Wilder upbeat on Sheffield Utd January plans

Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder has spoken about the club's recruitment plans.

Wilder is tasked with keeping up the newly promoted club, taking over from Paul Heckingbottom recently.

However, the Blades are in the bottom three along with Burnley and Luton Town, and Wilder knows they must improve to stay up.

Speaking to Talksport, he stated: "There are players here that we might have to move on, and players that one manager might like and one manager might think are surplus.

So we'll wheel and deal and try and get people through the door, and some might have to go.

"But when you talk about Sheffield United and when you come to that ground it's a historic football ground with a modern feel. Why wouldn't you? I've got McAtee playing for us, we've had Dean Henderson playing for us from Man United. So for any young players coming to Bramall Lane, it's a great education. We had Rammers [Aaron Ramsdale] as well and he went to Arsenal.

"So it's great for young players. The academy's doing great work as well. We had some young players out there against Brentford; Andre Brooks, Will Osula, the young boy Sydie Peck who was at Arsenal as a kid and who's come up north as well. There's some great work going on in the academy and they're involved at the moment while we've got a few of the big hitters out injured. "So it's all good and hopefully we can keep going."