Much like the team that calls it home, Wolverhampton Wanderers’s Molineux Stadium is in desperate need of a facelift that had been promised but no longer looks forthcoming.
From the outside, literally, it is plain to see owner Fosun has not prioritised the upkeep of this grand old stadium the club have called home since 1889.
“Molineux is one of the many things Wolves fans are disillusioned about with chairman Jeff Shi and Fosun because we look like a club where the owners have lost interest,” Ryan Leister of [The Wolves Report](https://x.com/TheWolvesReport) podcast tells *The i Paper*.
“They say they’re spending money elsewhere and that we’re suffering from the self-sustainable model.
“Either way, one of the main responsibilities you have if you’re honoured enough to be a custodian of our football club is to look after the ground.”
Masking over issues with a lick of paint only adds to the symbolism of a struggling club, while for supporters the quality of one stand in particular stands out.
“We almost had to shame the club into painting because the bollards outside the ground, the gates, anything outside in Wolves colours was looking completely neglected,” Leister adds.
“It was really poor. They only started painting the season before last and I’m not even sure they’ve finished.
“As for the Steve Bull Stand, named after our greatest ever goalscorer, it is a disgrace. There’s some metal sheeting over the back of the stand that’s been painted briefly. That is a tired old stand… I know fans who sit in the front row of the top tier and the two adults can barely fit in their seat.”
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Much like the team that calls it home, Wolverhampton Wanderers’s Molineux Stadium is in desperate need of a facelift that had been promised but no longer looks forthcoming.
From the outside, literally, it is plain to see owner Fosun has not prioritised the upkeep of this grand old stadium the club have called home since 1889.
And with Fosun spectacularly failing with its supposed priority – remaining a Premier League side while relying on a [risky, cyclical recruitment strategy](https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/wolves-94m-gamble-fanbase-deprived-connection-3744345?ico=in-line_link) – then the problems merge into one miserable mess.
“Molineux is one of the many things Wolves fans are disillusioned about with chairman Jeff Shi and Fosun because we look like a club where the owners have lost interest,” Ryan Leister of [The Wolves Report](https://x.com/TheWolvesReport) podcast tells *The i Paper*.
“They say they’re spending money elsewhere and that we’re suffering from the self-sustainable model.
“Either way, one of the main responsibilities you have if you’re honoured enough to be a custodian of our football club is to look after the ground.”
Masking over issues with a lick of paint only adds to the symbolism of a struggling club, while for supporters the quality of one stand in particular stands out.
“We almost had to shame the club into painting because the bollards outside the ground, the gates, anything outside in Wolves colours was looking completely neglected,” Leister adds.
“It was really poor. They only started painting the season before last and I’m not even sure they’ve finished.
“As for the Steve Bull Stand, named after our greatest ever goalscorer, it is a disgrace. There’s some metal sheeting over the back of the stand that’s been painted briefly. That is a tired old stand… I know fans who sit in the front row of the top tier and the two adults can barely fit in their seat.”
Read more: [https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/wolves-molineux-fall-apart-4058166](https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/wolves-molineux-fall-apart-4058166)
Jeff Shi, what a clueless nobhead.
But muh esports