Just a quick post from work before I have a full write up, but this needed to be posted asap. Michel Salgado is a Rover! He signed on a free for two years after being released from Real Madrid. More on this later, but that article on the Offish site is

Well, when you field a 5th choice midfield and have two strikers who can’t finish and Given has a hell of a game and your team just aimlessly and wastefully passes and lobs the ball around the field hoping something positive will

With Russian Pavel Pogrebnyak out of the running and all leads looking dead, a surprise candidate has emerged out of the blue.
21 year old Croatian International Nikola Kalinic is the leading contender to be signed at Ewood Park now. Reports coming from

(Picture unrelated, I just got my away jersey in the post so I figured I’d show it off again)
Alright, I know I’ve been absent for a couple of days and there has been a lot of stuff going on. I made the trip to Baltimore Friday night to see

Skipper Ryan Nelson spoke to the Lancashire Telegraph about Big Sam’s quality as manager and doesn’t expect the club to panic buy this summer.
You can read the article here (click) and from some of the quotes, you can almost sense Nelson

Well do yourself a favor and become a fan of the Blackburn Offside page on facebook. Just click that Find us button to go to our page and become a fan. Then tell all your other Rovers mates. It’s that simple! The bigger we grow, the work can get

Big Sam showed no hesitation when talking about the two 45 minute games played by Rovers yesterday. In this article from the offish site Sam was quick to highlight some highs and lows of the performances.
Sam praised the first XI against CD Nacional, but

Rovers have been busy this pre season so far with friendlies out the wazoo this week. I also feel like a fake reporter when I write about games I haven’t seen, so I’m going to spare everyone lies and made up facts in write ups about the

Well, Matt Derbyshire has officially completed his move to Olympiakos on a four year deal for an undisclosed fee. Hopefully there was some sort of sell on clause thrown in there in case he blows up over there.
While that was going on, Gael Givet was

From the Offish Site:

Rovers can confirm that Roque Santa Cruz has this afternoon completed a transfer to Manchester City for an undisclosed fee.

Finally the end of the Roque saga and the beginning of the “Who the hell are we gonna buy with this