The Doncaster Free Press has learned that rumours that Wrexham is considering making a bid for Joe Ironside are unfounded.
Earlier this week, there were rumours that the Rovers forward could be joining the high-spending Welsh team. After being promoted to League One the previous season, Phil Parkinson’s team has been connected to a number of players. However, the Free Press has been informed that a six-figure bid has not been made, despite many claims claiming otherwise.
Ironside, 30, scored 20 goals in the previous season, becoming the first Rovers player to do so in five years. His prolific goal-scoring helped propel Grant McCann’s team into the League Two promotion race, which ultimately resulted in an agonising penalty shoot-out defeat in the play-off semifinals.
He still has two years left on a deal he signed last summer and is viewed as a key member of the team under McCann. Even though Billy Sharp, a fellow striker, recently joined the team, Rovers would be devastated to lose perhaps the one player in their lineup who is nearly hard to replace.
It is also understood that Ironside, a Sheffield native, is happy at Rovers and that his desire to be back in familiar surroundings after three years away from the patch at Cambridge was a factor in his decision to return to South Yorkshire last year.
The catch to all of this, of course, is that the window is still open for more than two months, so there’s always a chance that Ironside or another asset owned by the club will attract a serious bid.
