Liverpool legend Michael Owen considered buying team to rival Ryan Reynolds and Wrexham
Liverpool legend Michael Owen has revealed he considered making a move to purchase his local club, Chester FC.
While North America has become enamoured with League Two side Wrexham due to the 2020 takeover of the club by Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, and the subsequent Disney+ docuseries that followed, ‘Welcome to Wrexham’, Owen says he once looked into the possibility of acquiring the Red Dragons’ fierce cross-border rivals.
Owen, who netted 158 times in 297 games in all competitions for Liverpool between 1997 and 2004, has strong ties with the city of Chester, not only being born there but his father, Terry, having been a stalwart of the Chester team of the 1970s, making more than 200 appearances for the Seals and being part of one of the greatest seasons in the history of the club, when they reached the League Cup semi-final during the 1974/75 season. En route the last four, where they were narrowly beaten over two legs by Aston Villa, Chester defeated English champions Leeds United as well as Newcastle United.
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Winner of the 2001 Ballon d’Or, Owen, who counts Real Madrid, Newcastle, Manchester United and Stoke City among his other former clubs, retained his links with Chester after the club reformed in 2010 following the demise of Chester City due to the ruinous ownership of Stephen Vaughan, taking part in a fundraising match in 2018 alongside another Liverpool legend, and a former Chester player, Ian Rush to raise vital money to keep the club afloat.
Owen, 43, has continued to live locally to Chester, with his horse racing
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