Salgado is latest to hit out at Rovers’ owners
8:19am Saturday 29th December 2012 in Sport
By Chris Flanagan, Sports reporter
MICHEL Salgado has become the latest former Blackburn Rovers player to hit out at events at Ewood Park.
Henning Berg was sacked as boss on Thursday after only 57 days in charge and Salgado, who left Rovers after falling out of favour under previous manager Steve Kean, has hit out at owners Venky’s.
“For God’s sake, stop this madness,” the former Real Madrid defender said on Twitter.
“I’m really sorry for the friends I’ve left there.
“I’m sorry for my former team-mates, workers and fans.
“The worst thing is the way the club is being treated.
“So many rumours, but nobody knows the truth.
“Players are as messed up as fans.
“Nothing makes sense.
“It doesn’t matter the manager you pick if you lack stability and sensible footballing decision-making.
“The first thing they need to appoint is an experienced English chairman with power to make decisions.”
Brad Friedel criticised the decision to sack his former Rovers team-mate Berg on Twitter and reiterated his bewilderment in an interview yesterday.
“Henning is a good pal of mine and to see a pal get sacked after 57 days and not be able to put his stamp on the club, I don’t like to see a friend go through something like that,” said the keeper.
“I just don’t understand what is going on there, I don’t understand why you would hire a manager and only give him 57 days.
“The club I was at was such an incredible family club with a brilliant atmosphere day to day, with everyone smiling at you – John Williams, Tom Finn, Martin Goodman, Andrew Pincher, all behind the scenes running the club spectacularly well. Then in the course of three years there is all this negativity.”
In the Norwegian press, former Rovers midfielder Lars Bohinen described the club’s actions in dispensing with Berg so quickly as like ‘an amateur side’.
Morten Gamst Pedersen’s father Ernst has been quoted as criticising Rovers’ decision to hand Berg the job in the first place.
The former Bodo/Glimt director claimed Berg never had the credentials for the job and hit back after the 43-year-old was reported to have criticised his son’s form during his time as a TV pundit in Norway.
Pedersen himself was more diplomatic, but called for Rovers to appoint ‘a strong manager’ of the ilk of Mark Hughes or Sam Allardyce.
“A clear leader can hopefully get us out of the cycle we are in now, so we start winning games again,” said the Rovers midfielder.
Comments(41)
Brfc24138931
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8:26am Sat 29 Dec 12
BeardwoodB
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8:53am Sat 29 Dec 12
They are utter crap
Norman T Wangler
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8:59am Sat 29 Dec 12
Dannybhoy
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9:00am Sat 29 Dec 12
BeardwoodB wrote:I wouldn't even bet on that happning. But if it does I will be there to see it.
On the plus side we'll beat Barnsley today.
They are utter crap
makaveli96
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9:18am Sat 29 Dec 12
This from one of Spains finest!
Salgado will always be a legend of the fans!
paladin101
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10:12am Sat 29 Dec 12
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Shabby out!!! Venkys out!!!
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How can anybody lift the Kean curse in just 57 days, not even been given a transfer window to get quality in and garbage out???
carlmc1
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10:15am Sat 29 Dec 12
BeardwoodB wrote:I hope you are right, but I also think we are utter crap too. Post again after 5pm explaining how bad we are please!
On the plus side we'll beat Barnsley today. They are utter crap
cboyer
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10:21am Sat 29 Dec 12
paladin101 wrote:well said its disgusting how they could treat him like that and how are they being allowed to run the club like this?
And where is the FA? Can they just sit and watch this circus and not do anything?
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Shabby out!!! Venkys out!!!
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How can anybody lift the Kean curse in just 57 days, not even been given a transfer window to get quality in and garbage out???
we want our rovers back
1952 rover
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10:28am Sat 29 Dec 12
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dangerous dave
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10:31am Sat 29 Dec 12
OUT WITH SHAW AGNEW SINGH HENDRY VENKYS
merlinrabbit
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10:52am Sat 29 Dec 12
BeardwoodB wrote:And if we do they'll give the manager job to Gary Bowyer!!
