{"id":569204,"date":"2025-11-14T05:55:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/569204\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T05:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:55:25","slug":"patrick-bamford-is-not-the-only-ex-leeds-united-man-sheffield-united-just-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/569204\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Bamford is not the only ex-Leeds United man Sheffield United just announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Leeds fans will be surprised to see Patrick Bamford join Sheffield United on a deal until January.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was the England international himself who started a controversial chant aimed at Chris Wilder a mere matter of months ago after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds<\/a> secured promotion, only to now join the 58-year-old at Bramall Lane.<\/p>\n<p>Before Sheffield United announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/tag\/patrick-bamford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Bamford<\/a> \u2013 however \u2013 the Blades unveiled the addition of another former Leeds man in Gary McSheffrey as part of the backroom staff on a permanent basis.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Leeds United star Gary McSheffrey will be coaching Patrick Bamford at Sheffield United<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield United have now announced that the 43-year-old will become a permanent part of Wilder\u2019s coaching team, having been promoted from his Development Coach role.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chris Wilder has completed the structure of his backroom staff, in a move that sees Gary McSheffrey promoted to first-team affairs on a permanent basis. \ud83d\udcf0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sheffield United (@SheffieldUnited) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SheffieldUnited\/status\/1988924818511577356?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p>Some Leeds fans may not remember McSheffrey at Elland Road considering he only racked up 11 appearances while on loan from Birmingham in the 2009\/10 campaign, but he still made quite the impact.<\/p>\n<p>The man born in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/throwbacks\/what-frank-lampard-said-about-patrick-bamford-when-he-was-at-leeds-united-is-now-very-interesting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coventry, where Bamford was training<\/a> recently, won the Player of the Match award after a stunning debut in a 2-0 League One victory over Colchester United at Elland Road in January 2010.<\/p>\n<p>It came just one day after his arrival.<\/p>\n<p>MORE LEEDS UNITED STORIES<\/p>\n<p>McSheffrey also immediately endeared himself to fans by saying \u201cthere\u2019d be no better club to be with at Championship level\u201d when discussing an Elland Road stay in the event of promotion.<\/p>\n<p>So, Bamford is clearly not the only ex-Leeds man Wilder has called upon in an attempt to drag Sheffield United to safety.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds United got the better of recent dealings with Sheffield United<\/p>\n<p>Leeds and Sheffield United do not often directly trade between each other, but they did when the Blades sanctioned the \u00a35m sale of Jayden Bogle in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2230854087-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Jayden Bogle in action for Leeds against Everton.\" class=\"wp-image-110312\" \/>Photo by George Wood\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>It seemed like an uninspiring deal at the time, but the 25-year-old has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/news\/gabriel-gudmundsson-and-jayden-bogle-named-as-early-frontrunners-for-leeds-united-player-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">developed into an important player<\/a> at Elland Road.<\/p>\n<p>Bogle earned a spot in the Championship Team of the Season last term, and has started all 11 Premier League games so far this season \u2013 showing just how much Daniel Farke trusts him.<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds fans will be surprised to see Patrick Bamford join Sheffield United on a deal until January. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,180741,4884,2924,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-569204","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-gary-mcsheffrey","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-patrick-bamford","13":"tag-sheffield","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115546510781801546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569204","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=569204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}