21 Mar 2026 18:08:56
Silas Anderson is on our radar for the summer rebuild says x.

1.) 21 Mar 2026
21 Mar 2026 21:26:18
It seems that Celtic and Rangers also have an interest in Anderson, so I can't see our interest being successful. I think it will be a big problem when we can only offer Championship football.

2.) 22 Mar 2026
22 Mar 2026 20:31:22
I don't know, Ray, is the Championship inferior to the Scottish top flight? Also, we can dangle the carrot of an early return to the PL. And, remember the Portuguese maestros who signed for us in the Championship back then.

3.) 23 Mar 2026
23 Mar 2026 08:03:53
Chalk and cheese, Deep Throat.
The Fosun that took us over and the Fosun now are 2 different animals. Long gone are the days of us signing those type of players, and Celtic and Rangers will be able to "dangle" European football. The best we can hope for in regards to Europe is they bring back the Anglo Italia Cup. ?

4.) 23 Mar 2026
23 Mar 2026 10:32:01
The past is a foreign country, someone said. My opinion is that Fosun cannot just carry on as they are. Something fundamental must happen next season. Once China blocked external investment in football, Fosun should have sold out, for a splendid return on the original £30-40mil investment.

It's incredible to think that Fabio Silva cost as much as the whole Wolves club and land holdings. Nathan Shi must shape up or sell out. It's probably only the Americans that can supply the vision and money, fronted by a Wolves legend or two. The Wrexham example shows what can be achieved.

5.) 25 Mar 2026
25 Mar 2026 23:17:37
Never really got this rumour, Deep Throat.
Yes, it's a Chinese company, Fosun, but are you sure that everything is transparent with Chinese authorities.
I believe that Fosun as a conglomerate invested all over the world. Wolverhampton Wanderers is a British company, not Chinese, our assets are in the name of Wolves. This was the plan all along, making the club self sufficient for PSR or whatever disguise it is now.
Fosun also has sizeable stakes in Cirque du Soleil, European banks and insurance, Gestifute, pharmaceuticals etc etc.
They were part of the reason for the first vaccine for Covid.
What I'm saying is, under each group under the umbrella of Fosun, they have invested and profiteered.

China doesn't really have a say, apart from Fosun's business in China and stopping them from causing a collapse of Even Glade Properties if they sold all the invested amounts when they could have.
That would have caused a crash, as every investor would have sold their stake in Even Glade.
Maybe unpopular, but I still think Fosun want Wolves to be successful. I'm glad Jeff Shi has moved on. It would be good to know the new football philosophy going forward, and whether the academy and women's team will be supported as they should.

6.) 26 Mar 2026
26 Mar 2026 15:17:30
Madman
Your thesis, that Fosun are and have been supportive/neutral at worst during the last few years and that the current state of affairs is consequently simply a series of events beyond their control/influence is not an uncommon one amongst Wolves supporters.
It is also the default response from non Wolves fans. Most non Wolves merely view the current situation as Wolves returning to their rightful place and good riddance to bad rubbish.
However I give you "Occams Razor".
This states that when faced with competing hypotheses that explain a phenomenon equally well the simplest one - the one requiring the least assumptions is usually the best.
Now the post Seville path from a successful, (2 league 7ths, a cup semi and a euro quarter), and profitable club with modest debt to the current situation, massively loss making, huge debt and just about to be relegated is a matter of record.
So the question is why?
Is it as you suggest simply because Jeff was grossly incompetent?
I find this hard to believe not just because Jeff is, as his career record indicates, a highly intelligent and successful businessman but also because it assumes that as the wheels came off both financially and in football terms - remember Wolves lose £80m pa more than Brentford and debt has spiralled out of control whilst the side has tumbled down the table - no one in the entire Fosun organisation noticed.
Wolves may be a relatively small part of this multi billion conglomerate but the accumulated losses plus the decline in the potential market value of the club total many hundreds of millions of pounds.

Not a small sum even for Fosun.
These assumptions are surely far too outlandish to contemplate.
The option?
Fosun used to modestly fund Wolves development and saw fantastic returns on that investment - they undoubtedly could have cashed out at Seville for a not insignificant multiple of their investment.
But come Covid Fosun not only couldn't continue investing in Wolves but needed a return.
Maybe they made the decision - foolishly - that with the help of Mendes running a football club was easy and that they could make/take money from it.
However they couldn't legally take dividends as the club has negative reserves so had to construct a network of inter company trading schemes - the balances of which are on the balance sheet and are vast - to extract cash from the club!
The club, however well it is managed, is though highly unlikely to be able to raise substantial sums of profit and/or cash.
Consequently either believing that it is possible, ( it isn't), or simply because there was no choice the club started selling off the best players and tried to replace them with further prospects.
This thesis fits the facts perfectly and merely requires one to believe that Fosun made a poor decision in not selling when they could?
So by Occams Razor Jeff has merely been doing the job he was given but as everyone involved in football should know - Fosun aren't and of course listened to Mendes who had a very vested interest in helping them come to their false conclusion - it was impossible to achieve any other outcome than that which has occurred in the medium term.

7.) 27 Mar 2026
27 Mar 2026 22:40:48
Well said, Future.