Last season teams such as Charlton Athletic, Liverpool, Blackburn Rovers and Manchester United from the Premier League and Ipswich Town from Division One where looking at the talented youngster.
Soon the Blades will play our fourth Yorkshire Derby of the season at home to Leeds United in Worthington Cup, Neil Warnock reckons that with the money from League Cup United can afford to keep Tonge, but this might not matter now.
The Blades saving grace is that their is currently a closed transfer window which stops teams from buying new players, the transfer window re-opens in January, this means that if Tonge is on his way out then United have until January to find a replacement.
bladesfc.co.uk would like to say that this is newspaper talk and Sheffield United Official Website (www.sufc.co.uk) have revealed that these are just rumors.