Ryan Reynolds & Rob McElhenney EXTREMELY BULLISH over Wrexham’s future ⭐️ | ESPN FC
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- On ESPN FC, Alexis Nunes sits down with Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds ahead of Season 3 of FX’s Welcome to Wrexham, which premieres back-to-back episodes Thursday, May 2 at 10 PM ET/PT on FX and streams next day on Hulu. Rob and Ryan discuss Wrexham’s preseason against Manchester United and Chelsea, their quest to make it to the Premier League and their extremely lofty ambitions in the coming years.
Wrexham HAVE been promoted to play in League One next season!
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'My mood for the day/week is determined by what happens on that pitch'
Ladies and gentlemen, we got um!
Ryan is 100% a football fan now.
Sadly hits too close to home lol
I'm guessing that your moods aren't going to be that great once the new season gets underway....
@@mrbillhicks im a Newcastle fan so....
I know
_"We want blood and we want it now"_ I think these guys really, really get it.
I don't wanna see Rob unhappy and occupied with results and difficulties , i just wanna see him on season 70 of its always sunny, Same for Ryan ofcourse
Naaah this is their destiny and it will truly live on beyond their years.
They’ve done a remarkable thing!
Don't watch then... Why are you even here?
@@DeathsHeadNihilism read the comment again before replying to make sure you understood it
You want Ryan on Season 70 of IASIP?
@@SomethingSomewhereJustOnce not what I meant but why not , we already got the frank Reynonds why not Ryan Reynolds
As a Birmingham fan who is destined for League One next week, I look forward to the showdown between the Blues and Wrexham. Brady vs. Reynolds. This will be a killer for Welcome To Wrexham: Season 4!
You could still stay up yet. Maybe Blackburn will get relegated.
Back to having a chance of playing teams like the Blues again after 15 years in Non league is mad 🤪, off to give my head a wobble
Can't wait for that away day just showing how far we have come
Still think you I’ll stay up but it’s gonna be a big season for Wrexham… they will give a big push but it will be tough. Really depends on our summer signings. Playoffs would be great achievement.
He's paid FA tomorrow this successful career in the football league as the referee and lines men have been playing a weird game compared to the other matches I've watches in the past 3 years
We love you Mr. Co-Chairman and Mr. Co-Chairman! Up the Town!
Ryan saying his mood for the day or the week is determined by results.......I am the same, as are most fans! He's emotionally involved!
Love those guys for what they have done for my hometown and for the community,
It is important to take care of the town of Wrexham.
It's a city now
And they have been doing it, it’s amazing. They purchased a club but changed lives for the better
@@Reticulosis I am very happy to hear that the community is benefitting.
For Ryan in particular the investment into Wrexham wasn't really about the club per se...at least originally. It was how he could leverage the club to provide a boost to the community. That was his initial focus because he never really cared about sports. You can actually see the moment he becomes a football fan in Season 1 of the documentary. He attended a game at The Racecourse and Wrexham managed to score an equalizer in the last minutes and win the game in injury time. At the end of the match, Ryan was just slumped over in the corner overcome with emotion. Since their takeover North Wales as a whole has benefited. After all Wrexham of all places is now a tourist destination for people from around the world. Those tourists need lodgings to stay in and restaurants to eat at. That means more business for the places in and around Wrexham. Those places will need to hire more staff to cope with the additional business. That means more jobs for the people in and around Wrexham. Those newly employed local people now have more money to spend in and around Wrexham.
@@DS9TREK It will always be a town, no matter what officials say. We don't say "Up the City", it is "Up the Town".
As a Huddersfield fan, been quite a while since we’ve played Wrexham, believe we may have actually been their last game in league one before they went down, strangely really looking forward to playing them next season now though. Proper club
At least with the relegation, Huddersfield gets to co-start in the series next year LOL. What is your nationality, I have been claiming to be the only American-born Huddersfield fan on the planet but maybe that's not quite accurate.
fair play for sticking it out
Having promotion and relegation in a sport changes the mentality of the sport and makes it more realistic because in real life people are promoted and relegated. I'm an American but I stopped watching NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB years ago because it's boring and it's been the same teams at the top for years now. It's great having MLS in the United States but we need at least two more leagues so that relegation and promotion can be added. There are a lot of talented futbol players in the U.S. Definitely enough to create two more leagues. If Wrexham can make it to the Premier League that would be a great accomplishment but staying in the Premier League is a completely different story. ^ ^ KC
We basically have a lower league in the USL but the US is so focused on the anti club and pro school feeder system it's going to take a jolt to get it all going.
