TalkSPORT pundit accuses 'disrespectful' Chris Wilder of 'double standard' after Sheffield United exit

The 53-year-old left the Blades over the weekend after five years at the helm at Bramall Lane.

During that spell he took United from League One to the top half of the Premier League, but friction on a number of matters behind the scenes had made his working relationship with the club’s owners increasingly strained in recent months.

Wilder has spoken openly of his disgruntlement at times over the past couple of weeks, but former Crystal Palace chairman Jordan has argued that the manager was wrong to voice his frustrations publicly.

Speaking on talkSPORT, he said: “To some extent he has a right to have a very robust view about the future of Sheffield United and what he wants for the following season and what he wants to achieve.

"He has a right to take his owner to task and bring him into the picture. He doesn’t have the right to use the media to do it.

"Irrespective of whether people think that he has done this wonderful thing, he hasn’t done it on his own. He’s done it in conjunction with the people who own the football club. He was given an opportunity where his CV didn’t dictate that he was ready to be given it, but he took it, he was given the support, he was given a very good job.

"When I heard him going off the other day… I think there’s a way to operate and way not to, and you have every right to have very robust conversations because you’re the leader of the football team. Have a robust conversation with your chairman, tell him what you think, and if he don’t like it, walk out the door.

"But he decided to be very confrontational, very combative, and slightly disrespectful.

"We had his owner on two or three weeks earlier talking about how wonderful Chris Wilder was and how he wasn't going to be a casualty of what is a really really poor season. They’ve been really poor. Chris Wilder and his players have been responsible for that.

"He has been supported. Maybe he hasn’t been supported as much as he would like, but he’s been supported on players. He’s bought £25 million players, he’s signed players like Rhian Brewster that have been really poor, and he has to own that.

"They haven’t been great because his management and his players have been poor. You can always flick the blame onto what someone else should have done, but there has to be a point where you own that yourself.

"Can you imagine if one of the players had gone out in the media and questioned his decisions? It’s a double standard. They want absolute unequivocal loyalty and respect from their players, but they don’t want to give it for the guy they work for. It doesn’t make any sense to me.

"I think Chris Wilder has really done himself a disservice”.