13 Aug 2026 20:21:03
Leicester City Football Club is up for sale. Everything from the stadium and training facilities, to the women’s team and canteen serviettes are included in the sale. The current owners looking for more than £200 million.

How would Wolves fans feel about Fosun putting the club up for sale? Are Fosun really that bad or was the issue Jeff Shi?

Also, now with the SCR rules, unless clubs are able to massively increase their financial revenues, their ability to consistently compete against the bigger clubs will be an impossibility. Very soon, six or seven clubs will sit at the top of the Premier League and that part of the league will be impenetrable to the 13 other clubs. Wolves fans have to be realistic that this will happen and Wolves won’t be one of those clubs. Aston Villa are doing their best to get in there, and will likely achieve their aim. Crystal Palace won the Conference League, but they won’t break into that top seven and stay there. The clubs below will sit in the top 7. SCR has made this a near certainty.

Arsenal
Man City
Liverpool
Chelsea
Man Utd
Tottenham
Aston Villa

Newcastle had a chance but fell away.

Their revenues are close to that of Aston Villa, but their owners have seemingly lost interest.

The main reason Leicester went from Premier League winners, FA Cup winners, and Champions League Quarter Finalists, to League One challengers in such a short time is because they tried to position themselves where they could consistently compete with the genuine big clubs. They’re now in League One with not a very good side, but with training facilities that put most Premier League clubs facilities to shame.

Remove the nightmare that was Jeff Shi and maybe Fosun know what they’re doing. Surely Wolves fans have to give Nathan Shi and Fosun a chance?

However, there has to be a plan to redevelop the Molineux stadium, and there has to be a realisation that Wolves might only ever find themselves able to be one of the teams fighting for 8th, 9th or 10th.

If Fosun stay as owners, there might be a plan for success, but the Chinese don’t rush.

1.) 13 Aug 2026
13 Aug 2026 21:31:35
We'll probably know the answer to that if we get promoted, Five. If Fosun rescind their policy to constantly sell off our best players to raise funds, and actually invest in the infrastructure, thus helping the club's income, then we stand a chance.
I think Nathan Shi is the man, but only if they back him.

2.) 13 Aug 2026
13 Aug 2026 21:52:45
Five. Unless Fosun drop the self sustainable plan, we won't be competing in the prem, so yes, new better owners please.
As for the Mol: I find it ridiculous to talk of improving the Steve Bull. It's rotten and needs demolition.
Put to shame by Doncaster.

3.) 13 Aug 2026
13 Aug 2026 22:43:35
The more I witness of our transfer policy, the more I think we just select names off a computer game. We tried over and over to get the correct Gomes till one paid off. We've had a few attempts at Traores with little success.

A couple of Buenos, with a hit of sorts and a similar miss. And now, with Said, it looks like we got the wrong one and should have gone with the guy at Motherwell.

4.) 14 Aug 2026
14 Aug 2026 00:42:56
Pretty sure Leicester's problems started with the tragic loss of their owner. When they were good, they won the Premier League and the FA Cup. In the Fosun years, when we were good, we won nothing: two seventh-place finishes, an FA Cup semi, and a decent run in Europe, followed by years of self-inflicted failure, a succession of managers and relegation.

Would it be good if Fosun followed King Power? What's the alternative?

{Ed001's Note - only because the owner ignored the rules and outright cheated. His kids were not bothered about Leicester, so tried to run the club within its means and it all fell apart due to having to pay for the cheating years, at last.}

5.) 14 Aug 2026
14 Aug 2026 12:26:16
The whole 'Fosun have to drop the self-sustained plan' idea is nonsense, unless it's related to infrastructure. If it is, then it's true. If it's about transfers, then it's not possible without risking points deductions and other penalties.

The problem hasn't been selling players, it's been the quality of replacements and some of the purchases. Fabio Silva, £35 million, didn't come good. If you're Man Utd or City, you can absorb that and move on. If you're Wolves, it's gone. Getting as much back when he was sold was fortunate.

Also, wages in the league are increasing, NI costs on players have gone up massively, and if you don't generate the revenue to cover it, you have to sell, can't buy decent replacements, gamble on cheap, unproven players, and you stop being competitive.



Other clubs are investing in being able to be more resilient, and the ones that don't will be further behind. Steve Morgan knew this. Hence, the new stand and the heavy investments at Compton. Originally, it appeared Fosun knew this, but they seemed to back away when it was decided not to move from Molineux to a new ground. New owners at Wolves only make a difference if they realise that and act on it. Otherwise, it's a case of new boss, same as the old boss.

6.) 14 Aug 2026
14 Aug 2026 13:55:34
It's the policy that's nonsense, and, as predicted, it's led us to an inevitable conclusion. They've been selling off our best players to raise money to avoid spending on things such as the ground and developing income streams, etc., and every year we've sunk lower and lower.
It doesn't work, and it hasn't worked, obviously.

7.) 14 Aug 2026
14 Aug 2026 14:32:10
Fosun made it clear. Self-sustainable means overall expenditure, including ground improvements, despite not being included in SCR limits. They can still spend 115% of the income on the 1st team, but that's unlikely.

One thing is for sure. The SCR rules mean that there will never be another promoted team like Sunderland, who spend £160mill.

8.) 14 Aug 2026
14 Aug 2026 15:38:55
You're right, Sammy. The simple answer is to develop the youth system, but what's the point when clubs can so easily tap into any youth system and poach whatever players they want? Wolves did it with Mateus Mane. The difference is, Wolves are simply developing Mane for a bigger club.

SCR will basically close off the top 7 in the Premier League. There will occasionally be a scenario where a team floating between 8th and 10th place - maybe further down - can pinch 7th place, but that will be the highlight of that particular season - and it will probably only ever be Newcastle or Aston Villa, depending on what Saudi Arabia's PIF want to do with Newcastle. It looks as though they've lost interest.

Maybe Brighton can challenge. Maybe Everton or Leeds. Leeds have big plans, and they're a club that can fill a 53,000 seater stadium.



Some clubs in the Premier League will sink under SCR rules. Smaller clubs can't keep relying on player trading because eventually the luck will run out. You won't continually keep uncovering gems.

Look at the bigger clubs now, who have such an excess of talent they're selling off players to the smaller clubs, but making sure they have buy back clauses. In a nutshell: "Have the player and develop him. If he's no good, we win. If he becomes a star, we win."

I can't see Wolves ever being able to compete in the Premier League under Fosun. Fosun would need to develop a 40,000+ seater stadium that has the ability to bring in numerous different revenue streams. Under Fosun, the stadium, youth facilities and training facilities haven't been touched for ten years!

9.) 14 Aug 2026
14 Aug 2026 16:12:26
I have commented on this problem before. The pursuit of global income from football is sealing the fate of clubs outside the top six. Once upon a time, see Chelsea and Man City, it was possible to spend the owner's millions and acquire a formidable team. This enabled these clubs to develop a worldwide following, and create substantial revenues from merchandise and world TV income via success in the Prem and Europe. Along come Wolves, with a multi-billion owner, which creates the aspiration of entering the elite.

This was unwelcome at the FA and UEFA, to have an unfashionable club in the elite. Lo and behold, rule change after rule change has ensured the elite clubs will never have their status threatened, or their ability to generate funds for themselves and the football hierarchy. The rules were sold to us as a means to protect smaller clubs. Try that one on Bury, Sheffield W, Notts Forest, etc., while the likes of Citeh do as they please, with so many breaches and no way will they have points deducted.