Wrexham spending again !

Quoted from DB

The only issue I have is what happens when the bubble bursts, as it surely will probably later rather than sooner. It will be the case that money from Netflix will dry up when the adverting revenue goes because the viewing figures drop , then will the Yanks want to keep funding their hobby?

It's not a matter of envy or jealousy but having seen other clubs virtually go to the wall, not pay debts to small businesses that supplied them and then being bought out of bankruptcy for coppers. It is the small people and hardcore fans who will suffer.


they'll be in Div 1 in couple seasons

The owners had no prior link to Wrexham. They could have bought any club.

Imagine how we would feel if they had bought Scunthorpe! On the other hand what would we be saying if they had bought us?

unfortunately, there will probably be more spending by Wrexham, with their owner having just sold his mobile phone company (Mint Mobile) for 1.3 billion dollars!

He only owns 25% of Mint, I believe. Just a few hundred million dollars more in his pocket, not more than a billion.

Quoted from ska face

For every decent fan of theirs, they seem to have picked up two or three absolute helmets. I think at the start there seemed to be an element of embarrassment and acknowledgement that signing people like Tozer, Lee and Mullin wasn’t necessarily how things were done at that level, but they’d had a bad time and were due a decent shake of the stick. Hard to argue with that.

This season though, the whole facade has completely disappeared and you see a lot of their fans just leaning into it, especially on Twitter, and actively goading other fans. Dunno, maybe it’s overcompensating because they realise they’re quite clearly the villains in the story and nobody buys the bullshít outside of a TV studio?

Yeah most of them in the States

This whole ‘their fans are great’ thing is wearing a bit thin. Throughout that awful series there were some oddballs, and granted, every club has them but because a few slung some coppers in a bucket for our fans to get there, suddenly they’re a great bunch.

What about the boring girl private who’s such a Wrexham fan he watched extra time from a pub, probably because the TV people asked him?

They’ve certainly had an increase in bellends watching them to be honest, this whole yanks getting involved thing seems a bit tragic and false.

I fully agree that playing teams like Wrexham, Notts County, chesterfield etc is more exciting than playing Crawley or Stevenage but this whole facade of community club and what not is drifting away from Wrexham and it’s all becoming a bit football manager. And still, they persevere with Parkinson. An absolute flipping dinosaur and bellsniff of the highest order.

No doubt they’ll come up and just spaff cash like it’s going out of fashion, if their fans want to do that then crack on. I much prefer our model, I’d much prefer to follow a similar path to Luton or Lincoln for instance.

Weird really isn’t it, a club that not that long ago was on its bottom, on its bottom through mismanagement and likely overspend. A club who’s trust and fans were vocal about the way football is operated and no doubt critics of wealthy foreign investors with no allegiance to a club coming over here and just getting cash happy, and yet here they are…

Remember though, two games they had last year 2 that they needed to win…they lost them both…

Quoted from Mappers

Whats the aim for Wrexham with the Yanks at the wheel ?

To go right through to the Prem ?

Basically yes. Looking at some of the 50 clubs who have played a season or more in the Premier League it is not beyond the realms of possibility.

Were I a Wrexham fan my concern would be that the owners are as focussed on coming up with 'plotlines' for the documentary (i.e. planning around the new stand, the King visiting the ground, the hullaballoo around their FA Cup run, the Kings of Leon gig etc) as they are on the football side - particularly if Foster is going to be the first of several 'big name' ex-premier league players.

Can't say I'm too fussed about what Wrexham do, if I'm honest.

They're clearly favourites to join us in L2 next season. If they follow their NL strategy, they'll sign a couple of Championship
strikers, a defensive kingpin, and probably a class midfielder too (as a minimum).

They may walk this league with 100+ points...but so what?
That still leaves 2 automatic promotion spots and 4 play-off places for us to aim for.
And taking points off "moneybags" teams is always doubly sweet for us Town fans.

Yeah, it would be handy to have their cash - but I like the fact our owners are local people, and I'd have our manager rather
than theirs anyday.

Looking forward to next season irrespective of events at the Racecouse Ground.

Quoted from aldi_01

This whole ‘their fans are great’ thing is wearing a bit thin. Throughout that awful series there were some oddballs, and granted, every club has them but because a few slung some coppers in a bucket for our fans to get there, suddenly they’re a great bunch.

Wasn't just that though, for me it was the whole day of the playoff semi. I walked away from The Racecourse after the match wearing Town colours and I lost count of the amount of people who shook my hand and wished us well for next season on the walk to the pub. In a ten minute walk it was easily over twenty though, perhaps even thirty. Then the same again in the pub, which was full of Wrexham fans. We were told before we were not to go in this pub or that pub or you'll get in trouble. Pre-match I went in two of the pubs that were supposedly no go options and the fans were absolutely fine in there. Chatty fans on the train that just wanted to talk about footy too.

I'm not fussed who they sign or whatever they spend, in fact I quite like the circus that goes with it all. The same as someone above though, my problems are with Mullin and Parkinson. My only other criticism of them would be that Ryan Reynolds seems to be somewhat of a disruptive influence. There were a number of times that his presence and his social media promotion got in the way of the first team squad's preparation going off the documentary. One in particular, he showed up as a surprise and they had to abandon their entire day of training and it was at the crunch end of the season too. If I was a Wrexham fan I'd be a bit concerned about that.

The amount of threads and time on here spent discussing them is a bit weird.

It'll be interesting to see how they do when they get promoted, and Parkinson actually has to plan for the season given they're subject to transfer windows. Never rated him as a manager and I suspect he'll be on borrowed time the second they get promoted.