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Jeff Shi would like to be Wolves' chairman

The identity of Wolves' new chairman has not yet been decided – but Fosun supremo Jeff Shi would like to take the role.

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Wolves are currently without a chairman and will lose departing chief executive Jez Moxey in three months' time.

Moxey has been overseeing all day-to-day matters since Steve Morgan quit as chairman and put the club up for sale last September.

Shi said of the chairman position: "It has not been decided yet. I would like to be the chairman.

"It needs to go through some process inside Fosun Group and will be decided soon. It will not take long."

Shi now heads up a four-man board at Molineux which includes existing members John Gough and John Bowater, who have been at the club since 2006.

Joining them is Fosun's Sky Sun, of whom little has been said since the £30million takeover was announced on Thursday.

Shi commented of Sun: "Sky Sun is my colleague, he is from Nike China. He has a lot of experience in sport, commercial interests in sport.

"He is a great fan of football. He will help me to do anything to help the club, especially the football things like the squad, coach and all those things."

Shi revealed he had looked at 15 clubs before deciding on Wolves, adding: "I have been thinking over how to improve the club for a long time.

"I've spent a lot of time before the takeover negotiating. My focus is on the club."

Moxey revealed Wolves had received 76 expressions of interest in buying the club since last September.

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