{"id":1151893,"date":"2026-08-16T13:39:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T13:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1151893\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T13:39:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T13:39:59","slug":"chris-wilder-sheffield-united-are-aiming-to-make-a-pint-out-of-a-half-pint-pot-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1151893\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Wilder: Sheffield United are aiming to make a pint out of a half-pint pot \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder says his side will \u201chave to make a pint out of a half-pint pot\u201d if they are to challenge for Championship promotion this season.<\/p>\n

The Blades began the new campaign in underwhelming fashion as they played out a drab goalless draw with Birmingham at Bramall Lane.<\/p>\n

Wilder, who is hoping to add more quality to his squad, claimed a top-10 finish is the target this season and says anything more will be an overachievement.<\/p>\n

\u201cInternally, we are down to finish in the top 10,\u201d said the Blades boss, who saw Patrick Bamford miss his side\u2019s best chance in the second half.<\/p>\n

\"PFL<\/a>\"Celtic<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an incredibly strong division, possibly the strongest it\u2019s been in a long time with the relegated teams and then Southampton and Middlesbrough.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in that group that can try and break into it, if we are going to overachieve. There is a saying in Yorkshire you have to make a pint out of a half-pint pot.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have lost a couple of good players, there are no parachute payments for us, so that is the difference in how we recruit and spend.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some big clubs, there are some clubs that are having a go. You understand when you do have a go it\u2019s a costly thing. Sometimes, it doesn\u2019t go right. We will never get into that position. There is no way we can be reckless.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in a good place, there is a bit of work to be done.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last week of the transfer window will be like the Wild West but we\u2019ll try.\u201d<\/p>\n

Birmingham also have ambitions of mounting a promotion challenge as they looked to build on last season\u2019s mid-table finish.<\/p>\n

Boss Chris Davies felt his side were the likeliest to win, with Jay Stansfield going closest.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we were the team most likely to win the match on another day, that\u2019s a 1-0, 2-0 win,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had so many moments around their box. We believe we were the team that deserved to win it, but you have to say coming to a place like this in the first game of the season, it\u2019s a point gained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a feeling when you play football. It\u2019s what did it feel like as a team? To me, the feeling was that we were ready to compete.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were ready to do everything that you need to do in the heat of battle at places like this.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I think it\u2019s an encouraging day for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder says his side will \u201chave to make a pint out of a half-pint…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1151894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8817],"tags":[855,748,9030,393,4884,123861,313363,1620,10031,16,15],"class_list":["post-1151893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sheffield","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-championship","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-sheff-utd","tag-sheff-utd-vs-birmingham","tag-sheffield","tag-soccer","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117105476186760716","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1151894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}