Source: Eurosport
Transfer talk unsettling Warnock
Blackburn boss Sam Allardyce revealed that defender Stephen Warnock did not travel for the game at Sunderland as he was not in the right frame of mind to play.
Warnock has been heavily linked with an £8million switch to Aston Villa in recent weeks.
Allardyce said: "He is at home because he struggled to focus on this game and didn't feel that mentally he was capable enough of giving his best, so we both took the decision to leave him back at Ewood.
"There have been no developments on the transfer front, but he didn't feel and I didn't feel that it was the right thing to do to play him."
Asked if Warnock could leave before the transfer window closes, Allardyce said: "We will wait and see what next week brings, but we haven't had anything near a bid we could consider to be enough, so he is still our player and I envisage he still will be our player.
"If anything, from my point of view, we need him to be our player even more because of Ryan Nelsen's injury."
