{"id":257429,"date":"2025-07-11T23:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T23:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257429\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T23:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T23:24:17","slug":"excited-sheffield-united-attacking-midfielder-on-working-with-new-manager-ready-to-use-play-off-loss-as-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257429\/","title":{"rendered":"“Excited” \u2013 Sheffield United Attacking Midfielder on Working With New Manager; Ready to Use Play-off Loss As Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheffield United midfielder Callum O\u2019Hare<\/a> has spoken to BBC Radio Sheffield<\/a> as the Blades continue their preparations for the 2025\/26 Championship season under new head coach Ruben Selles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After joining the club last summer, O\u2019Hare made a strong impression in his debut campaign, making 47 appearances, netting four goals and providing six assists, but like many of his teammates, the pain of falling just short in the Championship play-off final still lingers.<\/p>\n

Now, as United gear up for another promotion push, O\u2019Hare believes the squad is in a good place both mentally and physically to take the next step.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah it\u2019s been really good. Really enjoyable,\u201d O\u2019Hare said, reflecting on pre-season so far. \u201cThe team has bonded a bit and the new players coming in. The sessions have been really good, everyone\u2019s enjoying it. It\u2019s been tough like pre-season should be, but a really good week so far.\u201d<\/p>\n

New signings are always a common feature of a pre-season, and the Blades have the likes of Jefferson Caceres, Christian Nwachukwu and Ehije Success Ukaki training in Spain, as well as loanee Tyler Bindon. O\u2019Hare spoke about how easily\u00a0 the new arrivals have been integrated into the group.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s quite easy here [for a new player to fit in]. All the lads are top lads, so everyone brings everyone in quite comfortably. And everyone that\u2019s new has settled in quite comfortably,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cAway from the pitch, you need everyone to get along and on the pitch it\u2019s work time \u2013 and here it\u2019s a good mix of both.\u201d<\/p>\n

Callum O\u2019Hare on Adapting to New Sheffield United Manager And Coaching Staff\"SheffieldRuben Selles instructing Sheffield United players in training session. (Image Credit: Sheffield United Football Club \u2013 X.com).<\/p>\n

With Selles replacing Chris Wilder during the summer, O\u2019Hare is enthusiastic about what the former Southampton, Reading and Hull City boss is bringing to the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cReally good,\u201d he said when asked about the new manager. \u201cThey\u2019ve got their own ideas of what they want, and they\u2019re trying to instill that into us. So every day on the training pitch we\u2019re working really hard, and they\u2019re telling us what they want us to do. It\u2019s been really enjoyable, I\u2019m excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the change in management, O\u2019Hare says the transition has been smooth. \u201cIt happened over the summer, so when we came back in it was normal and straight back to work,\u201d he said. \u201cLike I just said, they\u2019ve got their beliefs and we\u2019re training now to install that into us. We need to know everything off by heart for game time and then we\u2019re ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Hare Wants Blades to Use Last Season\u2019s Play-off Heartbreak As FuelSHEFFIELD, ENGLAND \u2013 SEPTEMBER 01: Callum O\u2019Hare of Sheffield United and Tom Dele-Bashiru of Watford compete for the ball during the Sky Bet Championship match between Sheffield United FC and Watford FC at Bramall Lane on September 01, 2024 in Sheffield, England. (Photo by Nathan Stirk\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Last season\u2019s near miss at Wembley could be a heavy burden for some, but O\u2019Hare believes it will only drive the team harder this time around.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know what it feels like now to go all the way and not get there so this season we need to be even more on it to make sure that we are the ones to go up,\u201d he said. \u201cLeeds are a really top team but so are we, so we can look at [Leeds going up as champions after suffering play-off misery in the previous campaign] and do what they did.\u201d<\/p>\n

On a personal level, O\u2019Hare is using his first year at Bramall Lane as a platform to push on further.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was good, I played a lot of games but like you said, it ended in disappointment and we didn\u2019t get the objective that we wanted,\u201d he admitted. \u201cIt was really disappointing and personally I know I can do better to really stamp my authority on games.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield United midfielder Callum O\u2019Hare has spoken to BBC Radio Sheffield as the Blades continue their preparations for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-257429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114837183987831867","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257429","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=257429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}