Outgoing? Ehije Ukaki

[Berkshire Blade]

They’ve just appointed someone that’s spent 10 years on the board at Barcelona.

Not on the football side of the business though!

 

[Blade56]

Dídac Lee
Dídac Lee is a Managing Partner at Galdana Ventures. He spent a decade on the board of directors of FC Barcelona, where he founded and led Barça Digital and Barça Studios, transforming the club into a global reference in digital innovation, content and fan engagement. Over the past 20 years, he has founded and scaled multiple technology companies, creating platforms and businesses that today employ more than 1,500 people worldwide and generate over €800m in annual revenue.

New Strategic Advisory Committee

Sheffield United is pleased to announce the formation of a newly created Strategic Advisory Committee.

www.sufc.co.uk

He sounds like a marketing / branding guy for the club not someone advising on the football.

 

[Champagneblade]

Seriously though.

What’s he going to do for little old Sheffield United?

Not like we’re even shit enough or miserable enough to have Wrexham level sad sack attraction.

 

[KMC-1889]

Not on the football side of the business though!

Did he have ear defenders and goggles on during board meetings?

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Did he have ear defenders and goggles on during board meetings?

Does the hospital canteen assistant manager know how to do a lung transplant?

 

[KMC-1889]

Does the hospital canteen assistant manager know how to do a lung transplant?

Yeah that’s a totally fair comparison.

Pillock.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Yeah that’s a totally fair comparison.

Pillock.

Maybe a slightly sarcastic reply but what part of this screams "football man"?

"he founded and led Barça Digital and Barça Studios, transforming the club into a global reference in digital innovation, content and fan engagement. Over the past 20 years, he has founded and scaled multiple technology companies, creating platforms and businesses that today employ more than 1,500 people worldwide and generate over €800m in annual revenue."

 

[ISZA ⚔️]

I can see a world where these chatGPT Bulgarians are all unveiled in S6 in the not too distant future…

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

I can see a world where these chatGPT Bulgarians are all unveiled in S6 in the not too distant future…

"Hey Siri, give me a list of Eastern European players who are available on a free and also have experience in the building trade and can repair football stands"

 

[LudlamBlade]

I struggle to buy into a conspiracy that Wilder has seen them carving up in training and refuses to use them because they're not his signings.

There was this young lad in the academy squad a few years ago who all the backroom staff were saying was amazing and needed starting, kept banging goals in and providing assists, but Wilder kept refusing to play him.

Got his debut as a sub under Hecky and then scored two goals on his first start the following season.

Wilder must have been right about him not being good enough though, because I can't for the life of me remember his name or what happened to him?

 

[Revolution]

There was this young lad in the academy squad a few years ago who all the backroom staff were saying was amazing and needed starting, kept banging goals in and providing assists, but Wilder kept refusing to play him.

Got his debut as a sub under Hecky and then scored two goals on his first start the following season.

Wilder must have been right about him not being good enough though, because I can't for the life of me remember his name or what happened to him?




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I was told by someone ITK that Wilder was not refusing to play Ndiaye because he did not rate him. Wilder was not playing him at the direction of the club because Ndiaye would not use the agent that the club wanted him to use, who the club pressures all of the junior players to engage. Ndiaye and his family wanted someone else. In the end, the club blinked first, and a new deal was agreed with Ndiaye's preferred agent prior to the Peterborough game.

 

[LudlamBlade]

I was told by someone ITK that Wilder was not refusing to play Ndiaye because he did not rate him. Wilder was not playing him at the direction of the club because Ndiaye would not use the agent that the club wanted him to use, who the club pressures all of the junior players to engage. Ndiaye and his family wanted someone else. In the end, the club blinked first, and a new deal was agreed with Ndiaye's preferred agent prior to the Peterborough game.

I was told my story by a player who was in the first team squad at the time.

Probably some truth in both stories, as is usually the way with these things

 

[Revolution]

I was told my story by a player who was in the first team squad at the time.

Probably some truth in both stories, as is usually the way with these things

I do not have any difficulty in believing Wilder would not play a youth teamer at that time. We brought virtually no one through during his first tenure. But there was another reason.

 

[Blade56]

………. But there was another reason.

And the other reason was……?

 

[Revolution]

And the other reason was……?

Set out in my post upthread.

 

[EddieColquhoun]

I do not have any difficulty in believing Wilder would not play a youth teamer at that time. We brought virtually no one through during his first tenure.

 

[Revolution]

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Players from our academy who played league games under Wilder in his first spell (not including players sold and re-signed):

David Brooks, 30 games (21 as sub)
George Long, 3 games
Ben Whiteman, 2 games (both as sub)
Jake Eastwood, 1 game (as a sub)
Regan Slater, 1 game (as a sub)
Antwoine Hackford, 1 game (as a sub)

Not exactly the Busby Babes, is it?

And of course Brooks was off out on loan until Wilder was talked into keeping him in the squad after his impressive friendly displays.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

There was this young lad in the academy squad a few years ago who all the backroom staff were saying was amazing and needed starting, kept banging goals in and providing assists, but Wilder kept refusing to play him.

Got his debut as a sub under Hecky and then scored two goals on his first start the following season.

Wilder must have been right about him not being good enough though, because I can't for the life of me remember his name or what happened to him?




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He didn't play much until he signed a new contract at the start of the following season. Remember the Prince talking it up as "the signing of the season" etc

And none of these lot have shown anything like the ability of Ndiaye!!

