{"id":225080,"date":"2025-06-29T22:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T22:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/225080\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T22:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T22:30:14","slug":"former-liverpool-star-set-to-have-wrexham-medical-on-monday-as-ryan-reynolds-and-rob-mcelhenney-backed-side-aim-to-make-mark-on-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/225080\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Liverpool star set to have Wrexham medical on Monday &#8211; as Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney-backed side aim to make mark on Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-409\/joe-bernstein.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JOE BERNSTEIN<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-211\/nathan-salt.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NATHAN SALT<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  15:26 EDT, 29 June 2025   |  Updated:  15:26 EDT, 29 June 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Wales international goalkeeper Danny Ward will have a medical at <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/wrexham\/index.html\" id=\"mol-a5d4ec60-551e-11f0-9547-d9341da2c26e\" rel=\"noopener\">Wrexham<\/a> on Monday ahead of a return to his hometown club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Ward, 32, began as trainee at the Racecourse Ground before playing for <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/liverpool\/index.html\" id=\"mol-a5d2f090-551e-11f0-9547-d9341da2c26e\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a>, Aberdeen and Leicester, where he spent seven years until his contract ended this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The &#8216;keeper has won 44 international caps and his signing is a sign of Wrexham&#8217;s ambitions following promotion to The Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Ward is set to be Wrexham&#8217;s second-choice goalkeeper behind Arthur Okonkwo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He has experience of playing in the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/premierleague\/index.html\" id=\"mol-a5dd29c0-551e-11f0-9547-d9341da2c26e\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> and also featured prominently in the Championship during a loan spell at Huddersfield in the 2016-17 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Goalkeepers Callum Burton and Luke McNicholas are also part of the Wrexham squad.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-262835fd69e54e6d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99838447-0-image-a-51_1751224147257.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Goalkeeper Danny Ward is set to undergo a medical with Wrexham on Monday\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Goalkeeper Danny Ward is set to undergo a medical with Wrexham on Monday<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-9f0072e22cf79e6b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99838567-0-image-a-82_1751224693269.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Co-owners Ryan Reynolds (right) and Rob McElhenney are looking to add to Wrexham's goalkeeping options\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Co-owners Ryan Reynolds (right) and Rob McElhenney are looking to add to Wrexham&#8217;s goalkeeping options<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-b1ff6609b301591d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99838485-0-image-a-64_1751224304722.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"It is expected that Ward will be Wrexham's second-choice goalkeeper behind Arthur Okonkwo\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">It is expected that Ward will be Wrexham&#8217;s second-choice goalkeeper behind Arthur Okonkwo<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Liverpool defender Owen Beck is a loan target for Wrexham this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Beck, who impressed during a loan spell at Blackburn Rovers last season, is the great-nephew of Liverpool legend Ian Rush.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Wrexham will get their Championship campaign underway with an away game against Southampton on August 9.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Former Liverpool star set to have Wrexham medical on Monday &#8211; as Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney-backed side aim to make mark on Championship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By JOE BERNSTEIN and NATHAN SALT Published: 15:26 EDT, 29 June 2025 | Updated: 15:26 EDT, 29 June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[92,94,18673,179,27109,2312,93,79,100,16,15,1764,18833],"class_list":{"0":"post-225080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-leicester","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-rob-mcelhenney","13":"tag-ryan-reynolds","14":"tag-sport","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-transfer-news","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wales","20":"tag-wrexham"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114769023854522135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}