Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac have been on an incredible journey with Wrexham since they bought the club four years ago, as they have taken them from the National League to the Championship.
Under Phil Parkinson they managed an unprecedented three consecutive promotions through the English pyramid and are now competing in the second tier for the first time in 43 years.
However, there are ambitions of the Welsh club reaching the top flight, with Ben Foster believing Wrexham will play Premier League football in a matter of three years, due to the investment the owners have put in the club.
Wrexham spent £33 million on summer signings in the latest transfer window, and there is no indication that they are slowing down; however, their Canadian owner has described exactly how they secure funding to continue the journey.
Ryan Reynolds jokes about how Wrexham can continue their journey in how they get investment
The Deadpool star was recently on Late Night with Seth Myers to help promote his latest documentary on John Candy; however, their conversation ended up discussing the Wrexham journey.
Ryan Reynolds told the host that the Red Dragons were playing in the Championship, explaining to the audience that it was the division below the Premier League and how, as he has been on this journey with Wrexham, things have got more expensive regarding transfers and the league requirements.
Jokingly, Reynolds explained how he and Rob Mac will acquire funding; he said: “Literally Rob and I are watching us get promoted, and we’re like, ‘Well, we’re going to have to now rent our mouths out to oligarchs or something.’
“Like, this is crazy. Like, as we walked off the field, they literally started rolling the field up because a heated one needs to go down. To play in that kind of league.”
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Wrexham’s desire to play in the Premier League
Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac will have the ambition of Wrexham playing in the Premier League for several reasons, with one being that they will have completed their journey with the club from outside the EFL to arguably the most renowned league in the world.
The pair will also have brought top-flight football to the Red Dragons for the first time ever, and this will excite fans.
While it may be a great idea and something to strive for, there is an understanding in the club that they need a few things in place before they achieve this to ensure they are ready for the Premier League.
Speaking on the High Performance podcast, Humphrey Ker was asked whether he thinks this current ownership model can see Wrexham reach the Premier League. He replied, saying he thinks it’s very possible, and then explained how the club has welcomed the Allyn family too. The Allyn family became minority investors in Wrexham earlier this year, with their arrival potentially marking a shift in how Reynolds and Mac’s ownership will change in years to come.
“I think it’s very possible,” Ker said when asked if the current ownership model can achieve promotion to the Premier League. “We’ve got a minority investor in the Allen family from upstate New York who own, or used to own, a very successful medical equipment company. They made all the stethoscopes in America,and they sold their company a long old time ago for a big chunk of change, and they bought a stake in the club.
“So they have impressive financial clout… I think that if we get into the Championship and [then] we stabilize and we build our training ground, because we don’t have a training ground, and we build our stand and we renovate the stadium, we get ourselves up to like 20,000-seat modernish stadium that retains the charm, and we can make that jump, then I think what happens is that Rob and Ryan go into their rolodex and call up one of the dozens and dozens of people who’ve got in touch over the last four years and been like, ‘Hi, I’m a multi-, multi-, multi-billionaire. I want to join in on this with you’.
“And then they would sell either another minority stake or a slight majority stake or whatever it may be, where they would remain in their roles, but we would have someone who could help bank, because I mean basically getting out of the Championship, you’re just lighting money.”