Givet some welly: New owners want to keep Gael Givet (right)īlackburn were Premier League champions in 1995, thanks to Walker's riches. The Venky's buy-out of Rovers - they paid the Jack Walker Trust £23million for the club and are believed to have taken on £20m of debt - raised the hopes of Rovers fans that the good times are coming back to the old textile town. The details of pretty much every Blackburn footballer, the names of their agents, their contract lengths and terms are at her fingertips. The woman who heads the VH Group, the first Indian company to buy a Premier League football club, is not about to be caught out like that.ĭesai, chair of the family firm who own Rovers via a subsidiary, Venky's London Ltd, displays a forensic knowledge of her latest acquisition. Just for good measure, she throws in the name of their centre-half - the much-coveted Chris Samba - as well, adding that he is a player she desperately wants Rovers to retain.īack in October 2000, Eriksson found just one name - Michael Gray's - impossible to conjure when his appointment as England manager was met with the question: 'Who is the Sunderland left-back?' 'Gael Givet,' she says, when asked if she can identify the Blackburn left-back. Currying favour: Anuradha Desai, Balaji and Venkatesh Rao hope to win over Blackburn fans by investing the profits of their expanding chicken-food empire

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