he told BBC Radio Sheffield.<\/a><\/p>\n“I thought I should ring Chris and try and clear the air a bit and I remember waiting for him to answer I was thinking he was going to have a right go at me.<\/p>\n
“He didn’t pick up but he rang me back 10 or 15 minutes later and it was refreshing because he was so nice and completely understood.<\/p>\n
“A few years before we had had a little bit then so there was no hard feelings. He didn’t care.<\/p>\n
“In football it’s rare you come across a manager who is as you see them. He’s straightforward and honest and for me that is super refreshing.”<\/p>\n
One-cap England international Bamford, who left Leeds by mutual consent in August, could make his Sheffield United debut at rivals Sheffield Wednesday on Sunday.<\/p>\n
He revealed he came very close to joining Frank Lampard’s runaway league leaders Coventry before a deal fell through. <\/p>\n
“I knew Frank from my time at Chelsea and so I went down and either way training with a team is better than training alone,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The deal was pretty much done and then the owner, which I have no hard feelings about, decided he didn’t want to do it with the team flying. <\/p>\n
“I spoke to Frank and he apologised and he was happy to have me there and I just said I was grateful for letting me train and get my fitness up.<\/p>\n
“When the deal fell through Chris rang me and I spent 20 minutes on the phone with him and then came here the next day and within two hours the deal was done.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield United striker Patrick Bamford has praised the “rare” honesty of boss Chris Wilder. Bamford, 32, who has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-585291","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\/115589339405462026","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585291","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=585291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}