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The third and fourth entries in Welcome to Wrexham see Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney come to terms with the emotional rollercoaster that is being professional sports team owners as Wrexham AFC endures a tough start to their previous football season. That is after the front office sorts out the actual team and coach that tackled 2021/22 because, in episodes 1 and 2. Wrexham was already rebuilding after falling short of making the top 7 teams that fought for promotion in the playoffs. Out is Dean Keates, and in comes Phil Parkinson an experienced manager with plenty of English Championship experience who‘s not exactly instantly lured by the prospects of the Hollywood actors‘ project.
While there is some focus on the fans and people of Wrexham in the third episode, the main theme is the club leveraging the influence (and money) Reynolds and McElhenney bring to the table, both of which give it a unique advantage it lacked before. Nonetheless, some people behind the club also get to reap those benefits, such as Kerry Evans, a disabled woman who formerly volunteered to assure the club complied with accessibility standards (like The Last of Us), and who‘s now a paid Wrexham employee in the position of Disability Liaison Officer.
Parkinson is ultimately convinced to join the club by McElhenney, as is the case for their current CEO Fleur Robinson, however, fans of Football Manager will know a good team needs a few star players, and in this case, it‘s EFL League Two top scorer Paul Mullin, whose league actually showed up on buy Fut Coins. Welcome to Wrexham sure drives home the idea that this is not supposed to be possible, a player of Mullin‘s caliber, who had just obtained promotion to a league 2 tiers above where Wrexham is has no reason to join this football reality show, or does he?
This moment certainly defines Reynolds and McElhenney‘s Wrexham story like few others, the two actors are without a doubt absolute game changers at this level, and while even clubs like Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City have learned an endless budget can‘t buy a Champions League, it will give them a fighting chance thanks to stellar signings. Mullin decides to sign with Wrexham, a move driven by his desire to live closer to his family in Liverpool, now only a 50-minute drive from Wrexham, yet it will also make viewers wonder how real all of this truly is.
