Wrexham are on the verge of completing a major signing with Sam Smith poised to arrive from Reading before Monday’s transfer deadline.
2025 has now exactly started in perfect fashion for Wrexham.
Four points from five games to start the year has not been ideal and Wrexham now sit six points adrift of the automatic promotion spots.
Wrexham’s uneaten home record has now gone and it’s time for Phil Parkinson’s side to hit back and find some form again.
New signings could be pivotal to a turnaround and Wrexham signed wide man Ryan Longman from Hull City last week.
Parkinson wanted more signings though and Wrexham are now ready to pounce with a club-record addition.
Phil Parkinson ready to raid former club
Reports on Thursday suggested that Wrexham are now closing in on Sam Smith.
The Reading striker is all set for a big move with Wrexham paying a ‘multi-million pound’ fee for his signature.
Smith is understood to have snubbed European interest with Wrexham now on the verge of a deal.
The deal will sting for Reading as their top goalscorer is now poised to walk away and join a League One rival.
The Royals have been through hell in recent years and will now lose star striker Smith to a club legend.
Wrexham boss Parkinson is a Reading hero from his playing days having spent more than ten years with the club.
Parkinson racked up more than 350 league appearances for Reading and captained the club to promotion in 2002.
Parkinson has to think about the here and now though and is paying up to take Reading’s top striker away.
This imminent deal means Parkinson and Smith will return to Reading together in March, as Wrexham take on the Royals on March 11.
Wrexham legend involved in Sam Smith talks
Parkinson has raided his former club to sign Smith, but Wrexham will have been negotiating with a STōK Cae Ras legend in the process.
Reading’s director of recruitment is Brian Carey, who had a lengthy connection to Wrexham.
Carey spent two loan spells at Wrexham in the early 1990’s before eventually arriving permanently in 1996.
The Irishman ended up retiring as a Wrexham player with nearly 300 league appearances to his name before serving as manager, caretaker manager and assistant manager.
Now 56, Carey has moved from coaching to recruitment and is the ‘main man’ in this transfer window, attempting to stop major sales according to the Reading Chronicle.
Carey certainly won’t have wanted to lose Smith but has seemingly agreed to sell him to Wrexham ahead of Monday’s deadline.
That will sting for Carey but given his ties to Wrexham, he will certainly hope to see Smith thrive at the STōK Cae Ras – just as he did himself many years ago.