Wrexham have had a rise up the leagues unparalleled by any side in recent memory. Backed by Hollywood icons Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, the pair, along with a successful cohort of players and managerial staff, have taken the Welsh side from the National League all the way to the Championship. Doing so with scrutiny, with many criticising their spending habits, it is a game plan that has proved successful for the club.

Perhaps best known for their documentary that airs on Disney+, the club and its players are known all over the world. Due to the club’s immense popularity and ascension up the football pyramid, the club have been able to sign some of the best players available to them, putting them on wages that may make jaws drop. Hoping to go one step further and achieve Premier League status, they will hope their new signings can help achieve this goal.

With the help of Capology, and other sources where applicable, these are the reported wages for the Wrexham team of 2026/27.

Goalkeepers

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Wrexham recently shattered their transfer record by signing Anthony Patterson from Sunderland. The Englishman has joined the club in an £8 million move. He put pen-to-paper on a four-year deal, but it is currently unknown how much he is earning.

One of Wrexham’s first signings after earning promotion to the Championship was acquiring the services of Danny Ward. A keeper with Premier League experience, his arrival back in his home country was a real statement of intent. However, the Welshman, who earns £12,500-per-week, played just eight matches for the club in the 25/26 campaign as he had to settle for a backup role.

Arthur Okonkwo, who helped the Red Dragons get out of League Two and League One, is the club’s lowest-paid goalkeeper, with Ward possessing a weekly wage of £12,500 and Callum Burton on £5,000. The former Arsenal Academy player lives in Wales with a weekly income of £3,000. Despite impressing between the sticks, he could now be on the move following Patterson’s arrival.

Defenders

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As is the case with non-Premier League sides, incomings and departures are constant. With Wrexham having risen the ranks phenomenally, they have continued to invest and buy new players and reward performing ones, hence why seven of their first-team defenders were signed in the past year.

Leading the way is former Premier League defender Conor Coady, who, having had spells with Wolverhampton Wanderers and Everton, joined from Leicester City. The Englishman has not justified his £25,000-per-week wages at the time of writing, having spent the second half of the 2025/26 campaign on loan at Charlton Athletic.

Callum Doyle and Liberato Cacace joined the England international last summer. Both earn £15,000-per-week, as does Danny Imray, per SalaryLeaks. Dominic Hyam, Zak Vyner and academy graduate Max Cleworth are the three other defenders that earn £10,000 or more every seven days.

Midfielders

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An incredibly robust midfield to be operating with, all of Wrexham’s midfield contracts were signed from 2024 onwards. The leading two on the list, Lewis O’Brien and Ben Sheaf, were summer signings from the Red Dragons, with their incomings moving straight to the top of the list of highest earners in each position. O’Brien, who has spent time in the MLS and the Premier League, was an astute signing by Phil Parkinson, with Sheaf making the move from fellow Championship outfit, Coventry City.

O’Brien earns £17,500-per-week, while Sheaf, as well as former Leicester player Matty James, earns £15,000-per-week.

Oliver Rathbone and George Dobson, two players that were integral in Wrexham earning promotion from League One to the Championship, are earning £12,500-per-week, just more than George Thomason (£10,000-per-week) and Ryan Longman (£7,500-per-week).

Wrexham signed Preston North End captain Ben Whiteman in a £3m deal this summer. He signed a three-year deal but his weekly salary, at the time of writing, is unclear.

Attackers

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As has been the case with all of Wrexham’s contracts, five of their forwards put pen to paper in 2025, with a further two signing in 2026. Among those are two players with plenty of Premier League experience: Kieffer Moore and Jay Rodriguez.

Moore, a Welshman, is the club’s highest-paid player, earning £30,000-per-week. Former England International Rodriguez earns £25,000 every seven days.

Sam Smith earns £15,000-per-week, as does Josh Windass, son of Premier League cult hero, Dean. Elsewhere, Nathan Broadhead rakes in £12,500-per-week, while Davis Keillor-Dunn and youngster Bailey Cadamarteri earn £7,500 and £6,500-per-week respectively.

Tyson Fury has been sent a defiant message as Kristian Prenga has revealed how hard Anthony Joshua hits following their two-round clash.

Both Fury and Joshua emerged victorious from their respective tune-up fights ahead of their blockbuster showdown this year.

