Sheffield United‘s Oli McBurnie is a summer target for Scottish Premiership champions Rangers.
McBurnie looks set to depart Bramall Lane following relegation from the top flight and is thought to be valued at around £15million.
Losing the 24-year-old for that amount would see the Blades take a £5m hit after signing the striker from Swansea City six years ago.
McBurnie, a Rangers supporter, scored just once in 27 appearances for United last season. He will miss Scotland’s European Championship campaign with a fractured metatarsal.
A number of first-team regulars are expected to leave the Yorkshire club as they undergo a reboot following a doomed second year in the Premier League.
Sander Berge is attracting interest, while Norwich City are keeping tabs on full back Jayden Bogle if highly-rated Max Aarons moves away from Carrow Road.
‘I was delighted to be given the opportunity in 2016 and have been delighted with the success which we have achieved, including two promotions and a highest ever Premier League finish.’
Wilder had overseen an astonishing transformation of the Blades since replacing Nigel Adkins, guiding them to the League One title in his first season.
They were promoted from the Championship two years later and last season, despite being widely tipped to go straight back down, guided the Yorkshire club to a magnificent ninth place.
United striker Oli McBurnie wrote on Twitter: ‘Today is a sad day for everyone at this great football club. Thank you for everything you did for me and my family, gaffer, I will never forget it. We shared some fantastic times on and off the pitch together. Sorry we let you down in the end.’ Wilder has left, however, with the club tailed off at the foot of the Premier League amid tensions with the Bramall Lane hierarchy making his position seemingly untenable.
Rows over recruitment, a lack of backing in the January transfer window and differences of opinion in the long-term vision for the club with owner Prince Abdullah made it a matter of when not if a man, who according to his former keeper Dean Henderson was worthy of a statue outside the ground, would leave.
Interest in Wilder from Celtic complicated the £7million goodbye talks, with United keen on compensation should he walk straight into work elsewhere.
