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LEON BEST has been made an offer he may find hard to turn down by Blackburn Rovers.

Sources in Lancashire have indicated to the Chronicle that Best has been offered an excellent package that could be enough to persuade him to drop down to the Championship, with Steve Kean’s side looking for promotion at the first attempt.

It is believed that Best’s pay offer at Blackburn will rise if he hits the heights next season and helps them back to the top flight with a string of personal incentives included in his contract.

Best, who has also attracted interest from Celtic, has slipped down the pecking order at St James’ Park and could find himself SIXTH choice at Newcastle with Papiss Cisse, Demba Ba, Shola Ameobi, Sammy Ameobi and the strong possibility of new faces leaving him with a tough future on Tyneside.

Despite reports that Blackburn bid £2million for Best, it is believed that Rovers have offered an extra £1million on top of that figure for the Republic of Ireland striker – and the fee will rise again should Kean’s side clinch promotion back to the Premier League.

United are keen to offload several players this term to freshen up their squad and while Best has enjoyed some good times since joining from Coventry City in 2010, injuries and the emergence of Cisse and Ba last term hardly helped his cause at St James’.

However, Kean will offer Best a place in his frontline and the chance to rejuvenate his international career.

Kean has already lost Nigerian star Yakubu to Chinese club Guangzhou and is desperate to add firepower to his relegated Rovers.