The EFL look set to restrict Championship clubs to 25-man squads in a bid to ease the financial concerns among second tier clubs.

League One and League Two voted through salary caps in the close season, capping spending at £2.5m and £1.1m respectively ahead of the 2020/21 campaign, as the game adapts to life in the Covid-19 era.

While the Championship looks unlikely to implement a similar model, a limit to the number of players allowed to be registered within a squad, similar to that in the Premier League, looks set to be introduced.

Last season Rovers used 27 players in all, with only three teams using fewer, one of those being West Bromwich Albion who were promoted automatically to the Premier League.

While the Championship limit will be 25, that won’t include players who are Under-21, or affect cup competition. To fall in to that particular bracket, players will need to have been 20, or younger, at the end of 2019.

However, loan players brought in won’t be allowed such an exemption, and will be counted towards the overall figure.

In League One and League Two, squads are expected to be capped at 22, and reduced in 2021/22 to 20 players in League Two.

Within the framework, eight players within the 25 will need to be classed as ‘homegrown’.

As things stand, Rovers would have no such issues abiding by either of those criteria.

Five players were released at the end of their contracts last month, all over the age of 21, while loan players Christian Walton and Tosin Adarabioyo have since returned to their parent clubs.

Stewart Downing is yet to agree a contract extension and is currently a free agent and able to speak to other clubs after his previous deal expired at the end of last month.

Rovers will utilise their Academy prospects even more next season, with several having been blooded by Tony Mowbray in recent years.

Of those to have started a senior game for the club, 12 would be classed as homegrown, with Andrew Fisher, Tyler Magloire, Scott Wharton and Joe Grayson, all 22, having just three Championship starts for the club between them.

Hayden Carter, Dan Butterworth and Jack Vale, plus the now more established names of Joe Rankin-Costello and John Buckley, and £6m signing Ben Brereton wouldn’t be included in the squad registration because of their age. Jacob Davenport would miss out by three days.

That would mean Rovers would currently have 20 players counting towards the cap, assuming that neither of Grayson or Magloire leave on loan.

Fisher could also be primed for another loan move, having spent last season with Northampton Town and MK Dons, but he currently looks set for a big role to play in pre-season.

That’s because the departures of Walton and Leutwiler have seen the goalkeeping ranks depleted, with youngsters Joe Hilton and Jordan Eastham the only other ‘keepers to be on professional contracts at the club.

Rovers will look to recruit two new goalkeepers, and will also need a central defender after Adarabioyo return to Manchester City.

A left back is also on the radar, as is another attacking player following the departures of Graham and Samuel at the end of their deals.

Counting towards the cap: Andrew Fisher, Ryan Nyambe, Derrick Williams, Bradley Johnson, Adam Armstrong, Joe Rothwell, Sam Gallagher, Harry Chapman, Charlie Mulgrew, Amari’i Bell, Jacob Davenport, Lewis Holtby, Bradley Dack, Darragh Lenihan, Lewis Travis, Corry Evans, Elliott Bennett, Scott Wharton, Tyler Magloire, Joe Grayson

Homegrown: Andrew Fisher, Ryan Nyambe, Darragh Lenihan, Lewis Travis, Scott Wharton, Dan Butterworth, Joe Rankin-Costello, John Buckley, Hayden Carter, Jack Vale, Tyler Magloire, Joe Grayson

Under-21: Ben Brereton, Dan Butterworth, Joe Rankin-Costello, John Buckley, Hayden Carter, Jack Vale