High profile English football chief executive, Jez Moxey, has been tasked with securing the sale of St Johnstone for over £10 million.
Moxey, previously in charge of Wolves and Norwich City and still a director with Burton Albion, is the head of mergers and acquisitions of General Sports Worldwide.
GSW are overseeing the process to find a buyer for Saints.
Majority shareholder, Geoff Brown, has put his stake in the Perth club on the market.
The price tag is understood to be over $13 million.
And Moxey is hoping that the high profile story of Hollywood actors, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenny, buying Wrexham and taking them back into the English Football League will have a knock-on effect for Saints.
“Reynolds and McElhenny increased the number of people interested in professional football through an association with Hollywood,” he said, as reported by Sportico.
“Now, not everybody is going to be able to replicate that but it certainly created much more interest in what I would consider pretty standard football clubs at the lower league.”
Previous American interest
Reynolds and McElhenny are among several American investors and consortiums who have bought UK football clubs.
It is understood there was interest in Saints earlier this year from across the Atlantic.
“The advent of Welcome to Wrexham, Sunderland ‘Til I Die and even Ted Lasso has shined a spotlight on football in general,” Andy Appleby, the chairman of GSW added.
“And I think a number of people think that if Ryan Reynolds can pull it off, maybe I can as well.”
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