Rovers bidding to retain stars (From Lancashire Telegraph)

“We can only look forward,” he said.
When you look at the phrases/words that Kean says then it looks like he has read all the footie books in the world about relegation and taken quotes from them all:

“We can only look forward,”

“The only important game is the next one, not the last one.

“We will try to finish the season and build a squad that is really competitive in the Championship.

The man is a bullsh/ter in the extreme and everyone is seeing right through the man at last.

I just cant stand to see him, hear him or even read his words anymore.
If a tree fall in the forest and no-one is around, does it make a sound? So if we pretend he is not there - will he be gone..?

The guy is deluded.How much do they pay someone to lose all their money? The cleaning lady would have won more matches granted she may have got us relegated to but at least she would have cost us 1.2 million less than Kean to do it.

Get out of our club now you MORON!

Even Blackpool fans signing "Kean Out" last night.

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The squad needs a clear out, get rid of the over paid, under achieving dead wood. Dunn, MGP, Grella, Robinson, Nzonzi, Dann to name a few. However, nobody will come in under these fookwits anyway. Can only see it getting worse. COYB's

It's over, finished, ended. There's really not much more to say. I am, along with thousands of other rovers fans heartbroken. Not just because of the relegation...these things happen, but more because of the way it's been allowed to happen...even encouraged! I know now we will never be a force in football again,if indeed we have a club left after these criminals have had their way with our club, The club handed down to us over generations. Over the past months I've had a couple of unkind words to say to people like French rover and others (no malice intended) for their un-ending positivity, I was never confident of a happy ending myself. however I respected your views (honestly) I'm just sorry that your positive attitude was'nt rewarded. My season ticket went on the pitch on monday night, and I won't be attending Ewood again untill this disease we've been afflicted with has been cured. I wish you all luck for the coming seasons, I think it will be needed. thanks for the comradeship, I really enjoyed the ride....here's to happier days!

Sounds familiar,

We Won't sell Jones

We Won't sell Samba

We will keep our best players

B@llshit Keans his name!!!

Keep all the players you can Kean it's only the @rse lickers who will stop for some one like you the rest will go, here is my list of the one I think will go because they can't stand you,

Robinson
Both Olsons
Givet
Yakubu
Onzozi
Dann (thank God)

Don't buy season tickets

Don't by merchandise

Don't give Venkys the only thing they want

MONEY!!!!!

French Rover wrote:
“We can only look forward,” he said. When you look at the phrases/words that Kean says then it looks like he has read all the footie books in the world about relegation and taken quotes from them all: “We can only look forward,” “The only important game is the next one, not the last one. “We will try to finish the season and build a squad that is really competitive in the Championship. The man is a bullsh/ter in the extreme and everyone is seeing right through the man at last. I just cant stand to see him, hear him or even read his words anymore. If a tree fall in the forest and no-one is around, does it make a sound? So if we pretend he is not there - will he be gone..?

Rather like the bankers, MP expenses fiddlers, adulterers etc. etc.. "Let us move on". It is the eternal cry of the guilty with the purpose of making the injured party feel bad about it.

Lancs - pensioner wrote:
Sounds familiar, We Won't sell Jones We Won't sell Samba We will keep our best players B@llshit Keans his name!!! Keep all the players you can Kean it's only the @rse lickers who will stop for some one like you the rest will go, here is my list of the one I think will go because they can't stand you, Robinson Both Olsons Givet Yakubu Onzozi Dann (thank God) Don't buy season tickets Don't by merchandise Don't give Venkys the only thing they want MONEY!!!!!

Support them only away and go in the home teams end. This should be great at Burnley.

All the comments above sum it up nicely.... we are screwed...

If Bradley Orr has any brothers who can also kick a ball and talk **** they will be getting a call from an agent any day now.

Kean for Mayor of London next

Thank goodness he is not a fireman or an ambulanceman because he only seems to recognise what is needed after the event.

Anybody who knew anything about football could see before the August window closed what was needed. There are some good young players but they needed a strong nidfield with various skills - someone comfortable on the ball, someone to get in the opositions faces, someone to be running at fullbacks and getting the ball across. Keans tactics like Big Sam favoured the long ball and the long throw because he didnt buy what was needed.

