Marked for Harrison Armstrong
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Wrexham
Jacques Ekomié and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Sep 2026
Middlesbrough left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ryan Barnett ran the middle of the pitch — 6.77
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 10 combined actions and a mark of 6.77, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
The leaders are next for Wrexham
Ipswich Town top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
14 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Paul Mullin gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match22 Sep 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Norwich City came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
Business is business: Lewis O'Brien goes
Tottenham paid $7.5M and Wrexham took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
Lewis O'Brien has gone, the accounts have $7.5M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wrexham close the window on a squad of their own making
5 in and 13 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Market7 Sep 2026
Jacques Ekomié wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Wrexham hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Liberato Cacace to Nottingham Forest has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Wrexham with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wrexham counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Wrexham now.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. SuperSport United have kept their man, and Wrexham go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
13 new faces, and Wrexham are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Harrison Armstrong
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Harrison Armstrong has come out of that comparison in the side, and Wrexham have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match29 Aug 2026
4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Market31 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Wrexham have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.30 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Harrison Armstrong did not need any: 7.95, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market31 Aug 2026
Ryan Longman hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wrexham can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
Everton come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Wrexham did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market31 Aug 2026
Leyton Orient pay $310.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sunderland have kept their man, and Wrexham go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Wrexham offered $14.8M; Tottenham said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Wrexham
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market17 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nicholas Thompson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Liam Allen joins the Wrexham first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Liam Allen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Adam Bell has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match15 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Wrexham training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Callum Doyle is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Simon Morgan left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Wrexham will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Burnley wanted more than $26.2M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market10 Aug 2026
Colchester United pay $1.5M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $29.2M — a club that wants Marcus Edwards enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nathan Broadhead commits to Wrexham for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Wrexham
Jacques Ekomié and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Northampton Town have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about George Thomason. The answer from Wrexham has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everton have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Wrexham, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
412 appearances across 18 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Everton this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Carlos Alcaraz and Everton agree another 4 years.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Everton have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Hull City: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Market3 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Seamus Coleman has his answer from Everton; what he does with it is the next window’s story.