STEVE Kean insists all summer transfer plans will have to wait as he demands total focus on securing Blackburn Rovers’ Premier League survival.

The Rovers boss is expected to be handed a healthy war chest by ambitious new owners Venky’s to bolster his squad for next season, sparking daily speculation about potential targets.

Senegalese striker Papiss Cisse, from German club Freiburg, is the latest to be linked with an Ewood Park move this summer but, despite expecting some exciting business to be done in the coming months, Kean is adamant everything but survival is on hold.

Rovers travel to West Ham on Saturday within touching distance of safety after the weekend’s gutsy 1-0 win over Bolton ended an 11-match winless streak.

Victory at Upton Park would all but guarantee top flight football again next season for Rovers and Kean insists he won’t even look at any targets until that has been secured.

Kean said: “I have not even looked at one list, I have not been on one scouting mission because I know we need to get the points.

“As soon as we get safe we can start planning for next year. Until then we are completely focused on getting the points. We are one step closer and that is excellent.

“Certainly there is pressure but this group of players I have got will give me points and I am sure there will be enough for us to be surviving in a couple of weeks. One more win will probably have us safe before the last two games and that is our target.

“We can count on everyone. It is not the case, as has been suggested, that Nikola Kalinic has been frozen out, Mame has come back in, Morten came on, you can tell there is synergie in the group.

“We are together, we will go and get the points. Saturday’s win is a stepping stone to safety. Hopefully it is a catalyst to going to West Ham being positive.”

It is understood Rovers’ owners are still committed to bringing a ‘land mark’ signing to Ewood this summer, with a new striker the club’s priority this summer.

One player Kean admits he is “desperate” to sign is Schalke’s loan midfielder Jermaine Jones but even his future will have to wait until the summer.

“We are desperate to keep Jermaine and he wants to stay,” said Kean. “Like when Roque was signed we tried to fix a price with Schalke but we couldn’t so we got an agreement until the end of the season.

“If we can do some big business then hopefully he is going to be a Blackburn Rovers player when we come back.

“He is only a loan player and might be going back to Schalke but he would have died for the points and was well worthy of man of the match.

“Jermaine has been in this form for a number of weeks. He has gradually got better. It took him the first couple of weeks to get to grips with the Barclays Premier League but at times it looked as though there were two of them in there.”

Meanwhile West Ham’s United legend Tony Cottee has called Rovers’ trip to Upton Park on Saturday as one of the Hammer’s biggest ever games.

He said: “If you consider the financial implications for relegation this match is as big as they come. Defeat is unthinkable, while a win will probably lift us up the table and drag Blackburn into deep trouble.”