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Blades 'not good enough' in transfer market
Sheffield United boss Ruben Selles has said the club have "not been good enough" in the transfer market this Spaniard took over from Chris Wilder in June after the Blades were beaten by Sunderland in the Championship play-off final, and has lost both his first two of the players who started the defeat by the Black Cats in May have either been sold, left the club or returned to their parent side, and they have struggled to bring in replacements."I think our process has not been good enough, I think that's obvious," he told BBC Radio Sheffield."At the beginning of the market we spoke about reinforcing with three players and then with Anel (Ahmedhodzic) and Kieffer (Moore) gone it's five players."We have not been able to bring anybody else for different circumstances and on that everyone has a part of it and I accept mine."There is not going to be any update for the weekend."He added: "I feel that I have a task to do and I have been in situations worse than this one."I need to be brilliant and my team needs to be brilliant to try to be competitive in 48 hours. I don't want to waste time feeling sorry for myself." The Blades, who visit Swansea on Saturday, slumped to a shock 4-1 home defeat by Bristol City in their league opener at Bramall Lane on Saturday before a much-changed XI were beaten 2-1 at Birmingham City in the Carabao Cup on far none of the five signings the club have made this summer has been over the age of 22 and Selles is keen for them to add players who are ready to go straight into the team before the transfer window closes on Monday, 1 September."We lost a lot of experience in the level and we need to replace that," he said."The main thing is to get players who can make an immediate impact and support the ones we already have."
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42 minutes ago
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Are Yengi concerns fair?
The ruthless nature of football means that after just two games, sections of your support can already be writing you fans were hardly enthused by the arrival of Kusini Yengi when a quick bit of research showed the striker had failed to score last season for 26-year-old only played 534 minutes across 14 English Championship games in an injury-hit campaign, and a challenging introduction to his Dons career seems to have done little to win over his Jimmy Thelin has selected Yengi as his centre-forward in the opening 2-0 league defeats to Hearts and Australia striker, who has six goals in 11 international caps, only had two shots across both games, one of which was a glaring miss in the defeat at more worryingly, in 117 minutes of football, the forward has won just six of his 25 duels and four of his 17 aerial and criticism from fans has to be expected, but writing off any player after such a brief period is unfair, particularly one who has started just six games in 12 Yengi can recover from a tough start at Aberdeen and replicate his 2023-24 form, which saw him score 19 goals for club and country, the Australian should prove to be a useful addition to Thelin's squad.
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42 minutes ago
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'I'm not feeling sorry for myself'
Sheffield United manager Ruben Selles wants a strong response to his side's poor start to the season. The Blades travel to Swansea City on Saturday (15:00 BST) and will look to find a first win of the season following a 4-1 defeat to Bristol City on Saturday and a first-round Carabao Cup exit against Birmingham City on Spaniard insisted that it has been a valuable experience for his team so far."We have 48 hours to get ourselves ready against a really aggressive side on Saturday. We need to be as competitive as we can to match them," Selles told BBC Radio Sheffield."When the difficult times come, we will be there. I'm not feeling sorry for myself."We lost a lot of experience, so we need to replace that."Listen to the full interview and more on BBC Sounds.
