Why Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenny could spend more in January as Wrexham look to make a transfer move to solve their growing problems.

The Red Dragons are always on the market for potential new recruits at the start of a new year. With the club sitting top of League Two, adding players at this stage could mean the difference between automatic promotion and a place in the fourth-tier play-offs. But a series of unfortunate injuries and suspensions have scuppered his plans for manager Phil Parkinson. Anthony Ford, Tom O’Connor, Stephen Fletcher and Andy Cannon were among the players missing from the 1-0 defeat at Newport, with Jordan Davis also absent, while Aaron Hayden and Jordan Tunnicliffe have recovered from absences.

Parkinson has said when asked if Wrexham may have to step up efforts to get fresh faces on board, with Reynolds and McElhenney providing the funds that will help to get transfers over the line: “We are looking anyway but we will just have to assess the injured players. We have got nine days before the next game and we just need to look at everybody and see how long the injuries are going to be. On Monday Fletch will have a scan and Forky will see a specialist for his problems. And we’ll find out where we are with Tom. You spend weeks, not months, with Tom, your 3-year-old. Andy suffered a mild concussion and we hope to see some improvement from him this week. It’s obviously upsetting but we’ve got good players and I felt if we’d been on the pitch against Newport we’d have had a good chance of winning the game. “It shouldn’t have happened, but sometimes the circumstances are so bad that the mountain is too big to climb and that’s what happened today.”

Wrexham saw Will Boyle sent off after a disappointing defeat to Welsh rivals Newport. This was his fifth red card of the season. And a host of senior stars will be hoping to be in contention when they host Championship side Blackburn in round four. January 29 FA Cup. .