“You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone,” Joni Mitchell once told us. Will Wolverhampton Wanderers soon come to the same conclusion?



After more than a decade of service, Kevin Thelwell — unfairly castigated outside the club, almost universally lauded within it — is leaving to take a newly-created role as head of sport with New York Red Bulls.



Thelwell’s surprise (but in some ways, not a surprise) departure to Major League Soccer is more than just a guy leaving his sporting director post to be replaced by another guy.



While Fosun ultimately make the decisions at Compton Park and Molineux, it is Thelwell (pictured above, second from left) who has played an intrinsic role in the growth and development of Wolves in recent years. While almost all around him have come and gone, he has been the matrix through which Wolves has run.



It’s important not to understate his significance to the...