Appleton eyeing right back to combat injury crisis (From This Is Lancashire)

Any names in the frame?

Probably just another cheap no body the usual type that Appleton signs
Out with the lot of them

dangerous dave wrote:
Probably just another cheap no body the usual type that Appleton signs
Out with the lot of them

and there is nobody cheaper than you demented deluded dave...out with dd now!

tell you what appleton,,,why dont you bring in a manager who knows what hes doing ? your clueless and we want you out of our club,,,A S A P

1952 rover wrote:
Any names in the frame?

The article states todd kane.
Coyb

Whatever happened to Rekik ?

Arte et labore

Road Runner Road Runner wrote:
Whatever happened to Rekik ? Arte et labore

Rekik is a left back not a right back. Anyway Lowe shoud be left at right back if we have to play him as he is lost in midfield and is not a midfielder....

Liked Todd Kane in his first short spell, alot better than Orr anyway bring him back and put him straight in!

leitchy wrote:
Liked Todd Kane in his first short spell, alot better than Orr anyway bring him back and put him straight in!

hear hear Leitchy, Kane actually gave us an extra attacking option on the right side which is much needed and his crosses were quite decent too.....shame about his defending lol but he wont have much of that to do against the claret monkeys..

Road Runner Road Runner wrote:
Whatever happened to Rekik ?

Arte et labore

I am glad we have a LB with a name that sounds like an Indian head massage Mr W....how appropriate as there are quite a few heads need massaging in Pune :-)

French Rover wrote:

dangerous dave wrote:
Probably just another cheap no body the usual type that Appleton signs
Out with the lot of them

and there is nobody cheaper than you demented deluded dave...out with dd now!

Yeah Dave, go get a season ticket or go to a few games... THEN you have a justified right come on here to make a comment!

RTID

we still have the critics calling the manage,r think who ever was manager they call him it is in their blood .

noddy57 wrote:
tell you what appleton,,,why dont you bring in a manager who knows what hes doing ? your clueless and we want you out of our club,,,A S A P

Appletons style of play to defend, defend and defend is getting all the players injured. He like players strong and who can wrestle. Has he heard of the beautiful game? Can he change style of play or is it in his DNA to defend, defend and defend.

Appletons dna is Do Not Attack

Not panicking much then boys !` Oh my god. Forgot we playing the mighty Clarets on Sunday ! Better see if we can sign Messi and Ronaldinho on a 1 game loan deal` Clearly beating Burnley takes precedence over beating Millwall and a chance of getting into Europe !

Paying gazillions in wages and still have to beg and borrow to try and beat us. Agent Crappleton will do for me.

I wonder what has happened to Darren Moores secret, he wrote in the telegraph a few weeks back that since he had been promoted many times in the Champoinship that he had a special secret and he was going to pass it on to the players in order that they may get promoted. Do us a favour Darren and keep your secrets to yourself as they don't work. Another guy still learning his trade maybe ?

21 injured players !!!!!!!

WTF is going on?

moh wrote:

noddy57 wrote:
tell you what appleton,,,why dont you bring in a manager who knows what hes doing ? your clueless and we want you out of our club,,,A S A P

Appletons style of play to defend, defend and defend is getting all the players injured. He like players strong and who can wrestle. Has he heard of the beautiful game? Can he change style of play or is it in his DNA to defend, defend and defend.

l have often wondered what to call his defensive type of game,,,apart from garbage,,its a bit late for tinkering around the edges dont you think ? even with the aquisition of tod kane do you really expect us to improve ? to all those who still think appleton is a decent manager need to study the game in depth to realise the mans ability is zero,

If it is true welcome back Todd

Brilliant - A bit of Pace and Guile on the right.

Was Kane not one of Hennings?

We either attack attack attack on Sunday or Appleton leaves the club - Simple.

noddy57 wrote:

moh wrote:

noddy57 wrote:
tell you what appleton,,,why dont you bring in a manager who knows what hes doing ? your clueless and we want you out of our club,,,A S A P

Appletons style of play to defend, defend and defend is getting all the players injured. He like players strong and who can wrestle. Has he heard of the beautiful game? Can he change style of play or is it in his DNA to defend, defend and defend.

l have often wondered what to call his defensive type of game,,,apart from garbage,,its a bit late for tinkering around the edges dont you think ? even with the aquisition of tod kane do you really expect us to improve ? to all those who still think appleton is a decent manager need to study the game in depth to realise the mans ability is zero,

stand by for some flack from the chancers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

21 players injured where is the fitness ??? If this is the case he has no selection headaches as the team must pick itself, he needs a system which the players fit into it and does not involve the long ball we have no holding front man

martin jol denies murphy is going back to fulham, god not more bad news !!!!!!!!

