Gregg Broughton expects, and understands, the speculation surrounding head coach Jon Dahl Tomasson but says the Dane is fully involved in the club’s planning for next season.

Tomasson, alongside director of football Broughton, will travel to meet the owners in India next month in what will be his first face-to-face meeting with the Rao family.

The Rovers head coach returned to his family in Rotterdam in the wake of the season finishing, but is looking to put down roots in the north west.

With several Premier League clubs in the market for a new manager, and potentially his former club Feyenoord, speculation surrounding the future of Tomasson has built on the back of an encouraging first season in charge at Ewood Park, following on his from success with Malmo.

However, he has two years left to run on his contract and Broughton feels he is invested in the job he signed up for 11 months ago.

Equally, Rovers haven't received any approaches for his services.

“Jon bought into a long-term project at the club, we’re planning to go and sit down with the owners in India early next month,” Broughton said.

“Jon is looking at schools in the area for his children, I know how hard he’s found it being away from his boys and his wife who stayed in Rotterdam this year.

“He’s heavily involved on a daily basis with the transfer talks, he and I have already met with four players to discuss what that might look like next year.

“All of that stuff is moving in the background.

“We feel that we’re in a good place but we can’t be naïve, this is the Championship.

“Eighteen managers have changed, Michael Beale has gone to Rangers, Nathan Jones went to Southampton, this is the world we live in.”

Tomasson won 25 of his 55 matches in charge of Rovers delivering their highest-placed finish since relegation from the Premier League 11 years ago, but missed out on the play-offs by goal difference.

The 46-year-old delivered back-to-back league titles during his time in charge of Malmo, while he also enjoyed success when assistant manager in the Denmark national team for three years.

That is added to by his status from his playing days, where he enjoyed success in both domestic, European and international football.

Former club Feyenoord, where Tomasson enjoyed two separate spells and who he finished his career with, could be in the market for a new manager this summer with Arne Slot, on the back of delivering the Eredivisie title, attracting Premier League interest.

Asked if he expects, and understands, the speculation surrounding the head coach, Broughton said: “100 per cent.

“In the last 20 years of Blackburn Rovers I’m not sure how many times a head coach or manager would have been wanted by a significant amount of clubs in Europe and in England.

“We brought in an approach last summer to identify a head coach to replace Tony Mowbray and in doing so, by going for someone not expected, or not on the radar, and not on the continual churn of Championship managers, you leave yourself open that if they come in and do well they are going to be highly wanted.

“We have to take that as credit to the strategy that we want to implement at the football club.

“Jon has done fantastically this year, 45 per cent win record, brought loads of young players into the team, given us a playing style in the parameters we asked him to work in and has established a learning environment when the players are coming in every day wanting to better themselves.

“There are not many coaches who do that, especially in the Championship.

“If someone comes in and does that, it’s also no coincidence to me that we were chosen to be on Sky 20 times, as much as the fans don’t like the schedule being bounced around, that’s because of the way we play and the number of high-profile games we’ve been involved in this year.

“But that does then lead to speculation and you have to be prepared for that.

“You can’t be disappointed if you get speculation because it means you are doing something right.”