A Liverpool player has been named as the dream signing for Wrexham by its executive director. Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney may well be taking note.
Liverpool might ultimately need to heed a transfer threat from Wrexham. The Welsh side is shooting up the leagues with the backing of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, and the executive director Humphrey Ker has named a Reds player as one of his “dream signings.”
Ker will be familiar to watchers of the Welcome to Wrexham documentary. What might be less well-known is that he’s a long-time Liverpool fan, revealing to Front Row Soccer that he was even in attendance for the 2005 Champions League final.
As such, his use of Liverpool players as examples won’t immediately set alarm bells ringing at Anfield. But rather than picking a completely pie-in-the-sky name like Mohamed Salah or Virgil van Dijk, the Wrexham chief named a marginally more believable transfer ambition.
Surprisingly, speaking to Sport Bible last month, Ker cited Wataru Endo as a dream signing for Reynolds and McElhenney. The Japan captain arrived at Liverpool last summer, and Wrexham’s director has been very impressed with what he has seen.
“In terms of who’s one of my favourite players and who would I love to see playing in a Wrexham shirt? At present, I’ve got a real soft spot for Wataru Endo,” Ker admitted. “Who is kind of a perfect encapsulation of the fury in the summer when Liverpool missed out on Caicedo and Lavia and it was all doom and gloom and disaster.
“And then they sign Wataru Endo and it was like ‘well, who’s this guy? I’ve never heard of him. He was only 16 million quid, what are they playing at?’ And then he’s been one of the signings of the season.
“I think there’s a good lesson there for all of us in terms of, you know, the glitz and the glamour and the big price tags and ‘what are Liverpool doing not spending 100 million on a central midfielder’.
“You need to spend your money wisely, you’ve got to find and identify the best players. I don’t know Wataru Endo from Adam but you can see he’s got fantastic character.
“He’s got a fantastic work ethic, you see in the interactions, the pictures and the other players, they clearly all really like him and he’s done an unbelievable job there. So yeah, if money is no object and the player does not particularly mind about moving to North Wales. I’m a big fan of his.”
Ker also mentioned former Liverpool player Neco Williams as an example he often cites as a kind of end-game (no Marvel pun intended) signing for Wrexham. He cited his status as a local boy and Welsh international with Premier League pedigree.
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