Jay Rodriguez

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Wrexham
22 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Jay Rodriguez

16 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Josh Windass: 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.

Squad

Jacques Ekomié 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.

Squad

Ryan Barnett signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ryan Barnett and Wrexham agree another 3 years.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Wrexham

Something was said to Leandro Andrade and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

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.

The dugout

Callum Doyle 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 Callum Doyle trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The Callum Doyle question follows Wrexham around

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

Looking ahead

Jay Rodriguez goes back to face Southampton

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Jay Rodriguez’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Wrexham needing him to play as if none of it matters.

The terraces

The Leandro Andrade rumours reach the terraces

What was a back-page link has become a chant, and the chant is not friendly. Wrexham would rather it were settled quietly, and it has stopped being quiet.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Wrexham bow out of the cup

West Bromwich Albion go through and Wrexham go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

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.

Squad

A falling-out at Wrexham

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

Squad

Max Cleworth stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Max Cleworth and Wrexham agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

Wrexham rescue it on 85 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 85. Swansea City had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Player ratings

Liberato Cacace runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Bailey Cadamarteri 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.

Match

Jay Rodriguez rescues a point for Wrexham

It needed Jay Rodriguez to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Swansea City, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

Callum Doyle 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 Callum Doyle trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief