'Big fella' Ryan Reynolds to PLAY for Wrexham?! Conor Coady suggests Hollywood co-owner could join him in heart of Red Dragons defence

Reynolds was back at Wrexham on Saturday for the clash with West Brom as the Welsh side played their first home game of the 2025-26 season. After a summer of intense spending to bolster the squad, Reynolds was able to meet the team's new arrivals in person for the first time.

Former Liverpool and Leicester star Coady is one of a host of new arrivals along with the likes of Kieffer Moore, Nathan Broadhead and Liberato Cacace. The defender has now opened up on his meeting with Reynolds and how he thinks the actor has the attributes needed to play alongside him in the backline.

He told BBC Radio Five Live’s Monday Night Club: “I met him at the weekend, he obviously came for the first home game. I go back to good people, in terms of when I signed, I was sat on my couch at home and Rob [McElhenney] messaged me, which was amazing, just to get a message.

"He said ‘welcome to the club, it’s so good to have you here’ and different things, and then I got a WhatsApp off an American number, so I thought ‘that’s a bit strange’. I was sat on the couch with my missus, and it was a video off Ryan. I was really, really starstruck. Really starstruck.

"He was just welcoming me to the club and how good it is to have me at the club, and what we want to do and how we want to go forward, and then obviously meeting him for the first time… he’s quite a big fella as well.

"I said he could play centre-half with me, and he said he’s never played football in his life. A really, really lovely man, what he’s done for Wrexham, what Rob has done for Wrexham, what the whole staff have done for Wrexham is incredible."

Reynolds will no doubt be an avid onlooker again on Saturday when Wrexham go on search of their first Championship points of the season at home to Sheffield Wednesday.