Wrexham’s winning mentality that has driven them to third successive promotion

National World - LocalTV

Wrexham are heading to the Championship—and now all eyes turn to how they’ll approach a pivotal summer.  We spoke to Wrexham expert Rich Fay to get a sense of the club’s plans after securing a historic third successive promotion under Phil Parkinson.

Transcript

00:00now rexham are heading to the championship and all eyes are turning to how they'll approach

00:08a pivotal summer window it's been a meteoric rise but the challenge ahead is a new level

00:14altogether the championship demands depth quality and consistency something phil parkinson and the

00:20club's recruitment team will need to address in the coming months while the spotlight often lands

00:26on the owners it's parkinson's steady hand that's driven this success this summer expect a smart

00:32targeted approach blending experience with ambition as rexham look to not just survive

00:37but make their mark once again we spoke to rexham expert rich faye to get a sense of the club's

00:44plans after securing a historic third successive promotion under their manager

00:48yeah we've mentioned um the sort of competitive nature of all the the english leagues now and

00:58wrexham so close to the championship let's just look ahead if they are to go up um you know we've

01:03mentioned before how you know the squad might need to change there could be wholesale changes this

01:07summer they'll need to break um you know transfer records and really um sort of look ahead to how

01:14they're going to cope in the division obviously the relegation battle in in the championship this

01:18season has been incredibly tight i mean it will go to the final day you feel um for xmr to go up

01:24how do you feel they navigate the championship it's such a massive golf in class you know it's probably

01:30one of the biggest in in europe in terms of the step up from league one to championship football

01:34um are you confident how do you it's a complete whirlwind to go into it's complete

01:40mystery at the moment as to how they will navigate but i'm sure that the picture will become clearer

01:45you know as the summer goes on you know if they were to get there to the championship it would be

01:50the the biggest jump really imaginable for for the club because your championship to premier league

01:54is huge we've seen that with the teams who've gone up and gone down you know recently in back-to-back

01:58seasons but there's been so many teams as well who have yo-yoed between league one and the

02:03championship and they're very good teams with good managers and some very good players

02:06and even if you look at the wrexham squad now some of wrexham's better players are the likes of

02:10rafbone james you know these are players who were who were released from championship clubs george

02:16dobson that they were released and allowed to to come to to wrexham so there's a reason they maybe

02:22weren't deemed championship quality in the first first place if you're looking like raw individual

02:29talent it would need a massive overhaul this summer they need younger players maybe fitter players

02:33a bit more about them they maybe couldn't play the same style of football for as long as they have

02:39to wrexham will take you know great encouragement though seeing what oxford united have done this

02:43season in the championship they've exceeded expectation really i know portsmouth portsmouth

02:48as well look destined to come down but sort of turn things around and had their season back on track

02:53to a degree as well so i don't think it is this monumental challenge that some people are maybe

02:58making it out to be look what ipswich did you know they went back to back themselves and a key

03:03reason they did that they recruited recruited smartly got some really good experienced players in

03:08but they also just had that momentum and even the season wrexham didn't go up for the national league

03:14it was only in the playoff semi-final that they lost so if you look at it wrexham will have had

03:19four seasons in a row in which they basically won every single week and that just means the mentality

03:25of the squad is just so high you know they've got so much belief they've overcome so many different

03:32challenges so much adversity that wrexham will go to the championship and they will think oh we can

03:37survive we know we can because we're so used to winning at home so used to to getting these results

03:42and defying the odds that i think that they have a very good chance of staying up they'd have to spend

03:47a lot of money they'd have to make those ruthless calls that fans don't always agree with but i think

03:51just because they've got that momentum and that belief that they can stay up that's what that's what i

03:56think would be the the absolute bottom line ambition for next season to be competitive to try to stay in

04:01the division but if you're being you know a bit carried away and a bit too giddy like i said a team

04:07that's been promoted three times in a row you can't really say that they suddenly just start losing

04:10every week because i know in the modern world of football you look at stats you look at money you

04:16look at what makes a player better than another player they're still all professional footballers

04:20and the rectum players all have this belief and this this confidence that is so hard to to get and

04:25it's so often the difference at the top level so and they responded responded in style i think from that

04:30moment there was then that inner belief that they can they can still produce those big performances

04:35against the better teams in division and for me that that probably was the the turning point where

04:39you felt okay if they can do that against birmingham at home they can beat anyone

Category

Transcript

Recommended