On the plus side we'll beat Barnsley today.
They are utter crap
Roverthere
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10:52am Sat 29 Dec 12
golazzo
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11:10am Sat 29 Dec 12
BeardwoodB wrote:Barnsley look a good bet today. Lump on the win
On the plus side we'll beat Barnsley today.
They are utter crap
gingerprince
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11:13am Sat 29 Dec 12
merlinrabbit
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11:17am Sat 29 Dec 12
8 Ball Deluxe
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11:47am Sat 29 Dec 12
BeardwoodB wrote:I hope we get utterly mangled by Barnsley as the consequences of winning could be riciculous, Shaggy and Ali as manager and coach. The world did end.
On the plus side we'll beat Barnsley today.
They are utter crap
8 Ball Deluxe
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11:48am Sat 29 Dec 12
8 Ball Deluxe wrote:That should be ridiculous of course
BeardwoodB wrote:I hope we get utterly mangled by Barnsley as the consequences of winning could be riciculous, Shaggy and Ali as manager and coach. The world did end.
On the plus side we'll beat Barnsley today.
They are utter crap
ghost of sceptic
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11:51am Sat 29 Dec 12
Venkys Out
Ray Gunn
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11:52am Sat 29 Dec 12
Dukes
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12:11pm Sat 29 Dec 12
A Rover 45 years and over
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12:15pm Sat 29 Dec 12
BeardwoodB wrote:What more crap than us, didn't think that was possible at the moment.
On the plus side we'll beat Barnsley today. They are utter crap
say something positive
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12:16pm Sat 29 Dec 12
Telegraph are anti rovers and never try to give a positve slant on the rovers.
Oh for Peter White type of reporter a fan and a true blue supporter,. not a bristol city fan
blueblooded
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12:21pm Sat 29 Dec 12
We already had a circus when Sam was fired, so in true form, they sent in the clowns.
Listen to Salgado and the thousands of fans who only have the clubs interest at heart and bring in the right people!
Tom F.
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12:30pm Sat 29 Dec 12
blueblooded
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12:47pm Sat 29 Dec 12
ghost of sceptic wrote:Because Robert Coar and company have fallen on their swords to protect the interests of the club?
its time for people of influence to speak up against the destruction of our club. Ex players managers and anyone else connected with the club need to get together and sy enough is enough. What must Robert Coar make of all this, one of the only sane officials left at the club?
Venkys Out
Everyone associated to the club apart from the fans have self interest at heart when it comes down to it. Big Sam and a few others handed in their notice, the few that protested were sacked. These people at least left with some dignity. Everyone else is just an employee looking out for themselves.
I wouldn't kid yourself that these people are of any noble standing. The fans who stand on a cold night on the terraces, watching their team and supporting the team even with the dismal performances over the last two years. We have been belittled, berated, mocked and had to stand their watching our club dismantled, first by money grabbing agents and then by incompetent owners whose history here is best not repeated.
The only people feeling the real hurt here are us fans. Players, workers associated to the club still make money regardless whose making the decisions.
blueblooded
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12:49pm Sat 29 Dec 12
ghost of sceptic wrote:Because Robert Coar and company have fallen on their swords to protect the interests of the club?
its time for people of influence to speak up against the destruction of our club. Ex players managers and anyone else connected with the club need to get together and sy enough is enough. What must Robert Coar make of all this, one of the only sane officials left at the club?
Venkys Out
Everyone associated to the club apart from the fans have self interest at heart when it comes down to it. Big Sam and a few others handed in their notice, the few that protested were sacked. These people at least left with some dignity. Everyone else is just an employee looking out for themselves.
I wouldn't kid yourself that these people are of any noble standing. The fans who stand on a cold night on the terraces, watching their team and supporting the team even with the dismal performances over the last two years. We have been belittled, berated, mocked and had to stand their watching our club dismantled, first by money grabbing agents and then by incompetent owners whose history here is best not repeated.
The only people feeling the real hurt here are us fans. Players, workers associated to the club still make money regardless whose making the decisions.
