"If it is theoretically possible to go from the fifth tier in professional football to the Premier League, why wouldn't we do that? Back when they earned promotion from the National League to League Two, I wrote a piece with the following headline: "Could Ryan Reynolds' Wrexham honestly ever reach Premier League?" For the same season, Premier League clubs spent £289.5 million on transfer fees and wages, Championship clubs clocked in at £48 million and League One clubs spent £9.8 million. Illustration by ESPNWhat that means is that Premier League teams spent 95% of what they made and League One teams were essentially putting all their revenue (101%) back into wages. Among them: former England international Conor Coady, former Premier League striker Kieffer Moore, former Liverpool goalkeeper Danny Ward and former Premier League midfielder Lewis O'Brien.