{"id":279684,"date":"2025-07-21T10:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279684\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:11:15","slug":"high-profile-players-to-join-blades-within-days-says-ruben-selles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279684\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;High-profile&#8221; players to join Blades within days, says Ruben Selles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sheffield United boss Ruben Selles says he expects to see a number of &#8220;high-profile&#8221; players, including Aston Villa forward Louie Barry, join the club within the next week.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Spaniard worked with Barry last season at Hull City after the 22-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c0lz795g65xo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joined on loan<\/a> during the January transfer window following an impressive spell with League One side Stockport County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I expect to have a couple of players in the next two to five days,&#8221; Selles told BBC Radio Sheffield following Saturday&#8217;s 5-0 pre-season win over Rotherham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Louie has been there, we know him really well. We will see what happens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t want numbers to complete a squad, I want quality. The boys that we are working on will be, in my opinion, high-profile players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s not just incoming players, though, that he will need to have his eye on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Midfielder Gus Hamer has been linked with a potential move to Dutch side PSV Eindhoven but Selles doesn&#8217;t want to see the 28-year-old leave Bramall Lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to keep Gustavo with us. I think he has been fantastic for the club; his performances, his way to play, his quality and how decisive he is the league,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know the market is fluid and things can happen but our main target will be to keep him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/programmes\/p0d45wls\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to the full interview with Ruben Selles and more on BBC Sounds.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield United boss Ruben Selles says he expects to see a number of &#8220;high-profile&#8221; players, including Aston Villa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-279684","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\/114890688951516300","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279684","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=279684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}