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Kazim-Richards looks to make it Turkish delight at Blackburn Rovers
9:42am Saturday 4th August 2012 in Football
By Andy Cryer, Blackburn Rovers reporter
TURKISH international Colin Kazim-Richards will bid to earn a Blackburn Rovers move in tomorrow's pre-season friendly against NEC Nijmegen.
The 25-year-old can play either as a winger or a striker and will start a Rovers trial against the Dutch outfit, having recently been on trial at West Ham United.
The Galatasaray winger has played for Bury, Brighton and Sheffield United in England earlier in his career before moving to Turkey. He spent last season on loan at Olympiacos.
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Comments (106)
9:53am Sat 4 Aug 12
ossie-rover says...
9:56am Sat 4 Aug 12
Gaz M says...
9:57am Sat 4 Aug 12
Lancs - pensioner says...
He played for Bury?
He spent last season on loan, why? He wasn't good enough!!
Absolute joke
Absolute shambles
Rhodes coming for 6 million, your havin a laugh, he has ambition and will not join this circus.
Kean you are such a loser.
Shebby the new bull sh!tter for BRFC,
Give us direct answers NOT bull.
9:57am Sat 4 Aug 12
Suffolk n Watt says...
9:59am Sat 4 Aug 12
gleechy says...
You'd probably do the same.
10:13am Sat 4 Aug 12
hasslem hasslem says...
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not a chance of him coming.
10:15am Sat 4 Aug 12
blueblooded says...
10:19am Sat 4 Aug 12
Forever-Blue says...
Kean trying to get rid of Sams old boys and get his own yes men in.
Disgusting human being.
10:20am Sat 4 Aug 12
blueblooded says...
anyone know if Bunn got injured badly last night? read that he limped off, which doesnt sound good.
10:26am Sat 4 Aug 12
Harwoodstblue says...
10:36am Sat 4 Aug 12
rankoutsider says...
o.uk/magazine/featur
es/120730/portuguese
-midfielder-who-coul
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nd-177614
Interesting article on this Portuguese midfielder
10:52am Sat 4 Aug 12
gleechy says...
They have deliberately used Blackburn Rovers to push their recognition in this country through the roof, for this reason, I believe to them the football is secondary at the moment whilst they keep up with demand for chicken.
They have detached themselves from the fans and deliberately not spent where a little more would make a big difference, because they are concentrating on their bigger picture, themselves.
To put a senior representative of the company out to say they are confused and no follow up to explain is strange.
Mr Kean is well known to be passed his sell by date, but the only one available that will toe the line and very good at convincing the weaker willed ones that they will get it right, he also looks to be trying hard, and most people can't ask for more than that.
These billionaire bafoons don't care to change what has been a disaster for us, because it has paid them handsomely in other ways.
I believe they have probably at least drawn even with their purchase of the club, so could probably walk on when they feel like, leaving a legacy of dissillusioned old folk with long contracts for others to sort out.
10:57am Sat 4 Aug 12
bburnrover says...
we need defenders or our lad back from rochdale he was the best defender on the pitch against us -kean is clueless
10:59am Sat 4 Aug 12
Rover Pete says...
11:01am Sat 4 Aug 12
givet82 says...
11:19am Sat 4 Aug 12
dangerous dave says...
Yes freebies - wages only - oldies with long contracts to get them to sign is the route for these idiots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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OUT WITH KEAN AGNEW SINGH HENDRY VENKYS
11:41am Sat 4 Aug 12
garydavies2304 says...
11:45am Sat 4 Aug 12
Lancs - pensioner says...
12:17pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Dukes says...
12:20pm Sat 4 Aug 12
idlewally says...
12:21pm Sat 4 Aug 12
idlewally says...
12:34pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Keith Myath says...
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We need DEFENDERS, DEFENSERS, DEFENDERS!
12:47pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Port Vale 1 Rovers 4 says...
Total disorder .
1:01pm Sat 4 Aug 12
lusorover says...
Could learn a lot alongside Nuno Gomes.
Good luck with the trial.
1:06pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Harwoodstblue says...
