Blackburn Rovers may regret letting go of striker who is now flying in Germany, here is why | OneFootball

Blackburn will perhaps be looking back now and regretting letting Semir Telalovic leave in the summer

They were one of the favourites to finish in the play-off places at the end of 2024, but fast-forward a month and the picture is very different for Blackburn Rovers, who are in freefall.

Although their league position still reads a respectable seventh, their form of late has been nothing short of shambolic, and while some of the blame for that can lie with an injury crisis, their distinct lack of firepower hasn't helped either.

Rovers have won just one of their last nine league games, and the fact they've lost six of those shows just how remarkable their late 2024 form was, as they still sit in and around the play-offs.

That nine-match downward spiral has yielded five failures to score along the way, and even though we're in the midst of the January transfer window, the club are yet to do anything meaningful in the market to try and remedy that issue.

Looking back now though, they're perhaps only casting their minds back to summer and thinking that had they made a different decision with Semir Telalovic then they may not have needed to do anything.

Letting Semir Telalovic go now looks a huge mistake

Blackburn made the decision over the summer to allow Telalovic to leave the club, as he departed to Germany to play in the 2.Bundesliga for SSV Ulm.

It was a homecoming of sorts for Telalovic, who spent time in the Ulm youth system at the beginning of his career, but his time in England wasn't exactly what you could describe as a roaring success.

Telalovic appeared only 20 times for Blackburn during his one-season stay and never as much as contributed to a goal, although it's worth noting that pretty much all of his appearances were from the bench, with most lasting no longer than 20 minutes.

Signed by former boss Jon Dahl Tomasson, Telalovic evidently wasn't fancied by John Eustace, but sanctioning his move now looks to have been a little hasty from the Rovers chief.

That's because Telalovic is among the leading marksmen in the German second-tier now, netting nine goals in 15 league games, which includes an incredible four-goal haul at the weekend against Regensburg.

All of his nine goals came across ten starts, which begs the question - if Rovers had have shown more faith in him, could he have been exactly what they needed?

Blackburn are lacking an out-and-out goalscorer

The ironic thing about Blackburn letting Telalovic go is that if they had no prior ties to him, he would probably be the kind of profile player they'd now be looking to recruit.

With no real financial backing at the club, Rovers have often dipped into the foreign markets in a quest to identify cheap talent, which has worked with players like Yuki Ohashi very recently.

Other examples like Makhtar Gueye have brought mixed success, and it's that lack of conviction and consistency that has Rovers fans wanting their club to dip into the market for a proven goalscorer this month.

The painful thing for them will be that they had one in Telalovic, who is now proving he can score regularly in a league not too dissimilar to the Championship in the sense it's the second tier of major footballing nation.

It's certain to be a deal they're currently looking back on tinged with a little regret, but that would soon be forgotten about if they can pluck a proven number nine out of nowhere in the last week of the window.