Wrexham to Premier League? Why promotion for Red Dragons, Swansea and other Welsh teams might not be soon

While the championship season starts on Friday with Birmingham City that the city of Ipswich organizes, it will also mark another consecutive season without a Welsh club in the Premier League. Since Cardiff City’s relegation at the end of the 2018-19 season has not been a side of it Wales In the top flight, and the road only gets a gloomier after the immersion of the Bluebirds in League One this season, although they expect their stay to be short.

But with Cardiff Dipping, a new football power in Wales – Wrexham – a Hollywood story rises that the hype has done well by obtaining three consecutive promotions from the fifth division in the National League all the way to the second division in the championship. Although it is a long way from where the dragons are now to where they want to be in the Premier League, they have already achieved so much that nothing can be put out of reach.

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But which Welsh Club can best end with that drought to be in the top flight?

When it comes to success, there are many ways to determine what that means, but a factor that must be taken into account is a team value. It is not the end of everything because teams can perform better than their value, but especially in the lower divisions, a team value can have a direct correlation with success. Let’s see how the five clubs accumulate:

Welsh Clubs’ Ploegwaarde

All Values via Transfermarkt

There are eight teams in the Premier League with a team value double that of Swansea City, and the lowest team value in the Premier League is more than six times larger than Swansea. Although they may currently have the highest team value, but there is not much room between them and the trailing duo of Cardiff and Wrexham. It is quite a fall when you consider that Swansea is eligible for the Europa League through winning the League Cup in 2013, but it has given the rest of Wales time to catch up. Cardiff, which will be banned from the championship last season, has created a dent that will not do that show Still in their books, but if the stay in League One is longer than one season, things could tension. The gap between League One and the championship is long and teams that fall so far can take a long time to return to the Premier League.

Sunderland A similar fall to it, was relegated from the Premier League in 2017-18 before landing in League One in the 2018-19 season. It would need the Black Cats Four Seasons to even come from League One before they earn promotion to the Premier League at the end of the last campaign. Swansea City has no longer made the play-offs of the championship since the 2020-21 season and settled as a midtable club that got stuck their momentum. With five managers since that time, stability is needed to improve their competition and to urge promotion.

In the meantime, since their takeover in 2020, the rise of Wrexham has seen them the gap in a large way between the other Welsh sides in a large way by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac (formerly Mcelhenney). It will be a challenge to stay in the championship. Premier League dreams are premature at this stage, but as long as a few things are in favor of the dragons, they can avoid the drop. There is no reason to exclude further investments and push the club over the top. Newport County and Merthyr Town Warrant that is mentioned, because in 2020 no one thought Wrexham would be where they are now, but it is unlikely that they will pass the top three without a similar miracle.

If Swansea or Cardiff are able to find their own stability, things can change, but looking at trajectories, Wrexham is the best -placed team to be a Welshe representative in the Premier League. The available resources for the club, support on the Stōk racecourse and the fact that the club was able to recover every time they have increased a level in the competitions will all be important factors.

Transfer activity is light for the club after promotion to the championship, but additives such as Conor Coady in Defense and Ryan Hardie will be movements that can help the dragons to stay in this division. Links to players such as Christian Eriksen His ambitious goals that can bring them over the top, from fighting to survive in the championship to a middle table side in the competition, because it is re-promoted in the short term, mainly because of available resources compared to teams that are expected to end at the top of the championship. With the fame of the club with their promotion the competitions, together with the success of the TV series: “Welcome to Wrexham“ And the steady hand of manager Phil Parkinson who leads them, there is nothing that Wrexham cannot reach. But with what is expected to be the sixth low payroll in the competition, the promotion to the top flight will take something special and increased investments.