Blackburn Rovers legend Alan Shearer says manager Steve Kean needs time to get things right.

Rovers fans left Venky's in no doubt as to their feelings towards Kean during Saturday's 4-0 drubbing at home to Manchester City, but Shearer insists it is too early to start considering pulling the trigger on the manager.

He told the Lancashire Telegraph: "He's the same manager who was there last season and we are only seven or eight games in to the new one.

"You don't become a bad manager in that space of time "The fans are unhappy and it is a tough situation for him to be in.

"They haven't got the points that everyone would have hoped," conceded Shearer, who scored 130 goals in 171 appearances for Rovers between 1992 and 1996, winning the Premier League in 1995.

"He's having a tough time and he needs results ASAP, just like any other manager does.

"It's a tough situation and he needs to win games. He hasn't, which is why he is under pressure.

"He will have known that when he took the job, though.

"I don't know what they are using the trip to India for, whether it is for a break or to play games or whatever but it is not ideal to be flying there when you are in their position and have got a free week without games.

"They would be better staying here to try to sort their problems out."