Wrexham star gave up £260k supercar earlier than Reynolds and McElhenney signed him
When Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds signed a brand new striker for Wrexham final week, they most likely did not realise that they have been getting somebody with a number of Hollywood traits of his personal. But residing the millionaire way of life will not be all the time a mattress of roses, as Steven Fletcher found when he was taking part in for Sunderland.
The 36-year-old has joined the Red Dragons on a contract that runs till the top of the season, as cowl for chief goal-getter Paul Mullin who is simply simply coming back from a punctured lung sustained towards Manchester United in a preseason tour of America.
Fletcher has loads of high-level expertise, having represented the likes of Burnley, Wolves, Sunderland and even Marseille throughout his profession. With 53 Premier League targets to his identify, he agreed to the deal after McElhenney and Reynolds failed with a £450,000 bid for Harrogate Town striker Luke Armstrong on switch deadline day.
Fans at Wrexham have had their expectations raised following the membership’s return to the Football League, however Fletcher has seen each side of the coin throughout his time within the sport.
None extra so than when he felt the warmth of Sunderland followers after it emerged that he had purchased himself a £260,000 Lamborghini while the Black Cats have been embroiled in a combat to keep away from relegation in 2015.
The unlucky state of affairs took place after Fletcher agreed to pose for a photograph alongside his new experience on the request of the automobile dealership he purchased it from, whom he claimed to be ‘stitched up’ by.
After copies of the {photograph} emerged in public, Fletcher acquired a lot abuse from disgruntled supporters that he ultimately removed his dream sportscar for a 4×4 different, merely to show that he wasn’t ‘Billy large time’.
As per the Daily Star, Fletcher mentioned in 2016: “We all make mistakes but I don’t regret buying my car. “The followers gave me canine’s abuse for that, in fact they did. It would have been worse had I tweeted the image of myself beside this automobile however I didn’t. I received stick for standing beside my automobile posing for an image.
“The guy I bought it through asked if he could have a picture of me. I agreed and two weeks later it fell into someone else’s hands and they tweeted it.
“People thought I used to be a Billy Big Time… they noticed the Lamborghini and received the improper thought about me. I had a status once I was youthful for displaying off stuff however I used to be introduced up in a traditional household.”
Fletcher is now at Wrexham, with out his Lamborghini, however a part of a mission that goals to get the North Wales membership promoted once more as rapidly as doable.
Both Fletcher and Mullin have been second-half substitutes for the Red Dragons on Saturday as Elliot Lee struck an 88th-minute winner towards Doncaster Rovers, handing Phil Parkinson’s facet their third league win of the season.