Venkytrash
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12:51pm Sat 29 Dec 12
We also need to support our club, not the venkys or shabbys crew! We are in danger of slipping so far down the leagues we will go into administration and have to start again!!!
glp
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12:51pm Sat 29 Dec 12
BeardwoodB wrote:What more crap than Venkys Blackburn Rovers hard to believe !!!!!
On the plus side we'll beat Barnsley today.
They are utter crap
bburnrover
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12:52pm Sat 29 Dec 12
The guy is totally out of his depth and makes us look like a bunch of amatures
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stefjam
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12:53pm Sat 29 Dec 12
ghost of sceptic wrote:Coar is still at the club, he must know whats going on he's as much to blame for not saying anything, he must be loaded, but is happy to see the club destroyed while still taking the cash! And al the other free loaders that signed clauses saying they would not say anything bad, ex players like Nelson & Samba etc an extra little pay off for keeping quiet & Williams Oh what a hero ! has said nothing! all of em money grabbing assoles
its time for people of influence to speak up against the destruction of our club. Ex players managers and anyone else connected with the club need to get together and sy enough is enough. What must Robert Coar make of all this, one of the only sane officials left at the club?
Venkys Out
stefjam
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1:01pm Sat 29 Dec 12
leitchy
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1:16pm Sat 29 Dec 12
bburnrover wrote:Shebby knows what he is doing that's lining his own pockets!!
Singh needs to go he has the wrong philosophy of what is required and obviously does not include experience of management a quality.The main reason he appointed Berg was the fact that he interviewed well and that after 5 weeks he was under pressure to appoint someone.
The guy is totally out of his depth and makes us look like a bunch of amatures
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Shebby does not want somebody experienced under him cause that will soon mean an end to him.....!!
Taxi 4 Shebby !!
alfa111
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2:43pm Sat 29 Dec 12
paladin101 wrote:There was probably no transfer money for him anyway
And where is the FA? Can they just sit and watch this circus and not do anything?
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Shabby out!!! Venkys out!!!
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How can anybody lift the Kean curse in just 57 days, not even been given a transfer window to get quality in and garbage out???
god Im bored
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3:13pm Sat 29 Dec 12
should be interesting?
modan
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7:59pm Sat 29 Dec 12
tion etc etc.As you know India is now a booming economy the second fastest growing economy after China by 2020 India will be an economic superpower.We want Blackburn Rovers FC to grow strength to strength like the Indian economy.We want to help Blackburn Rovers to succeed like the Indian economy.In India many millions are talkng about Blackburn Rovers and Queens Park Rangers .Blackburn is a great place with very nice folks in town very much down to earth.A an Indian and a British Subject i want Blackburn to get much needed investments from India as possble as India is the third largest investors in UK.Many business like TATA Steel,LandRover/Jagu
ar,Tetley Tea,Northern Foods,ArcelorMital Steel,Caparo Groups,Blackburn Rovers FC,QPR FC,VOI Jeans,Euro Garages,East Ends,New Look,Pounstrechers,B
&M,Cobra Beers,and many more .I hope one BRFC will be back in the Premier League where we belong and winning trophies.
Stone Island:
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2:42am Sun 30 Dec 12
modan wrote:Shove your apology! India is a booming economy? This is what India is famous for:
I like to apologise to all the Rovers fans and the town of Blackburn on behalf of 1.2 billion Indians for the way Venky and Laxmi Mittal ( Britain's richest man) treated Blackburn Rovers FC and Queens Park Rangers FC respectively.All of us Indian want Blackburn and QPR to do well in their respective leagues and win trophies for club and the fans.Blackburn has a large Indian population so does London where QPR is based.We Indian wants to succeed in all walks of life ie business,sport,educa
tion etc etc.As you know India is now a booming economy the second fastest growing economy after China by 2020 India will be an economic superpower.We want Blackburn Rovers FC to grow strength to strength like the Indian economy.We want to help Blackburn Rovers to succeed like the Indian economy.In India many millions are talkng about Blackburn Rovers and Queens Park Rangers .Blackburn is a great place with very nice folks in town very much down to earth.A an Indian and a British Subject i want Blackburn to get much needed investments from India as possble as India is the third largest investors in UK.Many business like TATA Steel,LandRover/Jagu
ar,Tetley Tea,Northern Foods,ArcelorMital Steel,Caparo Groups,Blackburn Rovers FC,QPR FC,VOI Jeans,Euro Garages,East Ends,New Look,Pounstrechers,B
&M,Cobra Beers,and many more .I hope one BRFC will be back in the Premier League where we belong and winning trophies.
