It's official: AFC Wrexham will play next season in Championship next season, the second echelon of English football-a certainty acquired on Saturday after a wide victory on Charlton (3-0). Confirmation of an incredible odyssey started in the fifth division…
Since 2021 and his entry into the capital of the Welsh club with his counterpart Rob Mcelhenney, the American actor Ryan Reynolds has seen his new heart team ensuring three consecutive promotions. Unheard of on the scale of the first five divisions of the round ball across the Channel.
Last year, thus, Wrexham celebrated his return to League One (third division) after 20 years of absence. And it has been 40 years since the Welsh entity had no longer invested the upper floor. Objective now assumed: target the elite, the Premier League.
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“” I remember that during the first press conference, we were asked what our goals were … and I believe that Rob met: the Premier League. People laughed. They had the right. It seemed insane … but we didn't like it », Remember Ryan Reynolds with emotion.
Originally, the actor and his partner bet 2 million pounds sterling (around 2.3 million euros). And AFC Wrexham has observed since impressive and exponential development. During the previous exercise, in League One, the club completed its accounting year with more than 31 million euros in revenue. For comparison, it's more than budgets this HAC and SCO in Ligue 1 season this season.
