The Sheffield United manager saw his side promoted alongside Aston Villa last season.
The Sheffield United manager, Chris Wilder, has claimed his side are operating in a different market to Aston Villa.
Both Sheffield United and Aston Villa were promoted to the Premier League last season, alongside Norwich City.
United, though, are the only ones yet to add to their squad in the summer transfer window, with Aston Villa tying up deals for Anwar El Ghazi, Jota Peleteiro, Wesley Moraes and Kortney Hause, and Norwich landing Patrick Roberts and Josip Drmic.
But Wilder expects things to start hotting up for his side soon, as potential targets return from their summer breaks.
And he is confident that Sheffield United are an ‘attractive club to come to’.
“We cannot compete (with most Premier League rivals) and people will go: ‘oh, he is saying that again,'” the Blades boss said, as quoted by The Yorkshire Post.
“I think it will be us and Norwich in terms of the market we are (in). Villa are in a different market to us and you have to accept that and look at the teams who have established themselves in the Premier League after coming up in recent years.
“The Burnleys, Bournemouths and Brightons have been in the Premier League two, three or four years and obviously the riches that have been brought to those clubs make them in a lot stronger position. That has got to be our ambition to be in that position. Then you go above that.
“I think Villa will go on. Do they do what Wolves have done? I don’t know, but Wolves were a different one as well. They were set for the Premier League when Nuno (Espirito) Santo took over in the Championship.”
The Queens Park Rangers winger, Luke Freeman, has been strongly linked with a move to Sheffield United this week.
And the Blades have been credited with interest in a number of alleged Aston Villa targets, including Neal Maupay, Bradley Dack and Ben Gibson.
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