Tony Mowbray is confident Rovers’ search for attacking players will come good.

The Rovers boss is working hard on addressing the lack of forward options within his squad, with both permanent and loans deal being pursued.

Mowbray has brought in two midfield players in Joe Rothwell and Jacob Davenport but the departures of last season’s loan quartet have left Rovers short of numbers in attack.

That is something Mowbray is looking to address, but deals have proved difficult to get over the line thus far.

Their pursuit of a Manchester City youngster has been held up after he travelled with the squad to America for their pre-season tour, but Mowbray expects deals to be done.

The boss said: “We’ve been working hard on it for a few weeks.

“I’m confident we’ll get there.

“It’s not frustrating, I understand why the deals we’re working on haven’t fallen in to place yet but I’m sure they will.

“If the ones we would like to do as first choices we can’t, we’ve got second and third choices so I’m sure we will be stronger at the top end of the pitch by the time the season kicks off.

“We're trying really hard. Let's judge how this window was at the end of it.”

Mowbray knows Rovers are working to a timescale, with under two weeks until the new Championship season kicks off at Ipswich Town on August 4.

The transfer window for permanent signings shuts on August 9, though loan signings can be made until August 31.

Rovers are looking to do around four more bits of business before the windows close, with the club having kept the core of last season’s squad together.

And Mowbray added: “There’s some potential loans at Premier League clubs but they are all going away and their internationals aren’t back yet so they are filling their teams with young players.

“That’s what’s happening so we have to be patient and wait.”

Rovers have looked in to the possibility of an Ewood return for Adam Armstrong who scored nine times during a five month loan spell at the end of last season.

Newcastle United are reportedly willing to sell the 21-year-old, who also worked under Mowbray at Coventry City on loan in 2015/16, for a fee in the region of £3million rather than sanction another loan deal.

Armstrong has two years remaining on his Magpies deal, so Rovers would need to come to a compromise over the wage demands of the England youth international should they pursue that deal.