WREXHAM 3RD HIGHEST SPENDERS

3rd behind ipswich Southampton
33 million spent this season.

I wonder how much we will spend this season for our assault on the championship.?

Definitely won't be £33m.

I'll guess at £3m.

And Tan will expect top two.

Last edited by davids on Tue May 19, 2026 8:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.

3rd behind ipswich Southampton
33 million spent this season.

I wonder how much we will spend this season for our assault on the championship.?

Well monty it certainly did them good? Milwall and Hull didn't spend anywhere near that but were more successful!
I don't envisage bbm spending fraction of this but will be more optimistic about city finishing top 8 than Wrexham .

Definitely won't be £33m.

I'll guess at £3m.

And Tan will expect top two.

£1.5m left to spend after the Trott deal then

Definitely won't be £33m.

I'll guess at £3m.

And Tan will expect top two.

£1.5m left to spend after the Trott deal then

That made me laugh Ned .ha

Definitely won't be £33m.

I'll guess at £3m.

And Tan will expect top two.

£1.5m left to spend after the Trott deal then

That made me laugh Ned .ha

I would trust bbm to spend £1.5m better than parkinson any day

I have wondered how long they're going to hang onto Parkinson given their ambition even though he did a lot better than I expected this season.

with BBM in charge anything is POSSIBLE in BBM I trust ktf fellow BLUEBIRDS!!!

In fairness, they did buy a lot of crowd pleasers.

A young welsh forward who had a reputation for playing second fiddle most his career in Broadhead, but more than capable to stake a claim to a starting birth.

A proven goalscorer which is hard to come by in Moore. There aren’t many they signed last season that I would have been disappointed had we signed them if we were still in the championship.

What they didn’t do is unlock a gem, which most teams need in order to go up. I trust BBM in that respect, I think he could already know a few that are worth signing

It may take them a few years but they are definitely going to the premiership. They have a huge turnover because of the TV show and all the sponsorship it brings them

I have wondered how long they're going to hang onto Parkinson given their ambition even though he did a lot better than I expected this season.

I don't think he's that attractive as a manager. Wrexham are punching well above their weight. They should have got play-offs this year and I think the only thing that has let him off is the fact that it was their first year promoted.

They scored 69 and conceded 65. Conceding that many usually puts you in the bottom 10 of the league, they're far too defensively weak and just rely on outscoring teams which most owners and clubs don't want now.

Only Wednesday (we all know their issues), Leicester, QPR, Sheff Utd and Hull ( ) conceded more than than Wrexham. Two of them were relegated.

Definitely won't be £33m.

I'll guess at £3m.

And Tan will expect top two.

It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it and on what you spend it on.

We have a better Manager than them, and that's what you have to get right, as we can see if you do everything else falls into place.

I have wondered how long they're going to hang onto Parkinson given their ambition even though he did a lot better than I expected this season.

I had assumed that they had accepted internally that another b2b promotion wasn’t likely and that there would be an agreement that given Parkinson has been extremely unlucky at Championship level before that as long as he didn’t have them flirting with relegation he could see out the season to prove himself before leaving mutually.

I think this season going better than they had planned has thrown a spanner in this

3rd behind ipswich Southampton
33 million spent this season.

I wonder how much we will spend this season for our assault on the championship.?

They must be near ffp

3rd behind ipswich Southampton
33 million spent this season.

I wonder how much we will spend this season for our assault on the championship.?

They must be near ffp

They aren't, their turnover is enormous, they've basically just spent what they brought in and can continue to do that as long as they've got a TV show and big American brands wanting to sponsor them

What happens if they don’t get promoted…. The TV series and hype won’t last forever.

The new ffp rules that are being used this season are a lot easier for teams with high turnovers as you can spend 85% of all income on just transfer fees player wages head coach wages and agent fees , and owners can spend 33 million over 3 years on top of all income up to 15 million a season , everything else you spend like academy etc doesn't count towards the 85%

So sponsors tv revenue ticket sales etc 85% can all be spent on the first team squad

What happens if they don’t get promoted…. The TV series and hype won’t last forever.

