How much Wrexham AFC will actually pay Ipswich Town for Nathan Broadhead now revealed | OneFootball

Wrexham have signed the Ipswich winger for a club-record fee.

Wrexham have signed Nathan Broadhead from Ipswich Town as part of a club-record £10 million deal.

Let's cast minds back to when the Covid pandemic hit. It feels for many like it was a lifetime ago, given all the events that have his the world since the beginning of this decade.

At the time - the 2019/20 campaign - Wrexham finished 19th in the National League and were bought by Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds for just £2 million.

That event, a bit like Covid, sparked a massive chain reaction, but in a positive way, that led to the Red Dragons becoming the first club in English footballing history to complete three successive promotions within its top five divisions.

How much Wrexham paid for Nathan Broadhead

Their latest move up the EFL ladder has landed them in the Championship for the first time since the second tier was re-branded for the 2004/05 season. Fierce competition awaits them, and so they are gearing up for their new challenge by spending big on proven entities, the latest being Broadhead.

The former Wrexham youth team member and Wales international confirmed his move to the Red Dragons on Thursday. He helped Ipswich Town to win automatic promotion to the Premier League just two campaigns ago by scoring 13 goals in 38 appearances under Kieran McKenna.

To get the winger to come back to his home country, Wrexham agreed a £10 million deal with Ipswich. According to The Athletic, £7.5 million will be paid to the Tractor Boys up front, with future add-ons taking the deal's value up to the eight-figure mark.

Wrexham have broken their transfer record with this latest move, as their total summer spending surpasses the £20 million mark, as per The Athletic. It was only at the start of this summer that Sam Smith's £2 million arrival from Reading became the highest value purchase ever made by the club.

Wrexham have had a very clear transfer window modus operandi

Broadhead is the latest of Phil Parkinson's Championship-experienced additions. Only Liberato Cacace and George Thomason had never played a minute in the division before signing with Wrexham.

Parkinson wants players who are going to help the club establish themselves at the level, because it's hard for them to keep on replenishing the squad when they started last summer with League Two calibre players.

There's no doubting that Broadhead is a player who will be able to add that extra bit of spark to Wrexham's team. Fitness could be an issue for him, as it has been in the past couple of terms, but the Red Dragons should have sufficient depth to cover for him in case he is plagued by any niggles again.