Wrexham AFC legend reveals what it would take for Paul Mullin to abandon Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney…

A “top Championship club” would have to come in for Paul Mullin in order for the Wrexham star to consider a transfer elsewhere, says Brett Ormerod.

 

 

WHAT ORMEROD HAD TO SAY ABOUT MULLIN

With that in mind, when asked if Mullin could attract interest from higher up the football food chain in January, former Wrexham striker Ormerod told Stocklytics: “Perhaps, yeah. Everyone has an opinion about you as a player, and the question for me is which championship club would sign him.

If Wrexham are promoted this season, they will obviously build a squad to challenge for the championship, and if you’re somewhere playing football, making good money, happy, and settled, there’s so much to think about. Paul Mullin is enjoying himself while playing football.

I believe he’d have to leave Wrexham for a top championship club. If Wrexham is promoted this year, Paul Mullin should be thinking, ‘Why should I go anywhere else?’. This club is going places; it’s got everything.

It’s got great media coverage, and he gets to meet Will Ferrell, which I’m jealous of because he’s one of my favourite actors of all time. It must be amazing to be in and around Wrexham right now; however, it does come with its own pressures, I suppose.”

• THE BIGGER PICTURE

  While rubbing shoulders with Hollywood superstars—as Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney call the shots at SToK Racecourse—Mullin has also released his own book, ‘My Wrexham Story’. Ormerod added on making the most of his new-found fame: “Fair play to Paul Mullin. A football career is short, and people get caught up looking at the A-listers. Football is like every other sport; the elite get paid a substantial amount of money, and everyone else is trying to make a living out of it. Football is a funny old game because you can have a great career in the lower leagues on paper, earning modest money, but retire at 35, having to enter the real world with no real-world experience, a mortgage, two kids, and you’ve got to go and find your way in life. On the flip side, you can be a top prospect at Manchester City earning big money, not be playing by the age of 24 or 25, and still be a millionaire. You have to say fair play to Paul Mullin because you’ve got to make as much money as you can, while you can.”
  

  WHAT NEXT FOR MULLIN & WREXHAM?

  Mullin has hit a further nine goals for Wrexham this season, taking him to 88 in total through 112 appearances, and he has Phil Parkinson’s side sat among the League Two frontrunners, with the ambitious Welsh outfit setting their sights on reaching the Premier League at some stage.