Gregg Broughton doesn't believe the low offers made for Blackburn Rovers player in the summer was a reflection of their budget restraints.

Blackburn Rovers rejected an 800K bid from Millwall for captain Lewis Travis early in the window. The Lions never returned with another off.

Rovers did eventually sell Thomas Kaminski to Luton Town, though they had several bids knocked back. They eventually agreed on a fee of around £2.5million for the goalkeeper after weeks of haggling.

Those negotiations forced Rovers into some difficult conversations with Kaminski, who naturally wanted to challenge himself in the Premier League despite his love for the club. 

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Broughton doesn't believe either of those offers were influenced by Rovers' public issues in regard to their limited resources this summer. Instead, he feels it was a reflection of the Championship market as a whole.

"I don't think so, the offers for Thomas and Lewis came in before I spoke with the local press and before the issues in India," Broughton told The Lancashire Telegraph last month. "I think it is Championship clubs working with limited budgets trying to make signings.

"They probably saw Lewis' frustration having been out of the team for a period last season and his frustration at being substituted against Millwall and felt he could be in their budget on the back of that.

"Lewis is our captain. He started many games for us last year, we weren't going to let him go for cheap.

"With Thomas, it was different. We felt one of the goalkeepers would go this summer. The moment Luton came in, Thomas was clear that he wanted to play in the Premier League and Luton was a viable option to do that.

"We weren't prepared to bend our valuation on Thomas just because he said that. We had some difficult conversations with Thomas in Austria when Luton were insistent they wouldn't go above their bid. We wouldn't drop earlier.

"My only concern was we knew the others that were being tabled for Leo (Wahlestedt), who was our first choice as a replacement for Thomas or Aynsley (Pears). Luton eventually started to move closer to our number for Thomas and, this is where you have to give the owners credit, they let us start the Leo process even though Thomas hadn't moved yet. We had to do that to keep that deal alive and ensure he was a viable replacement.

"Thomas has gone in there and is the starting goalkeeper. I think he'll be busy for Luton based on the first few games but it is a club close to my heart, that I've worked at previously. I think he will be happy there and he leaves with our very best wishes."