Josh Windass

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Wrexham
21 Oct 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Josh Windass

60 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Wrexham march on in the cup

Cheltenham Town are out and Wrexham go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Danny Ward

There were 7 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.

Player ratings

Vintage Josh Windass — 8.21

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.21, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market

Wrexham say no — this time

The offer from Sunderland for Danny Ward was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Words at Wrexham training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorrel Hato 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.

Transfer targets

Brighton tell Wrexham: Brajan Gruda is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Words exchanged at Wrexham

Seb Revan and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

A bad afternoon for Wrexham against Norwich City

1‑2 to Norwich City, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ronald

“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

Back issues
59 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Danny Ward 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.

Market

West Bromwich Albion 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.

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Micah Mbick deal

Wrexham ran out of time with Charlton Athletic. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Squad

Words exchanged at Wrexham

Jorrel Hato and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market

Burnley join the queue for Josh Windass

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

Squad

Liberato Cacace signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Liberato Cacace commits to Wrexham for another 5 years.

Transfer targets

Wrexham rebuffed over Keisuke Osako

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

Match

George Thomason the difference as Wrexham beat Preston

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: George Thomason. 1‑0 against Preston, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

A row about effort at Wrexham

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nathan Broadhead was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

58 Edition

The Sheffield Wednesday Herald

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Di'Shon Bernard agrees terms with Colchester United

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Sheffield Wednesday people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Louie Barry 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 Sheffield Wednesday can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Sheffield Wednesday baulk at the price for Luke Shaw

Manchester United wanted more than $5.1M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets

Deadline beats Sheffield Wednesday to Amadou Onana

The clock did what Aston Villa would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 23 in, 13 out at Sheffield Wednesday

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 23 arrived, 13 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market

Connal Trueman has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sheffield Wednesday they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Svante Ingelsson wants more than Sheffield Wednesday are offering

“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.

Transfer targets

Wrexham tell Sheffield Wednesday: Josh Windass is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Words exchanged at Sheffield Wednesday

Liam Cooper and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

In brief

56 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Wrexham bid $23.9M for Mojmír Chytil

The offer went to Paris Saint-Germain this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Match

Chastening afternoon for Wrexham

A 0‑3 beating by Watford was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

The dugout

Jorrel Hato: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Wrexham have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets

An offer of $16.9M for Leonardo Campana

Wrexham have gone to Monaco 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

Wrexham bid $12.9M for Josh Sargent

The offer went to Liverpool this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market

Ryan Hardie 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.

Squad

Anthony Patterson stands alone

7 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.

Market

Watford watching Anthony Patterson

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Wrexham have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Ben Sheaf delivers — 7.76

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Ben Sheaf scored, was marked 7.76, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

In brief

44 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

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.

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.

Squad

Words at Wrexham training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nathan Broadhead 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.

Market

A season away well spent by Oliver Rathbone

34 games, 2 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Wrexham

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad

Kévin Testud stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Kévin Testud and Wrexham agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

No hiding place for Josh Windass

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

Market

Wrexham put Dominic Hyam up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Dominic Hyam may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

The dugout

Oliver Rathbone 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 Oliver Rathbone trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

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The Wrexham Courier

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Jay Rodriguez 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.

Squad

Julian Widecki-Estima 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Kieffer Moore

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

Loan watch

Thomas O'Connor first choice at Oldham Athletic

40 starts and a season average of 6.74. The loan is doing exactly what it was arranged to do.

Market

The Jacques Ekomié talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Wrexham know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Loan watch

Blackpool cannot leave Oliver Rathbone out

32 starts and an average of 6.77. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.

The dugout

Josh Windass has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Josh Windass has written the date down.

The dugout

Joe Worrall knocks on the manager's door

“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.

Squad

A wage question at Wrexham

Ben Whiteman has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.

In brief

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The Wrexham Courier

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Loan watch

George Thomason keeps scoring at Doncaster Rovers

37 appearances away from home and 13 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

The dugout

No hiding place for Davis Keillor-Dunn

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

Squad

Julian Widecki-Estima signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Julian Widecki-Estima commits to Wrexham for another 3 years.

Market

The Anthony Patterson talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Wrexham know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market

Still no ink between Wrexham and Sam Smith

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Wrexham, another week without a signature from Sam Smith.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Modou Faal’s exile

5 goals in 35 games at Peterborough United — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Wrexham updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Loan watch

Seb Revan has made Wycombe Wanderers’s shirt his own

28 starts now, an average of 6.85, and the team sheet at Wycombe Wanderers has stopped being a question. Exactly what everybody signed up for.

The dugout

The manager makes Josh Windass a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Wrexham. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Squad

A wage question at Wrexham

Paul Mullin has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.

