... but not only has ex-Toon striker Leon Best been sidelines for months - but his manager has walked out too!
OK, we all expected him to get the sack, sooner rather than later ... but to walk out!!!
Leon Best (on signing for Blackburn): "I am looking forward to the challenge at Ewood Park, and I want to work with Steve Keane.
"He was eager to take me to the club and I want to show him what I can do."
Blackburn owners the Venky's are "very disappointed" after Steve Kean announced his resignation as Blackburn manager, according to the club's managing director Derek Shaw.
Kean walked away from his post at Ewood Park after 21 months on Friday night, claiming in a statement that he had been "forced" out as his position had become "untenable".
The Scot, whose assistant Eric Black will take charge of the team at Charlton on Saturday, caught his club on the hop when he released a statement through his lawyers at 7pm.
At a time when Rovers' official website was carrying a story of the former Fulham assistant boss talking of a positive week, he said: "For reasons that I cannot discuss on legal advice, it is with deep regret, given my hard work and service for the club for a number of years, that I have been forced to resign as manager of Blackburn Rovers Football Club with immediate effect, due to my position as team manager becoming untenable.
"I wish to thank all the players and coaching staff for their great support and the majority of the fans, who now see their club heading towards an automatic promotion position back to the Premiership. I wish the club all the very best for the future."
The bookies immediately installed Tim Sherwood as the favourite to succeed him.