He captained Wolves to a memorable Championship title triumph, to two seventh-place finishes in the Premier League, to an FA Cup semi-final and to the last eight in Europe.
He has won ten senior England caps and followed up his numerous Molineux highlights by helping to make Leicester champions of the second tier, too.
But football life across the border has started to leave Conor Coady unusually unfulfilled.
The highly popular Liverpudlian has made only six senior appearances since joining the exciting Wrexham story in the summer and hasn’t kicked a ball in the first team since October 28.
Five months on from a move to North Wales that he described as ‘special’, it is a rare down-turn on his CV after all the high spots that went before.
He has at least been back on the substitutes’ bench for the last three matches after a substantial spell out of favour but, with his 33rd birthday coming in February, it is tempting to assume he is somewhat unsettled.
It appears inevitable that he will one day be offered the opportunity to step into coaching but his eloquence as a pundit suggests he will not be short of media work either if that’s the direction he goes in next.
A possible obstacle to any possible quick departure from North Wales is the reported £2m fee Wrexham paid Leicester for him on August 1.
They also gave him a two-year contract, with the option of a third season, and the deal was seen as another major statement of intent from a club making a reasonable fist of their first season in the second tier for 43 years.
Under their colourful American owners, they also broke their club transfer record several times over the summer as well as signing another international in prolific striker Kieffer Moore, so they are presumably not in a major hurry to recoup.
It could be a case of ‘watch this space’ in the January window for a player who has made 198 Premier League appearances and totalled 317 in all competitions for Wolves.
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