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drwhoman said:
An interesting article.

www.theguardian.com

Wrexham’s success shows that content is now truly king in football

The Welsh club’s third successive promotion was powered by a hit docuseries, not the other way around
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Like I have stated before, next season will be an interesting one for Wrexham, will they have the means to buy themselves promotion or will they like so many teams before them collapse under a weight of debt trying to reach the promised land of the Premier and how long will their new found fans, continue to support a team struggling on the field week in week out. Whatever happens will be interesting to see how their season pans out.
 
Alun said:
Like I have stated before, next season will be an interesting one for Wrexham, will they have the means to buy themselves promotion or will they like so many teams before them collapse under a weight of debt trying to reach the promised land of the Premier and how long will their new found fans, continue to support a team struggling on the field week in week out. Whatever happens will be interesting to see how their season pans out.
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Their debt is very small compared to the owners' net worth. I'd expect a mid-table outcome. Don't be fooled about support, they have a lot of closet support along the coastline always have had and it turns out when things are looking up.
Don't think we need to worry about them for some time!!
 
Just out of interest. Wrexham are coming to Australia in July for three preseason games. Trying to feed off the Hollywood hype I suppose. We live about 250 miles north of Sydney where they are playing one game, and will not be going. It seem that the PL teams are not coming here these days. More money to be made in Asia or the US. For example, Liverpool have a huge following in Asia. Also, further to travel. Singapore is 13 hours from London, Sydney 22 hours.
 
I fully expect they will spend big with the aim of being in the mix at the top end of the table
 
Media reports they’re after Tom Cairney, just released by Fulham, for £50k a week!

Anyway, it’ll be interesting to see where Mullin ends up, assuming they offload him this summer.
 
O4anotherplayoff said:
Media reports they’re after Tom Cairney, just released by Fulham, for £50k a week!

Anyway, it’ll be interesting to see where Mullin ends up, assuming they offload him this summer.
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Re Mullin it all depends if any league one or two clubs want to match his salary unless he can get a Wrexham pay off. Still contracted until 2027 I think on very good money but 31 this year so no spring chicken and has had some injuries.
 
Sparky said:
Re Mullin it all depends if any league one or two clubs want to match his salary unless he can get a Wrexham pay off. Still contracted until 2027 I think on very good money but 31 this year so no spring chicken and has had some injuries.
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They'll pay him off, they have outgrown him by being successful too soon. A nice problem to have in the around.
 
Sparky said:
Re Mullin it all depends if any league one or two clubs want to match his salary unless he can get a Wrexham pay off. Still contracted until 2027 I think on very good money but 31 this year so no spring chicken and has had some injuries.
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That pretty much sums up why I’ll be interested to see where he ends up. Plus the fact he’s still never cracked L1, which might also put off the bigger or wealthier clubs in that division.

Assuming that Wrexham will look to sell, of course. Can’t see them carrying him in the Championship though.
 
Interesting that US investors have purchased part of the Reynolds and Mac shareholding, three months after the club received 14m in State grants! To improve the ground is the official answer for the grant money.

They certainly operate in a different league in more ways than one now - article is in the Guardian.
 
drwhoman said:
Interesting that US investors have purchased part of the Reynolds and Mac shareholding, three months after the club received 14m in State grants! To improve the ground is the official answer for the grant money.

They certainly operate in a different league in more ways than one now - article is in the Guardian.
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It is a Welsh thing really, they have one stadium outside the south coast. So this will make it an international one for multi sports.
Wales did a similar thing for Cardiff arms and got the cricket ground to test status.
Guardian misleads as ever about the sale, Apollo are buying a shared off the pair so no new investment.
We have far more going on in England, there a new venue new Preston, got £9 million in these grants but not much coverage. I guess the blues got some help? Old Trafford plans are for grants to improve the area not the ground, guardian misled again.
 
dollar'sbloke said:
It is a Welsh thing really, they have one stadium outside the south coast. So this will make it an international one for multi sports.
Wales did a similar thing for Cardiff arms and got the cricket ground to test status.
Guardian misleads as ever about the sale, Apollo are buying a shared off the pair so no new investment.
We have far more going on in England, there a new venue new Preston, got £9 million in these grants but not much coverage. I guess the blues got some help? Old Trafford plans are for grants to improve the area not the ground, guardian misled again.
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Where in that article does the Guardian mislead ?
 
trappershat said:
Where in that article does the Guardian mislead ?
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By suggesting the hedge fund had money to put in just weeks after the grant. The money was actually for shares owned by the duo. They are two unrelated events, their readers are willingly misled if it suits however
The Wrexham AFC owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have sold a stake in the company to the US private equity investors Apollo, less than three months after the football club was given £14m in state aid.
Id imagine the Welsh authorities have stress tested the economic value of this entire project, which I would guess is significant, otherwise the taxpayer may electorally have something to say!
 
I think this offers far superior journalism beyond nudge theory. I've always quite enjoyed visits to the racecourse when their team was moving in a different sphere to us. However the town has always been a complete dump like Birko without any of its redeeming features. Football wise I guess the town fully supports it unlike ourselves.
As it wholly represents NE Wales, this can move the dial across the whole economy as it maybe doing, anything we might do would be peripheral even a riverside site with other features? Not sure anywhere like Burnley, Bournemouth or Luton have had wider impacts, possibly unique

businessleader.co.uk

How Hollywood stardust turned Wrexham into a business boom town

The 2021 takeover by Hollywood actors kicked off three successive promotions for the football club and boosted the whole community
businessleader.co.uk businessleader.co.uk
 
dollar'sbloke said:
By suggesting the hedge fund had money to put in just weeks after the grant. The money was actually for shares owned by the duo. They are two unrelated events, their readers are willingly misled if it suits however
The Wrexham AFC owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have sold a stake in the company to the US private equity investors Apollo, less than three months after the football club was given £14m in state aid.
Id imagine the Welsh authorities have stress tested the economic value of this entire project, which I would guess is significant, otherwise the taxpayer may electorally have something to say!
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Where does it suggest the hedge fund had money to put in after the grant?
 
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