Blackburn Rovers blog: Steve Kean imports not up to job in hand (From Lancashire Telegraph)

You're about three months too late with this critique Mr. Cryer. When are you actually going to say that Kean has been the worst managerial failure to ever have been inflicted on the club?

OnePostThenTheOther wrote:
You're about three months too late with this critique Mr. Cryer. When are you actually going to say that Kean has been the worst managerial failure to ever have been inflicted on the club?

It's one thing to have an opinion, but if you want it to end up on the back page rather than in a courtroom you need evidence to back it up.

Keanout has had three months, with his own players in his own season, to prove everybody's opinions wrong. He has failed miserably and week in, week out provides more evidence to back up the criticism.

That is why now, Cryer, and more and more, the nationals, are reporting the criticism as strongly as we've seen over the last couple of weeks; not just poor performances, or dropped points, but from the relentless crap Keanout comes out with nearly every day, the lack of crap (or anything) coming out of India and now sponsors, councils and more speaking out about this ridiculous situation.

Disgraceful way to run a football club in all aspects from selection of staff right through to the players themselves.

SHAME ON YOU VENKY'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!

So the question remains, based on three months of evidence, about why the Telegraph have failed yet again to put Kean's abject failure into context and to compare it with other evidence gleaned about Premiership perfomance both within and outside the club.

It is not illegal to express an opinion. As much as Wenkys might like it to be with their banning of demonstrations and police surveillance, this is not Stalinist Russia, China or North Korea.

These have to be the worst buys ever. It seems a long time since we were going in for shearer & the likes of Roy keane. How did we fall this far?

Good article Andy. You did miss out the left back we signed in Myles Anderson....of course the other argument is it's the manager not the players! I would love to see a breakdown of those agent fees and see which dodgy transfers incurred the most fees. Am guessing a brazilian right back would be high on the list!

One of the flat-Earthers tried to argue that we actually had a stronger squad under Kean the other week...

If it wasn't such a serious situation, it would be hilarious how wrong some people have been with their judgements of our team this year.

I think Cryer has this spot on.

We can certainly provide a premiership quality first 11 with our squad - however, as we all know, the team isn't being managed properly formation/tactics/pl
ayer choice wise.

The manager needs to go ASAP, that's a given.

Dunn, Salgado, Grella, Goodwillie, Barn Door Roberts need to leave.

2 fullbacks, a box-to-box midfielder and a defensive midfielder are required. and possibly another striker.

I believe that's what is necessary to keep us up at this stage.

Unfortunately, I'm dreaming and the only players leaving this January will be our best and most valuable, as thats what the Indians are here for.

Petrovic ?

We call him the 'GHOST'

The two games(cup games) that he has put an appearance in, the guy just does not exist !

This disgusting vile yellowed bellied manager, that is most certainly isolating(of worth to the team) all senior players, must go asap.

All credit to Andy Cryer who is turning up the heat as we go along with this disaster unfolding before us.

Robbis Savage as weighed in with his article today in the 'SUN' today.

We are most certainly up the creek without a paddle.

Tomorrow's game, I surmise will be like a wake !

Walker Trust, hang your head's in shame.

2 fullbacks, a box-to-box midfielder and a defensive midfielder are required. and possibly another striker.

Rovers will do well to get what you are asking here. If the transfer fees for Holliet and Samba more than meet the cost Rovers might get players good enough for the championship next season.

Cryer - if you say his signings to date haven't been good enough then where is your logic in saying he needs more funds in January? Should he be able to waste this as well or should someone else be given the chance to save the team?

I feel some of his signings have been ok, others seem way off the standard. The problem is he isn't able to get his tactics correct, in some respects it might not matter what players he gets. The best managers get the best out of the players they have got by giving them motivation, leadership and setting them up as a team correctly. Kean can't do this. If I had a Ferrari and Lewis Hamilton had a focus st he would still beat me around a track, there are better managers out there who can get more out of these players.

well why dont you help us,and expose this failure for what he realy is.we,the true blue and whites need a real manager.if i see him tommorow! !

