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In the upcoming season, the club competing in the UEFA Cup decided to renew the attack line and signed strikers from the English Premier League clubs as well - they acquired the Grenadian Jason Roberts and also signed a contract with the team's underperforming Francis Jeffers, who will replace Paul Dickov and Craig Bellamy who left Blackburn this summer.
The 28-year-old Grenadian national team player J. Roberts scored 37 goals in 93 matches for Wigan and initially helped the team get into the Premier League. Last season, his goals contributed to the team's excellent performance in the English elite championship and reaching the League Cup final. The amount paid by Blackburn to their Lancashire neighbor Wigan for the player is undisclosed, and he himself signed a four-year contract.
Meanwhile, former England national team striker F. Jeffers agreed to play for Blackburn for two years after his contract with Charlton ended, with the possibility of extending the contract for another year. Since his transfer from Everton to Arsenal in London in 2001 for 13 million euros, the 25-year-old player's career has declined, and after three years he was sold to Charlton for 4 million. However, he did not fit in with this team, and part of last season he was loaned to Glasgow Rangers.
