jordan rhodes shrugged off the fierce speculation over his future by snatching an injury time winner for blackburn at ewood park this derby was drifting towards a goalless draw when tom cairney sent over a corner with 15 seconds remaining of the four added minutes doneil henry flicked on and rhodes stuck out a boot to score his 14th goal of the season from close range it was an amazing finish after 48 hours of questions about the possibility of the striker leaving blackburn jordan rhodes (left) celebrates scoring a last minute winner as blackburn beat bolton at ewood park  rhodes directed the ball past bolton goalkeeper ben amos to hit blackburn's winner  striker rhodes (left) has been strongly linked with a move away from blackburn this week  tom cairney (left) of blackburn takes the ball past giles coke (right) of bolton wanderers  blackburn (4 4 2): steele 7; henley 6, henry 65, kilgallon 6, olsson 6 (spurr 45+1, 6); conway , evans 6 (williamson 32, 6), cairney 75, marshall 55; rhodes 65, brown 5 (gestede 70, 6) subs not used: eastwood, taylor, songo’o, lenihan booked: henry  goal: rhodes, 90  bolton (4 4 2): amos 7; janko 55 (moxey 68, 6), mills 6, mccarthy 65, ream 6; vela 6, danns 55, coke, feeney 65; heskey 6 (davies 73, 55), le fondre 65 subs not used: lonergan, hall, trotter, gudjohnsen, walker booked: danns, heskey, mills  star man: tom cairney  referee: paul tierney 7  attendance: 15,362  middlesbrough have offered to take rhodes to the riverside on loan for the rest of the season with a view to signing him permanently for a fee of £8million, potentially rising to £10m their championship promotion rivals derby, norwich, sheffield wednesday and nottingham forest have also registered an interest in blackburn’s record £8m signing who still has four and a half years left on his contract at ewood but having rejected a £12m offer from hull city last summer, blackburn’s owners venky’s are reluctant to sell while their club still have an outside chance of reaching the playoffs following this win, as well as the prospect of a fa cup quarter final replay with liverpool next month asked if he has been given assurances that rhodes will not be sold, manager gary bowyer replied: ‘yes, it just wouldn’t add up why would you loan out your top goalscorer? my five year old nephew might be able to work that one out ‘i can’t answer on behalf of middlesbrough but jordan has just scored the winner and he will be starting at charlton on saturday ‘he just handles the speculation enormously well i was quietly confident of him scoring tonight, to be perfectly honest, because that’s what he does when there’s all the talk’ bowyer described this as blackburn’s best win of the season after the physical and mental energy his players exerted in sunday’s goalless draw with liverpool at anfield they lost corry evans and markus olsson to injury in the first half but ben marshall should have put them ahead in stoppage time when he headed over from craig conway’s cross substitute craig davies wasted bolton’s best chance when he raced clear only to shoot straight at jason steele, and rhodes should have scored with a 79th  minute header from close range before making amends at the death conceding another yet another late goal was a sickener for bolton who are still not free of relegation danger lee williamson of blackburn tries to shield the ball from bolton striker adam le fondre  bolton's craig davies (right) misses a chance to score for neil lennon's side  bolton's coke (left) tries to challenge blackburn's markus olsson for the ball  ‘it’s unacceptable,’ said manager neil lennon ‘that’s five games in the last month and it’s cost us seven points we’d be home and hosed but we still have a bit of work to do ‘if we can’t defend a set piece in the last 30 seconds of the game… the players aren’t learning so we’ve got some work to do to make them mentally stronger because it’s obviously a psychological thing ‘you think it can’t happen again then lo and behold it does i’m lost for words’
jordan rhodes blackburn the 90th minute rovers bolton 25 year old 8million 2012
jordan rhodes has been strongly linked with a move away from blackburn . he scored in the 90th minute to give rovers victory over bolton . the 25 year old signed for blackburn for £8million in 2012 