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News has arrived from Hong Kong, where Blackburn are participating in the Asia Trophy as a pre-season warm-up, that Steve Kean expects to be spending some money quite shortly.
Good thing too, Rovers supporters must be thinking. Precisely no one new has arrived at Ewood yet and as the club only survived on the final day of last season, has since lost players of the calibre of Phil Jones and Jermaine Jones, and could still lose Chris Samba and Nikola Kalinic, there must have been widespread relief at the manager promising buy canada goose jacket toronto to bring in three or four new faces. “We’re looking to recruit and strengthen in areas where we’ve seen we have to improve from last season,” Kean said. “We have a fixed budget but a competitive one. It’s no secret we’re looking for a striker, we are trying to get a central midfielder and we need a centre-half to replace Phil Jones.”
On second thoughts, perhaps it may be best to suspend the widespread relief until these players actually arrive. Kean was responding to questions at a press conference, not posting a mission statement on the club website, but even so it is unusual to see a Premier League club go about its transfer business in that way. Most clubs and most managers prefer to do the business first and the talk later.
Kenny Dalglish didn’t go around saying he was desperate to sign a winger; he was linked with about half a dozen then went out and bought Stewart Downing. Hardly anyone realised Sir Alex Ferguson was in the market for a new young centre-half until he snapped up Phil Jones in the blink of an eye. The explanations, such as they were, came later. Chelsea are clearly in the market for a clever playmaker who can unlock tight defences, otherwise they would not be upping their bid for Luka Modric. They may not prise him away from Spurs – although one would guess that eventually they will – but there is no need to tell the world what is required, just let your money do the talking.
Presumably Kean was seeking to reassure Blackburn fans that the club is not content merely to supply others but has some ambitions of its own, but if ever canada goose coat – kensington there was a case of actions speaking louder than words, the modern way of doing summer transfer business is the area to watch. When you have let more than half the window go past with no signings, just departures, it hardly strikes the necessary confident note when you speak, from a distant country, of signings you are still hopeful of making and areas in which you would like to strengthen.
This is not to say that Venky’s, the club’s owner, is keeping a damagingly tight control of Kean’s budget, or that Rovers will not astound the world in August with a quartet of nifty captures that no one saw coming, but at the moment it does not look like that and time is beginning to slip away. In an ideal world Kean would like to make a statement signing, and present it as a fait accompli. Not Ronaldinho or David Beckham, or any of the other daft marquee projects with which the club has been loosely linked, just a building block such as Shaun Wright-Phillips or Matt Jarvis. It is too late now to put in a bid for Charles N’Zogbia, though one would have thought Blackburn might have been interested.
A £10m signing would not only allay Newcastle-type fears that the windfall money for Jones may never be spent on restrengthening, it would help persuade other transfer targets that the club is on the up and actively looking to improve. At the moment Rovers look as if they will have another season of struggle and good players are leaving rather than joining, so the club will always find it hard to sell itself to targets who may prefer to join someone more obviously upwardly mobile. Kean is talking of a top-half finish, though that ambition is patently at odds with what has happened so far in the window. If he had said the same thing after presenting a decent, Premier League-proven player as his first summer capture it would have sounded so much more convincing, to other prospective newcomers as well as to fans.
Yet each manager has his own style, and it would be a boring league if everyone operated in exactly the same way. When the Manchester United manager said that buy a canada goose jacket online his summer spending was over, he was believed by precisely no one, and a day later his own chief executive, David Gill, said there may be one more significant arrival at Old Trafford before the window closes. Were David Moyes to announce that Everton would not be signing anyone between now and the end of August he would be believed by precisely everyone. Harry Redknapp would not, neither would Roberto Mancini.
Each to his own, but the difference between Kean and those other managers is that he has not yet completed a full season in charge, he has yet to establish his modus operandi. Were Redknapp to announce he was looking to bring in four new players, people would confidently expect six or seven. With Ferguson or Dalglish, you would probably get four new players. With Moyes, you would probably get a wry smile and a shrug, and perhaps one player on loan. But with Kean, who knows? He has never done this before. Even if four players arrive, will they be good players, or will they be more along the lines of Mauro Formica (no table-topping jokes, please) who arrived from Argentina bu sees a spike in canada can you wash a canada goose coat goose jacket thefts on the final day of the January transfer window and has yet to make an appearance?
Kean cannot afford to make too many mistakes, since along with Alex McLeish he is probably the most vulnerable of the canada goose coat – hybridge lite Premier League managers who survived from last season. It is debatable whether McLeish actually fits into that category, having been relegated and given another chance womens, but the distinction is made merely to exclude the three newly promoted managers, because it is almost impossible to predict how clubs new to the division will fare. For all the fulsome backing Kean has repeatedly been buy canada goose jacket in canada given by his owners, average cost canada goose jacket he will struggle if the team make a poor start. He lacks experience, something the fans are well aware of even if the owners do not think it important, and if Rovers have problems from day one the obvious option canada goose coat 1000 calorie diet would be to replace him while there is still time for a new man to turn the situation round. Not that at any time since the Venky’s takeover Rovers have shown any sign of going for the obvious option.
McLeish is vastly more proven as a manager, though for reasons well-documented all summer he is not going to start with the Villa fans on his side. He will need time to win them over, but he won’t get time without results. Again, a good start could make all the difference. A good start to the season, that is. McLeish has already made a better start in the transfer market than Kean. He is signing an excellent player in N’Zogbia.