Rovers are preparing to make moves for their transfer targets as Tony Mowbray looks to step up his recruitment plans.

The club's hierarchy will meet again in the coming days to discuss recruitment plans as Rovers prepare to make bids for potential signings.

It is very much quality over quantity this summer, with Rovers targeting around five signings to supplement the 20 or so players who are under contract for next season.

Mowbray has money to spend on permanent transfers following positive talks with owners Venky’s in Pune last month, with a mixture of experienced Championship players and young and hungry players having been identified.

The players will report back for pre-season in two weeks, though Mowbray is relaxed over his recruitment despite not yet adding to his squad since promotion.

He told the Lancashire Telegraph: “In terms of external signings, we’re working hard. We have lots of names, lots of juggling of balls at the moment.

“We’ll decide in the next few days, we’ve got meetings planned of where we go next, where we’re going to make bids and who we are going to be making offers to.

“I’ve met a few out of contract players.

“I’ve met a few players that clubs have given me permission to talk to and we’ll make some decisions on those players in the next week or two.

“I would like to have some signed before the team come back, but I’m happy enough. I’m very conscious that it’s easy to sit around a table and ask for the world, agents and players, in negotiations as they have a few weeks before teams go back to training.

“That’s where we are, in a few negotiations, attempting to get a decision on a few players that this is the right number, and let’s get on with a deal and have a good season next year.

“For our supporters to know, there’s a lot of work going on behind the scenes. We will be signing footballers, there’s an ambition for the club to build a team that’s youthful and will be competitive next year.

“Not to go and spend tens of millions of pounds but be competitive and try and add to the players we’ve got who did ever so well last year, add some quality around them to help them.”

Mowbray has implemented a new recruitment structure at the club over the course of the last six months in a bid to improve Rovers’ scouting network.

He is confident it will prove effective in the upcoming windows, with Rovers having up until August 9 to make permanent transfers this year, with the loan window running until August 31.

Mowbray took sole charge of recruiting players last summer following the departure of former director of football and operations Paul Senior in the wake of relegation.

On the differences between this summer’s plans and last, he added: “There’s a lot more structure to the recruitment this year.

“The process has been going on for five or six months, we’ve had a recruitment department working away behind the scenes on different leagues, different players and proposing players at different wage structures because we didn’t know what league we were going to be in until six weeks ago.

“It’s how I like it, we have a lot more options of players, the decision now is on where we are going to spend the money, what parts of the team.

“If we have a pot of money, how much are we going to spend on a striker, how much on a wide player, how much we putting in to a central midfielder, are we strengthening in central defence or on another goalie?

“Those are the decisions we’re talking about at the moment, how we’re going to divvy up how we’re going to strengthen the team.”