07 February 2024 , 18:06
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Jon Dahl Tomasson negotiated his departure from Blackburn on Wednesday night after offering to quit as boss.
Blackburn’s Indian owners, Venky’s, are considering Tomasson’s offer and the Dane feels he cannot carry on. Tomasson cannot walk away from the thee-year deal he signed in June 2022 and needs Venky’s to agree to his departure.
He is prepared to wave his right to compensation to be allowed to go and feels his time at Ewood Park is over. Club officials are talking to Venky’s in India and they need them to sanction Tomasson’s departure.
His exit comes in the wake of Blackburn failing to land USA striker Duncan McGuire from MLS Orlando City because of an administrative error. Blackburn completed all the paperwork to sign McGuire on loan with a view to a permanent deal in the summer after Venky’s refused to release the cash to sign him in January.
However, Rovers did not send in the documentation before Thursday’s 10pm deadline and have appealed against the EFL’s decision to block the deal. The administrative error comes 12 months after Rovers failed to land Lewis O’Brien from Nottingham Forest for similar reasons.
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The collapse of the McGuire deal has proved to be the final straw for Tomasson, who has seen most of his best players leave in the last two transfer windows.
The club gagged him from speaking to the media on Friday and he claimed after the damaging home defeat to QPR that he was dealing with the effects of a financial “hand grenade”.
Venky’s are unable to inject any new cash into Rovers because of legal battles in India and Tomasson has had enough of firefighting. He offered to go at the end of the summer transfer window when starmen Ben Brereton Diaz, Bradley Dack, Daniel Ayala and Thomas Kaminski all left.
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Tomasson saw Blackburn fail to land Orlando City striker Duncan McGuire on deadline day due to an administrative error (Rich Linley/Getty Images)However Venky’s were not prepared to let Tomasson walk away and demanded compensation. Tomasson, who moved his family over to Blackburn from Rotterdam last summer, saw teenage midfielder Adam Wharton join Crystal Palace for a club record £22million in the last transfer window.
Tomasson, 47, who was wanted by Stoke in December, hoped to win promotion when he took over at Blackburn and missed out on the play-offs last season on goal difference.
Rovers have steadily slipped down the table to 18th and have won just one of their last 11 Championship games because of the exodus of talent and experience. The Dane has repeatedly not been given the quality and experience he needs to halt Rovers’ slide and has had enough.