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Blackburn Rovers have a lot of financial restrictions imposed upon them and it is starting to hurt their promotion aspirations.

Blackburn Rovers have a lot of financial restrictions imposed upon them and it is starting to hurt their promotion aspirations.

The club have only around 15 top-level players registered, while manager Gary Bowyer cannot bring in any more signings other than loan moves or free transfers. Even those transfers have to be earning less than £10,000 per week in the financial restrictions. Amidst such tight regulations, Blackburn also have to be concerned about the future of players like Jordan Rhodes. The forward is one of the saleable asset in the club. He has been linked with moves to top Championship clubs.

Bowyer says that despite the tough situation, he is prepared to wait and bring in quality name to the club. During this period, the manager is also concerned about the arrival of players who are merely there to add up the numbers. Instead, he wants to sign players want to play for the club more than anything else. Along with the likes of QPR, Blackburn face potential relegation down to League One if they do not improve the squad strength immediately. The new season begins in less than three weeks and Blackburn are certainly not in the best possible shape to take upon Wolves in the opening game.

“We must have the smallest established outfield playing squad of the 92 League clubs but we’re trying ever so hard. I’d like to assure the supporters that it’s not through a lack of trying.We’re under these restrictions and we’re getting gazumped on one or two because of the financial implications of it.It does annoy you, it does frustrate you, because a lot of work goes into it, but you’ve just got to cross them off the list and move on to the next one. We’ve got rid of players that we felt didn’t contribute to that environment,” said Bowyer.

After staging a quite remarkable comeback in the match against Wigan, Blackburn Rovers were left to pick up themselves for yet another Premier League weekend. Blackburn Rovers came into the match against Stoke City with some kind of form, whereas their opponents had been on an extremely poor run of form in recent weeks.

However, it looked like Stoke city were recovering from their European adventures, as they dominated against Blackburn. Stoke played extremely well to bring an end to the four consecutive defeats that they have been suffering in the League.

After staging a quite remarkable comeback in the match against Wigan, Blackburn Rovers were left to pick up themselves for yet another Premier League weekend. Blackburn Rovers came into the match against Stoke City with some kind of form, whereas their opponents had been on an extremely poor run of form in recent weeks.

However, it looked like Stoke city were recovering from their European adventures, as they dominated against Blackburn. Stoke played extremely well to bring an end to the four consecutive defeats that they have been suffering in the League.

Rovers now find themselves rock bottom of the table after Wigan Athletic managed to win against Sunderland. The eighth defeat of the season for Blackburn Rovers leaves them in a precarious position ahead of the Christmas fixtures.

It will be interesting to see if the Blackburn owners finally decided to take action on the future of Steve Kean. One of the most interesting aspects about the defeat was that Blackburn had recently awarded their manager Kean with a new contract, despite finding themselves having to contend with defeat after defeat.

Speaking after the match, Kean said “It was the miss from Mauro Formica at the start of the second half that proved to be crucial. If that had gone in it would have changed things completely. I didn’t think we played too badly today – we created chances and had the shots, so we’re disappointed not to have taken them.”

However, regardless of how well they played, Blackburn left the match empty-handed once again. It is going to be the points that decide it at the end of the day, and with just seven points from 13 games, Blackburn seem to be suffering.