Chris Wilder appointed Sheffield United manager for third time with goal of promotion

Wilder returns after three months with club bottom

He went after clash with owners and playoff defeat

Chris Wilder has been confirmed as Sheffield United’s manager on a contract to 2027 after Rubén Sellés was sacked on Sunday. It is the 57-year-old’s third spell in charge of his boyhood club and he takes over a team bottom of the Championship after defeats in all five of their league matches.

United said in a statement that promotion remained the ambition for the season. The club are nine points off the playoffs and 13 behind the leaders, Middlesbrough, after the 5-0 loss at Ipswich on Friday that triggered Sellés’s dismissal.