Pavone is a Rover

Finally! There's a long way to go to prove Venky's ambition but this is the start...

"He was particularly impressed by Steve Kean" Good to hear but please excuse my skepticism, this was a publicity release put out by his agent. It was a free transfer so his agent has to receive his cut some other way, Steve Kean needs some good publicity. I may well be wrong but which other clubs were even trying to persuade Pavone to sign? wasn't it more or less 'Hobsons choice'. The press release is hardly going to say that the only clubs that wanted him weren't prepared to pay as much in wages so has decided on Rovers. I hope that he has just been signed as a squad striker. If he is being viewed as our number one striker, it's a gamble. I worry that his goals scored statistic is no where near good enough for the Premier league. Reports have been saying for a while now that we have lost out on Cisse to Shalke, but he has not put pen to paper yet and Shalke may need to sell a player to complete. I wish Rovers would make a definite bid to force the issue, he is one of a very few strikers that even at £10m is still value for money. Goals scored statistic last season in the Bundesliga was fantastic. Exactly what we need at Ewood. I have not been critical of Rovers transfer window yet and yes, there is still time before the window closes. I just hope that a pattern will not emerge of us signing 30 year oldish averageish players, rather than spending the cash 'available!' on younger players with talent. I thought 20 year old Doran was going out on loan but it is reported as a transfer, what are anyones views of that?

What is particularly galling is the fact that we were hopeless up front last season and SK's answer is to resign Benjani and an short Argentinian that is neither prolific nor experienced in the prem, a truly outstanding way to address the team's shortcomings.

However, he wants to play for us, which is a plus! I will back him to the hilt - I hope he gels with the team and gets scoring - welcome Pavone.

Que the buses, We wait for weeks then they all come at Once, Sensible signing, and pleased with it, Think he will prove to be a great signing, I do remember when we bought Tugay after .bought a duck egg, Well we all know how that story unfolded.

Dunno how my post ended up mixed up, It was supposed to read when we bought Tugay instead of Berkovic, lots of people said we had signed a useless Duck Egg, Without seeing him play, Dnt think 1 person could say that now about the Turkish delight, Pavone will be a similar impact signing

Pavone is a good player, he has better ability than most/all of our strikers we have at the moment even though his goal scoring record isnt the best he will help the likes of Rochina and Formica also when we sign another striker hopefully in Cisse though he does look destined for Shalke now, Pavone will create compitition for the starting 11 which we dont have at all at tho mo

A definite positive. Looks capable and sounds like he's up for it. Yes, I do hope we sign someone to play alongside him, but I'm pleased we're moving now.

anyone made up a chant yet?

Rovers in for a long hard season