Mark McGuinness

Central Defender - Sheffield United
29 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Mark McGuinness

6 Edition

The Sheffield United Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Andre Brooks

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

4 matches without a win for Sheffield United

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Sheffield United are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Kalvin Phillips in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sheffield United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Luke Faxon is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Tyrese Campbell falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market

Luke Faxon attracts admirers

The name of Luke Faxon has come up in conversations Sheffield United were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Match

A bad afternoon for Sheffield United against Blackburn Rovers

0‑1 to Blackburn Rovers, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Ki-Jana Hoever

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

Sheffield United put Mark McGuinness up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Mark McGuinness may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief