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Wrexham chief sends 'busy' January transfer warning to Birmingham City in promotion race
Wrexham director Shaun Harvey has revealed that Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds have given the club the green light to spend accordingly in the forthcoming January transfer window, as they and Birmingham City - among others - do battle towards the top of the League One table.
Two divisions lay between Wrexham and Blues last season but the Dragons were promoted and Blues relegated. Both, despite those mixed fortunes, currently sit in the League One top six ahead of the packed Christmas schedule, with Blues having already got one over on their Welsh counterparts in the 'Hollywood derby' at St Andrew's earlier in the season.
When it comes to recruitment, both clubs are likely to be busy next month as they look to continue asserting themselves on the third tier; Blues are hot favourites to win promotion back to the Championship at the first attempt, while for Wrexham it'd be three promotions in as many years under Phil Parkinson. The former Bradford boss, director Harvey says, will be backed in the market, too, as they seek to make it happen.
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“Rob and Ryan have always supported Phil’s ambition. We will be active in the transfer market during January, because we’re in a position of strength," Harvey said at the end of last month, as quoted by WalesOnline. “If we go any further forward from where we are now, we get promoted, and that is the objective. It’s difficult to say what and where, because there are still weeks to go before the window opens.
“Then it is a case of who’s available, and who will actually strengthen us. We’ve had a policy of trying to ensure that we sign players, not just for this division, but for the next division as well. Fortunately, it’s easier now with the higher we get in the leagues, because players never really wanted to drop down. We had to pay for that privilege and we called it the non-league tax.
“Where we are now is that there are players that would come to play for Wrexham in League One that would not play for any other club in that division. That’s what we’ve been able to create so I suspect we’ll be busy.”
*Harvey was speaking at an event held as part of a joint-fundraising visit involving Wrexham and the Kick4Life charity which aims to help children in the southern African country of Lesotho.
