A “shut up” message has been sent on behalf of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, amid claims of big-spending Wrexham “ruining football”.
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Hollywood co-owners at the helmPrepared to splash the cashBroken records on & off the pitchFollow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱WHAT HAPPENED?
Plenty of headlines have been made in North Wales since a couple of Hollywood stars completed a remarkable takeover in 2021. The history books have been rewritten since then, with three successive promotions lifting the Red Dragons into the Championship.
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Wrexham’s A-list co-owners have been prepared to splash the cash, allowing a meteoric rise to be enjoyed, but their exploits have not earned universal acclaim. Critics have questioned their business model, but many are missing the point.
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Record-breaking revenue figures have been posted at SToK Racecourse, as the award-winning ‘Welcome to Wrexham’ documentary series aids that cause, with Reynolds and McElhenney not digging as deep into their own pockets as many have accused them of doing.
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Wrexham director Humphrey Ker has told : “Everyone's been incredibly nice, but you do see lots of people online like, 'Oh, they're ruining football, and it's disgraceful. This is everything that's wrong with modern football'.
“You do end up thinking, well, hang on, there's a lot of football clubs that are going out of business because their owners are grinding money out of the fans. Also, just because you've got loads of money behind you, there's no guarantee that you are going to get back-to-back-to-back promotions.
“It's never been done before and the other bonkers thing about us is that we've actually lived within our means. In the National League, we spent way more than anyone else. In League Two, we spent a fair bit more than everyone else.
“In League One, we were basically spending about the same or less than a number of other clubs. Birmingham spent way more than we did and I think Huddersfield spent about the same, but all our money comes from sponsorship.”