded to the notion that Selles “just needed time” despite all the evidence in front of your eyes, he simply wasn’t up to it. As for your comment some posts ago about World and European coaching, I hope you weren’t crediting Selles with that. Fitness coach, translator, data analyst and cone putter outer in Greece, Russia, Azerbaijan and Norway plus coaching in regional leagues in Spain don’t make a Championship Manager.

We don’t have the time to look around for the perfect coach with European pedigree you seem to want. This team is rudderless. It has no identity. No belief. It needs sorting now, not in three weeks when we’re still rooted to the bottom with zero points as the board negotiate terms and the new manager then has to get to grips with a squad he’s never met.

Unfortunately because of the Sellés debacle (or fortunately because of the urgency) there is a ready made solution available. I can’t see any other manager of note wanting to risk their reputation here.

Desperation? Probably. But blame the board for that situation. Not Wilder.

All that makes good sense.

 

[Hamer's Right Peg]

Wasn't fussed either way but sacking someone after a 92pt season was stupid and then hiring someone whose best spell was a 2 month stint at Reading was stupid.

 

[b1ade4life]

I would bet my life Thomas Frank knew Brentford inside out,Klopp knew Liverpool inside out,Dyche knew Burnley inside out.

Isn't it a managers job to do so?

I don't see how a local,ish, bloke gains an edge because he stood on the terraces of a club he supported.

Wilder at times gives the impression he IS Sheffield United and cannot be questioned.
Loves the adoration from the sycophants though.

When oh when will this club move on.

He had his chance in the prem,couldn't keep us there,partial success.

Grasped defeat from the jaws of victory at Wembley,then sloped off instead of offering support to his players and acknowedging the 'Punters',like the mardy arsed egotist he is,egged on by his mates I imagine.

Almost success but failure ultimately.

He's had his day and is on the downward trajectory as a coach.

He might well be suited to DOF, who knows.
Think he has limitations there and would upset the decision makers who in the past have labelled him a Sunday league manager and I don't think that's entirely unfair,given the antics we witness.

Seems like his way or the highway.

So how can we expect to move forward rinsing and repeating past nearly's hoping this time it just might work.

We're more akin to Roy of the bleedin Rovers than a truly ambitious outfit.

Comic is what it is.

COH is looking like yet another poor choice so I don't have much faith in their ability to replace vertical football man.
Perhaps he meant virtual cos that would aptly describe us.

There's some major decisions to make.Appointing 'The Messiah' will end in tears yet again long term.

Unless they make him errand boy to go and identify a suitable candidate.

Thing is will he need to have frequented the terraces as a kid so he 'get's it/us.

We're not as unique as some wish to think.

Other than that you like him though right

 

[Tom Bott]

the San Francisco P45ers

 

[JustLookin]

It’s actually fucking depressing that we’re actually talking about rehiring him. We were so close to becoming a modern football club.

 

[ancientblade]

McGuiness won’t be in the team much longer. Quicker Ben Mee is at centre half with Tanganga the better.

and godfrey in a back 3

 

[adiosmiamigo]

Why would you want a DoF?

I think if we had a D.O.F. the whole sorry Selles saga might not have happened.

 

[thehet]

Excellent news. The board dropped a major clanger with sacking CW and appointing RB, but at least they have the balls to admit this by resigning CW.

We will see an immediate improvement on performance and results and I am certain of getting our first 3 points against Charlton - could anyone have said that if Selles was still in charge?

Can remember not so long back when the pigs were jizzing over us not having Hamer (when he went to watch F1) and Wilder for the Derby

The fans and players will be buzzing next Saturday and we most likely go back to a 4-2-3-1

Guessing at:

Cooper

Seriki -- Tanganga -- Mee -- Burrows

Peck -- Soumaire

O'Hare/Ogbene -- Hamer -- Barry

----- Campbell

COYRAWW
UTMB
FTP

Our best 2 players from Ipswich dropped then… Matos and McGuiness.

 

[mancunianblade]

But that doesn't have to be the plan.
Reap the benefits of short term improvement that this appointment would certainly bring, exploit his longer term strengths in knowing football and the club inside out by moving him into a different role in the coming years, and build an infrastructure for sustainable success that doesn't depend entirely on him. That might be the plan, and I think it offers us our best chance of success.

But what role? DOF? Giving him full control over expenditure?

 

[Bladesman]

Incredible. Has another club had the same manager 3 times.

Peterborough.

 

[I should coco]

I’m completely lost for words if Wilder comes back, the owners clearly haven’t got a clue.

Who sacks a manager then brings him back within a few months? Why even sack him in the first place?

Absolutely crazy situation! You think you’ve seen everything in football then United do this.

If is a complete omnishamble, but entirely one of their own making.

Like most, I wanted Wilder to get another season, but I'm not entirely sure this is the right thing to do. What I do know though, is that the clueless amigo, had to go.

What a waste of money and 6 games, appointing a charlatan, who talks a good game.

 

[SUFC Guy]

Our best 2 players from Ipswich dropped then… Matos and McGuiness.

