Blackburn Rovers have denied work permit problems were the reason they had failed to sign Bulgaria striker Ivelin Popov. Rovers had looked at bringing the 22-year-old Litex Lovech forward to Ewood Park.
But they insisted they pulled the plug on the deal, not the British Government.
Popov had a trial at Blackburn last month but reports suggested he would only have been signed had Jason Roberts moved elsewhere on transfer deadline day.
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