{"id":358479,"date":"2025-08-20T04:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358479\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T04:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:00:27","slug":"wrexham-and-birmingham-city-transfer-target-earns-enjoyable-review-from-manager-after-scoring-first-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358479\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham and Birmingham City transfer target earns ‘enjoyable’ review from manager after scoring first goal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wrexham might regret missing out on one player following his excellent performance over the weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since battling it out in League One for promotion, Wrexham<\/a> and Birmingham City have been linked with a number of the same players this summer.<\/p>\n

Tommy Doyle chose Birmingham<\/a> after the Red Dragons showed an interest in the Wolverhampton Wanderers midfielder.<\/p>\n

Doyle \u2018struggled\u2019<\/a> on his debut league outing for the Midlands outfit, while one player both teams missed out on was in superb form during gameweek two.<\/p>\n

\"Co-ownerPhoto by Malcolm Couzens\/Getty ImagesWrexham and Birmingham City transfer target impresses for Norwich City<\/p>\n

Wrexham and Birmingham wanted to sign Harry Darling<\/a> back in May, ahead of his contract with Swansea City expiring.<\/p>\n

However, the centre-back instead opted to snub both clubs, with Darling moving to Norwich City<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n

Wrexham lost to West Brom in gameweek two, while Norwich were in action against Portsmouth.<\/p>\n

They secured a 2-1 victory over Pompey, with Darling scoring the opening goal and earning the pre-assist for their second of the day.<\/p>\n

Following the clash, the former Wrexham target has received high praise from Liam Manning for his goal and the role he played in Josh Sargent\u2019s effort.<\/p>\n

As per Pink Un<\/a>, he said: \u201cAs is often the case with Harry, I think he was messing around at the end of training in the week. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe watched them against Oxford, to be fair, and thought it was an area that we could cause problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe launched one (throw) the other day and we thought, \u2018Yeah, we\u2019ll set up and use it\u2019. Credit to the lads because there is still a lot else that goes into set pieces that not everybody will see, the blocks and the movement and connecting those pieces. It was a really, really enjoyable goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know how important set pieces are. Credit to Nick (Stanley), credit to the lads for taking it on board. I was delighted for Harry to get off the mark. We need goals from all areas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TomPhoto by Alex Pantling\/Getty ImagesWrexham eye another centre-back<\/p>\n

Instead of Darling, Wrexham chose to sign Conor Coady from Leicester City to add some experience to their backline.<\/p>\n

However, the Dragons have so far shipped five goals in two league matches and Phil Parkinson wants more signings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Wrexham Insider<\/strong> exclusively revealed earlier this month that Calum Chambers has been looked at<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jack Robinson and Chris Mepham<\/a> are Wrexham centre-back targets as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrexham might regret missing out on one player following his excellent performance over the weekend. Since battling it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,69087,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-358479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-harry-darling","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115059099228087166","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358479","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=358479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}