Ince: Pleasing start

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Paul Ince won his first game as a Premier League manager and insisted there will be no more big-money departures from Blackburn.

The new Ewood Park boss has sold David Bentley and seen Roque Santa Cruz, Benni McCarthy and Stephen Warnock all linked with moves before the deadline comes to an end.

But after seeing his side beat Everton 3-2 with a winner four minutes into injury-time from defender Andre Ooijer, Ince hit back.

"This has been going on and on - about Santa Cruz and other people," he said.

"The more you keep on about it the more it unsettles what we are trying to achieve. I do not want to keep saying this, but nobody is going to be leaving the club.

No departures

"We want to keep our best players, be it Santa Cruz, Warnock or McCarthy and any one of a dozen players.

"Let's dispel all this. No-one is leaving the club, we have had a really good start in this game.

"We have won at Everton and not many teams do that apart from the top four. It was a great achievement.

"The whole performance was fantastic, to come from behind twice and win was outstanding. I would have settled for a point at one stage."

David Dunn put Blackburn ahead before Mikel Arteta's free-kick made it all-square at the break.

Ayegbeni Yakubu headed Everton ahead from an Arteta cross but Santa Cruz and Ooijer gave Ince his first three points as a top-flight manager.

Fantastic

"That was very good stuff, I am very pleased with the win," added Ince.

"In the first half we were the better team and controlled the game, and we should have been two or three up.

"Then they hit us with an equaliser that really killed us, it affected the way we started the second period.

"But once they got the second goal it seemed to lift us. We were level straight away and kept going right to the end.

"The whole performance was fantastic, to come from behind twice and win was outstanding.