GAZHAY wrote:

Road Runner Road Runner wrote:
Whatever happened to Rekik ? Arte et labore

Rekik is a left back not a right back. Anyway Lowe shoud be left at right back if we have to play him as he is lost in midfield and is not a midfielder....

I agree 100 per cent

owd nick wrote:
21 injured players !!!!!!!

WTF is going on?

they need to get in touch with one of them HAVE YOU BEEN INJURED AT WORK lot, theyll make a fortune!!!!!!!!

THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE RUNNING OF BLACKBURN ROVERS AND THE PART PLAYED BY JEROME ANDERSON.

Sports minister Hugh Robertson and former home secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw are pressing the Football Association for a response to concerns they have raised over Blackburn Rovers decent into chaos since the club was taken over in November 2010 by Indian poultry conglomerate Venky’s (VHPL).
Jack Straw (pic above) who has been MP for Blackburn since 1979 and became home secretary following labour’s 1997 General Election victory, is so incensed by the FA’s failure to provide answers to questions that Robertson put to footballs governing body last July that he plans to raise the issue in the House of Commons.
The FA since the beginning of 2011 have been examining events at Blackburn in the months following the £26 million VHPL takeover.
On January 4th that year the ‘OLD’ board of Directors wrote to Venky’s matriarch, Anuradha Desai, asking her to clarify what, if any, part had been played in Rovers transfer policy by one of the country’s leading football agents, Jerome Anderson, through his agency, SEM, of whom soccer pundit Charlie Nicholas is a consultant.
That letter, which is in the public domain, also raised concerns that the board were “not even being consulted on some of the most fundamental decisions this or any other football club ever makes”.
These included the sacking of former manager Sam Allardyce and the appointment of Steve Kean as his replacement. Kean who is represented by Anderson and SEM, was already working at the club as first team coach, having been taken off the dole que and given the job by Allardyce in August 2009.
Anderson (the man who ruined Blackburn Rovers football club) and SEM deny that they have acted inappropriately or in breach of the FA rules.
Seven months on Straw is still awaiting their reply. Sports minister Robertson and Straw are understood to find the ruling bodies failure to respond “baffling and unsatisfactory” and Straw is requesting an adjournment debate so he can raise the issue in House of Commons as a matter of wider public interest.
Documents seen by Nick Harris, investigative reporter for the Mail on Sunday suggest that Venky’s openly admitted knowing little if anything about Football when they bought Rovers. They relied instead on a number of advisors both formal and informal.
Anderson said in a televised interview, broadcast by Sky Sports News on January 10th 2012 that he had spent the whole of January 2011 at Blackburn working on club business.
In that interview Anderson said that during the January 2011 transfer window (having got rid of Allardyce) “I basically slept at the training ground for the whole of January and helped the club in so many different areas.” He explained that this work included bringing in new players. He added “we actively scoured the market and were fortunate to bring in two very talented players. Mauro Formica, who has gone on to become a Argentinian International, and a Spanish under 21 International, Ruben Rochina.” Anderson did not go on and enlarge on all the ‘dross’ he also signed wasting Millions of the Venky’s money.
