Blackburn Rovers Blog: Samba’s sold out to Russian rouble

8:36am Tuesday 28th February 2012 in Dan Clough Photograph of the Author By Dan Clough, Reporter

CHRISTOPER Samba is a disgrace. That man has been a colossus for Rovers and should have left the club as a legend, with his head held high.

But after two months of whingeing, he has lost all respect from a large portion of the Ewood Park faithful.

I would wish him all the best, but it looks to me as though he is motivated purely by one thing – money.

Anzhi who? The Russian league? He clearly has high aspirations.

This man was on goodness knows how much money a week, money normal folk like me and you can only dream of earning in three years.

It is outrageous. A professional footballer saying he could not give his all for the club. If I said that at my newspaper, I’d be in my trouble.

Not only was he a professional footballer, but he was team captain.

What an example to set.

We have enough problems with the owners and the team needed the captain to stay strong.

Fair enough, Venky’s may not have fulfilled their promises to Samba and we may be heading up the Swanee, but I expect better.

“It’s not fair,” he says. Well, I’ll tell you what’s not fair, Chris. Watching the team you have supported all your life and spend bucket loads of cash following, only for the best players to jump ship when times are hard.

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As Rovers fans we are here through thick and thin, home and away, and we stand and chant your name.

You may have been a cracking player over the years, but in the past few months you have shown your true colours. All the best in Siberia.

n I will get slated for this, but isn’t Keith Andrews doing well?

The man booed constantly by his own fans, sometimes before even kicking a ball, has resurrected his career, and he is one man I do wish all the best.

I stuck up for Andrews when he was a Rovers player as he was never given a chance by a majority of fans, who shunned him from day one.

With our midfield looking weaker and weaker, surely he is a player we really could have utilised this season.

I’m sure he will take great delight in having the last laugh if, God forbid, we are relegated this season.

“He’s not a Premier League player”, is what people used to tell me all the time.

Well he’s doing a pretty good job of pretending now he’s found a club where he may be appreciated.

Comments (20)

8:45am Tue 28 Feb 12

ragodley1987 says...

Rant over? Time to move on. The club is in a mess, but there's no point blaming Samba. He's gone. We have to live with that. Many more are to follow. Unless some multi-billionaire decides we're worth being their toy things are not going to change. Nobody will buy the club before the end of the season if there is anyone keeping an eye on us because they want to know if we will be a Premiership club next season.
Rant over? Time to move on. The club is in a mess, but there's no point blaming Samba. He's gone. We have to live with that. Many more are to follow. Unless some multi-billionaire decides we're worth being their toy things are not going to change. Nobody will buy the club before the end of the season if there is anyone keeping an eye on us because they want to know if we will be a Premiership club next season. ragodley1987

8:59am Tue 28 Feb 12

burner says...

Mahachkala is one of the world's most dangerous cities with death and political corruption extremes as the norm. The man is a fool.
Mahachkala is one of the world's most dangerous cities with death and political corruption extremes as the norm. The man is a fool. burner

9:31am Tue 28 Feb 12

Blakewater 1 says...

Samba was great for Rovers - Venkys let down both Samba and all Rovers fans with their false promises. Do you actually know if Samba is being paid a higher wage? Look at it this way - Who would you prefer to work for - Guus Hiddink or Mr Bean? And remember, Rovers chose to sell him when they could have kissed and made up. Good luck to him.
Samba was great for Rovers - Venkys let down both Samba and all Rovers fans with their false promises. Do you actually know if Samba is being paid a higher wage? Look at it this way - Who would you prefer to work for - Guus Hiddink or Mr Bean? And remember, Rovers chose to sell him when they could have kissed and made up. Good luck to him. Blakewater 1

9:35am Tue 28 Feb 12

Billypieman says...

