'We are f***ed': Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney's honest ...

Wrexham AFC co-owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have revealed the club was financially “f***ed” if it was not promoted from the National League last season.

The two Hollywood stars took over the club in 2020 and have injected money into the struggling club to turn its results around but after failing to get promoted in their first season the pair invested further the following year.

Wrexham won the National League last season to secure automatic promotion into League Two for 2023-24 but the co-owners revealed their big spending put the club in a precarious position if they did not get moved up.

“From a financial perspective, if we do not get promoted this year, we are f*****,” McElhenney said on the new series of Welcome To Wrexham.

“Yep, f***ed,” Reynolds replied.

Since the takeover, the club has seen a massive amount of money poured in to secure the talents of manager Phil Parkinson and star players Paul Mullin and Ollie Palmer.

The money helped Wrexham win the National League fending off Notts County by just four points to secure promotion after spending 15 years in the fifth tier of English football.

With the promotion Wrexham would have received about 1 million pounds from the EFL and Premier League for getting promoted plus extra revenue expected to be generated by heightened ticket, broadcast and merchandise sales.

Reynolds explained if Wrexham failed for the second year in a row in their quest for promotion last season, the club would have been unsustainable.

“We're heavily invested in building this club, the stadium itself, and if we don't get promoted this year, the club is completely, totally and wholly unsustainable,” he said.

“So it’s really ratcheted up the pressure, not just for us but for the players on the field, the people in the community. This year we have to get promoted.”

McElhenney added they had initially promised their investment would create a sustainable business that would prosper long after they were gone so the pressure was on last year to deliver.

“If our goal from the very beginning was not just to win, not just to help bring some hope and optimism to the town, but to build a sustainable business, something that can continue long after we've gone,” he said.

“For us to put them in a position where if they don't get promoted this year, that they are no longer sustainable in any real way, is counter to what our original promises were.”

Wrexham have begun their season in League Two respectively winning three, drawing three and losing one match to sit in seventh on the table.

The team’s National League rivals Notts County have begun even better sitting second on the table with four wins, two draws and a loss to their name.