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Davis Keillor-Dunn should be heading to Wrexham ahead of the winter transfer window closing.

Wrexham are on course to sign Davis Keillor-Dunn from Barnsley ahead of tonight's 7pm transfer deadline, sources have confirmed to Football League World.

The winter transfer window will close at 7pm today, with clubs across the EFL approaching the final hours to make the finishing touches to their squads for the 2025/26 run-in.

Wrexham, as they have been regularly since their Hollywood takeover involving Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, are never too far away from the transfer action, and are on course to pick up one of League One's most talented forwards.

Wrexham still set to sign Davis Keillor-Dunn

Sources have informed Football League World that, as of Monday morning, everything is on course for Keillor-Dunn to become a Wrexham player before 7pm's deadline.

That follows last week's news from FLW that Wrexham had made their move to get ahead of Bristol City in the race to sign the striker by submitting an initial bid for his services.

The 28-year-old has scored 13 goals in League One this season, made the more impressive by an inconsistent campaign for Barnsley that sees them sitting 15th in the table - albeit with as many as four games in-hand on some teams around them.

It extends a solid period at Oakwell for Keillor-Dunn, who has scored 35 goals in only 78 games since making the move to the Tykes from Mansfield Town in August 2024.

If, as expected, Keillor-Dunn makes the move to Wrexham, he will be joining a pool of talented forwards, with Kieffer Moore, Josh Windass, Nathan Broadhead, Sam Smith, Ryan Hardie and Jay Rodriguez some of the names on the books.

Phil Parkinson's main man this year has been Moore, who has struck 10 goals since joining from Sheffield United in the summer to help the Red Dragons to sixth in the table.

Phil Parkinson's role for Keillor-Dunn will be interesting

Wrexham have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to their options in the final third.

Parkinson's system, though, does allow for as many as three forwards on the pitch at any one time, so having many options is no bad thing at all.

With the play-offs a real possibility this season for Wrexham, as they chase an astonishing fourth straight promotion, they are leaving no stone unturned on deadline day when it comes to their options in the final third.

Keillor-Dunn has 89 goals across League One and League Two, so has earned this chance in the Championship, yet he is an unknown quantity at the level and might not be deemed an upgrade on the likes of Moore, Broadhead, Windass and even Smith.

Quite how Parkinson uses him, and how regularly, remains to be seen, but from the player's point of view, he's joining at an exciting time, and it's a chance that's maybe too hard to pass up.