Source: PA
Kean rejects agent talk
Blackburn manager Steve Kean insists he wields the power when it comes to signing players and has rejected suggestions agent Jerome Anderson has undue influence at the club.
Anderson advised the club in their search for new owners and when Venky's took over at Ewood Park in December he continued to work with the Indian firm in an advisory capacity.
Last week it was revealed Blackburn had agreed a pre-contract with Anderson's son Myles, who will sign a two-year deal this summer despite him playing just two minutes of competitive football with current club Aberdeen, whom he joined in January.
But Kean insists he has signed the 20-year-old defender on merit, having previously scouted the player and invited him for a trial at Rovers where he made a 13-minute substitute appearance in a friendly against Southport.
"I have the ability to sign anyone I want to sign because I have fantastic backing from the owners," said the manager. "I think he has a bright future immaterial of who his father is or where he has been before.
"Myles is a late developer. He has been in a family who decided education was the way to push him so he has not been in any academy programme. I actually recommended him earlier in the season and he came down here for a few weeks and did really well. Now, as manager, I have the opportunity to bring him in - as manager I can decide who is coming in - and he is a player with a bright future. I am very confident when he comes in he will have a bright future, will continue to develop and we'll push him through."
