Ashton Kutcher Reveals He Came Close To Purchasing A Premier League Football Team

Ashton Kutcher has acknowledged that recently, he was on the verge of buying a Premier League soccer team.

The 44-year-old American actor said he decided against taking over Wrexham AFC in 2021 like fellow Hollywood stars Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds did because of the distance between the US and the UK, which would prevent him from routinely attending games.

In order to promote their upcoming Netflix film Your Place or Mine, Kutcher and his co-star Reese Witherspoon, 46, appeared on The One Show on Monday.

The Legally Blonde actress acknowledged that because Arsenal is her favorite team, she might be tempted to invest.

“I’m a big United States soccer fan. Nobody can hate United States soccer because we’re never in the final,” Kutcher stated on the BBC program.

“I have not watched an MLS (Major League Soccer) game yet but I do watch Premier League, and I actually came very close to investing in a Premier League team in the last month.”

When asked what had stopped him, he explained: “If I own a football team I want to go watch the matches and I’m like ‘do I have time to fly back and forth?’”

Witherspoon and her husband Jim Toth acquired a portion of Nashville Soccer Club last year. Asked if she could be tempted to invest in a UK football club, Witherspoon said: “I mean, if there’s space in Arsenal, I think all my sons, everybody would be really, really excited because that’s our favourite team.

“We watched the game the other day, it was bananas. That’s our team.”

She added: “I’m probably going to really like wreck myself here too because I’m sure there’s a few people out there who are not Arsenal fans but I just have to be honest”, before noting that she is also a fan of Paris St Germain.

On February 10, the Netflix movie Your Place or Mine, starring Witherspoon and Kutcher as best friends Debbie and Peter, will be released. They gain a perspective into each other’s life that might lead to love when they trade places for a week.

Talking of his character, Kutcher said: “I think Peter has the parenting style of someone who’s never had to be a parent before.

“This kind of you just fly by the seat of your pants, expose them to everything and see what sticks, and hope that there’s no broken bones in the process.”