Wilder's best signings starting eleven and bench

[loyalblade95]

Bit bored so thought I'd throw this out there. A best 11 and bench of players that we have signed and played when Wilder has been our manager.

Rule 1. The players have to have been signed and played for Wilder. So the likes of Ndiaye can't be included as he never played for Wilder, even though he was signed when Wilder was manager.
Rule 2. Players like Billy, Bash, Coutts, Hamer etc who were signed before Wilder was manager or while Hecky was manager cannot be included as they weren't his signings.

Henderson
Stearman-Egan-JOC
Baldock-Lundstram-Norwood-Fleck-Enda
Clarke-Mcgoldrick

Subs: Blackman, J Wright, Berge, Osborn, D Brooks, Duffy, BBD

 

[Panini]

Lundstram starting ahead of Berge and Duffy?

Have you got your tin hat ready?

 

[loyalblade95]

Lundstram starting ahead of Berge and Duffy?

Have you got your tin hat ready?

I was going to put Duffy in because of that championship promotion midfield of Duffy, Norwood and Fleck but I went with Lundstram in the end because of how good Lundstram, Norwood and Fleck were as a midfield 3 in that first premier league season.

Like our defence that season it pretty much picked itself every game.

 

[loyalblade95]

This lineup and bench is just my personal opinion (though it does feel strange to have a CW starting 11 without Bash and Billy in it), be interested to see what you guys would pick as your best 11 and bench of CW signings.

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Henderson

Egan Robinson JOC

Baldock Norwood Fleck Stevens

Duffy

Clarke McGoldrick

(In transfer fees that 11 is under 7m )

Subs -
Moore
Wright
Bogle
Berge
Osborn
McBurnie
BBD

 

[raimond]

Duffy and Jake Wright have got to be starting.

 

[Harry's Game]

No place for Oli Burke ?

One the most entertaining footballers I’ve ever seen .. in a sort of Mr Bean kind of way

 

[mattbianco1]

Blackman
Retsos - Bryan - Henneghan - Hussey
Holmes - Leonard - Carruthers - Thomas
Wilson - Washington

Subs: Wilson, Zivkovic, Ravel, Burke, Coulibaly, Rodwell, Verrips​

 

[raimond]

No place for Oli Burke ?

One the most entertaining footballers I’ve ever seen .. in a sort of Mr Bean kind of way

In fairness if we're having a best signings XI we've got to have a shite signings XI. Spoilt for choice.

 

[raimond]

Blackman
Retsos - Bryan - Henneghan - Hussey
Holmes - Leonard - Carruthers - Thomas
Wilson - Washington​

Beat me to it but Zivkovic is hammering on the boss's door commanding a starting place

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Blackman
Retsos - Bryan - Henneghan - Hussey
Holmes - Leonard - Carruthers - Thomas
Wilson - Washington

Subs: Wilson, Zivkovic, Ravel, Burke, Coulibaly, Rodwell, Verrips​

6 of them starting were signed in his second year aswell.

 

[JackSUFC]

Blackman
Retsos - Bryan - Henneghan - Hussey
Holmes - Leonard - Carruthers - Thomas
Wilson - Washington

Subs: Wilson, Zivkovic, Ravel, Burke, Coulibaly, Rodwell, Verrips​

Grbic over Blackman for me. Also assuming Brewster didn’t make the bench due to injury?

 

[Bladezz]

Bit bored so thought I'd throw this out there. A best 11 and bench of players that we have signed and played when Wilder has been our manager.

Rule 1. The players have to have been signed and played for Wilder. So the likes of Ndiaye can't be included as he never played for Wilder, even though he was signed when Wilder was manager.
Rule 2. Players like Billy, Bash, Coutts, Hamer etc who were signed before Wilder was manager or while Hecky was manager cannot be included as they weren't his signings.

Henderson
Stearman-Egan-JOC
Baldock-Lundstram-Norwood-Fleck-Enda
Clarke-Mcgoldrick

Subs: Blackman, J Wright, Berge, Osborn, D Brooks, Duffy, BBD

Seems he is really good at recruitment to me.

 

[bibbity bobbity boo]

Blackman
Retsos - Bryan - Henneghan - Hussey
Holmes - Leonard - Carruthers - Thomas
Wilson - Washington

Subs: Wilson, Zivkovic, Ravel, Burke, Coulibaly, Rodwell, Verrips​

Surely Ben Woodman commands a place ahead of Carruthers.

 

[BladesOnToast]

I was going to put Duffy in because of that championship promotion midfield of Duffy, Norwood and Fleck but I went with Lundstram in the end because of how good Lundstram, Norwood and Fleck were as a midfield 3 in that first premier league season.

Like our defence that season it pretty much picked itself every game.

