TOTTENHAM Hotspur have been put on alert following Chris Samba’s threat to leave Ewood Park – but the Blackburn Rovers skipper is understood to have been pacified by Steve Kean’s appointment as boss until the end of the season.

Samba had suggested that he may quit Ewood rather than work under the club’s new owners after expressing his anger at the sacking Sam Allardyce.

The 26-year-old had demanded answers about Rovers’ future and that a decision be made over the club’s new manager, which came hours later when Venky’s installed Kean as boss until June.

Samba has not submitted a transfer request and sources close to the player suggest that he is unlikely to do so after being reassured, at least to some extent, by Kean’s appointment.

El-Hadji Diouf also pledged his future to Rovers yesterday.

But Samba’s commitment could still be tested if Tottenham now decide to make a January bid, with Harry Redknapp a big admirer of the 6ft 5in centre back.

Before Kean’s appointment, Samba, said: “If this is the way the club’s going to be run from now on, I don’t want to be part of it and I want to leave.”

“As captain it’s very difficult to say this but I’ve thought long and hard about it. Nobody in football understands the decision to sack Sam.

“I’m sure Mr Williams would not have made this decision. He’s a football man and respects what a great job Sam has done.

“We could have been relegated last year and Sam saved the club, so how can he be treated like this now?”