Wrexham Targets Sheffield United’s Callum O’Hare for £6.5m Transfer

Wrexham are closing in on a bold 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 races to get the transfer completed before the 23:00 BST cut-off. The intention is a permanent move, not a loan, underlining just how hard Wrexham are pushing to add proven Championship quality to Phil Parkinson’s squad.

This is not a quiet, opportunistic deal. Wrexham have gone after O’Hare with purpose.

Blades manager Chris Wilder confirmed on Monday that the Welsh club had made their move for the attacking midfielder, who has two years remaining on his contract at Bramall Lane. O’Hare has been involved in every Sheffield United game so far this season and scored in Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Cardiff City, which makes the timing of the approach even more striking.

He is not a fringe player being eased out. He is in rhythm, in the team, and on the scoresheet.

Parkinson has been open about his desire to sharpen Wrexham’s attacking edge, with the club linked to several forwards and creative players in the final days of the window, including Millwall’s Femi Azeez. O’Hare, with his energy between the lines and eye for goal, fits that profile neatly.

The chase has not gone unnoticed in Sheffield. Wilder, speaking before his side’s Championship home fixture against Bolton Wanderers on Tuesday (19:45 BST), described Wrexham’s late-window activity as a “blanket bombing” of the market.

“This is not a criticism, but Wrexham are in for half the division,” he said, summing up the sense that the ambitious League Two club are testing the resolve of sides up and down the country.

Now the focus is on getting this one over the line.

If Wrexham finalise the signing of the former Aston Villa, Carlisle United and Coventry City attacker before the deadline, it will be another statement that the Hollywood-backed project is not slowing down. It is accelerating, and it is willing to pay top-tier prices to do it.