Under normal circumstances, Rovers fans would be united in their anger towards the actions of Samba. Our best player demanding to leave when the team is battling relegation, despite being under a long term, highly paid contract. The fact that the fans are split on this shows what terrible times we are living in. Many fans are sympathetic to Samba. He was undoubtedly lied to by the chicken lords and their deranged puppet. In my view, Samba has behaved badly but his childishness is but a symptom of the disease that is Venkys / Kean / Anderson.
Under normal circumstances, Rovers fans would be united in their anger towards the actions of Samba. Our best player demanding to leave when the team is battling relegation, despite being under a long term, highly paid contract. The fact that the fans are split on this shows what terrible times we are living in. Many fans are sympathetic to Samba. He was undoubtedly lied to by the chicken lords and their deranged puppet. In my view, Samba has behaved badly but his childishness is but a symptom of the disease that is Venkys / Kean / Anderson. Billypieman

9:46am Tue 28 Feb 12

Hovis1945 says...

These things happen in football but here in the 'real world' if we told our boss that we did not feel we could give 100% we would be given short shrift and end up on the dole!!
These things happen in football but here in the 'real world' if we told our boss that we did not feel we could give 100% we would be given short shrift and end up on the dole!! Hovis1945

9:48am Tue 28 Feb 12

yaseRooney says...

dan clough i strongly disagree with your post in the telegraph,slating samba is one thing but slating anzhi as a club-how many players joined man city for the money obver the last few years and now they are at the top of the league no body is mentioning theybve done it for the money..in a few years time when they are champions league regulars no one will batter an eyelid....when rovers were title chasers how many players actually joined rovers for the money and the fact they were title challengers....they same players would join man city and anzhi within the blink of an eye.....
dan clough i strongly disagree with your post in the telegraph,slating samba is one thing but slating anzhi as a club-how many players joined man city for the money obver the last few years and now they are at the top of the league no body is mentioning theybve done it for the money..in a few years time when they are champions league regulars no one will batter an eyelid....when rovers were title chasers how many players actually joined rovers for the money and the fact they were title challengers....they same players would join man city and anzhi within the blink of an eye..... yaseRooney

10:20am Tue 28 Feb 12

Bazzer says...

Billypieman wrote:
Under normal circumstances, Rovers fans would be united in their anger towards the actions of Samba. Our best player demanding to leave when the team is battling relegation, despite being under a long term, highly paid contract. The fact that the fans are split on this shows what terrible times we are living in. Many fans are sympathetic to Samba. He was undoubtedly lied to by the chicken lords and their deranged puppet. In my view, Samba has behaved badly but his childishness is but a symptom of the disease that is Venkys / Kean / Anderson.
Spot on. You reap what you sow. Samba's leaving, and Nelsen's for that matter, are the fruits of lying mismanagement.
[quote][p][bold]Billypieman[/bold] wrote: Under normal circumstances, Rovers fans would be united in their anger towards the actions of Samba. Our best player demanding to leave when the team is battling relegation, despite being under a long term, highly paid contract. The fact that the fans are split on this shows what terrible times we are living in. Many fans are sympathetic to Samba. He was undoubtedly lied to by the chicken lords and their deranged puppet. In my view, Samba has behaved badly but his childishness is but a symptom of the disease that is Venkys / Kean / Anderson.[/p][/quote]Spot on. You reap what you sow. Samba's leaving, and Nelsen's for that matter, are the fruits of lying mismanagement. Bazzer

10:51am Tue 28 Feb 12

Tuo Neak says...

yaseRooney wrote:
dan clough i strongly disagree with your post in the telegraph,slating samba is one thing but slating anzhi as a club-how many players joined man city for the money obver the last few years and now they are at the top of the league no body is mentioning theybve done it for the money..in a few years time when they are champions league regulars no one will batter an eyelid....when rovers were title chasers how many players actually joined rovers for the money and the fact they were title challengers....they same players would join man city and anzhi within the blink of an eye.....
I've got to agree with that, you can kind of see in the early 1990s some foreigner saying Blackburn..... Blackburn who? This club are spending money like crazy and have one of the best managers in the world. What do we have?

I like the crazy enthusiasm of these blogs and in a normal time for Blackburn Rovers people would be queueing up to agree with the sentiment. However in a normal time would Samba have been talked around by a good man-manager and Keith Andrews would have proved his worth to Blackburn on the field of play. If he scored important goals for us like he is doing for West Brom he would win fans like me over easily.

