Wilder’s Sheffield United are on course to replace Huddersfield Town in next season’s Premier League.
The Sheffield United manager, Chris Wilder, would have been a “great appointment” for Huddersfield Town, according to the former Terriers boss, Simon Grayson.
Huddersfield hired the former Borussia Dortmund II manager, Jan Siewert, as David Wagner’s successor on Monday – the latest example of an English top-flight club preferring to look overseas than down the leagues.
Had they gone down the later route instead then Wilder – who has taken Sheffield United from the middle of League One to within reach of the Championship’s automatic places in less than three years – would have been among the stand-out candidates.
And speaking to Talksport on Tuesday lunchtime, Grayson concurred, saying: “I don’t want to upset any Sheffield United fans, but somebody like Chris Wilder would have been a great appointment.
“He’s doing a fantastic job in the Championship. He’d have loved to work in the Premier League, I’m pretty sure of it.
“And hopefully he will carry that form with Sheffield United. But he would have been a perfect example of a manager that could keep Huddersfield up, but if they went down he could work in the Championship again.”
Grayson – who had a spell on loan with Sheffield United’s city rivals, Sheffield Wednesday – led Huddersfield into the Championship at the expense of the Blades seven years ago.
But the 49-year-old is currently out of work after failed spells at Sunderland and Bradford City.
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