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BBC News
2 days ago
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'Talk of sacking Wilder a bit strange'
Andy Giddings, BBC Radio Sheffield reporter A meeting is scheduled to take place in which the owners of the football club will discuss whether they want Chris Wilder to continue as the team's the noises from the other side suggest Wilder is raring to go and crack on to try and get Sheffield United promoted next does seem strange such a short time after the play-off final, and given Wilder's successes - he was a kick of a ball away from becoming, via some metrics, Sheffield United's most successful manager - that this is even a discussion.I can understand where some fans have reservations about AI [being used for recruitment processes]. You can cite certain teams but it's never going to be the same as at Brighton and Brentford of how they use their recruitment outside the inner workings of those clubs is ever going to know what goes is no silver bullet to recruitment and in any recruitment process, I'm sure a lot of fans will agree that there has to come a point where you use the technology. Great, that's there has to be the human element of it because there isn't a statistic in the world that can tell you about heart, fight and character. Can you do it when the chips are down? Rob Staton, BBC Radio Sheffield reporter Here's what I don't understand - why offer Chris Wilder a new contract in January? It seems a little bit strange that you would give Wilder a new contract and then a few months later move haven't had a chance to speak to the new owners. You would imagine that perhaps if they were to make a move like this, they would answer some questions as to why, and their vision, and what exactly they are thinking you do have to wonder, sometimes with owners they have some ideals, ways they want to work around things. Have Sheffield United not been this way before?Because in the past they went to Slavisa Jokanovic, they wanted to do things differently. They then had to rip that up a few months later and go back to the system that had worked in the Sheffield United didn't win promotion last season but they did have, by and large, a successful season after a difficult rebuild last summer. Could history repeat itself here?
BBC News
06-06-2025
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🎧 How does this saga end for Sheffield Wednesday?
"The biggest thing to point out right now is just the total lack of any clarity as to how this saga ends."Those are the words of BBC Radio Sheffield's Rob Staton, who, alongside co-host Andy Giddings, has been speaking with fans about the ongoing turmoil at Hillsborough under the ownership of Dejphon Wednesday's players and staff have yet to be paid their salaries for May, and the club was placed under a registration embargo by the EFL on Thursday for failing to do so - having also not paid wages on time in March."The players who are currently at the club will be wondering what on earth is going on," Staton said. "They will be in disbelief. Would anybody really blame any of the Sheffield Wednesday players who are under contract from thinking they want to get out and go and play for somebody else?"They may well be speaking to their agents and saying, 'Get me out of here, get me to a different club where I know I'm going to get paid on time, where there is a direction, there is a future.'"You would not blame them for feeling that way."Giddings agreed that players will have major concerns about the financial uncertainty and immediate future of the club. He added: "They often discuss difficulties about recruitment and attractiveness to potential players, or indeed existing players who may have been offered contracts and are thinking, 'Well, I could sign that but is that contract going to be served fully?'"Given the last two or three months, the answer to that is maybe not."