I wouldn't trust Kean with a transfer budget as some of his signings are clearly not up to it . Save your money Venky's and give it to the new manager when you finally accept this manager is no good. Kean made a major **** up when he didn't sign Jermaine Jones so what if he cost £10 million the guy was quality and made a massive contribution .Venky's hurry up time is running out Hughes and Bowen please in my christmas stocking please

I wouldn't trust Kean with a transfer budget as some of his signings are clearly not up to it . Save your money Venky's and give it to the new manager when you finally accept this manager is no good. Kean made a major **** up when he didn't sign Jermaine Jones so what if he cost £10 million the guy was quality and made a massive contribution .Venky's hurry up time is running out Hughes and Bowen please in my christmas stocking please

Kean just go you usles lump of ****

Mr. Cryer, you're just tiptoeing around the problem. After what you have written, why at the end of it are you only left wondering? The conclusion is quite obvious to everyone else. Have the b@lls to say it. The manager needs to be replaced. He's not up to it. You're going to have to be more assertive if your career is going to progress beyond this local rag. Are the editors gaging you?

Yes Andy, I am sure you are right about most of the new players. But lets put the fault were it should lie.
Kean has spent the money so it is just another example of his being totally out of his comfort zone.
He has been out of the fans comfort zone since day one.


KEAN OUT

GIVE HIM HELL ON SATURDAY

Well said Mr cryer,its just what most fans have been saying all season,this manager is clueless,now they talking about targets in January! It beggars belief,get him out of our club NOW.
KEAN OUT/Venkys out

Never mind about January we might not be in bloody existence,just concentrate on yourself, ie packing your bags and **** off

Arthur Labore wrote:
Well said Mr cryer,its just what most fans have been saying all season,this manager is clueless,now they talking about targets in January! It beggars belief,get him out of our club NOW.
KEAN OUT/Venkys out

Don't forget, Kean did not know some of the players who were bought.

In an earlier comment “Sherwoodforest” said:
Anderson’s a slick operator, there is no way he would of left any sort of trail, its gonna be difficult to nail him. I bet he didnt envisage being sussed.We just need some evidence and it aint gonna be easy, cos hes a crafty so and so.
What I cant understand is why? He has built a impressive sports and media empire, why put that in danger to own a club?
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It certainly seems to me he is RUNNING the club.
As their adviser he had a plan – for himself. He quickly talked Venky’s into getting rid of Allardyce and John Williams, manoeuvred Kean in as manager and left JW’s seat empty. All was now in place to control transfers and agents’ fees.

He’s probably manipulated Venky’s into giving Kean a new contract to ‘quieten’ the fans’ protests. Hence Venky’s saying they will not come back until the protests have died down.

The disclosure of agents’ fees gives us a pretty good idea of what is going on and what we need now is a breakdown of those fees and information on who else was involved. But no doubt Anderson will have covered his tracks there, too.

Now Glen Mullan discloses that all the accounts have been moved to India. If that is true, why? So that no-one at Ewood has access to them?

You say he is not around Ewood anymore, Steve. He doesn’t have to be at Ewood to run the show. He can do it with occasional visits to India. He probably doesn’t have to do much of that, either, with his henchman Kean making regular trips to Pune. Venky’s don’t have a clue, so he has complete control over transfer dealings and is free to get on with syphoning money out of the club.

How has it gone so spectacularly wrong for the club so quickly? Anderson and Kean thought the squad they took over would keep them in a healthy position in the Premier League, so they bought players for the future, expecting to develop them and sell them on for bigger money and therefore more and bigger agents’ fees. Whoops….

What now? The club has to get a new manager NOW, like Mark Hughes, who knows the club and the players and would get them playing successfully, and a ‘John Williams’ with total authority and control at this end – and fire off Anderson immediately.

Alas, that won’t happen because Venky’s don’t have a clue. Where are the Premier League/FA authorities?

"Kean clearly wasn’t backed with sufficient funds in the summer. He needs Venky’s to deliver the goods in January. "

No he doesn't ... he needs to man up, f*ck off and take his g*pta mates with him, w*nker.

Mr. Cryer, you should have left the word "imports" out of your title ...

A good 70% of rovers fans could see Kean had to go around the 4th game of the season.

Reporters don't care about the security of rovers, they'd rather slag the fans off for protesting then do a U-turn a few weeks later when they realise they were wrong.

Agree with MxMave.

Why no poll from the LET when the manager was spouting all that about a 1% minority ?

I emailed Andy Cryer back then, but got no response, bit like writing to the club at the moment

There should have been such a stink generated about signing Myles Andersen too in my opinion.

saint.george says...
1:36pm Fri 2 Dec 11

Mr. Cryer, you should have left the word "imports" out of your title ...

They certainly were not exports, Jones was an export was he not.

I would love someone to explain about Vucevic and why he has not started since Leyton Orient game when he put himself about quite well and could have been sent off but he did look useful. Goodwillie has not been given a chance in fairnee playing along side Yakuba. You cant judge a player stuck out of position on the wing without any service at all. Lose or drawer Sat and Kean must definitely go even thogh it will probably be too late.

