{"id":9604,"date":"2025-06-24T07:38:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=9604"},"modified":"2025-06-24T07:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:38:04","slug":"wrexham-legend-paul-mullin-leaves-club-on-season-long-loan-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=9604","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham legend Paul Mullin leaves club on season-long loan deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jun 23, 2025, 02:44 PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Mullin, the poster boy of a Wrexham team soaring through England’s football leagues following their takeover by Hollywood celebrities, has left the club to join League One side Wigan on a season-long loan deal.<\/p>\n

“I’m excited for the next part of my story,” Mullin told Wigan’s official website on Monday. “I’ve scored a lot of goals over the last few years, but more than anything, I give my absolute all for the club that I’m playing for, and I’m going to do that again with Wigan.”<\/p>\n

Wigan said the loan deal was subject to the approval of the English Football League and the Football Association, and international clearance.<\/p>\n

Mullin helped Wrexham become the first team in the history of English football’s top five divisions to secure three successive promotions, and there is a giant mural of the 30-year-old striker in the center of the city.<\/p>\n

Paul Mullin played a key role in Wrexham’s rise from the wilderness of English football.\u00a0Matthew Ashton – AMA\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

He formed such a close bond with Ryan Reynolds, one of the club’s owners, that he even appeared in the last “Deadpool” movie.<\/p>\n

But Mullin, who had been Wrexham’s player of the season in each of the three previous years, was only a bit-part performer when the team won promotion to the second tier last season.<\/p>\n

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It was a sudden turn of events for a player who has had a leading role in the popular “Welcome to Wrexham” fly-on-the-wall documentary created by Reynolds and Rob McElhenney to follow their progress as rookie soccer club owners.<\/p>\n

McElhenney once hailed Mullin as “one of the greatest football players in the world.”<\/p>\n

Mullin has scored 110 goals in 172 games for Wrexham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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