Tony Mowbray says there is scope to offer Bradley Dack another new deal at Rovers and says the attacker won’t be sold in the January transfer window.

Dack’s early season form has seen him linked with a move to the Premier League, while West Brom’s advances were rejected in August.

The 24-year-old, who signed a new three year deal in the summer, has scored 10 goals this season and become one of the hottest properties in the EFL.

Mowbray, speaking at last night’s supporters consultation meeting, says there is room to offer Dack another rise to put him among the top earners at the club, despite already receiving an increase to his salary in the summer.

And the boss says his close bond with the player could prove key in Dack staying at the club beyond the January transfer window.

Mowbray explained: “I think the strength with Bradley is my relationship with him.

“Bradley has come a long way very quickly, he’s already signed a new contract because he came at a very low number from Gillingham and instantly showed us he could do a job so we incrementally gave him a new deal.

“I’m hoping of going to Steve (Waggott) pretty soon and saying ‘let’s give Bradley another year and give him a few more quid and make him one of the top earners at the club’.

“Some people talk to me and say ‘Bradley Dack must be miles above everyone else because he’s the best player at the club’.

“At the minute he’s not the best earning footballer at the club, and I now feel he’s warranted that he should feel as if he is on par with the top earners at our club.

“Yet he’s still a young boy learning the game, this is his first season in the Championship.

“Moving forward, I’m hoping the club can move forward as quickly as Bradley because he wants to play in the Premier League.

“Having worked with the likes of James Maddison, Bradley can play in the Premier League.”

Dack scored 18 times last season, en route to winning the League One player of the year prize for a second time, as Rovers achieved immediate promotion back to the Championship.

And although speculation over his future will continue during the upcoming window, the boss said: “This window is going to come up quickly on us in the next five or six weeks, my hope is that Bradley doesn’t knock on my door and says ‘I want to go’.

“It will come down to mine and his personal relationship I would say. What I do know is that I think he trusts me. I’m not a bully, I wouldn’t tell him to go and tell him to sit in a corner because he has got another three years left.

“I would give him the human angle and tell him how far we’ve helped him progress, because when we brought him from Gillingham he wasn’t really performing, he’d put on a bit of weight, he wasn’t scoring goals, he’d lost his hunger for the game and my belief is that he owes us something back really in the short-term.

“In the mid-term we have to give him a team that he can keep producing in.

“He won't go anywhere, even if we get big bids, in this next window.”