{"id":608072,"date":"2026-04-15T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608072\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:35:08","slug":"wrexham-does-it-matter-if-premier-league-chasers-dont-get-promoted-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608072\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham: Does it matter if Premier League chasers don’t get promoted this season?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hollywood duo Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac (who recently changed his name from Rob McElhenney) have made their ambitions clear ever since their first interview as owners in 2021. <\/p>\n

A member of the media asked the actors what their perfect ending would be. Reynolds responded: “We’d be lying if it wasn’t the Premier League.”<\/p>\n

So far, so good. They’re one promotion away from the top flight and their latest accounts reveal a record turnover of \u00a333.3m in the process. But was it ever really the aim to make it four promotions in a row?<\/p>\n

At the start of their first season back in the second tier of English football since 1982, Wrexham chief executive Michael Williamson told the Telegraph, external<\/a> that his aims for the season were Championship survival, a mid-table finish and to be competitive.<\/p>\n

He proposed this to Reynolds and Mac, who immediately responded by asking what it would take to reach the top two.<\/p>\n

Williamson went on to say that after discussions between the club’s hierarchy, they landed on: “Let’s be competitive and see where we end up.”<\/p>\n

“If we can find ourselves in that position towards the back end of the season, I give us a very good shot of being in the play-offs,” Williamson explained.<\/p>\n

“And then, ultimately, if we’re in the play-offs, I give us a very good shot of getting promoted just because of who we are and what we are and the DNA, the resilience and what it means to this town and for the squad.”<\/p>\n

The CEO also said that should promotion not be achieved this time, then that was OK too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood duo Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac (who recently changed his name from Rob McElhenney) have made their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-608072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}