Rovers close to fifth Portuguese signing after Etuhu joins up in Holland (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Should help our defensive problems.

At this rate we'll have to change our name to Lisbon Rovers

Kean already has a villa in Portugal sorted out now. I guess the Rosado signing will give him a little more spending money.
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Onto serious matters though, and that is namely, how many of these new Portugese players will actually feature in the first team other than Nuno Gomes?
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70% of a teams success is the manager anyway. So even though the squad has improved compared to the one that started last season. Kean is still there.
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Karl Pilkington OUT
Steve Kean is not a football manager.
You are aving a larf

Etuhu is a player you've admired for ages, is he Kean?

Is this why the signing was suggested and intigated completely by Murphy?

Kean in 'lies' shocker...

Wish kean would realise we dont need any more young players for the future! We need players of high quality to get us back into the epl. So far murphy, gomes, etuhu and nunes will be in and around the first team! The rest are a waste of resource! Venkys are definately opening branches in portugal! Hurry up! Get rhodes in and some DEFENDERS!

We need to focus now on our defence. Last season midfield was a shambles but we seem to have overcompensated. Get Rhodes plus one and attack is sorted, Best and Rhodes would be some combination. Why oh why didn't we see this investment in January?

Kean out

Yes it seems obvious to all and sundry Kean thinks if they are Portugese they must be brilliant.Why buy 5 Portuges no French.Belgiuns,Ital
ians,Swiss,Dutch etc etc the only reason why is that Kean can speak Portugese.
Why does Shebby go along with this fiasco?How do we get rid of 5 players when Kean is fired?

ok .... has Anderson opened a Portugese branch or something;
I'll bet a years mortgage that he has his greedy little mits in this.

how many Portugese players have made an impact in the Championship.
I can only think of one who has made any real impact on English Football... and he was a bit of an exception to the rule.

Time will tell.... but I seem to remember the same flannel when the south american lads turned up.... and!

jackmetickler wrote:
ok .... has Anderson opened a Portugese branch or something;
I'll bet a years mortgage that he has his greedy little mits in this.

how many Portugese players have made an impact in the Championship.
I can only think of one who has made any real impact on English Football... and he was a bit of an exception to the rule.

Time will tell.... but I seem to remember the same flannel when the south american lads turned up.... and!

They're cheap to bring in. Portugal's going bust. They can get them for virtually nothing and pay them peanuts.. Sound familiar ? Typical Venkey strategy.

Why don't they make a statement as to what their thinking is behind all these Portuguese signings ?

Shebby's here to communicate. Why doesn't he say something ?

Midfield - we must be going to play goalkeeper 2 defenders and 8 in midfield

Why Portugese with no experience of Championship football - like last season if you enough you might get one to succeed.

Obviously Goodwillie and Pederson will be out -scoring good goals

Roll on the new season

When asked about giving a trial to Titus James Palani, Shebby said that Rovers would be casting their net far and wide in the search for young talent. I'd like to know then why all the youngsters we've signed are not only exclusively from Portugal but are also represented by the same agent. That's not casting your net far and wide, it's jobs for the boys.

Harwoodstblue wrote:

jackmetickler wrote:
ok .... has Anderson opened a Portugese branch or something;
I'll bet a years mortgage that he has his greedy little mits in this.

how many Portugese players have made an impact in the Championship.
I can only think of one who has made any real impact on English Football... and he was a bit of an exception to the rule.

Time will tell.... but I seem to remember the same flannel when the south american lads turned up.... and!

They're cheap to bring in. Portugal's going bust. They can get them for virtually nothing and pay them peanuts.. Sound familiar ? Typical Venkey strategy.

Why don't they make a statement as to what their thinking is behind all these Portuguese signings ?

Shebby's here to communicate. Why doesn't he say something ?

Hopefully someone will ask him next Saturday.

does seem very strange that we have a global development grand poo-bah (or whatever he is called) and yet the only players we sign come from portugal or west london.
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a fish rots from the head down and summat smells very fishy round here.
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i genuinely dont think this shebby sham ("words are cheap") has it in his power to dump kean - but if he does, then prehaps its best that we get a real hammering at portman road and hull give us a bl00dy nose at ewood before it is too late. i am not thinking of promotion - i am thinking of survival.

This guy looks quality, and has attracted interest from top premier league sides. Could be a great signing!

r30vrs wrote:
This guy looks quality, and has attracted interest from top premier league sides. Could be a great signing!

