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Wrexham are plotting a loan move for Liverpool youngster Owen Beck this summer as part of an ambitious summer transfer plan.
Beck impressed last season in the Championship on loan at Blackburn Rovers, making 24 league appearances, scoring once.
Liverpool have been inundated with queries regarding Beck’s availability and Mail Sport understands that there are multiple Premier League clubs, as well as teams in the Championship and in Scotland, keen to take him.
Sheffield United are one who have also lodged and interest and the Blades are also keen on fellow Liverpool youngster Lewis Koumas, who enjoyed a decent loan at Stoke City.
Beck represents Wales at Under-21 level and it is understood that Liverpool are not in any rush to sanction a move so early in the off-season.
The expectation around Anfield is that Beck will form part of Arne Slot’s plans for pre-season.
Owen Beck impressed last season in the Championship on loan at Blackburn Rovers, making 24 league appearances
Wrexham are in the midst of an ambitious summer transfer plan after securing promotion to the second tier
Phil Parkinson said last month that the club are looking at additions in the loan market in the window
Milos Kerkez’s £40million arrival from Bournemouth has complicated Beck’s prospects of getting chances in the Reds’ first team.
And given he was born in Wrexham and his great-uncle Ian Rush also played in North Wales during his career, the Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney-backed side are eager to land a major loanee from the Premier League.
‘The loan market is something we are looking at,’ Wrexham boss Phil Parkinson told the Athletic last month.
‘It’s all about touching base with the Premier League loan managers, making sure we have an understanding of who could become available.
‘A lot of those players (whose loan spells for 2024-25 have now ended) will probably go back and start pre-season with their clubs because managers like numbers around them for pre-season games.
‘We can probably attract a better calibre of player than we’d have been able to do in the past.’
Wrexham have made one signing so far since clinching a third successive promotion, picking up striker Ryan Hardie from Plymouth Argyle for a fee in the region of £600,000.
Meanwhile Liverpool defender Nat Phillips is on the verge of joining West Bromwich Albion in a permanent move.