When you look at his signings you wonder why he bought - Vukevic looked top quality against England in November but when was he last seen. Modeste the guys touch and timing was so out on Monday I felt sorry for him yet he was kept on while Formica and Rochina warmed the bench. If he was on for the flick ons for the high ball why was NZonzi brought on when it wasnt working?

Exciting times ahead - I reckon Rovers fans will have a party when the Manager departs but until then I fear the only way we are going is down down down because in 18 months I have seen no evidence of an improvement in playing affairs man management at Ewood and I fear any quality player will give Rovers a wide berth if they come knocking with the present set up.

Time to go NOW

We should set up a new club we can take 5000 supporters away from Ewood easily and start again.

bburnrover wrote:
We should set up a new club we can take 5000 supporters away from Ewood easily and start again.

Ground share with Stanley?

How long will it be before these words come full circle AGAIN and bite Keanocchio on the behind.

What is so galling is the phrases he uses. Any manager will try and pick up the pieces and try to paint a positive picture. Why not? It's the right thing to do. But please engage brain a little more before putting mouth into gear! To say "one step back to take two steps forward" smacks of rubbing our noses in it....oh and sounds like it was planned.

Here was the one step back: put circa £60m income at risk; deplete the squad; remove some of the best administrators in the game; repel the fans; put the club's very future at risk. That's one mighty big step back SK. You'll be lucky if you can muster a shuffle let alone make two steps. Before you know it only a 'giant leap for mankind' will suffice to make up the ground you have lost.

Don't they realise that business - and yes this IS all about business - is about confidence. Football may be a funny old game and not follow typical business conventions but this bit is true. Any organisation must deliver confidence in their product, their people (staff) and be able to keep and attract customers as well as new employees.

Who on earth would want to get involved in this shambles whilst Kean and Venkys are in charge is beyond me. Wake up and smell the coffee man, for crying out loud.

bburnrover wrote:
We should set up a new club we can take 5000 supporters away from Ewood easily and start again.

More than 5000 I think

Make no mistake, if the owners say they are removing Kean from the Manager's position it would not be the end of the problem. The secrecy surrounding the club comes from the Venks. They are the gigantic problem. They seem to have found the only rhino skinned top bullsheeter who has a coaching badge. No one will be able to fill his un enviable place, it is not fit for human occupation. There is no doubt that Mr Kean has the worst job in football at the moment, and there is no doubt that he is loyal to his employers, but he is no gentleman, his only dignity comes from when he can stand and block out all abuse and move on as if nothing happened. The fact that he then has the stage afterwards and uses it to advance his positives and undermine the intelligence of all who watch the match, means he is not to be trusted. He has brought a new low to Prem Managers for the lies he spouts. When any player gets behind this mentality, you have to question their integrity as a person, and how they represent the Rovers.
Arte et Labore

Relentless delusion. He's clearly mentally disturbed. You need medical help Kean. Your a liar and a fraud.

There is an answer to this Mr Kean, refuse to sell the players that are under contract !

However, judging by the useless contracts that have been put together by him and the muppets, it is likely that most will have an easy exit clause for relegation or a get out clause if an offer comes in e.g. rumoured £6m for Dann. If we paid £7-8m for him why was a lesser sum put in his contract? Surely we should look at recouping our money at the very least !

There does need to be a clear out, my suggestions would be Miles Anderson and Bruno Riberio both of whom have just been a waste of wages and never seen, MGP who has gone from bad to worst in the last few months, Dunny (sorry, but time for him to go !) Orr and Nzonzi.

I think we would do well to keep Robbo, Olssen twins, Hanley, Rochina, Formica, Lowe,
Dann, Yakubu, Goodwillie along with giving some of the reserve / youth team players a chance.

Others like Hoillet show no real passion for the club and should be let go for whatever we can get. The lack of commitment to the club by not signing a new contract says it all. How many years did we spend supporting and developing this guy? and may end up with hardly anything back if he goes to a European club.

Steve BB2 wrote:
There is an answer to this Mr Kean, refuse to sell the players that are under contract !

