CHRIS WILDER will be sacked as Sheffield United boss this week with Ruben Selles an early frontrunner to replace him.
The Blades boss was stunned after being told he will lose his job at Bramall Lane despite leading them to a club-record 92 points haul in the Championship last season.
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Although they officially ended on 90 points, as two of them were docked for breaking EFL rules.
But they had to settle for third after the two automatically promoted clubs Leeds and Burnley racked up a staggering 100 points.
And despite cruising past Bristol City in the play-off semis, they were stunned by a comeback Sunderland win in the final at Wembley.
The defeat means that the Blades have failed to gain promotion through the play-offs for the NINTH time
Selles, who worked wonders at Reading in League One but quit to help save Hull City from relegation last season, was sacked by the Tigers last month. But he has impressed the Blades hierarchy.
The American owners want to go down an AI stats-driven recruitment process and although Wilder is open to using that as a tool he was not completely in agreement with that method.
The club uses AI to scout players, and three players have been signed off the back of it.
The latest player to be signed with AI is little-known star Ehije Ukaki from Bulgarian top-flight club Botev Plovdiv.
Christian Nwachukwu and Jefferson Caceres were signed after being scouted by AI earlier this year.
Neither of them has made an appearance for the club, but Caceres was on the bench for one game.
Selles is seen as a huge gamble by fans as his record at Southampton after taking over from Nathan Jones in the Premier League was abysmal and his only Championship experience was his brief stint at Hull at the end of last season.
Wilder is in his second spell in charge of the Blades, having won promotion from League One to the Premier League, where they finished a club-record ninth in 2020.
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