Anderson Lawyers say he did not receive any payments for work he carried out in January 2011 “other than those which are fully documented with the FA for transfer dealings in which he was involved as a agent in bringing new players to the club and would ordinarily have been entitled to a fee”.
In November 2010, at the time of their purchase of Rovers, Venky’s entered into a long-term agreement with the Swiss-based Kentaro Group, who were hired to act as consultant’s to the owners.
Anderson’s company, SEM, have had a corporate partnership arrangement with Kentaro since February 2009 and Anderson is listed by Kentaro as a member of their senior management. Raising the question is there a ‘conflict of interest’ that is against FA rules. Anderson however denies any involvement in Kentaro’s day to day running.
David Newton the FA’s head of integrity, wrote to Blackburn on March 2nd 2011 asking questions about Rovers relationship with agent’s, and what roles, if any, they had in club business. Which would be illegal and against FA regulations.
The club replied 14 days later saying that no such arrangements were in place either formal or informal. Which goes against both the document seen by the Mail on Sunday and Anderson’s January 2011 Sky TV interview. But the letter from Rovers then secretary, Andrew pincher confirmed that Venky’s did have an arrangement with Kentaro under which Kentaro provides consultancy services to VHPL in respect of Football related business.
FA sources say that while they have jurisdiction over football clubs and agents, their authority over parent companies, such as VHPL is less well-defined.
With Rovers affairs now attracting the concerned interest of senior politician’s, the FA ability to govern all aspects of the professional game may again become a subject of even closer scrutiny in the corridors of power.
I could save Jack Straw and Sports Minister Hugh Robertson the bother. The answer is quite simple and straightforward and I have been telling everyone on this site for the past two years. Quite simply Jerome Anderson and Steve Kean allegedly carved up Blackburn Rovers in their own interest.
What Jerome Anderson did to Blackburn Rovers tantamount to ‘pillage and plunder’.
Anderson was put into a position of total power. A football agent running a football club is unprecedented in the history of football, never mind the Premiership. But this is what he did. This is the point behind Jack Straw’s letter to the Sport’s Minister and FA.
To achieve this Anderson had first to get rid of Sam Allardyce, who would not under any circumstances have worked with Anderson. Having got rid of Allardyce, and who can ever forget Mrs Anuradha Desai live on Sky Sports News issuing the statement in December 2010 following Allardyce’s sacking “Blackburn Rovers should be in the Premiership’s top four and playing in Europe and do not play entertaining football and I like to be entertained”. I wonder where she got that statement from ? ‘ NOT ROCKET SCIENCE TO WORK OUT IS IT.
Anderson then allegedly engineered the departure from the board room of John Williams and Tom Finn.
With his own man, Steve Kean, now in place the task was simple. Anderson was at liberty to sign and sell what players he wanted to, with Steve Kean no more than a ‘nodding dog’. Anderson even signed his own son, Myles, and put him on a Premiership contract. Players came and players went. I won’t go into all the transactions, they are well documented and numerous. Never has a football club been plundered and pillaged to such an extent. Even Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United is on record as saying Blackburn Rovers problems and the sacking of Sam Allardyce are down to “the whim of a football agent”. Although Ferguson stopped short of naming names.
Reg.
Footnote: More to follow.

