Michael Appleton sacked confirmed

[Acker79]

Widespread lazy journalism has led to this perception of Kean somehow being the "victim" in all this. He wasn't. He was Venky's stooge, the completely underqualified patsy installed by them to replace Allardyce so they could run (ruin) the club the way they saw fit, without the man in the dugout going disco mental at them in the press. Ridiculously outlandish promises, followed by multiple sales of all their best players and no money being made available to replace them. No proper manager would ever put up with that. Kean was part of the problem, and if I was a Blackburn fan, I'd have been giving him DOGS abuse as well to get him out of the club.

There was an article I linked on here in the summer or late last season that mentioned that the venkys had settled a lot of Blackburn debts (the article was how they would be financially sound in the championship, with no debts and high wage earners off loaded). I was told in response that venkys didn't pay the debt, that they used the money they made from player sales. Isn't that sensible?

I go back and forth. Things like paying their debts is good. Sacking a manager before an international break is better than a day or two before the next game. For his inability in the premier league, kean was doing a good job in the championship with a weaker team.

But, the venkys are a bit of a joke. I don't believe they are as sinister as belotti and archer, I think they were hoping to use football to help their business (both using it in britain to bring their company notice here, and using the premier league for prestige back in india) more than to asset strip or anything like that.

But they are not good for football. The fans are in part to blame for their fall this season since they drove out the only one of the five managers this season who actually had them going in the right direction. But, on the other hand, we criticise Portsmouth for enjoying ill found success over long term health and continuing to look at staying up or getting promotion as the cure to their ills, and so think driving out the venkys stooge was more important long term than getting back to the premier league at first asking, and think that shows the fans are deserving of support (like when we continued to protest in ways that saw points deducted making now league one survival impossible).

 

[Sweeney Todd]

Is anyone looking for a temporary job? There’s a manager’s job going at Blackburn Rovers. One week only…

 

[Ninja Elephant]

You can call Steve Kean a patsy all you want, you can say he stabbed Sam Allardyce in the back and you can say that the Venkys are disgusting and inappropriate owners and I will agree with all of them. Clearly, he's not a Premier League manager and he had no business at all managing a football club. Any football club.

But that does NOT change my opinion that the way he was treated by Blackburn fans was nothing short of abhorrent. I have a couple of mates who are Blackburn fans living in Brighton and they completely agree that the way he was treated was out of order. Protest against the regime of the owners DEFFINITELY. They are ridiculous and the fans have every right, as we did back in the day, to demand they do one. But to make Steve Kean, a man who was OBVIOUSLY the patsy, the victim of their hatred and abuse was lazy, easy and bang out of order.

I don't expect people to agree with me, but I have absolutely no sympathy for that set of fans. I would have done if they hadn't acted as they did toward Kean, but they did.

 

[Easy 10]

Are you aware that Steve Kean was complicit in the signing of football agent Jerome Anderson's son from Aberdeen on a 2 year deal (this is the same Jerome Anderson who was at the time acting as an advisor to the Venkys). This lad, at the age of 20, had played a grand total of half an hours professional football in his entire "career", yet Kean signs Anderson Jnr for what was then a Premier League club, and promptly bins him off to Orient on loan. Can you see any proper manager doing that ?

Kean is also a convicted drink-driver who lied in court to try to get off the charge (some gubbins about his drink being spiked, which was dismissed by the judge).

Kean has also had to pay substantial damages to Allardyce for claiming, in front of a load of Blackburn fans whilst pissed up in a bar, that the reason Allardyce was binned was because he was found out to be a crook.

Yes, Kean has always conducted himself with "great dignity" (if you go along with the lazy claptrap trotted out in the press about those nasty Blackburn fans who, amazingly enough, never wanted this bloke anywhere near their dugout as manager in the first place).

Class act, that Kean.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

I think Keelo was due to be moving up there in the summer, so it is as well this as happened now. I just hope JK can find another post as he's a great guy.

 

[MikeySmall]

But more than countered by the sale of Samba (£12m), Kalinic (£5m) Phil Jones (£17m), N'zoni (£4m) plus some reasonable Prem players who were released on frees (Emerton, Diouf, Benjani, Ryan Nelson) who could've done a job at this level.

Surely you could say that about any relegated team? Wolves - Fletcher (£13m), Jarvis (£8m), Kightly (£3m). Generally you lose your best players when you get relegated. Blackburn have still spanked a fortune.