http://www.bbc.co.uk
/news/world-south-as
ia-13294863
kipdippip
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8:17am Sun 30 Dec 12
Stone Island: wrote:Stone Island, you are possibly the thickest, idiotic and downrate offensive person I have seen on this site after that comment. Enough to make me long in after years of creating an account to comment on your response.
modan wrote: I like to apologise to all the Rovers fans and the town of Blackburn on behalf of 1.2 billion Indians for the way Venky and Laxmi Mittal ( Britain's richest man) treated Blackburn Rovers FC and Queens Park Rangers FC respectively.All of us Indian want Blackburn and QPR to do well in their respective leagues and win trophies for club and the fans.Blackburn has a large Indian population so does London where QPR is based.We Indian wants to succeed in all walks of life ie business,sport,educa tion etc etc.As you know India is now a booming economy the second fastest growing economy after China by 2020 India will be an economic superpower.We want Blackburn Rovers FC to grow strength to strength like the Indian economy.We want to help Blackburn Rovers to succeed like the Indian economy.In India many millions are talkng about Blackburn Rovers and Queens Park Rangers .Blackburn is a great place with very nice folks in town very much down to earth.A an Indian and a British Subject i want Blackburn to get much needed investments from India as possble as India is the third largest investors in UK.Many business like TATA Steel,LandRover/Jagu ar,Tetley Tea,Northern Foods,ArcelorMital Steel,Caparo Groups,Blackburn Rovers FC,QPR FC,VOI Jeans,Euro Garages,East Ends,New Look,Pounstrechers,B &M,Cobra Beers,and many more .I hope one BRFC will be back in the Premier League where we belong and winning trophies.Shove your apology! India is a booming economy? This is what India is famous for: http://www.bbc.co.uk /news/world-south-as ia-13294863
Some Indian guy, probably not linked to venkys, takes the time to apologies on behalf of Indian and you have to come out with that little england xenophobic ****? you horrid little man.
oh and on the link you posted, you might as well say England is full of child abusers thanks to Jamie Bulger and Baby P.
Again, I can't stress enough how thick you are.
modan
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11:53am Sun 30 Dec 12
oker,tennis darts and above all taught us to speak and write Engish.We Indian never forget the Brtish Raj and all the legesies Britain left in India.UK has a very good relation with India and India being member of the Commenwealth.Uk alwas support India in evey way from trade to supplying military arms and training.As Indian we want to continue with our good relation with UK and the people of UK who in many millions go for an holiday to see the famous Taj Mahal,Goa beaches ,Himlayas mountains in the north of India and the palaces in Delhi,Jaipur,Udaipu rand Agra.India and UK will always remain best of friends.Cheers to all our fellow Britons have a curry and tea today.
F***_Venkys
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7:16pm Sun 30 Dec 12
modan wrote:Well what a stupid set of idiots you Venky's are. How dare you come into our family club with the intention of using it as a marketing vehicle in the Premier league. Get rid of every last little bit of heartbeat the club has and then conduct your mindless and utter crap from Pune.
