New Blackburn Rovers manager Paul Ince has been given a £3m boost to his transfer funds after the Jack Walker Trustees decided to reinstate their annual payment to the club.

The trustees had ended their funding when the latest lucrative TV deal kicked in last season but promised to review the decision every year. The change of manager and the looming possibility of a takeover at Ewood Park have now prompted them to restore the funding.
Blackburn chairman John Williams said: "The trustees are going to put some more in this year and see where we go from there, so we are delighted. It will help us to remain competitive, and help Paul Ince as well.

"It was only last year at the onset of the new TV deal that the money was not paid and it was always left that we would review the situation."

The Jersey-based trust was set up by the club's then owner Jack Walker to "promote and enlarge all my business interests". Before he died in August 2000, Walker reassured fans that the trustees would continue to provide money for Rovers "for the foreseeable future".