When you say booed constantly do you mean to the same level as the manager? Maybe Kean should stay away from Ewood if he believes that the atmosphere is key to survival rather than the players on the pitch...
[quote][p][bold]yaseRooney[/bold] wrote: dan clough i strongly disagree with your post in the telegraph,slating samba is one thing but slating anzhi as a club-how many players joined man city for the money obver the last few years and now they are at the top of the league no body is mentioning theybve done it for the money..in a few years time when they are champions league regulars no one will batter an eyelid....when rovers were title chasers how many players actually joined rovers for the money and the fact they were title challengers....they same players would join man city and anzhi within the blink of an eye.....[/p][/quote]I've got to agree with that, you can kind of see in the early 1990s some foreigner saying Blackburn..... Blackburn who? This club are spending money like crazy and have one of the best managers in the world. What do we have? I like the crazy enthusiasm of these blogs and in a normal time for Blackburn Rovers people would be queueing up to agree with the sentiment. However in a normal time would Samba have been talked around by a good man-manager and Keith Andrews would have proved his worth to Blackburn on the field of play. If he scored important goals for us like he is doing for West Brom he would win fans like me over easily. When you say booed constantly do you mean to the same level as the manager? Maybe Kean should stay away from Ewood if he believes that the atmosphere is key to survival rather than the players on the pitch... Tuo Neak

12:18pm Tue 28 Feb 12

mrconcept says...

Samba will be back in the Prem with Spurs/Gooners in no time. He's gone to russia cos thats what Harry Redknapp told him to do.
Samba will be back in the Prem with Spurs/Gooners in no time. He's gone to russia cos thats what Harry Redknapp told him to do. mrconcept

1:04pm Tue 28 Feb 12

danclough says...

yaseRooney wrote:
dan clough i strongly disagree with your post in the telegraph,slating samba is one thing but slating anzhi as a club-how many players joined man city for the money obver the last few years and now they are at the top of the league no body is mentioning theybve done it for the money..in a few years time when they are champions league regulars no one will batter an eyelid....when rovers were title chasers how many players actually joined rovers for the money and the fact they were title challengers....they same players would join man city and anzhi within the blink of an eye.....
I think there is a massive difference between going to the richest club in Russia and the richest club in England. The English league is one of the best in the world. The Russian is not. Win the Russian league every year and it will not be seen as a major achievement. Players going to City now, and Chelsea a few years ago, and Rovers in the early Walker years yes, they were going for the money. But they were also furthering their footballing careers, unlike going to Russia.
[quote][p][bold]yaseRooney[/bold] wrote: dan clough i strongly disagree with your post in the telegraph,slating samba is one thing but slating anzhi as a club-how many players joined man city for the money obver the last few years and now they are at the top of the league no body is mentioning theybve done it for the money..in a few years time when they are champions league regulars no one will batter an eyelid....when rovers were title chasers how many players actually joined rovers for the money and the fact they were title challengers....they same players would join man city and anzhi within the blink of an eye.....[/p][/quote]I think there is a massive difference between going to the richest club in Russia and the richest club in England. The English league is one of the best in the world. The Russian is not. Win the Russian league every year and it will not be seen as a major achievement. Players going to City now, and Chelsea a few years ago, and Rovers in the early Walker years yes, they were going for the money. But they were also furthering their footballing careers, unlike going to Russia. danclough

1:21pm Tue 28 Feb 12

yaseRooney says...

dan it still doesnt give you any right belittle russian football there is many billionaire owners in russia...maybe anzhi are setting a benchmark to make russian football more populer...and have you actually done any home work on russian football before having ago at and i quote "Anzhi who? The Russian league? He clearly has high aspirations"....and also for your infomation anzhi even with players that are there for the money and as you put it will runaway with the league every year are in 7th place 13 points behind leaders zenit st petersberg....looks like sour grapes bet you wish rovers had owners like anzhi....
dan it still doesnt give you any right belittle russian football there is many billionaire owners in russia...maybe anzhi are setting a benchmark to make russian football more populer...and have you actually done any home work on russian football before having ago at and i quote "Anzhi who? The Russian league? He clearly has high aspirations"....and also for your infomation anzhi even with players that are there for the money and as you put it will runaway with the league every year are in 7th place 13 points behind leaders zenit st petersberg....looks like sour grapes bet you wish rovers had owners like anzhi.... yaseRooney