Did anyone think it would last this long? And there's at a minimum another 3 years of the tv series. Who on here thought they would have got to the Championship with back to back to back promotions? Nobody on here would have thought it would happen, including me.

As for what happens when it ends, how long is a piece of string? They could end up settled in the Premier league or back in the 4th division, but so could we, nobody knows. That's the beauty of the way the system is set up.

Nothing lasts forever.

Must admit I was one who thought it would have been on the verge of falling apart by now, but it isn't.

Normally in situations like this, where a club has risen several leagues quickly due to heavy investment, they get to a certain level and then it just stops. But I don't see that happening with Wrexham now, not it stopping in the Championship anyway. Can see them being promoted in the next 2-3 years.

I'll use Salford as an example, they had heavy investment (not on the Wrexham scale but big in relative terms). They quickly went up through the non league divisions but it just stopped when they got to League Two, until this season anyway.

The challenge for Wrexham will be if and when they get to the Premier League. The money you have to spend in that league is on another level. Seeing things like a Nottingham Forest player being valued at £100m is a sign of that.

But despite all this, I'll repeat what I've said before - I would personally want their owners. Wrexham fans love them and that's fair enough but the whole circus around them is not something I'd want. Most people can't say Wrexham without saying Ryan Reynolds in the same breath. And that's one of several reasons I was not as excited as others about the Bale rumours.

Each to their own though.

When Abramovich bought Chelsea and they spent spent spent people said it couldn’t last, they wouldn’t win that way, it was never a long term plan. Yet he left and they’re worse now for spending than they’ve ever been.

Man City, the Arabs bought them, ploughed money in, “it’ll never work as you can’t buy team chemistry” then here we are watching them season after season look like dominating. They didn’t just buy quality, they developed the youth system and create quality to feed off now too.

Wrexham aren’t in that level of investment, but the model they have is fantastic. They will have a crack at the premier league within the next few seasons, and that will then lengthen the Disney show, increase the money, exposure, sponsorship etc. If done well, they could create unbelievable foundations to be the biggest club in Wales, although that is a long way off right now.

Our owners are great at making the club look stupid, we haven’t done it for a while so I’m waiting for some whacko announcement just to remind people we are a crazy club with a crazy owner

Ryan Reynolds' ability to balloon companies is off the scale. Nearly everything he touches explodes.
i guessed the Disney show was paying the ownership company that the actors set up, rather than the club, so Gemini search and shared below.
The Wrexham phenomenon is akin to the YouTube boxing boom; it's for a new different audience, so it's unpredictable. It could quickly pop or boom again at any moment. Undoubtedly, the sponsorship gives them "sugar daddy" type money, whilst not failing FFP. At some point, it may all fall into place, but their recruitment was super safe last year and could hamper them for a few seasons.
Just to add context, Broahead is only 10 months younger than Ryan Wintle, who many of our fans wrote off as peaked. These players have at least another year. Any worries you have when you see them lining up against us? Me neither !!

Matty James 34 June 30, 2027
Kieffer Moore 33 June 30, 2028
Conor Coady 33 June 30, 2027
Danny Ward 32 June 30, 2027
Josh Windass 32June 30, 2028
Paul Mullin 31 June 30, 2027
Elliot Lee 31 June 30, 2027
Dan Scarr 31 June 30, 2027

Its all a bit Cardiff City of the last decade !! There are big write offs there.



According to Wrexham AFC's financial accounts and club sources, the football club itself does not receive direct TV rights payments or payouts from Disney or FX for the Welcome to Wrexham docuseries.
Instead, the financial layout and benefits work through a specific corporate structure:

1. The Production Money Goes to the Owners' Companies. While the club doesn't get a direct check from Disney, the production companies owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are the ones that secure the lucrative broadcasting and production deals with FX and Disney. Early data from the show's debut estimated the docuseries was raking in around £430,000 ($540,000) per episode, but that revenue flows to the Hollywood production side rather than hitting the club’s direct bank account.