'New' manager, with different tactics and ideas to Selles.

McGuiness missed so many headers when he mistimed and ran under most of them. Can't remember Matos doing much really apart from a couple of meaty challenges, but I can see him doing well for us.

I would say our best players from the Ipswich game were Tanganga and that's it.

 

[mancunianblade]

It's less about blind loyalty to a local bloke and more about realising that we tried to modernise the club too quickly, in one summer. You can't ask a head coach to transform the culture of an entire club that has been otherwise configured to be controlled by an old-school style football club manager. You need to gradually introduce the systems and processes and personnel off the field, to then support a head coach to thrive.

Was moving away from Wilder and will moving away from a football club manager be the right thing to do? Of course, in terms of modernising our club.

Do we want to do a rushed, incompetent, fuckwittery version of it, that risks the future of the club? Absolutely not.

But this is replace the local manager with a foreign coach sack him quickly and revert to type episode 2. It’s not as if this is the first time the clubs has attempted this and shit themselves

 

[leppingslaneblade]

I’ve no issue with them doing that, my issue is that they don’t appear to have even considered any other managers. Have they even picked up the phone and asked Dyche if he’d be interested?

If they took a bit of time and decided Wilder is the man, that’s fine but it seems to have gone like this…

Thursday - backing Selles, he’s our man
Friday - Fuck! We’ve lost 5-0, sack Selles
Saturday - Get Wilder back, we’re paying him already so might as well pay him to work

Forget Dyche,he is not coming here. We need a manager to immediately make an impact and I believe Wilder is that man.

 

[Yoonitedite]

Other than that you like him though right

I met him and he is very likeable.Doesn't mean I think he's the man to bring lasting success,however you interpret that.

 

[Tom Bott]

a play off push would be an extremely good effort from here

More a miracle.

Ever since Selles arrived the players have looked dejected, to instil confidence back will take a herculean effort.

Maybe an AI generated speech about fast flowing, front footed vertical football will suffice though.

Or you could stop the coach and get a case of beer, which works better for human beings?

 

[b1ade4life]

I met him and he is very likeable.Doesn't mean I think he's the man to bring lasting success,however you interpret that.

Don't worry, in his 5th spell at the club in 2047, he will get us promoted and keep us in the orem too

 

[peakblade]

No. It's desperate.

It's called tying our future, again, to a man who left us after making a pigs ear of spending money (spunkin moneh) in the PL, dug his way back in to the job while his mate was in the dug out, then provided boring football that proved fruitless in the big games last season after he proved incapable of changing tactics and his substitutions were, largely, ineffective.

It's called short termism, fear of moving forward and professional naivety on the part of the board.

Their decision to bin him was absolutely correct. Their decision to replace him with Selles wasn't.

Good old Sheffield United. Perennial losers and satisfied with that so long as 'one of our own' is sat in the managers office.

Keep badge thumping folks. Sadly, there's no points available for that.

twat!

 

[dexter101]

It feels like they just couldn't be arsed to approach Dyche

Or they gave him a call, he saw who was calling and this was his reaction...

 

[Yoonitedite]

Don't worry, in his 5th spell at the club in 2047, he will get us promoted and keep us in the orem too

I'll be long gone by then mate.
So will he perhaps

 

[thehet]

The first time was hardly a sticking plaster.

 

[Cheeky Blade]

McGuiness won’t be in the team much longer. Quicker Ben Mee is at centre half with Tanganga the better.

I’d take a fit Mee over McGuiness.
Let’s see if he can get there.

 

[1987]

Keep badge thumping folks. Sadly, there's no points available for that.

You could say there were 92 points for it last season.

 

[Bladesince59]

I will keep an open mind about Wilder. I am delighted to see the back of Selles.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Our best 2 players from Ipswich dropped then… Matos and McGuiness.

I thought McGuiness was poor.

Matos did okay but is too small and offers zero with the ball. He and peck will be in competition for the same role

 

[PrestwichBlade]

I think this would be my take, the context and bigger picture of bringing him back...

Yep, that's spot on

 

[PrestwichBlade]

I love the way a group of our fans can’t come to terms with the fact that we don’t want CW because he’s a blade (though of course that is fantastic), we want him because he has proven himself to be one of the best managers we have had. I know you won’t stop believing differently and will continue the silly posts trying to keep this view alive but maybe you’ll get it one day, we want the best for our club. Right now that is CW simple as that.

When was the last time he did owt?

 

[Mendi]

Madness he is coming back.

 

[Ricardo Mantelban]

I thought McGuiness was poor.

Matos did okay but is too small and offers zero with the ball. He and peck will be in competition for the same role

Wilder will go for Peck as I’ve heard his other daughter is quite fond of him.

 

[richblade]

Sheffield United sack manager Paul Heckingbottom and appoint Chris Wilder

Paul Heckingbottom is sacked as Sheffield United manager and replaced by the club's former boss Chris Wilder.

www.bbc.co.uk

Rinse and repeat