Wrexham owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney ‘don’t make football decisions’

The Welsh club’s commercial success – fuelled by Reynolds and McElhenney’s celebrity status and the award-winning Welcome to Wrexham documentary series – has allowed them to invest heavily in Phil Parkinson’s squad with nine summer signings.

Wrexham have broken their transfer record three times this summer and Wales striker Nathan Broadhead, signed from Ipswich Town in a deal worth up to £10m, made his debut against West Brom.

McElhenney said: “It’s interesting to get accolades when you hear people say, ‘Oh, you guys have done a pretty good job with the club’.

“The truth is we don’t really have anything to do with what happens out on the pitch.

“We’ve got our very specific job, which is to be clowns and to tell the story as best we can.

“But also to be as respectful as we possibly can to what Phil does on the pitch and what the executive team, Michael [Williamson], Shaun [Harvey] and Humphrey [Ker] and everybody does off the pitch.

“We just have an incredible team and we just get to sit back and be fans and document the process.”