Nzonzi completes Stoke City move as Goodwillie leaves on loan (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Nzonzi completes Stoke City move as Goodwillie leaves on loan
10:49pm Friday 31st August 2012 in News
By Andy Cryer, Blackburn Rovers reporter
STEVEN Nzonzi has completed a move to Stoke City this evening after a bid from the Potters was finally accepted by Blackburn Rovers .
The French midfielder had been frozen out at Ewood Park after handing in a transfer request, with Rovers having accepted a bid in the region of £3.5million, rising to £5m, this evening.
Striker David Goodwillie has also left Ewood Park this evening, signing for Crystal Palace on loan until January.
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11:00pm Fri 31 Aug 12
ivegillian says...
i despise kean but there are always positives in the negatives
11:04pm Fri 31 Aug 12
stick to football says...
Goodwillie was a prolific goalscorer before he came to Ewood - will Rhodes be any different and judging by Tottenham paying £6M for Clint Dempsey who is a proven goalscorer at the top level - have Rovers paid over the odds here.
Kean has no more excuses its his team his buys and if he doesnt succeed it must be him out of the door at Ewood - no question about it
11:08pm Fri 31 Aug 12
stefjam says...
11:09pm Fri 31 Aug 12
stefjam says...
11:09pm Fri 31 Aug 12
azza234 says...
11:10pm Fri 31 Aug 12
stefjam says...
11:11pm Fri 31 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
11:12pm Fri 31 Aug 12
stefjam says...
11:14pm Fri 31 Aug 12
lewis 87 says...
11:14pm Fri 31 Aug 12
gosportdunc says...
11:15pm Fri 31 Aug 12
BRFCblackburnlad says...
11:19pm Fri 31 Aug 12
ronnie clayton says...
11:22pm Fri 31 Aug 12
J.C - Rishton says...
I think Jordan Rhodes is a great signing but when you look that Dempsey has only cost £6m, Lambert was available from Southampton for only £4m and Billy Sharp was available on a season long long for FREE - then we've definately over paid.
Sad to see Goodwillie go - £3.5m only a year ago and now gone on loan to one of the divisions smallest and most boke clubs - surely him and Petrovic will go down as our biggest ever "Laural and Hardie" signings - £6.5m the pair and they only lasted a year and we've virtully had to give both of them away just to get rid of them.
Glad to see Ollson staying (unless it goes through at last min) because having watched his brother getting skinned time after time on Tues at MK - well, truth is, without him we simply don't have a left back at the club able to play at the standard required, if we want to be at the top end of the table.
Overall, we'll lost some really good players but we could have lost more and we've bought some good players (real shame about Leon Best) and we've bought some has-beens and some Portugese never beens but over all - probably better then we could have really expected.
11:24pm Fri 31 Aug 12
andyproc says...
11:33pm Fri 31 Aug 12
J.C - Rishton says...
Yet you make it sound like he's left Rovers for a club lower down the pecking order !!
11:44pm Fri 31 Aug 12
andyproc says...
11:51pm Fri 31 Aug 12
gleechy says...
It's the most fraudulent excuse for a club, throwing out excellent players and bringing in loads of average ones, and some fans are satisfied.
What a downgrade.
This lot will not win any league, even though they have some of yesterday's heroes. One of the most expensive teams in the league, and they keep a known flop in control, bottom half at Christmas.
11:54pm Fri 31 Aug 12
RUinsane says...
Do you boil bunnies
11:58pm Fri 31 Aug 12
azza234 says...
11:58pm Fri 31 Aug 12
slymonkeyuk says...
Shame Kean is still here but cut the negative crap.
Rovers till i die
Kean Out
12:21am Sat 1 Sep 12
stefjam says...
12:45am Sat 1 Sep 12
Ralph Jones says...
12:54am Sat 1 Sep 12
reiko082 says...
Absolutely beyond all belief.
7:50am Sat 1 Sep 12
Ewood say that! says...
It's just a shame that we couldn't have loaned him out instead so when finally Kean runs out of excuses,the new manager could have started again with him.
The main concern I have is Kean's (dis)ability to get the best out of the 'best/most talented' players.I still think that with a decent run of games Goodwillie may have come good.To be fair to him he was never given that chance.Kean starting Edinho last week was Kean cutting his nose off to spite his face.Also any coach worth his salt should be able to get a tune out of Rochina who clearly has skill in abundance and as he briefly demonstrated last year an eye for goal too.The only players he does seem to have onside are those in the twilight of their career who know they wouldn't get a contract elsewhere like they are on now so are prepared to lick his a*se.