However, judging by the useless contracts that have been put together by him and the muppets, it is likely that most will have an easy exit clause for relegation or a get out clause if an offer comes in e.g. rumoured £6m for Dann. If we paid £7-8m for him why was a lesser sum put in his contract? Surely we should look at recouping our money at the very least !

There does need to be a clear out, my suggestions would be Miles Anderson and Bruno Riberio both of whom have just been a waste of wages and never seen, MGP who has gone from bad to worst in the last few months, Dunny (sorry, but time for him to go !) Orr and Nzonzi.

I think we would do well to keep Robbo, Olssen twins, Hanley, Rochina, Formica, Lowe,
Dann, Yakubu, Goodwillie along with giving some of the reserve / youth team players a chance.

Others like Hoillet show no real passion for the club and should be let go for whatever we can get. The lack of commitment to the club by not signing a new contract says it all. How many years did we spend supporting and developing this guy? and may end up with hardly anything back if he goes to a European club.

I can't really blame Hoilett for wanting to go. He has seen it all unfold before his eyes as we have done.
He knows the place is a shambles like the rest of us. I know I couldn't wait to get out if I was in his shoes.

French Rover wrote:
“We can only look forward,” he said.
When you look at the phrases/words that Kean says then it looks like he has read all the footie books in the world about relegation and taken quotes from them all:

“We can only look forward,”

“The only important game is the next one, not the last one.

“We will try to finish the season and build a squad that is really competitive in the Championship.

The man is a bullsh/ter in the extreme and everyone is seeing right through the man at last.

I just cant stand to see him, hear him or even read his words anymore.
If a tree fall in the forest and no-one is around, does it make a sound? So if we pretend he is not there - will he be gone..?

I was thinking this sentiment myself, totally spot on FR. The guy has not taken any responsibility for anything that has happened in the last 2 x seasons and seems to think that if he says some so called positive guru b*llsh*t about looking to the future all will be ok. The one statement that he keeps making is "We lost a lot of experience" but says it like he had no hand in any of it and it couldn't be helped.

The whole shambles is only going to get worse in the next few weeks, we will lose all of our remaining half decent players and a lot more. Of course those that Keanoccio bought will stay because they are only good enough for the level we are now at. According to the papers more money looks like being lost on the Phil Jones sale if United don't win the title, so that's 90% of the re-building budget gone and on top of that it's so frustrating that Keanoccio is adamant he is going nowhere. I cannot understand how he can say this unless he holds a lot of sway at the club. I only hope that it's more of his guru spin cr*p and the opposite of what he says continues to happen, and that he is out on his ear by next Sunday. Sadly if he ever gets sacked he will more than likely be a rich man on the back of it.

On a Positive note I have heard you can currently get REALLY good odds on us being relegated again next season, so it's not all bad

He is saying this so when the players DO leave, the blame will be put on their toes.

Eg....we desperatly tried to keep him but he wanted premier league football

We thought he would stay, however his head has been turned by agents.

What a total crock of sh1t, lots of players will leave although the club will insist that they did everything in their power to keep the....


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Get yer dosh out boys and girls

'“I was doing it myself. I was thinking a few weeks ago, ‘Who do we think is going to go down and who have they got who could do us?’ “I think that is just natural. '
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Did he really say that? I mean really? The guy is frighteningly ignorant, and all banter aside he astonishes me with his false positivity.
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Where's the acceptance of blame? Where's the humility?
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According to the Irish Independant newspaper rovers have only sold 1200 season tickets, corporate boxes selling at £15,000 last year being offered for next season @ £3,000 but still being turned down. Upto 40% of staff going to be made redundant and they are even talking of 1st team & academy players training together so they will be able to sell off the academy land for housing development. Another tale about Monday night apparently there was nothing wrong with Givet, no heart scare no hamstring just Givet pinning Kean up against the wall saying he didn't like the way Kean was making them play and refusing to come out in the second half (I wonder how true this is) dressing room all together. How can he say he is going to be here for the long term - unless he knows something that we all suspect but have no concrete evidence of.
Dread listening to the news to see what other stupid decisions Venky's are going to make or should I say what Kean is probably telling them to make.

