Progress on the pitch is mirrored by off-the-field developments such as construction of the new Kop Stand at Stok Cae Ras and a new pavilion at Colliers Park, Wrexham’s former training ground which is now owned by the Football Association of Wales and Wrexham University.<\/p>\n
“What is great for us, people can see the stands coming up and the module at Colliers taking shape as well,” Parkinson added.<\/p>\n
“As the club’s progressed on the pitch – the training facilities in particular – it’s been difficult to keep pace. <\/p>\n
“Even though Colliers are great with us and the pitches are good, to have our own base there now is going to be a huge advantage because we’re up against teams with state-of-the-art training grounds.<\/p>\n
“Even in League One, a lot of teams have got really top-class facilities and we need that to attract players. It’s progress we needed to make and when we come back from America [in pre-season], that should be ready to go into.”<\/p>\n
Wrexham face Sunderland, Liverpool and Leeds United on their tour of the United States later in the month.<\/p>\n
Before then they travel to Poland to face Wisla Krakow in their opening pre-season friendly this Saturday followed a week later with a friendly against Manchester United in Helsinki.<\/p>\n
“In terms of going to Krakow and Helsinki, that helps generate the revenue which we need to put into the budget to help us going forward,” Parkinson said.<\/p>\n
“And obviously, the America trip is important. <\/p>\n
“So, as we’ve always done, we’ve embraced those trips and I think it’s a very exciting pre-season for us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Progress on the pitch is mirrored by off-the-field developments such as construction of the new Kop Stand at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-677139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}