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Supporters probably care little about the lack of substance Shi believes was present in those years, but it is hard to escape the conclusion that they owed almost everything to the quality players provided by Jorge Mendes's Gestifute organisation with a consistent flow that he has not replicated in more recent times. Shi admitted Wolves had struggled in the years since Nuno's departure, although he defended Fosun's record of delivering the club's longest period in the top division since the 1970s. And in Shi's view, the main issue seems to have been his own attempt to take a less hands-on approach to running the club. Advertisement He pointed to how his attempts early in Fosun's ownership to spend most of his time in Shanghai had not worked, and claimed his efforts to spend more time pursuing his other interests in recent years had also backfired. 'In the last few years I didn't spend enough time here but now I realise I have to be inside the training ground, in the building and try to do something until one day I can find one or two guys to do my job here,' he said. 'In football they need a leader to tell them what to do and show them what to do and if I intended to leave a bit then people started to feel a little bit disoriented.' Aside from spending more time with his hand firmly on the tiller, Shi spoke about his desire for better communication and more alignment between senior staff at the club. But there was no attempt to step back from his overriding belief that Wolves' main opportunities for growth come away from elite football, with projects such as esports and the club's music label, targeting mainly fans outside the club's traditional core supporter-base. 'That means a lot of different adventures for our business but in the meantime we are happy and very confident we can compete in the league itself,' he said. 'You can do everything else but if you lose your position in the league it is no use so we have to do the two things together. 'I am totally against a traditional way to do football. People like to talk about a fancy new stadium, fancy new owners, spending one or two billion buying fancy new players. 'That model is OK for fans, it's OK for the government and it's OK for the city maybe, but it's not OK for the owners. I've seen so many owners who spend money and lose money, they go and nobody remembers them.' It is the kind of message that Shi has sent out before and one guaranteed to irk sections of the club's match-going fanbase. Few supporters will take issue with Fosun's desire to explore other revenue streams, but Shi's messaging still suggests that doing so is as important to the owners as providing more seasons like Nuno's. 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'Some coaches just don't even try to have chemistry with me so it's tough,' he said. 'If we can't have that, the coach can't stay longer.' Peace has broken out in the stand-off between Shi and Wolves Women, with the club announcing a new commitment to push for promotion to the second tier after the furore over Wolves' failure to apply for the licence required last season. But Shi again made clear his annoyance with the need to provide financial assurances in advance of achieving promotion. 'If you are organising a new league for 20 clubs you can do that (ask for commitments in advance),' he said. 'But at the moment football in the UK is still about the pyramid and teams want to compete with the big guys. 'At Wolves we are OK to spend but I feel this kind of procedure in the middle of the season is strange.' Fosun's failure to redevelop or expand Wolves' home in line with plans unveiled early in their reign is a regular bone of contention with fans. 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