B’HAM Brady, Wrexham Drive Record Costs – ESPN

League 1 teams have spent a record amount of transfer fees in the last year due to the influence of US owners, including those in Wrexham and Birmingham City.

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McLekhni rule Wrexham, while Tom Brady is part of the Rnighthead Capital property in Birmingham.

The costs of Wrexham and Birmingham are added to those of Mikheil Lomtadze, the owner of the Wycombe Wanderers billionaire from Kazakhstan and Huddersfield Town, owned by US businessman Kevin Nagal.

Overall, teams in the first in the League – the third line of professional football for men in England – have spent approximately 56 million euros ($ 57.8 million) on transfer fees this year according to Football Database Transferkt, a figure that exceeds the total number of the total number of The previous eight seasons combined.

Birmingham, Wikomb and Vrexham sit in the first three places of the division, with teams ending the first and second profit automatic promotion in the championship at the end of the season, and the third ranked country, entering the four teams with the fourth, fifth and six.

Brady became the owner of a minority in Birmingham in August 2023, when the team was in the championship before the catastrophic season that saw them throw away. From this fall, they are responsible for the three highest fees paid for the transfer in the history of the League history: 17.8 million euros by former Fulham striker Jay Stansfield, € 4.2 million by defender Christoph Clarer of Darmstadt and 4 million. Euro for Wilum Thor Wilson from going forward eagles.

Meanwhile, Wrexham broke his club transfer record last week when he signed Sam Smith from Reading for an undisclosed fee and managed to nourish his meteoric elevation of the football pyramid, using a financial muscle to lure players from higher divisions, including the likes of the likes of “Welcome to a hero of Wrexham Paul Mullin.

Mulin was not signed for a fee, but rejected a contract in the then League Second Cambridge United in 2021 to join the Welsh club, which at that time competed outside the English Football League (EFL).

Birmingham has a healthy four-point lead at the top of the table, playing two matches less than Wycombe in second place in 59 points. Wrexham are four more points behind the fact that he played the same number of matches as Wycombe.