Premier League legend makes feelings clear on Wrexham owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney

Wrexham person been transformed since Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney took implicit the nine successful 2020, with the Red Dragons present competing successful League One for the archetypal clip successful 20 years

Ex-Chelsea and Arsenal ace Emmanuel Petit has heaped praise connected Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney for their stellar absorption of Wrexham AFC, crediting the Hollywood brace with the club's singular turnaround.

Since taking implicit successful 2020, the personage owners person propelled the Welsh squad done 2 promotions, transforming them from a nondescript non-league broadside to an planetary sensation, acknowledgment to their prima power.

Now competing successful League One aft a 20-year absence, Wrexham nether Phil Parkinson are making waves, presently sitting beauteous successful 2nd place. Petit, speaking to Prime Casino, didn't clasp backmost his admiration, particularly erstwhile contrasting their occurrence to the caller authorities astatine his erstwhile nine Chelsea.

"Wrexham's owners are successful a wholly antithetic world to Chelsea's owners," helium declared.

Petit expressed his fondness for Reynolds not conscionable arsenic an histrion but present arsenic a nine owner, alongside McElhenney, saying: "I'm a immense instrumentality of Ryan Reynolds arsenic an histrion and a idiosyncratic but besides arsenic a nine proprietor now.

"He has bully values alongside Rob McElhenney and they've already had 2 promotions and are adjacent competing to get into the Championship acknowledgment to them.

"They are doing things properly, measurement by step, they person the wealth and the ambition, it's a imagination for their fans and I'm really rather jealous! They person done large things already and the fans conscionable look delighted. Maybe 1 time they volition merchantability the nine if they get to the Premier League, but it's been a large communicative truthful far."

The Dragons presently beryllium successful the past automatic promotion spot successful the EFL's 3rd tier aft 8 matches, with their astir caller effect being a 0-0 stalemate against Leyton Orient. Head manager Parkinson was upbeat astir the distant point, stating: "I don't deliberation you tin ever devalue a constituent connected your travels."

"It is simply a large constituent for america with their caller form. Orient person had a truly bully tally - they bushed Stockport, I came down connected Tuesday and they were truly bully against Peterborough - and they are a decent team, they finished successful the apical fractional of this part past twelvemonth but we stayed successful there.

"On your travels, you person got to beryllium resilient. At times, we could person got that other walk successful conscionable to instrumentality the sting retired of them due to the fact that erstwhile we started doing that, we stretched the transportation and we truly looked similar the squad who could spell and triumph the game."