Crawley Town / WAGMI

Reports from Sussex are suggesting that Crawley Town (one of the clubs named by The Athletic as WAGMI's plan B after failing to buy us) are about to be bought out by "some Americans".

 

Only a week to go until we find out how much NFT money Crawley have to play with as they outspend everyone else on their way to the PL... https://wagmiunited.com/

It looks like they've finally gone some way to being transparent about who is in their consortium (if you consider using names such as Andy8052 and jpegviceroy as being transparent) and there are a lot of names missing who were in the frame whilst they were flirting with City. The most noticeable absentee is Philadelpia 76ers president Daryl Morey who was the big name giving legitimacy to their sporting credentials. Another name which is conspicuous by its absence is Bryce Hall who would appear to have been dropped after CTFC fans found out that he has some racially aggravated assault type baggage and questioned why Wagmi were happy for him to stay on board when John Yems was given the boot. YouTuber Caspar Lee is missing and probably more importantly from a business know how and investment credibility perspective so are Universal Music Group gen manager Celine Joshua and Coinbase senior director David Farmer. On the venture capital side there's no mention of Tiger Global or Slow Ventures but Courtside Ventures do remain in the frame.

They do seem to have lost a few of their more notable blue chip investors, I'd be intrigued to know if the amateurish City takeover attempt caused some people to have second thoughts?

 

There's only one thing for it. Spend big on Crawley NFT's and vote THRELKALD!

 

Crawley planning to bring about £4m in to the club (less expenses) after selling 12,000 of their 3rd kit on Friday for £335 each.

TBF for that you also get a hat and scarf and free tickets to "some" home matches, "special input" on the future of Crawley Town FC, a bunch of online content type stuff and the promise of more unspecified things in the future!

BTW, the season tickets cost less than that.

 

They're not really marketing it to Crawley fans, they're aiming for their NFT community so it's all about NFT, Wagmi, the "chromie squiggle" and a Ltd edition Adidas shirt. Even so, having kept an eye on their Discord and Twitter it does seem that they don't have universal buy in from that community and the launch has been put back 2 days "because it has gone so well" (their reason) which is a logic that baffles me and the general consensus seems to be that it's going to be a big ask to shift that many at that price.