CONFIRMED Chris Wilder leaves by "Mutual Consent"

[Tony_Kaufman]

 

[originaltrueblade]

Chris Wilder did an amazing job for us over the years got us out of League One made the Blades tick again..Got us out of the championship gave the piggies a few beatings. Nearly got to Europe but Covid helped make sure we didn’t.
His signings that flopped Brewster McBurnie but especially Brewster. Wilder departed but to come back and rebuild us from top to bottom he did an amazing job and had Souter not got injured we would have got promotion.
However persisting with Robbo and Brewster while completely ignoring Holden and sitting O’Hare on the bench cost us dearly. Did Wilder play Robbo so that he made enough required appearances to get an extension to his contract we shall never know.
Then we got wins by the odd goal and extensive sitting back and eventually this cost us too.

The signing of Cannon proved to be yet another error and then we come to substitutions that became so predictable that opposition managers knew exactly what we were going to do, example every 60 minutes our best striker would come off, tired exhausted not fit enough well he should have been coached but nope replaced by Cannon who offered nothing a player completely out of his depth for £10 million.
Then those end of season defeats bad tactics poor defeats and certainly no other plan. Plymouth incident helped the new owners make up their mind because he should have left the Plymouth players alone after all it’s not sportsmanship and they were in their own ground.
Some of the football served up by Wilder was very poor often saved by the fantastic Michael Cooper who kept us in games.

Then we come to final and looking like walking this Moore nearly scored then a wonderful pass by Gus to a Campbell classic finish AND then VAR a terrible decision and we could feel the energy drain around me in the crowd and you could see it in the players BUT it’s Wilders job to pick em up make them believe but he sat back yet again and although it’s not his fault that Brooksy missed a golden opportunity and then when the damage was being done to the annoyance of all around and even earlier off went Campbell for Cannon and you just knew we would lose. If Ty is knackered and blowing keep him on because he frightens the shit out of the opposition because now they are faced with the League Two player that is Cannon. It’s the play off final FFS leave him on.
Look I need to say thanks Chris for all the good things but I can see why the board have parted company with you. I didn’t want to see us do the same thing over and over again. Get the lead hang back and if lucky scramble a narrow win. I don’t want to see Brewster or Cannon again because we would have if Chris was still there. He may have got us promoted next season but personally I think it would have been play offs all over again.
I will get behind the new manager and maybe just maybe the new board are the first board ever to want us to become established in the top league challenging for trophies. Hope so Blades forever and I’m already looking forward to the new season with some additional players and retaining all the important ones.

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

Any chance? July next week....

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

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Any chance? July next week....

That job's said to be Dyche's.

 

[Tom Bott]

Some of the football served up by Wilder was very poor often saved by the fantastic Michael Cooper who kept us in games.

Who came to the club because Wilder convinced him to.

But lets not focus on the successful signings.

 

[Balham]

That job's said to be Dyche's.

Let's hope so. Another man left behind by the pace of change.

 

[originaltrueblade]

Who came to the club because Wilder convinced him to.

But lets not focus on the successful signings.

Like Cannon and McBurnie along with Brewster I think those three cost over £50million I rest my case

 

[Tom Bott]

Like Cannon and McBurnie along with Brewster I think those three cost over £50million I rest my case

Where CW earned the club £ 250/300 million from 2 seasons in the PL.

I rest mine.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Where CW earned the club £ 250/300 million from 2 seasons in the PL.

I rest mine.

Nowhere near £300m. Broadcasting income amounted to £228m.

 

[Carlton Blade]

Where CW earned the club £ 250/300 million from 2 seasons in the PL.

I rest mine.

Players may have helped

 

[sufc323]

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Any chance? July next week....

At least that whopper on twitter who was wishing that he go there and take our best players would be pleased

 

[Balham]

Players may have helped

We're also ignoring the fact that if Wilder was responsible for the PL seasons, he's also responsible for the subsequent relegations and associated loss of income.

 

[Carlton Blade]

We're also ignoring the fact that if Wilder was responsible for the PL seasons, he's also responsible for the subsequent relegations and associated loss of income.

I'm not sure if other fanbases attribute a bigger % of success to managers they like or failure to managers they don't?

Plus, don't get me started on the need to include assistant managers in songs as well

 

[originaltrueblade]

Where CW earned the club £ 250/300 million from 2 seasons in the PL.

I rest mine.

No one disputes that and I said in my original post Chris did a tremendous amount of good. If your going down that route by saying Chris earned ex amount then it could be said that his tactics in the play off final cost us £200 million.

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foo...united-chris-wilder-sacked-alan-biggs-5187204

There's nothing like a good old piece of unbiased "journalism." Granted, this if from a few days ago.

 

[Sean Thornton]

https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foo...united-chris-wilder-sacked-alan-biggs-5187204

There's nothing like a good old piece of unbiased "journalism." Granted, this if from a few days ago.