There will be no merging of leagues with relegation/promotion in the US
Ever
A team owner (very expensively) buys into a League. When have you heard of a capitalist giving money back?
Unless MLS has a financial collapse, leaving the sport with a blank slate to rebuild, the best you could hope for is a club affiliated tiered system like Baseball, 2 or 3 development leagues.
Cannot wait for Season 3! Thanks for this interview!
From a derby fan up the Wrexham. I am happy as f we got promoted but hopefully we will play Wrexham in the prem one day. All the love in the world to see 2 yanks getting to know our love
Manchester United are bringing in players and running a very specific style to get out of the Premier League
🤣🤣🤣Right you are!
Let's hope it changes things now that Ratcliffe will be in charge of the financial aspects of the football section.
Oh look, a comedian.
I mean - we all know United are poor. But taking about relegation?
Nah pal - you don’t get it.
@@andyc6542 dont be arrogant. leeds were big first time they got relegated. same issues as united, financial and sporting wise. Blackburn got relegated, albeit in a much worse state. Nottingham got it tough after their success. No team is secured from relegation and united has shown a path that could lead to disaster
@@mustplay7212 Arrogant? If you think Manchester United are one of the three worst teams in the league, you're daft.
Yes, they're bad. But THAT bad? Come off it.
Yeah, these two are far gone, there's no going back for them. They've tasted the sport and witnessed first hand what it can do to a human. In fact, they've had serious skin in the game for a while, so their experience is 10 fold a normal spectator's. Hopefully the inevitable correction that's bound to happen (progress is never linear), they won't get stressed out of their minds and start to become too hands-on. The way they do it now is perfect, so they need to stick with it through the good and bad times. They're really unto something and if they keep this up, there's really nothing to stop them from breaking into the EPL. That would probably be one of the most insane stories of this century if they do make it.
No dig at Wrexham as I love the story but you might want to look into Luton town, that's already the fairytale. Relegated from the old First Division (top division before premier league started) on the final day before it rebranded, then relegated all the way to the conference league (old name for the national league) after a 30 point deduction and then promoted back to the premier League in 11 years without multimillionaire celebrity owners
@@sexy11legsso many hard luck fairytale stories in English football look at Sunderland etc
Realistically, they won't. It can't happen
@@SVD978 It's happened a lot of times, when I first started watching the Premiership Oldham Athletic and Swindon Town were in the Prem. These days Oldham are in the National League and Swindon are only one league above them in league 2, Wrexham are already ahead of both of those clubs.
They have a fan catchment area of the whole of North Wales, international fans coming over thanks to the TV show exposure which opens up another revenue stream, the owners make stadium improvements and community involvement a top priority and acquire players very sensibly and don't rush or splash crazy money for overpriced overhyped players.
I'm sure if you asked the majority of Luton Town fans who when they got relegated from the football league in 2009 and nearly bankrupted would believe you if you said that you will be playing Premiership football by 2023. Swansea City came one game away from getting relegated to the football league but fans took over the club and began to run it sensibly making steady progress until they made the Premiership and won a League Cup , there are dozens of other examples of this.
Wrexham have a great chance of making the Premiership and could do so by the end of this decade if they continue to build as well as they have so far because other teams with less means than them have done it.
@@A-small-amount-of-peas Wrexham needs a huge overhaul if they want to have even the slightest hope of getting to the prem. And I'm not just talking about the players either. It's 100% not going to happen.
Best Owners Ever.
Congrats Wrexham on the promotion! Amazing story so far! :)
Would love Wrexham go to the PL and pull a Leicester … that would be a good season to watch 😊
Fair plays these guys! So nice how they embraced our beloved sport! Good luck Wrexham! I know a lot of people who didn’t used to care doa bit more now !
Respect Wrexham from a Notts County fan🖤🤍
The stress ,joy and heartbreak after each game is what football is about
I guess we are used to this right, but take a step back, and think how amazing this actually is. Neither of these guys needed to do this, there are hundreds of easier options that would have made them more money each, but somehow... here they are.
my mood for the week is determined by what happens on that pitch...he actually gets it.
Ryan counting how many times Rob says "stories"
Wrexham played in the equivalent of the Championship today (2nd tier), which was the English Football League's Second Division (1892-1992). Their highest-ever league position is 15th in the Second Division. I genuinely believe that can exceed that in the Championship one day.
Rob and Ryan have a home in north Wales always.
