Doing a Lamballana and starting a thread..! So Venkys have effectively booted him out, by making his position too difficult. I have to say, Blackburn Rovers is a very odd football club from this perspective, as a Saints fan. I can't work out their strategy at all. He should have gone early last season, but they stuck with him. Now would seem to be the time to actually stick with him.!?! Then there's the court case involving Alardyce hanging over him. It's all rather odd. EDIT: Oops, forgot this... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19766783
Stupid time for him to go. No one will want the job now. Feel a bit sorry for him, he has had to put up with so much abuse.
I hope Blackburn get relegated. That will teach the fans that constantly abusing their manager and not supporting the team properly is wrong.
The timing seems very strange, I agree. Their results have been pretty good, really, especially for a recently relegated team.
I have felt sorry for the bloke from the moment he got that job. He was never a football manager and should never have been appointed. The abuse that him and his family have received whilst he was in that job has been too much.
They've overlooked the fact that some of the drop in attendance is due to their relegation, although a drop of 9000 is a lot. Kean couldn't continue as the Venky's must be impossible to work with. Best for Kean's sanity that he's left.
The timing of this does seem strange, why did they not do this at the end of last season and then appoint someone fresh with new ideas and time to build a squad. One comparison with Saints and Blackburn is the owners both set targets, with Saints five year plan to reach the Premier in just three years. While Blackburn's chicken farmers said they wanted Champion's league football within four years. With half of that time used up already and Champion's league an almost impossible target to be achieved in that time allocated. Who would want to take over now with what appears to be some of the most uninformed owners in football?
You couldn't make it up. Don't blame him for going though. He must feel like a huge weight has been lifted.
He is best off out of it. He's taken all of the abuse for the team not doing well yet never got the funds he was promised. He's had to front it all as the Venky's never seem to leave India and just summoned him there from time to time. To only be allowed to drop 5 points from the first 7 matches is one hell of a target, 5 wins 1 draw and a loss is a big ask for any club let alone one that has just been relegated. Sherwood seems to be the bookies favourite and it will be intersting to see if he is set such a high target. I am sure Keane will dust himself off and get a decent job as a coach somewhere he will be appreciated. Good luck to him.
The timing is strange, but he had to go. The guy is not a football manager, comes across as massively deluded and has, along with the Venkys, ****ed Blackburn right up off the pitch. The abuse he got was OTT, but it was almost a first for English football in my experience. Usually when the majority of fans start singing for a manager to be sacked, protesting against that manager and attendances start dropping, the manager would be gone very quickly. Imagine doing that for 6 months, it was bound to turn nasty as the fans get more and more frustrated that they are being ignored. Stole this from another forum where a Blackburn fan was asked why the fans hated Kean so much:
Cluckin hell, didn't see that coming. Keane must have felt cooped up at Blackburn. He was egged on to do it by the fans who refused to beak him as manager. I suspect fowl play behind the scenes, with the owners too chicken to do it openly. I think they will be scratching around for a new manager, as the wages are chicken feed compared with the bigger clubs. Any new man coming hen to Blackburn would be a cock to take the job. If they offerred me the job I would tell the venkeys om lette for another interview, and leg it.
You can only say the timing is strange if a manager is sacked. He wasn't. He resigned. It's patently obvious that he's got a constructive dismissal case going forward hence all the lawyer talk in his statement. Quite right too. Regardless of what you think of him, he's been treated like **** by the owners. Good luck to you Mr Kean.