1:30pm Tue 28 Feb 12

danclough says...

yaseRooney wrote:
dan it still doesnt give you any right belittle russian football there is many billionaire owners in russia...maybe anzhi are setting a benchmark to make russian football more populer...and have you actually done any home work on russian football before having ago at and i quote "Anzhi who? The Russian league? He clearly has high aspirations"....and also for your infomation anzhi even with players that are there for the money and as you put it will runaway with the league every year are in 7th place 13 points behind leaders zenit st petersberg....looks like sour grapes bet you wish rovers had owners like anzhi....
**** right I wish we had owners like Anzhi. And yes it is sour grapes! I think we are all entitled to that in these troubled times.
[quote][p][bold]yaseRooney[/bold] wrote: dan it still doesnt give you any right belittle russian football there is many billionaire owners in russia...maybe anzhi are setting a benchmark to make russian football more populer...and have you actually done any home work on russian football before having ago at and i quote "Anzhi who? The Russian league? He clearly has high aspirations"....and also for your infomation anzhi even with players that are there for the money and as you put it will runaway with the league every year are in 7th place 13 points behind leaders zenit st petersberg....looks like sour grapes bet you wish rovers had owners like anzhi....[/p][/quote]**** right I wish we had owners like Anzhi. And yes it is sour grapes! I think we are all entitled to that in these troubled times. danclough

1:51pm Tue 28 Feb 12

moodonthepitch says...

Let's take the high road here Dan and not bash Anzhi. There a small club with a big owner who are trying to establish themselves in the RPL. Chris went there because he wanted out of Rovers. Simple as that. He would have gone to any club that provided a sufficient bid to Venky's. If good wages are a by-product of that then so be it. They've just hired Guus Hiddink as well. Who would you rather play for?

I don't like the way he went about it, but obviously the wage increase last January was not enough to keep him happy. I'll be interested to see if living in Moscow, flying to Dagestan(among many other far away places) for games, and more than likely having to deal with racist chants will keep him in good spirits.
Let's take the high road here Dan and not bash Anzhi. There a small club with a big owner who are trying to establish themselves in the RPL. Chris went there because he wanted out of Rovers. Simple as that. He would have gone to any club that provided a sufficient bid to Venky's. If good wages are a by-product of that then so be it. They've just hired Guus Hiddink as well. Who would you rather play for? I don't like the way he went about it, but obviously the wage increase last January was not enough to keep him happy. I'll be interested to see if living in Moscow, flying to Dagestan(among many other far away places) for games, and more than likely having to deal with racist chants will keep him in good spirits. moodonthepitch

3:20pm Tue 28 Feb 12

MxMave says...

Keith Andrews....

He was **** for Rovers. Get over it. Hes still ****, his form will last a few games.

We boo'd him BECAUSE HE WASNT GOOD ENOUGH FOR US. HIS PERFORMANCES WERE DIRE.
Keith Andrews.... He was **** for Rovers. Get over it. Hes still ****, his form will last a few games. We boo'd him BECAUSE HE WASNT GOOD ENOUGH FOR US. HIS PERFORMANCES WERE DIRE. MxMave

3:56pm Tue 28 Feb 12

yaseRooney says...