French Rover wrote:

dangerous dave wrote:
Probably just another cheap no body the usual type that Appleton signs
Out with the lot of them

and there is nobody cheaper than you demented deluded dave...out with dd now!

Like Appleton & Co all words and no substance - you havent a clue!!!
OUT WITH THE LOT OF THEM

Reg Rover wrote:
THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE RUNNING OF BLACKBURN ROVERS AND THE PART PLAYED BY JEROME ANDERSON.

Sports minister Hugh Robertson and former home secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw are pressing the Football Association for a response to concerns they have raised over Blackburn Rovers decent into chaos since the club was taken over in November 2010 by Indian poultry conglomerate Venky’s (VHPL).
Jack Straw (pic above) who has been MP for Blackburn since 1979 and became home secretary following labour’s 1997 General Election victory, is so incensed by the FA’s failure to provide answers to questions that Robertson put to footballs governing body last July that he plans to raise the issue in the House of Commons.
The FA since the beginning of 2011 have been examining events at Blackburn in the months following the £26 million VHPL takeover.
On January 4th that year the ‘OLD’ board of Directors wrote to Venky’s matriarch, Anuradha Desai, asking her to clarify what, if any, part had been played in Rovers transfer policy by one of the country’s leading football agents, Jerome Anderson, through his agency, SEM, of whom soccer pundit Charlie Nicholas is a consultant.
That letter, which is in the public domain, also raised concerns that the board were “not even being consulted on some of the most fundamental decisions this or any other football club ever makes”.
These included the sacking of former manager Sam Allardyce and the appointment of Steve Kean as his replacement. Kean who is represented by Anderson and SEM, was already working at the club as first team coach, having been taken off the dole que and given the job by Allardyce in August 2009.
Anderson (the man who ruined Blackburn Rovers football club) and SEM deny that they have acted inappropriately or in breach of the FA rules.
Seven months on Straw is still awaiting their reply. Sports minister Robertson and Straw are understood to find the ruling bodies failure to respond “baffling and unsatisfactory” and Straw is requesting an adjournment debate so he can raise the issue in House of Commons as a matter of wider public interest.
Documents seen by Nick Harris, investigative reporter for the Mail on Sunday suggest that Venky’s openly admitted knowing little if anything about Football when they bought Rovers. They relied instead on a number of advisors both formal and informal.
Anderson said in a televised interview, broadcast by Sky Sports News on January 10th 2012 that he had spent the whole of January 2011 at Blackburn working on club business.
In that interview Anderson said that during the January 2011 transfer window (having got rid of Allardyce) “I basically slept at the training ground for the whole of January and helped the club in so many different areas.” He explained that this work included bringing in new players. He added “we actively scoured the market and were fortunate to bring in two very talented players. Mauro Formica, who has gone on to become a Argentinian International, and a Spanish under 21 International, Ruben Rochina.” Anderson did not go on and enlarge on all the ‘dross’ he also signed wasting Millions of the Venky’s money.
Anderson Lawyers say he did not receive any payments for work he carried out in January 2011 “other than those which are fully documented with the FA for transfer dealings in which he was involved as a agent in bringing new players to the club and would ordinarily have been entitled to a fee”.
In November 2010, at the time of their purchase of Rovers, Venky’s entered into a long-term agreement with the Swiss-based Kentaro Group, who were hired to act as consultant’s to the owners.
Anderson’s company, SEM, have had a corporate partnership arrangement with Kentaro since February 2009 and Anderson is listed by Kentaro as a member of their senior management. Raising the question is there a ‘conflict of interest’ that is against FA rules. Anderson however denies any involvement in Kentaro’s day to day running.
David Newton the FA’s head of integrity, wrote to Blackburn on March 2nd 2011 asking questions about Rovers relationship with agent’s, and what roles, if any, they had in club business. Which would be illegal and against FA regulations.
The club replied 14 days later saying that no such arrangements were in place either formal or informal. Which goes against both the document seen by the Mail on Sunday and Anderson’s January 2011 Sky TV interview. But the letter from Rovers then secretary, Andrew pincher confirmed that Venky’s did have an arrangement with Kentaro under which Kentaro provides consultancy services to VHPL in respect of Football related business.
FA sources say that while they have jurisdiction over football clubs and agents, their authority over parent companies, such as VHPL is less well-defined.
With Rovers affairs now attracting the concerned interest of senior politician’s, the FA ability to govern all aspects of the professional game may again become a subject of even closer scrutiny in the corridors of power.
I could save Jack Straw and Sports Minister Hugh Robertson the bother. The answer is quite simple and straightforward and I have been telling everyone on this site for the past two years. Quite simply Jerome Anderson and Steve Kean allegedly carved up Blackburn Rovers in their own interest.
What Jerome Anderson did to Blackburn Rovers tantamount to ‘pillage and plunder’.
Anderson was put into a position of total power. A football agent running a football club is unprecedented in the history of football, never mind the Premiership. But this is what he did. This is the point behind Jack Straw’s letter to the Sport’s Minister and FA.
To achieve this Anderson had first to get rid of Sam Allardyce, who would not under any circumstances have worked with Anderson. Having got rid of Allardyce, and who can ever forget Mrs Anuradha Desai live on Sky Sports News issuing the statement in December 2010 following Allardyce’s sacking “Blackburn Rovers should be in the Premiership’s top four and playing in Europe and do not play entertaining football and I like to be entertained”. I wonder where she got that statement from ? ‘ NOT ROCKET SCIENCE TO WORK OUT IS IT.
Anderson then allegedly engineered the departure from the board room of John Williams and Tom Finn.
With his own man, Steve Kean, now in place the task was simple. Anderson was at liberty to sign and sell what players he wanted to, with Steve Kean no more than a ‘nodding dog’. Anderson even signed his own son, Myles, and put him on a Premiership contract. Players came and players went. I won’t go into all the transactions, they are well documented and numerous. Never has a football club been plundered and pillaged to such an extent. Even Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United is on record as saying Blackburn Rovers problems and the sacking of Sam Allardyce are down to “the whim of a football agent”. Although Ferguson stopped short of naming names.
Reg.
Footnote: More to follow.

Where did you get that from Reg, because I read something similar about 12 months ago.

