Vukcevic close to Cyprus loan switch
4:05pm Wednesday 30th January 2013 in Sport
By Andy Cryer, Blackburn Rovers reporter
APOEL Nicosia are in talks with Blackburn Rovers over a possible loan deal for Simon Vukcevic.
Rovers' Montenegrin international has struggled to make an impact at Ewood since signing from Sporting Lisbon in 2011 and looks set to move to Cyprus until the end of the season.
Rovers' goalkeeper Paul Robinson is in talks with West Ham, with Hammers goalkeeper Stephen Henderson lined up to move to Ewood as part of any potential deal.
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leitchy
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4:25pm Wed 30 Jan 13
noddymcleod
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4:28pm Wed 30 Jan 13
I reckon Vuxie wasn't that bad but never got a long enough run out.
thresholdweller
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4:31pm Wed 30 Jan 13
A Darener wrote:We need more outs than ins. It's no good having a load of players hanging around with little chance of playing. Bad attitudes fester. Let's have a tight squad competing with each other to get in the team.
Lots of speculation about outs! What about ins?
A Darener
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4:33pm Wed 30 Jan 13
thresholdweller wrote:That is all well and good but the ones we have in at the moment are not good enough to get us promotion.
A Darener wrote:We need more outs than ins. It's no good having a load of players hanging around with little chance of playing. Bad attitudes fester. Let's have a tight squad competing with each other to get in the team.
Lots of speculation about outs! What about ins?
greenscreener
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4:34pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Another £2m pi55ed up the wall by Kean and his agent buddies.
stephenrover
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4:51pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Which central midfielders do we have left? Three veterans in Murphy, Etuhu and Dunn, plus Jason Lowe.
All these exits with seemingly few replacements are worrying.
cboyer
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4:53pm Wed 30 Jan 13
leonm987
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5:02pm Wed 30 Jan 13
A Darener wrote:We aint getting promotion, teamsare better than us. I've had to come to terms with this.
thresholdweller wrote:That is all well and good but the ones we have in at the moment are not good enough to get us promotion.A Darener wrote: Lots of speculation about outs! What about ins?We need more outs than ins. It's no good having a load of players hanging around with little chance of playing. Bad attitudes fester. Let's have a tight squad competing with each other to get in the team.
BRFCs
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5:06pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Kazim-Richards on a permanent deal would be a good start.
dangerous dave
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5:06pm Wed 30 Jan 13
stephenrover wrote:Yes we should be shipping the likes of these three out before others all has beens/ctocks!!!!!!!!
I think shipping out Vukcevic is a bad idea.
Which central midfielders do we have left? Three veterans in Murphy, Etuhu and Dunn, plus Jason Lowe.
All these exits with seemingly few replacements are worrying.
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Also get Hendry off the wage bill instead of using him as a very highly paid goffer!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OUT WITH SHAW AGNEW SINGH HENDRY VENKYS COAR
reggie0008
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5:15pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Reg, Ayr
stephenrover
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5:20pm Wed 30 Jan 13
blazerafe
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5:31pm Wed 30 Jan 13
A Darener
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5:33pm Wed 30 Jan 13
leonm987 wrote:And I thought I was a pessimist! Lot of ups and downs still to come.
A Darener wrote:We aint getting promotion, teamsare better than us. I've had to come to terms with this.
thresholdweller wrote:That is all well and good but the ones we have in at the moment are not good enough to get us promotion.A Darener wrote: Lots of speculation about outs! What about ins?We need more outs than ins. It's no good having a load of players hanging around with little chance of playing. Bad attitudes fester. Let's have a tight squad competing with each other to get in the team.
Mr Purple
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5:51pm Wed 30 Jan 13
SuperBlues
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5:51pm Wed 30 Jan 13
willhelmrover98
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5:52pm Wed 30 Jan 13
thresholdweller wrote:Completely agree. Abit like Everton?
A Darener wrote:We need more outs than ins. It's no good having a load of players hanging around with little chance of playing. Bad attitudes fester. Let's have a tight squad competing with each other to get in the team.
Lots of speculation about outs! What about ins?
hasslem hasslem
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5:57pm Wed 30 Jan 13
fudgingluvrovers
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6:09pm Wed 30 Jan 13
French Rover
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6:12pm Wed 30 Jan 13
stephenrover wrote:I think we are still to see the best of Etuhu. He certainly isn't a veteran as he is only 30. He played 5 years of prem footie before he joined us, so he has the experience and can still do well for us if MA can get him focused.
