Wrexham striker Paul Mullin has had quite the rise to prominence following the recent success of the Welsh club.
Owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought the historic club for £2m almost three years ago, and since then, they've put the Red Dragons on a rapid rise to global notoriety.
The Hollywood A-listers successfully delivered the goal of returning the club to the Football League last season after a 15-year absence and have documented the journey on an Amazon series titled 'Welcome to Wrexham'.
Mullin's 46-goal season last term was a huge catalyst for the club's promotion and Football FanCast has gathered everything you need to know about the forward.
All data correct as of 10th April 2024.
Paul Mullin age and height
Paul Mullin was born on November 6, 1994, in Liverpool, England, making him 29 years of age. He stands at 1.78m, or 5 foot 10.
Paul Mullin's Wrexham transfer fee
Unbelievably, Wrexham paid absolutely nothing for the prolific forward. He joined on a free transfer from Cambridge United in the summer of 2021.
The season prior to his arrival, he netted a record-breaking 32 goals in League Two and won the division's Player of the Year award, but opted to drop down two divisions as United gained promotion to the third tier.
Upon signing, Mullin said: “The ambition of the Club attracted me here. Rob McElhenney gave me a call a couple of nights ago – at that time, I wasn’t too sure about making the move – but once he outlined the plans for the Club, and the plans for me in the future, it was something I really wanted to be a part of and something that just excited me that much that I had to come."
Mullin is now set to return to the third tier with Wrexham, with his goals playing a key part.
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ByStephan Georgiou Paul Mullin Wrexham stats
At the time of writing, Mullin has racked up 130 appearances for Wrexham, scoring 97 goals and assisting 10 times. His goal rate is by far the best of his career, averaging 0.74 goals per game since his switch to the Racecourse Ground.
Season
Appearances
Goals
2021/22
39
28
2022/23
51
46
2023/24
40
23
Paul Mullin's Wrexham salary
Whilst his salary hasn't been officially declared, there were reports earlier this year suggesting that he was earning as much as £4,500 a week last season, which is over four times the average weekly wage in the National League, where Wrexham were playing at the time.
Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney also paid out a colossal £200,000 bonus to the players who won promotion to League Two, and Mullin certainly would've had his fair share of that.
Whether Mullin's salary increased following promotion to the fourth tier is unknown, but as the club continues to grow, it's likely his pay packet will, too.
Paul Mullin's net worth
It was previously estimated that the net worth of Paul Mullin stood at $5m (£4m).
Of course, no one really knows how accurate this is, but we presume this is made up of his salary over the years, as well as any other endeavours and businesses he may have set up alongside it, while the true figure is difficult to accurately determine.
Paul Mullin's boots
Paul Mullin's Nike boots caused quite a stir on social media last season after photos emerged which displayed an anti-Conservative message on the side of the footwear. Wrexham banned their forward from wearing them thereafter.
The statement from the football club read: "The club can confirm that the boots revealed by Paul Mullin on social media will not be worn tonight, or in any other Wrexham AFC fixture and that the photographs taken at the Racecourse Ground were done so without our knowledge or approval.
"For the record, the pictures wouldn’t have been permitted to be taken, had we known, and the issue will be dealt with privately by the club."
Paul Mullin stats this season
Paul Mullin made his League Two bow for the club after returning from a punctured lung sustained in pre-season, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 2-1 win over Doncaster Rovers in September.
He grabbed his first EFL goals with a brace in the Red Dragons' 3-3 draw with Crewe Alexandra later that month, and has barely looked back since.
Mullin has really hit his best form in recent months, scoring 11 in his last 10 games as Wrexham sit on the brink of promotion from the fourth tier.
Paul Mullin's overall career stats
Most football fans won't have heard of Paul Mullin prior to his switch to Wrexham, but the striker has been a prolific marksman for much of the last decade.
He began his career at Huddersfield Town but failed to make a senior appearance for the West Yorkshire club before leaving on a free transfer to League Two outfit Morecambe as a 19-year-old in the summer of 2014.
He netted a respectable eight times in his first campaign with the Shrimps and recorded similar tallies in the following two seasons before making the move south to Swindon Town in 2017.
Mullin was only at the Robins for a year, scoring nine goals across 47 appearances, before Tranmere Rovers signed the forward as a 23-year-old.
Club
Appearances
Goals
Huddersfield Town
0
0
Vauxhall Motors
0
0
Morecambe
140
28
Swindon Town
47
9
Tranmere Rovers
56
11
Cambridge United
56
36
Wrexham
130
97
The young forward struggled for regular minutes at the Merseyside club across his one-and-a-half-year spell – which saw the Rovers promoted to League One – but still managed to return 11 goals before fourth-tier side Cambridge United signed the forward on loan in January 2020.
United made the loan move a permanent one that summer, and during his first full season at the club, Mullin broke the League Two goalscoring record.
He scored a remarkable 32 goals and won the division's Player of the Year award, but decided to drop down to the National League with Wrexham in the summer of 2021, despite helping United gain promotion to League One.
And as they say, the rest is history…