Daniel Phillips

Right Forward - Wrexham
3 May 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Daniel Phillips

96 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

29 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Issa Kaboré breaks a bone — 15 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 15 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Wrexham

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market

A season away well spent by Paul Mullin

30 games, 11 goals, and a squad option that has arrived without a fee attached. The interesting question at Wrexham now is not whether he plays but who he displaces.

The dugout

Nathan Broadhead knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nathan Broadhead trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The Davis Keillor-Dunn story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Davis Keillor-Dunn signs something — a contract at Wrexham or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

When it matters, Daniel Phillips plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

Danny Imray placed on the list

Wrexham have made Danny Imray available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Market

Wolverhampton send scouts to watch Ibrahim Fullah

Two seats in the directors' box were spoken for, and the name in the notebook was Ibrahim Fullah. Nothing has been offered yet.

Squad

Questions about Robert Morgan on the training pitch

The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.

In brief

Back issues
60 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Wrexham give the job to Joshua Jones

The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.

Match

Wrexham march on in the cup

Crawley Town are out and Wrexham go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings

What a way to start for Daniel Phillips — 7.45

1 on the scoresheet on his first appearance and a mark of 7.45 beside it. Most debuts are got through; this one was enjoyed, by him and by everybody watching it.

Market

George Dobson asks to leave Wrexham

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout

George Dobson says Wrexham went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

Ibrahim Fullah, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.87

A mark of 7.87 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Dário Essugo

Wrexham asked and Chelsea said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Wrexham come up short against Preston

Preston left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Anthony Patterson

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief