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Wrexham could be planning an audacious move for the former Manchester United midfielder Christian Eriksen, but signing such a player may not be cheap.

Wrexham are planning an audacious swoop for the former Spurs, Brentford & Manchester United midfielder Christian Eriksen, but the Danish international midfielder will not come cheap.

Wrexham were promoted to the Championship at the end of the 2024-25 season behind runaway League One winners Birmingham City, and with squad strengthening necessary for their first season at this level since 1982, the club have been linked with a number of different players already this summer.

Six new players have already arrived at The Racecourse Ground ahead of the start of the new season, with Welsh international goalkeeper Danny Ward and former Sheffield Wednesday attacking midfielder Josh Windass having arrived on free transfers, and Liberato Cacace, George Thomason, Ryan Hardie and Lewis O'Brien having also arrived at the club.

But while this is an impressive roster of new players to have arrived, the Red Dragons are now reported to be planning their most audacious move of the summer yet to bring Christian Eriksen to the club, per the Daily Mail.

Eriksen's Manchester United contract was worth £150,000-a-week

Taking Eriksen to The Racecourse Ground would certainly not be inexpensive, even taking into account that no transfer fee would be payable for him. Capology estimates that his Manchester United contract was worth £150,000-a-week, and there is no chance that Wrexham would pay that amount in wages for one player.

But a better indicator of what he could be offered could be what he earned while he was at his previous club, Brentford. Capology also estimates that Eriksen's short-term deal with the Bees was worth £30,000-a-week, which would be considerably more in line with Wrexham's pay structure, although to match that would still make him the club's highest-earner.

There was good reason for Eriksen to accept a far lower amount at Brentford than he would normally have been earning at the time. He needed to find a club where he could find his feet following a traumatic cardiac arrest at Euro 2020, and Brentford offered him a route back into the game at the highest level.

Both Eriksen and Wrexham could have to compromise if this transfer is to happen

Eriksen is without a club after having been released by Manchester United upon the expiry of his contract. Eriksen had spent the previous three seasons at Old Trafford after arriving from Brentford in the summer of 2022.

This is, of course, a player with a complex history as a result of the cardiac arrest that he suffered during the European Championship match between Denmark and Finland in 2021. He was an Inter player at the time, but his contract there had to be cancelled by mutual consent because he was prohibited from playing in Italy with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator due to local health regulations.

This resulted in Brentford picking him up on a short-term contract because the same regulations do not exist in England. He made an emotional return to the game in February 2022, but left the club at the end of the season for Old Trafford.

The appeal of Eriksen is obvious. This is an extremely high-profile player who has played for some of the giants of European football; Ajax, Spurs, Inter and Manchester United. And he's also highly experienced, which could count for a lot in a team playing in the Championship for the first time in a long time.

But he's also now 33 years of age, and a 46-game Championship season is not what he's used to, so there are other potentially complicating factors to which all parties concerned will be paying close attention.

Whether Eriksen can be tempted to The Racecourse Ground or not will come down to what other offers he receives. He's not going to receive an offer from Wrexham at £150,000-a-week, but if the club are willing to stretch their wage budget, and he's prepared to take a hefty pay cut, there could yet be a middle-ground in which they could meet.