2. The "Disney Effect" Drives Massive Commercial Revenue. Even though Disney isn't paying the club directly, the show serves as a massive, multi-season global advertisement. This exposure has allowed Wrexham to secure massive, Premier League-level sponsorships and retail sales that are unheard of for clubs in the lower divisions of English football.
The explosion in the club's revenue demonstrates this impact:
Revenue Stream Pre-Takeover (Non-League)2024–25 Season (League One)
Sponsorship Revenue~£1.3 million ($1.55m)$23.46 million
Retail Income (Merch/Kit) Minimal $6.84 million
Total Club Turnover~£1.3 million ($1.55m)$45.05 million

The Takeaway: A typical club in League One (the third tier) averages around $2.7 million in sponsorships. Because of the Disney show's global reach, Wrexham brings in nearly nine times that amount, with over half of its total turnover now coming directly from the North American market.
So while Disney doesn't directly pay Wrexham AFC a broadcast fee, the "Disneyification" of the club is exactly what has driven its valuation from the initial £2 million takeover price to an estimated $475 million as they push toward the upper tiers of English football.

Ryan Reynolds' ability to balloon companies is off the scale. Nearly everything he touches explodes.
i guessed the Disney show was paying the ownership company that the actors set up, rather than the club, so Gemini search and shared below.
The Wrexham phenomenon is akin to the YouTube boxing boom; it's for a new different audience, so it's unpredictable. It could quickly pop or boom again at any moment. Undoubtedly, the sponsorship gives them "sugar daddy" type money, whilst not failing FFP. At some point, it may all fall into place, but their recruitment was super safe last year and could hamper them for a few seasons.
Just to add context, Broahead is only 10 months younger than Ryan Wintle, who many of our fans wrote off as peaked. These players have at least another year. Any worries you have when you see them lining up against us? Me neither !!

Matty James 34 June 30, 2027
Kieffer Moore 33 June 30, 2028
Conor Coady 33 June 30, 2027
Danny Ward 32 June 30, 2027
Josh Windass 32June 30, 2028
Paul Mullin 31 June 30, 2027
Elliot Lee 31 June 30, 2027
Dan Scarr 31 June 30, 2027

Its all a bit Cardiff City of the last decade !! There are big write offs there.



According to Wrexham AFC's financial accounts and club sources, the football club itself does not receive direct TV rights payments or payouts from Disney or FX for the Welcome to Wrexham docuseries.
Instead, the financial layout and benefits work through a specific corporate structure:

1. The Production Money Goes to the Owners' Companies. While the club doesn't get a direct check from Disney, the production companies owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are the ones that secure the lucrative broadcasting and production deals with FX and Disney. Early data from the show's debut estimated the docuseries was raking in around £430,000 ($540,000) per episode, but that revenue flows to the Hollywood production side rather than hitting the club’s direct bank account.

2. The "Disney Effect" Drives Massive Commercial Revenue. Even though Disney isn't paying the club directly, the show serves as a massive, multi-season global advertisement. This exposure has allowed Wrexham to secure massive, Premier League-level sponsorships and retail sales that are unheard of for clubs in the lower divisions of English football.
The explosion in the club's revenue demonstrates this impact:
Revenue Stream Pre-Takeover (Non-League)2024–25 Season (League One)
Sponsorship Revenue~£1.3 million ($1.55m)$23.46 million
Retail Income (Merch/Kit) Minimal $6.84 million
Total Club Turnover~£1.3 million ($1.55m)$45.05 million

The Takeaway: A typical club in League One (the third tier) averages around $2.7 million in sponsorships. Because of the Disney show's global reach, Wrexham brings in nearly nine times that amount, with over half of its total turnover now coming directly from the North American market.
So while Disney doesn't directly pay Wrexham AFC a broadcast fee, the "Disneyification" of the club is exactly what has driven its valuation from the initial £2 million takeover price to an estimated $475 million as they push toward the upper tiers of English football.

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