William Osula

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Wrexham
12 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for William Osula

6 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

$13.5M settles it between the clubs for Facundo Torres

Austin FC 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.

Market

Wrexham sell Issa Kaboré for $10.4M

Issa Kaboré has left for Tottenham in a $10.4M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 6 in, 18 out at Wrexham

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 6 arrived, 18 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market

Crystal Palace 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.

Squad

Maxim De Cuyper in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wrexham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Everton join the queue for Josh Windass

Add another name to the list: Everton have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Josh Windass. The answer from Wrexham has not changed — yet.

The dugout

No hiding place for Zak Vyner

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zak Vyner, and the manager let it.

Squad

No place for Harvey White in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Wrexham are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Squad

15 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

Back issues
5 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Wrexham run riot against Sheffield Wednesday

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.

Player ratings

Both of them William Osula's — 8.51

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.51, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Business is business: Ben Sheaf goes

Crystal Palace paid $12.6M 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.

Market

Oliver Rathbone moves on

Brighton pay $6.4M, 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.

Market

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.

Market

Wrexham turn down Cheltenham Town for Danny Imray

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

Squad

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.

Transfer targets

Wrexham rebuffed over Facundo Torres

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

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Josh Windass at his very best

Marked 9.09. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Wrexham.

In brief

2 Edition

The Newcastle United Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

An offer of $52.3M for Rico Lewis

Newcastle United have gone to Manchester City with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Newcastle United make their move for Julio Soler

$10.7M on the table at Bournemouth. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

William Osula says no to Oxford United

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ben Nelson

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

Market

Nico González 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 Newcastle United hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Boardroom

Newcastle United go back to the board over Rico Lewis

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $58.7M — a club that wants Rico Lewis enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Sven Botman in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Newcastle United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Newcastle United lose Tyler Jones

52 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Amar Dedić stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Amar Dedić and Newcastle United agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief