Tony Mowbray won’t be making demands of owners Venky’s in any prospective talks over his future.

Chief executive Steve Waggott says a trip to Pune to meet the owners in person for the first time since the summer of 2019 is being scheduled, where the manager’s future would set to be on the agenda.

Mowbray is into the final year of the deal he signed in November 2018 but is relaxed over the situation and says he will continue to manage the club as if he will be in charge ‘forever’.

The owners are approaching 11 years in charge of the club and have tasked Waggott will looking all lines of expenditure at the club following the coronavirus pandemic.

On prospective talks with the owners, Mowbray said: "All I ever do is tell them what I think about football. I never profess to being a guru. Like you would in your job, you have an opinion on how it works, what's the best way to go about it.

"I can only tell them what I think. I can't ever tell them how I think they should run it for the next five years because I don't have the arrogance to say I'm that man.

"In football, you lose too many games, you don't get to keep your job. That's fine, that's the industry we're in but it's getting harder and harder.

“If we go to India, I’m not going to fight for my job.

“I’m not going to tell them anything other than the picture I see with this football club moving forward, the best way forward. What do they want to achieve?

“If their only goal is to get out of this league and get into the Premier League then they need to keep investing.

“Can we polish up John Buckley and sell him for millions one day? Can we polish up Tyrhys Dolan and sell him? Are we polishing up Ryan Nyambe to sell him? What do they want to do?

“You have to invest because you can’t keep selling your best players and hope the kids from the Academy are going to get us to the Premier League.

“It’s just to have a plan that’s all really, in my mind. That’s all really. If I’m not the guy to move the plan forward, that’s fine as well. I’m only trying to help them because I think they’re good human beings.

“But how do you do it? How do you get out? Do you get a bit of luck one year? It could be the adversity of smaller numbers that creates a real bond, the league might not be as strong as it’s been recent years and we might be able to punch above our weight. Or you just get the best players.”

Mowbray is now the club’s fourth longest-serving post-War manager after overtaking Don Mackay this week, with the Cardiff City game tomorrow his 229th in charge at Ewood Park.

He was brought into the club in February 2017 on an 18-month deal, before signing a new deal after talks with the owners following relegation to League One and then again in the months after securing promotion.

“All I ever do is tell them what I think about football. I never profess to being a guru and know everything, like you would on your job, you have an opinion on how it works, what’s the best way to go about it,” he added.

“I can only tell them what I think. I don’t ever tell them ‘this is how I want to do it for the next five years’ because I would never have that arrogance to think that I’m the man.

“I understand football, you lose too many games, you don’t get to keep your job. That’s the industry we’re in and it’s getting harder and harder.

“I genuinely plan and prepare as if I’m here forever, knowing I won’t be.”