VENKATESH Rao has said that the future of manager Steve Kean will become clearer ‘in the next month’ after admitting that things remain ‘in confusion’ following Blackburn Rovers’ relegation from the Premier League.

Uncertainty has surrounded Kean’s position as boss since Rovers slipped out of the top flight and Rao admits a final decision has not been taken about the manager, with Venky’s needing more time to assess the situation.

“I don’t know exactly, still everything is in confusion so I would say in the next month we will have a proper situation to talk about,” he said.

“In the next month let us see what happens.”

Asked further about the manager, Rao said: “I really don’t know on that issue because we are talking about various things, so many, about the manager, about the players, about staff, about the club.

“Nothing will be said right away today so I would say kindly bear with us for some time and then the whole picture will be clear.”

Kean travelled to India last week to meet with Venky’s and Rao said frank discussions were held with the Scot.

“They were very much honest,” he said of the talks.

“Getting relegated is not good news for anybody and the saddest thing is we did.

“We have to come back very strongly and I hope that by taking the right decisions, we have to come back at any cost.

“Right now we are totally in shock so let us take it step by step.

"I think there is confusion at this stage, we are still rectifying the whole thing as a club.

“We are in the process of just thinking, we are in the middle of the process.”