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Rovers wait for Roque offers

07 Jan 2009 - 15:19:59

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Blackburn Rovers chairman John Williams has confirmed that his club have yet to field an official bid for striker Roque Santa Cruz.

The 27-year-old Paraguay international continues to be linked with a big-money move to Manchester City, but Williams insists that the Citizens have yet to make their move.

He told the Lancashire Evening Telegraph: "The Santa Cruz situation continues to hang over our heads, but as I keep saying we have had no bids at the moment so there is nothing to discuss.

"Our focus has to be our next game at Fulham and the 17 games after that. We know we are in a fight, but our immediate focus is on getting people fit.

"There is one player we have moved on. I would say we are very close to making a bid for one player, but I would again stress there is no emergency.

"Sam Allardyce has had a very considered look at what we have got and we think it would take a good player to improve on what we already have at the club.

"He is not taking a scatter-gun approach to the transfer window and I would stress at the moment there have been no bids made or received."