‘This feels like a rather significant loss’ – Sheffield United dealt player blow: The verdict

This article is part of Football League World’s ‘The Verdict‘ series, which provides personal opinions from the FLW writers regarding the latest breaking news, teams, players, managers, potential signings and more…

It is looking very unlikely that Rhian Brewster will feature again this season for Sheffield United.

The 21-year-old has scored four goals in all competitions this season and was really growing into life under Paul Heckingbottom, but he now requires a hamstring operation to get back fit and firing for the 2022/23 campaign.

Fortunately, the Blades have plenty of other options at the top of the pitch with Ollie McBurnie and David McGoldrick currently being utilised as impact substitutes.

Brewster’s injury should make way for more regular minutes for Iliman Ndiaye who has been one of the shining lights of the season at Bramall Lane.

We gathered the thoughts of a selection of FLW writers to see how they feel Brewster’s injury will impact the Blades’ fortunes in the coming months…

Toby Wilding

This feels like a rather significant loss both for Sheffield United, and Brewster himself.

After a difficult start to his time at Bramall Lane, it did seem as though the striker was starting to get towards the sort of form that will have been expected of him when this move was first announced.

That looked to have nicely coincided with a turn in form that had seen the Blades start to look like genuine play-off contenders, so to lose that asset in Brewster’s influence, could be a big blow to those hopes of a top six spot.

Indeed, with Lys Mousset loaned out, and David McGoldrick and Oli McBurnie yet to really fire this season, it seems this has now left a lot of responsibility on the shoulders of Billy Sharp in attack for