1:37pm Sat 4 Aug 12
blueblooded says...
1:40pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Road Runner Road Runner says...
Arte et labore
1:52pm Sat 4 Aug 12
hasslem hasslem says...
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of course it's mullah (just look at samba going to wherever it is or shearer and sutton joining rovers).
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in murphy's case - i suspect money is a part of it, but in terms of it being two years (and a move back home) instead of one....maybe his manager didn't rate him either.
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with rhodes - can you realistically see venkys dishing out £6m? they haven't done before despite having the dosh for kalanic, jones, samba and the rest.
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yak came to us as he was surplus to requirements at everton and not getting games for them - whether we paid him more than he was getting, i have no idea.
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so we want £10m for n'zonzi and last week were (reportedly) offering £750k for this (supposed) portugeezer wonderkid? think out wonderful owners need to learn summat about simple supply and demand.
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if huddersfield want to cash in they will want decent money and encourage an auction. prem teams got deeper pockets and will probably pay more than we will - and if i were rhodes i would not touch rovers with a barge-pole as long as these clowns remain in charge with the chief idiot ringmaster responsible for the acts.
1:56pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Gob says...
2:05pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Dan11 says...
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Him and Kean will get on great.
2:22pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Chrissaces says...
2:55pm Sat 4 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
3:01pm Sat 4 Aug 12
gleechy says...
3:24pm Sat 4 Aug 12
lusorover says...
3:25pm Sat 4 Aug 12
carlmc1 says...
Twenty minutes gone Ipswich Town 2 West Ham 0
3:33pm Sat 4 Aug 12
bburnrover says...
4:15pm Sat 4 Aug 12
BritishBulldog says...
HH you say Venkys haven't done that before, what about Scott Dan, wasn't it 7 million with another 2 million in add ons? Also as per Guardian and other newspapers we already made a bid for 5 million for Rhodes which was rejected by them
4:34pm Sat 4 Aug 12
MxMave says...
4:38pm Sat 4 Aug 12
dangerous dave says...
Kean and Hendry deserve one another and have a similar SUCCESS RATE in their professional roles !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Load of 'cr-p'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!
OUT WITH KEAN HENDRY AGNEW SINGH VENKYS
4:48pm Sat 4 Aug 12
BritishBulldog says...
HH you say Venkys haven't done that before, what about Scott Dan, wasn't it 7 million with another 2 million in add ons? Also as per Guardian and other newspapers we already made a bid of 5 million for Rhodes which was rejected by them.
I am not a big fan of how they run the club so far but they made 7 signings this summer and we are talking about more, how many have Bolton done this summer?
We can't keep criticing them even when they are trying to do things right.
Now ducking for cover :)
4:53pm Sat 4 Aug 12
fitz808 says...
this is a chap on trial (probably as a backup if the rhodes signing doesn't happen). he may have played for bury, but he's also played at a top level in turkey and greece, so which is most important. it would be very rare for a player to start stay and finish off all at the top level. he gets a few international starts too.
but most importantly, he has not been signed, so why the vitriol? not a problem to have a look at the lad surely. and if i remember rightly (which i may well not!) i'm sure we had been linked a couple of years ago. not sure under which regime either, but hughes rings a bell.
we don't yet know if rhodes will be coming, and for how much. but we've lodged a bid which i guess will be higher than fulham had a bash for. sure, he may not come, but his reasoning could be any number of things - ambition, comfort, cash, manager, lenght of contract etc. we don't know, so second guessing seems a little pointless.
kean's record suggests he is certainly a loser of sorts, but in terms of this trial, why would he be a loser? and why is singh a bull merchant? your desire to hear direct answers may seem like a small ask, but when it comes to trasnfers i think most clubs like to be at least a little guarded. and rightly so.
you have some decent points to make most of the time which is why people give you sensible responses. that kind of debate is surely better for a forum than simply resorting to ridicule?
sorry, slightly high-horsed there, so apologies for that. but i like decent debate and sometimes on here it has become unreadable.
4:54pm Sat 4 Aug 12
katrew says...
4:57pm Sat 4 Aug 12
blueblooded says...
