Hours After $143,000,000-Valued Investment, NFL Legend JJ Watt and Wife Kealie Watt Make a Witty Ryan Reynolds Reference Amid Wrexham’s Success

As time passes, the soccer universe is witnessing a rise in interest surrounding investments in soccer. Either in an American soccer club or a popular American person investing in a club, we’ve seen it all. The most popular reference to ever make regarding a ‘random’ soccer investment was Ryan Reynolds at Wrexham.

Similarly, JJ Watt and his wife Kealia Watt have just announced their investment in a major soccer club in England. Their announcement has raised quite a few eyebrows on social media.

During the announcement, the two of them couldn’t help but make a witty Ryan Reynolds reference as well.

The Watts make a funny but important Reynolds reference

JJ Watt and Kealia Watt recently surprised the sports universe with their soccer investment. They also pulled off a unique announcement too. Hours after penning the deal with Burnley, Kealia took to Twitter to share the wonderful message. Burnley is currently valued at about $143 million. While shooting the video, a person from behind the camera prompted JJ Watt to speak about the investment.

The NFL legend admitted that he would be retiring out of retirement. He then announced his new investment in the soccer universe. Someone from behind the camera then asked him whether he wants to be like Ryan Reynolds. To which, he instantly responded no but Kealia Watt didn’t mind being in the same bracket as the Deadpool star.

In the video, JJ Watt also casually highlighted the importance of emotional investment. He said, “We don’t have ‘buy an entire European football club’ kind of money, we are more along the lines of minority investment but massive emotional investment”. This was another popular reference made by the sports couple in reference to Ryan Reynolds.

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Just weeks ago, Reynolds made it clear that he always focused on an emotional investment rather than a financial one.

Ryan Reynolds is living the dream with Wrexham!

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s success with Wrexham is incomparable to any other soccer project. The amount of success they have managed to achieve in such a short span of time is truly shocking. A few weeks ago, their Welsh soccer club finally secured automatic promotion to the EFL League Two.

Every Wrexham fan would have experienced a wide range of emotions throughout this season. From their dream run in the FA Cup to almost faltering with their #1 league spot in the end, the fans witnessed it all. About his ‘emotional investment’ comment, a few days ago, whilst speaking about one of his new projects,

Reynolds said, “My job is storytelling—I think at Maximum Effort, our job would be more defined in not necessarily financial investment but emotional investment”.

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Without a doubt, Reynolds has changed the way everyone perceives a superstar investing in the sports universe. What do you think? Let us know in the comments below.