Chris Wilder is to have talks with Sheffield United owners after they suffer an 8th defeat in 9 league games, losing 1-0 away at Hull.
The Blades’ poor season continued, David Akintola’s deflected first-half strike was enough to secure the win for Hull, who climbed to tenth.
Despite dominating possession in the second half, Sheffield United failed to capitalise, with Gus Hamer striking the post and Harrison Burrows having his late penalty saved by Ivor Pandur.
The Blades, under returning manager Chris Wilder, remain at the bottom of the table with 3 points, and 4 points from safety.
Wilder said, per Yorkshire Post: “I was already looking towards January when I was potentially coming in.
“That work’s already been done. So, yes, there’s a document going to (the owners) already.
“I know who takes us forward and who doesn’t. And there’ll be an honest conversation with that. And hopefully people, I’d like to think, will respect my contribution to that and my thought process on that.
“That’s what gets us out of this situation and what moves us forward. So, yes, there are going to be conversations with the owners.
“But I’ve had nothing but support from them. I think they’ve seen that we’ve turned it around in a small space of time in terms of quite a few things.
“But what I haven’t delivered and what we haven’t delivered for them as a collective, in their patience for me and their support for me and giving me the opportunity, are the results. So, I’m quite down about that.
“But we should have done. And we have an opportunity to work now.
“We’ll continually work through that to give them the ideas, from my experience in the Championship. And what I believe will make us better and stronger going forward.”
On defeat to Hull: “We got into so many positions, and we have to find that moment of quality to win the game. When we get into those positions, we have to put teams to bed.
“We need patience, we need time to work, but players have got to give their heads a shake. At times players have got to find those answers.
“We should have got something from the game here and we haven’t. It’s frustrating for the supporters and for the players.
“From our point of view, we’ve not been able to deliver when we get in those positions. We competed all over the pitch and got into some great positions and that is where you’ve got to come alive.
“I felt we dealt with the majority of their strengths pretty well. When we had an opportunity of finding that last little bit we never found it. We’ve not come up with that little bit.
“I think it’s an individual mentality to be calm. It looks like previous performances have affected those players who can produce those big moments.”
Hull’s Sergej Jakirovic:
“Thank God he saved the penalty. I am very happy for Ivor. It is a big relief for him and a good boost for his confidence.
“I am very happy that we won 1-0. We had a clean sheet and today we were very strong defensively.
“We were lucky because they hit the post but in the second half we could have won the game with some chances.
“The clean sheet was important. When we had possession if we lost it, we knew it was difficult against this side.
“For me from the first second I saw a battle for every inch on the pitch.”
Fans gave their thoughts with Chris Wilder saying he is to have talks with owners after Sheffield United suffer an 8th defeat in 9 league games…
@xElmsie: Why don’t we play down the middle of the pitch, our best chances come from there, yet we are obsessed with going down the wings fizzing it in and losing the ball
@joshyblackburn: Clubs an absolute joke. We were 100% going down even wilder can’t get these players going. It’s going to be a long long season because from this point the players are letting us down! Resigned to league 1
@JackWalters92: All the ingredients of a relegation season. Too many with zero confidence, too many passengers and a stark reality of the mess we are in. Can blame fitness but to me it’s a lack of quality and fight to do better. A poor summer of decisions off the field and recruitment killed us.
@JackWalters92: Too many passengers, not enough characters, too many with zero confidence. Boring, passive, uninspiring. The decision to have an out of form LB take a big pen like that is an absolute stinker. All the ingredients of a relegation if something doesnt change.
@Luke_1889: It only needed a tweak or two after the play off final. The owners decided to take a wrecking ball to something that wasn’t broken, employ a dreadful manager in Selles, horrendous pre season (look at how unfit they all are), awful recruitment. Some job on cleaning up this mess…
@B_JMills: What do they do when they sack Wilder this time?… Does it revert back to Heckingbottom again? 😭
@tomwalton17: Absolutely shite. Fuck off the lot of you and when you get there fuck off some more. Pathetic.
@sufcdan12: Once again absolutely nothing in attack and weak as piss at the back. Absolutely gutless performance. To slow to predictable to crap. We deserve to go down playing like this
@HullCity1975: Wilder is no saviour. All he’s done is continue the form he ended last season with. With that squad blades did nowt until Hull sat back and said come and break us down
Thanks for coming x pic.twitter.com/DBBnrdii6Z
— Jack Smalley (@JackSmalley17) October 4, 2025
— Alex (@OwstyHcafc) October 4, 2025
Hahaha absolutely DESERVED after Gammon Face’s comments all week about OUR players😂🫵
Wilder will be crying about McBurnie on the bus to Burton Albion away next season pic.twitter.com/isaFmF2Nn7
— Tiger Dan 🐯🏒 (@HCAFC74) October 4, 2025
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