Finally I just pray that we are positive today and play two up top and don't flood the midfield with 'pensioners'...
8:12am Sat 1 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
8:18am Sat 1 Sep 12
BRFCblackburnlad says...
8:20am Sat 1 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
8:27am Sat 1 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
I agree with you, playing for a decent manager will improve his game.
8:28am Sat 1 Sep 12
speedie_rovers_legend says...
8:30am Sat 1 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
8:31am Sat 1 Sep 12
speedie_rovers_legend says...
8:33am Sat 1 Sep 12
whappen says...
That's not to say they should come out with an Orr-esque statement of support - that would mean nothing if they didn't then stand up and do their job to the best of their ability. Who cares if they support the manager? If they can all look themselves in the mirror and honestly say "I did everthing I could", that's all you can ask.
We all respect a player we can see is giving it his all, no matter how good he is.
By the way,
"...look at what Kenny did when managing liverpool, nothing."
You may be too young to remember so I think you need to check the record books for before he came to us my friend. Even last season, which has generally been recognised as a bit of a disaster for them in the league, they got to two finals, winning one (albeit only just). That would be as much as they could have reasonably expected no matter who was manager.
I thought his days as a manager were over when they reappointed him but as "nothings" go that's still not too shabby is it?
8:35am Sat 1 Sep 12
Ewood say that! says...
8:40am Sat 1 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
8:41am Sat 1 Sep 12
stick to football says...
Emerton NZonzi Petrovic Hoillett
Yakubu Kallinic
Subs Fielding Judge Goodwillie
I know which team I would prefer to be ours
8:42am Sat 1 Sep 12
Ewood say that! says...
8:47am Sat 1 Sep 12
RUinsane says...
So all you naysayers and boycotters, get yer arse down ewood now weve signed 12 players and got rid of 3. Statement of intent from Shaggy. 3rd in the league and getting stronger,
Superb.
Yours truly
one of the 8000
8:49am Sat 1 Sep 12
Harwoodstblue says...
9:00am Sat 1 Sep 12
Ewood say that! says...
Donut has just come out with some more pearls of wisdom so I'm going on the new page to digest his latest diaorehea.
9:04am Sat 1 Sep 12
LittleRonnieHildersley says...
Being a prima donna. Much prefer
Ethuhu. According to cryer on twitter he went for 3.5 mil rising to 5 and we bought him for 500k.
Disappointed that goodie has gone on
Loan because he has a nack of scoring even if it doesn't look pretty. Can't fathom why he doesn't get a run of games. Edhino doesn't look like a lone striker.
On the whole the squad looks ok, we've kept most of the key players brought in some quality and got rid of a couple who didn't really want to be at rovers despite us developing them and I don't think the yak was going to play in the chpioship due to the mega bucks on offer in china.
Of course some will be unhappy and there are some who seem to just want Venkys to fail. I don't want them as our owners but that's what we've got and we are In a far better state than a large Number of teams. Yes I'd like to see kean out, can't stand him but it's not Going to stop from supporting the team.
Like the comment about the so called 10000 going to Leeds, how many of you went to Milton Keynes? or is it only away league games that the 10000 non renewers are attending?
9:16am Sat 1 Sep 12
fitz808 says...
Please, do tell us how this absolutely confirms the venky master plan to disassemble a small town club in northwest England... I can't wait to be educated on this point
9:24am Sat 1 Sep 12
Gaz M says...
9:40am Sat 1 Sep 12
batesempire says...
10:20am Sat 1 Sep 12
merlinrabbit says...
10:20am Sat 1 Sep 12
French Rover says...
10:29am Sat 1 Sep 12
merlinrabbit says...
11:27am Sat 1 Sep 12
Lancs - pensioner says...
Staying away till Kean goes!
Dont worry it wont be long now.
11:29am Sat 1 Sep 12
Lancs - pensioner says...
RU it would be a boring world if we all thought the same.
Stick together and we will drive Kean out.
11:35am Sat 1 Sep 12
Rover Pete says...
The only good thing now is that even Venky's will see what a plonker he is. The clock is ticking for his departure.
11:47am Sat 1 Sep 12
RUinsane says...
Yours truly
one of the 8000 ( spartans ) soon to be more.
I offer the hand of peace and friendship to all that wish to join with me and the other 7999 and become one again. That includes you, you muppet. Even though you are like Sergei the meerkat with humble pie on your face, I will still take you back just like Aleksandr did.
12:39pm Sat 1 Sep 12
A Darener says...
Come on you Blues, get into em!
Show us Kean is as good as he thinks he is!
1:06pm Sat 1 Sep 12
GameRoverMan says...