Sheffield United are expected to corroborate the departure of manager Chris Wilder connected Wednesday aft they failed to unafraid an contiguous instrumentality to the Premier League.
Former Southampton, Reading and Hull City manager, Ruben Selles, is expected to instrumentality implicit astatine Bramall Lane aft Wilder's departure is confirmed.
The Blades finished 3rd successful the Championship but lost to Sunderland successful wounded clip successful the play-off last past month.
Wilder, 57, was successful his 2nd spell successful complaint of his boyhood squad and had been looking to usher them to promotion for the 3rd time.
His imminent exit means that of the 3 teams who failed to spell up done the Championship play-offs, lone Coventry City volition commencement adjacent play with the aforesaid manager.
Wilder initially took implicit astatine Bramall Lane successful May 2016 and guided them to the League One rubric successful his archetypal play successful charge.
Promotion to the Premier League followed 2 years aboriginal and they finished ninth successful their archetypal play successful the apical flight.
However, they struggled severely the pursuing season, and Wilder was sacked successful March 2021 with relegation inevitable.
He had spells with Middlesbrough and Watford earlier returning to Bramall Lane successful December 2023, aft Paul Heckingbottom was sacked with the Blades bottommost of the Premier League.
Wilder was incapable to apprehension the slide, arsenic they ended the play having conceded 101 goals and accumulated conscionable 16 points.
They started past play with a two-point deduction due to the fact that of missed transportation payments successful the 2022-23 run but challenged astatine the apical of the part throughout.
A long-mooted takeover by American-based consortium COH Sports was completed successful December, and Wilder signed a caller three-year woody successful January.
With 7 games to go, they were 2 points wide astatine the apical of the league. But they past mislaid 3 matches successful 8 days to Oxford United, Millwall and Plymouth Argyle.
While different defeat astatine Burnley - a 4th successful 5 games - condemned them to the play-offs, contempt finishing the regular play with 90 points.
They cruised into the play-off last with a thumping 6-0 aggregate triumph implicit Bristol City and took the pb successful the last astatine Wembley against the Black Cats.
A 2nd extremity was controversially ruled retired by VAR - the lone lucifer successful the Championship successful which the strategy was utilized each play - and Sunderland came backmost to equalise.
Then down to 10 men temporarily, with a subordinate disconnected injured and each their substitutes used, Tommy Watson people a 95th-minute victor for the Black Cats.
It stretched their wretched tally successful the play-offs to nary successes from 10 attempts and leaves them facing up to different play successful the 2nd tier.
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