Home › Premiership News

Blackburn outbid for Standard Liege star Witsel

Submitted by tribalfootball.com on Sun, 07/10/2011 - 10:50

Blackburn Rovers have missed out on the signing of Standard Liege midfielder Axel Witsel.

The Mirror says Rovers boss Steve Kean wanted to land the brilliant Standard Liege hard man but the Rovers owners only offered £4 million for him. Portuguese giants Benfica stepped in yesterday with a £7 million deal to beat him in the race.

The Blackburn chief turned to Witsel - who is represented by the Rovers advisers Kentaro - after being priced out of a move for Schalke's United States star Jermaine Jones who starred on loan last season.

Witsel was keen to come to the Premier League, but is opting for Benfica instead because they put a much better package together for him and Standard.

 
It's kicking off again! Click here for your No1 source for Blackburn transfer market news and gossip.

Read more:

Join the conversation on

Tribalfootball Store

Blackburn Rovers 10/11 SS Home Football Shirt

Blackburn Rovers 10/11 SS Home Football Shirt Made By Umbro Sponsor Crown Paints Key Players - Ryan Nelson,David Dunn, El-Hadj Diouf Colour Royal/White

£16.99 Buy
FC Zenit Saint Petersburg Home Football Shirt

FC Zenit Saint Petersburg Home Short Sleeve Football Shirt Made By Nike FC Zenit play in the Russian Premier League & are Current Champions. Colour Laser Blue/Blue Lacquer/White

£29.99 Buy
FC Lorient 11/12 SS Home Football Shirt

Football Club Lorient-Bretagne Sud 11/12 SS Home Football Shirt Made By Macron Sponsor La trinitaine Colour Orange/Blk

£14.99 Buy
adiPure IV TRX FG Football Boots Black/Blue

adiPure IV TRX FG Football Boots Made By Adidas Classic Boot Re Born.

£49.99 Buy
Total 90 Shoot III FG Kids Football Boots Pearl White/Challange Red/Black

Total 90 Shoot III Kids FG Football Boots.

£19.99 Buy
F50 adizero TRX FG Football Boots Black/Electricity

F50 adizero TRX FG Football Boots Made By Adidas The Best selling Speed boot on the market. The adizero is helps enhance players who want to quicken their footwork and accelerate with the ball.

£79.99 Buy
Blackburn Rovers 12/13 Home Football Shirt

Blackburn Rovers 12/13 Home Football Shirt Made By Umbro

£49.99 Buy
Glasgow Rangers 12/13 Home Football Shirt

Blackburn Rovers 12/13 Home Football Shirt Made By Umbro

£49.99 Buy

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Filtered words will be replaced with the filtered version of the word.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <i> <b> <a> <p> <br> <dd> <blockquote> <q>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Glossary terms will be automatically marked with links to their descriptions. If there are certain phrases or sections of text that should be excluded from glossary marking and linking, use the special markup, [no-glossary] ... [/no-glossary]. Additionally, these HTML elements will not be scanned: a, abbr, acronym, code, pre.

More information about formatting options

Results & Fixtures

Tables

Team P W D L GD PTS
Manchester City 38 28 5 5 64 89
Manchester United 38 28 5 5 56 89
Arsenal 38 21 7 10 25 70
Tottenham Hotspur 38 20 9 9 25 69
Newcastle United 38 19 8 11 5 65
Chelsea 38 18 10 10 19 64
Everton 38 15 11 12 10 56
Liverpool 38 14 10 14 7 52
Fulham 38 14 10 14 -3 52
West Bromwich Albion 38 13 8 17 -7 47
Swansea City 38 12 11 15 -7 47
Norwich City 38 12 11 15 -14 47
Sunderland 38 11 12 15 -1 45
Stoke City 38 11 12 15 -17 45
Wigan Athletic 38 11 10 17 -20 43
Aston Villa 38 7 17 14 -16 38
Queens Park Rangers 38 10 7 21 -23 37
Bolton Wanderers 38 10 6 22 -31 36
Blackburn Rovers 38 8 7 23 -30 31
Wolverhampton Wanderers 38 5 10 23 -42 25
View Full Table