Ronaldpetercooper wrote:
I would love someone to explain about Vucevic and why he has not started since Leyton Orient game when he put himself about quite well and could have been sent off but he did look useful. Goodwillie has not been given a chance in fairnee playing along side Yakuba. You cant judge a player stuck out of position on the wing without any service at all. Lose or drawer Sat and Kean must definitely go even thogh it will probably be too late.

Yeah I've seen him a few times he is a cracking player in Portugal he was top class

According to the teletext on BBC the latest statement said. Asked if the Venky,s Group remained supportive,Kean said yes one hundred percent Kean added "they are fantastically behind everything we are trying to do,words fail me

roverfor60years wrote:
In an earlier comment “Sherwoodforest” said:
Anderson’s a slick operator, there is no way he would of left any sort of trail, its gonna be difficult to nail him. I bet he didnt envisage being sussed.We just need some evidence and it aint gonna be easy, cos hes a crafty so and so.
What I cant understand is why? He has built a impressive sports and media empire, why put that in danger to own a club?
---------------
It certainly seems to me he is RUNNING the club.
As their adviser he had a plan – for himself. He quickly talked Venky’s into getting rid of Allardyce and John Williams, manoeuvred Kean in as manager and left JW’s seat empty. All was now in place to control transfers and agents’ fees.

He’s probably manipulated Venky’s into giving Kean a new contract to ‘quieten’ the fans’ protests. Hence Venky’s saying they will not come back until the protests have died down.

The disclosure of agents’ fees gives us a pretty good idea of what is going on and what we need now is a breakdown of those fees and information on who else was involved. But no doubt Anderson will have covered his tracks there, too.

Now Glen Mullan discloses that all the accounts have been moved to India. If that is true, why? So that no-one at Ewood has access to them?

You say he is not around Ewood anymore, Steve. He doesn’t have to be at Ewood to run the show. He can do it with occasional visits to India. He probably doesn’t have to do much of that, either, with his henchman Kean making regular trips to Pune. Venky’s don’t have a clue, so he has complete control over transfer dealings and is free to get on with syphoning money out of the club.

How has it gone so spectacularly wrong for the club so quickly? Anderson and Kean thought the squad they took over would keep them in a healthy position in the Premier League, so they bought players for the future, expecting to develop them and sell them on for bigger money and therefore more and bigger agents’ fees. Whoops….

What now? The club has to get a new manager NOW, like Mark Hughes, who knows the club and the players and would get them playing successfully, and a ‘John Williams’ with total authority and control at this end – and fire off Anderson immediately.

Alas, that won’t happen because Venky’s don’t have a clue. Where are the Premier League/FA authorities?

They are the same place they were when they stood by and watched Pompey implode, burying their heads in the sand!

Im afraid Andy does not believe Anderson has any influence over Rovers, but based on the evidence Myles Anderson, no CEO, no secretary, massive agents fees in relation to transfer fees, Kean being his client and buddy, im afraid i beg to differ.

Someone somewhere must have some evidence.

roverfor60years wrote:
In an earlier comment “Sherwoodforest” said:
Anderson’s a slick operator, there is no way he would of left any sort of trail, its gonna be difficult to nail him. I bet he didnt envisage being sussed.We just need some evidence and it aint gonna be easy, cos hes a crafty so and so.
What I cant understand is why? He has built a impressive sports and media empire, why put that in danger to own a club?
---------------
It certainly seems to me he is RUNNING the club.
As their adviser he had a plan – for himself. He quickly talked Venky’s into getting rid of Allardyce and John Williams, manoeuvred Kean in as manager and left JW’s seat empty. All was now in place to control transfers and agents’ fees.

He’s probably manipulated Venky’s into giving Kean a new contract to ‘quieten’ the fans’ protests. Hence Venky’s saying they will not come back until the protests have died down.

The disclosure of agents’ fees gives us a pretty good idea of what is going on and what we need now is a breakdown of those fees and information on who else was involved. But no doubt Anderson will have covered his tracks there, too.

Now Glen Mullan discloses that all the accounts have been moved to India. If that is true, why? So that no-one at Ewood has access to them?

You say he is not around Ewood anymore, Steve. He doesn’t have to be at Ewood to run the show. He can do it with occasional visits to India. He probably doesn’t have to do much of that, either, with his henchman Kean making regular trips to Pune. Venky’s don’t have a clue, so he has complete control over transfer dealings and is free to get on with syphoning money out of the club.

