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Bolton Wanderers have signed striker Ryan Hardie from Wrexham on a season-long loan.
The 29-year-old joined Wrexham from Plymouth Argyle in the summer of 2025 but has only made 10 appearances for the club.
Having begun his career with Rangers, Hardie had a prolific spell with Argyle, scoring 74 goals across two loan spells and a permanent stint with the club between 2020 and 2025.
His move to Bolton means
Blackburn Rovers have announced the departures of Sondre Tronstad, Ryan Hedges and Nathan Redmond.
Tronstad played 113 games in his three seasons with Rovers, but the Norway midfielder, 30, has not since suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury in February.
Winger Hedges, 30, joined Blackburn from Aberdeen in January 2022 and made 145 appearances, but he suffered a broken leg in January and only returned to make two substitute appearances
Wrexham’s on-field success is plain for all to see, however, background developments and groundworks are equally important to sustain Reynolds and McElhenney’s ambitions for the north Wales club.
Regulars at the Stok Cae Ras – or the millions of viewers watching games on screens around the globe – will also have noticed a number of alterations to the world’s oldest international football stadium still in continuous use.
The stadium’s iconic
Reynolds and Mac completed their takeover of Wrexham from the club’s supporters’ trust in February 2021.
Their initial £2m investment into the club has spearheaded a rapid rise up the divisions – all captured via a successful, globally screened documentary that has turbo-charged Wrexham’s earning power.
Subsequent investment from the Allyn Family and Apollo Sports Capital has helped Wrexham set their sights on further growth, with a new all-seater Kop
Southampton winger Ryan Fraser has joined Australian A-League side Western Sydney Wanderers.
The 31-year-old Scotland international, who won the last of his 26 caps in November 2022, has agreed a deal until the end of the current A-League season.
The former Bournemouth and Newcastle United winger had spent the past two-and-a-half years with the Saints.
He initially joined on a season-long loan in August 2023, helping Southampton win promotion back
West Bromwich Albion interim head coach James Morrison says all the coaching staff at the club feel some responsibility for Ryan Mason’s sacking.
The former Baggies midfielder has been put back in temporary charge following Mason’s dismissal three days ago – a role he filled at the end of last season when Tony Mowbray was sacked.
Former Tottenham coach Mason, 34, won only nine of his 27 games in charge
We asked for your views after West Bromwich Albion sacked head coach Ryan Mason on Tuesday morning.
The former Tottenham coach was only appointed in June but leaves with the Baggies 18th in the Championship.
We had a brilliant response so, thanks for getting in touch and here is a selection of the thoughts of Albion supporters:
Andy – I don’t think that’s the right move. The problems run much
Mason’s appointment marked a shift in direction by Albion, who put their faith in a young head coach with fresh ideas, schooled in the cut and thrust of working at the top level working under the likes of Jose Mourinho, Antonio Conte and Ange Postecoglou.
Sporting director Andrew Nestor described Mason as “the leader the club needed” and after a summer rebuild that reduced the average age of the squad
Albion head to Leicester City in their next game on Monday knowing a 10th defeat in a row away from home would equal a single-season club record stretching back nearly 100 years.
Although Mason has called the losing run “a bit embarrassing”, seven of the nine defeats have been by a one-goal margin.
“We should’ve come out on top in quite a few of them, and that’s the difference,” he
West Bromich Albion sporting director Andrew Nestor has told supporters the club intend to give head coach Ryan Mason and his staff more time “to settle”.
Mason, 34, was handed the first managerial position of his career in June at The Hawthorns.
The Baggies won five of their opening 10 matches, but have won only three matches since October, slipping to 16th in the Championship.
In a message to fans