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Tony Mowbray expects a collaborative approach to Blackburn Rovers recruitment and insists he has full trust with those around him.

Having been manager in his previous stint at Ewood Park, Mowbray will have to adapt to a head coach model this time around. Recruitment is always an interesting topic with so many voices.

Rudy Gestede and Adam Owen will be strong voices in transfers, with Mowbray also keen to put his stamp on things.

But the new Rovers head coach insists they will work together to find the best players to bolster his squad and he has no issue working with people above him.

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"I feel I'll be supported," he insisted.

"I've had conversations about my role. I don't sit here wanting to be the king, I do everything and everybody listens to me.

"I need help along the way. I don't want to negotiate players' contracts and do the salaries and negotiate with the agents. I'm delighted that a Sporting Director can do that.

"It takes a burden off you because you can focus on the players and the people who are going to help us get results. Yeah, I'm ok with that.

"I've always been OK with Sporting Directors, Technical Directors, Head of Performance, all of those layers, as long as in my mind they are good communicators and they can talk about why we're doing this, why we might do that, are we going to do this.

"So I'm happy with the layers that are here, as long as I'm an important part in the conversations and discussions as we move forward."

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Mowbray didn't outrightly state he would have final day of all transfers, though Gestede has previously insisted that is the case for all head coaches.

Instead, he wants everyone to share their views to reach the best decision for the club.

"I haven't asked for total clarity on whether I get the final say, but over the last few days, it's been very respectful conversations," he said.

"I feel that they want to know how we play and what the identity of this club is going to be. I've tried to be clear to them how I want to play, what I want to do, how we're going to attack, how we're going to defend.

"Then we'll talk about the players that they already have in their system and they're looking at. I hope it would be that I can push the button and say, 'out of those five, I think this one'. As long as it fits within the financial restraints of the club as well.

"But that's how I would hope it would be. But as long as we have a conversation about it, I'm happy."

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Mowbray has struggled with the power dynamics at other clubs, most recently Sunderland and West Brom. He has felt in those scenarios there hasn't been enough discussion, whereas he trusts that will be the case at Rovers.

"What I didn't like about some of my previous clubs was no conversations," he revealed.

"Players were sold and players were bought and I didn't even know they were gone or they were coming in and you would just have to get on with it.

"It felt almost disrespectful, really, whereas I can feel the trust here at this football club. Those relationships that you're talking about with members of staff and the different layers from where Suhail, as the conduit for the owners, would be is something that I'm pretty confident that I can bridge and develop relationships with, that I can have a big influence on what happens."