Harrison Burrows to Trabzonspor: Chris Wilder's message to Sheffield United board amid seven-figure interest
Chris Wilder hopes to keep hold of Harrison Burrows amid transfer window interest from Turkish Super Lig club Trabzonspor, but accepts financial realities might dictate otherwise.
If that is the case, the Sheffield United manager at least wants to be involved in the discussions.
It emerged over the weekend that Trabzonspor had made a bid for Burrows, reported to be £3.5m and were considering coming in again for a player Wilder signed 18 months ago from Peterborough.
Burrows has fallen behind Sam McCallum in the left-back pecking order in recent weeks and in the immediate term didn’t do his prospects any good as part of a defensive unit that shipped four goals to League One Mansfield Town in Sunday’s shock FA Cup defeat, though nor did anyone for that matter.
Addressing the Burrows speculation, Wilder said: “There’s talk about it but nobody has come to me and said what do you think?
“I don’t want to lose any players while understanding that if something does come and everybody thinks it’s right, or it’s from a financial point of view.
“But I’m trying to build and Harrison was part of that. At the moment he’s part of a battle with Sammy and he won that battle last year and Sammy is winning that battle this year, so he’s got a fight on his hands to push and get into the team.
“But he’s still a young player and somebody we want around the place. If the time comes where the owners and the chief exec say we really have to consider this then I’d like to think I’d be part of that discussion.”
United have signed two players so far in January, extending Patrick Bamford’s short-term deal to 18 months and Ki-Jana Hoever on loan from Wolves until the end of the season. Sunday’s FA Cup exit leaves them with just a Championship play-off place to chase this campaign.