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Premier League youngster is now the perfect striker target for Wrexham after his FA Cup setback

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Wrexham need a striker this month to fire them to promotion, and one Premier League prodigy could be the ideal target for the Red Dragons.

With Paul Mullin struggling to replicate his prolific form of the past this season, Wrexham have a burning desire to add a new forward to their ranks.

Doing so could make all the difference in the League One title race, with Wrexham looking to complete a third-successive promotion.

Of all the deals Wrexham could complete this month, getting a new striker must surely be a priority for Phil Parkinson, and we know just the player to go for.

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Will Lankshear needs first-team football, he’s not getting it at Spurs

Will Lankshear was retained by Tottenham Hotspur over the summer rather than going out on loan, with Ange Postecoglou believing keeping the young striker around the first-team would be best for the forward.

However, aside from a couple of starts in the Europa League, Lankshear has struggled to get minutes under his belt for the senior side.

Many had expected Lankshear would be a shoe-in to start the FA Cup tie against Tamworth this weekend, but Timo Werner was given the nod in the central striker role instead.

And, as the non-league team frustrated Tottenham on the day, there was no opportunity for Lankshear to make it onto the pitch, with Dominic Solanke called into action from the bench instead.

Wrexham were among those interested in Lankshear in the summer, and surely now, given his lack of minutes in North London, they have to go back in for the 19-year-old.

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Will Lankshear would be lethal in League One

After the season he had last year, in which he scored 25 goals in 26 youth games, Will Lankshear must surely be chomping at the bit to show what he can do on a regular basis.

While no one would expect the teenager to hit those kind of numbers in League One, you would assume Lankshear could at meet Wrexham’s goalscoring needs until the end of the season and clinch them a place in the top two.

Wrexham have been told they need Premier League quality, and Lankshear offers exactly that. Whether Spurs would let him go, amid their relentless injury crisis, is another matter, but a switch now would surely be in the best interests of the player.