{"id":90238,"date":"2025-05-10T14:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90238\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T14:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:16:20","slug":"it-would-be-the-best-thing-wrexham-transfer-target-brutally-told-to-leave-current-club-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/90238\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It would be the best thing’\u2026 Wrexham transfer target brutally told to leave current club this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wrexham could land one of their dream striker targets this summer after the player was told it\u2019s \u2018pointless\u2019 staying at his current club.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wrexham\u2019s list of summer transfer targets<\/a> continues to grow following their promotion from League One. And for Phil Parkinson<\/a> it looks like the attacking department is the one that he really wants to improve this summer.<\/p>\n

Last January, Wrexham broke their transfer record to sign Sam Smith<\/a> from Reading in a \u00a32million deal. He\u2019ll be a good option next season but after him, Wrexham<\/a> really don\u2019t have a lot.<\/p>\n

Fellow January signing Jay Rodriguez failed to kick on whilst Steven Fletcher is among the Wrexham players out of contract in 2025<\/a>, and the veteran frontman is looking likely to leave the Racecourse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Several attacking names have been linked with summer moves to Wrexham, with one being Joe Gelhardt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by George Wood\/Getty ImagesJoe Gelhardt told to leave Leeds United amid links to Wrexham<\/p>\n

Wrexham tried to sign Gelhardt in January<\/a> this year. Instead, he joined Hull City where he went on to score five goals in 20 Championship outings. Leeds United are willing to sell Gelhardt<\/a> after their promotion to the Premier League and pundit Don Goodman has urged the 23-year-old to leave Elland Road.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Football League World<\/a>, Goodman said: \u201cWith Joe Gelhardt it almost seems pointless keeping him at the football club if you\u2019re Leeds United. He\u2019s been there a long time and not made the breakthrough even when they\u2019ve been in the Championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, for all parties it would be the best thing for him to move on. Whether that\u2019s to Hull or not remains to be seen. Obviously, it was a tough season last season and Joe is still looking to kick on, really.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember him breaking through at Wigan, this talented young kid that everyone was excited about, but it hasn\u2019t really kicked on yet. So, hopefully the best is yet to come for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Jess Hornby\/Getty ImagesWrexham could be in two-horse race to sign Joe Gelhardt<\/p>\n

With Gelhardt looking almost nailed on to leave Leeds United this summer, expect there to be strong interest in signing the forward. Already, it\u2019s been revealed that Hull City are keen to re-sign Gelhardt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Wrexham have a huge upper hand over most teams in the division, simply because of who they are. Their journey and the lifestyle that comes with playing for Wrexham is unmatched and arguably more attractive than playing for a Hull City side who finished 21st in the Championship last season.<\/p>\n

That said, Gelhardt says he enjoyed his time at Hull. It\u2019s close to Leeds too so that could play a factor. Whether or not he joins Wrexham remains to be seen but it looks certain that he leaves Leeds United.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrexham could land one of their dream striker targets this summer after the player was told it\u2019s \u2018pointless\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,42781,393,4884,38670,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-90238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-don-goodman","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-joe-gelhardt","13":"tag-leeds","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114483965948105874","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90238","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=90238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}