Plans for a European Super League have dominated the world of football, the premise of a breakaway league hitting the headlines in the last 24 hours.

For Rovers boss Tony Mowbray, he can’t contemplate the idea getting off the ground, believing ‘it will all be a lot of noise about nothing’.

Six teams from the Premier League have stated their intent to join the league along with counterparts from Italy and Spain, with the prospect of more joining what would become a midweek league between the sides.

That would see those in the UEFA Champions League withdraw, yet their intention would be to remain in their domestic leagues.

That is a notion that has been rejected by the Premier League, and for that reason, Mowbray can’t see it getting off the ground.

However, the way the talks have been held, and how the proposals have come about, is something that doesn’t sit comfortably with the Rovers manager.

“How long have these conversations been going on? I know the world is a political one, but who’s been talking to who, when were these conversations had?,” Mowbray said.

“I like transparency, that’s why I generally talk too much, but I don’t like the thought that these clubs, these owners, have, while the world has been getting on, the struggles people have had, they’re out there talking and having meetings about hundreds of millions more and not thinking about the people dying and suffering and the clubs that are going under.

“I think that’s really sad, disappointing, institutions of 150 years in this country.

“It doesn’t matter what I say. We can all watch the football and listen to Gary Neville or Roy Keane or some other big names talking about it.

“Let’s wait and see. Only a few months ago there was talk about Big Picture which came and went. I can’t see the English Premier League allowing it to happen and these clubs and owners would want to be excluded from the Premier League.

“I can’t see it happening and it will all be a lot of noise about nothing.”

The proposals have been met with anger from across the game, not least supporters who have already faced a year without watching their teams live inside stadia.

And Mowbray feels it is their reaction which should matter the most, rather than those in charge of the clubs they support.

“What will dictate that is the people. Football has always been about the people. You think back to the 1930s, 1940s, black and white pictures of crowds of 50,000 and 60,000 watching Preston North End v Burnley, whatever it might be,” he added.

“It’s about the people and has been for hundreds of years and it’s not about foreign owners, these clubs are about the constitution of the country, the guy who goes to work and then goes to watch his team on a Saturday, has his Bovril and shouts with his mates, that’s what football is about.

“Players who wear the colours of the shirt of the team they play for, fighting for those people and trying to win a match.”