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A loan move is the best thing for these three Wrexham AFC players this summer

Paul Mullin may be the biggest name that Wrexham send out on loan next season, but a few others are likely to take a temporary leave from the Red Dragons before the new campaign begins.

While you can never have a shortage of depth in the EFL, given the demands of a 46-match campaign, there are a few Red Dragons that would be best served to feature for a new club next season, and it would also be in the team’s best interest to make that happen.

Here are the three players who should follow Paul Mullin’s path out of Wrexham in 2025-26.

Ollie Palmer

Along with Mullin, Ollie Palmer may be one of the Wrexham players who deserves the most credit for their ascent up the EFL pyramid.

It’s not only the fact that he’s never played a single minute of Championship football that would likely see him out of the squad, but he looked slower when featuring last season and couldn’t provide proper service or solid link-up play to the strikers.

While he didn’t show much in League One last season, Palmer can still be beneficial to sides in the lower tiers of the EFL. He’s got over 60 League Two goals in his career, and in the right setup, could be a valuable commodity to a team at that level or even League One.

His lack of quality wasn’t high in League One a season ago, but other aspects of Palmer’s game can benefit teams at that level.

One notable skill is his strong defensive work on set pieces. His frame and strength in the air enabled him to clear away dangerous free kicks or corners into the box for the Red Dragons, with Palmer winning 55.5% of his aerial duels in 2024-25 per FotMob. He wins his share of tackles, is solid when it comes to recoveries and has experience that many lower-tiered sides seeking a promotion would covet.

His contract with the Red Dragons expires in June 2026, and having a chance to showcase himself with another club is what he needs. In addition to that, there is no Vertu Trophy for Wrexham since they’re in the Championship, so even fewer chances for him to be selected.

No one would be more relieved than Wrexham newcomer Josh Windass, who would avoid a lot of awkwardness should Palmer stay at the club for the 2025-26 campaign.

“Ollie Palmer said he’d get 20 goals, didn’t he? It’s absolutely delusional of the highest level, no offence to Ollie Palmer,” Windass said on a February 2024 episode of the Pitch Side Podcast.

“But I’m miles better than Ollie Palmer. If I was getting 20 goals for Man City every year, I’d be playing for Man City.”

The good news for Palmer is that he still has value at lower levels.

Sebastian Revan

There was a lot of excitement when Wrexham announced the signing of Sebastian Revan, with the club’s website officially confirming his arrival on July 15, 2024.

At the Aston Villa academy, he was a pivotal part in their FA Youth Cup triumph in 2020-21, and his versatility was supposed to be a huge help to the Red Dragons last season.

While there were flashes of strong defensive play from the left-back born in West Bromwich, he failed to provide much service on the flank for Wrexham, without a single assist in 19 League One appearances, according to FotMob, and a mere seven chances created, along with a pass accuracy of 66.5%, which is rather low for a defender.

Revan’s stock as a footballer may have dropped last season, but he is only 22 and under contract with the Red Dragons until 2027. He might just need more playing time somewhere else to get his confidence back.

Still, given what Ryan Barnett and Ryan Longman brought to the Wrexham attack in League One and the arrival of veteran left-back Liberato Cacace, Revan will have a tough time even making the bench for the Red Dragons in the Championship.

Jacob Mendy

In the early days of the Wrexham takeover, Jacob Mendy was a valuable left-back for Phil Parkinson’s men, logging over 2,000 minutes in their 2022-23 National League-winning campaign.

Capable of featuring as a wing-back or winger, Mendy was a physical presence who was solid defensively and had plenty of stamina.

For the majority of his time in North Wales, though, he has often been a depth piece or an extra body to have available in case numerous players go down with injuries. He played 93 minutes combined for Wrexham in League One last season, making just one start.

His Wrexham deal is up in June 2026, and while he’s always been a team player, it feels as though he’d be nothing more than moral support for the club if he’s there for their Championship campaign.

In their League Two campaign, though, he showed he could be a consistent chance creator, registering five assists, while he had 50 touches in the opposition’s box per FotMob in 2023-24.

He might not have a wealth of experience in League One or Two, given he’s 28, but he’s been a part of a winning program at Wrexham, and that, along with his individual talent, should count for something.