I think shipping out Vukcevic is a bad idea.
Which central midfielders do we have left? Three veterans in Murphy, Etuhu and Dunn, plus Jason Lowe.
All these exits with seemingly few replacements are worrying.
Lowe is just going to get better and better and Murphy is improving each game and showing why we bought him. Plus we have Rochina and even Peds who can both play from the middle. Dunny is finished though - so yes we do need one more decent midfielder in the squad for sure.
srvp28
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6:45pm Wed 30 Jan 13
hasslem hasslem
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6:45pm Wed 30 Jan 13
makes you remember we have had some great players over the years and it wasn't just the 92-95 teams.
nelsen always gave 100% even when he was having an off day and carried himself with great diginity (as did tugay, brad and salgado).
personally, i would put nelsen in my top five favourite rovers players (btw - favourite - does not necessarily mean best)
nelsen, gennoe, shearer, batty, brotherstone
Jarrod Schulz Bearded Wonder
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6:49pm Wed 30 Jan 13
cboyer wrote:Got to agree, at least Vuecky can play on the right if needed so why are we getting shut when we are lacking down the right. We are overloaded with left hand side players. I'd keep Veuky and ship out Etuhu, Dunn and one of the olssons
he looked decent everytime he played id keep him and loan out etuhu
flowersorseaman?
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7:12pm Wed 30 Jan 13
reggie0008 wrote:Couldn't agree more reg, fine comment
Green screener he can most definately play, I saw him a few times playing for Sporting in 2009 working in Portugal, he is the best attacking midfielder at the club in my opinion, He has never been given a chance and I can't understand why, It's the story of our season to leave out our best players Vuckevic, Givet, Pederson, Gomes, Dunn, and use inferior ones, Murphy, Richards, Dann, Etuhu, Lowe.
Reg, Ayr
flowersorseaman?
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7:18pm Wed 30 Jan 13
flowersorseaman? wrote:On reflection got to take j.lo out of that as we need his engine, he gets about the pitch and can cover at full back. He'll be good for us as long as we don't expect him to be gazza or tugay!
reggie0008 wrote:Couldn't agree more reg, fine comment
Green screener he can most definately play, I saw him a few times playing for Sporting in 2009 working in Portugal, he is the best attacking midfielder at the club in my opinion, He has never been given a chance and I can't understand why, It's the story of our season to leave out our best players Vuckevic, Givet, Pederson, Gomes, Dunn, and use inferior ones, Murphy, Richards, Dann, Etuhu, Lowe.
Reg, Ayr
Phoenix From The Ashes
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7:32pm Wed 30 Jan 13
stick to football
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7:50pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Good luck to him be interesting to see when he plays against the mighty England then AC may learn a thing of two about football
srvp28
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8:09pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Phoenix From The Ashes wrote:I know Cryer's job is as a sports reporter, and that he has access to staff and players at the club, but it doesn't mean that his opinion is always the right one. He says that Vukcevic is behind Martin Olsson, Rochina and even Josh Morris with regards to the pecking order. Olsson is a left winger, Morris is a left midfielder-****-left back and Rochina is a support striker. Vukcevic is an attacking central midfielder so he shouldn't even be competing with any of these players for a starting spot. Virtually everyone that's discussed Vukcevic with Cryer has said he's quality but he's having none of it. I'm sorry but if he can't see, from what limited game time Vukcevic has had, how good he's played then he's obviously in the wrong job. I dare say Cryer will cite Vukcevic's exclusion under a succession of managers as justification for his views but I'd argue that those managers didn't play him in his natural position, but even then he outshone most of his teammates when he was on the park.
I also think this may be a mistake. Contrary to what AC is now twittering Simon has never been given a run of games and those he has been given the odd 20mins he HAS made an impact - perhaps not the explosive Messi style AC is possibly referring to but real fans notice the quality and composure he showed ahead of others in his position. This has got to be about wages and it stinks because this guy should be starting a few games or given a chance - I thought everyone had a clean slate under MA. Looks like Simon is another victim... this is a shame.
eddyo
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8:33pm Wed 30 Jan 13
hasslem hasslem wrote:Top 5: Garner, Gennoe, Faz, Shearer & Tugay.
excellent interview with ryan nelsen on radio lancs tonight - spoke, with what seemed, genuine affection for his time at ewood.
makes you remember we have had some great players over the years and it wasn't just the 92-95 teams.
nelsen always gave 100% even when he was having an off day and carried himself with great diginity (as did tugay, brad and salgado).
personally, i would put nelsen in my top five favourite rovers players (btw - favourite - does not necessarily mean best)
nelsen, gennoe, shearer, batty, brotherstone
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Nelsen on the bench with a few others.
merlinrabbit
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8:38pm Wed 30 Jan 13
Jarrod Schulz Bearded Wonder
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8:38pm Wed 30 Jan 13
This is a horrendous decision, this lad is in and around the first team, what about shipping out those who aren't instead. Formica was the same, there are loads of portugese mincers to offload first.