And how come the transfer goes through in the blink of an eye, when Rhodes takes an age in comparison ?

Just read something interesting for those who are bothered here it is :-
There is nothing new about players being foisted on a manager, even Jose Mourinho has suffered in this way. Either currently, or recently, Chelsea, Manchester City, Tottenham, West Ham and Newcastle are among Premier League clubs where signings have been made at the instigation of an owner, chairman, chief executive or director of football. On the continent the practice is commonplace.


The club provides the players, the manager coaches them. A refinement of this looks to be the future at Liverpool. The manager will request a type, such as an attacking right-back, and Damien Comolli, the director of football strategy, will either present him with a shortlist, or simply deliver one. Sometimes it works, on other occasions it does not, as Rafael Benitez made clear when he left Valencia complaining, "I wanted a sofa and they bought me a lampshade."

However, what appears to be on the cards at Blackburn is another step entirely. Their buying policy, it is claimed, will be influenced by the client list of a major agent.

So far the Premier League chiefs profess themselves unconcerned by the close relationship between Kentaro, a Swiss sports rights agency, Sports Entertainment and Media Group (SEM), a players' management agency, and Blackburn's new owners, the Indian poultry magnates Venky's. However, they will be keeping an eye on the situation.

It has been suggested Kentaro might use Blackburn as a shop window, much as Kia Joorabchian did in parking Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano at West Ham. The big difference since then is that third-party ownership has been outlawed.

Whatever Kentaro's intentions they will have been carefully planned, as the company has quickly spread its influence way beyond the small Swiss town of Wil in which it is based. It began in 2003 when two Swiss, Philipp Grothe and Philippe Huber, decided to pool their experience and contacts in the sports rights market. They soon struck broadcast deals in boxing and football but did not come to attention in England until 2005 when they arranged the friendly against Argentina in Geneva. That launched a new niche industry, staging high-profile friendlies in neutral venues with the bulk of the income realised through TV rights.

Kentaro signed agreements with the Argentine and Brazilian FAs to sell their friendlies. London and Doha have become regular venues, England playing Brazil in the latter last year. However, home fans only see Brazil and Argentina play in competitive matches, and the schedules can appear to be against the teams' interests. Before the 2006 World Cup, Brazil's preparation included a match in sub-zero temperatures in Moscow and friendlies against Lucerne and New Zealand. Tickets were sold for training sessions. Before the 2010 World Cup, they played in Zimbabwe, on a poor pitch against weak opposition. Brazil lost in the quarter-finals in both competitions.

Kentaro has also sold TV rights for the Football Association (including England and the FA Cup) and several clubs including Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City, giving it a strong foothold in the UK. It agreed a "corporate partnership deal" with SEM in February last year – Kentaro already owned a Nordic agency. Its 60 staff include Jonathan Hill, previously commercial director at the FA. Emmanuel Petit, the ex-Arsenal and France midfielder, is a founding shareholder. Kentaro also provides television production, marketing and financial services. In short, Kentaro is a seriously influential and well-connected player in the football business. Quite what it will be doing at Blackburn is less obvious and Rovers fans will hope its influence proves less damaging than potentially similar ventures in Belgium and Brazil.

In 2001, Jean-Marc Guillou, founder of the successful ASEC Mimosas academy in Ivory Coast, took over Beveren. He used it as a shop window importing many Ivorians including Yaya Touré and Emmanuel Eboué. The team reached the Belgian Cup final, but of the starting XI 10 were Ivorian. After pressure from Fifa, and within Belgium, Guillou pulled out in 2007. The club were relegated soon after.

In 2004, Joorabchian bought the Brazilian club Corinthians through a company called Media Sports Investments. MSI embarked upon a transfer splash, including Tevez for a Brazilian record fee. Corinthians won the title, but most of the players belonged wholly or partly to MSI. When the relationship foundered in 2007 it emerged Corinthians only owned five of their squad. Six months later they were relegated.

Strict work-permit rules, and the ban on third-party ownership, means neither of these cases could be exactly replicated in the Premier League, but there is no rule to prevent Rovers exclusively signing SEM clients, or owners dictating transfer policy by phone from India or Switzerland. Former owner Jack Walker can never have imagined such consequences when he decided to put his hometown club back on the football map.

I am sorry to inform you Harwoodstblue but Shebby is now part of the problem, engulfing the club with lies ,untruths and smokescreens ,out the lot of them!

