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Much more to come at Wrexham! Rivals warned that phase one of Ryan Reynolds' & Rob McElhenney's project has only just finished by director Humphrey Ker

The Red Dragons achieved back-to-back promotions as they qualified for League One this season just a year after making it to the English Football League. As Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney-owned side gear up for a new challenge in the third-tier, club director Humphrey Ker claimed that the first phase of the project Wrexham has just been completed.

WHAT HAPPENED?

Ker went on to suggest that while the club's journey in the last few years has been nothing short of a fairytale, it would take much bigger planning and financial strength to eventually <a href="https://www.goal.com/en/lists/rob-mcelhenney-wrexham-most-ethically-viable-route-premier-league-mission-statement-ryan-reynolds/blt27b0dbb824b92bda" target="_blank">fulfil the Hollywood owners' dream of competing at the Premier League</a>.

THE BIGGER PICTURE

Speaking to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nwJzSCFNAg" target="_blank">talkSPORT</a>, Ker said, "They have said that from the jump and every time they did, I would sort of cringe slightly behind them because that's a huge objective to have. The reality of what, as Simon says, the financial reality of even the jump from the bottom half of the Championship to the top half of the Championship is vast and that go from the top of the Championship to go up to the Premier League to survive in the Premier League in any real sense and make that last is extraordinarily difficult."You've got to combine huge finances, you've got to have an incredibly well-run operation behind the scenes. You've got to have a scouting network&nbsp;that can turn up, you know, unbelievable Ecuadorian players that no one else has found, buying for&nbsp;£3.5m from some Norwegian club and sell them for some&nbsp;£150m to Chelsea in order to stay up there. We don't have any of those things in place yet. We aspire to those things but it will take time for us to get to them." He added, "I've said this before in the past, we've sort of bludgeoned our way out of the Nation League and out of League Two. Went out and signed, you know the best League One players that we could persuade to drop down to us. Phil has done an unbelievable job with that because we know there are a number of clubs with huge amounts of money and not necessarily being able to forge that team into a coherent unit on the pitch. But we are about to get into an environment where we won't be the biggest fish in this pond. If Birmingham dropped down if already we've got clubs in League One that are as storied as us, having bigger fanbases than what we do. I agree, I think that phase one of what we're trying to do is probably coming to a close now and phase two is starting and we've got to be on our game."

WHAT HAS BEEN SAID

Wrexham players are currently enjoying a well-earned break at the end of the League Two season. They will be back in action in July for pre-season where they are <a href="https://www.goal.com/en/lists/chelsea-wrexham-premier-league-league-two-ryan-reynolds-rob-mcelhenney/blt736a416bfbdb89cd" target="_blank">set to face Premier League giants Chelsea</a> in the US.

WHAT NEXT FOR WREXHAM?

Much more to come at Wrexham! Rivals warned that phase one of Ryan Reynolds' & Rob McElhenney's project has only just finished by director Humphrey Ker | Goal.com English Bahrain

Wrexham director Humphrey Ker claimed that the phase one of the club&apos;s project has completed with gaining promotion to League One.

Much more to come at Wrexham! Rivals warned that phase one of Ryan Reynolds&apos; &amp; Rob McElhenney&apos;s project has only just finished by director Humphrey Ker

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