@CPDWrecsam Thank you for the message and encouragement.
You mention a rich owner being a good thing, and indeed it should help to keep the club in business. There are, however, some key differences between our rich ownership and yours, which go a long way towards explaining why many posters in this forum are pretty p**sed off.
Wrexham’s rich owners have talked up how far the club can go up the leagues - the Premier League dream - and how they, with support from the whole Wrexham family if supporters, could help you get there. They are visible at matches and online when they are unable to attend, they’re encouraging that family, all in it together feeling.
Wycombe’s rich owner is entirely absent. I’m not sure if he’s ever visited Adams Park but, if he has, I’ve never seen him. The staff he has appointed to run the club are very much in the background too, from a public visibility perspective. When they do make public statements about the future of the club, they talk only about how great the academy they are setting up is going to be. Nothing about how successful the actual playing team is going to be. Nothing about how great it would be for the team to get promoted: that’s entirely secondary to the academy project. Zero fan engagement.
Wycombe had, for many years, a feeling of everyone - fans, management, players, owners - all being in it together, for better or worse, which largely continued even after the club ceased to be fan owned. Like him or not, Rob Couhig certainly made a lot of effort to build on the “One Wycombe, all in it together” feeling. We now have an absent owner who appears not to care about the club other than as a peg to hang an academy on.
Couple that with rumours about why a much loved, club legend manager left the club while we were riding high in the league, the appointment of a totally unproven coach as his replacement (whose defensive tactics make for awful entertainment) and, in between those events, the ownership spaffing record sums of cash on players who have played just a few minutes each over the 20 or so games since they were signed, and you start to see why so many are unhappy.
For me, we’ve gained a rich owner and, in the process, lost the club I loved.