The Blackburn Rovers Chronicle
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Dion De Neve was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 36. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market17 Aug 2026
Kristi Montgomery has said yes to Watford
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Blackburn Rovers have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Stoke City tell Blackburn Rovers: Róbert Boženík is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Too dear: Blackburn Rovers walk away from Ephron Mason-Clark
$9.2M was the most the club would pay and Coventry City were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $5.3M for Gyrano Kerk
Blackburn Rovers have gone to Antwerp with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Blackburn Rovers
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market17 Aug 2026
Harrogate Town join the queue for Valentin Joseph
Add another name to the list: Harrogate Town have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Valentin Joseph. The answer from Blackburn Rovers has not changed — yet.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Iacovelli in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Blackburn Rovers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
Richard Stewart steps up from the Blackburn Rovers academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Richard Stewart has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market James Walker steps up from the Blackburn Rovers academy
- Match Blackburn Rovers come up short against West Bromwich Albion
- The dugout The manager’s verdict