I was scouted by Everton aged four – now I’m star man for Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s Wrexham

Paul Mullin was destined for greatness since he was a toddler, and now he’s making his way there with Wrexham after some early setbacks.

The Merseyside-born forward had to work his way up after being released from Everton and Liverpool’s academies as a boy, but since breaking through with Cambridge in 2020/21, the only way has been up.

Mullin broke the League Two scoring record with 32 goals in 46 games with the Us after being given the job as an out-and-out striker, and he returned home the next year, crossing just over the border from north west England to north east Wales.

The goals have kept flowing ever since, with the 29-year-old spearheading Wrexham’s return to the Football League for the first time in 16 years, becoming an icon not just to the locals.

Thanks to his club’s Hollywood owners, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, and the hit Disney documentary Welcome to Wrexham, Mullin’s now a superstar, with his 47 goals last season making him as big a name as any English player outside of the Premier League.

But the early signs were that he would always get there, as he told talkSPORT.

“As a four-year-old lad I used to run around on the side of the pitch watching my older brother and I was playing with the subs on his team,” he said. 

“One day the scout who was watching my brother's side asked if I’d like to go down [and train] and my dad said ‘he’s only four, he’s only a baby’ and my mum said ‘no, no’. 

“They asked me and I said ‘absolutely, I’d love to go down’ as I love to play football and that’s all I wanted to do.

“My time at Everton was cut short and I was a kid and didn’t understand what was happening, but looking back now I do, and I went on to Liverpool which is my club and I wanted to be a Liverpool player.

“I was