CONFIRMED Chris Wilder 3.0 - Returns for the third spell.

[SouthStandGBlock]

And the circle jerk around the Sheffield born chosen one will continue.

All the above, plus he went missing after the final. No explanation yet. He literally walked out on us and left those in the ground and 'his' players to deal with a devastating loss alone.

I despise a quitter boss.

According to Talksport Tufty Tantrum is on his way back.

 

[knowsnowt]

"You're fucking there Rosen".

 

[bertieblade]

I believe he was released as they wanted to wipe the slate clean and start again, whilst some of the board supported him others were wary of his “need” to influence everything within the club, the fact that he subsequently would not work within a structured process and was sometimes, I.e. Plymouth a liability

 

[LondonBlade89]

I knew that by committing to Ruben Selles over Wilder we were sacrificing some stability in the short term - ie. this season - for potential long-term and sustainable success.

But I thought the upside to not winning the playoffs was that we wouldn’t be getting embarrassed week in, week out. Long term sustainable success doesn’t include relegation.

Selles had to go. And given how we’re looking right now - ie. like relegation candidates - I welcome the sticking plaster if that’s what this is.

 

[b1ade4life]

Guess who's back
Back again
Tuftys back
Tell a friend
Guess who's back...guess who's back.....guess who's back.... guess who's back

 

[shrubbery]

That’s the question, what process have they followed?

It appeared that they were backing Selles up until Friday night. That shocking result has caused panic and in desperate they’ve begged Wilder to come back.

That’s how it appears from the outside looking in.

It certainly doesn’t look good from the outside (or the inside for that matter) but so long as we start picking up points to rescue this season then I don’t give a shit. This is obviously not guaranteed though and they stand to look even bigger pricks when they sack him again later in the season but let’s hope not…

 

[Shoes_On]

It's like we're starting the season with a 15 point deduction imposed by the owners

 

[Gimli]

Now normally I reserve the use of this meme for the Wednesday thread, but feels appropriate here…

 

[coolasanidiot]

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.

It’s called holding your hands up and admitting you got it wrong. The owners are green and right now they have done the right thing. Nothing whatsoever embarrassing in going back it’s fine

 

[tincan]

We're only 9points off the playoffs

 

[b1ade4life]

I knew that by committing to Ruben Selles over Wilder we were sacrificing some stability in the short term - ie. this season - for potential long-term and sustainable success.

But I thought the upside to not winning the playoffs was that we wouldn’t be getting embarrassed week in, week out. Long term sustainable success doesn’t include relegation.

Selles had to go. And given how we’re looking right now - ie. like relegation candidates - I welcome the sticking plaster if that’s what this is.

Sticking plaster no..... adrenaline shot to the heart yes, Chris knows the club inside out and a lot of the players, he will get instant results, win 3 on the bounce and we go into the top 10, regroup then get to top six, then who knows, he is a mgr that can , and will do this

 

[Bladeloyal]

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.

Maybe they are quickly learning that football is like no other business .

 

[3Cheers4Ramirez]

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

 

[shorehamview]

He needs to take the players somewhere on a coach and call in at the off-license on the way back. Send one of them in in to get a load of beer, and let them get pissed together. As long as he doesn’t send Sydie Peck in, he’ll never get served looking that young.

It worked wonders in the past.

 

[TJB.]

If it's a done deal then I think it needs to be viewed through the lens of the board being split on him and only narrowly deciding to let him go.

I can't imagine him returning with an "I told you so" attitude. He'd relish the chance to drag us off the foot of the table and silence the doubters in the stands.

Outsiders would laugh but who gives a shit?

 

[54yrblade]

According to Talksport Tufty Tantrum is on his way back

It’s called holding your hands up and admitting you got it wrong. The owners are green and right now they have done the right thing. Nothing whatsoever embarrassing in going back it’s fine

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.

 

[wak1889]

How do you know?

Heard from a source within the club that it will be announced by Wednesday at the latest

 

[Danetheblade]

It’s called holding your hands up and admitting you got it wrong. The owners are green and right now they have done the right thing. Nothing whatsoever embarrassing in going back it’s fine

It’s called absolute desperation with zero respect for yourselves. Sack a bloke because he won’t work within your ethos, bring him back because the first guy didn’t work out so you’ve shit your pants.

 

[Hadfield Blade]

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.

100% agree.

 

[luffenhamblade]

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

Or they have actually seen sense and swallowed their pride for which they deserve alto be commended.

 

[YES Blade]

It’s called holding your hands up and admitting you got it wrong. The owners are green and right now they have done the right thing. Nothing whatsoever embarrassing in going back it’s fine

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

 

[Pintor75]

Law of averages say we'll get off the mark soon, but at least they're doing something about it,. If wilder is to come back while they're at it can we get rid of them bloody nfc things and get bloody turnstiles back in, also where's Pukka pies gone, gerrum back

 

[Large Mendonca]

It’s probably an unpopular opinion on here, but I’m relieved he’s back to be honest.

