{"id":934490,"date":"2026-05-03T06:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/934490\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:57:30","slug":"chris-wilder-praises-brave-sheffield-united-owners-despite-shock-exit-after-play-off-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/934490\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Wilder praises ‘brave’ Sheffield United owners despite shock exit after play-off loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder has praised the club’s owners, despite their decision to sack him last June.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Blades lost in last season’s Championship play-off final with Sunderland reaching the Premier League via Tom Watson’s injury time strike.<\/p>\n

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Wilder did superbly in tough circumstances to return to Bramall Lane after five gamesCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

However, despite almost getting them back into the English top-flight, Wilder left by mutual consent just days later<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was replaced by Ruben Selles with a raft of new signings joining, including Japhet Tanganga from Millwall for \u00a37.5million.<\/p>\n

The Portuguese boss, though, lasted just five games – all defeats.<\/p>\n

Wilder was swiftly reappointed but only managed three wins in his first nine games upon his return.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The arrival of striker Patrick Bamford, who previously had a small run-in with Wilder<\/a>, though, galvanised the Blades in November.<\/p>\n

As the Championship season came to an end, the Blades beat Derby, who were on the cusp of the play-offs, 2-1.<\/p>\n

Wilder led his men to a 13th place finish, 11 points off a play-off spot.<\/p>\n

Their rise up the division will give supporters belief that with wise investment they can challenge for promotion next year.<\/p>\n

And Wilder, rather than carry any bitterness about his exit 11 months ago, chooses to see the positives about his return to Bramall Lane.<\/p>\n

Asked if stability is needed for the club this summer, Wilder said: “When we walked out of Wembley, [we were] obviously really disappointed.<\/p>\n

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Wilder did well to steady the ship before helping Sheffield United climb the Championship tableCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

“I don’t think anybody would have expected it but that’s the way the game is.<\/p>\n

“The owners made the decision and they were brave enough to ask me to come back.<\/p>\n

“They put the money where their mouth is and supported the club in terms of the players that came in so I don’t think there’s any criticism that should go towards them.<\/p>\n

“I really appreciate the faith that they put in me and the coaching staff to get it back to where it should be.<\/p>\n

“Still work to do and I’m incredibly determined and driven to deliver for them but most importantly to deliver for the supporters and the club.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder has praised the club’s owners, despite their decision to sack him last June.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,9030,4235,23712,12032,393,4884,1620,4239,29506,16,15,56618],"class_list":["post-934490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sheffield","tag-britain","tag-championship","tag-chris-wilder","tag-efl","tag-efl-championship","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-sheffield","tag-sheffield-united","tag-the-blades","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wilder"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116509350544297038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934490","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=934490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}