How Rob and Ryan’s MESSAGES Started the Wrexham DREAM

📲 It all started with a message… but how did Ryan Reynolds & Rob McElhenney go from Hollywood stars to owning Wrexham AFC? 🤯

Humphrey Ker reveals how the takeover came to life, the first conversations that sparked the journey, and why Wrexham was the club they set their sights on!

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just want to let you lot know that if you’re watching this clip on the fos cast YouTube channel the full episode is now available to watch exclusively on Spotify and it’s free come on right so um just rewinding back again um obviously Rob’s driving forward with this and then tell us about Mr Mr Reynolds and Ban’s involvement yeah so that that came a a tiny bit later I mean not much later a couple of weeks after we’ started down this this sort of crazy path Rob texted me and was uh sort of very excited he’s like so you’re going to love this you’re going to love this he’s like so I I reached out to somebody about you know sponsorship on the front of shirt and um there’s this this guy I know and you may know him too um who has a gin company and that was his text and I was like oh Ryan Reynolds uh in my head and he was like you’re never going to guess who it is so so I was like oh God I got to play how how are you describing Ryan Reynolds as a guy with a gin company that’s one of the last things surely you describe he was trying to hide like hide exactly who it was bit cryp unfor his first cryptic clue I was like oh Ryan Reynolds I know that he’s Aviation Mann so then I had but then I was like oh you gotta you got to play along like who who you know Jin what’s that Jin yes is it Jeff hendrik right he’s he’s got a company doesn’t he um and uh he yeah so anyway in the in the end eventually he was like so he’s you know him from it’s dead it’s Ryan Reynolds and I had to be like whoa but he they they knew each other because Ryan had followed Rob on Instagram and sent him a DM didn’t never met him but sent him a message being like hey I love this episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia about um Max’s Dad where he does this incredible sort of dance uh uh sequence it’s like eight minutes long and it’s it’s crazy and Ryan is sent him a message being like that’s one of the nut most incredible things I’ve ever seen on TV you don’t know me but you know hey good great job and Rob was like uh oh uh thanks you know like I’m a big fan of your work and they they but Rob’s like that it there’s like that’s all it says in our DMs like two messages to each other from sort of 3 years earlier and he was like you know what this guy loves marketing he loves crazy things and like this is a kind of weird and crazy idea so he messaged him and said do you want to stick Aviation G on the front of the shirt and Ryan was like no no I want to I want to be your co-art would you would you be interested in me being your partner and of course Robert’s like yes and that’s when it went everything went nuts because I think before that you know probably realist ially our expectations have been you we talk about do you can you believe any of this happened at that stage prior to Ryan coming board I was like okay so we what we might do is get a hold of a team in the National League and renovate it renovate Spruce it up spruce up the stadium I mean Rob at that stage I think was like I want we’ll give the team back to the town we we’re we’re taking it off the town and what we’ll do is we’ll take it off the town we’ll we’ll fix up the underside of the tech end and will we’ll try and get him a training ground and we’ll get him into the into League 2 and then at a certain point we’ll be like thanks very much like this is you it’s yours again you know but in a better place like hopefully more sustainable place um you know we always very aware that like we can’t just hand it back we’ve got to hand it back in a way that it’s going to be safe to continue um but when Ryan came aboard I was like oh this changes everything because serious now suddenly the kind of money you know kind of money that you can again command from sponsors and from this and the other is Many Times Higher and you know and Ryan’s personal um finances were such that that gave us a better stop Gap behind us we a bit safer this that and the other and yeah it just that was the point when I was suddenly like I mean still I think at that stage I was like well we could get to like League one that’d be good and then you know try and find a buyer who’s sensible and responsible I need to ask Ryan this question is where he where he thinks in his head no I want to come on and be a co-owner with you I I want to know where he thinks that from because he’s a busy man he’s he’s a he’s a movie star he’s a mega celebrity aess celebrity he’s a busy man serial entrepreneur as well where does he get where does he get it in his head to think I’ve got time to commit to this because it’s not something that he can just buy and invest money in and then just leave it to win and sell it’s something that he has to get involved with yeah I I I think the big thing