Wolves are in a world of trouble right now, and the ownership have a lot to answer for.
On Saturday, Wolves crashed to yet another defeat in the Premier League – this time at the hands of newly promoted Sunderland.
Fans expressed their anger after the full-time whistle, and the pressure is now really increasing on manager Vitor Pereira to turn things around.
While there were some improvements recently against Tottenham Hotspur and Brighton, the Wolves manager continues to make questionable decisions.
And it’s to the point now whereby some fans actually think Pereira should be sacked.
But the problems at this club stem from the top, with Fosun having run Wolves in such a way that means there can be no true hope for supporters.
Chairman Jeff Shi is an unpopular figure at Molineux. Plenty want him and Fosun to go, but since that is seemingly unlikely right now, fans want some answers at the very least.
Liam Keen says Wolves chairman Jeff Shi is refusing his interview requests
Wolves find themselves in the current mess largely because of Fosun’s recruitment model.
The MO is to buy unproven talents for modest transfer fees and develop them into household names, before cashing in for two or three times the initial price a few years later.
Wolves also don’t often buy from fellow Premier League clubs, feeling there is more value to be had going for players from overseas clubs.
Fosun have played with fire for years operating like this, but now – with so many experienced players and game-changers having left – they could finally get burned.
Shi famously insisted Wolves had a good 2025 summer transfer window, but his comments are arguably ageing like milk, with only Ladislav Krejci making a good impact so far.
Shi doesn’t often speak, and journalist Liam Keen has made a disappointing claim about the Wolves official on the latest E&S podcast.
He said: “I’ve asked several times and regularly for interviews with Jeff Shi. I’ve asked for conversations. I’m eager to ask some tough questions, and it’s very much a ‘No’.
“The only things he has done is that podcast which was a business podcast where he spoke a bit about football, and then a club interview.
“The fact that he spoke at all is a positive. I stick by that. But you’re also going to get criticised when it’s a club interview, because it helps. It’s not external. Even though there were some good questions asked in that interview, you’re always going to get criticised when it’s not external, with the opportunity for an independent, individual journalist to ask these questions.
“Whether he does anything with anyone else in the future, I don’t know. I’ll continue to ask those questions, I’ll continue to ask for those interviews. But there is a refusal to do it at the moment, the fans need to know that.”
Keen went on to say that Shi’s reluctance to engage has stemmed from his discontent over his reporting of transfer news, but the journalist maintains he was simply doing his job reporting on the football club.
Shi interview claim comes as no surprise
The fact that Shi will not take an external interview right now and face scrutiny really says it all.
There are plenty of tough questions that he and Fosun deserve to field at the moment, but seemingly he is not willing to speak and give the fans some answers or even show some accountability.
And that is an insult to the supporters who pay their hard-earned money to support this club and have stuck by the team through thick and thin.
It smacks of a guilty conscience. With the club in real trouble at the moment, Shi surely knows that Wolves’ demise is a direct result of the decisions he and Fosun have made.