A very interesting post Givet82 who knows how thickly they are involved at Ewood I pray not to deeply.

http://m.talksport.c
o.uk/magazine/featur
es/120730/portuguese
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d-spark-transfer-war
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nd-177614 interesting article from a uk source

rankoutsider wrote:
http://m.talksport.c

o.uk/magazine/featur

es/120730/portuguese

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d-spark-transfer-war

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nd-177614 interesting article from a uk source

Thanks for that.
Difficult to see any negatives from that article,but it isn't 11 oclock yet so we've got all day to make some up.

The 'idiot' Singh so called 'global adviser' - wont compromise standards at Ewood, wont be rushed into panic buying and will search the world for talent - what a load of 'cr-p' from this 'plank'!!!! - the world seems to be centralized in Portugal I wonder why!!!!!!!!!
As for Kean just more garbage spouted from his 'big mouth' - most of these signings wont play a part in playing for the Rovers but will be difficult to off load when Keans time comes to an end and it will!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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OUT WITH KEAN AGNEW SINGH VENKYS AND HENDRY

Feirense were relegated from portugese primera league last season.

I think most fans would have accepted 2 or 3 signings from the same place, or the same agent. It seems very strange that we are signing so many Portugese players.

I have nothing against the Portugese, but I had nothing against certain players agents, until I realised that the best interests of the clubs were not necessarily at the heart of these deals.

I have the horrible feeling that we will find some sinister goings on very soon that lead to Portugal. Maybe hidden fees, or clauses in contracts that mean the team is compromised in some way. Five Portugese players suddenly arriving in no time at all is very suspicious.

This portugueser made 12 full starts for Feirense last season and was withdrawn on 9 of those occassions. Managed to score two goals and had one red card so hardly a regular in a relegated side.

Looks suspiciously like another one for the so called future. All very questionable.

Hi, this is my first message on here, i have been a blackburn rovers fan since the age of 12 years old (20 years). i have sat and watched blackburn rovers for the last 18 months and feel it's time to get some sh1t of my chest. it makes me sick to see our team get terrorised by these pirates that call them selfs owners, the amount of money made from the asset stripping of the club could probably build a team worthy of playing champions leaue football?. as far as i can remember the venkys have an acadamy back in india and in my opinion it looks like they are using the funds from sales over here to build a team back home?. as for steve kean, he is just a tool in the hands of the venkys doing there dirty deeds. they know he has no managerial skills but keep him on as he is cheap and because he is a yes man. RTID

Rovers clearly have the worst "fans" in sport worldwide. If only we had the American franchise system then the club could move away from such a dim-witted area.

ROVERS "FANS" OUT.
KEANO TID.
IF THE SHIPS BROUGHT DOWN BY THE "FANS" CAPTAIN KEAN SHOULD GO WITH IT

the_iconoclast wrote:
Rovers clearly have the worst "fans" in sport worldwide. If only we had the American franchise system then the club could move away from such a dim-witted area.

ROVERS "FANS" OUT.
KEANO TID.
IF THE SHIPS BROUGHT DOWN BY THE "FANS" CAPTAIN KEAN SHOULD GO WITH IT

Rovers have lost 10.000 season ticket holders since last year and for very good reason. If the 10,000 are wrong, you must be right !!!!!

Karl Pilkington is making himself rich off the back off signing all of these portugese no marks. He has no professional pride in terms of wanting to do the best for Blackburn, because he knows he is now set up for life financially.The Venkys are absolutely crackers, unless of course them and their cronies are in cahoots with Kean.

Harwoodstblue wrote:

the_iconoclast wrote:
Rovers clearly have the worst "fans" in sport worldwide. If only we had the American franchise system then the club could move away from such a dim-witted area.

ROVERS "FANS" OUT.
KEANO TID.
IF THE SHIPS BROUGHT DOWN BY THE "FANS" CAPTAIN KEAN SHOULD GO WITH IT

Rovers have lost 10.000 season ticket holders since last year and for very good reason. If the 10,000 are wrong, you must be right !!!!!

The very good reason is they are not very good supporters. Its equally counter productive to turn up at Ewood to be the other teams twelfth man.

Anyway each to their own. The 10,000 know not what they do.

I suggest its about time kean/venkys are given their first chance. Particularly since the squad looks capable of challenging for promotion. A bit of support for a change would be huge for the side. Hostility is purely corrosive. Especially as venkys are adamant they will do the decent thing and wait for kean to get a fair crack of the whip.

