When asked about reported interest on Monday, as the Blades prepare to face Barnsley in the Carabao Cup, Wilder played it straight.

“There are a few players on our radar. I’m doing a Geoffrey Boycott again, playing with a straight bat. I don’t think a lot of the younger generation will know who that is, but I do,” he said. “Theres no Geoffrey Boycott or Chris Tavaré now, with the way England play! But there are a lot of players on our radar. I did believe, and still do, that there’ll be a lot of business up and down the country until the deadline. Especially with clubs in the Premier League settling down their own squads and nail the 25. So some will become available. We have to be ready, and hopefully we are.”