danclough wrote:
yaseRooney wrote: dan it still doesnt give you any right belittle russian football there is many billionaire owners in russia...maybe anzhi are setting a benchmark to make russian football more populer...and have you actually done any home work on russian football before having ago at and i quote "Anzhi who? The Russian league? He clearly has high aspirations"....and also for your infomation anzhi even with players that are there for the money and as you put it will runaway with the league every year are in 7th place 13 points behind leaders zenit st petersberg....looks like sour grapes bet you wish rovers had owners like anzhi....
**** right I wish we had owners like Anzhi. And yes it is sour grapes! I think we are all entitled to that in these troubled times.
i aint a rovers fan but after the seasin youve had thus far knowing they owners will not budge-instead of feeling sorry for urselves- why dont fans,ex players blog writers get behind the team and ensure u do ur part in keeping rovers in the division cus believe it or not rovers still have a chance....and blogs cud be better used in suporting the maneger yes thats right steve kean and the current players who do want to stay at rovers.....
[quote][p][bold]danclough[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]yaseRooney[/bold] wrote: dan it still doesnt give you any right belittle russian football there is many billionaire owners in russia...maybe anzhi are setting a benchmark to make russian football more populer...and have you actually done any home work on russian football before having ago at and i quote "Anzhi who? The Russian league? He clearly has high aspirations"....and also for your infomation anzhi even with players that are there for the money and as you put it will runaway with the league every year are in 7th place 13 points behind leaders zenit st petersberg....looks like sour grapes bet you wish rovers had owners like anzhi....[/p][/quote]**** right I wish we had owners like Anzhi. And yes it is sour grapes! I think we are all entitled to that in these troubled times.[/p][/quote]i aint a rovers fan but after the seasin youve had thus far knowing they owners will not budge-instead of feeling sorry for urselves- why dont fans,ex players blog writers get behind the team and ensure u do ur part in keeping rovers in the division cus believe it or not rovers still have a chance....and blogs cud be better used in suporting the maneger yes thats right steve kean and the current players who do want to stay at rovers..... yaseRooney

5:12pm Tue 28 Feb 12

Dukes says...

good blog By Dan the man LOL
good blog By Dan the man LOL Dukes

7:58pm Tue 28 Feb 12

boyofdarovers says...

yaseRooney wrote:
danclough wrote:
yaseRooney wrote: dan it still doesnt give you any right belittle russian football there is many billionaire owners in russia...maybe anzhi are setting a benchmark to make russian football more populer...and have you actually done any home work on russian football before having ago at and i quote "Anzhi who? The Russian league? He clearly has high aspirations"....and also for your infomation anzhi even with players that are there for the money and as you put it will runaway with the league every year are in 7th place 13 points behind leaders zenit st petersberg....looks like sour grapes bet you wish rovers had owners like anzhi....
**** right I wish we had owners like Anzhi. And yes it is sour grapes! I think we are all entitled to that in these troubled times.
i aint a rovers fan but after the seasin youve had thus far knowing they owners will not budge-instead of feeling sorry for urselves- why dont fans,ex players blog writers get behind the team and ensure u do ur part in keeping rovers in the division cus believe it or not rovers still have a chance....and blogs cud be better used in suporting the maneger yes thats right steve kean and the current players who do want to stay at rovers.....
V FAIR POINT. Kean might be a tool but he's doing OK with what he's got. It's the owners who are the cause of this. If they knew what they were doing Kean would never have been appointed, let alone still here. So everyone should get off Kean's back. Owners out..Kean out once we get some new owners!!
[quote][p][bold]yaseRooney[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]danclough[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]yaseRooney[/bold] wrote: dan it still doesnt give you any right belittle russian football there is many billionaire owners in russia...maybe anzhi are setting a benchmark to make russian football more populer...and have you actually done any home work on russian football before having ago at and i quote "Anzhi who? The Russian league? He clearly has high aspirations"....and also for your infomation anzhi even with players that are there for the money and as you put it will runaway with the league every year are in 7th place 13 points behind leaders zenit st petersberg....looks like sour grapes bet you wish rovers had owners like anzhi....[/p][/quote]**** right I wish we had owners like Anzhi. And yes it is sour grapes! I think we are all entitled to that in these troubled times.[/p][/quote]i aint a rovers fan but after the seasin youve had thus far knowing they owners will not budge-instead of feeling sorry for urselves- why dont fans,ex players blog writers get behind the team and ensure u do ur part in keeping rovers in the division cus believe it or not rovers still have a chance....and blogs cud be better used in suporting the maneger yes thats right steve kean and the current players who do want to stay at rovers.....[/p][/quote]V FAIR POINT. Kean might be a tool but he's doing OK with what he's got. It's the owners who are the cause of this. If they knew what they were doing Kean would never have been appointed, let alone still here. So everyone should get off Kean's back. Owners out..Kean out once we get some new owners!! boyofdarovers