Another portugeezer complete with man bag, should go down great guns mincing at the festival in Burnley with their pink hot pants like ronaldo. This teams turning into Funny girls first eleven.
On a serious note, it looks like some super secret agent has figured that young geezers sell for peanuts and if you can establish one in the first team they can sell him for millions, just like mincing Ronaldo. A new strategy?

Kean is taking the mickey, non of these players are good enough, more failed prospects hence why thier all out on loan last year. I wouldnt be suprised if kean is deliberatly trying to sink Rovers as payback for the fans hatred.

Iconoclast your either an halfwit or a Venky employee if your an halfwit I can forgive you if you are a Venky employee f%$* o%!

the_iconoclast wrote:

Harwoodstblue wrote:

the_iconoclast wrote:
Rovers clearly have the worst "fans" in sport worldwide. If only we had the American franchise system then the club could move away from such a dim-witted area.

ROVERS "FANS" OUT.
KEANO TID.
IF THE SHIPS BROUGHT DOWN BY THE "FANS" CAPTAIN KEAN SHOULD GO WITH IT

Rovers have lost 10.000 season ticket holders since last year and for very good reason. If the 10,000 are wrong, you must be right !!!!!

The very good reason is they are not very good supporters. Its equally counter productive to turn up at Ewood to be the other teams twelfth man.

Anyway each to their own. The 10,000 know not what they do.

I suggest its about time kean/venkys are given their first chance. Particularly since the squad looks capable of challenging for promotion. A bit of support for a change would be huge for the side. Hostility is purely corrosive. Especially as venkys are adamant they will do the decent thing and wait for kean to get a fair crack of the whip.

Kean a fair crack of the whip? Are you smoking something? Kean has had more crack of the whip than Wild Bill Hicock. He is a dishonest, sleazy little loser. You should try writing fantasy novels, you might be taken seriously as you sure arent on here.

the_iconoclast wrote:
Rovers clearly have the worst "fans" in sport worldwide. If only we had the American franchise system then the club could move away from such a dim-witted area.

ROVERS "FANS" OUT.
KEANO TID.
IF THE SHIPS BROUGHT DOWN BY THE "FANS" CAPTAIN KEAN SHOULD GO WITH IT

****.

merlinrabbit wrote:

the_iconoclast wrote:

Harwoodstblue wrote:

the_iconoclast wrote:
Rovers clearly have the worst "fans" in sport worldwide. If only we had the American franchise system then the club could move away from such a dim-witted area.

ROVERS "FANS" OUT.
KEANO TID.
IF THE SHIPS BROUGHT DOWN BY THE "FANS" CAPTAIN KEAN SHOULD GO WITH IT

Rovers have lost 10.000 season ticket holders since last year and for very good reason. If the 10,000 are wrong, you must be right !!!!!

The very good reason is they are not very good supporters. Its equally counter productive to turn up at Ewood to be the other teams twelfth man.

Anyway each to their own. The 10,000 know not what they do.

I suggest its about time kean/venkys are given their first chance. Particularly since the squad looks capable of challenging for promotion. A bit of support for a change would be huge for the side. Hostility is purely corrosive. Especially as venkys are adamant they will do the decent thing and wait for kean to get a fair crack of the whip.

Kean a fair crack of the whip? Are you smoking something? Kean has had more crack of the whip than Wild Bill Hicock. He is a dishonest, sleazy little loser. You should try writing fantasy novels, you might be taken seriously as you sure arent on here.

Ignore him, just another burnley fan with no stories to read so they jump on here and try to rile people up. No Rovers fan would say that if theyve even watched 2 games in the last 2 years.This is the reason Blackburn is a major town whereas Burnley has some of the highest unemployment rates in the uk. Its all down to breeding.

the_iconoclast wrote:
Rovers clearly have the worst "fans" in sport worldwide. If only we had the American franchise system then the club could move away from such a dim-witted area.

ROVERS "FANS" OUT.
KEANO TID.
IF THE SHIPS BROUGHT DOWN BY THE "FANS" CAPTAIN KEAN SHOULD GO WITH IT

wish kean would just go.its frustrating being in the best league in the world for so long, only for this mob to decimate an established premier league club.only plus is an obvious 6 points and the knowledge that our 6 fingered neighbours will be smashing up their own town again.

the_iconoclast wrote:

Harwoodstblue wrote:

the_iconoclast wrote:
Rovers clearly have the worst "fans" in sport worldwide. If only we had the American franchise system then the club could move away from such a dim-witted area.