Digging up old, unproven tripe based on suspicion and conjecture just muddies the water.

I believe the FA found nothing wrong, if they had we would be penalised, just like other clubs.

Fines, points deductions, relegations, etc; etc.

So even though we are up **** creek without a paddle, we don't appear to have done anything illegal.

owd nick wrote:
21 injured players !!!!!!!

WTF is going on?

More likely 21 players feigning injury to avoid further embarrassment of playing under Appleton

Don't bother trying to get Josh King fit - he is absolutely useless. Rarely have I seen a player so lacking in skill, passion and commitment.

benal13 wrote:

owd nick wrote:
21 injured players !!!!!!!

WTF is going on?

they need to get in touch with one of them HAVE YOU BEEN INJURED AT WORK lot, theyll make a fortune!!!!!!!!

Think Orr was injured off the ball by Shittu. All I can say is, thanks big man!

Reg Rover wrote:
THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE RUNNING OF BLACKBURN ROVERS AND THE PART PLAYED BY JEROME ANDERSON.

Sports minister Hugh Robertson and former home secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw are pressing the Football Association for a response to concerns they have raised over Blackburn Rovers decent into chaos since the club was taken over in November 2010 by Indian poultry conglomerate Venky’s (VHPL).
Jack Straw (pic above) who has been MP for Blackburn since 1979 and became home secretary following labour’s 1997 General Election victory, is so incensed by the FA’s failure to provide answers to questions that Robertson put to footballs governing body last July that he plans to raise the issue in the House of Commons.
The FA since the beginning of 2011 have been examining events at Blackburn in the months following the £26 million VHPL takeover.
On January 4th that year the ‘OLD’ board of Directors wrote to Venky’s matriarch, Anuradha Desai, asking her to clarify what, if any, part had been played in Rovers transfer policy by one of the country’s leading football agents, Jerome Anderson, through his agency, SEM, of whom soccer pundit Charlie Nicholas is a consultant.
That letter, which is in the public domain, also raised concerns that the board were “not even being consulted on some of the most fundamental decisions this or any other football club ever makes”.
These included the sacking of former manager Sam Allardyce and the appointment of Steve Kean as his replacement. Kean who is represented by Anderson and SEM, was already working at the club as first team coach, having been taken off the dole que and given the job by Allardyce in August 2009.
Anderson (the man who ruined Blackburn Rovers football club) and SEM deny that they have acted inappropriately or in breach of the FA rules.
Seven months on Straw is still awaiting their reply. Sports minister Robertson and Straw are understood to find the ruling bodies failure to respond “baffling and unsatisfactory” and Straw is requesting an adjournment debate so he can raise the issue in House of Commons as a matter of wider public interest.
Documents seen by Nick Harris, investigative reporter for the Mail on Sunday suggest that Venky’s openly admitted knowing little if anything about Football when they bought Rovers. They relied instead on a number of advisors both formal and informal.
Anderson said in a televised interview, broadcast by Sky Sports News on January 10th 2012 that he had spent the whole of January 2011 at Blackburn working on club business.
In that interview Anderson said that during the January 2011 transfer window (having got rid of Allardyce) “I basically slept at the training ground for the whole of January and helped the club in so many different areas.” He explained that this work included bringing in new players. He added “we actively scoured the market and were fortunate to bring in two very talented players. Mauro Formica, who has gone on to become a Argentinian International, and a Spanish under 21 International, Ruben Rochina.” Anderson did not go on and enlarge on all the ‘dross’ he also signed wasting Millions of the Venky’s money.