In brief

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The Wrexham Courier

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No mercy from Wrexham

Bristol City will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Wrexham were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Match

The season ends: position 17 for Wrexham

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 60 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Wrexham

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Wrexham is running low.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Lewis O'Brien delivers — 7.55

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Lewis O'Brien scored, was marked 7.55, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Market

Wrexham may not be able to give Anthony Patterson what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Anthony Patterson wants continental football; whether Wrexham can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Wrexham

Patrick Dorgu was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Whatever happens, Wrexham do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

The terraces

Wrexham supporters have found a favourite in Jacques Ekomié

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Jacques Ekomié has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Patrick Dorgu

Marked 8.06 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

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The Wrexham Courier

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Anthony Patterson keeps Wrexham in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 15 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

No end in sight to Wrexham's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Wrexham has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at Wrexham

Patrick Dorgu was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Boardroom

Wrexham still without a manager

14 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.

Loan watch

Ryan Hardie keeps scoring at Bolton Wanderers

38 appearances away from home and 14 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Player ratings

Liberato Cacace beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Josh Windass

“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.

Match

Honours even between Wrexham and Sheffield United

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Mark Fisher: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief

28 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Terms done: Anthony Patterson is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Girona waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Wrexham is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Match

No mercy from Wrexham

Middlesbrough will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Wrexham were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Boardroom

Alexander Carter has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Wrexham can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Squad

8 saves: Anthony Patterson was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Paul Mullin puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Wrexham, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Josh Windass’s move to Coventry City falls through

The deal that would have taken Josh Windass to Coventry City 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Wrexham against Ipswich Town

0‑2 to Ipswich Town, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Ryan Hardie’s exile

12 goals in 31 games at Bolton Wanderers — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Wrexham updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Player ratings

Nathan Broadhead stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.87 on the card, and the Wrexham support went home talking about one name.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Squad Karlan Grant has had enough of the bench
  • The dugout Eliot Matazo gets it from the manager
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The Wrexham Courier

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Jay Rodriguez out for 23 days

23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Wrexham lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Player ratings

Both of them Kieffer Moore's — 8.78

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.78, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Josh Windass, 33, rolls back the years — 8.27

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.27 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Josh Windass 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.

Transfer targets

Pedro Porro will not be coming to Wrexham

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Tottenham is saying, and nobody at Wrexham is enjoying the guessing.

Match

Wrexham cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Patrick Dorgu 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.

Match

Wrexham get the job done against Portsmouth

A 2‑1 win over Portsmouth, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Match

Nathan Broadhead the difference as Wrexham beat Queens Park Rangers

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Nathan Broadhead. 2‑1 against Queens Park Rangers, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

23 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jay Rodriguez

46 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.

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.

Player ratings

Vintage Josh Windass — 8.61

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.61, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Anthony Patterson stands alone

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.

Market

Ryan Longman 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.

Market

Polokwane City 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.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Issa Kaboré delivers — 7.60

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Issa Kaboré scored, was marked 7.60, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

Tempers go at Wrexham

Jacques Ekomié was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Liberato Cacace was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

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The Wrexham Courier

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

The knee: Jay Rodriguez out for 76 days

76 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Wrexham lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ryan Barnett

Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Wrexham make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Wrexham have 4 straight wins of it.

Market

Jacques Ekomié raises the bar for Wrexham

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Wrexham heard it as anything else.

Squad

A falling-out at Wrexham

Patrick Dorgu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Wrexham find a way past Oxford United

Oxford United made Wrexham work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Match

Wrexham find a way past Preston

Preston made Wrexham work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Patrick Dorgu was the difference for Wrexham

Marked 7.91. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Ryan Hardie’s exile

10 goals in 17 games at Bolton Wanderers — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Wrexham updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief

11 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jay Rodriguez

138 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.

Squad

The step up is real for Giovanni Leoni

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Tempers go at Wrexham

Jacques Ekomié was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The dugout

Max Weiß 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.

The dugout

When it matters, Ben Whiteman 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.

Squad

Max Weiß: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Wrexham will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from George Thomason’s exile

3 goals in 7 games at Doncaster Rovers — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Wrexham updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

The dugout

A door opens for Josh Windass

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Market

The Bailey Cadamarteri question follows Wrexham around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Bailey Cadamarteri’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

10 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Bailey Cadamarteri damages knee ligaments — 39 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 39 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

The wait goes on for Wrexham

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

The step up is real for Luca Williams-Barnett

At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Match

Ipswich Town take the points off Wrexham

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Alexander Carter to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

No hiding place for Eliot Matazo

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

Boardroom

Wrexham counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Wrexham now.

The dugout

Elliot Lee gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Elliot Lee is on it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Josh Windass

Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

9 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Bailey Cadamarteri damages knee ligaments — 46 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 46 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

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.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Ben Whiteman — 6.88

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 15 actions, 6.88, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Match

Norwich City take the points off Wrexham

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Match

Wrexham come up short against Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Wrexham

15 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

Alexander Carter faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Alexander Carter after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Player ratings

Nathan Broadhead was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 14. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Looking ahead

Wrexham take on the side everybody is chasing

Ipswich Town arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

In brief