'Wolves deserve owners who see more than profit, who see the people, the city, and the legacy they represent' - Your Letters plus an ice cream rush brings extra jobs in 1992 heatwave, in our picture from the archives

A frustrated Wolves fan points out it’s easy to blame the manager when results go wrong, but Wolves’ troubles start higher up, and another reader is disturbed by what is happening to our shire counties. Your letters for today:

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Supporting image for story: 'Wolves deserve owners who see more than profit, who see the people, the city, and the legacy they represent' - Your Letters plus an ice cream rush brings extra jobs in 1992 heatwave, in our picture from the archives
PICTURE FROM THE PAST: Extra workers were taken on at Telford and Stourbridge to cope with record-breaking demand for ice cream caused by a heatwave in the summer of 1992. MD Michael Clarke, of Clarkes Foods, is pictured with some of the workforce as they dispatch tubs out to the shops.

​Belief is drained at Molineux

Enough is enough.

Once again, the leadership of Wolverhampton Wanderers and Fosun International has chosen the easy way out, sacking the manager to protect their image rather than confronting the deeper rot within the club. They handed Vítor Pereira a three-year contract in September, sold off key players for hefty profit, failed to reinvest meaningfully, and then expected results from a weakened squad.

This isn’t leadership. It’s asset management masquerading as ambition.

Wolves have become a case study in profit before passion, a proud football club reduced to a corporate asset on a spreadsheet. 

They talk about sustainability while hollowing out the team, leaving supporters to watch a revolving door of managers trying to rescue a project that has no footballing soul. 

Fosun’s own financial reports show the cracks: multi-billion-yuan losses last year, asset sales to raise liquidity, and a strategy of “streamlining” to ease debt. It’s clear where the priorities lie, balancing the books, not backing the badge. Wolves have paid the price for a parent company more focused on protecting its balance sheet than its club’s heart.

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