Bazzer wrote:

Lancs - pensioner wrote:
Sounds familiar, We Won't sell Jones We Won't sell Samba We will keep our best players B@llshit Keans his name!!! Keep all the players you can Kean it's only the @rse lickers who will stop for some one like you the rest will go, here is my list of the one I think will go because they can't stand you, Robinson Both Olsons Givet Yakubu Onzozi Dann (thank God) Don't buy season tickets Don't by merchandise Don't give Venkys the only thing they want MONEY!!!!!

Support them only away and go in the home teams end. This should be great at Burnley.

Bazzer said: "Support them only away and go in the home teams end. This should be great at Burnley."

Not sure how much of a view you get from the hill but it would great to see on TV more people up there than in the Riverside. Oh I forgot, we won't be on TV.

The controversial owners of Blackburn Rovers, Venky's, the Indian poultry company, passed the Premier League's financial tests for club ownership easily, chief executive Richard Scudamore said yesterday. He argued that the league could not legislate for plain bad decision-making.

Scudamore conceded that in terms of their management of relegated Blackburn since November 2010, Venky's, run by co-owner Anuradha Desai, had "messed up". But he also said they had unfailingly provided the Premier League with the financial guarantees required from every club – a safeguard put in place after Portsmouth went into administration in 2010. Venky's have taken Blackburn into the Championship, the club having finished 10th the season before they were sold by the Jack Walker family trust. However, Venky's have fulfilled the future financial guarantees and passed the owners' and directors' test.

"I am not going to get dragged into criticising Venkys as people or as owners," Scudamore said. "They have behaved themselves as owners of clubs in terms of what we require of them."

Scudamore met the Desai family before their acquisition of the club to get from them the necessary guarantees of funding. He also points out that former chairman John Williams and former managing director Tom Finn, who sold the club to Venky's, are "no mugs" and went through their due diligence on the company from Pune, in western India.

The Premier League chief executive said that the Venky's approach from the start had been to cut costs and to try to run the club as close to break-even as possible, a not dissimilar strategy to that of Mike Ashley at Newcastle. "One has come off spectacularly well and the other, effectively the wheels have come off," he said. "How do I feel? I feel sorry for the fans at Blackburn because I feel sorry for any fans who are so disconnected from the people who are actually in control. I don't know any club where the fans agree with every decision the owners make but I have never seen a bigger disconnect from the start of the season in terms of what the fans wanted to happen and what was doing.

"I will defend the fact that our rules will only take us so far. They ask are they legal? Is there anything to stop them owning the club? Is there funding in place to keep the club alive? We never test whether they have got enough money to create Premier League champions.

"When they came along and said, 'This is the money we have got, this is our source of funds, this is where we are going to put the money and this is how much we are going to invest,' we all came away from that meeting knowing they weren't going to become champions but it's hard to say breaking even and not losing a lot of money is not a good plan."

All potential new owners have to demonstrate to the Premier League that they have a plan for the club staying in the league and one in the event of relegation, which would appear to give the lie to the suggestion that Venky's were not aware that clubs could be relegated. The Premier League is currently in a similar period of due diligence with the Russian Anton Zingarevich, who is in the process of buying newly-promoted Reading.

"Of course the decisions they have made and their strategy and their management clearly have conspired to relegate them but that has also been true of some very well-run football clubs," Scudamore said. "Wolverhampton Wanderers are an extremely well run football club. No debt. They have an extremely competent chief executive and chairman. The infrastructure is good. They got relegated. Jeremy Peace has run a fantastic football club at West Bromwich Albion and managed to get relegated twice."

Had a follow on thought. Let's make the next protest for the 1st home game an occupation of the hill during the game. No restrictions on banners. Unfortunately no Championship coverage in India.

He's quoted in today's DT:
.... Kean insists Blackburn are in a healthy state financially and that the Portsmouth scenario is not a possibility.

“I don’t think that has got any chance of that happening.” Kean said.

“Before Venky’s, the club was in a financial position where I don’t think it was the most stable. Now we’re in a very stable financial position, but what we’ve not got is a Premier League football club which I think is really disappointing.

“Obviously there will be cuts, but I think what we’ve go to do is make sure is that the money that we get from player sales is invested properly into the proper players.”