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Probably got another fuck off tablet from the club.

 

[Tom Bott]

Nowhere near £300m. Broadcasting income amounted to £228m.

Parachute payments/sponsorship/advertising, the point being that it was considerably more income, than the expenditure for the 3 big ticket players that people always cite,
when looking for a stick to beat Wilder with.

Though people seem to have forgotten about Mousset.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Parachute payments/sponsorship/advertising, the point being that it was considerably more income, than the expenditure for the 3 big ticket players that people always cite,
when looking for a stick to beat Wilder with.

Though people seem to have forgotten about Mousset.

Sponsorship etc existed prior to promotion. It didn’t actually increase that much surprisingly. One school of thought regarding Pp’s is that the loss of PL income negates it. The transfer fees are the cost of doing business, managers make mistakes. Those losses needed funding which is where PA came in. Ie PA and the players were also responsible, not just CW 100%.

 

[Chilttheblade]

Where CW earned the club £ 250/300 million from 2 seasons in the PL.

I rest mine.

What does it mean “earn the club “ ? Most of the money went to the players, the Manager , other clubs in transfer fees and maybe some to the previous owner. Doubt much is left in the club.

 

[Tom Bott]

What does it mean “earn the club “ ? Most of the money went to the players, the Manager , other clubs in transfer fees and maybe some to the previous owner. Doubt much is left in the club.

Also factor in the increased value of the club with PP and recent PL placings.

What was the value of the club when Chris Wilder took over after 5 years in the 2nd division ?
Not the £100 million that we have just been sold for..

Anyway we've moved on so I'm sure that every striker the Blades now sign will score at least 20 goals per season and cost less than £5 million.
With new data driven analytics how could it not be thus.

It's such a simple concept I'm surprised that the other 23 clubs in the championship haven't embraced it - or have they ?

 

[YES Blade]

What does it mean “earn the club “ ? Most of the money went to the players, the Manager , other clubs in transfer fees and maybe some to the previous owner. Doubt much is left in the club.

The media love to talk up all the money promoted clubs earn when reaching the premier league, whilst ignoring the fact that they need to spend all that increased revenue and more to stand a chance of staying up.

The saying that turnover is vanity and profit is sanity fits the premier league perfectly.

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

The media love to talk up all the money promoted clubs earn when reaching the premier league, whilst ignoring the fact that they need to spend all that increased revenue and more to stand a chance of staying up.

The saying that turnover is vanity and profit is sanity fits the premier league perfectly.

Luton had to spend a lot of the Premier League money to get Kenilworth Road up to the right standards, which is expenditure forced on them by the Premier League. They spent all that money and now have a Premier League standard ground in League One.

 

[YES Blade]

Luton had to spend a lot of the Premier League money to get Kenilworth Road up to the right standards, which is expenditure forced on them by the Premier League. They spent all that money and now have a Premier League standard ground in League One.

That’s true, it’s not even as if the money spent on the ground was a good long term investment as they’re moving.

 

[Silky Sabella]

Where CW earned the club £ 250/300 million from 2 seasons in the PL.

I rest mine.

Are you related to Alan Biggs ?

 

[Tom Bott]

Are you related to Alan Biggs ?

Just Ronnie.

 

[Jacobsenthecrab]

Who came to the club because Wilder convinced him to.

But lets not focus on the successful signings.

His rebuild in the Summer was his best achievement this season imo.
Did really well on limited fees and will generate us a lot of profit when they are eventually sold.

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

His rebuild in the Summer was his best achievement this season imo.
Did really well on limited fees and will generate us a lot of profit when they are eventually sold.

Not all of them. We won't make profit on Shackleton and McCallum and I highly doubt Moore will leave for profit given his age, or that anyone will come in for Campbell unless he can last 90 minutes. Burrows and Cooper I'd have to agree with you on. I don't think we'll get offers for O'Hare this summer, though we may do in January if he thrives under Selles.

He did a good job rebuilding in the summer. But as per a standard Wilder team, it's the combination of everyone pulling together through workmanship and a rigid system, and not necessarily individuals shining through their own quality.

 

[chesblade]

Radio sheffield interview with Selles today, be interesting to hear

 

[Northernsoulblade]

Whatever you think of Wilder he’s still a Blade good luck Chris in whatever u choose to do. A new era begins with Selles

 

[billyblademan]

Not all of them. We won't make profit on Shackleton and McCallum and I highly doubt Moore will leave for profit given his age, or that anyone will come in for Campbell unless he can last 90 minutes. Burrows and Cooper I'd have to agree with you on. I don't think we'll get offers for O'Hare this summer, though we may do in January if he thrives under Selles.

He did a good job rebuilding in the summer. But as per a standard Wilder team, it's the combination of everyone pulling together through workmanship and a rigid system, and not necessarily individuals shining through their own quality.

Agreed - other than a lot of our good things/moments this season was Hamer shining through his own quality.