I get the other posts about moving on, I was all for a change having seen the Wembley capitulation. But….it was mentioned on BladesPod that the risk with change is that we don’t really know what the worst case scenario would be - I think we now know.

Having Wilder back, for me, guarantees Championship football and a decent result against dem piggies again. Yes - after 50 odd years of supporting the Blades, that’s about the sum of my ambitions for us.

I don’t honestly think we can be the club that we dream of, and in a way, I’m not sure it suits us either. I hate the prem and all it stands for, I’d rather us sit in and wait for the whole bollocks to come tumbling down around us while we carry on regardless.

 

[Slim Man]

Or they have actually seen sense and swallowed their pride for which they deserve alto be commended.

I agree with that. Takes some bollocks to go back. They know people are going to laugh at them and say what the fuck are you doing

 

[Danetheblade]

Looks like Ruben's been sacked and Chris by all rumours seems to be back in charge.

Let me start this by saying I'm happy he's back in the immediate term and we look fucking hopeless and desperately need to get someone in charge who in knows what they're doing.

The Chris Wilder sticking plaster takes its third dawn.

Quite what the owners expected sacking him to try their own thing in the summer with no football people in between them absolutely beats me. He's a head coach. And he was tasked with changing our whole style and philosophy with 2 coaches and that's it.

Was he ever worthy of the United job? Probably not. Was he ever going to be given a fair crack of the whip by half the fanbase? Definitely not. So he was off on a bad footing anyway, paired with the above it was always doomed to fail.

The rhetoric around his sacking in the week or so leading up to it was that the board was 'split' - there's 7 board members making decisions. They need to entrust one man to make these calls, and I don't mean a manager. Football is too vast now, the manager has enough to focus on with just the team, this is why teams like Brighton, Bournemouth, actual progressive teams can lose a manager and carry on as before. Because there is structure around and above them allowing them to thrive. Unfortunately for Selles he never had that (whether he was up to the job or not).

The issue comes if it starts to go pear shaped with Chris, will they ever dare to sack him again?

I'm excited about him coming back IF we are putting together a football knowledgable team together at board level and below. It can't just be the 7 man board, Steve Bettis and Chris Wilder. Or we are destined to be only ever managed by people who 'know the club' and that gives you a very limited pool of people and most often none of them are exciting.

We're in some sort of Peterborough cinematic universe at the minute, where they can't get away from Darren Ferguson.

We can't keep going back to Chris Wilder. It just shows an ineptitude at board level from both this and the previous board in developing us as a football club to bring us in line with the 21st century. That needs to change, and I hope Chris is involved in making that happen. It's important there's some United DNA in making these decisions it seems.

Good luck Chris; you can't do any fucking worse!

That’s a good comment actually. We are the championships Peterborough.

 

[MoscowBlade]

Just confirmed on talkSPORT

Sheffield United sack Ruben Selles as head coach after just three months in charge

Selles, 42, replaced Chris Wilder at Bramall Lane on June 18; the Blades reached the Sky Bet Championship play-off final in May but are now bottom of the table after five straight defeats; Chris Wilder is expected to be reappointed as Blades boss

www.skysports.com

 

[SirNibletsO'Korne]

 

[54yrblade]

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

Dyche isn't coming here. He'd be mad to come here after his career.

We missed the boat with Challinor before he signed a new contract at Stockport. But he's not a Blade so the kop wouldn't be happy with him either.

 

[Andy67]

It just wouldn’t work, I have no idea of the ins and outs of why Wilder left, but I’d be amazed if it was on good terms with COH.

It would end in tears, sack Selles and employ someone else. There are many managers out there that are capable of managing us.

The outs were they just wanted change and Wilder and his staff knew it. There was no hard feelings they just felt they would get another crack of the whip. The sack hangs over the heads of all managers as Selles knows to well, Selles couldn’t hold a grudge about getting the sack as there are no reasons for him not to. Wilder returns with same football managers sign on his door expect to be sacked any time soon

 

[coolasanidiot]

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

Think its more like the realisation that they haven't bought a smooth run business from top to bottom, the whole thing is held together with sellotape and an odd plaster here and there; the infrastructure is missing. Chris in the short term can at least stabilise because he knows the situation, he knows the majority of players. He's shown 92 times he can work with it.

Hopefully Chris works his magic (albeit not prime PSG) moves us first to safety, then anything else is a bonus this season.

That then gives them time to set up the club properly, DOF etc etc. Right now I doubt we have the personnel to support Dyche - he'd literally think WTF is this.