Anderson Lawyers say he did not receive any payments for work he carried out in January 2011 “other than those which are fully documented with the FA for transfer dealings in which he was involved as a agent in bringing new players to the club and would ordinarily have been entitled to a fee”.
In November 2010, at the time of their purchase of Rovers, Venky’s entered into a long-term agreement with the Swiss-based Kentaro Group, who were hired to act as consultant’s to the owners.
Anderson’s company, SEM, have had a corporate partnership arrangement with Kentaro since February 2009 and Anderson is listed by Kentaro as a member of their senior management. Raising the question is there a ‘conflict of interest’ that is against FA rules. Anderson however denies any involvement in Kentaro’s day to day running.
David Newton the FA’s head of integrity, wrote to Blackburn on March 2nd 2011 asking questions about Rovers relationship with agent’s, and what roles, if any, they had in club business. Which would be illegal and against FA regulations.
The club replied 14 days later saying that no such arrangements were in place either formal or informal. Which goes against both the document seen by the Mail on Sunday and Anderson’s January 2011 Sky TV interview. But the letter from Rovers then secretary, Andrew pincher confirmed that Venky’s did have an arrangement with Kentaro under which Kentaro provides consultancy services to VHPL in respect of Football related business.
FA sources say that while they have jurisdiction over football clubs and agents, their authority over parent companies, such as VHPL is less well-defined.
With Rovers affairs now attracting the concerned interest of senior politician’s, the FA ability to govern all aspects of the professional game may again become a subject of even closer scrutiny in the corridors of power.
I could save Jack Straw and Sports Minister Hugh Robertson the bother. The answer is quite simple and straightforward and I have been telling everyone on this site for the past two years. Quite simply Jerome Anderson and Steve Kean allegedly carved up Blackburn Rovers in their own interest.
What Jerome Anderson did to Blackburn Rovers tantamount to ‘pillage and plunder’.
Anderson was put into a position of total power. A football agent running a football club is unprecedented in the history of football, never mind the Premiership. But this is what he did. This is the point behind Jack Straw’s letter to the Sport’s Minister and FA.
To achieve this Anderson had first to get rid of Sam Allardyce, who would not under any circumstances have worked with Anderson. Having got rid of Allardyce, and who can ever forget Mrs Anuradha Desai live on Sky Sports News issuing the statement in December 2010 following Allardyce’s sacking “Blackburn Rovers should be in the Premiership’s top four and playing in Europe and do not play entertaining football and I like to be entertained”. I wonder where she got that statement from ? ‘ NOT ROCKET SCIENCE TO WORK OUT IS IT.
Anderson then allegedly engineered the departure from the board room of John Williams and Tom Finn.
With his own man, Steve Kean, now in place the task was simple. Anderson was at liberty to sign and sell what players he wanted to, with Steve Kean no more than a ‘nodding dog’. Anderson even signed his own son, Myles, and put him on a Premiership contract. Players came and players went. I won’t go into all the transactions, they are well documented and numerous. Never has a football club been plundered and pillaged to such an extent. Even Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United is on record as saying Blackburn Rovers problems and the sacking of Sam Allardyce are down to “the whim of a football agent”. Although Ferguson stopped short of naming names.
Reg.
Footnote: More to follow.

