{"id":414942,"date":"2011-05-02T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/02\/blackburn-rovers-in-bid-for-freiburg-goalscoring-sensation-papiss-cisse-sporting-director-dirk-dufner-confirms\/"},"modified":"2011-05-02T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T12:45:00","slug":"blackburn-rovers-in-bid-for-freiburg-goalscoring-sensation-papiss-cisse-sporting-director-dirk-dufner-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/02\/blackburn-rovers-in-bid-for-freiburg-goalscoring-sensation-papiss-cisse-sporting-director-dirk-dufner-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackburn Rovers in bid for Freiburg goalscoring sensation Papiss Cisse &#8211; sporting director Dirk Dufner confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Liam Twomey<\/h3>\n<h4>2 May 2011 13:45:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"64.2621045836\">\n<div readability=\"15.0441176471\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"German Bundesliga: SC Freiburg, Papiss Cisse (Getty)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5684300b111418_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>German Bundesliga: SC Freiburg, Papiss Cisse (Getty)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"28.1400329489\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/108\/blackburn-rovers\">Blackburn Rovers<\/a> have made a bid for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/germany\/164\/sc-freiburg\">Freiburg<\/a> striker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/senegal\/17169\/papiss-ciss%C3%A9\">Papiss Cisse<\/a>, the club\u2019s sporting director has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Senegalese international has attracted the attention of a number of European clubs by scoring an astonishing 22 goals in his first season in the Bundesliga, with his pace, power and clinical finishing attracting comparisons to a young Samuel Eto\u2019o.<\/p>\n<p>When questioned by German magazine <em>Kicker<\/em>, the club\u2019s sporting director Dirk Dufner said: &#8220;I can confirm that Blackburn have made us an offer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rovers are on the look-out for a new striker should they secure their Premier League survival having struggled for goals this term, with leading scorer Nikola Kalinic having netted just five times in the league.<\/p>\n<p>However, they may be forced to pay a premium for Cisse, who is under contract until 2014 and as recently as last week claimed he was happy to stay at Freiburg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone is talking about me leaving the club,&#8221; he told broadcaster <em>Sudwestrundfunk<\/em> at the time. &#8220;But I have not received any concrete offers from another club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And as long as I do not receive anything like that, I am to stay on at Freiburg for sure. I enjoy being at this club, it is very tough to find a similar club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5684300b111418_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/05\/02\/2467950\/blackburn-rovers-in-bid-for-freiburg-goalscoring-sensation\" title=\"Blackburn Rovers in bid for Freiburg goalscoring sensation Papiss Cisse - sporting director Dirk Dufner confirms\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blackburn Rovers in bid for Freiburg goalscoring sensation Papiss Cisse &#8211; sporting director Dirk Dufner confirms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Liam Twomey 2 May 2011 13:45:00 German Bundesliga: SC Freiburg, Papiss Cisse (Getty) Related Links Teams Players Blackburn Rovers have made a bid for Freiburg striker Papiss Cisse , the club\u2019s sporting director has revealed. The 25-year-old Senegalese international has attracted the attention of a number of European clubs by scoring an astonishing 22 goals in his first season in the Bundesliga, with his pace, power and clinical finishing attracting comparisons to a young Samuel Eto\u2019o. When questioned by German magazine Kicker , the club\u2019s sporting director Dirk Dufner said: &#8220;I can confirm that Blackburn have made us an offer.&#8221; Rovers are on the look-out for a new striker should they secure their Premier League survival having struggled for goals this term, with leading scorer Nikola Kalinic having netted just five times in the league. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":414944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-414942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blackburn Rovers in bid for Freiburg goalscoring sensation Papiss Cisse - sporting director Dirk Dufner confirms - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/02\/blackburn-rovers-in-bid-for-freiburg-goalscoring-sensation-papiss-cisse-sporting-director-dirk-dufner-confirms\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Blackburn Rovers in bid for Freiburg goalscoring sensation Papiss Cisse - sporting director Dirk Dufner confirms - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Liam Twomey 2 May 2011 13:45:00 German Bundesliga: SC Freiburg, Papiss Cisse (Getty) Related Links Teams Players Blackburn Rovers have made a bid for Freiburg striker Papiss Cisse , the club\u2019s sporting director has revealed. 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