You couldn’t miss the hullabaloo as the men’s transfer window slammed shut just a fortnight ago, but it was only a week last Wednesday that the women’s transfer window closed in Wales.

Wrexham have had an excellent month in terms of acquisitions and as we enter into Phase Two we look in fabulous shape.

The first player to come in has played three matches already and certainly has made an excellent opening impression.

Mikayla Wildgoose has a fabulous name and could have a fabulous time at Wrexham as well. She is a central defender and physically she has all the requisite attributes to be a top stopper.

Tall, strong, she is physically formidable. It will be fascinating to watch her in Phase Two against the best forwards in the division because she looks to have the resilience and redoubtable defensive qualities to give them a tough time.

She also strikes the ball superbly. The passing range of players in the Adran Premier isn’t always a strength but Wildgoose can really make that ball travel, and she is keen to get on the front foot and look to play piercing passes.

She doesn’t always get them right, but then who does? You’d rather have a player who is trying to make meaningful passes and get a good percentage of them right than a player who is cowardly on the ball, after all.

She can play defensive midfield as well and had a short cameo in that position last Sunday at Carmarthen in which, unsurprisingly, she showed an aptitude for ball winning as she protected her defence.

She can get up and down the pitch as well and look to pick out strikers in crowded areas.

Despite looking a natural central defender, she may well be rotated around and sometimes used at midfield because we’ve also brought in an interesting character in Sarah Harvey who can play at the back.

There’s a lot of excitement about her arrival, not least because as a Canadian player, she’s bound to immediately resonate with our North American supporters. There’d be no point in bringing a player in purely on that basis, though.

We need players who can do it on the pitch. Fortunately, her background suggests she can do exactly that.

She has played in a number of strong women’s leagues across Europe, gained lots of experience, and arrives from Lewes, a club which has a good reputation in the English system.

A look at the messages that were posted about her when she left the Sussex club to join us tells you a lot. Her contribution as a player was clearly valued very highly, and she also made a real impact off the pitch too.

What an asset to bring into a club with ambition like ours and a commitment to community work.

The third arrival came from closer to home but really made my jaw drop. With the Adran Premier being a semi-professional league, it’s always been quite difficult to make use of the revenue that the club now creates to recruit players.

A player who has a job in the South is unlikely to relocate to the North to play part time, so even though we might be able to afford t0, we surely couldn’t try to cherry pick the best players from our competitors in the league in order to try and overtake them.

However, we have stepped things up, and are now bringing players in from over the border, something which didn’t feel possible not so long ago.

We’ve taken this further with the purchase of Maria Francis-Jones, whose arrival is a spectacular inversion of my assumptions.

She has been outstanding for TNS, our local rivals, and to bring her in is a fabulous statement of intent.

She is a full Welsh international, that recognition having been achieved six years ago, although she’s she’s only 22 now.

She is one of the Adran Premier’s outstanding players, a progressive wing back who is dangerous in attack, has quality on the ball, and is a very intelligent presser.

To put it another way, she fits it exactly with our style of play. To bring her in is remarkable, and to pay a fee for a player is a rarity in this league.

Since the excellent Josie Smith settled into the centre of midfield, we have looked a little bit thin in the right wing back position. We have natural full backs who don’t really fit the wing back profile, like Phoebe Davies, who is more at home as a right sided centre back rather than looking to drive constantly up the wing into attack. Her creative threat comes from her economical passing.

Carra Jones is therefore our only obvious option there, and we’ve been using Ava Suckley on the right recently, while Mariam Mahmood played there at Carmarthen. Suckley’s all-round talent means you could field her anywhere, but wing back isn’t one of her more obvious positions, while Mahmood is perfect for a game like Sunday where her excellence in one-on-one duals can make a difference and she won’t have to track back much into her own half.

Francis-Jones fits the bill perfectly, and along with Wildgoose and Harvey brings something else to the table: a message to the Adran Premier that we really mean business this season.