Wrexham continues to climb on the crest of the triple wave of promotion – can they really go to the Premier League? | Football news

The last episode of the last season of Disney + of Welcome to Wrexham is entitled “Do a Wrexham”. Not so long ago, this sentence would not represent much. In fact, “making a Wrexham” meant to switch to the disaster. To tear off the defeat of the jaws from victory.

To support Wrexham was to make friends with anxiety and agony. The club was at 12 hours of ignition since 2011, standing at the dawn of extinction before being rescued by its base of fans which has suffered for a long time, which, according to their own words, “began to fall in love with it”.

The definition of this sentence now means, however, means something completely new. Wrexham is reborn, ready to embark on its first season at the second level since 1981-1982, to continue a fourth successive promotion. To do this, would be beyond the remarkable, a wilder dream than even the Hollywood elite could evoke.

Saturday August 9, 11:00 a.m.

Launch at 12:30 p.m.

Before the spirits wander and the expectations are too inflated, the team of Phil Parkinson must negotiate the most notoriously unpredictable league of the entire football pyramid. The championship is literally a minefield.

According to the OPTA supercomputer, Wrexham has 20.2% of immediate relegation to Ligue 1. The promoted side that Charlton Athletic was offered similar (20.1%).

To avoid such a scenario, the owners of celebrities Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mcelhenney, the catalysts behind the transformative years of the club and the reason for its new world attraction, have developed a plan. Spend big.

Birmingham City – Partly belonging to the former American star of the NFL, Tom Brady – may have beaten Wrexham as Ligue 1 last season, but it is the Welsh club that has the money before a final campaign with eight summer signatures. Their transfer record was broken twice, when there was a first foray into the European market, in full talented abroad to complete unprecedented requests.

These are days of Halcyon for a club that had not broken its record fees in 45 years with the acquisition of Ollie Palmer from AFC Wimbledon for £ 300,000 in 2023. Trade in this last window required an additional zero. The costs for the Empoli on the back left Liberato Cocace and the midfielder of Nottingham Forest Lewis O’Brien were ventured into the millions.

Captain of Bolton George Thomason was also attracted to a seven -figure sum. Life quickly comes to you in the big leagues, but Wrexham planned this possibility. Their wages and turnover report is 41% healthy – comfortably the best of EFL.

The next shopping list was experience: Conor Coady and Kiefer Moore together bring together the Premier League and International We. Coady arrived with 198 high -level knowledge games and 10 ceilings from England, while Moore made promotions outside the championship with Bournemouth and Ipswich.

Reports on the possible signature of 7.5 million pounds sterling by Ipswich Nathan Broadhead have not yet been concluded, but is another obvious indicator of a high intention.

It is a level of expenses never witness before in the north of Wales. It should be noted that Wrexham not only had the highest income of all clubs to participate in League two, but they also generated more than all clubs of Ligue 1 and 11 clubs in the championship, according to Swiss hike. Where money flows, success generally follows.

A word of warning, however: the rapid rise of the shadow club of non-binding football at the exhilarating peaks of the championship has a great risk. In the past decade, 15 teams newly promoted to the championship fell in Ligue 1 in two years.

Brute force expenses have led to quick victories. Wrexham crossed the Lightning Speed leagues, and although it may have been presented as a good story of oppressed – Hollywood loves them – it’s far from being reality.

As a national league, the club’s wage bill was more than 2.5 million pounds sterling than the average of the division. The sequence of success did something like this: buying better players, paying higher wages, increasing the chances of winning.

The same logic was applied in League two and in Ligue 1: rivals of overcoming to be promoted. It seems simple. But the climb is now much steep. Although it is relatively easy to convince players too good for the level to join the WREXHAM project in the lower leagues for more than the market value, the same tip is difficult to reproduce in the two upper levels.

An advance for the upper division will require spending the equal power with the championship clubs which already benefit from the parachute payments of the Premier League. Leicester, Ipswich and the first Southampton opponents among them.

Wrexham will have to buy better and wiser than those around them, while sacrificing sentimental things. The cult hero Paul Mullin, who was so venerated by Ryan Reynolds for his contribution to the club that he threw it as a supplement Deadpool and Wolverine Last year, it is among those who leave this summer. It is time for a new list of champions.

At the last count, 35 players were listed on the official page of the official Wrexham team – the EFL rules only allow a team size of 25 and therefore a garnish is required. The profile of these players may also need an adjustment.

Recruitment in the lower leagues has generally targeted players on the backend of their career – take the 36 -year -old captain James McClean as an excellent example – who left Parkinson with the second oldest team in the division (27.7), beaten only by the County of Derby (27.8). For the context, Sheffield United, who are the favorites of bookmakers to finish top, have the youngest team (24.1).

Given where the club was a few years ago, detaching itself miserably outside the football league, these surroundings must be miraculous. But really, work is just beginning. This global phenomenon of a football club, made internationally famous by its owners of A-List lists at the box office, wants more. They want the Premier League. And it’s no longer a pipe dream.

Saturday, the manager Parkinson meets her childhood club while the Wrexham offer for the high flight puts online Sky Sports. This has the potential to be a fascinating beginning while Southampton, which spent 12 of the previous 13 years playing in the Premier League, trying to also show themselves strong candidates for promotion. A Master VS Apprentice style match to launch the show. Seems appropriate.

And you never know, maybe they will make a Wrexham.

Look at Southampton VS Wrexham live on Sky Sports Football on Saturday, kick off 12:30 p.m.