It just gets more and more comical. Steve Kean will be able to write a great warts-and-all exposé when he eventually gets the boot... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19487663 Steve Kean 'has not seen' new Blackburn Rovers signings play Blackburn Rovers manager Steve Kean has admitted he has not seen any of his three deadline day signings play live. Kean told BBC Radio Lancashire that Grzegorz Sandomierski, Nuno Henrique and Diogo Rosado were all recommended by global advisor Shebby Singh. "They're in the club now and we can have a real look at them," said Kean. "I've not seen them play live. "Shebby Singh was very excited about them coming here and was telling me how good they were." The Scot continued: "We feel as though we can improve any player that comes to the club and also integrate them as quickly as possible. "Shebby went to see Nuno Henrique play for Academica on the Friday before we played Leicester and told me he played very well. "The reports we have for Greg, who has played a lot of first-team football, are good but I've not seen him play myself." Singh, a former Malaysia international who had been working as a football pundit in Asia, was appointed to the role at Blackburn in June. Singh says owners Venky's have tasked him with "doing whatever he has to do" to win promotion . Blackburn signed 12 new players between the end of the season and the conclusion of the transfer window. They broke their transfer record on Thursday, paying Huddersfield £8m for striker Jordan Rhodes. Six of the other 11 new arrivals are from Portugal and Kean is confident that they will be able to adapt quickly to the English game. "These players have been identified by Shebby and he's been very excited about the technical abilities of these players," he added. "You can't have too many good players. "I would like to work with them really intensely over the next couple of weeks because we all know how difficult it is. "We've seen it with some players coming from foreign countries before, even with senior players like Michel Salgado when we had him here. "We need to push them as quickly as possible into the intensity that we train, which I know is different to how they train abroad. "It will hit them between the eyes straight away, but the sooner they can get involved with it, the better. If they show the signs that they can compete straight away, they'll get thrown in."
Or is he getting his excuses in early in the event that the new signings flop - ie, they weren't my choice guvnor, Shebby Singh signed em
I don't blame him, a young keeper who's never played outside of Poland and two players from the Portuguese lower leagues would make me nervous too.
Lower leagues? Diogo Rosado played last year at Feirense in the 1st division and its a product of Sporting youth teams. And Henrique also played in Feirense last year and now was at Académica also from 1st Division and will play in europa League this season because they won the Portuguese Cup.
I don't know them, I just thought that their records were less than impressive. Diogo Rosado played just 17 games last season for a team that were relegated, with all his other appearances being in the Segunda Liga. Nuno Henrique managed just 7 games for the same relegated team, before moving to Académica, where he played only a couple of games before being sent to Blackburn, he's also played almost all of his games in the Segunda Liga and he's nearly 26. Maybe they're both world beaters, but if they are, they seem to have been doing a bloody good job of hiding it.
Heard this Singh guy on talksport the other week, I'm sure the question was raised about their personal and business relationship, I remember thinking at the time , there's gonna be trouble at Blackburn. Time will tell
Could be like that player who I think was at Southampton... He was recommended as a joke by somebody to play for them, he made one appearance for the Saints in the Premier League, came on as a sub, played awful and was maybe subbed back off and sold to a non-league side! Someone else can refresh this for me because I've had one too many...
It was souness who signed someone on a fake George weahs recommendation. Think he brought him on as a sub then took him off again!
Timebomb Blackburn, How long before Venkys or whoever owns them, pulls the plug if they dont go up, cant be sustainable