For what it's worth, I do think the Venkys are a bunch of googles and Kean was their puppet. But to say they've not spent any money is incorrect.

 

[Easy 10]

Surely you could say that about any relegated team? Wolves - Fletcher (£13m), Jarvis (£8m), Kightly (£3m). Generally you lose your best players when you get relegated. Blackburn have still spanked a fortune.

For what it's worth, I do think the Venkys are a bunch of googles and Kean was their puppet. But to say they've not spent any money is incorrect.

You do indeed. Except most of those prominant sales happened when Blackburn were still in the Prem, and they didn't give Kean the funds to replace them - hence where they are now. Laughable when you recount the rhetoric when they took over about bringing in Beckham and Ronaldinho, expanding the global brand, blah, targetting the top 4 etc etc. They then sold all the silver, gave the "manager" £5m to spend in the January window, and told him anyone else coming in would have to be on loan. Kean knew which side his bread was buttered though, just kept his mouth shut and got on with it as per the plan. What a hero.

 

[Pavilionaire]

No side outside the Premier League has spent more seasons in the Prem than Blackburn Rovers. This is massive fall from grace, and any chance they had of attracting a decent manager to get them up in the future has surely gone.

The way things are going they'll be making up the numbers in 2013/14, but nothing more. Significantly, Jordan Rhodes is on a 5-year contract. Where the hell Blackburn will be in 5 years is anyone's guess.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

Are you aware that Steve Kean was complicit in the signing of football agent Jerome Anderson's son from Aberdeen on a 2 year deal (this is the same Jerome Anderson who was at the time acting as an advisor to the Venkys). This lad, at the age of 20, had played a grand total of half an hours professional football in his entire "career", yet Kean signs Anderson Jnr for what was then a Premier League club, and promptly bins him off to Orient on loan. Can you see any proper manager doing that ?

Kean is also a convicted drink-driver who lied in court to try to get off the charge (some gubbins about his drink being spiked, which was dismissed by the judge).

Kean has also had to pay substantial damages to Allardyce for claiming, in front of a load of Blackburn fans whilst pissed up in a bar, that the reason Allardyce was binned was because he was found out to be a crook.

Yes, Kean has always conducted himself with "great dignity" (if you go along with the lazy claptrap trotted out in the press about those nasty Blackburn fans who, amazingly enough, never wanted this bloke anywhere near their dugout as manager in the first place).

Class act, that Kean.

It sounds like you've got issues Stan, I think you need some counselling.

 

[Baron Pepperpot]

I spoke to Michael Appleton's agent on the train home tonight who said that he was under serious consideration for the Albion job around Poyet's appointment 'Tony Bloom is an admirer'.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

I spoke to Michael Appleton's agent on the train home tonight who said that he was under serious consideration for the Albion job around Poyet's appointment 'Tony Bloom is an admirer'.

God help us!

 

[shaunslats]

I spoke to Michael Appleton's agent on the train home tonight who said that he was under serious consideration for the Albion job around Poyet's appointment 'Tony Bloom is an admirer'.

whats there to admire? average manager, nothing special in the football played under him and leaves or gets sacked after a few months

 

[Frutos]

I spoke to Michael Appleton's agent on the train home tonight who said that he was under serious consideration for the Albion job around Poyet's appointment 'Tony Bloom is an admirer'.

What a terrifying thought.

 

[beorhthelm]

I spoke to Michael Appleton's agent on the train home tonight who said that he was under serious consideration for the Albion job around Poyet's appointment 'Tony Bloom is an admirer'.

desperate agent.

 

[Icy Gull]

Agent talking bollocks shock....I hope!!

 

[Baron Pepperpot]

desperate agent.

Apparently he is a serious candidate for the England U21 job

 

[Baron Pepperpot]

Also, ahem, Crystal Palace's training regime is awful, so says one of their more recent signings..

 

[saafend_seagull]

I spoke to Michael Appleton's agent on the train home tonight who said that he was under serious consideration for the Albion job around Poyet's appointment 'Tony Bloom is an admirer'.

I can assure you he was never under consideration.

 

[catfish]

I can assure you he was never under consideration.

Certainly not after he left that mess in the Palace changing room...

 

[Rugrat]

Apparently he is a serious candidate for the England U21 job

I've applied too