Berg looking forward to Rovers challenge

Henning Berg concedes his return to Blackburn feels like a homecoming.The 43-year-old, who was confirmed a the club's new manager on Wednesday evening, was part of Blackburn's Premier League title-winning team in 1994/95 and came back for a second playing spell three years on from a £5million switch to Manchester United in 1997, going on to captain the team in their League Cup triumph in 2002.Asked whether it felt like he was coming home, Berg said: "It does actually. Driving in here to get the papers done was a fantastic feeling - the roads were the same, the weather was the same! I've had many, many good memories here. For myself I couldn't be back to a better place. It's different now coming in as a manager, of course. But this is a challenge that I really look forward to."Berg's previous managerial experience came with Lyn Oslo and Lillestrom in his native Norway, where he spent the last year working as a television pundit.It was in this role that he offered a scathing assessment of Blackburn's owners, Venky's, in the wake of relegation from the Barclays Premier League last term.In a now widely circulated quote, he said: "There are no real managers with credibility who would accept a job like that," - views he claims the interview process at Rovers alleviated."It's been a frustrating time and I looked at it from the outside," Berg explained. "Now I have spoken to the people inside the club, I know what they're thinking, I know what their ambitions are, I know what they're planning."There's no doubt the owners are ambitious. They want to put this club back into the Premier League, they want all the best for this club and I think they've made some important steps."They showed it when they put the money in for the players in the summer - Jordan Rhodes, Leon Best, (Danny) Murphy, (Dixon) Etuhu, (Nuno) Gomes."They also made changes in the management and I think they've taken good action in the right direction to take this club forward."

Source: PA