ROVERS "FANS" OUT.
KEANO TID.
IF THE SHIPS BROUGHT DOWN BY THE "FANS" CAPTAIN KEAN SHOULD GO WITH IT

Rovers have lost 10.000 season ticket holders since last year and for very good reason. If the 10,000 are wrong, you must be right !!!!!

The very good reason is they are not very good supporters. Its equally counter productive to turn up at Ewood to be the other teams twelfth man.

Anyway each to their own. The 10,000 know not what they do.

I suggest its about time kean/venkys are given their first chance. Particularly since the squad looks capable of challenging for promotion. A bit of support for a change would be huge for the side. Hostility is purely corrosive. Especially as venkys are adamant they will do the decent thing and wait for kean to get a fair crack of the whip.

this is their 3rd chance!!!!

the_iconoclast wrote:
Rovers clearly have the worst "fans" in sport worldwide. If only we had the American franchise system then the club could move away from such a dim-witted area.

ROVERS "FANS" OUT.
KEANO TID.
IF THE SHIPS BROUGHT DOWN BY THE "FANS" CAPTAIN KEAN SHOULD GO WITH IT

You are in a fantasy world.......Nob-ed

That Portugese bank account should be building up nicely !

"He is a powerhouse in midfield, who has played at the highest level with Fulham" We had a team full of players who had played at the highest level with Rovers, until you came along and sold them. If he was a "powerhouse" in midfield,why have Fulham sold him? I seem to remember we had a"powerhouse" in defence called Samba. Didn't he leave because Keans and Venky's promises meant nothing. Nothings changed, The same BS is starting again this season. Rhodes? not tested in championship, surely he his not stupid enough to believe Uncle Fester,nobody improves under Kean,its a step backward.

I wonder if these Portuguese players share the same agent?

hasslem hasslem wrote:
does seem very strange that we have a global development grand poo-bah (or whatever he is called) and yet the only players we sign come from portugal or west london.
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a fish rots from the head down and summat smells very fishy round here.
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i genuinely dont think this shebby sham ("words are cheap") has it in his power to dump kean - but if he does, then prehaps its best that we get a real hammering at portman road and hull give us a bl00dy nose at ewood before it is too late. i am not thinking of promotion - i am thinking of survival.

It is a poor state of affairs when fans are hoping Rovers get a real hammering. This is what Venky's have driven loyal fans to!

When Rovers were relegated, I thought at least Kean would be going. My concern now would be that after a hammering in the championship and relegation to div 1, Kean would still be in change!

Tanner1983 wrote:
Wish kean would realise we dont need any more young players for the future! We need players of high quality to get us back into the epl. So far murphy, gomes, etuhu and nunes will be in and around the first team! The rest are a waste of resource! Venkys are definately opening branches in portugal! Hurry up! Get rhodes in and some DEFENDERS!

Maybe they are taking over Nandos

MxMave wrote:

merlinrabbit wrote:

the_iconoclast wrote:

Harwoodstblue wrote:

the_iconoclast wrote:
Rovers clearly have the worst "fans" in sport worldwide. If only we had the American franchise system then the club could move away from such a dim-witted area.

ROVERS "FANS" OUT.
KEANO TID.
IF THE SHIPS BROUGHT DOWN BY THE "FANS" CAPTAIN KEAN SHOULD GO WITH IT

Rovers have lost 10.000 season ticket holders since last year and for very good reason. If the 10,000 are wrong, you must be right !!!!!

The very good reason is they are not very good supporters. Its equally counter productive to turn up at Ewood to be the other teams twelfth man.

Anyway each to their own. The 10,000 know not what they do.

I suggest its about time kean/venkys are given their first chance. Particularly since the squad looks capable of challenging for promotion. A bit of support for a change would be huge for the side. Hostility is purely corrosive. Especially as venkys are adamant they will do the decent thing and wait for kean to get a fair crack of the whip.

Kean a fair crack of the whip? Are you smoking something? Kean has had more crack of the whip than Wild Bill Hicock. He is a dishonest, sleazy little loser. You should try writing fantasy novels, you might be taken seriously as you sure arent on here.

Ignore him, just another burnley fan with no stories to read so they jump on here and try to rile people up. No Rovers fan would say that if theyve even watched 2 games in the last 2 years.This is the reason Blackburn is a major town whereas Burnley has some of the highest unemployment rates in the uk. Its all down to breeding.

Interbreeding - they may have 6 fingers on each hand and 6 toes on each foot, but they're no good if you can't count past 5 :)