5:06pm Sat 4 Aug 12
blueblooded says...
Too funny but too true lol
"Why are they giving medals to that woman? She only came first. My Steve managed relegation when we didnt know it was possible.. Now thats achievement!" Says a confused Anuradha as she tucks into another wing..
5:07pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Struzzo39 says...
5:39pm Sat 4 Aug 12
azza234 says...
5:44pm Sat 4 Aug 12
azza234 says...
5:49pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Sam-the-Man says...
With the introduction of a new Olympic event this year, GB have struck gold thanks to the efforts of the brave Scotsman S Kean. BS Hitting is an event where each contestant tries to outwit their opponent by saying and doing the most unbelievable things, making sure along the way, that no one can tell their lying. Kean has had many years experience of this and won by a country mile. S Singh, a newcomer from Malaysia, tried hard but was no match for our brilliant Kean.
The Venky brothers are doing well in the Hide and Seek event and it’s hard to see how they will be beaten now and should give India their first gold medal.
Meanwhile the BRFC fans can do well, if they can hold their nerve, in the muck spreading event as they endure ton upon ton of manure heaped on them but still come up smiling.
5:53pm Sat 4 Aug 12
givet82 says...
6:34pm Sat 4 Aug 12
peely says...
8:09pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Lancs - pensioner says...
Got to agree with most of your post, when I get angry and especially seeing another defeat against a top European team? It just comes out, normally I try to read the LT and digest it then start blogging but some days it just comes out.
I wish like many other fans I could be realy excited at this time of year looking forward to quality new signings buy my season tickets but this lot have knocked it out of me and I will never return until they go.
One day I hope we can all meet up down at Ewood and talk about the good times but this may be a long time off.
8:10pm Sat 4 Aug 12
cedar67 says...
8:56pm Sat 4 Aug 12
moh says...
9:22pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Port Vale 1 Rovers 4 says...
KEAN OUT
10:25pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Coeur de Lion says...
10:29pm Sat 4 Aug 12
blueblooded says...
11:06pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Judge Nic Sanders says...
It's all coming together
1:36am Sun 5 Aug 12
ronnie clayton says...
So ,in conclusion how did a known swindler and liar get a 400,000 pounds a year contract at Rovers.
WE ALL KNOW we have seen Kean and Hendry getting **** in pubs in Lytham for about a year and a half now.
1:36am Sun 5 Aug 12
ronnie clayton says...
So ,in conclusion how did a known swindler and liar get a 400,000 pounds a year contract at Rovers.
WE ALL KNOW we have seen Kean and Hendry getting **** in pubs in Lytham for about a year and a half now.
6:56am Sun 5 Aug 12
dangerous dave says...
On a separate note Team GB's athletes did us proud yesterday and raised our spirits - they wanted to represent our country, rise to the occasion, 99% of them set a good example to our young people and finally played under our 'national flag and anthem' unlike the 'prima donas' at Cardiff who put on a miserable show, squabbled about playing under our nations flag and anthem, half hearted displays , couldn't rise to the occasion and didn't get a mention in most bulletins later in the evening!!!!!!
8:17am Sun 5 Aug 12
cedar67 says...
8:32am Sun 5 Aug 12
alfa111 says...
8:56am Sun 5 Aug 12
srvp28 says...
9:12am Sun 5 Aug 12
rover95 says...
9:20am Sun 5 Aug 12
Port Vale 1 Rovers 4 says...
Sound like playground capers ?
WELCOME TO B.R.F.C
9:40am Sun 5 Aug 12
cedar67 says...
9:42am Sun 5 Aug 12
Port Vale 1 Rovers 4 says...
This is only my theory as i cannot comprehend what is happening day to day at our club ,theres a reason for all these signings ,agents fees , we will see how they perform very soon
WE SHALL OVERCOME SOME DAY
9:46am Sun 5 Aug 12
carlmc1 says...
People are saying pre season results don't matter, but I am getting very concerned. Yesterday Ipswich beat West Ham 3 - 1 and Brighton beat Chelsea 3-1 not to mention Burnley winning 4-0 away to Cheltenham.
