Wrexham A.F.C. boss Phil Parkinson admits there will always be some truth in players the club has been linked with, but he is also liable to clinch a surprise signing during the transfer window. On the back of securing a record-breaking three successive promotions, Parkinson led Wrexham to a seventh-placed finish in the Championship this season, only missing out on a play-off spot by two points after taking the battle for a top-six finish down to the last day. He is now tasked with improving the squad ahead of the 2026-27 campaign when the Reds will again aim to challenge for a place in the Premier League for the first time in the club's history. A number of players have been linked with a move to The Racecourse including Sunderland goalkeeper Anthony Patterson and Swansea City midfielder Ethan Galbraith. Parkinson, rather than comment on speculation, prefers to keep his cards close to his chest when it comes to name-dropping potential targets and says it's possible there are some out there he is tracking that have gone under the radar. "Sometimes players get linked with us and there is truth in it and we end up signing them, or there's ones who don't get linked out into the press and we end up signing," he said. "There's not a hard-and-fast rule about it; whether it comes out it is true, or if it doesn't come out it's not. "We can't dictate what ends up in the media. "We just concentrate on what we have got to do behind the scenes and keep trying to improve the squad year in, year out, and that's what we are going to try and do."