I am not amused there are some dingles in every communities.I am an Indian living in Blackburn and i am a British Subject .I want Blackburn Rovers FC to do well in the the football league.I want BRFC back in the Premiership winning trophies and be asuccessful club like we were in 1995 and 2002 when we won the Premiership title and the league cup.Like it or not, it is we Indian now investing in UK creating jobs for thousands of our fellow British workers.India is a bommimg economy like China,India will have the third largest economy by 2025 and second largest after China by 2035.India is economic Superpower and have more billionaires than Europe.British and Indian relation go back to the dy of British Raj some 200 years ago.Britain left India with the fourth largest railways in the world.Britain also taught us to play cricket,football,sno
oker,tennis darts and above all taught us to speak and write Engish.We Indian never forget the Brtish Raj and all the legesies Britain left in India.UK has a very good relation with India and India being member of the Commenwealth.Uk alwas support India in evey way from trade to supplying military arms and training.As Indian we want to continue with our good relation with UK and the people of UK who in many millions go for an holiday to see the famous Taj Mahal,Goa beaches ,Himlayas mountains in the north of India and the palaces in Delhi,Jaipur,Udaipu rand Agra.India and UK will always remain best of friends.Cheers to all our fellow Britons have a curry and tea today.
I genuinely from the bottom of my heart wish every member of the Venky's organisation a really crap 2013. I hope your chicken sales fall foul!! And that every possible shred of credibility has now gone.
You have ruined my love of Blackburn Rovers FC. ****. You absolute ****.
Please just leave our club. Let someone who loves BRFC run our club not a complete idiot like shabby. You have no idea what your doing - this is obvious. This isn't chicken. It's football.
Thanks for nothing,
F*** Shabby
F*** Venky's
F*** money grabbing agents
F*** back room staff aka money grabbers
I WANT MY CLUB BACK!!!!!
kipdippip
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8:33am Mon 31 Dec 12
F***_Venkys wrote:Again, we see an absolute thick moron.
modan wrote: I am not amused there are some dingles in every communities.I am an Indian living in Blackburn and i am a British Subject .I want Blackburn Rovers FC to do well in the the football league.I want BRFC back in the Premiership winning trophies and be asuccessful club like we were in 1995 and 2002 when we won the Premiership title and the league cup.Like it or not, it is we Indian now investing in UK creating jobs for thousands of our fellow British workers.India is a bommimg economy like China,India will have the third largest economy by 2025 and second largest after China by 2035.India is economic Superpower and have more billionaires than Europe.British and Indian relation go back to the dy of British Raj some 200 years ago.Britain left India with the fourth largest railways in the world.Britain also taught us to play cricket,football,sno oker,tennis darts and above all taught us to speak and write Engish.We Indian never forget the Brtish Raj and all the legesies Britain left in India.UK has a very good relation with India and India being member of the Commenwealth.Uk alwas support India in evey way from trade to supplying military arms and training.As Indian we want to continue with our good relation with UK and the people of UK who in many millions go for an holiday to see the famous Taj Mahal,Goa beaches ,Himlayas mountains in the north of India and the palaces in Delhi,Jaipur,Udaipu rand Agra.India and UK will always remain best of friends.Cheers to all our fellow Britons have a curry and tea today.Well what a stupid set of idiots you Venky's are. How dare you come into our family club with the intention of using it as a marketing vehicle in the Premier league. Get rid of every last little bit of heartbeat the club has and then conduct your mindless and utter crap from Pune. I genuinely from the bottom of my heart wish every member of the Venky's organisation a really crap 2013. I hope your chicken sales fall foul!! And that every possible shred of credibility has now gone. You have ruined my love of Blackburn Rovers FC. ****. You absolute ****. Please just leave our club. Let someone who loves BRFC run our club not a complete idiot like shabby. You have no idea what your doing - this is obvious. This isn't chicken. It's football. Thanks for nothing, F*** Shabby F*** Venky's F*** money grabbing agents F*** back room staff aka money grabbers I WANT MY CLUB BACK!!!!!
Did you read what the guy said? he has NOTHING to do with venky's, he is AGREEING with you guys!
He even mentions he is apologizing because of what Venky's are doing.
Read before you type, next time it wont make you look like a proper ****.
Oh, and it doesn't paint a good image for the 'decent' rovers fan when morons like you just rant without reading what your **** ranting about.

Norman T Wangler says...
8:23am Sat 29 Dec 12