Chris Wilder on Sheffield United striker Tom Cannon

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00:00I want to ask you about Tom, you touched on him there, he had to be dragged off at half-time.

00:04Does that show what he's about as a boy as well, because he'll be determined to show what he's about?

00:09Not only from a statistical point of view and data that we look deeply into,

00:16myself with the owners, it was the human aspect of it,

00:22what we knew about him as a personality, as a player, as a character,

00:27and taking that part of the game away, the other bit of the game away,

00:32what I saw, what he gives to us, he stretches the game, he opens the game up for us in possession.

00:40Of course, he's come to score goals and he will do, he's not really had any clear-cut chances,

00:47unbelievable clear-cut chances, but they'll come and we'll create opportunities for him

00:55and the forwards, but we've been delighted with him as a 21-year-old boy.

01:00There's more to come, we've not brought him to be incredibly, unbelievably judged after two or three games,

01:08we've brought him for a medium and long term.

01:11He has to impact on it short term, and he is doing, in our opinion,

01:16but we're delighted and as I said, we understand his personality, his character and his mentality

01:24just as much as the other parts of his game, the qualities that he brings to us.

01:31Is that something that you've found changed in modern football,

01:34that sort of instant players are expected to come in and hit the ground running

01:38when maybe 10, 20 years ago there wasn't that sort of instant focus on them?

01:42Is that something you've seen change?

01:44Yeah, I mean listen, it's a fair fee, so we had to pay a fair fee and I think the board,

01:50so they supported me and we were on the same page from what we wanted to do.

02:00So, you know, Luton paid £10 million for a centre-half,

02:05so that's the way the game is going and to get a young English player

02:12for that money, I think it's a reasonable fee.

02:17But certainly, yeah, I think it's like I said, that's the way the game is going.

02:23It has changed a little bit.

02:25It has changed a little bit, no criticism really, but it has changed a little bit from instant,

02:30I don't know whether, sorry, social media plays a part.

02:35Maybe it's always happened, but it used to happen down the pub,

02:38as I said, with the green and tucked under your arm.

02:41Yeah, but this is where it's at.

02:47Everybody has it, whether it's players or whether it's team performance,

02:51so it's part and parcel of the game and we all have to accept it,

02:55but it is instant and it is quickly judged, everything,

03:00so part of my job is obviously to make sure that we stay calm and we stay focused

03:08and we stay balanced in our opinion and we don't get too low

03:12when the performance is not exactly where we want it to be,

03:16but we reflect and review, which we do after the Portsmouth game

03:20and we don't get too high when it's a really good performance,

03:23it's quickly on to the next one and carry on in the way that we're performing and acting.