Probably one of the few times that its acceptable to call a "series" a "season"
I a strange way that Hollywood mentality is good for a club like Wrexham or any club for that matter. In Hollywood you don't make a 500M movie to see revenue off of Blu Ray sales... It needs to work right there, RIGHT NOW...
So I think it's great what Rob said, no rebuilding years, you go for it and adjust as you go along, but you don't pre-determine that such and such year has no meaning.
Wait, haven't they already been promoted?
This interview took place weeks ago. It wasn't posted till now because it's being used to help promote the new season of Welcome to Wrexham.
Love it!
There is not much difference between the national league and league two however there is a huge gap between the national league and league one. This will be a test.
The true test will begin next season
My mood for the day sometimes the week depends on what happens on that pitch. Welcome to football.
I have the same being a Feyenoord supporter ;) Mondays can be cruel...but I love my team
Imagine Wrexham in the Premier League 😂
In 5-8 years you won’t have to imagine anything 😎
Well Brighton, Bournemouth and Fulham were one in league 2 so it’s possible.
People said the same thing about Luton
Need more money but doable
Winners! The owners every fan dreams of.
Living the life
I remember buying my first ant farm 😂
They are great owners, even though they didn't know the first thing about football when they started.
They know people and how to work with them to achieve a vision.
They are right about football being a 'win now' game. It only takes one season of concentrating on 'rebuilding' to find yourselves relegated - a problem NFL teams don't face.
The joys of playing in a real contest not an Exhibition League!!
Spectacular 😊
6:08 Ryan’s a bit confused about the naming of the leagues (and why wouldn’t he be when League One and League Two are the 3rd and 4th levels of the pyramid, rather than the 1st and 2nd?). In the pre-1992 structure, the top 4 leagues were Division One, Two, Three, and Four, and Wrexham’s peak (most recently in the 1990s) was in the old Division Two, which is now called the Championship.
Rob steered him in the right direction.
And prior to that we had Third Divisions North and South. Wrexham spent many many seasons in Third Division North.
Ah nice, wasn't sure Wrexham had been that high, that's great.
I still call them division 2, 3, etc. Anything else is stupid
it's even more confusing because the term 'championship' might even be considered to sound more elite than the 'premier league'. While premier might suggest the top-ranked or the foremost league, championship suggests a league of champions. Not a strange argument as the highest level of club football is even called the Champions League! So the naming is all very confusing.
Let's just say owning the team is making them better actors, because you can only imitate your own experience of depression and unbelievable highs. You say no sports fan wants to hear that? Hockey fans are always happy to rebuild if they don't succeed.
For all the owner problem all English clubs this is how u do it . Rob and Ryan show how to run a club … well done boys it’s nice to see the race course ground . Well on all ur success. Iam a swfc fan so hopefully we won’t see u. Ext season fingers crossdd
Financial doping is the way to do it?
I am not saying I don’t agree or don’t like them.. they have done wonders to a historic club and I am fine with that.. but let’s not pretend it is something it isn’t
It always feels like Ryan Reynolds is barely containing himself from saying something snarky and hilarious.
This is gonna get expensive, now its gonna get really expensive
Na, a strong team within league one is definately within their budget, especially with veterans like Fletcher willing to take a huge discount to ride the Wrexham wave.
It's the Championship where the rub meets the accountant. They will have to get such very rich investors then to even have a crack at the Premier League. But they seem to be making them, and don't forget billionaire Taylor Swift is Ryan's wife close friend, and Rob is becoming friends with the Kelce's.
Don't feel bad by those losses, there are premier league teams losing by more than 5-0
Ryan a bit confused about the history there. League 2 used to be what is now the Championship and of course we reached that during the memorable 77/78 season staying for 4 years.
Rob steered him correctly.
Don't expect them to know anything about football...they are just US millionaires looking for a toy
Wasn’t League Two called division three up until 2005?
@@lloydmarshall8563 it was division 4
@@cindyfandtx1337 that was pre 1992 e (I’m just about old enough to remember the pre premier league era). My first Stockport game was February 1997 and I recall it being in what was then called Nationwide Football League Division Two (now League One). Nationwide Building Society was the sponsor back then.
Ain’t Wrexham been promoted to league 1 already I am confused lol
League 1 is the 3rd tier.
1. Premier League
2. Championship
3. League One
4. League Two
5. National League
Wreham should visit South Africa and play Kaizer Chiefs ,Pirates , Supersport utd ,Stellenbosch and Sundowns
Theyd gain so much supporters and experience
The change: I loved the start of the show with ordinary people and kids with disabilities being centre. I hope it doesn't become hangers-on and teeth pumped up lips and finger nails.
