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Now it looks like the football club will be owned by billionaires , will the Council seek a market rent for the Groves land allocated for the new training ground? The Groves land is a valuable asset, especially now we know Lidl paid over £2,000,000 for the police station land , with all its asbestos problems. Doesn’t seem appropriate to give billionaires a pepper corn rent.
The football club at present is community owned. The community may still own a percentage when the heads of terms are agreed with the investors . Until such time lets wait and see what happens.
If you are so concerned about money, go and preach to the handful of people that protested when WCBC tried to do something with the Groves and got it listed.
This could be the making of the town and the club.
If Amazon or Netflix make a series out of it, they could global!Lets just get behind it!
I agree with WreX-it. Who knows where this could lead?
Netflix or Amazon would be amazing. I’ve loved watching the behind the scenes series they made on Sunderland, Spurs and Leeds.
My only concern is that Ryan Reynolds is a very savvy businessman and recently made 650 million on a gin brand. I’d hate to see him buy into Wrexham then leave it worse off in some way. Wrexham FC has had it’s fair share of owners who didn’t have the best interests of the club at heart.
Janey
I have a feeling investing at non-league level would be a passion project rather than looking to make money out of it. I view it as perhaps like the rest of us having a fantasy football team, but when you are really rich you can have your own fully fledged real team. I think long suffering Wrexham fans will be cautious about who comes in to own the club after the large number of crooks over the past few decades. The promise of millions in investment is definitely a plus and there are no assets left to be stripped.
For the time being if the takeover occurs I think people can be cautiously optimistic that it can only be a good thing for the club. At the end of the day, Wrexham’s problem is they’ve never had the money other clubs have had, hence the position they’ve held in non league for the past long time.
What Wrexham AFC have got going for them is footballing history. When you consider that we have one of the oldest clubs in the world, the oldest international football ground still in use, the beginnings of Welsh football signed & sealed in Wrexham, the new football museum to be in Wrexham & most of all the fantastic supporters who have supported the club through thick & thin.
I will never forget when the fans came together to raise funds to keep the club.
Football is woven into the very fabric of Wrexham town.
Matt and zinger (sounds like a fancy cocktail!) I full agree with your comments. As long as caution and due diligence is employed it could be good for the club and the town. These two actors don’t need a “get rich quick” investment and as Matt says, there are no real assets to strip like those in the past tried to do. My only concern is, that if they do decide to get out of the club in the future, they can then sell to unscrupulous people. WST needs to retain an interest to prevent that.
This looks like good news, it may also encourage players/Manager to want to come to Wrexham as they have some big backers & celebrates at that.
There’s certainly room to be optimistic and with the assets not being part of the deal, there should be no return to the Guterman-Hamilton era with all that involved. The Hollywood duo’s involvement feels like a ‘project’, a bit like the typical male has a project or two on the go – just involving a lot less money!!! The WST have had their fingers burned in the past so surely they are ‘once bitten, twice shy’.
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