da bet nacional： Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have been told why documentary stars Wrexham, with a “bigger than Leeds” mentality, have become “nauseating”.

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Hollywood co-owners arrived in 2021Red Dragons have seen their stock soarNot everybody is enjoying mass coverageWHAT HAPPENED?

The Red Dragons have become one of the most talked about teams on the planet after welcoming a takeover by Hollywood superstars back in 2021. A dramatic rise out of the National League and towards the top of League Two has been taken in since then – with every twist and turn being caught on camera by an Emmy Award-winning series.

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Not everybody is buying into the Wrexham hype, though, with Peterborough chairman Darragh MacAnthony telling : “Fair play to them, they bought in and came up with a project and they’ve managed to finance this project by selling documentaries, advertising and doing deals with skincare companies, drink companies where they’ve had to put very little of their own dough in. Anyone who comes in and has a couple of promotions and increases and grows their crowd – I saw their revenues the other day and it was £15-£20 million a year now as opposed to £5 million when they first came in. Anyone who does that is a successful person at what they do. They put some decent people in – I watched the Wrexham documentary and it was quite good, the first season and a half then peters out like a lot of sports documentaries do. The only thing that irritates me about the whole Wrexham thing isn’t Wrexham themselves – I have a lot of admiration for Wrexham, the owners, the people behind the scenes – it’s the media. You open a newspaper and there’s stuff about the Championship, League One and League Two, but every week there’s stuff about Wrexham and it’s nauseating. You get why they’re doing it because they want an American audience but at the end of the day there are 72 EFL clubs out there. They need to calm down thinking they’re bigger than Leeds or whoever.”

THE BIGGER PICTURE

While a little frustrated at the attention Wrexham continue to attract, MacAnthony admits that they are a club on the rise. He added on Reynolds and McElhenney’s efforts to guide the Welsh outfit up the EFL pyramid: “I said to my wife when this started that they’ll be in the Championship in four years’ time and she said, ‘never going to happen’. I said ‘trust me, they’ll be in the Championship and we’ll probably be in League One’ because they can pay £7,000, £8,000, £9,000, £10,000 a week to players and we can’t. That’s the dynamic of the game. By the way, I respect anybody who comes in and spends very little of their own money, turns a project into a lot more money and makes them worth a lot more money because if they sold Wrexham tomorrow, they’d make a hefty profit.”

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Wrexham have four games left to take in this season. They sit second in the League Two table as things stand, four points behind leaders Stockport and three clear of Mansfield in fourth, and a top-three finish will be enough to see them bounce straight up into the third tier of English football.