With that, you've defined the criteria as being Wilder's signings when they were at their peak, rather than an overall assessment. You've got Lunny in there, for example, based on a purple patch of about half a season (which is fair enough, if those are the rules). For me, on that basis Mousset walks into the side every time, he was outstanding during that same period.

 

[SUFCinks]

If you don’t have Berge in this you’re straight up thick.

 

[mancunianblade]

Beat me to it but Zivkovic is hammering on the boss's door commanding a starting place

27 year old and playing in the Singapore premier league

 

[Bristol Blade]

27 year old and playing in the Singapore premier league

Meanwhile Retsos just played 180 mins across both legs as Olympiacos hammered Villa.

 

[Working Class Hero]

If you don’t have Berge in this you’re straight up thick.

Wilder put together the three best midfields I've seen in my lifetime, and Berge wasn't in any of them.

Coutts Fleck
Duffy

Norwood Fleck
Duffy

Lundstram Norwood Fleck


He didn't sign Coutts though, so the first one doesn't actually qualify for this thread.

 

[pleh_blade]

Honourable mention for James Hanson. Not better than Clarke or McGoldrick but who is?

 

[SUFCinks]

Wilder put together the three best midfields I've seen in my lifetime, and Berge wasn't in any of them.

Coutts Fleck
Duffy

Norwood Fleck
Duffy

Lundstram Norwood Fleck


He didn't sign Coutts though, so the first one doesn't actually qualify for this thread.

All decent (lundstram questionable) but none had the talent that berge did.

Best midfield we’ve had is:

Berge, Doyle, ndiaye (if you’re counting duffy)

 

[AWetFlannel]

If you don’t have Berge in this you’re straight up thick.

Value for money though, Lunny was bought for less than 1/24 of the price of Berge and performed better in the PL.

 

[loyalblade95]

Honourable mention for James Hanson. Not better than Clarke or McGoldrick but who is?

Good point, I think if CW had signed Billy rather than Adkins the year before. You could say Billy would have beat them all.

If I listed all of the strikers who played for CW based on what they did in his teams I would put it like this (just basing it off 2016-21.

From best to joint worst:
Sharp
Mcgoldrick
Clarke
Mcburnie and Mousett (as they were joint top scorers)
Hanson and Donaldson
Brewster and Robinson
J Wilson, Washington, Done (he scored 1 goal and didn't play much in our centurion team)

Don't think I've forgotten anyone but if I have let me know.

 

[FinchleyBlade]

If you don’t have Berge in this you’re straight up thick.

How would Berge (£20 million) get ahead of Fleck, Duffy or Norwood? Even Lundstram pound for pound was a better signing than Berge.

Berge wouldn't even get on the bench for the money we played for him. 1 good game every 5 isn't worth £20 million and 30k a week.

 

[FinchleyBlade]

Wilder put together the three best midfields I've seen in my lifetime, and Berge wasn't in any of them.

Coutts Fleck
Duffy

Norwood Fleck
Duffy

Lundstram Norwood Fleck


He didn't sign Coutts though, so the first one doesn't actually qualify for this thread.

The Coutts-Fleck-Duffy midfield is the best football I've ever seen a Sheffield United team play in my lifetime. Dominated teams from start to finish. Such a tragedy Coutts never played in the Prem for us.

 

[Black Cloud]

Blackman
Retsos - Bryan - Henneghan - Hussey
Holmes - Leonard - Carruthers - Thomas
Wilson - Washington

Subs: Wilson, Zivkovic, Ravel, Burke, Coulibaly, Rodwell, Verrips​

isn't it consistent that most blades managers best and worst signings are always top heavy with poor b terrible ones…and we are trusting CW to rebuild

 

[Working Class Hero]

isn't it consistent that most blades managers best and worst signings are always top heavy with poor b terrible ones…and we are trusting CW to rebuild

Every manager has a load of bad signings thrown in to the mix though, that's just how it goes.

The Wilder poor XI covers 11 transfer windows, when we were in League One, had one of the lowest budgets in the Championship and then the lowest budget in the Premier League. It stands to reason that there are plenty of players who didn't make the grade.

For instance, Hecky only had three windows, when we were much better off and able to sign much better players, but you can still make a team of bad signings...


Davies

Holgate Goode Trusty
Larouci Thomas

Davies Souza Slimane

Traore Khadra


I'd bet you could do that for any manager who had more than 1 season at the club. I'd hate to see Warnock's!

 

[mancunianblade]

Honourable mention for James Hanson. Not better than Clarke or McGoldrick but who is?

Said it before not enough is said about those who make a quiet impact. Hanson, Marvin Johnson, Crainy and the kid who scored against Oxford whose name escapes me, he was that annonymous

 

[Black Cloud]

Marvin Johnson…..

 

[William Carey]

Guys I’m sorry but where’s Brewster? The lad is class