Kean = David Icke
the truth shall set you free you deluded fool

At least there's some coverage in India: http://timesofindia.
indiatimes.com/sport
s/football/epl/epl-n
ews/Is-Blackburn-Rov
ers-sale-on-the-card
s/articleshow/130729
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MirryMc wrote:
According to the Irish Independant newspaper rovers have only sold 1200 season tickets, corporate boxes selling at £15,000 last year being offered for next season @ £3,000 but still being turned down. Upto 40% of staff going to be made redundant and they are even talking of 1st team & academy players training together so they will be able to sell off the academy land for housing development. Another tale about Monday night apparently there was nothing wrong with Givet, no heart scare no hamstring just Givet pinning Kean up against the wall saying he didn't like the way Kean was making them play and refusing to come out in the second half (I wonder how true this is) dressing room all together. How can he say he is going to be here for the long term - unless he knows something that we all suspect but have no concrete evidence of.
Dread listening to the news to see what other stupid decisions Venky's are going to make or should I say what Kean is probably telling them to make.

My son watched the match from his home in Franch and said something went on in the dressing room at half time,just before the start of the second half Sky cameras suddenly went to the tunnel and Kean was seen trying to usher the Wigan players back to their dressing room,and next the Paramedics were called. More strange goings on,nothing mentioned of Givets absence for the second half.

MerlinTheVoiceofReas
on2 wrote:
He's quoted in today's DT: .... Kean insists Blackburn are in a healthy state financially and that the Portsmouth scenario is not a possibility. “I don’t think that has got any chance of that happening.” Kean said. “Before Venky’s, the club was in a financial position where I don’t think it was the most stable. Now we’re in a very stable financial position, but what we’ve not got is a Premier League football club which I think is really disappointing. “Obviously there will be cuts, but I think what we’ve go to do is make sure is that the money that we get from player sales is invested properly into the proper players.”

Each new attempt to deflect just makes him look a bigger idiot.

they used to be premiership mid table with a healthy squad and only £20m debts.

They have reduced their squad by replacing experience with andersons deadbeat recommendations. They have been relegated.There is no leadership at any level of the club, and whats the debt now ? still £20m but with a dodgier bank than Barclays.

Stable my arse !

Im really regretting renewing my season ticket now, I didn't really think about it but asumed that Kean would be gone if we were relegated.

It would be really nice if we could boycott the first match and if not, have people on the gates of ewood with placards pleading supporters to at least wait til half time to turn up, jus so that the first match of the season can be kean stood in an empty stadium.

MxMave wrote:
Im really regretting renewing my season ticket now, I didn't really think about it but asumed that Kean would be gone if we were relegated.

It would be really nice if we could boycott the first match and if not, have people on the gates of ewood with placards pleading supporters to at least wait til half time to turn up, jus so that the first match of the season can be kean stood in an empty stadium.

That's asking for old-fashioned, working-class solidarity and there's precious little of that around these days. People are too selfish and too stupid to think beyond their own little lives for that to happen.
Burnley fans might be able to pull something like that off, but not Rovers fans.

Think Andy Cryers as deluded as Steve Kean,'retain stars!! How many STARS does it take to get relegated?

The ONLY way to rid the club of the cancer is a TOTAL BOYCOTT of all things Rovers'! The resultant loss of revenue and adverse publicity should see the back of these pariahs once and for all?

eddio wrote:
The ONLY way to rid the club of the cancer is a TOTAL BOYCOTT of all things Rovers'! The resultant loss of revenue and adverse publicity should see the back of these pariahs once and for all?

Here,here fans have got to be together and follow it to the end it will be painful but kean will have to go and venkys in the end.the fans delayed a lot this season not showing enough bottle to stand up to kean and venkys by the time it was over the fans seemed to wake up which was to late by then.

did you smash it? wrote:
'“I was doing it myself. I was thinking a few weeks ago, ‘Who do we think is going to go down and who have they got who could do us?’ “I think that is just natural. '
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Did he really say that? I mean really? The guy is frighteningly ignorant, and all banter aside he astonishes me with his false positivity.
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Where's the acceptance of blame? Where's the humility?
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Absolutely true fella,unbelievable.

We couldn't keep hold of all our best players in The Premiership. Why are they going to want to say now?

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