was the way Rob talked about it from the start again it goes back to like his draw into it was the fact like was basically sundon fans he was like oh I like these people he a big thing he said many times about rexam is that like he’s was struck by how people in Rex exactly same as people in Philadelphia like he’s like I know these people I’ve met all these people grow grew up around me has slightly different accents but I think he felt that about sundland as well so right from the jump the thing that he was most interested in was like a football club is like a philanthropic engine it’s it’s a great way like you can you can spend you know you can donate a million dollarss to a charity right or say $2 million because that’s what that’s what they it cost for them to kind of to to take over the club you know give $2 million to a charity and they’ll do something brilliant and it’s amazing um but if you spend $2 million on a football club and you’re able to grow that football club and build it and do it it reaches so much further in a way and it becomes a catalyst I mean the biggest craziest thing we’ve seen with this Rex and process is I of to measure this through I get so many people sending me like songs and poems and books they’ve written people from rexam who are like inspired now they’re optimistic and they’re you know I think Rex for a long time was a place where people were like if you were young and had something about you you sort have left you went to Manchester or Liverpool maybe to London maybe over here maybe somewhere but you sort of you got out of rexam you know and maybe your folks are still there and you come back to visit but you went somewhere else to kind of try and take your opportunity in life and now always seen people moving back to people that have moved to Manchester or Liverpool you know who are have made a success of themselves there and they’re starting to be like actually might I want to go I want to do this at home I want to go if I can do it in rexim I’ll do it there and and that’s some a really amazing like side effect to the whole thing it’s not just football we were talking about this a few months ago do you remember when we were talking about this whole may do What it’s done in four nearly five years but then what potentially rexam could be as a town as an area in 10 years how how scary is that for you to think of like do you do you sometimes get carried away do you ever look to the Future do you think what if or have you got a because this is so new right this whole project is so new and no one’s ever done it before yeah back to back to back promotions no one’s ever done it before it’s like you’re playing real life champman it is real Football manager how can you plan for the future It’s Tricky I mean I think my my biggest thing is that I’m always banging the drum for and I’m not the only one in our setup to do that but is we we can’t forget where we were and where we came from because I think that actually the the worst thing would be if in 10 15 years time you looked around you were like actually these are different faces they aren’t the same people that rob recognized from Philly and from rexam like it’s it’s become um you know I I think there’s a lot of debate around Premier League clubs and pricing out fans and how difficult it is for local fans to get tickets and how people come from all over the world and like it’s brilliant our our International fans are absolutely vital and Central to what we do and actually I think I’ve been most astonished by is how welcoming the local fans are how well they like blend together they get on really really well I think there’s that you know everyone loves the same thing and that’s very it’s hard to hate someone who loves something that you love um but yeah I think we just got to be careful that we don’t turn around and realize we like gentrified reom or in such a way that it’s like it’s now impossible for local people to buy houses there or do I mean I think that’s that’s fortunately a long way off but as far as the football club is concerned you know you know fuzzy what it was like when when you came back how direct the interfaces between you and the fans every time you are coming in from training or coming in for for a game you’re there and you get to know I mean you you know Millie and people you get to know it that’s the bit Yeah Millie there for example that’s the bit is I hope it never loses that hope magical because you you you turn up to the stadium you get changed at the stadium then you everybody jumps in their car drives down to the training ground that’s not even our training ground and it’s and then you’re back again and the fans are waiting for you to say hello to you and it’s so nice and it’s so special you’re walking in on a match day and you’re walking through all the fans signing all the and the difference between that and Premier League teams is it’s faceless there is none of that contact thanks everybody for watching we hope you enjoyed this clip of the fos cast if you would like to watch the full episode it is now available exclusively on Spotify for free [Music]