11:48pm Tue 28 Feb 12

Billypieman says...

yaseRooney wrote:
danclough wrote:
yaseRooney wrote: dan it still doesnt give you any right belittle russian football there is many billionaire owners in russia...maybe anzhi are setting a benchmark to make russian football more populer...and have you actually done any home work on russian football before having ago at and i quote "Anzhi who? The Russian league? He clearly has high aspirations"....and also for your infomation anzhi even with players that are there for the money and as you put it will runaway with the league every year are in 7th place 13 points behind leaders zenit st petersberg....looks like sour grapes bet you wish rovers had owners like anzhi....
**** right I wish we had owners like Anzhi. And yes it is sour grapes! I think we are all entitled to that in these troubled times.
i aint a rovers fan but after the seasin youve had thus far knowing they owners will not budge-instead of feeling sorry for urselves- why dont fans,ex players blog writers get behind the team and ensure u do ur part in keeping rovers in the division cus believe it or not rovers still have a chance....and blogs cud be better used in suporting the maneger yes thats right steve kean and the current players who do want to stay at rovers.....
Not sure what is worse, your logic or your spelling.
[quote][p][bold]yaseRooney[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]danclough[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]yaseRooney[/bold] wrote: dan it still doesnt give you any right belittle russian football there is many billionaire owners in russia...maybe anzhi are setting a benchmark to make russian football more populer...and have you actually done any home work on russian football before having ago at and i quote "Anzhi who? The Russian league? He clearly has high aspirations"....and also for your infomation anzhi even with players that are there for the money and as you put it will runaway with the league every year are in 7th place 13 points behind leaders zenit st petersberg....looks like sour grapes bet you wish rovers had owners like anzhi....[/p][/quote]**** right I wish we had owners like Anzhi. And yes it is sour grapes! I think we are all entitled to that in these troubled times.[/p][/quote]i aint a rovers fan but after the seasin youve had thus far knowing they owners will not budge-instead of feeling sorry for urselves- why dont fans,ex players blog writers get behind the team and ensure u do ur part in keeping rovers in the division cus believe it or not rovers still have a chance....and blogs cud be better used in suporting the maneger yes thats right steve kean and the current players who do want to stay at rovers.....[/p][/quote]Not sure what is worse, your logic or your spelling. Billypieman

10:14am Wed 29 Feb 12

yaseRooney says...

Billypieman wrote:
yaseRooney wrote:
danclough wrote:
yaseRooney wrote: dan it still doesnt give you any right belittle russian football there is many billionaire owners in russia...maybe anzhi are setting a benchmark to make russian football more populer...and have you actually done any home work on russian football before having ago at and i quote "Anzhi who? The Russian league? He clearly has high aspirations"....and also for your infomation anzhi even with players that are there for the money and as you put it will runaway with the league every year are in 7th place 13 points behind leaders zenit st petersberg....looks like sour grapes bet you wish rovers had owners like anzhi....
**** right I wish we had owners like Anzhi. And yes it is sour grapes! I think we are all entitled to that in these troubled times.
i aint a rovers fan but after the seasin youve had thus far knowing they owners will not budge-instead of feeling sorry for urselves- why dont fans,ex players blog writers get behind the team and ensure u do ur part in keeping rovers in the division cus believe it or not rovers still have a chance....and blogs cud be better used in suporting the maneger yes thats right steve kean and the current players who do want to stay at rovers.....
Not sure what is worse, your logic or your spelling.
im sorry sir about my spelling,but whilst typing fast sometimes people mistype but im still sure i deserve an A*....and my logic is simple instead crying and belittling players/manegers,why dont you get behind the team for an imporant part of the season.....explain why this is "worse"?????????????
?
[quote][p][bold]Billypieman[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]yaseRooney[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]danclough[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]yaseRooney[/bold] wrote: dan it still doesnt give you any right belittle russian football there is many billionaire owners in russia...maybe anzhi are setting a benchmark to make russian football more populer...and have you actually done any home work on russian football before having ago at and i quote "Anzhi who? The Russian league? He clearly has high aspirations"....and also for your infomation anzhi even with players that are there for the money and as you put it will runaway with the league every year are in 7th place 13 points behind leaders zenit st petersberg....looks like sour grapes bet you wish rovers had owners like anzhi....[/p][/quote]**** right I wish we had owners like Anzhi. And yes it is sour grapes! I think we are all entitled to that in these troubled times.[/p][/quote]i aint a rovers fan but after the seasin youve had thus far knowing they owners will not budge-instead of feeling sorry for urselves- why dont fans,ex players blog writers get behind the team and ensure u do ur part in keeping rovers in the division cus believe it or not rovers still have a chance....and blogs cud be better used in suporting the maneger yes thats right steve kean and the current players who do want to stay at rovers.....[/p][/quote]Not sure what is worse, your logic or your spelling.[/p][/quote]im sorry sir about my spelling,but whilst typing fast sometimes people mistype but im still sure i deserve an A*....and my logic is simple instead crying and belittling players/manegers,why dont you get behind the team for an imporant part of the season.....explain why this is "worse"????????????? ? yaseRooney

