The Wrexham Courier
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$25.1M settles it between the clubs for Marcus Edwards
Burnley have accepted the money. What Wrexham do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market17 Aug 2026
Danny Imray turns Crawley 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Wrexham sell Arthur Okonkwo for $6.6M
Arthur Okonkwo has left for Osasuna in a $6.6M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Wrexham sell a favourite for $6.6M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Arthur Okonkwo was one of the reasons people came, and $6.6M does not replace that by itself.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Ben Sheaf pops up at the right end — 7.88
7.88, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Market17 Aug 2026
Business is business: Lewis Brunt goes
Wolverhampton paid $1.5M 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Wrexham go back to the board over Marcus Edwards
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $29.4M — a club that wants Marcus Edwards enough to be asked twice.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Wrexham
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Stephen Bailey joins the Wrexham first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stephen Bailey is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Match Wrexham find a way past Birmingham
- Squad Words at Wrexham training over how hard people work
- Transfer targets Wrexham ask about Calvin Ramsay