Footnote. We don't care. Go away

GameRoverMan wrote:
Don't bother trying to get Josh King fit - he is absolutely useless. Rarely have I seen a player so lacking in skill, passion and commitment.

Can't disagree but think Bentley runs him close!

CheltRover wrote:

Reg Rover wrote:
THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE RUNNING OF BLACKBURN ROVERS AND THE PART PLAYED BY JEROME ANDERSON.

Sports minister Hugh Robertson and former home secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw are pressing the Football Association for a response to concerns they have raised over Blackburn Rovers decent into chaos since the club was taken over in November 2010 by Indian poultry conglomerate Venky’s (VHPL).
Jack Straw (pic above) who has been MP for Blackburn since 1979 and became home secretary following labour’s 1997 General Election victory, is so incensed by the FA’s failure to provide answers to questions that Robertson put to footballs governing body last July that he plans to raise the issue in the House of Commons.
The FA since the beginning of 2011 have been examining events at Blackburn in the months following the £26 million VHPL takeover.
On January 4th that year the ‘OLD’ board of Directors wrote to Venky’s matriarch, Anuradha Desai, asking her to clarify what, if any, part had been played in Rovers transfer policy by one of the country’s leading football agents, Jerome Anderson, through his agency, SEM, of whom soccer pundit Charlie Nicholas is a consultant.
That letter, which is in the public domain, also raised concerns that the board were “not even being consulted on some of the most fundamental decisions this or any other football club ever makes”.
These included the sacking of former manager Sam Allardyce and the appointment of Steve Kean as his replacement. Kean who is represented by Anderson and SEM, was already working at the club as first team coach, having been taken off the dole que and given the job by Allardyce in August 2009.
Anderson (the man who ruined Blackburn Rovers football club) and SEM deny that they have acted inappropriately or in breach of the FA rules.
Seven months on Straw is still awaiting their reply. Sports minister Robertson and Straw are understood to find the ruling bodies failure to respond “baffling and unsatisfactory” and Straw is requesting an adjournment debate so he can raise the issue in House of Commons as a matter of wider public interest.
Documents seen by Nick Harris, investigative reporter for the Mail on Sunday suggest that Venky’s openly admitted knowing little if anything about Football when they bought Rovers. They relied instead on a number of advisors both formal and informal.
Anderson said in a televised interview, broadcast by Sky Sports News on January 10th 2012 that he had spent the whole of January 2011 at Blackburn working on club business.
In that interview Anderson said that during the January 2011 transfer window (having got rid of Allardyce) “I basically slept at the training ground for the whole of January and helped the club in so many different areas.” He explained that this work included bringing in new players. He added “we actively scoured the market and were fortunate to bring in two very talented players. Mauro Formica, who has gone on to become a Argentinian International, and a Spanish under 21 International, Ruben Rochina.” Anderson did not go on and enlarge on all the ‘dross’ he also signed wasting Millions of the Venky’s money.
Anderson Lawyers say he did not receive any payments for work he carried out in January 2011 “other than those which are fully documented with the FA for transfer dealings in which he was involved as a agent in bringing new players to the club and would ordinarily have been entitled to a fee”.
In November 2010, at the time of their purchase of Rovers, Venky’s entered into a long-term agreement with the Swiss-based Kentaro Group, who were hired to act as consultant’s to the owners.
Anderson’s company, SEM, have had a corporate partnership arrangement with Kentaro since February 2009 and Anderson is listed by Kentaro as a member of their senior management. Raising the question is there a ‘conflict of interest’ that is against FA rules. Anderson however denies any involvement in Kentaro’s day to day running.
David Newton the FA’s head of integrity, wrote to Blackburn on March 2nd 2011 asking questions about Rovers relationship with agent’s, and what roles, if any, they had in club business. Which would be illegal and against FA regulations.
The club replied 14 days later saying that no such arrangements were in place either formal or informal. Which goes against both the document seen by the Mail on Sunday and Anderson’s January 2011 Sky TV interview. But the letter from Rovers then secretary, Andrew pincher confirmed that Venky’s did have an arrangement with Kentaro under which Kentaro provides consultancy services to VHPL in respect of Football related business.
FA sources say that while they have jurisdiction over football clubs and agents, their authority over parent companies, such as VHPL is less well-defined.
With Rovers affairs now attracting the concerned interest of senior politician’s, the FA ability to govern all aspects of the professional game may again become a subject of even closer scrutiny in the corridors of power.
I could save Jack Straw and Sports Minister Hugh Robertson the bother. The answer is quite simple and straightforward and I have been telling everyone on this site for the past two years. Quite simply Jerome Anderson and Steve Kean allegedly carved up Blackburn Rovers in their own interest.
What Jerome Anderson did to Blackburn Rovers tantamount to ‘pillage and plunder’.
Anderson was put into a position of total power. A football agent running a football club is unprecedented in the history of football, never mind the Premiership. But this is what he did. This is the point behind Jack Straw’s letter to the Sport’s Minister and FA.
To achieve this Anderson had first to get rid of Sam Allardyce, who would not under any circumstances have worked with Anderson. Having got rid of Allardyce, and who can ever forget Mrs Anuradha Desai live on Sky Sports News issuing the statement in December 2010 following Allardyce’s sacking “Blackburn Rovers should be in the Premiership’s top four and playing in Europe and do not play entertaining football and I like to be entertained”. I wonder where she got that statement from ? ‘ NOT ROCKET SCIENCE TO WORK OUT IS IT.
Anderson then allegedly engineered the departure from the board room of John Williams and Tom Finn.
With his own man, Steve Kean, now in place the task was simple. Anderson was at liberty to sign and sell what players he wanted to, with Steve Kean no more than a ‘nodding dog’. Anderson even signed his own son, Myles, and put him on a Premiership contract. Players came and players went. I won’t go into all the transactions, they are well documented and numerous. Never has a football club been plundered and pillaged to such an extent. Even Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United is on record as saying Blackburn Rovers problems and the sacking of Sam Allardyce are down to “the whim of a football agent”. Although Ferguson stopped short of naming names.
Reg.
Footnote: More to follow.

Footnote. We don't care. Go away

You should care. If you don't, then GO AWAY!