Is there a legal reason the show doesn't start until after the football season?
The editing process takes times to get final cut imo just like Drive to survive in Netflix when they release it next year after season finished. So the answer is yes and no cause part of editing is getting affirmation to everything not just film crew/producer or owner which is Rob and Ryan.
@@bimapriambada1098do you think some mid season episodes would be nice? State of the team episodes for instance.
Yeah, I understand that editing takes time, and I don't really mind how it is now, I was just curious if EFL has some rule about it.
yes.
@@michaelsnyder6922 Idk to be honest. Because this is documentary series so everything is different like stripping TV-series like The Office, Always Sunny or Keeping up with Kardashian thing when you can release 2-3 months after filming process.
Wrx was in League One in 2004/05, the very first season of that league, where they got relegated. So Ryan is wrong there by one year. They finished 21/24 then.
They were in the championship one league below the Premiership in the 70's.
@@123bwlch They were in the Football League Second Division, later named First Division, for a few years but that´s not the Championship even if the tiers line up. The EFL Championship will be new ground in a few years due to the systems being uncomparable due to too many reforms.
@@residentgrigo4701 Which is the second tier of english football, named as the championship - Arfon Griffiths took over as player-manager for the 1977-78 season. They reached both the League and FA Cup quarter-finals that season, and Wrexham finally clinched promotion to the second division when they beat Rotherham United 7-1 at a packed Racecourse
@@residentgrigo4701 eh the biggest difference being in name only
@@residentgrigo4701"does a rose by any other name not smell as sweet?" The old second division/Championship are the same thing
Hope these guys don’t end up divorced when their wives get tired of them spending too much time with the team!
Their wives are hooked as much as they are. So I don't think it's going to be a problem.
Bullish? You guys trading too much
What the fk was he on about ‘telling stories’… 😂
That's basically all sport is. It's easy to forget sometimes but football is a game.
Have you watched the show?
I think R&R are in for a rude awakening next season, no more playing in leagues where most of the clubs are glorified Sunday league sides. Fully a third of the teams they'll be playing in the 1st division have been in the prem at one point or another over the past 10 to 15 years. They have the facilities and the revenue to make Wrexham's and their lives very difficult.
well.. thats kinda how it works doesn't it? It doesnt get easier at the top!
Well, Ryan did just get $1.35 billion. It’s definitely enough to bank roll Wrexham through the championship.
Up the Worldwide Reds 🏴🇺🇸🇨🇦
Wish someone would tell them to stop saying "Premiere" league 🙄 Its "Premier" league, they are different words ffs
americans pronounce both words the same, get over it
Just ask them what they are going to do with the club once the show ends.
As close to real time lol the season is over and the show isnt even out.
ironically show came out the day u posted this.
The team is doing well but I don't think they will make it to the Championship next year
Do they need to finish top of the table in order to be promoted?
@@kiloDelta-wo6gm I don't know but I think they will be mid table.
@@kiloDelta-wo6gmThe first two places get a direct promotion to the Championship. Place 3-6 play a playoff for 3rd promotion.
Top 10 would be quite an achievement but this team always surprises me and playoffs are not out of the question!
I'd be happy with that 😊@@saturdaysequalsyouth
"we are going for broke, we must get promoted" coming out of the mouth of someone who is almost a billionär is hilarious to me
Most tied up in shares probably. No one has such money in bank
I love Wrexham but seriously "died from smoke inhalation"? Have you seen Argentina celebration after the world cup win!
It´s easier to build a long term project in american sports because you don´t have relegation
Blah blah blah. And yet Stockport County-with a fraction of Wrexham's money and resources-beat them to the Vanarama League title and then the League 2 title.
Stockport are the real fairytale club.
dry your tears, it's ok baba.
Lol. The owners will ban smoking in the dressing room now. Or they should.
I am listening to the Nats on MLB Gameday. What is playing at this moment is the promotion made by Rob McElhenney, who I am sure is a nice person, with what was (the first time I heard it) a fairly humorous mash up of baseball and football. But not 10 times in a normal baseball game. OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER again. Please tell MLB to stop using you to torture people. Budapeter
That host had more charm than Ryan Reynolds. Dayum.
Irish accent I hear
Hey it was never going to last I think we all know that but at the end of the day it's been a ride of our lives and you two have put Wrexham on the world map so thank you.
