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BBC News
3 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Selles pledges to field 'intense' Blades side
New Sheffield United boss Ruben Selles has given a flavour of how he wants his Blades side to his first interview with BBC Radio Sheffield, the new man in the Bramall Lane dugout pledged to play "intense and front-footed" football and stick to his attacking said: "We are very proactive, we are not waiting for things to happen, we want to be creating situations, we want to be aggressive, we want to be front-footed and vertical in our attack. Those are the principles – we want to prepare a team that is very intense."We want to find the opposition box as quick as we can, that will not mean we want to kick it long, we want to find a spare player or have this breaking lines mentality. "When we lose the ball we need to recover it as quick as possible to continue attacking."Selles, who says he is a passionate boss, aims to foster a culture of trust with his players and maintain high standards. He added: "I trust the players a lot but I am very firm in my principles and in the way I want them to do things on the pitch. "We create the idea and they need to go and play the idea."Click here for Ruben Selles full interview with BBC Radio Sheffield's Rob Staton via BBC Sounds.
The Irish Sun
18-06-2025
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
Chris Wilder SACKED by Sheffield United despite club-record points tally with ex-Premier League boss to replace him
CHRIS WILDER has been given the boot by Sheffield United AGAIN. The Blades recorded with a club-record 92 points in the Championship this season - though EFL regulations. Advertisement 2 Chris Wilder has been sacked for a second time by Sheffield United Credit: Shutterstock Editorial They settled for third behind champions Leeds United and Burnley , before cruising past Bristol City in the play-off semis. Yet a late Wembley meant to failed to gain promotion through the play-offs for a staggering A Blades statement said: "Sheffield United can confirm a mutually agreed decision has been reached for manager Chris Wilder to leave the football club. Chris will leave alongside coaches Alan Knill and Matt Prestridge, and in doing so depart with the best wishes and gratitude of everyone connected with Sheffield United. Advertisement READ MORE ON FOOTBALL A Blade through and through, the legacy Chris and his staff have created here will never be forgotten, going right back to 2016 when he initially took the job with the club rooted in League One. Between 2016 and 2021, he guided the club to two promotions and a ninth-place finish in the Premier League, creating an era which will go down as one of the most fondly remembered in the club's history. After returning to the club during a difficult period in 2023, he has provided stability and created a new team which earned a Steel City derby double amongst other notable highlights last season. Chris Wilder shows his disappointment on Sheffield United play-off agony Showing his calibre as a manager, he guided the club to third place finish, collecting 92 points, before a heartbreaking conclusion in the play-off final. Advertisement Most read in Sport Our owners, COH Sports, would wish to place on record our thanks to Chris and his staff for their efforts whilst at the helm and will be extending their own appreciation in due course. BEST ONLINE CASINOS - TOP SITES IN THE UK Former Hull City boss Ruben Selles is set to replace him in the Bramall Lane dugout, having been The Spaniard's side stayed up on goal difference with a draw on the final day at Portsmouth, with Luton suffering consecutive relegations and dropping down into League One. Advertisement Selles also guided his team to a 3-0 victory over Wilder's Blades at Bramall Lane back in January. 2 Ruben Selles is set to replace Wilder in the Bramall Lane dugout Credit: Getty
BBC News
18-06-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Sheff Utd set to sack Wilder after play-off defeat
Sheffield United are today expected to confirm the departure of manager Chris Wilder after they failed to secure an immediate return to the Premier Southampton, Reading and Hull City manager, Ruben Selles, is expected to take over at Bramall Lane after Wilder's departure is Blades finished third in the Championship but lost to Sunderland in injury time in the play-off final last 57, was in his second spell in charge of his boyhood team and had been looking to guide them to promotion for the third imminent exit means that of the three teams who failed to go up through the Championship play-offs, only Coventry City will start next season with the same manager with whom they ended last initially took over at Bramall Lane in May 2016 and guided them to the League One title in his first season in to the Premier League followed two years later in 2019 and they finished ninth in their first season in the top they struggled badly the following season, and Wilder was sacked in March 2021 with relegation had spells with Middlesbrough and Watford and then returned to Bramall Lane in December 2023 after Paul Heckingbottom was sacked with the Blades bottom of the Premier League. Two-point deduction Wilder was unable to arrest the slide, as they ended the season having conceded 101 goals and accumulated just 16 started last season with a two-point deduction because of missed transfer payments in the 2022-23 campaign but challenged at the top of the division throughout.A long-mooted takeover by American-based consortium COH Sports was completed in December, and Wilder signed a new three-year deal in seven games to go, they were two points clear at the top of the league. But they then lost their matches in eight days to Oxford United, Millwall and Plymouth another defeat at Burnley - a fourth in five games - condemned them to the play-offs, despite finishing the regular season with 90 points. They cruised into the play-off final with a thumping 6-0 aggregate win over Bristol City and took the lead in the final at Wembley against the Black Cats.A second goal was controversially ruled out by VAR - the only match in the Championship in which the system was used all season - and Sunderland came back to down to 10 men temporarily with a player off injured and all their substitutes used, the Blades saw Tommy Watson score a 95th-minute winner for the Black stretched their wretched run in the play-offs to no successes from 10 attempts and leaves them facing up to another season in the second tier.
