Rovers have made a great start to the season, taking four points from their opening two games, scoring 12 goals and progressing past the first round of the Carabao Cup.
It was a far cry from the torrid 2023/24 campaign that Blackburn enjoyed on the final day of the season thanks to Sammie Szmodics’ double against Leicester City.
But his sale to Ipswich Town and the loss of other key players left the club without solid depth in several positions.
With less than two weeks until the end of the transfer window, with the deadline set for August 30, Eustace will need to act quickly to land all his targets.
Blackburn need a goalkeeper
Although Aynsley Pears hasn’t had the worst start to the new campaign, perhaps he didn’t expect to still be Blackburn’s number one at this point.
He played just 26 times last season and has been used as a number two since joining Ewood Park from Middlesbrough in 2020.
Rovers have so far failed to land a top scorer and need to act quickly to fix the problem, according to Blackburn FLW supporters expert Toby Wilding: “It’s hard to narrow the list down to one, although I think there are quite a few positions in the squad , who still need to be strengthened, but I’d probably go with Daniel Iversen in goal as the one connected.
“I would really like to see that because I think goalkeeper is a position where we are really lacking at the moment.
“Pears is the only type of senior at that position, and as we saw last season and early this season, he has costly mistakes in him, so it would be a risk not to strengthen that position.”
Iversen must be Blackburn’s priority
After being loaned to Stoke City for the second half of the 2023/24 season, Iversen was looking for another club, either on loan or permanently.
His contract at the King Power Stadium does not expire until next summer, but that has not stopped Leicester from placing a £1.5m asking price on the head of the 27-year-old, who is also on £25,000-a-year. weekly contract, according to Alan Nixon via Patreon.
But Toby doesn’t think that should put Blackburn off the offer: “Of those I’ve seen linked with that goalkeeping role at Rovers, I’d prefer Iversen. He’s proven himself at this level, but he’s still young, at 27, to be a long-term option.
“When you look at his price and see the reported £1.5m, perhaps with the funds that have come to the club this year from the Szomdics, Adam Wharton and even David Raya’s sell-on clause, there is a case made potentially affordable as well.”