If they were smart they would've put this on Netflix or Amazon. No uses FX in the UK
It's on Disney Plus in the UK.
Rob's been on FX for years and it gets them on Hulu and Disney+ here in America. Their main audience is the US, not the UK
Fingers crossed S3 of WTW has better editing than S2
I don't think these guys realise how difficult it's going to be for them next season, they are more than likely going to get relegated
Nah - but I expect them to take some time to get out of League 1 before being a Championship staple club, but never making the Premier League
@@temujanradari1105 Never is a strong word when you're talking about this sport. Dont get me wrong It's unlikely they will get there any time soon but football is WAY too unpredictable and chaotic so you should no better than to make any sort of concrete statement like that.
@@jaysheriffe6292 Premier League at Kenilworth Road this season - so anything is possible!
Wrexham was division 2 of which is now the championship 79/80 tbh I thought he would of knew that 🙈
Are they twins?
American sports aren't invested in the "right now" because there is no relegation. I would love to see a system in the states where the worst major league baseball teams went down to triple AAA and the Top AAA teams got promoted to the Majors...oh the humanity. Never gonna happen...but one can dream.
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Can we have an interview with the team who actually won the league Ie Stockport County?
Who?
@@EKT209 Stockport County FC the team who Wrexham beat 2-1 last game of the season, the team who beat Wrecsam 5-0 earlier in the season, and the team who finished in first place 4 points ahead of The Red Dragons in the EFL League Two this season.
Yeah sorry mate they were in that league for a couple years and had a stronger squad and bigger budget than Wrexham not much to talk about.
Wrexham is b2b however so that's more interesting
@@striderwhiston9897 Stronger squad? Probably. Bigger budget? Absolutely not.
@@Elladis366 The total amount spent over the previous few transfer windows was far more for Stockport than it was Wrexham, not to mention Stockports owner is almost certainly richer than rob and ryan combined, even after ryan sold his portion of t mobile.
The ticket prices for the Wrexham North America tour this summer are a total scam, a third division team can't charge 100$ a seat even if there are suckers born every minute.
pair of clowns will get a rude awakening night season lol
Gfys
please buy chelsea!
TF is going on with her accent?
This attention to Wrexham pisses me off. Just because a couple of Hollywood stars got involved. Nobody batted an eyelid before then, it’s sad.
Ao sick of these two and Wrexham
yet you still click on these videos to hate watch...sad existance tbh.
There enormous relative wage bill will soon be standard, at that point they will struggle
That’s where the fairy tale ends. You ain’t getting out of league one for years
Hating mofo
@@dcor_nothing3914 no just being realistic, league 1 is not easy ask Portsmouth
BS
Parky got 2 teams out of L1 and they are already the best-funded team in that league without having entered it. And that is before the summer turnover and the US/Kanada tour and the Mexican investment that just went through. L1 can be done in just a few years. Tito did the math and came up with 3.3 for L2 and 4.5 for L1. They will do it faster again, just not next season. The Championship is another problem. They will need new everything and a comical amount of money to exit it.
@@residentgrigo4701 😂 there are championship teams that are relegated with a way bigger budget, it will take years to get out of this league. They’re More likely get relegated. Doesn’t matter if the owners are rich, they can’t spend over their tiny budget.
Ok Rob, but there are also millions of Wrexham stories all over the world. Let's be honest, there is nothing unique or special about Wrexham or Wrexham FC because it is simply made up of people, just like every other town and club all around the world. The novelty will wear off and the viewers will stop watching once Wrexham's success starts to plateau. Will you keep paying the bills when 'This is Wrexham' stops being made? Will you keep coming back to games when the team is back in League 2 / Non-League football with the dream of the Premier League dead? Of course you won't. Prove me wrong boys, prove me wrong...back in 5 years to check in on this comment's accuracy.
Your wife was recently disrespectful of Catherine Princess of Wales. Keep Hollywood out of football!
She's just Kate. You only get a prince or princess in front of your name if one of your parents or grandparents is on the throne. Kate's parents are commers.
Keep medieval monarchies out of football
@@ericbrown1101 Excellent.
Just another billionaire with a vanity project.
LOL neither of them are even close to being a billionaire
Ryan is, just barely but still...
Thank goodness.
Meow!!!
always one idiot
HES PAID F.A FOR THIS SUCCESS AND THE REFEREE PLAYS A DIFFRENT GAME COMPAIRED TO THE OTHER GAMES IVE WATCHED