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@ThePinchNews Superb article. Reflected a thought I had that we were both brilliant and shit at times (sometimes in the same game). This season should've been all about short-termism so sacking Wilder was a nonsense move for me & exacerbated by disastrous window we'll struggle to recover from

Link to the piece: thepinch.uk/p/sheffield-un…

🚨 OUT NOW ON THE PINCH We've just published a long read: "Sheffield United 25/26: a season review in stats". Mammoth effort by @sam__joseph. Keen to hear any thoughts or questions. A lot in there. Inevitably, a lot is missing too. Link below

@ThePinchNews Does O'Hare and Hamer's lack of physicality mean we should only ever play one of them, not both?

Recording our end-of-season podcast later today - and thoughts, questions, etc ? Hot takes on players? Anyone you rate, and nobody else seems to?

@MattSummerhill @retrofootballnw Dave Bassett told me at a talk I went to that you bid £500,000 more than Leeds for Deano but United daren't do it.

@retrofootballnw Brian Deane. I think a Hirst/Deane front two in the early 90s would have won us the title

It's Valentine's Day and it's all about the love and romance. So let's think of your fiercest rivals. Which 1 player would you have loved to have signed from them? 1 rule: the player must be retired.

@MattSummerhill Said exactly the same when we went earlier this season! 84 I think.

Iconic from Panini 84 or 85ish. Ipswich (A)

@NexSportDrabble @TWFootball1867 Feel like your fans have been overly optimistic the whole way through (and sure KW fanned those flames). At no point did I see anyone say "Look how long it took United to find a buyer and some of the charlatans involved in that process - maybe it won't be easy for us either"

@TWFootball1867 I would of had no issues, if they kept out of the media and this would of been the end result Instead, someone wanted to play hero and have really got peoples hopes up, falsely

What has happened at SWFC is a kind of reverse auction where, despite multiple people including the people on the in suggesting otherwise, have bid each other down because there was not that much concrete interest beyond having a look. Fact is, SWFC aren't worth the debt levels. Ending up with Mike Ashley and -15 is, if that's what it ends up, is far better than it could have been. The issue is, from every early on, it has been suggested that thresholds to meet 25p had been met a long time ago.

@NTT20Pod Touch of Tardelli about the celebration ❤️⚽️

I mean, there are worse ways to score your first senior goal for Sheffield United… 😮‍💨 Take a bow, Femi Seriki. 👏 (Credit - @SheffieldUnited) #AlternativeAngle #SUFC #TwitterBlades #EFL

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@rileyjroberts Bannan's bravery is quite incredible 😂

That wall is genuinely one of most mental things I’ve ever seen in footy

@ThePinchNews One of the many bonkers aspects is that we'd switched to 4-4-2 which I thought showed signs of being a great fit for us under CW and with the players we had and now we've conducted all our business for another system. The downside of operating without any discernable strategy.

...the only way is up. How far up, who knows? But the reality is, barring the continuation of an utter disaster, that Sheffield United are only going to climb. With one goal, CW can leverage a feel-good factor. The situation is bonkers, but it will surely get better. [6/6]

Telegraph: "Chris Wilder is expected to make a dramatic return to Sheffield United after the sacking of Ruben Selles." Not official yet, but this is happening isn't it? So, CW 3.0 - quick thread of thoughts 🧵 [1/6]

Saddest indictment of this current #sufc team was when Brooks was surrounded by 4 Swansea players all shoving him and no-one moved to help him. Last season, Peck and Robbo would've sprinted in (followed by a £200k fine). Not good when the players aren't sticking up for each other

@MattSummerhill Was an hour and 15 in the Prem last season and seems the EFL have copied that this term, no idea why.

Strange that it is an hour and 15 before kick off - is that a new thing?

@danifdl What did you think of Sheffield?

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@ThePinchNews Our CB pairing today had shades of our midfield v Palace on opening day in the Prem. But I thought the game could've easily gone either way. Need 5 new signings minimum, more if Robbo goes to Wrexham.

the basis of success in any league is having better players than the other teams don’t care who the manager is, if you have L1 centre backs in the championship, expect results to follow

Defending that unserious is criminal. Hamer foul. Bindon pathetic for their second. RND horror show (RS picked him) for 3+4. We’ve seen the thinnest glimpse of what a “Selles side” can do going forwards. But we’ve seen a yawning chasm in what happens when personnel well short…

@ThePinchNews I just don't see that it can be player trading at the moment. We've not bought anyone I expect to get significant minutes so how do we increase their value? Fascinated to see what the plan is as it develops (🤞)

@ThePinchNews I think he'd have gone short-term by adding experience. It feels to me the new approach is also short-term but in a different way i.e. it's (so far) based almost entirely on loans (in terms of serious first team squad additions). I'm still really confused by the new approach. 1/2

Although I expected them both to leave getting less than £20mill for both Vini and Anel feels horrendous (regardless of contract situation). Like I say tho, fully expected. My expectation however was that we’d have people in the building that might stop (primarily Hamer but also Cooper) looking round and thinking we’re miles off last year. I like the look of Barry I like Soumares profile but who knows 🤷🏻‍♂️ Bindon looks solid. (All loans tho). Need 2 CBs, RB, CF another winger/ forward player and maybe another midfielder!). Need to do some serious work this week. Otherwise he’ll be gone I reckon, and that will have been caused by nothing but our own actions. I’m not part of the meltdown btw. I fully expect us to do business I just think we’ve been a bit naive and need to step up. #sufc

@NTT20Pod Fantastic afternoon. Definitely recommend attending the next one wherever it ends up being.

Wow wow wow. Thank you to everyone that came to Sheffield for the show yesterday. It will live long in the memory. Special thanks to @billysharp10 & @Oliverarblaster for chatting football with us, and to Ash & Stevie from @TWWcast who explained the SWFC situation with eloquence and good humour. The show owed a lot to the great man @D_C_W, who streamlined the show itself, kept us calm and was a 10/10 pub companion as always. The pub session in The Foresters will live long in the memory, such a happy few hours. It's been a pleasure to be a small part of @crossedwires_. We're knackered. We're so happy. We're motivated to do more and more events. Reply with which city/town we should go to next, and why! (Photos by Tom Sunderland)

@ArtyBianco We've definitely used exactly that approach before so it wouldn't be new. But agreed, that's how I hope it works - as long as those shortlists are backed up by scouting and the 'eye test'.

The way this is explained is exactly how I imagine the new #sufc recruitment will work… we’ve just partnered with a different analytical data team. (Which hopefully results in equally successful talent identification although slightly different so we’re not fishing in the same pond). We want e.g. a first team right back, 19-23 with these 4 main attributes as this is how we intend to play… click search, filter, filter… here you go, these are the best 4 we could find. Hopefully. 🤞🏼 👊🏼👍🏼

@ThePinchNews And if this is a player-trading play, how do we increase the value of these players if they aren't top end Championship first team quality? I don't see how we get them in the shop window

@ThePinchNews Great thread. The other problem I have with this is how it affects training. If these players are (a) training with the first team group and (b) not up to it, that will impact the quality of the sessions (which, in turn, can affect morale etc)

🧵Here’s a thought experiment. 🧠Imagine Sheffield United’s “AI-led recruitment” is genuinely groundbreaking, and from today, it will give us a relative advantage over all English teams. If that were the case, there would still be a HUGE problem. Here’s why...