"15-20 Players Leaving This Summer"

[3Cheers4Ramirez]

Danny Hall is a Wilder cuck.

I'm happy to see what Wilder can do in the summer but I can't pretend that he doesnt irritate me far more than he used to.

A few years ago I found myself agreeing with much of what he said and he tended to show more respect to people in general, even if he could still see red at times. Mike Dean even named him as the most respectful manager in the Prem.

He seems a bit different in recent times. I don't agree with his summing up of games as much, he acts at times as though he's a tad paranoid, and i find the slapping of the badge when we win and straight down the tunnel when we lose a bit pathetic tbh. At least he clapped the fans at Bristol.

Whilst he's our manager I want him to do well but the same reverence just isn't there for me as it once was.

I want Wilder to stay etc but I won't often listen to his press conferences

His insecure, hostile demeanour in them is irritating and unreasonable, and if it turns people against him he can have no complaints. He acts like a spoilt child

 

[Older Blade]

He's leaving on a free

Thank god

 

[diplomat]

£500 k per annum is probably correct for Matos.
The other 3 are reputably on £25k per week, a staggering £1.3 million p.a. It's going to cost us in the region of £3 million a year to subsidise their wages.
What were the people on who were in charge last summer?

Absolutely staggering what that kind of outlay should be able to get you compared to what we got. I assume Luton were desperate to get them out of the door due to their wages there and maybe the longer contracts we offered were a way for them to retain what they had already but that shouldn’t even be a consideration when negotiating with a team and players rotting in league one when we were (supposedly) looking to be a front runner in the championship. It’s not for us to be subsidising another club’s faux pax.

 

[Yoonitedite]

Really noticeable for me that Wilder has started in the last couple of weeks to refer to "the AI boys" (he did so again the press conference today).
I assume this is referring to Nwachukwu and Ukaki, possibly Zatterstrom and Poledakov too? Any others?
Referring to them in this way makes it clear that Wilder doesn't fancy them, and also that he wants to distance himself and his team from their recruitment. I get why he would want to do that.
At the same time, it does seem insulting to dismiss those players, most of whom we've had no opportunity to really get a look at, as simply "AI boys". I'm surprised to hear a manager do that. And if the aim is to get someone to take them off our hands, talking about them so dismissively maybe doesn't seem like the best strategy?

Punters,AI boys
Wonder if he refers to it as Bountiful Downtown Bramall Lane.
I'd argue he's had more pleasure out of us than the opposite.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

The AI boys one does seem out of line and a bit disrespectful to say the least, and I'm supportive of Wilder.

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Think I would rather wait till the last balls been kicked to get this news - don't want any perspective leaverists going all John Lundstum on us.

 

[KMC-1889]

I fail to understand how people on here don't seem to appreciate that Wilder/Knill are the ideal men for the rebuild. They have consistently found gems and discovered new talent, they have achieved this at numerous clubs and achieved numerous promotions.

Just because we didn't get promoted last season there was no reason to throw the baby out with the bath water. The owners did, at the same time as selling Anel, Souza and Kiefer and then started recruiting based on iffy AI criteria.

The job of staying up is done, let them get on with the rebuild that is so obviously required.

Those gems were almost a decade ago. His recruitment since 2019 has seen failure after failure, crock after crock, and most of the expensive players leaving on frees / below market value.

He hasn’t signed a good, consistent player since John Egan.

 

[bakeblade]

Absolutely staggering what that kind of outlay should be able to get you compared to what we got. I assume Luton were desperate to get them out of the door due to their wages there and maybe the longer contracts we offered were a way for them to retain what they had already but that shouldn’t even be a consideration when negotiating with a team and players rotting in league one when we were (supposedly) looking to be a front runner in the championship. It’s not for us to be subsidising another club’s faux pax.

If we had to sign them, it should have been on low wages and shorter contracts.
As we'll find when other clubs come looking at them

 

[FriethBlade]

It’s Summer 2016 all over again….post Adkins - massive rebuild again. It’s going to be an interesting 4 months!

But its not is it? Many of these players are Wilder signings. Im not for getting rid of him but his constant distancing of himself from our current plight is tiresome and disingenuous. Hes been here 8 months and our fitness levels are atrocious and we keep on giving up leads over and over again.

To cap it all he praises our fitness team, that really is taking the piss and i do wonder if he says some of this stuff deliberately to wind people up as I cant find another explanation, othe rthan him being delusional.