 

[EddieColquhoun]

Players from our academy who played league games under Wilder in his first spell (not including players sold and re-signed):

David Brooks, 30 games (21 as sub)
George Long, 3 games
Ben Whiteman, 2 games (both as sub)
Jake Eastwood, 1 game (as a sub)
Regan Slater, 1 game (as a sub)
Antwoine Hackford, 1 game (as a sub)

Not exactly the Busby Babes, is it?

And of course Brooks was off out on loan until Wilder was talked into keeping him in the squad after his impressive friendly displays.

Which of those were ready for breaking into our successful teams?

 

[Kenilworth]

Either we owe money to Bord's company if they make appearances in the first team, or Wilder is being stubborn and refusing to acknowledge anything to do with Bord in case it legitimises him and his AI stuff. The fact that Ukaki, Nwachukwu, Polendekov and Zatterstrom were all in the development teams before disappearing without a trace once Bord's name appeared in the takeover stuff, would suggest it's a Wilder thing.

Or
Wild stab in the dark theme continuing
They are just shite

 

[finlaytheblade]

There was this young lad in the academy squad a few years ago who all the backroom staff were saying was amazing and needed starting, kept banging goals in and providing assists, but Wilder kept refusing to play him.

Got his debut as a sub under Hecky and then scored two goals on his first start the following season.

Wilder must have been right about him not being good enough though, because I can't for the life of me remember his name or what happened to him?




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This lad who wilder refused to play was training with the first team during the period wilder was at loggerheads with the prince and left the club! That doesn't sound like Wilder was refusing to play him.
He was a nieve young kid with bags of talent Hecki came in and brought him on at Leicester he found it tough not ready for the first team.He then disappeared due to contract problems.
The serb came in and the contract situation was resolved to rear it's head down the line.
He was ripping it up in training! Alan Knill said " he keeps the ball like he owns it " that doesn't mean he could do it in the prem! Heckie tried him and he was totally lost in a team who had there chins on the ground (wilder gone) at Leicester.
That was it as I said he disappeared to re-appear under the Serb.He was fantastic that season !
Would he have done it under Wilder in the prem ?
I would like to think he would but I doubt it.
He's playing at top level now and I think there's more to come from him ! Meaning ! he will get even better in the next few years.

 

[Pedro Verde]

And of course Brooks was off out on loan until Wilder was talked into keeping him in the squad after his impressive friendly displays.

It was his displays for England (cant remember the age group) in an International Tournament that persuaded Wilder to keep him at the Lane instead of going to Chesterfield on loan

 

[LudlamBlade]

This lad who wilder refused to play was training with the first team during the period wilder was at loggerheads with the prince and left the club! That doesn't sound like Wilder was refusing to play him.
He was a nieve young kid with bags of talent Hecki came in and brought him on at Leicester he found it tough not ready for the first team.He then disappeared due to contract problems.
The serb came in and the contract situation was resolved to rear it's head down the line.
He was ripping it up in training! Alan Knill said " he keeps the ball like he owns it " that doesn't mean he could do it in the prem! Heckie tried him and he was totally lost in a team who had there chins on the ground (wilder gone) at Leicester.
That was it as I said he disappeared to re-appear under the Serb.He was fantastic that season !
Would he have done it under Wilder in the prem ?
I would like to think he would but I doubt it.
He's playing at top level now and I think there's more to come from him ! Meaning ! he will get even better in the next few years.

Yes, I'm sure the things you've read on here and Bladesmad are in a much better position to know what went on than an actual first team player at the time

 

[finlaytheblade]

Yes, I'm sure the things you've read on here and Bladesmad are in a much better position to know what went on than an actual first team player at the time

Why would Wilder refuse to play him?

 

[LudlamBlade]

Why would Wilder refuse to play him?

You'd have to ask him.

I could hazard a guess, going from what I've been told...and it's similar to why Femi and Brooks often get such a hard time from him.

I think mainly he's just got an aversion to youth players, especially ones who don't get down the pub & sink 10 peroni

 

[KMC-1889]

I was told by someone ITK that Wilder was not refusing to play Ndiaye because he did not rate him. Wilder was not playing him at the direction of the club because Ndiaye would not use the agent that the club wanted him to use, who the club pressures all of the junior players to engage. Ndiaye and his family wanted someone else. In the end, the club blinked first, and a new deal was agreed with Ndiaye's preferred agent prior to the Peterborough game.

Don’t buy that for a second, all the youth players have different agents (it’s fairly easy to check who anyone over 18 is with). It also doesn’t explain why he was so keen to flog him to Barnsley until the club vetoed it.

More like Wilder froze him out because he wouldn’t use Paul Martin.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Don’t buy that for a second, all the youth players have different agents (it’s fairly easy to check who anyone over 18 is with). It also doesn’t explain why he was so keen to flog him to Barnsley until the club vetoed it.

More like Wilder froze him out because he wouldn’t use Paul Martin.

Maybe he was onto something considering how we lost a talent so cheaply

 

[Nick Jansky]

You'd have to ask him.

I could hazard a guess, going from what I've been told...and it's similar to why Femi and Brooks often get such a hard time from him.

I think mainly he's just got an aversion to youth players, especially ones who don't get down the pub & sink 10 peroni

This chimes with what I’ve been told by various people who would know.

 

[CaptainMorgans]

It's interesting, I'd almost forgotten about Wilder wanting to send David Brooks out to Chesterfield.

He does seem to have an issue with youngsters and more reversed characters.

 

[bertieblade]

He does seem to have taken in what was said about not winning anything with kids.
Another example is the play off final when our second top scorer and chance creator, JRS was not even on the bench