Why aren't Fosun Group investing more?published at 11:08 GMT 13 November 2025
Mike Taylor
BBC Radio WM reporter

Fosun Group's investment has been the subject of several questions sent in via our 'Ask about Wolves' form.
The only consistent narrative on Fosun's intentions comes from the occasional statements and interviews given by their representative on the ground since the takeover in 2016, the Wolves Executive Chairman Jeff Shi.
Over the last two or three years, these indications have all pointed towards the goal of being financially self-sustaining.
"If a club can't find a way to be self-sufficient sooner or later, then the day its owner stops funding is literally the day it starts to prepare for administration or to be sold," he wrote in the Express and Star in May 2024. , external
Reviewing that quote now might prompt Wolves supporters to think perhaps a sale is exactly what Fosun do want.
However, Shi has never implied that Fosun wish to sell, with a reported offer from the prolific football investor John Textor in recent weeks apparently coming to nothing.
They have been interested in minority investments, and allowed the American firm PEAK6 to take a share in Fosun Sports in 2021, before buying it back.
In a long interview with the "Business of Sport" podcast, external in the summer, he made his clearest comments for a while about the overall financial strategy. They did not make him any more popular with fans.
"When you invest less but enough but the capital investment is limited, then you have more space to survive or sustain or grow," said Shi.
"If you spend £1bn into Wolves, for example, maybe for one or two seasons you will be good enough. But if a bad season comes you can't revive from that, because if you go down or you have a bad season, you have already spent £1bn. Even if you sell the club now, you will lose money for sure.
"The important thing is to control the spending in a range and you still feel safe. It's like in a bank, you have to have enough reserves.. That's our way to think about the long-term future. If the league may come good eventually, but you die before the dawn."
By that reading, keeping the club financially secure is more important to Fosun than maintaining Premier League status.
Yet at the same time, relegation would dramatically cut the value of the club, with no cheap way of winning it back.
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