Wrexham have announced two new signings as Phil Parkinson continues to mould his squad ahead of the League One campaign.
Wrexham’s transfer window has been productive so far with three signings completed before Monday evening.
Goalkeeper Arthur Okonkwo, defender Lewis Brunt and midfielder George Dobson all signed on the dotted line for Wrexham after back-to-back promotions.
Phil Parkinson wanted more signings though and made it clear that Wrexham were working on a couple of potential signings.
Two deals have now been announced with goalkeeper Callum Burton and left back Sebastian Revan joining the Wrexham ranks.
Let’s dig into Burton, who joins Wrexham on a free transfer until 2026…
Who is Wrexham signing Callum Burton?
Burton hails from Newport in Shropshire, just about an hour away from Wrexham.
The 6ft 2in goalkeeper came up through the Shrewsbury Town ranks and was highly-rated in his early days, featuring for England at Under-16, Under-17 and Under-18 levels.
Burton only made one first-team appearance for Shrewsbury though and was sold to Hull City in 2017 following loan spells with Market Drayton Town, Workington, Nuneaton Town, Southport and Telford United.
Playing time never arrived at Hull and Burton spent time on loan at Salford City and Chesterfield before signing for Cambridge United in 2019.
Burton won promotion alongside now-Wrexham hero Paul Mullin at Cambridge in 2021, but was still released and joined Plymouth Argyle.
Mostly serving as backup to Michael Cooper, Burton has only played 30 first-team games in three years with Argyle.
The 27-year-old has been a solid backup goalkeeper in recent years and will now join the Wrexham goalkeeping ranks alongside Okonkwo, Mark Howard and Luke McNicholas.
What the managers say about Burton
“Callum’s involvement in the team was excellent. He’s ended up playing 26 games in a promotion-winning side, which for him on his CV, you can never say you’re in a good position when you’re not at a club, but he certainly has a strong start point in the season that he’s had. He’s contributed massively to the success. You look at some of the key moments and saves that he’s made along the way, we’re obviously really pleased that he’s been able to do that, and he’s played a part in it. Unfortunately, you have to make really horrible decisions.”
“More often than not, the decisions that you make as a manager are unpopular, because people will disagree with them, or players you’re upsetting, and then when you upset a player, you upset all the people that live with them, and are in and around their life as well. You have to accept that’s the case. It’s certainly no slight on his ability or character, but we can’t carry all of the players that we want to in that position. Callum moves on and we wish him very well, because he’s played a major part in it. No-one will ever take away that promotion medal from him. He’s had a good couple of years with us, he’s ended up playing more last season than perhaps it looked like he was going to at one point, and he made a big contribution to us.” – Former Cambridge United boss Mark Bonner.
“He must have had times where he’s felt ‘I’m never going to get a chance here’, but I can honestly say in the 18 months he’s been here I don’t think he’s ever had a bad training session, ever,” Schumacher said after Burton’s heroics. He’s never shown a bad attitude, he’s always supported Michael through good times and bad, and he deserved his moment tonight,” – Former Plymouth Argyle boss Steven Schumacher.
“When he played here he loved it. He has got ambition to play football, not just to sit on the bench and that’s one of the reasons we have signed him. He’s a good lad, he’s very enthusiastic, and he wants to get better. I feel now we have got two terrific young goalkeepers who can challenge each other,” – Former Plymouth Argyle boss Ryan Lowe.