Kean plans Samba talks

New Blackburn manager Steve Kean today insisted “exciting times” lie ahead for the club but admitted captain Christopher Samba’s future at Rovers is in doubt.

The former first-team coach was given the job until the end of the season yesterday after a brief trip to India to meet executives of the club’s owners, Venky’s, but returned to headlines declaring Samba’s intention to leave Ewood Park.