Blackburn drops Morten Gamst Pedersen.
One week ago Blackburn made an offer for Tromsø’s MGP. The offer was rejected and after this it has been quiet from Lancashire. This afternoon Blackburn announced that they are pulling out in the fight of the 22 year old. On there homepage Blackburn writes that the prize that TIL want is to High.
Rovers director says: We have made a written offer we thinks is the right, but we have not followed up with another offer.
Blackburn will now concentrate on getting other players before the season kick off in August. Today’s news comes as a surprise to TIL Chairman Trygve Myrvang. According to him, Blackburn must have changed there minds about the player. He also didn’t like that Blackburn chooses to inform there fans about there decision before the contact TIL. Last week it was rumerd that Blackburn had offered 25M Norwegian kroners, something that about 5M short of what TIL wanted for MGP.
TIL will not confirm this prize, but will confirm that they where hoping to keep MGP out this season. According to Myrvang, so has the club not been against discussing the terms with Blackburn.
Myrvang finishes by saying he hope that the media will not disturb MGP in the warm up to this weekend’s game against Odd.
There have not been any other written offers for MGP.
