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’WE WON’T GO FOR BROKE’

Blades boss Chris Wilder aiming for sensible progression

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By Chris Dunlavy

SHEFFIELD United don’t just have a manager in Chris Wilder. The Blades also possess a guardian. Statistics released this week show that, in 2016, 16 of the Championship’s 24 clubs spent more than 100 per cent of their income on wages.
Yet, while the lure of Premier League riches prompts ever-greater gambles, Wilder would never urge United owner Kevin McCabe to take a seat at the roulette wheel.
A decade ago, the 49-year-old was in charge at Halifax Town as the club slowly suffocated under a &p...

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