This looks like a continuation of last season. Get rid of the better players on big money and keep the cheapies. I hope they know what they are doing as Kean learnt, you have to be able to spot a decent player first before you get rid of a high earner, otherwise you get relegated.
Wild Rover
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9:35pm Wed 30 Jan 13
I mean really, how is it that anyone we buy is cr~p until we sell them again and suddenly they were the best we had but never given a chance...bit transparent innit?
For goodness sake there are people on here bemoaning the loss of Diogo Rosado who have never seen him play! those of us that go to Ewood have only seen him a couple of times, he is not up to the English game , ditto for Formica, the rest of the Portuguese squad bar Gomes and Nunes and not forgetting Vukcevic
Appleton is rebuilding the squad as best he can and as he sees fit,and it is too much for the Negative agenda boy(s)
Fact is that Vukcevic's appearances have been limited by injury as well as not showing enough when he has played . I quite like him but he is not going to make it over here, better not to keep playing the sympathy card for failed players
phia012
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9:37pm Wed 30 Jan 13
stephenrover wrote:Vukcevic is not a centre mid - he's another one of our "11 number 10s". He plays in the hole and is less effective than our other forward options. When he has played in CM he has been very ineffective and poor defensively.
I think shipping out Vukcevic is a bad idea.
Which central midfielders do we have left? Three veterans in Murphy, Etuhu and Dunn, plus Jason Lowe.
All these exits with seemingly few replacements are worrying.
I do feel for the guy, because he isn't a bad player and I think he has potential, but we need the wages for players who can make an impact right now not in two years time. Maybe a loan and then see how he is come pre-season would be a good idea.
Also, glad to see the back of Formica - again, not a bad player... but not good enough. I classed him as a pretty dull player really, without the necessary forward impetus to really be a useful attacking force. He plays 'slow' football rather than the fast play that we need to do well in the Championship/Premier
ship. He'd be ok in Spain or Portugal.
Just need to dump those Portugese now and maybe we'll have some wages available to actually sign some useful players who will make a difference.
reggie0008
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10:15pm Wed 30 Jan 13
flowersorseaman? wrote:Yes maybe I'm being harsh on Lowe as he's still young and will improve and do a decent job at this level
flowersorseaman? wrote:On reflection got to take j.lo out of that as we need his engine, he gets about the pitch and can cover at full back. He'll be good for us as long as we don't expect him to be gazza or tugay!
reggie0008 wrote:Couldn't agree more reg, fine comment
Green screener he can most definately play, I saw him a few times playing for Sporting in 2009 working in Portugal, he is the best attacking midfielder at the club in my opinion, He has never been given a chance and I can't understand why, It's the story of our season to leave out our best players Vuckevic, Givet, Pederson, Gomes, Dunn, and use inferior ones, Murphy, Richards, Dann, Etuhu, Lowe.
Reg, Ayr
greenscreener
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10:48pm Wed 30 Jan 13
eddyo wrote:Difficult choice, if it's only five then I'll have a legend, a hero, the best, the quality, and the class act....
hasslem hasslem wrote:Top 5: Garner, Gennoe, Faz, Shearer & Tugay.
excellent interview with ryan nelsen on radio lancs tonight - spoke, with what seemed, genuine affection for his time at ewood.
makes you remember we have had some great players over the years and it wasn't just the 92-95 teams.
nelsen always gave 100% even when he was having an off day and carried himself with great diginity (as did tugay, brad and salgado).
personally, i would put nelsen in my top five favourite rovers players (btw - favourite - does not necessarily mean best)
nelsen, gennoe, shearer, batty, brotherstone
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Nelsen on the bench with a few others.
Faz, Garner, Shearer, Duff, Nelsen
steve18gls
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10:23pm Thu 31 Jan 13
A Darener says...
4:20pm Wed 30 Jan 13