Fury beat Polish veteran Mariusz Wach in Thailand, with Joshua surviving a huge scare against Prenga 24 hours later in Saudi Arabia.

‘AJ’ came off the canvas not once but twice in the first round before turning things around in the second round to secure a devastating knockout victory in his return bout following the fatal car accident that killed two of his close friends.

Kristian Prenga on Anthony Joshua’s Power

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After getting off the floor and returning to his corner, Joshua buzzed Prenga with a big right hand before unleashing a flurry of shots to drop his opponent through the ropes.

Prenga failed to beat the count and subsequently suffered the first defeat of his professional career since 2017, having previously won 16 fights in a row.

Speaking after his defeat, Prenga hailed Joshua’s power, claiming he had never experienced anything like it before.

Joshua has won an impressive 27 fights inside the distance, stopping the likes of Dillian Whyte, Wladimir Klitschko and Francis Ngannou.

Given the nature of of his latest outing, fans and critics alike, including Lennox Lewis, believe the former world champion is past his best, but Prenga does not subscribe to that notion, saying: “It’s not true.”

Kristian Prenga: ‘Anthony Joshua is Not an Easy Fight for Tyson Fury’

Joshua is on a two-fight winning streak since being knocked out by Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium in September 2024.

He defeated Jake Paul in a money-spinning showdown on Netflix before stopping Prenga in Jeddah last month.

Having shared the ring with Joshua, the Albanian knockout artist believes the 36-year-old Brit is still a great fighter and promised Fury it wouldn’t be an easy fight.

“Joshua is a great fighter. He has experience. He has power and I know he went through a lot in his life – as we all know,” he added. “But it’s not an easy fight for Tyson Fury. I promise you.”

Fury, meanwhile, has two wins under his belt since losing back-to-back world title bouts to Oleksandr Usyk.

The self-proclaimed ‘Gypsy King’ returned to winning ways against Arslanbek Makhmudov in April before taking out Wach last month.

The all-British battle has yet to be officially announced but is set to take place in America, with New York City’s iconic Madison Square Garden in line to host it.

Lionel Messi has broken his silence following the death of his father with an emotional statement in which he has hinted that he could retire from football soon.

Messi‘s father Jorge died last week at the age of 68 following a long illness, passing away in a hospital in his hometown of Rosario, Argentina.

He had fallen ill before the start of the World Cup, but, as Messi states in his emotional tribute to his father, had convinced one of the world’s greatest ever players to play in the tournament.

Jorge had acted as his son’s agent for the entirety of his career, since the age of 14, with Messi previously paying tribute to the work his father had done in his career. And now he has passed away, Messi has admitted that he is not sure how much longer he will carry on playing football.

Messi’s emotional statement in full

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“Dad, I still can’t believe you’re gone. I can’t believe I won’t see you anymore, that we won’t talk anymore. I know you were suffering and that’s the best thing, but you left too soon. We still had so much left to enjoy together.

“You always asked me to play in the last World Cup and days before it started, that’s when you got worse. It was the first time you weren’t going to be in a tournament, but mum told me you were going to be fine and that you would be okay to travel. I told you we would get to the final and you could see a game.

“I came to you because I couldn’t talk about everything that happened. You couldn’t enjoy anything. We weren’t champions, but you never knew how we enjoyed every game. Once again, you were right: you had to be there and play.

“I tell you this because it was the only thing we couldn’t talk about, because everything else you already know. We talked every day and saw each other when we could because of my commitments.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do without you, I don’t know how to go on. I just played soccer and now I have a lot of doubts that I’ll keep doing it for a long time more. You were by my side from the beginning, so close to the end. Why didn’t you hold on a little longer and we could have finished together?

“I know your happiness was seeing your family, your wife, your kids, and above all, without the others finding out, seeing me play…

“It was always like that since I was little. You took me to all the training sessions as soon as you got home from work. I took many of you to mom’s place because you were working.

“Obviously, you didn’t miss any of the games. How you suffered seeing me and how you enjoyed it, even though you never gave me many compliments.

“You were dad, friend, and representative. You were always the person you had to be in every moment and you never made a mistake. Beyond some reproaches or fights, you were always right. In the end, it all came down to what you said.

“I will miss you a lot, but you will always be present, and especially in the education of my children, because I teach and educate them as you did with me.

“Rest in peace and take care of us from above as you did here. Thank you for everything.

“I love you, dad.”