Speaking after his side’s 2-2 pre-season draw at Rochdale, the Blackburn boss said: “If the player was someone we would be interested in, we’re not just going to take somebody on a season-long loan straight away.
“We would always make sure we’ve had a look at them – he’s another name that’s on the list.”
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Bani Yas deputy chairman Mubarak Awad had previously told Sport360° that a loan move was a done deal. But it is understood that Abdulrahman will fly to England on Monday where he will begin a trial to prove to Blackburn and Bowyer that he is ready to make the leap from the Arabian Gulf League to the English Championship.
A move could still be scuppered, though, by Britain’s work permit rules that demand a player must play 75 per cent of his international games in the last two years and plays for a country in the world’s top 70 in the FIFA rankings, where the UAE are currently placed 85th.
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