Max Purvis

Central Defender - Free Agent
4 Oct 2027
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Marked for Max Purvis

5 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad31 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Max Purvis

14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Wrexham lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market31 Aug 2026

George Thomason turns Shrewsbury Town down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Market31 Aug 2026

Business is business: Issa Kaboré goes

West Ham United paid $8.8M 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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Age has not caught Kieffer Moore yet — 8.08

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.08 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

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

Wrexham turn down Coventry City for George Dobson

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Wrexham rebuffed over Jordan Archer

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Portsmouth have kept their man, and Wrexham go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match29 Aug 2026

Wrexham see off Sheffield Wednesday

Three points for Wrexham, 3‑1 the final word against Sheffield Wednesday in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad31 Aug 2026

14 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.

In brief

  • Transfer targets A loan move for Regan Slater is in the works
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Dominic Hyam
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
Back issues
4 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad24 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Max Purvis

22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Wrexham lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market24 Aug 2026

Wrexham sign Marcus Edwards for $25.1M

The paperwork is done: Marcus Edwards joins from Burnley in a deal worth $25.1M. Now comes the harder part.

Match22 Aug 2026

Wrexham win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 92th minute. Stoke City will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Market24 Aug 2026

Harry Ashfield says no to Tarxien Rainbows

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Harry Ashfield had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Jérémy Petris due for a Wrexham medical

Everything agreed with Watford, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market24 Aug 2026

So close: Dan Scarr’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Millwall moved on, Dan Scarr reports back to Wrexham, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Market24 Aug 2026

Jacques Ekomié wants European nights

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.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

The town asked, and Wrexham paid $25.1M

Marcus Edwards was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $25.1M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Wrexham rebuffed over Calvin Ramsay

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Liverpool have kept their man, and Wrexham go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief