Wrexham Manager Confirms Transfer Stance.
Wrexham confirmed back-to-back promotions at the end of the 2023/24 season and with the club preparing for life in League One, Phil Parkinson has told The Leader they won’t be paying over the odds for players.
Wrexham’s Hollywood dream continued this season when they ended their long-awaited Football League return with promotion. They’ll now be back in League One for the first time in 19 years.
Wrexham confirmed back-to-back promotions at the end of the 2023/24 season and with the club preparing for life in League One, Phil Parkinson has told The Leader they won’t be paying over the odds for players.
Wrexham’s Hollywood dream continued this season when they ended their long-awaited Football League return with promotion. They’ll now be back in League One for the first time in 19 years.
The club are owned by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhnney, but Parkinson has reassured fans that this doesn’t mean they’ll be paying more for players than other clubs.
Speaking to The Leader, Parkinson said:
“Like I have said before, the way we have operated is that we identify the player and then a deal is put in place. We then decide whether it represents good value and if it does, then we try and get it over the line.
“If it doesn’t then obviously we move away as we have done in the past for various reasons. We haven’t got to the stage of the summer of talking about fees and things like that.
“We are just looking at the players who are out of contract and the ones who have got one year left. Obviously we have done a lot of homework in the previous weeks as well.
“The clubs we will be competing with for those players will have equal spending power so I haven’t really sensed that at the moment that people are trying to inflate the price because it is Wrexham.”
How did Wrexham perform last season?
After a poor result at the start of the season, losing 5-3 to MK Dons at the Racecourse, Parkinson’s side didn’t lose again until September 23rd.
