Ollie Palmer has been phased out of the Wrexham team, much to the ire of his dad, and he is now set to leave.
The Wrexham Insider reported last week that Ollie Palmer had been offered to multiple clubs this summer.
AFC Wimbledon and League Two outfit MK Dons have both looked at the player, whose wages could make a move tricky.
Now, ahead of the Southampton meeting, Phil Parkinson has confirmed Palmer will be leaving Wrexham in the 2025 summer window.
He said: “Kieffer Moore came in, so I had a good chat with Ollie Palmer this week. He needs to go and play, he knows that.
“Ollie has been brilliant for us, a great servant, but he’s ready to go and play.”
It comes after the striker was axed from the team earlier in 2025, leaving his dad angry.
Ollie Palmer’s dad sent message to Phil Parkinson
Paul Mullin and Palmer featured on January 28 as Wrexham were bested by Stevenage at the Racecourse Ground.
The duo spent the previous three seasons as the Dragons’ primary strike partnership, but the arrivals of Sam Smith and Jay Rodriguez on January 31 meant they became surplus to requirements.
Neither player featured in the league again, and Palmer’s father made his feelings very clear with a message to Parkinson in March.
Wrexham drew 0-0 with Bolton Wanderers on March 1, dealing their automatic promotion hopes a blow.
Smith and Rodriguez were taken off in that fixture, prompting a response from Palmer’s dad on social media.
As per Goal, he wrote: “They were a good buy [Smith and Rodriguez]”, accompanied by several thinking face emojis.
In a separate message following the Bolton stalemate, he added: “PP [Phil Parkinson] and SP [Steve Parkin] need to swallow their pride. Need to look at the team they had before Christmas!!
“That team got them to where they are now… just saying. Maybe a Smith and Palmer upfront.”
Why did Phil Parkinson drop Ollie Palmer at Wrexham
Palmer started the season as one of Parkinson’s primary strikers alongside Jack Marriott, who was filling in for the injured Mullin.
He scored three league goals and earned himself a new contract in late 2024, keeping him at the club until 2026.
But Parkinson has explained why Palmer was dropped alongside Mullin later in the season, saying in Welcome to Wrexham Season 4: “When we brought two strikers in January, we always knew we’d have a surplus of, and people would find themselves out of the 18-man squad because you can only have seven substitutes.
“That’s the way it is. Mulls didn’t just quite get the goals, which he normally does, and I thought he had a good start to the season, and his general performances were decent, but the goals just didn’t come, and we just needed more from the player in that number nine role.
“So Paul and Ollie found themselves out of the 18-man squad. It’s a harder level than we’d been operating at. So, both good lads, really good lads, have carried on training well for us. But it’s tough, it’s a competitive division, to make the step up is not easy.”