TAKE A WALKER ON THE WILDER SIDE

Blades boss Chris wants to bring Kyle ‘home’ to Bramall Lane.. but not just yet

KYLE WALKER has been told by Chris Wilder he can return to Sheffield United when he finishes at Manchester City.

Walker claims he would like to end his career back at his beloved Blades having spent 12 years with his boyhood side before leaving to join Tottenham in 2009.

The City defender (top, with Wilder and right, in his Blades days) has been back to Bramall Lane to watch United and Wilder says the door is always open for him to return.

“Kyle’s a Sheffield boy,” said the Blades manager. “I tried to tap him up when we played City, but he said he’s got another couple of years playing there.

“He’s one I would take and I think the world of him. I’m sure we’ll be able to find a role for him when he decides to leave Manchester.

He’s a top player and he’s a top performer in the best already said he wants to league in the world. He’s finish what has been a welcome back here anytime.” brilliant career back at Walker, 29, returns to Sheffield United. Don’t count Bramall Lane tonight with against it. City, and Wilder says their “He’s got my other famous old boy, Harry number and he Maguire, has also been back knows he can to see them. phone me Wilder recently met anytime. several former Blades players He’s at a supporters’ dinner and still said they are delighted by the team’s success on their return to the Premier League. “A number of ex-players come back to watch us when they have the opportunity, like Kyle and Harry Maguire,” he explained. “With some clubs’ ex-players, I get the feeling they don’t want the current crop to do well because they want to be remembered in a really good light, as possibly the best players and the best teams.

“But I never hear that here. The former players are real supporters of the football club.

“I believe they’re enjoying watching us play and seeing our progression over the last three years to the Premier League.”

Wilder claims the Blades – who sit an impressive seventh in the table – will have to be at their very best to get anything against City this evening.

“We’ll need to produce one of our best performances of the season to get a result,” he added.

“We know they will have the ball a lot, but I like to think we can cause them a few problems going the other way.”