After supporting the Blades as a toddler, Wilder's skilled relationship with the membership started nearly 40 years in the past as a participant in 1986.
The previous defender spent six years at Bramall Lane earlier than leaving to affix Rotherham after which returned for a short spell in 1998.
After profitable promotion as a supervisor at Oxford and Northampton, Wilder started his first spell as United boss in 2016 and steered them to the League One title in his first season.
The Blades completed runners-up within the Championship in 2019, sealing a return to the Premier League for the primary time since 2007 below Neil Warnock.
They excelled of their first season again within the high tier, beating Everton, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea on the way in which to ending ninth, their finest putting since 1975.
United nosedived the next season and Wilder left with the membership backside of the highest flight in March 2021.
Wilder had spells at Middlesbrough and Watford earlier than returning to Bramall Lane in December 2023 to succeed Paul Heckingbottom with the membership once more backside of the Premier League.
He couldn't save the facet from relegation, however he amassed 90 factors to complete third final season earlier than enduring the heartbreak of a play-off defeat to a Sunderland facet whose winner got here in stoppage time.
