Soccer Central

Senegalese striker El-Hadji Diouf has joined Blackburn Rovers for an undisclosed fee from Sunderland. Having failed to score with Sunderland this season, El-Hadji Diouf will now be looking to get his career back on track as he reunites with his former Bolton boss Sam Allardyce.

Diouf is unable to take part in tomorrow’s game against Middlesbrough, he’ll no doubt be looking to get involved in first team action as possible though, and will surely go on to play a huge part in the Blackburn first team over the coming months.

El-Hadji Diouf has been in the Premier League since joining Liverpool in 2002, and although he was unable to really establish himself at Anfield; he did achieve reasonable success with Bolton Wanderers, and it was under the careful guidance of Sam Allardyce that he really became a star at the club.

Allardyce is glad to bring Diouf to Blackburn, and Diouf also is excited at the prospect of once more playing for his former manager. It worked out well before, and Sam Allardyce will now be hoping to once more work his magic, and get El-Hadji Diouf finding the form that he never quite managed with Sunderland.

If Diouf fits in well at Ewood Park then he could well go on to score a lot of goals for Blackburn; fans will certainly be hoping that this will be the case, and that El-Hadji Diouf can once more produce performances of the quality that made him such a firm fans favourite in Bolton.