I know we lose nothing for the defeats we have suffered so far, but I have a horrible feeling we still haven't lost the habit of conceding loads and losing far to easily.
We only have two weeks to go so we need to get things right and quick
9:49am Sun 5 Aug 12
Iiii1111 says...
9:59am Sun 5 Aug 12
whappen says...
There have been individuals from all parts of the British Isles competing and succeeding spectacularly, getting tremendous support from people all over the country in the process. The athletes have worked their buns off to get to this point and whatever their motivation - be it for personal achievement, the team, country or just the town they come from - they are truly dedicated individuals for whom we should all have the utmost respect.
Footballers have one thing and one thing only on their minds; themselves. It's a long time since I've seen one of these new celebrity prima donnas show anything like the emotion seen over the last few days - be it in success or brave defeat.
You could say tennis players have the same self interest at the heart of everything they do but even the usually dour (and I believe proud)Scotsman Andy Murray seems to have got he bug - that's a Scotsman, Craig, not English - and lets face it, they've got a far more serious beef with the English than the Welsh have.
I was deeply relieved the football team got knocked out. It prevented them taking an undeserved place in the celebration of the greatest day in British sporting history.
If ever there was a reason for Great Britain not bothering with a football team ever being entered into the greatest exhibition of sporting excellence and commitment on the planet, it is Bellamy and his cronies pathetic attitude. He can f@ck off and get another tattoo - he should have it across his forehead, although I don't think "sad miserable tw@t" would fit; mind you his head IS big enough.
10:05am Sun 5 Aug 12
srvp28 says...
10:06am Sun 5 Aug 12
speedie_rovers_legend says...
10:06am Sun 5 Aug 12
srvp28 says...
10:12am Sun 5 Aug 12
Port Vale 1 Rovers 4 says...
get things right quick, should have happened the day big sam left .
I can only predict more of the same against lower teams .
something stinks to high heaven within
the walls of B R F C
KEAN OUT
10:16am Sun 5 Aug 12
carlmc1 says...
10:18am Sun 5 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
10:30am Sun 5 Aug 12
whappen says...
You don't need to be a student of history to know the mismanagement of sports stadia has not worked well in the past.
I don't know if he has ever had any experience of his new role, but somehow I doubt it. Of course, if Clouseau is calling the shots, basic competance does not seem high on the list of priorities at Ewood nowadays.
At least the other jobs for the boys will only result in us losing football matches; a lot of football matches.
10:34am Sun 5 Aug 12
Port Vale 1 Rovers 4 says...
RUN BY COMPETENCE !
10:38am Sun 5 Aug 12
dangerous dave says...
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OUT WITH KEAN AGNEW HENDRY SINGH VENKYS AND THE IDIOT THAT WROTE THE ABOVE POST
10:45am Sun 5 Aug 12
whappen says...
With respect, I think you may have missed my point.
10:48am Sun 5 Aug 12
Port Vale 1 Rovers 4 says...
and have taken the places of
QUALIFIED personel
I hope the investigation by b.r.a.g
and the questions and answer session with shabby sheds some
light onto the running of OUR club .
10:53am Sun 5 Aug 12
carlmc1 says...
11:06am Sun 5 Aug 12
carlmc1 says...
11:09am Sun 5 Aug 12
baldie says...
11:17am Sun 5 Aug 12
edmy says...
11:28am Sun 5 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
Seems like you've got your wires crossed somewhere as all you appear to have done is moan about it whilst growing cegs on yer arse and supped a few beers. Maybe flicking the buttons on the remote control constitutes representing your nation in your house but in mine it = deluded tosser.
11:43am Sun 5 Aug 12
Arthur Labore says...
11:47am Sun 5 Aug 12
Morst The 88th Min Heartbreaker of Dingles! says...
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KP played one of the best innings I have seen and the Olympics awesome.
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Then you wake up and remember you support Rovers and Kean is still alive!
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34th....
11:50am Sun 5 Aug 12
carlmc1 says...
11:52am Sun 5 Aug 12
Rovers 1495 says...
