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Defender Callum Elder is among four players released by Derby County.
Austria international Andi Weimann, 34, former Rams captain Ben Osborn, 31, and Jake Rooney – the 22-year-old cousin of ex-Derby boss and former England and Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney – are the other Rams players to be let go at the end of their contracts.
Australia international Elder, 31, was the only one of the four to see
Derby County forward Andi Weimann has returned to his first club Rapid Vienna after almost 19 years in English football, agreeing a loan deal until the end of the season.
The 34-year-old spent three seasons in Rapid’s youth team before joining Aston Villa in 2007 and going on to score 17 Premier League goals for the West Midlands club.
Weimann also featured for six different clubs at Championship level,
Derby County have re-signed forward Andreas Weimann and agreed a one-year deal with centre-back Danny Batth after both players left Blackburn Rovers at the end of their contracts.
Austria international Weimann, 33, has also agreed a 12-month deal to return to the club he spent three years with between 2015 and 2018, when he scored nine goals in 88 appearances.
Former Wolverhampton Wanderers, Stoke City, Sunderland and Norwich City defender
Blackburn Rovers have offered new deals to defender Danny Batth and forwards Tyrhys Dolan and Andi Weimann.
Batth, 34, signed a one-year contract in August last year and scored two goals in 37 league appearances for the Championship side this season.
Dolan, 23, has made 211 appearances for Blackburn after joining in 2020, while Weimann, 33, who also joined as a free agent last August, scored seven goals in 30
Blackburn will be without three senior players for the visit of Championship leaders Leeds on Saturday.
Forward Andi Weimann, goalkeeper Balazs Toth and midfielder Arnor Sigurdsson sat out Wednesday’s win at Middlesbrough and boss John Eustace says they will also miss the meeting with the Whites at Ewood Park, and potentially the trips to Hull and Sheffield Wednesday in the first 10 days of December too.
While Sigurdsson has not
In a game where clear-cut opportunity were few and far between at either end, it was the sharp finishing from former Bristol City striker Weimann that proved the difference in the Welsh capital.
Weimann has now scored seven goals against Cardiff in 14 appearances, the most goals he has scored against any club.
The striker’s double competed a bad week for Cardiff City who have now suffered back-to-back defeats after
Andreas Weimann’s sensational dipping volley earned Blackburn Rovers a hard-fought point at rivals Burnley in the East Lancashire derby.
The Austrian forward’s goal midway through the first half cancelled out Lyle Foster’s thumping header following a flowing Burnley move.
Striker Makhtar Gueye’s red card in the second half meant Rovers were forced to defend deep into their own half for the last half hour of the match.
The point means
Blackburn Rovers have signed former Wolves, Stoke City and Sunderland defender Danny Batth and former Bristol City striker Andi Weimann, both on one-year deals.
Batth, 33, began his career with Wolves, helping them win the League One title with a record points total in 2014 and later captained the club to the Championship title four years later.
After leaving Wanderers, he went on to have spells with Stoke City, Sunderland