Chris Wilder explains Oliver Arblaster's Sheffield United mental health break

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00:00I've seen young Oli Allblasters out in the Middle East, I think.

00:02Is that more a mental health break than anything else?

00:06Because he's been working... It's not a bad one, is it?

00:08No, it's not, but I wish I got sent out there for a mental health break.

00:12But usually, like you said, it was a day off.

00:15It was a day off.

00:17No, yeah, it was something that

00:21we talked about and was needed from Oli.

00:24He's worked extremely hard.

00:25He's absolutely desperate to get back, but we can't rush that process.

00:30So, yeah, again, talked about it to you guys at length in terms of

00:36these boys don't feel comfortable being injured.

00:40They don't want to be injured.

00:41They won't be out there playing.

00:43They won't be out there adding and contributing to the team.

00:50Especially, you know, Blaster and what his career path has been so far

00:55and how well he's done.

00:56So, we have to make decisions and it's good for him to, as I said,

01:01get a little bit of...

01:04He'll be working out there as well,

01:06but get a bit of sun on his back and come back

01:10because, as you said, they don't want to be coming in at half seven,

01:13eight o'clock and leaving at five o'clock and watching the team-mates play

01:17and experiencing the highs that they did.

01:21He's delighted he's a team player.

01:22I mean, he's made up that the team's winning

01:26games of football and playing like we did on Wednesday night.

01:29He'd have watched that,

01:31but he would have watched it and felt a little bit of the envy

01:35of the players because, you know, he'd love to have been a part of it.

01:39Yes, I'm sure if you let him, he'd probably play tomorrow, wouldn't he?

01:42Yes, he would.

01:42Are you still looking at possibly next year or is there a chance that he might be back?

01:46Well, let's wait and see, but it's usually a nine-month injury.

01:49So, going back to that day in November.

01:55So, yes, it's going to be super tight.

01:58So, there's no gun to his head in terms of rushing him back.

02:03And at times, I should imagine our challenge will be to slow him down.