Bryan Robson is set to be handed a shock return to
management with Sheffield United. The much-maligned former
Middlesbrough and Bradford boss is understood to have held talks
with the Bramall Lane hierarchy on Thursday and could be unveiled
as soon as this weekend.
While The Independent categorically states that 'Robson is to
return to management with newly relegated Sheffield United', The
Daily Mail describes the 50-year-old as 'poised to replace Neil
Warnock'. The Guardian concurs, reporting: 'Club officials were
conducting talks with Robson in Spain yesterday with a view to
installing him at the head of a new management team which includes
another former Manchester United player in Brian Kidd, who had been
slipping into the background at Bramall Lane but is now in line for
a prominent role as Robson's No2.'
The speed of Robson's expected appointment is a surprise, not least
because chief executive Kevin McCabe insisted that the club was in
no rush to find a successor to Warnock when he stood down on
Wednesday. The Blades confirmed yesterday that Stuart McCall,
Warnock's assistant, was out of the running. "We didn't feel Stuart
met the criteria necessary to get the club back into the
Premiership," explained club chairman Terry Robinson.
McCall is now believed to be on the verge of being unveiled as
Bradford's new manager, while Warnock is on a five-man shortlist to
take over the vacant post at Leicester City. Just four days after
the end of the Premiership season, the managerial merry-go-round is
already in full swing.
