In the order things were discussed...
Tyrese's back is tight, "so there's a doubt. We'll give him as much time as possible to loosen that up". "He'll be having plenty of work on that to get him ready for the game". Interviewer seemed like he was hinting in his question, whether it's something that may require surgery or anything like that, but Wilder said no, convincingly. If he's out, its a short term thing.
A tough decision to make at Centre Half? "Yeah". Then he moved on to talk about the squad generally. He wasn't pressed on it.
About using the the full squad to be successful this season, "the majority of players will get minutes in the next two games. It's important those that haven't played stay as focussed as those that have played the majority of the games". He talked about how the youngsters from the academy, and those joining as transfers/loans have been great. However, "of course I'd like it to be a more experienced squad going into the second half of the season".
He talked again about Sunday and how happy he was with the reaction to going 1-0 down. He said he stood back and watched to see how they did and was very happy
When asked about the ongoing social media stuff about us being top just being down to parachute payments, he shot that down, called it lazy, etc
Re
Jamal Baptiste being on the bench on Sunday, he again mentioned 6 players being under 22 on the pitch and other youngsters, including Baptiste, being on the bench. He said Jamal lost his way a bit but it's part of us as a club to take these lads on and turn them around, then referencing Peck, David Brooks, Jagielka, Tonge, Monty as people who's careers may have hit a crossroads, and we "pick them up, tidy them up a little bit and get them going".
Re Millwall, he talked about enjoying going there, it suiting his character, having to roll your sleeves up and get stick in. He complimented them, their manager, etc, as expected. He talked about some of the good results we've had there, as well as the bad ones, also referencing him getting sent off at the old Den as a player.
Re takeover, said nothing. Focussed on the football.
"We've got some good players that are not getting a lot of minutes". "The skipper (
Robinson) was out of the team for a long time but now back in and playing great. I've got a decision to make there at Centre Half". "
Kieffer coming back in as well."
"There will definitely be changes on Wednesday and definitely changes on Saturday, because of the schedule"
Re players who aren't getting those minutes, "They've all come here to play. They've got to get in the side, they've got to stay in the side, and when the door opens, they've got to take the opportunity and make sure the performance and results don't dip. Looking at what happened this season, the performance and results haven't dipped.....we're on 41 points"
Asked about the balance between go for a win and protecting a draw, in the closing stages of a game, like Sunday, he talked again about wanting the players to be brave but sensible. Doesn't want to "curb their ambition", so "if it's us and we're in control", we might go for it, but if it's a game of basketball, where "we have an attack, you have an attack, we have an attack, you have an attack, you're thinking yeah we could get that fifth goal, but quite easily with the players they've got on the pitch, they could find that bit of quality too", so we may want to slow it down to take control back, and we rely on our experienced lads to sense that and do it.
He talked about the more experienced lads, like "Robinson and the other boys" having a part to play in guiding us through the games. "Those boys are here (at Sheff Utd) because when we go to those types of places (Millwall) we need to get a result. We have to show consistency. No issue with our boys from the experience point of view, but also the young boys, sometimes their naivety and newness gets you through it because they haven't been scarred"
Edit: typos and clarity
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