12:16pm Sun 5 Aug 12
Rovers 1495 says...
12:25pm Sun 5 Aug 12
Iiii1111 says...
12:26pm Sun 5 Aug 12
whappen says...
And how big of Bellamy and co giving up their time, what heroes. Would they have done it if the games had been in November? Would they have pleaded with their clubs to let them go? Somehow I doubt it.
Mo Farah spent seven months away from his family training for the olympics. Bellamy couldn't spend seven days away from his "body-art" salon or favourite wine bar.
Unfortunately I didn't get any tickets to see any of the olympics so I'm afraid sitting on my ar$e " flicking the buttons on the remote control " is the only option I, along with a lot of others, has.
And where did I say anything about me representing my nation?
If supporting those who were whilst respecting their commitment and effort is a form of "delusion" then so be it; I am happy to live with the burden of being, as you so eloquently observe, a deluded to$$er.
Like I said, bizarre response.
4:31pm Sun 5 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
So get your priorities right, you're not on here calling boy wonder are you you deluded tosser. Whats Mo farrah got to do with Bellamy, when farrah was off training without his family its because his sport demands it. If bellamys sport demanded it he would do the same, you deluded tosser.
This is fun isn't it
4:33pm Sun 5 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
5:08pm Sun 5 Aug 12
blueblooded says...
otball/article/2012-
08-05/west-ham-boss-
doesnt-feel-for-rove
rs/
can't really say I blame him!
5:19pm Sun 5 Aug 12
blueblooded says...
rdpress.com/2012/08/
05/rhodes-wont-force
-rovers-switch/
"Huddersfield’s hot property striker Jordan Rhodes could be edging closer to a move to Blackburn Rovers.
Rumours are suggesting that the young hitman is keen on a transfer to Ewood, possibly due to the reported £35,000 per week pay packet which is being touted.
While Rhodes may be interested, Huddersfield are sticking to their guns and demanding at least £6m from the promotion hopefuls.
A first bid has been seemingly snubbed by the Terriers, rumoured to be in the region of an initial £4m with bonuses taking the transfer up to £6m if Rovers bounce back to the Premier League.
Whilst this is promising news, there is negotiating and possibly compromising to be done yet – but a glimmer of hope remains for Blackburn with the new season rapidly approaching."
5:46pm Sun 5 Aug 12
Iiii1111 says...
"perhaps a different anthem should be used for England"
6:00pm Sun 5 Aug 12
Morst The 88th Min Heartbreaker of Dingles! says...
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34th...
7:21pm Sun 5 Aug 12
who deany says...
7:25pm Sun 5 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
7:40pm Sun 5 Aug 12
whappen says...
I'm sorry I keep using your mate Craig as an example but listing every single professional footballer would have been a little impractical.
If Bale wasn't injured, you can insert his name in there instead for all I care.
I would have loved to have given up my time for Team GB by the way; unfortunately I'm an untalented, unfit fifty-odd year old so I may have struggled to make the squad.
Interesting point you make though.
Sorry, did I say interesting? I meant irrelevant.
7:59pm Sun 5 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
8:40pm Sun 5 Aug 12
hasslem hasslem says...
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some welsh players opt not to sing "god save the queen" so what? two of the girls that won the pursuit bike thing didn't sing when they got their medals, ditto mo farah. andy murray mumbled it a bit - does that make him good? why single out footballers - its personal choice for christ's sake.
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i'm english and an athiest and republican - doesn't make me any less patriotic. don't want a royal family so, its inappropriate for me to ask a non-existent god to save someone who i don't think should have the power she does.
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if you want to force people to sing the national anthem, that is the equivalent of nazi germany or communist north korea. blood and sand - you should be grateful that the national anthem is a matter of personal choice, get a ife and grow up.
8:08am Mon 6 Aug 12
Iiii1111 says...
No, I'm not a royalist. But
God save the Queen
5:22pm Tue 7 Aug 12
srvp28 says...
As I already pointed out, Bradley Wiggins didn't sing the national anthem but you've targeted the Welsh football players, that smacks of bigotry where I'm standing.