The Sun
17-06-2025
- Sport
- The Sun
Sheffield United to sack Chris Wilder for second time with ex-Premier League boss leading contender to replace him
CHRIS WILDER will be sacked as Sheffield United boss this week with Ruben Selles an early frontrunner to replace him. The Blades boss was stunned after being told he will lose his job at Bramall Lane despite leading them to a club-record 92 points haul in the Championship last season. 2 2 Although they officially ended on 90 points, as two of them were docked for breaking EFL rules. But they had to settle for third after the two automatically promoted clubs Leeds and Burnley racked up a staggering 100 points. And despite cruising past Bristol City in the play-off semis, they were stunned by a comeback Sunderland win in the final at Wembley. The defeat means that the Blades have failed to gain promotion through the play-offs for the NINTH time Selles, who worked wonders at Reading in League One but quit to help save Hull City from relegation last season, was sacked by the Tigers last month. But he has impressed the Blades hierarchy. The American owners want to go down an AI stats-driven recruitment process and although Wilder is open to using that as a tool he was not completely in agreement with that method. The club uses AI to scout players, and three players have been signed off the back of it. The from Bulgarian top-flight club Botev Plovdiv. JOIN SUN VEGAS: GET £50 BONUS Christian Nwachukwu and Jefferson Caceres were signed after being scouted by AI earlier this year. Neither of them has made an appearance for the club, but Caceres was on the bench for one game. Selles is seen as a huge gamble by fans as his record at Southampton after taking over from Nathan Jones in the Premier League was abysmal and his only Championship experience was his brief stint at Hull at the end of last season. Wilder is in his second spell in charge of the Blades, having won promotion from League One to the Premier League, where they finished a club-record ninth in 2020.
Yahoo
17-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Sheffield United line up Rubén Sellés to take over from Chris Wilder as manager
Chris Wilder looks to be heading out of Bramall Lane. Chris Wilder looks to be heading out of Bramall Lane. Photograph:Sheffield United's American owners have risked upsetting their fanbase after deciding to sack Chris Wilder and replace him with Rubén Sellés. With confirmation of Wilder's departure expected shortly, United are believed to have entered advanced negotiations with Sellés, who was sacked by Hull last month. Advertisement Related: Rob Edwards poised for Middlesbrough manager's job after impressing owner The Spaniard was left bitterly disappointed by that, having narrowly kept the East Yorkshire side in the Championship after his appointment last December. Wilder, too, is believed to be deeply upset by the decision of COH Sports, the consortium that owns United, to end his second spell in charge. He was contracted to 2028 and the delay in announcing his exit appears connected to negotiations regarding compensation. Despite starting the past season with a two-point deduction for financial irregularities, the Blades remained in strong contention for automatic promotion until almost the end before losing the playoff final 2-1 to Sunderland. Advertisement Although much of the fanbase appeared in favour of retaining the 57-year-old, who led the Blades from League One to the Premier League in successive seasons during his first stint, Wilder is understood to have disagreed with the owners' enthusiasm for a heavily data-driven player recruitment system. COH Sports took over last December after buying out Prince Abdullah and, by the end of January, were so impressed with Wilder they offered him a three year contract extension. Sellés had brief spells in charge of Southampton and Reading after starting his coaching career in charge of Valencia University's first XI. Despite an ostensibly patchy managerial record, he has won plenty of admirers since arriving in England and is noted as a skilled developer of young players.
