Phil Parkinson: Wrexham will wait ‘for extra bit of quality’

Parkinson says expectations need to be realistic as Wrexham prepare for life in League One, a division which will feature Birmingham City, Huddersfield Town and Rotherham following relegation from the Championship.

“We’re obviously ambitious and we’re going to work very hard to build a squad which is competitive, there’s no question about that,” said Parkinson.

“But we don’t want to get carried away with ourselves – we want to go under the radar a little bit in the summer and see what kind of quality players we bring in.

“I’ve been spending the last few days looking at some League One games, watching the play-offs, and looking at the levels, looking at the physical data which we’ve got available at where we need to be physically.

“It’s a whole range of qualities we need to add to have another season which our supporters can be proud of.

“Already Birmingham fans are saying ‘we’ll win the league next year, we’ll come back up,’ Huddersfield the same and Rotherham with Steve Evans there.

“I think those clubs plus others – Charlton, Wigan Reading – teams which didn’t go up through the play-offs are going to have huge expectations on them next year.

“We’re going in at a different level of quality, but also a different scenario to where we came up this year with Notts County and instantly ourselves and Notts County were early runners to be top of the table.

“I don’t think we’re going to have that kind of expectancy from the outside.”