How has it gone so spectacularly wrong for the club so quickly? Anderson and Kean thought the squad they took over would keep them in a healthy position in the Premier League, so they bought players for the future, expecting to develop them and sell them on for bigger money and therefore more and bigger agents’ fees. Whoops….

What now? The club has to get a new manager NOW, like Mark Hughes, who knows the club and the players and would get them playing successfully, and a ‘John Williams’ with total authority and control at this end – and fire off Anderson immediately.

Alas, that won’t happen because Venky’s don’t have a clue. Where are the Premier League/FA authorities?

Certainly a credible view, but one, should it have an iota of truth spells disaster.

Is it inconceivable that the bodies running our game know nothing of this or are doing a form of checking & turning up with nothing untoward ?

Or do they really not give a good F@ck in the bigger scheme of things ?

Had the results gone for Kean, which looking at it retrospectively, were never going to happen, all this would not be banging around.

I don't believe for a moment Kean wishes to fail but, his greedy eye's have tarnished his view & is slowly unravelling.

His record of records speak for itself !

Get the weasel out.

Shear_Brilliance wrote:

Ronaldpetercooper wrote: I would love someone to explain about Vucevic and why he has not started since Leyton Orient game when he put himself about quite well and could have been sent off but he did look useful. Goodwillie has not been given a chance in fairnee playing along side Yakuba. You cant judge a player stuck out of position on the wing without any service at all. Lose or drawer Sat and Kean must definitely go even thogh it will probably be too late.

Yeah I've seen him a few times he is a cracking player in Portugal he was top class

Was saying today,the best most balanced performance for ages was against Tottenham when Vukcevic played on the right in front of Lowe.
He hasn't played there since.

Road Runner Road Runner wrote:

roverfor60years wrote:
In an earlier comment “Sherwoodforest” said:
Anderson’s a slick operator, there is no way he would of left any sort of trail, its gonna be difficult to nail him. I bet he didnt envisage being sussed.We just need some evidence and it aint gonna be easy, cos hes a crafty so and so.
What I cant understand is why? He has built a impressive sports and media empire, why put that in danger to own a club?
---------------
It certainly seems to me he is RUNNING the club.
As their adviser he had a plan – for himself. He quickly talked Venky’s into getting rid of Allardyce and John Williams, manoeuvred Kean in as manager and left JW’s seat empty. All was now in place to control transfers and agents’ fees.

He’s probably manipulated Venky’s into giving Kean a new contract to ‘quieten’ the fans’ protests. Hence Venky’s saying they will not come back until the protests have died down.

The disclosure of agents’ fees gives us a pretty good idea of what is going on and what we need now is a breakdown of those fees and information on who else was involved. But no doubt Anderson will have covered his tracks there, too.

Now Glen Mullan discloses that all the accounts have been moved to India. If that is true, why? So that no-one at Ewood has access to them?

You say he is not around Ewood anymore, Steve. He doesn’t have to be at Ewood to run the show. He can do it with occasional visits to India. He probably doesn’t have to do much of that, either, with his henchman Kean making regular trips to Pune. Venky’s don’t have a clue, so he has complete control over transfer dealings and is free to get on with syphoning money out of the club.

How has it gone so spectacularly wrong for the club so quickly? Anderson and Kean thought the squad they took over would keep them in a healthy position in the Premier League, so they bought players for the future, expecting to develop them and sell them on for bigger money and therefore more and bigger agents’ fees. Whoops….

What now? The club has to get a new manager NOW, like Mark Hughes, who knows the club and the players and would get them playing successfully, and a ‘John Williams’ with total authority and control at this end – and fire off Anderson immediately.

Alas, that won’t happen because Venky’s don’t have a clue. Where are the Premier League/FA authorities?

Certainly a credible view, but one, should it have an iota of truth spells disaster.

Is it inconceivable that the bodies running our game know nothing of this or are doing a form of checking & turning up with nothing untoward ?

Or do they really not give a good F@ck in the bigger scheme of things ?

Had the results gone for Kean, which looking at it retrospectively, were never going to happen, all this would not be banging around.

I don't believe for a moment Kean wishes to fail but, his greedy eye's have tarnished his view & is slowly unravelling.

His record of records speak for itself !

Get the weasel out.

We ARE heading for disaster. Why do you think Venkys are not answering questions or requests for information? They CAN'T. We are a runaway train hurtling towards the buffers.