ROVERS boss Tony Mowbray is hoping to be given the green light by Venky’s to overhaul the club’s scouting and recruitment departments which he believes will benefit the club for years to come.

Mowbray wants to improve the current Rovers recruitment process to ensure players from across the globe can be watched and recommended.

He has handed his proposals to the club’s owners based upon observations made from his nine months in the job having used a similar system when previously in charge of West Bromwich Albion.

That helped him recruit the likes of Chris Brunt, James Morrison and Youssouf Mulumbu during his time at the Hawthorns who all went on to become Premier League regulars.

“We’re working really hard on a recruitment department behind the scenes that’s hopefully going to be given the green light by the owners and hopefully we will bear the fruits of that,” Mowbray told the Lancashire Telegraph.

“I’m here trying to advise how a football club is run and how to grow it, how you find players and how they develop.

“I’ve always said and have said it to the owners many times that the currency of any football club is the quality of its players.

“Managers have to manage the team, I can’t be out every night watching other games because I have to focus on getting this team right on the grass and as a manager you need to rest your brain at times.

“In my opinion you need people that you trust to find footballers, watch games, and not just watching one or two games a week, we want to try and get a department that incorporates visual aid scouts who will watch seven or eight games a day on monitors, cover whole leagues, cover countries, find the best players in each league, find the better players in each position and filter them and those at the top we believe will be good enough to come into our team and try and buy them.

“You watch thousands of players, you filter them down to hundreds of players, you filter them down to tens of players and then filter them down to the one or two that you like in each position and try and do deals.

“It’s then not by accident that they become good players but that process has to start.”

Rovers signed 14 players in the summer, with Mowbray placed in charge of the recruitment process following the departure of Director of Football and Operations Paul Senior.

The Ewood boss will look to make further additions in the January transfer window and has talked about adding more individuality to the squad following the long-term injury to Middlesbrough loanee Harry Chapman.

But Mowbray wants his planned recruitment process to outlast his time at Ewood Park.

He added: “A process has to begin and hopefully long after I have gone there is a system that is producing really good footballers for Blackburn Rovers.

“It won’t just be a coach or manager’s pick that sometimes you get right, sometimes you get wrong, but it’s an accountable process that the manager really just pushes the button at the end and says he’s the one for us.

“We’re trying to set that up and get that rolling, maybe not for this window but for hopefully the next 20 windows this club will benefit from a recruitment department that can find good quality footballers.”