Wrexham Closing in on Callum O'Hare Transfer

Wrexham are closing in on a dramatic deadline-day move for Sheffield United midfielder Callum O'Hare in a deal worth around £6.5m.

The 26-year-old is set to undergo a medical in north Wales as the club push to get the transfer over the line before the 23:00 BST cut-off, with a permanent switch agreed in principle.

Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder confirmed on Monday that Wrexham had come forward for the attacking midfielder, who has been a regular for the Blades this season and still has two years left on his contract at Bramall Lane.

O'Hare has featured in every Sheffield United game so far this campaign and scored in Saturday's 2-2 draw with Cardiff City, underlining the scale of the capture Wrexham are chasing as the window ticks into its final hours.

Parkinson’s attacking gamble

Phil Parkinson has spent the final stretch of the summer window hunting extra firepower, determined to add creativity and goals to a Wrexham side with ambitions far beyond merely surviving the step up.

The Red Dragons have been linked with several attacking targets, including Millwall’s Femi Azeez, as they scour the market for players capable of changing games in the final third. O'Hare, with his energy between the lines and eye for goal, fits that brief.

Wilder, speaking ahead of Sheffield United’s home Championship clash with Bolton Wanderers on Tuesday (19:45 BST), offered a pointed assessment of Wrexham’s late-window activity, accusing them of a scattergun approach.

"This is not a criticism, but Wrexham are in for half the division," he said, capturing the sense of how aggressively the north Wales club have tried to reshape their squad.

From Bramall Lane to a new project

O'Hare, formerly of Aston Villa, Carlisle United and Coventry City, has built a reputation as a busy, inventive attacker, capable of linking play and arriving late in the box. Leaving a Championship club where he has started the season in the team for an ambitious, fast-rising Wrexham project would mark a bold career pivot.

For Wrexham’s owners and supporters, this is exactly the sort of move that signals intent: a player in his prime, under contract, starting games in the second tier, being prised away for a sizeable fee.

Now it comes down to the clock. Medical passed, paperwork filed, signatures done. If Wrexham get everything completed in time, O'Hare will become the latest statement signing in a window that has already shown they are not content to simply watch the story unfold — they intend to write it.