Enzo Maresca admits Chelsea's defensive risks in new playing style
Chelsea's coach Enzo Maresca has acknowledged that playing out from the back comes with risks that will inevitably lead to his side conceding goals.
However, things changed on February 9, 2021, when the Hollywood duo of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney purchased the club for an estimated sum of £2million and oversaw Wrexham's return to the Football League for the 2023/24 season.
Wrexham then joined the original FA Combination League in 1890 before a brief stint in the Welsh Senior League, which they won in both of the seasons that they featured.
After twelve seasons in the Birmingham & District League, Wrexham were elected to the newly formed Third Division North in 1921 - runners-up in the 1932/33 campaign was their highest finish.
The 1970s, Arfon Griffiths and Joey Jones
Cult hero Jones would go on to have three spells for Wrexham and make 375 league appearances for the club.
They camped in the Fourth Division for nearly a decade, narrowly avoiding being forced to apply for re-election to the League and fortunately finished bottom of the entire Football League during the season when there was no relegation to the Conference.
The duo purchased the club for around £2million and turned the club and town upside down.
Wrexham started attracting EFL calibre players to the National League. Most notably strikers Paul Mullin, who joined from Cambridge, stepping down two divisions to play, and Ollie Palmer who broke Wrexham's transfer record fee when he joined for £300,000 from AFC Wimbledon.
The club also became the centre of its own TV show, called 'Welcome to Wrexham' on Disney, which has attracted fans from across the world to follow the fortunes of this former sleepy mining town.
Wrexham's main rivalries are with Chester City and Shrewsbury, over the border in England.
Being a Welsh side in the English pyramid, Swansea, Cardiff and Newport are also considered rivals.
Even before the takeover Wrexham had a relatively large fanbase for the fifth tier. The Racecourse Ground holds just under 11,000 and is filled most weeks.
Turnover for the year to June 2022 was £5.972m, an increase of 404 per cent from £1.478m.
However, rising football costs of £3.94m resulted in an overall loss of £2.914m.
Chelsea's coach Enzo Maresca has acknowledged that playing out from the back comes with risks that will inevitably lead to his side conceding goals.
Wrexham co-owner Ryan Reynolds has denied talks have taken place about his team playing a League One fixture against Birmingham in the United States.
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