“Derby have obviously hit the compensation factor that’s in his contract and they have to let him move on.” Venky’s sacked Allardyce as manager in December 2010, a month after buying the club for £23million, and they were relegated from the Premier League 17 months later.
“I’ve always said this, it’s something managers can’t do until later in their careers, where whatever the board says determines whether you take the job or not, irrespective of how big the club might be, because you will ultimately fail if that board doesn’t support you,” he told the No Tippy Tappy Football podcast.
Eustace’s predecessor Jon Dahl Tomasson quit a year ago because Rovers bungled a deadline-day signing and Allardyce says Venky’s are not running the club properly.
He claims all the money from player sales, such as Adam Wharton’s £18million move to Crystal Palace in January last year and Sam Szmodics’ £9million switch to Ipswich in August, have gone into keeping the club afloat.
Sam Allardyce has blamed Venky’s for John Eustace’s exit to Derby and claimed the under-fire owners should sell up at Blackburn.
