Conor Coady insists his Wrexham exit was amicable despite wishing he got more opportunities to prove himself at the club.The former England international joined the Red Dragons from Leicester City last summer in a £2million deal on a two-year contract.Coady’s two-year contract at Wrexham included the option of a further year, which now won’t be activatedGettyCoady started Wrexham‘s opening five games of the 2025-26 campaign but swiftly fell down the pecking order in north Wales.The 33-year-old has struggled for game time since then, making just six appearances in all competitions for the Welsh outfit.He spent the second half of the season on loan at Charlton and featured 12 times for the Addicks.Despite returning to the club, the defender did not feature for Wrexham in the early stages of the current campaign.It led to Wrexham mutually agreeing to rip up his contract earlier this week, allowing him to leave as a free agent. Coady exclusively told talkSPORT his reasons for the departure. He said: “You say it’s a bad ending and it always is when you come to these kinds of scenarios, where you’ve got to leave a football club for certain reasons.“One thing I will say is the club was brilliant, Wrexham were fantastic. The owners, I’m sure everybody knows, are fantastic.“My time there has been tough, for one reason or another, I didn’t feel I got the opportunity to make a difference, if we want to put it that way.“For one reason or another, it just didn’t work and I found myself at Charlton at the back end of last season, which I loved, by the way. It was fantastic, a wonderful football club, and a wonderful manager.“So, I knew this was coming. I wanted to fight for my place a little bit in pre-season, but when you get to the end of the transfer window and you know things aren’t going to materialise the way you want…Coady carries a lot of top-flight experience for any club who is targeting promotionGetty“I just want to play, I want to be involved, I want to be a big driving force behind whatever club I’m at. I never got the opportunity to do it at Wrexham. Listen, they were great, I had a conversation with them over the weekend.“They knew I didn’t want to just sit there and do nothing, and they didn’t want me sitting there doing nothing, so it was amicable, everything was fine. Like I said, I didn’t really feel I got that opportunity but, come the end of it, they were brilliant with me.”The next chapterThe ex-Everton defender is now working with Liverpool‘s Under-21s following his departure from the Championship club, yet confirmed he is still searching for his next club.He has 128 top-flight appearances, most famously captaining Wolves in the Premier League.It did not work out at Wrexham – but Coady insisted that was not down to a rift with manager Phil Parkinson. He added: “When I went there last summer, it was something I really wanted to be a part of and sometimes I think people look at footballers and think something’s happened.Coady’s most successful spell of his career came at WolvesAFP“Nothing’s ever personal in football. Sometimes a manager just doesn’t take to you and I think that was what it was.“[But] I’ve got a really good relationship with Phil Parkinson – nothing’s ever happened between us.“I had a great relationship when I was there and they were brilliant with me in January when it came to maybe wanting to leave if there was an opportunity.“Wrexham is a brilliant, brilliant club so I can’t sit here now and rule anything out because I don’t know what’s going to happen.”