3:05pm Wed 29 Feb 12

riversidefan says...

It's a shame that the blog doesn't mention that Samba was 'fit and available' to play against Arsenal but Venky's/Kean chose not to select him. This public snub made a bad situation far worse. Luckily as it turns out, Samba wasn't needed in that match as we didn't bother with a defence.

As for Samba lacking aspirations, play with Myles Anderson and be 'managed' by Kean or go to Russia and play with world class players and work, as he as mentioned, with a world class manager? Tough choice!

It's quite clear Samba just wanted to get away from the Venky's/Kean lie machine. QPR wouldn't have paid him much more than us, so to state he is simply motivated by money is wrong.

As for whingeing about watching our 'best players to jump ship when times are hard' may I remind you that both Alan Shearer and Colin Henry both left when we badly needed them. The latter's exit played a bit part in our eventual relegation.

So Samba's a disgrace but Andrews isn't, yet Andrews has said he refused to play from us after coming back from Ipswich. Both Andrews and Samba gave the same reason for not wanting to stay, they had been lied to!

Samba's statement that he couldn't guarantee to give 100% was plainly wrong, but he will have a better idea what is going on at Rovers than us. He'll have seen fit players not selected in order to save money only to hear the 'manager/puppet' lie to fans that they are injured.

Strange that the Venky's/Kean getting rid of Nelsen, who was equally as important as Samba, doesn't warrant any condemnation.

I 100% agree with you Dan that the booing of Andrews was a disgrace, both Big Sam and Kean should have stamped it out immediately. A tannoy announcement to the effect that it was hurting the team would have been enough.
It's a shame that the blog doesn't mention that Samba was 'fit and available' to play against Arsenal but Venky's/Kean chose not to select him. This public snub made a bad situation far worse. Luckily as it turns out, Samba wasn't needed in that match as we didn't bother with a defence. As for Samba lacking aspirations, play with Myles Anderson and be 'managed' by Kean or go to Russia and play with world class players and work, as he as mentioned, with a world class manager? Tough choice! It's quite clear Samba just wanted to get away from the Venky's/Kean lie machine. QPR wouldn't have paid him much more than us, so to state he is simply motivated by money is wrong. As for whingeing about watching our 'best players to jump ship when times are hard' may I remind you that both Alan Shearer and Colin Henry both left when we badly needed them. The latter's exit played a bit part in our eventual relegation. So Samba's a disgrace but Andrews isn't, yet Andrews has said he refused to play from us after coming back from Ipswich. Both Andrews and Samba gave the same reason for not wanting to stay, they had been lied to! Samba's statement that he couldn't guarantee to give 100% was plainly wrong, but he will have a better idea what is going on at Rovers than us. He'll have seen fit players not selected in order to save money only to hear the 'manager/puppet' lie to fans that they are injured. Strange that the Venky's/Kean getting rid of Nelsen, who was equally as important as Samba, doesn't warrant any condemnation. I 100% agree with you Dan that the booing of Andrews was a disgrace, both Big Sam and Kean should have stamped it out immediately. A tannoy announcement to the effect that it was hurting the team would have been enough. riversidefan

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