Writing in the Times today, Gary Jacobs identifies Blackburn Rivers have designs on making Alan Shearer their new manager if Steve Kean is sacked. ‘If Steve Kean is sacked’! Surely its only as matter of time before this becomes a reality.
It seems that every Blackburn
Rovers fans who cares to make a comment, comes out with the same line, he must go. To a neutral on this matter like me, this seems odd. Steve Kean may not be the most charismatic of managers but he seems to have done a decent job. Who else did Blackburn think they could get? The ‘minor league’ of Premier League management stock in the form of the likes of, Steve Bruce, Mick McCarthy and Owen Coyle may be possibilities but none of these have really done anything remarkable so far.
Kean’s fate is expected to be decided as early as tomorrow after talks with the club owners, despite the club being second in the npower Championship after seven games.
Shearer was part of the Blackburn side that won the Premier League title in 1995, scoring a record 34 goals, and he turned down a previous approach to return to his former club when Sam Allardyce was dismissed as manager in 2010.
Shearer was in charge of Newcastle United for eight games, picking up five points and failing to save them from relegation, in his only previous experience as a manager of a club in 2009. He left Newcastle at the end of that season and held what he described as “unsuccessful” talks about becoming Cardiff City manager last year.
The BBC pundit has previously blamed the Blackburn owners, the Venky’s, for the club’s malaise and has expressed sympathy for Kean in the summer. “There is only the owners you can blame really – they are the only guys you can look at and what disappoints me is that nobody really hears from them,” he said.
Kean, 44, has been under pressure from large sections of fans calling for his dismissal throughout his tenure since he replaced Allardyce. Blackburn were relegated from the Premier League last season and the fans continued their abuse of the Scot after the 2-1 home defeat by Middlesbrough on Friday.
Blackburn are also considering Tim Sherwood, the Tottenham technical co-ordinater, who looks after the development side at the club.
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